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• Severe blow to patients

  PLANS to axe specialist beds for elderly patients with mental illnesses have been branded a 'severe blow' by the Stroud branch of the Alzheimer's Society. read more

• School to invest in power

  TEACHERS at Amberley Ridge School are so frustrated with continual power cuts that they are to invest in their own generator. read more

• Jail my son, begs mother

  A DESPERATE mother begged magistrates to jail her 16-year-old son for a New Year's Eve stabbing that left another teenager in intensive care. read more

• Just where does your tax go?

  Do you know where your council tax is going? With Stroud District Council's 2006/07 budget hot off the press, SNJ reporter Alli Pyrah rounds up the politicians responsible for spending your cash. read more

• Nelson aiming for Sunderland scalp

  STUART NELSON will be gunning for another slice of FA Cup glory with division one promotion challengers Brentford, who welcome Premiership Sunderland to Griffin Park this Saturday. read more

• Investment in tackling anorexia

  A STROUD eating disorder clinic has invested more than £1 million to expand provision in the Five Valleys. read more

• Will Newcastle be Kayode by Cheltenham?

  FORMER Forest Green striker Kayode Odejayi believes that Cheltenham Town have what it takes to spring possibly one of the greatest FA Cup shocks when Premiership giants Newcastle United come to Whaddon Road on Saturday (12.30 pm). read more

• Ready to rumba

  You don't have to travel to South America to groove the night away to steamy Latin rhythms. Stroud's Bar Riga has started weekly salsa classes. Our reporter James Davis doesn't know rumba from ragtime - so we sent him along to read more

• Rock concert in aid of India trip

  A ROCK concert to raise funds for Archway's India visit will feature school band SubJustice and rhythm and blues band The Suspects. read more

• Eagle lands in Hollywood

  Eddie The Eagle Edwards may not have triumphed at the Olympics but his courage and determination won the hearts of sports fans the world over. After appearing at the 1988 winter games in Calgary, Canada, he became one of the most talked about sportsmen of his generation. With the Turin winter games just weeks away - and a film of his life in the pipeline - reporter Sian Davies spoke to Britain's only ever Olympic ski-jumper at his North Woodchester home. read more

• Knight of La Mancha

  THE last knight in La Mancha, Don Quixote, is riding into the Cheltenham Everyman's Other Space studio this week. read more

• Cyclist's brakes fail on A46 road

  CYCLIST Tracey Burge is lucky to be alive after her brakes failed on one of Stroud's steepest hills - sending her plummeting into a busy road at 40mph. read more

• Litter louts to be named and shamed

  LITTER-BUSTER David Dowse has launched a one-man crusade to clean up the streets of the town he loves. read more

• Her royal 'chavness'

  PRINCESS Anne donned a day-glo 'chav-band' when she opened the St John Ambulance Headquarters in her home county of Gloucestershire. read more

• Finding Neverland

  Scores of families have been whisked away to Neverland thanks to the Cotswold Players recent production of the much-loved children's classic Peter Pan. Two reviewers give their views on the show for those who couldn't make it. read more

• Rave report card for schools

  The annual league tables for GCSE and post-16 examinations were released this week revealing that Gloucestershire pupils are enjoying a first class education. There was also much to shout about for Five Valleys schools. James Davis reports. read more

• Education chiefs let primary schools off the hook

  RELIEVED teachers have welcomed proposals to save primary schools in the Stonehouse area. read more

• Rampant Minch

  Gloucester All Blues 3 Minchinhampton 36 read more

• Little finish

  MINCHINHAMPTON New Course golfing star Stuart Little finished on two-over-par after a final round of 76 in the inaugural Abu Dhabi Golf Championship. read more

• Bus to nowhere

  VILLAGERS who rely on a bus route from Ruscombe to Stroud are fed up with lousy service. read more

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