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• Green fuel on tap

  FILLING up on biodiesel is set to become a lot easier as a Stroud filling station becomes one of the first in the UK to have its own pump. read more

• Artists make a welcome Site

  THE ninth Site 05 festival was described as "a spectacular success" by organiser Colin Glen as an eclectic range of work was unveiled at the launch evening in Stroud on Friday. read more

• Art looks East for inspiration

  AN exhibition of Japanese art and art inspired by the rich and vivid cultural traditions of Japan opens at the Stroud House Gallery this week. read more

• Artists paint spirit of places on canvas

  JOHN and Fiona Owen open their 15th Midsummer Celebration exhibition at the Old Chapel Studio, Marle Hill, Chalford this weekend. read more

• Shock over Abbey attack

  VANDALS ran amok at Prinknash Abbey on Sunday, smashing a statue of the Virgin Mary and daubing anti-Catholic graffiti on the walls of the main chapel. read more

• Green fuel on tap

  VANDALS ran amok at Prinknash Abbey on Sunday, smashing a statue of the Virgin Mary and daubing anti-Catholic graffiti on the walls of the main chapel. read more

• Bandstand to be grand

  TWO Stroud businesses are working together on an unusual project, which takes them from their bases at Aston Down and Woodchester to the elite racecourse at Ascot. read more

• A raft of ideas for top floats

  LANDLUBBERS and seafaring folk joined forces on Saturday to make Gloucestershire's Great Raft Regatta a rip roaring success. read more

• Chilean sounds are set to thrill

  PREMA in Uley present a thrilling night of chilled Chilean music with much-lauded band Quimantu next weekend. read more

• Ace Trainor runs riot

  Premier Two Frocester 346-2 Downend 203 all out read more

• Rookie Reed is great - Redgrave

  OLYMPIC legend Sir Steve Redgrave paid tribute to Peter Reed after the Nailsworth rower scooped gold in the final of the World Cup regatta at Dorney Lake on Saturday. read more

• Jones driving future still on course

  ROLAND JONES' drive in a works sourced MG ZR 1.4 rally car is still under threat two months after the collapse of MG Rover. read more

• Joint musical offering for Mill

  THE Rosetta Ensemble will be performing works by Piazzolla, Dvork, Julian Rowlands and Ravel in a concert at Ruskin Mill in Nailsworth next weekend. read more

• Licensees and staff told of underage drink blitz

  POLICE in Stroud have warned the town's licensees and their employees that they face an £80 fine if they are caught serving alcohol to underage drinkers. read more

• The time is right for Owers

  TODAY marks a fresh chapter for Forest Green Rovers and Gary Owers as the former Sunderland and Bristol City midfielder begins his first working day at the helm of the Nailsworth side. read more

• Boy's sudden death

  A STROUD schoolboy is believed to have experimented with sniffing an unknown substance hours before he collapsed and died. read more

• Sun comes out for Grand Village Fete

  THE sun shone on Thrupp as record crowds enjoyed the biggest ever Grand Village Fete on Saturday. read more

• Quite like a Rolling Stone

  THE BEAT of the jungle drums will be pulsating through Cheltenham next weekend as The Counterfeit Stones beat a path back to the Everyman theatre. read more

• 'Evil' yobs thought to have stoned cygnets

  MYSTERY surrounds the death of five tiny cygnets after their bodies were found floating on the canal by a horrified Stonehouse resident. read more

• Local TA soldiers back from Iraq

  TWO Territorial Army soldiers are back home in Stroud after seven months alongside regular army comrades at Shaibah in Southern Iraq. read more

On this day: Stroud Archive