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• Tax burden increase

  COUNCIL tax is on the rise. Gloucestershire County Council has just agreed a record rise in taxes and police stand to receive over half again what they asked for last year. Only Stroud District Council and some parishes have managed to keep down its own increases to more modest levels. Sam Bond checks out what we can expect for our money. read more

• Rovers cruise into FA Trophy quarter finals

  Dover Athletic 0, Forest Green Rovers 3 ROVERS' journey towards a third FA Trophy Final continued with a comfortable win at The Crabble, home of Dr Marten's Premier Division side Dover Athletic. read more

• Back in the spotlight

  SCREEN icon Marilyn Monroe is back in the spoltlight forty years after her death in a biographical play that is currently touring the South West. read more

• Adam Smith hat-trick pushes his tally to 17

  Cainscross 1st 19 Old Cryptians 1st 5 ADAM Smith increased his personal tally to 17 tries for the season with another hat-trick as he benefited from a strong performance from Cainscross this weekend. read more

• Summer outdoor show is saved

  A GROUP of amateur thespians have got together to rescue a popular summer outdoor production at Painswick's Rococo Gardens. read more

• Shortwood's wait comes to an end

  Bishops Cleeve 0, Shortwood United 0 Shortwood win 1-0 on aggregate. IT HAS been seven long years but it was certainly worth the wait. Not since the GFA Trophy winning side of Steve Hurn's team of 1996 have Shortwood gone through to a major final. read more

• Right, this means war

  BATTLE lines have been drawn up in Brimscombe between two warring families. read more

• Lives are at risk

  ANTI-TETRA mast campaigner Lynne Edmunds has condemned a Government report which insists that communication masts fall within safety limits. read more

• No grants for churches

  A CONTROVERSIAL decision not to give any grants to churches has been made by Stroud District Council. read more

• Sale of land robs children

  NAILSWORTH councillors have condemned the county council's 'smash and grab' attitude to public services. read more

• College conducts inquiry

  MYSTERY still surrounds the suspension of Stroud College principal Hugh Pollock. read more

• Grace's personal battle in Baghdad

  PEACE campaigner Grace Trevett has been spending this week with Iraqi schoolchildren painting a giant peace mural on the wall of a school. read more

• Renovation appeal to save grange

  Monks at the famous Prinknash Abbey have launched an appeal to try and save St Peter's Grange which stands in the grounds of the historic monastery. The fund raising kicks off next week with a marathon reading where the Bible will be read out loud non-stop for about four days. Will Saunders went along to take a look at the magnificent 500-year-old building which is closed to the public. read more

• Gates stormed at US airbase

  ANTI-WAR campaigners stormed the gates at RAF Fairford on Sunday, briefly gaining access to the base before being repelled by police. read more

• 'We just want people to sort their lives out'

  MANY of the men who appear in the dock at Stroud court could do with the calming influence of a good woman. At least that's what magistrate Gillian Lunn thinks and she should know, having been a Justice of the Peace since 1987 and recently elected chairman of the South Gloucestershire Bench. read more

• Quick thinking saved our son

  A STROUD dad has praised the county's medical staff and the teaching profession after his young son was rushed to hospital with suspected Meningitis. read more

• Arts festival coming to town

  STROUD'S 57th Arts Festival is coming this May and it promises an eclectic programme covering everything from poetry to embroidery. read more

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