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• Travellers clean-up bill

  EVICTING travellers and the subsequent clean up operation at a hilltop beauty spot has landed the taxpayer with a bill of over £40,000. read more

• Not the greenest town?

  PROMINENT traders Ian Morrison and John Mills have claimed that Stroud is not as environmentally friendly as it should be. read more

• A beautiful delve into Islamic faith

  STROUD'S Hawthorn Press is to launch a timely and approachable new book celebrating Islam at The Space this week. read more

• Trench water-fare

  RESIDENTS are furious about what they see as the premature digging of a new section of the canal right on their doorstep. read more

• Human shield is coming home

  HUMAN shield Grace Trevett is on her way home from Iraq. The Stroud mother is among the dozen 'peace ambassadors' who have left Baghdad amid safety fears. read more

• Double tax bill

  A FORMER soldier who has been called up for action has been told he will have to pay council tax.. TWICE... while he is away fighting for Queen and country. read more

• Bluebells turn on style

  Senior Amateur Cup semi-final King's Stanley 5 Charfield 0 AFTER last week's disappointing result, the Bluebells took a break from their league programme and entertained Charfield in the semi-final of the Senior Amateur County Cup. read more

• 'My new job has given me my life back.'

  MOST of us complain about having to get up in the mornings to go to work. But what if we had nothing to get up for? Hundreds of people across the county are desperate to start a regular job, but cannot do so because of injury or illness. 2003 is the European Year of People with Disabilities and Rachel Pegg spoke to Stroud charity Scout Enterprises, which offers people a way out of the frustrating cycle of being signed off work with a disability read more

• Festival time again

  UNABLE to wait an entire year for the latest fix of literature-based glamour and glitz? Then Cheltenham Festival of Literature's fourth annual Spring Weekend is for you. read more

• Genre-hopping singer has soul

  STROUD is to be graced this weekend with a visit from genre-hopping and redefining singing sensation Christine Collister. read more

• Constituency changes opposed

  A CONTROVERSIAL plan to move Minchinhampton out of the Stroud Constituency in time for the next General Election was debated in Gloucester last week. In 2002 the Parliamentary Boundary Commission announced a Gloucestershire reshuffle and proposed transferring Minchinhampton to the Cotswold area. Objections and comments soon flooded in from across the county and MPs, councillors and residents turned up to the Shire Hall public inquiry. Reporter Rachel Pegg went along to find out what they had to say. read more

• Big Mac on its way

  PROGRESS is being made on the new McDonald's restaurant and drive through at Merrywalks. Constractors hoisted the roof on to the building last week. read more

• Resurgent Shortwood are singing in the rain

  Shortwood United 1, Carterton Town 1 THE rain poured but Shortwood were left to sing in the rain as they turned in yet another swashbuckling performance to maintain their upward curve with a rousing point. read more

• Rovers draw makes it 200 not out

  Stevenage Boro 0, Forest Green Rov 0 In August 1998 Forest Green Rovers played their first ever match in the Football Conference, going down 2-0 to Rushden & Diamonds, now in the Football League. read more

On this day: Stroud Archive