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  • Planning minister Nick Boles to visit Stroud

    PLANNING minister Nick Boles is visiting Stroud tomorrow, Wednesday. Mr Boles, who is parliamentary under secretary of state for planning, is in town to meet with residents to discuss the National Planning Policy Framework. The meeting takes

  • Are you registered for district elections?

    Residents’ are being urged to vote in the local and European Parliament elections ahead of next week. With local and European Parliament elections taking place on Thursday, May 22, Stroud District Council is urging residents to make sure that they

  • JUST IN: The Green Light with FGR fan John Light

    THE first day of the season cost us a play-off place. The 8-0 defeat of Hyde fooled us all. It disguised the fact that not only were we getting the same old dross, we were getting expensive dross. High wages, long contracts, the signings of

  • Woman, 28, sexually assaulted on canal towpath in Gloucester

    POLICE are appealing for information after a woman was sexually assaulted on a canal towpath in Gloucester. The victim, a 28-year-old woman from Hempsted, was jogging along the canal path by Sainsbury’s in St Ann’s Way at around 8.25pm on Saturday

  • Spring garden preview in aid of Pied Piper Appeal

    EXPLORE spring gardens this weekend while raising money for the Pied Piper Appeal Highnam Court Gardens in Gloucester is opening its gates between 10.30am and 4pm this Saturday and Sunday in aid of the charity, which works with sick children and

  • Tory attempt to unseat council coalition fails

    A MOTION of no confidence in the Labour-led administration at Stroud District Council (SDC) failed to get approval. It was put forward by the Conservatives, who say they have become disillusioned with the new committee system. Last year, SDC

  • Families have egg-cellent time at spring fair

    FAMILIES had an egg-cellent time at the P3 spring fair this week. P3 is a social inclusion charity that helps support clients with any kind of tenancy related problems such as dealing with debts, helping them get back in to education and help looking

  • Put-off jail term for sword man

    AFTER traumatising a woman neighbour by trying to get into her home, Christopher Bidmead frightened another two neighbours with an antique cavalry sword, a court heard. A drunken Bidmead’s outburst came after he got upset about rumours which he