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CLICK HERE for full picture gallery from the Tour of Britain as it passed through Stroud today.

A GROUP of Stroud activists are hoping they can draw attention to the growing issue of man-made climate change. Members of the campaign group GlosCAN has organised a march through Stroud to coincide with the People’s Climate March taking place

SPEND an evening with the Iron Lady of British politics at Stroud Theatre Festival.Meet The Real Maggie Thatcher – a modern drama by Gerundagula, Liverpool’s radical touring company – will provide an insight into one of the most notorious

POLICE are appealing for information to trace a missing girl from Innsworth. Chelsie Didcote, 16, has not been seen since yesterday, Tuesday, morning. While Chelsie has been reported missing before and returned safely she is currently believed

THESE photos were taken by James Kriszyk as the Tour of Britain whizzed through Painswick.

A CONCERT by Sarah Connolly CBE due to take place at Wycliffe College on Saturday has been cancelled.

AN EXHIBITION of photographs by John Daniell opens at the Lansdown Gallery on Tuesday, September 16.Entitled Between Worlds, it features images of meeting points and boundaries, both real and imaginary, in the landscape."These range from seashores

HUNDREDS lined the streets of Stroud to watch the Tour of Britain. Among those taking part were Olympic medal winner Bradley Wiggins, Mark Cavendish and Stroud's own James Lowsley-Williams. Today, Wednesday, marked stage four of the eight-day

AT THE 1951 Festival of Britain, Stroud author Laurie Lee held the position of 'Curator of Eccentricities'.This interesting sounding job entailed collecting inventors' oddities for a display called Eccentrics' Corner, which went on to

AS PART of the Laurie Lee Centenary Celebrations, poet Adam Horovitz will be spending September celebrating Slad Valley and Laurie Lee as the first ever Poet in Residence at The Museum in the Park. The appointment runs in conjunction with an exhibition

Vanarama Conference Nuneaton 1 Forest Green 0 FOREST Green boss Ady Pennock isn’t pushing the panic button as his side fell to back-to-back Vanarama Conference defeats at struggling Nuneaton. Under the caretaker management of Mark Noon

WHILE the Baxter’s Field application now looks set to be determined at the High Court, a group of Summer Street residents are hoping to preserve part of the Slad Valley as a public open space. An application for an area of land known as McNally

THE PAINSWICK Singers will soon be starting rehearsals for their new season and are inviting new members to join them.All voices are welcome and there will be no auditions. The choir sings a wide variety of music and perform three concerts a year, starting

IN NOVEMBER the Cotswold Players will be staging the premiere of Blighty Bound, a musical play written by a local playwright Pip Royall. Inspired by WW1 poetry from both the War Front and the Home Front , the show has been created especially for the Players

AN ACCOUNTANT who swindled a Stroud charity out of more than £100,000 to fund his gambling addiction has been jailed for eight months. Dominic Fox, 50, almost brought the Citizens Online charity to its knees and cost its office manager her job

CYCLIST James Lowsley-Williams will whizz past his former school later today, Wednesday, when he takes part in the Friends Life Tour of Britain. James is part of the NFTO Pro Cycling team and will cycle past the Acorn School in Nailsworth which

THE Stroud district is set to be graced by two of the greatest British cyclists currently on the road this Wednesday lunchtime. The Friends Life Tour of Britain, which started in Liverpool on Sunday, September 7, will see defending champion and

CAPTAIN Klinger is coming back. That is the best news Gloucestershire cricket supporters have had for some time. He has been an important character at Bristol on and off the field and knows work is still to be done. Players like Tavare, Roderick