THIEVES stole the front number plate of a silver Ford car on Sunday, May 4 in Painswick. The Ford CMAX car was parking on Knapp Lane where the number plate was taken between 12.30pm and 1pm. If you have any information call police on 101 quoting
LEON ANDRE completed a 50km cycling challenge and won a bike worth just under £1,000. The Hell of the North Cotswolds junior route was completed by Leon Andre, an Archway School student, 16 and he was automatically entered into a raffle. Cycling
A BENCH has been installed commemorating Karen Toole, a former cross Channel swimmer and Stroud District Council officer. The bench has been installed at the Museum in the Park, in Stroud in memory. Karen, former strategic head of community
THIS weekend artists throughout the Five Valleys are opening their studio doors to the public in the SIT Select Trail.Meet the makers, explore their studios, discover and discuss techniques and methods on Saturday and Sunday, from 11am to 6pm.“You
WRITER Kevan Manwaring leads a literary ramble in the footsteps of George Orwell, through Cranham and the Whiteway Colony, on Sunday. George Orwell spent the last year of his life convalescing at Cranham Sanitorium – suffering from TB. There, he
SCOTT Redding returns to Le Mans, the track at which he took his maiden victory in the Moto2 class just 12 months ago. Scott, who has collected championship points in three of the four races so far in his rookie season, is determined to re-establish
DANISH bluegrass duo The Tenderhearted sing songs about moonshine, murder, unrequited love and religion.The band, which features Signe Ellegård Borch on vocals and acoustic guitar, and Christian Otto Feierskov Andreasen on vocals and mandolin, are
Residents are being encouraged to join the fourth annual Nailsworth Walking Festival, as organisers hope for a record turn-out.Spread over two weeks between 25 May and 7 June, the festival offers walkers of all ages a variety of opportunities to explore
A BURGLARY look out was caught because he left a can of Coke at the scene - with his fingerprints on it, a court heard today. Jordan Ryland, 20, had been recruited by older and more experienced criminals to take part in the raid on a house in Whiteshill
A WEEK of music, comedy, drama and more kicks off in Nailsworth this weekend for the town's 31st annual festival.Festival Saturday sees free entertainment throughout the town, including Punch and Judy and the Panache Steel Band in Nailsworth's
DURING a visit to Stroud this week Prime Minister David Cameron said how ‘taken’ he was with Laurie Lee’s Cider with Rosie. Mr Cameron was talking during a visit to the Renishaw factory in Woodchester where he spoke with staff at the company about
THIS year’s Nailsworth Festival will commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of WWI with special war and peace themed events.A Great War exhibition, funded with a Heritage Lottery Grant, will show at The Comrades Club from Thursday to Saturday
STROUD photographer Ruth Davey and community artist Lis Parker are running a free photography and land art workshop Discover Applewood at the new Applewood housing development in Cashes Green on Saturday, from 10.30am to 4pm. The workshop is for residents
YOUR Musical Memories returns to the Sub Rooms on Thursday at 2.30pm. Tritette, featuring Fran Wade on fiddle and viola, Becky Dellow on fiddle, and Kevin Bown on cello, will play music fromBritain, Ireland and Scandinavia. The pieces will vary from dance
GYPSY Fire's brand new theatre show comes to the Sub Rooms on Saturday at 8pm.Featuring acoustic guitarists Stuart Carter-Smith and Will Barnes, plus jazz violinist Ben Holder and double bassist Paul Jefferies, the quartet will perform a set of gypsy
WHATEVER the weather, the Randwick Wap guarantees a good time for visitors of all ages. And while this year’s staging of the traditional festival enjoyed both sun and showers, a good time was still had by all who joined in the fun. The event
TEENAGERS, siblings and children with disabilities are in urgent need of foster parents. All children are different, and to meet their needs the county council welcomes applications from a wide variety of people. For information about fostering
STROUD International Textiles (SIT) hosts a day of talks and thought-provoking debate at Stroud College on Saturday, from 9.30am to 4.30pm.In Designing Craft: Crafting Design, writer Charlotte Abrahams brings together leading hand makers, digital designers
POLICE forces in Stroud and Dursley have launched an operation to combat anti-social behaviour. Operation Focus, which launched on Friday, May 2 and will run throughout the months of May, June, July and August, forms part of the local policing
WHEN artist Rachel Markwick received an email asking if one of her pictures was still available for purchase she assumed the buyer had seen it at a recent exhibition in Gloucestershire. But on enquiry it turned out the interested purchaser was in sunny
FIRM favourites Almost Legal Productions returned to Stroud with a stage version of two episodes from the BBC’s Blackadder series.With four versions of the period comedy to choose from, Chas Burns has adapted Bells, from the Elizabethan period,
TALENTED young musicians from Gloucestershire will be performing at a free concert in Stroud on Saturday, to raise funds for Holy Trinity Church.Sixth form students from Marling and Chosen Hill schools will be singing and playing a wide variety of music
BOXING Day Tsunami victim Charles Ranford behaved ‘like a dog’ when he attacked another man in a Gloucester club and bit him on the nose, a court heard on Friday. Victim Leonard Thomas, who was thrown to the floor in the Registry Club, suffered
THE Whitstock Music and Beer Festival takes place at the Whitminster Inn over the bank holiday weekend of May 24 -25 and features a range of attractions for everyone of all tastes and ages.More than 50 speciality beers and ciders, as well as food and
BLINK and you’ve missed Jonny May – but former England wing Mark Cueto believes the Gloucester speedster is no flash in the pan as far as his Red Rose future is concerned. May’s Six Nations debut in France earlier this year ended almost as soon
AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after the body of a sheltered housing resident was not found for 24 hours. Michael Maxwell, believed to be in his late 60s, lived at Grange View in Uplands and confirmed he was okay on Sunday, May 4. However
A 21-year-old Stonehouse man took an axe from his home and used it to smash a neighbour's front door during a street confrontation, a court was told on Friday. Benjamin Stoodley, of Juniper Way was initially a peacemaker during the incident on
