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  • Summer time and the living is easy

    AH, Stroud in the summertime. There is nothing quite like it. Winter might turn us into a bit of a dreary, grey bunch hurrying from place to place in a rush to get back indoors. But a bit of sunshine really makes the town bloom. It is this time of year

  • Special campanology appeal on anniversary

    A PEAL on the 10 bells of St Laurence Church in Stroud is to be rung on Saturday, August 7, in celebration of the town's 700th birthday. Beginning at 11am, the peal will be rung by a visiting team from all corners of Gloucestershire. St Laurence is one

  • Jam-packed with activity

    This year the Gloucestershire Federation of Women's Institutes celebrates its 85th anniversary. From its formal, regimented beginnings the WI is now a place of fun, friendship and opportunities as Diana Colbeck reports. BETTY Boothroyd enthralled a packed

  • 'It's time for the West to listen'

    Alex Bomberg is the director of International Intelligence, a Stonehouse-based company which employs ex-SAS soldiers and ex-MI5 personnel in clandestine operations in Iraq and beyond. SNJ reporter Will Saunders spoke to the former Gloster to find out