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  • Enjoy a hot night of music and dance

    THE LIVING Room @ The Space will be hosting a vibrant and varied double bill for the last gig before the summer break this weekend. For the main event they have The King's Cross Hot Club, from London. Think Django Reinhardt meets Gene Pitney in Budapest

  • Pupils make a song and dance

    PUPILS at Hopeland's school in Stonehouse took to the stage and performed their version of Gel, a modern-day adaptation of Grease. More than half of the children at the school acted in the musical that parent, Tracy Barber, dubbed a 'huge success.' The

  • Projection of 'fleeting time'

    STROUD House Gallery's latest exhibition, Projections, opens this week and features a flurry of multimedia exhibits and installations. "Photography and film capture a sense of immediacy and chance events, or a sense of fleeting time," said curator Lyn

  • Snapshots of worldwide art

    A CELEBRATION of wonderful landscapes, extraordinary people and even plastic toys, all from every corner of the world, comes to Stroud's Subscription Rooms this week. Foto Forum, the Stroud valleys-based group of photographers, are holding their annual

  • Dancers in 'scary' mass evacuation

    YOUNG dancers from the Five Valleys were caught up in the mass evacuation of Birmingham city centre on Saturday night after terror threats. Originally in the city for a dance show, the three frightened girls and their troupe were swept up in a mass exodus

  • Casualties could have been worse

    LONDON was lucky not to suffer heavier casualties, according to a Stonehouse-based security expert. Alex Bomberg, head of the International Intelligence security firm, said the outrage bore all the distinguishing features of an organised al Qaeda cell

  • Greens call for no safety road signs

    GREEN campaigners are calling for a radical new approach to traffic calming in Stroud town centre - removing traffic lights, speed bumps, warning signs and pedestrian crossings. Right of way indicators, centre lines and bicycle lanes would also be scrapped

  • Gap year that will never be forgotten

    TWO teenagers caught up in violent rioting during a gap year trip to South America have returned home. As the SNJ reported last month, Saskya Vandoorne, 18, and Rossie Dawes, 19,(corr) both former Westonbirt School pupils, were caught up in the unrest

  • Scientific solution

    A STROUD-born doctor is set to save millions of people from disfigurement and misery after his team of medical researchers made a major breakthrough. Top tropical disease specialist Dr Mark Porter discovered that elephantiasis - which causes grotesque

  • Carpenter seeks tools for Uganda

    LACK of tools is all that stands in the way of one man's dream of teaching carpentry in Africa. Joseph Lauzier,(corr)24, originally from Brimscombe, currently works as a carpenter in London, but has been offered the chance to teach in a school in Uganda

  • Felce brings curtain down with gold lining

    ALEX FELCE finished his English Schools' career in the same way that he started it with a thrilling win in the senior boys' 1500m in Birmingham. Felce won the Under- 15's event back in 2001 and he was equally dominant this year in the final. Alex took

  • Town transformed into wartime Britain for VE Day parade

    STONEHOUSE residents were taken back to wartime Britain when they celebrated 60 years since the end of the Second World War with a traditional street party. The town was decorated with bunting and Union Jack flags, and many of the shopkeepers got involved

  • Top artists in new show

    FIVE of the top professional artists painting in the Cotswolds, who joined forces eight years ago, have achieved great success with twelve acclaimed exhibitions to date under the name of The Dobunni Painters. Including Michael Edwards from Bisley, The

  • Project lends helping hand

    STONEHOUSE Neighbourhood Project - now in its seventh year - just keeps going from strength to strength as it continues to work in the community. The project, now situated entirely in new premises in Queen's Road, offers residents living in the GL10 postcode

  • Aldgate survivor: my day of terror

    NAILSWORTH accountant Jacqueline Wood who survived the Aldgate tube bomb has spoken of the awful sights she witnessed while trying to escape the smoke filled underground tunnel. Ms Wood, 31 survived the blast after it went off in the carriage next to

  • Valleys in shock

    SHOCK and sadness reverberated through the Five Valleys this week as residents came to terms with the bomb attacks in London which left more than 50 people dead. At least four people from the Stroud area are believed to have had narrow escapes as they

  • Muslim politician condemns attacks

    NAILSWORTH town councillor and practising Muslim Khurshid Akhtar condemned those who unleash terror in the name of Islam. "My reaction to the bombing was no different to anyone else in this country. I condemn the attacks and my deepest sympathy goes out

  • Fears over plan for ambulance services

    PLANS to merge Gloucestershire Ambulance Trust with failing services in Wiltshire and Avon are causing concern among politicians and ambulance workers. The proposed merger - designed to save £1.6 million per year - has been slammed by Stroud MP David

  • Garden fun to heat up church

    GARDENS will be blooming this weekend as part of a campaign to raise £55,000 for a village church. Residents in Bussage need the cash to replace the heating system in St Michael and All Angels Church. The heating failed in the winter, leaving the congregation

  • Shortwood ready to welcome Forest Green

    HELLENIC Premier Division Shortwood United have secured ten new players ahead of next Tuesday's prestigious home friendly with Conference side Forest Green Rovers, kick-off 7.30pm. The joint management team of Mark Sumpter and Ian Freebrey have raided

  • Tour card joy for rejuvenated Little

    STUART LITTLE'S has retained his European Tour card for the first time in his golfing career. A sparkling European Tour has resulted in the 37-year-old Nailsworth -based golfer being awarded his card for 2006. "This is the first hurdle for me and naturally

  • Reed celebrates world hat-trick

    NAILSWORTH'S Peter Reed made it a hat-trick of World Cup wins at the Lucerne Bearing Point World Cup Finals in Switzerland on Sunday. The British men's four were pushed hard by the Netherlands, but made it home in 5:53.87 with the Dutch just over a second