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• Leo draws on comic genius

  ARTIST Leo Baxendale is preparing for a year long tour of Britain to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his famous Beano comic creations - Minnie the Minx and the Bash Street Kids. read more

• A chance to live again

  There is a room in Gloucestershire Royal Hospital that contains 30 kidney dialysis machines. Every four hours 30 patients leave and another 30 arrive for their four-hour life-saving treatment. It takes four hours for the blood of a single patient to pass through a machine and be cleansed of the toxins normally eliminated naturally by the kidneys. Two days later the same patients return for another four hours. The process is not painful but it is exhausting and leaves the patient feeling less well than before the start of the treatment. One Stroud woman was so moved by the suffering of her 23-year-old niece who had to endure this apparently endless cycle of treatment that two years ago she decided to make the tremendous gesture of donating one of her own healthy kidneys so that her niece could live a normal life again. Niece and aunt are now both well on the road to recovery and they talked to Skip Walker about their experiences) read more

• More than a load of hot air

  THE fear of flying is a common one but is usually associated with powered aeroplanes. Gliders, with their large slender wings and small fuselage, are altogether another matter, designed to remain aloft for hours by gliding from one hot-air current (thermal) to another. read more

• Future of Standish lies in your hands

  THE people of the Five Valleys will have a say on the future use of Standish Hospital as a public consultation period gets underway. read more

• Historical clues to town name

  AS 2004 approaches and with it the 700th anniversary of the first documentary reference to Stroud as a place of habitation, the question of where it gets its name will once again assume prominence. read more

• Andrew's on top of the world

  FORMER Marling student Andrew Pollard has every reason to be feeling on top of the world. read more

• Election 2003

  IT IS election time again - one third of district council seats are up for election at the end of this month. The 17 district council seats across the region will be decided after telephone and internet voting next week as well as at the traditional polling booths on May 1. read more

• Learning to live with an invisible killer

  THIS week is National Allergy Week. read more

• Archery evening really hits the spot

  THE sight of a bunch of men running around in tights is really too good to miss - so when the staff from the Stroud News & Journal were invited to take part in an evening of archery, the answer, especially from the female staff, was a resounding yes. read more

• College heads for better times

  STROUD College has been dogged with less-than-positive news in recent months, with the controversial resignation of the former principal and the running battle over plans for its Nailsworth campus grabbing the headlines. read more

• Thespians bring the past to life

  PAINSWICK thespians will be taking their audience on a whistle-stop tour of their greatest hits next month when they raid their back catalogue for some of the most dramatic moments from the society's long history. read more

• Fitting end for war hero

  AMONG the countless unsung heroes of World War II, Wing Commander Adrian Warburton stands tall. read more

• A rat-like cunning

  Tim Powles' rodent-tracking senses are so finely tuned he can quite literally smell a rat and his karate-honed reflexes give him an edge when it comes to catching his four-legged foes. Yet the district council's rat man is fascinated by his favourite quarry and even keeps pet rats at home. read more

• 50 years of welcoming new lives

  Stroud Maternity Hospital was opened 50 years ago this week. read more

• Fond farewell to Concorde

  AS the world adjusts to life without Concorde, the first, only and possibly last supersonic passenger aircraft, Nailsworth resident and retired design engineer Bryan Saunders reflects on the part he played in aviation's great adventure. read more

• Gerry's aerobatic workout

  LOTS of people have a pet project to keep themselves occupied and enjoy a bit of DIY. read more

• Dismay as council stops its grants for churches

  NEWS that Stroud District Council has decided not to give any grants to churches this year has been greeted with ripples of discontent. read more

• Grave times as resting places get congested

  In days of yore, a leafy rural churchyard was the ideal resting place for members of the local community. read more

• Not just in it for the dough

  TOM Herbert would seem to have it all. read more

• Will transport problems be solved?

  It has been held up as the Holy Grail of public transport in Stroud, but do the people who are expected to use it really want it? Reporter Sam Bond took to the streets to find out what people thought about the long-awaited transport interchange... read more

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