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• More sign up for broadband link

  NUMBERS of people demanding broadband in Nailsworth have swelled following an article in last week's Stroud News & Journal. read more

• Football team's fury

  FOOTBALLERS are furious at a farmer who regularly drives his tractor across the middle of their pitch. read more

• Surprise cheque settles BBC bill

  THE story of the £150 BBC bill run up by Hollywood actor Joss Ackland and two other actors at a guest house in Nailsworth has finally been settled. read more

• Needle danger for gardeners

  CONTRACTORS clearing the Bank Gardens borders for planting are running the gauntlet of discarded drug needles. read more

• Crowds flock to leisure centre

  THE GRAND opening of Stratford Park Leisure Centre on Saturday followed weeks of controversy. read more

• Life for Jade's killer

  A MAN has been jailed for life after killing his teenage girlfriend with a Gurkha knife. read more

• Spicing up tradition

  A CINDERELLA with a kinky twist will be seen strutting out at Horsley Village Hall next week. read more

• Shields are in position

  STROUD human shield Grace Trevett and her 30 companions arrived in Baghdad a day late to add their voices to peace demonstrations going on all over the world. read more

• Jenny geared up for British championship tilt

  FLYING Quad bike racer Jenny Young, from Bournes End near Bisley, is warming up for a televised tilt at the British Quad Bikes championship this year. read more

• Life-size art goes on show

  STROUD'S Museum in the Park is to host, for the first time, a touring exhibition by a Stroud-based artist. read more

• Stroud swells ranks on peace march

  HUNDREDS of people from the Five Valleys helped make history this week when they took part in the biggest political demonstration in British history. read more

• Brendan helps open door to new life

  FROM school bully to saviour of lost souls, Brendan Conboy has more than made up for his anti-social teenage years. The committed Christian started The Door youth centre in Stroud 12 years ago and has since put many troubled youngsters on the right path. Will Saunders went along to The Door to find out more about this remarkable man. read more

• Robins crush cup hopes in crazy finale

  Gloucestershire Senior Challenge Cup Forest Green 1, Cheltenham Town 5 FOUR goals in a dramatic eight-minute spell right at the end of the contest sent Forest Green tumbling out of the Gloucestershire Senior Challenge Cup in this eventful quarter-final clash last week. read more

• Poet's county links seen on stage

  A NEW play about the great American poet Robert Frost, written by a cousin of Laurie Lee, is to have its world premiere at The Everyman in Cheltenham this week. read more

• Cook and Tweddle lay on late fanfare

  Forest Green 2, Burton Albion 0 TWO goals in the last five minutes by Rovers substitutes Rob Cook and Steve Tweddle sent their fans home happy as they moved two places further up the Conference table to the heady heights of ninth place at The Lawn on Saturday. read more

• Scheme to build bridges

  NEIGHBOURHOOD Watch has the unenviable image of belonging to curtain-twitching suburbia. But the modern version aims to put the neighbourly feeling back into the community. read more

• Cambodia struggle goes on

  CAMBODIA is a country which was brought to its knees by savage war and civil conflict. Around two million were killed in four years between 1975 and 1979. Today, although the fanatical Khmer Rouge communists no longer hold the Cambodian people in their vice grip of terror, the killing nevertheless continues. read more

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