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• Police close nightclub

  STROUD police used emergency powers to close down JoJo's on Saturday night following a brawl between two women inside the Nelson Street nightclub. read more

• Bride springs a surprise

  A BRIDE-TO-BE sprung a surprise wedding on her unsuspecting groom in Stroud on Saturday. read more

• Relief and elation

  TAKING part in a marathon is a major achievement for anyone. read more

• Village celebrates a very special day together

  IN BISLEY, flowers on Ascension Day are as important as eggs at Easter or presents at Christmas. read more

• A right royal soaking for wap mayor

  THE SUN shone and the rain stayed away for Randwick Wap on Saturday - although the Wap Mayor got a thorough soaking. read more

• Star CD could be DJ's big break

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• Outrage as school is let down by plan

  DISAPPOINTED parents and teachers have accused education chiefs of letting them down by breaking a promise to give a town centre school a decent play area. read more

• Pupils are well red

  CASHES Green Primary School was seeing red on Friday when its 170 pupils dressed up to raise money for a Gloucestershire charity. read more

• Film review

  STAR WARS EPISODE II: ATTACK OF THE CLONES (PG) read more

• School within rights on pub purchase

  THE Charity Commission has dismissed a complaint against the Cotswold Chine School made by local landlord Nick Beardsley. read more

• Double the trouble or twice the fun?

  Twins are a phenomenon that has intrigued mankind from the earliest times to the present day and countless studies into twins have been conducted by scientists of every nation - most notoriously by the Nazis in concentration camps during the Second World War. In the Stroud Valleys the occurrence of twins is so far from uncommon that there is a twins club specifically for the mothers of twins to meet and share their ups and downs. Skip Walker talked to several sets of twins and their mothers to find out if they were any different from ordinary mortals read more

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