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• Ceri is the new voice for youth

  Stroud's Youth Council was set up five years ago to give young people a chance to have their voices heard. Having just been elected as their new leader 15-year-old Ceri Wills is busy settling into her new role. Reporter Sian Davies spoke to her about politics and young people. read more

• Join Peter in finding Neverland

  THE COTSWOLD Players are staging a British musical version of Peter Pan at the Cotswold Playhouse this month. read more

• Waitrose defends policy

  SUPERMARKET giant Waitrose is standing by its controversial decision to slap a £25 charge on customers who leave cars at its Stroud store after doing their shopping. read more

• Stroud enjoy bright night

  STROUD Rugby Football Club celebrated the official turning on of their new floodlights with aplomb to ease into the quarter-finals of the GRFU Road Chef Senior County Cup with a shock victory over Gloucester Old Boys. read more

• Teen stabbed at New Year

  A TEENAGE boy has been arrested on suspicion of stabbing a 19-year-old youth in the neck in Stonehouse on New Year's Eve. read more

• Guy strikes again to bank Hereford point

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• Family favourites return to stage in panto classic

  FRAMPTON on Severn's Perryway Players return with a pantomime classic this week in the shape of Cinderella, written by Norman Robbins. read more

• Hopes for new drop-in centre

  A GROUP of volunteers are hoping to create Stroud's first drop-in centre for homeless and vulnerable people. read more

• Help for local trade

  POLITICIANS have dreamed up a roundabout way to spruce up the roads - by allowing businesses to sponsor Stroud's traffic islands. read more

• Ram-raid horror

  SECURITY has been tightened at a Five Valley's aquatic centre after ram-raiders drove a lorry through the gates and stole goods worth £60,000. read more

• Latest from life in Uganda

  Carpenter Joseph Lauzier, 24, from Brimscombe, has been teaching in a school in Uganda. From time to time he keeps SNJ readers updated on his progress. Here is his latest news before he heads back home. read more

• Home town is three of a kind

  Adventurous Ashley Davies has travelled and lived all over the world - but wherever he goes Stroud is always just around the corner. James Davis met the man who has visited two other Strouds to find out how the younger towns measure up. read more

• Wheels in motion for Project Stroud

  THE wheels driving Stroud's renaissance are in motion after plans to revitalise the town were launched. read more

• Owers' view

  GARY OWERS hailed his players' performance levels as Forest Green ended the festive period on an unbeaten high. read more

• Where to find great produce

  For most of us a walk in the countryside is just that - a walk. But if you're into foraging, a rural ramble can result in a culinary delight. Stroud-based freelance journalist Sarah Edghill has just finished working on a TV series presented by Matthew Fort, who also lives in the Five Valleys, looking at the amazing array of ingredients on our doorsteps. read more

• Madjo lights up The Lawn

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• Dispatches from South America

  Former Five Valleys teacher Ally Mountain is currently enjoying a mid-life gap year. In her latest dispatch she enjoys the splendours of Bolivia. read more

• Get into the groove

  MOST people can relate to that sense of living in their heads, of having to be highly mentally charged and focused throughout our day to meet the demands and expectations imposed upon us. read more

• Call for action at crash blackspot

  MOTHER-of-four Liese (corr) Hull returned from a Christmas break to find a car had crashed at the blackspot outside her home - for the second time in less than a year. read more

• Company's model behaviour

  Cartoon sets, Action Man money boxes, limited edition DVD cases, demonstration models of new houses, TV props and Olympic ceremony models. You name it, modelmakers Gary Thwaites and Will Sumpter have made it. read more

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