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• Peace campaigner in road rage attack

  A GENTLE peace campaigner was savagely beaten after urging a motorist to slow down on a dangerous stretch of road. read more

• £10 million appeal target

  A STROUD schoolboy hopes to raise £10 million for tsunami victims by organising a national non-uniform day from his bedroom. read more

• Eco-house doom looms

  ECO homeowner Jack Everett's 20-year battle against council bureaucracy could soon be at an end as councillors pursue an action to bulldoze his Sheepscombe home. read more

• Olympian Robinson takes Epney

  OLYMPIC star Dan Robinson raced to victory in Gloucester AC's 10 mile road race at Epney. read more

• Missed death by ten minutes

  Former Minchinhampton Primary School teacher Glyn Jackson now lives in Sri Lanka and was holiday on its south coast when the Boxing Day tsunami struck. read more

• Students show to boost appeal

  TWO SECOND year BTEC Performing Arts students from Stroud were so moved by the devastating images of the Tsunami that struck the shorelines of the Indian Ocean at Christmas that they decided to put together a Charity Cabaret to help raise funds for those who are suffering as a consequence. read more

• Poet well-versed in local life

  A WANDERING teacher who came home to the Five Valleys after a lifetime away has published a collection of poetic reflections on the Cotswolds. read more

• New year gloom for sorry Stroud

  South West 2 West Barnstaple RFC 11 Stroud RFC 3 read more

• Hard-hitting art

  STUDENTS at a Stroud school have been learning about the realities of homelessness and have put together an exhibition of hard-hitting posters highlighting the problem on show at the Museum in the Park. read more

• Radio station cut down in its prime

  STAFF from a radio station with a unique connection with its listeners were left mourning the day the music died at Christmas. read more

• Store ban for gran over 30p crisps

  A GRANDMOTHER was banned for life from a Stonehouse supermarket and told she would face hefty legal bills after she forgot to pay for a 30p packet of crisps for her two-year-old grandson. read more

• Rutter scores Stateside dream

  GLOBE-TROTTING Tommy Rutter is living the American Dream with top USL Pro-Soccer League side Utah Blitzz. read more

• 'Grab chances and squeeze'

  HE has been bashed by battle-axes, slashed by swords and hoofed by horses. read more

• Art of Home Life

  STROUD House Gallery opens the new year with a skewed look at domesticity, in the shape of the exhibition Home Life which opened on Wednesday, January 12. read more

• Kids selfless sacrifice

  MINCHINHAMPTON Primary School is sending money to a former teacher working in Sri Lanka who cheated death in the Asian tsunami so he can help victims recover their lives. read more

• Charitable Judith was a 'real one off'

  FRIENDS have paid tribute to a dedicated nature lover and charity worker whose life was cut short by cancer at Christmas. read more

• Dogs escape falling tree

  FEROCIOUS winds brought a tree crashing down at a Whitminster animal shelter on Friday night narrowly missing two dog kennels. read more

• Consumer bites back

  WHEN it comes to shopping I am well known for being a wimp; the service or product has to be truly dreadful or unusable before I will summon up the courage to complain. read more

• Beach life suits Lewer's men

  Scarborough 0 Forest Green Rovers 0 read more

On this day: Stroud Archive