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  • Sausage makers go gold at Great Taste Awards

    HINTON Marsh Farm, who have a meat and barbecue stall at the farmers’ market every Saturday, have won two gold medals at this year’s Great Taste Awards. Great Taste, organised by the Guild of Fine Food, is the largest and most trusted awards scheme

  • TENNIS: Oliver catches Tim Henman's eye

    STROUD’S Oliver Smalley insists he will never forget his outing at the All England Club after starring in front of former British No.1 Tim Henman as part of the HSBC Road to Wimbledon National 14 & Under Challenge Finals. The 13-year-old Marling

  • Abandoned Peugeot 106 left trapped on the side of the road

    AN abandoned car, which appears to have been involved in an accident, is still trapped on the side of the road near Selsley. The silver Peugeot 106 seems to have left the B4066 just after the turning for Penn Wood Scout centre and is now stuck

  • JUST IN: 2014 Marling School GCSE results in full

    MARLING School GCSE results in full. Subjects and Codes used Af     - Art & Design Ag     - Art and Design Ap     - Art and Design  Photography B     - Biology Bs     - Business Studies Cg     - Catering Studies C     - Chemistry

  • Marling School pupils achieve 100 per cent pass rate in GSCEs

    MARLING School is celebrating the success of its year 11 students who have achieved yet another fabulous set of GSCE results. Almost half the grades achieved are at A* to A grades with 17 per cent at A*; 53 per cent of students individually achieved

  • Stroud High School students reveal excellent GCSE results

    PUPILS swarmed Stroud High School as they turned up to collect their GSCE results on Thursday, August 21. It was smiles all around for the girls after two years of hard work was revealed when they opened the envelopes determining the next step

  • JUST IN: 2014 Maidenhill GSCE results in full

    MAIDENHILL School GCSE results in full Subject codes Ad     - Art & Design Bi     - Biology Cn     - Catering Studies Ch     - Chemistry Rm     - D&T Resistant Materials Dr     - Drama En     - English Ela     - English

  • Archway students celebrate GCSE results

    THERE were shrieks of joy, screams of excitement and tears of jubilation as students at Archway School collected their GCSE results on Thursday, August 21. With teachers and parents looking on, students filed into the school shortly after 9.30am

  • Ewe bet we’ll find the sheep

    WOULD-BE shepherds gathered for the start of a two-week Sheep Trail at Bisley WI Village Hall on Saturday. Thirty families flocked to the opening of the 2014 event, helping to raise around £70. Maps are now available from George Stores in the

  • Wycliffe students smash ambitious GCSE targets

    WYCLIFFE pupils are celebrating a fantastic set of GCSE results this morning, Thursday. Students at the Stonehouse school achieved 92 per cent of grades at A* to C – completely smashing the estimated 77 per cent as well as the school’s own ambitious

  • What you are saying on our website

    ON the ongoing row about who is to blame for the failure of Stroud District Council to adopt a local plan. Posted by Phyllus Jones: Closing the barn door after the horse has escaped. I now live far away but lived in Cashes Green in the 1950s. An

  • It’s so sad that we have lost so much from this village

    MADAM – What has happened to Frampton? I was looking back on our village life now that the last shop is closing, I remember White’s shop – which sold knitting and sewing needs, one bakery, five shops, one hair dresser, three pubs, two garages, two

  • The facts on planning

    MADAM - So Mr Carmichael thinks it is actions of the Labour-led council causing developers to target green fields in the Stroud district? How then does he explain the problems they are having from the same issue on green fields in Conservative-led

  • Maidenhill students celebrate fantastic exam results

    THE new Learning Hub at Maidenhill School was buzzing with excitement on Thursday as students collected their GCSE results. It was a bitter sweet day for staff and pupils at Maidenhill as the Year 11s celebrated their results and said a final goodbye

  • Thank you to all who donated

    MADAM – The Inner Wheel Club of Stroud would like to thank everyone who helped raise £215 by contributing to our collection for local charities at the Co-Op in Stonehouse on Friday, August 8. Cicely Rawll Stroud Inner Wheel

  • By-election was a useful indicator

    MADAM – It is always interesting to analyse the underlying messages in any electoral contest, and while the recent Valley by-election is based on a very small sample of Stroud’s voters, it nevertheless yields some interesting pointers. While the

  • We can bring Thomas ‘home’

    MADAM – I was most interested to read the letter from Roger Brooke (SNJ July 16) about the Rev W Awdry and his creation Thomas the Tank Engine. He makes a lot of valid points. So why has Stroud almost ignored this man whose locomotive stories

  • Take time to think before you act

    MADAM – Take time before you speak is good advice and this advice can easily be extended to think before you act. In living memory the tattooed lady was a feature of a fairground side show and considered rather tacky, but by today’s standards looked

  • Figures were rather misleading

    MADAM – I have huge respect for Cllr Mattie Ross, and the important and committed work she has put in with others over the years to manage Stroud district’s housing issues. I cannot, however, let the statements she has made, with Cllr Wheeler,

  • Stanleys have been spoiled forever

    MADAM – May I through your newspaper congratulate our MP, Mr Carmichael and his Government on their success in spoiling the Stanleys forever, during their four years in office. I admit this is quite an achievement in such a short time. Our

  • Let down over housing issues

    MADAM – We Stroud district citizens are badly let down by both Stroud District Council’s failure to plan strategically for the housing we need and by private sector market failure by building only for profit. This includes the massive amount of

  • Hatty wins Gold

    STROUD Music & Drama Academy in the press yet again with more top results.This time Hatty Davis has gained a Gold Medal (Grade 8 distinction)."I'm thrilled to have achieved this. I knew I could do it!" Says Hatty.Chas Burns commented

  • Stroud and District Philatelic Society

    THE new session of the winter season will be held on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at St Joseph's Church Hall, Oldends Lane, Stonehouse at 7.30 pm.The programme begins with all members displaying items they have accumulated over the Summer holiday.This

  • Eastcombe WI

    OUR August meeting was very different in that we began with a WW2 Vintage Tea Party. The committee had gone to a huge amount of trouble to make to make this a memorable occasion with decorations, exhibits of our scrapbooks and an excellent tea.

  • Nailsworth & District Flower Arrangement Society

    FOR our August meeting Joan Southerton an area demonstrator from Stourport defined her flower arrangements around special moments in her life which she called 'Bits and Pieces'.Her first arrangement was a myriad of colours against a background

  • Nell brings circus book to town

    THE circus came to town, visiting Stroud High Street on Friday. Accompanied by two front-of-house girls from Giffords Circus, author and circus founder Nell Gifford unveiled her new book at a signing event held at Stroud Bookshop. 30 copies