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• Review - Claire Martin

  Claire Martin The Subscription Rooms, Stroud. Friday, September 10. read more

• New lease of life after trip

  AFTER a traumatic year yoga teacher Girish Patel took his son Nikhil into the foothills of the Himalayas on a voyage of self discovery. read more

• Help us gain gold

  SUPPORTERS of Stroud in Bloom are celebrating floral success after receiving a top award for this year's efforts. read more

• Lewer is shock Lawn choice

  FOREST GREEN ROVERS' top brass have named Alan Lewer as their surprise managerial choice. read more

• Review - Popcorn

  POPCORN is one of those plays that you enjoy at the time but gets you thinking for days afterwards. read more

• Rugby: Cleve are flattered

  South West 2 West Stroud RFC 28 Cleve RFC 12 read more

• Fun day in memory of Sharon

  FUN-LOVING staff at a Stroud building society have raised over £1,000 for a very serious cause. read more

• New-born calf in false alarm

  A CLUMSY calf caused concern on the commons last weekend when walkers mistook its giddy gait for a broken leg. read more

• Charities should stay at home

  CHARITY begins at home, they say, and that's fine with me. read more

• Large field ready for Gatcombe test

  MORE than 500 riders will compete at the Autumn Gatcombe Novice, Intermediate and International CIC** Event, which takes place this Saturday and Sunday. read more

• Taxi-bus service project

  A TRANSPORT service which is part taxi, part bus is set to serve the villages north of Stroud in the new year and the county council would like to hear from potential users. read more

• Crowds cope with country fair rain

  RAIN and gales lashed Frampton Country Fair on Sunday causing brief havoc for many of the stallholders. read more

• Complaints rubbished

  COUNCIL bureaucrats have refused to pick up an elderly homeowner's rubbish for nine weeks because she leaves it at the bottom of her garden - where until now they have been happy to collect it for the past 20 years. read more

• Seedy side of life caught on camera

  THE talents of a Stroud-born photographer who spent weeks capturing the lives of Bristol drug addicts and prostitutes have been recognised in an international photography competition. read more

• Daleks invade Stroud

  EVIL alien pepperpots the Daleks revealed the latest stage in their assault on earth when they invaded the Stroud Subscription Rooms on Tuesday. read more

• Slimmer revels in her fresh image

  A STROUD slimmer who lost almost six stone after being inspired by Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow is now feeling absolutely flab-u-less. read more

• Fringe benefits from variety

  FOR one glorious weekend Stroud once more became a hotbed of music, drama, cabaret and street entertainment as festival fever hit the town. read more

• Patients treated for Legionnaires disease

  THREE cases of Legionnaires, disease are being investigated in Gloucestershire. read more

• Egyptian refugees reunited

  IN the winter of 1956-1957 hundreds of Suez crisis refugees evicted from Egypt by Gamal Abdel-Nasser began arriving at a disused Stonehouse hostel. Five decades later, in August this year, an emotional reunion took place. David Gibbs reports read more

• Island homes plan rejected

  MAVERICK Stroud district councillors defied officer advice to reject a planning application for eight homes on a small island of land in Stonehouse. read more

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