BRIMSCOMBE reached the quarter -finals of the Glos Challenge Trophy beating fellow County League side Berkeley Town 3-2. In a game of two halves, Brimscombe rushed into a 2-0 lead inside 30 minutes thanks to a Peter Smith header and a Mike Beckingham
STROUD’S The Social Enterprise Centre is staging a host of tailored training programmes for existing social enterprises across Gloucestershire that wish to improve their business planning skills. Ran in conjunction with the Gloucestershire Rural Community
POLICE have released an E-fit of a man they want to talk to in connection with the rape of a 30-year-old woman in Brimscombe. The assault occurred just two days before Christmas as the woman walked along the towpath in the village between 9.30pm –10pm
FOOTBALL can be a cruel game and Shortwood discovered just how cruel on Saturday when they lost to table-topping Ardley, writes Jim Cunneen. Shortwood dominated for the great majority of the game, played the better football and created more than enough
SPORT England has revealed the sports projects that will benefit from a £10 million National Lottery fund to encourage Active Women and tackle the gender gap in sport. Sports and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson and badminton star Gail Emms joined Sport
THE DOOR Youth Project has teamed up with Stonehouse beauty salon Feel Good Factor and Stroud fashion specialists B-image Consultancy to run a competition offering a full style makeover. A new hairstyle, make-up tips and professional clothing advice
THE Elkie Brooks concert on Saturday Jan 15 at Cheltenham's Everyman Theatre has been rescheduled for Tuesday April 19 due to illness. Tickets for the Jan 15 performance will be honoured for the April 19 date.
I WRITE this column in joyous mood and with good reason. Firstly our Ashes triumph - has an England team ever played better? Star player Alistair Cook was born in Gloucester (how did he escape?) and well as he played he could not overtake the run-scoring
AN illustrated talk on the Home Guard in South Gloucestershire during the Second World War will be the subject of the next Minchinhampton Local History Group meeting. All are welcome to attend the event at Cecily Court Lounge, Cambridge Way, Minchinhampton
Obviously the prime time for locally grown fruit has, sadly, past but we are lucky to have Hayles fruit farm at the market this week. Hayles is one of the very few remaining commercial top fruit orchards left in Gloucestershire and have state of the
