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• Posse's night visit

  IT was almost a silent night for a cohort of council officers on Friday as they pounded the pavements of the town into the early hours on a nocturnal fact-finding mission. read more

• Peril of speeding cyclists

  AN elderly man who was carried along the pavement in Stroud's Cainscross Road by a speeding cyclist has triggered a step up in police patrols in the area. read more

• Dancers welcome guru

  TALENTED teenage dancers from across the county were gearing themselves up for the arrival of Kylie Minogue's music video and world tour choreographer, Rafael Bonachela, in Gloucester last week. read more

• A new take on Valentine's

  THE effects of the tsunami has touched our hearts in the Five Valleys and this week one Stonehouse school linked its fund-raising efforts to another matter of the heart, Valentine's Day. read more

• Taverners take over as Hardwicke falter

  County League Taverners 2 Hardwicke 0 read more

• Poet's PO card delivers message

  STROUD based poet Michael Horovitz has become the poster poet for a campaign to save the nation's post offices. read more

• Lowest council tax rise in the county

  TAX-payers in Stroud are set to feel a slight pinch rather than a thump this year as councillors voted for a council tax rise of just 2.5 per cent. read more

• Raw deal in sewage row

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• Donors could halp save my husband

  THE WIFE of a young cancer sufferer fighting for life has made a desperate plea for more bone marrow donors to help save him and others like him. read more

• Missed chances ensure Painswick held to draw

  Longlevens 17 Painswick 17 read more

• New editor Sue takes SNJ helm

  THIS week the SNJ's new editor Sue Smith took the helm to steer the paper through it's first edition under her leadership. read more

• New powers to hike pub fees

  NEW licensing powers for Ebley Mill could force them to raid the public piggybank despite huge rises in the amount of fees landlords have to pay. read more

• Recalling the horror

  THE horror of the death camps of the Second World War was remembered this week by Stroud's Jewish community and others keen to stop the world forgetting the evil atrocities that took place under the hated Nazi regime. read more

• The winner is... Stroud

  A WOMAN called STROUD from Stroud has won the Stroud 700 ring. read more

• Exeter prove too tough a challenge

  Exeter City 2 Forest Green Rovers 0 read more

• Incisive satire of theatre life

  AN EVOCATIVE, comic and tragic picture of theatrical life starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Julian Glover opens at Cheltenhams Everyman theatre this week read more

• Nightspot granted licence

  A THIRD nightclub is on the way for Stroud after owners sailed over the last legal hurdle this week. read more

• Blues event back for second year

  MUSIC lovers are set to paint the town blue this spring when Stroud's newest festival returns for a second year. read more

• Old vases make pots of money

  A PAIR of cracked Chinese vases discovered in a Stroud bungalow have sold at auction for £30,000. read more

On this day: Stroud Archive