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• Reed aiming for Boat Race revenge

  NAILSWORTH'S Peter Reed will be aiming for rowing revenge when the Oxford oarsman takes to The River Thames this Sunday for the annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities. read more

• Alas! Poor taxpayers' £4,500 drama bill

  EBLEY Mill has paid experts from RADA nearly £4,500 to teach district councillors how to ask questions, it was revealed yesterday. read more

• AKnight of laughs from funny four

  JONGLEURS on the Road returns to the Subscription Rooms this week with over two hours of laughs from four great comedians. read more

• Homes plan outrage

  THE district council is caught between a rock and a hard place with Government pressure forcing it to consider development on greenfield sites in the AONB. read more

• Painswick march on to final

  Stroud Combination Senior semi-final Painswick 23 Cirencester 15 read more

• Fathers unite to fight unfair law

  "We can and do frequently fall out with our partners. It is a pain that is impossible to explain when we feel betrayed by someone we once loved and entirely natural that we feel the desire for revenge. read more

• Efforts to raise funds on land and sea

  AS Cranham's amateur yachtsman Richard 'Artie' Tuckwell battles his way across the Southern Ocean in the Global Challenge, fund racing for his breast cancer appeal for the Gloucester Royal Hospital continues on land. read more

• Two decades of top theatre

  HEXAGON Theatre Company is celebrating 20 years of performing this year with a production of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales at The Space in April. read more

• Gidman shines

  FORMER Wycliffe pupil Alex Gidman was the hero on Monday as England A claimed a five-wicket win over Sri Lanka A in Colombo, writes Nathan Woolford. read more

• Forever striving for peace

  MORE than 100 people, including many from Stroud, attended the funeral earlier this month of peace activist Judith Dawes who lived in the Five Valleys for more than 20 years. read more

• Poultry in motion

  A POULTRY lover from Minchinhampton was not eggs-aggerating when he told the SNJ about this monster egg. read more

• School's news

  A FIVE Valleys school was so keen to make the news after a successful Ofsted report that one of the parents made a celebratory front page to sing its praises. read more

• Thanks for the memories

  BY the time most of you read this I will be gone. At 12 noon today my tenure at the SNJ comes to an end. read more

• Gridlock threat

  TRAFFIC in Stroud could grind to a halt as the town's main artery is clogged by cars from edge-of-town estates and the throngs expected to flock to the new cinema. read more

• Easter fayre could hold key to survival

  HOLD on tight, the white knuckle ride is going to get that little bit more intense as Forest Green enter the final eight games of the season during an Easter period that could decide Rovers' Conference future. read more

• Bouncers muscle their way into heat

  DEAD Ernest Theatre Company were, to their considerable delight and surprise, triumphant at the All England Theatre Festival Gloucestershire heat at Cheltenham's Playhouse last week. read more

• Man behind the machines

  Dr Mark Tilden, the inventor of the smash hit toy Robosapien was born in Stroud. The former NASA physicist left the Five Valleys with his family for the USA when he was just two years old but reporter David Gibbs tracked him down to deepest China where while riding in a bumpy van on the way to the production factory he answered some burning questions from his mobile phone and attributed some of his creativity to his Gloucestershire roots. read more

• Laters, Stroud

  WELL, now it's my turn to say goodbye. read more

• Hospital site anguish

  THE trailblazing community group vying for the Standish Hospital site fear their bid may crumble if they do not get a green light from Westminster within days. read more

• Forest Green's green light

  FOREST GREEN'S proposed new £3million stadium has been given the green light. In a champagne ceremony at the football club's current home, representatives from the county, district and town council, as well as Forest Green and sponsors Smiths (Gloucester) Ltd put pen to paper on the £3million project on Monday. read more

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