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  • Free faith community event for families

    A FREE community event for families will be held on Sunday, April 27 from 3.15pm to 5.30pm in St Laurence Church Stroud. Run by Faithne, there will be crafts, games activities, refreshments and an opportunity to explore faith in a fun and creative

  • Garden project needs extra cash injections

    VOTES are needed to ensure the Museum in the Park Walled Garden project gets more funding. The volunteer scheme has been chosen by the Engage Foundation as one of its ‘community award’ projects whereby the public vote for their favourite idea to

  • Forest Green ladies come out on top to lift the GFA Trophy

    GFA WOMEN’S TROPHY FINAL Forest Green  7 Bristol Union 0 PHIL Orsborn saw his Forest Green ladies' side smash Bristol Union for a magnificent seven to lift the GFA Trophy at GFA headquarters, Oaklands Park, Almondsbury. Forest Green

  • Arrests made in connection with criminal damage in Stroud

    TWO men have been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage in connection with a number of incidents in Stroud overnight. A statue was thrown through a car windscreen in Woodlands Close, Eastcombe, yesterday evening, Wednesday. Then shortly

  • Annual Wheel Nuts motor show revs up for a classic day out

    THE annual Wheel Nuts classic motor show gets bigger and more popular every year. Organisers are now revving up for this year’s event on Sunday, April 27, held as usual in the grounds of St Rose’s School in Beeches Green, Stroud. A spokesman

  • Charity walk raising funds for Cotswold Care Hospice

    MARK the longest day of the year by taking part in a sponsored walk in aid of Cotswold Care Hospice. Supporters can take part in the Solstice Walk on Friday, June 20 in memory of a loved one. The evening country walk across the Minchinhampton

  • Stroud and District Philatelic Society

    THE month of April opened with a display by Barry Horne of Exeter who gave a display and talk on the early stamps of Czechoslovakia, which included many examples of design proofs, the type of material that is very unusual. On the 16th, the evening

  • Minchinhampton Gardening Club

    AT their April meeting, the Minchinhampton Gardening Club welcomed Dr Ferguson to talk about the World of Pollination. Dr Ferguson had spent many years researching this fantastic microscopic world and had been able to demonstrate that every species

  • Rodborough Tabernacle United Reformed Church

    ON Sunday, April 13 at 10.30a.m., a service for Palm Sunday took place conducted by Rev. Eric Massey.Eric and John accompanied the choir in the singing of 'Hosanna in the highest'.Palm Sunday hymns were sung including Eric’s composition

  • Tribute night organised in memory of firefighter

    A FORMER Stroud fireman is one of the people being remembered at an event in Gloucester on April 26. Dick Browning, from Whiteshill, died last November, but life-long friend George Ridgeon is organising a tribute night in memory of Dick and two

  • Badger demo comes to home of Princess Anne

    A RETIRED policeman who was infuriated by Princess Anne’s call for the gassing of badgers is to lead a protest demo outside her Gatcombe Park estate which he has dubbed ‘Gascombe Park.’ Since retiring, Ray Egan has become a modern-day John Bull

  • We do not need another plan

    MADAM – I am sure that our MP does not intend to mislead his constituents. However, his letter (SNJ April 10) on the importance of neighbourhood plans contains two important inaccuracies. The first is that neighbourhood plans are ‘vital’. In

  • Site not suitable for new development

    MADAM – The application to build a new town to the West of Stonehouse’s main industrial estate will not produce the affordable homes or sustainable development its proponents claim. It is cut off from the town by the railway, and too far for

  • Exit could not be more dangerous

    MADAM – I live on Marle Hill, one of Chalford’s steep donkey tracks. Now, of course, this lane takes cars, vans (often lost) people and horses round its many bends. Our district council planners have just voted to allow an exit (or entrance

  • Dog-waste service must be functional

    MADAM – SDC has (quite rightly) introduced fines for dog owners who fail to pick up dog waste. It is therefore incumbent on the council to provide bins for that waste in popular dog-walking areas as this encourages compliance. In my experience

  • One rule for them and another for us

    MADAM – I refer to the article and picture of Maria Miller with MP Neil Carmichael, SNJ, April 9. Mr Carmichael, I note, is once again playing Follow My Leader. I also note that time after time any MP backed by PM Cameron soon gets the chop

  • Attend meetings to hear energy policy

    MADAM – I can agree with one point in Sarah Lunnon’s letter that it was wrong for planners to agree development on land that has flooded for 1,000 years, but to link that to support an energy strategy that is futile and expensive is badly

  • Steiner school is not a state facility

    MADAM – Adrian Lawton (SNJ letters April 9) asks why the problem with the proposed Steiner school in Stroud. He states that if approved it will be state funded and hence a state school. Not at all, the school would in reality be governed by

  • Tax is a privilege in our great society

    MADAM – Our MP says (SNJ, March 26) that the recent budget means ‘lower taxes for around 41,527 in Stroud’.However, this will not help those who do not earn enough to pay tax.As usual, this government is working on behalf of the better

  • Glacier is one of many melting

    MADAM – Twenty years ago, my wife, daughter and I were on a viewpoint overlooking the foot of the Gross Glockner glacier.From the road, it was an easy walk down to a point where you could actually touch the face of the glacier. Last year, my daughter

  • Jury fail to reach sex trial verdict

    A JURY has failed to reached verdicts on 14 child sex charges brought against Nailsworth man James King. At the end of the eight day trial jurors spent two days in deliberation but were unable to agree on majority verdicts on any of the charges

  • Man, 25, punhced and kicked during assault in Cirencester

    POLICE in Cirencester are appealing for information after a serious assault in the town centre over the weekend. The incident happened outside Sports Direct in Cricklade Street between 3am and 3.45am on Saturday, April 19. The victim, a 25-