THE 33rd Stroud Half Marathon takes place this Sunday, featuring 1,350 runners. Organised by Stroud and District Athletics Club, the event is sponsored by Ecotricity, Griffiths Marshall Chartered Accountants, Dairy Crest, Bailey Paints and Gloucester
CREATIVE youngsters are being given the chance to win an iPad Air worth £399 by entering our spooktacular half-term Halloween art competition. Spirited artists aged between five and 16 are being urged to enter our Children’s Halloween Art Competition
The musician behind one of the most recognisable saxophone solos - on Gerry Rafferty's hit Baker Street - who was from Exeter, has died. Raphael Ravenscroft, 60, who found fame almost overnight following the release of the 1978 track, went on to
A MAN whose reckless actions while travelling on a Forest A-road led to the death of a 19-year-old woman, has today been sentenced to six years in prison for causing death by dangerous driving. Paul Nathan Reddan, 20, of Stafford Close in Broadwell
A CHARITY fairground organ has found a new home at a Stroud funeral directors. The staff at Philip Ford & Son Funeral Directors are delighted to have the recently restored organ at their business in Cainscross Road. Funeral director Michelle
Widely available in Peru, the Maca vegetable has a multitude of uses. Ruth Holmes introduces us to her latest discovery. I HAVE just returned from a trip to Peru, and once I had completed walking the Inca trail I had time to peruse the food markets
Contact Lesley with your community news on 01453 822684 or email Lesley.williams@gloucestershire.gov.uk Stonehouse WI. Catherine Pyne from the Angel Bakery in Tetbury will join us to talk about Cup Cakes Couture. Come along to Stonehouse Community
The SNJ’s new columnist Karen Eberhardt-Shelton was born in California but grew up in England. She now lives in Stroud and is currently working on an education project called Learn, Think, Act and is hoping to develop an eco-community land trust
ALMOST 10,000 young Gloucestershire book lovers were part of this year’s highly successful Summer Reading Challenge. The event saw children aged from four to 12 years old sign up to read six or more books over their six week summer holiday and
FORMER Prime Minister John Major made an impromptu tour of Painswick on Friday. The man who succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Conservative PM enjoyed lunch at the Falcon Hotel in Painswick and a tour of Painswick Rococo Garden. He has visited
SOUTH African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day last year. Judge Thokozile Masipa, issuing the ruling in court in Pretoria, also gave Pistorius a three-year
TRAFFIC is building in and around Stroud this morning. Temporary traffic lights and electricity work in A419 Dudbridge Road between the A46 Dudbridge Hill junction and Cainscross Roundabout are causing long delays for motorists in that area.
THE Royal British Legion is urgently looking for an organiser to co-ordinate the Poppy Appeal in Stroud. This year's Poppy Appeal runs from Thursday, October 23, all the way through to Armistice Day on Tuesday, November 11. The charity is urgently
A MASSIVE £110,000 dredging project has helped restore a section of the canal in Stroud to its former glory. The 300 metre stretch of the Cotswold Canals between Lodgemore Bridge and Wallbridge Lower Lock has been dredged with 4,500 tonnes of material
