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  • VIDEO: Rotary 5 Valleys Fireworks

    WHIZZES, bangs and vivid sprays of colour drew thousands to the first Rotary 5 Valleys Fireworks. Previously know as Ebley Fireworks, it was rebranded this year by the Rotary clubs of Stroud, Stonehouse and Nailsworth, who organise the event.

  • Murderer absconds from Leyhill prison

    POLICE are hunting a convicted murderer who has absconded from an open prison in south Gloucestershire with another inmate. Daniel Shankly, 30, who was serving a life sentence, vanished on Saturday from HMP Leyhill with 29-year-old Daniel Wynne

  • Toilet humour aplenty in 17th century French play

    Review of The Hypochondriac at The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. CLASSIC French theatre comes to the Everyman this week in the guise of Moliere’s Le Malade Imaginaire. And while Richard Bean’s new English version follows pretty much the same