LEATHER craft worker Hannah Paget, 25, recently opened her family-owned luxury handbag boutique in Minchinhampton High Street. With all her tools and leather hides around her, the shop, called Hannah Paget, doubles as a showroom and a workshop
WHEN a Nailsworth bride-to-be was looking for someone to decorate her wedding cake and couldn’t find one, she decided to make her own figures. After sharing pictures of the polymer clay figures on her Facebook page, Laura Barton’s Cotswold Characters
A NAILSWORTH man who first learnt how to make harps from a paper template has now made 22, and is setting up a business carving the instruments to hire. While Creag Louttit-Vermaat , 29, makes the harps his wife and business partner, Morwenna,
A NAILSWORTH man who threatened to give up his job to go to Iraq to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) has now decided against it. Kyle Sessions, 22, told the SNJ that he had spoken to his father and other family members, who felt the trip
A COMMUNITY speed watch group in Painswick is on a mission to turn the village into a “speed aware” spot. Parish councillor Abigail Smith set up the group after concerns over speeding in the village. The last Speed Watching Week was held between
AUTOMATIC bollards will make Gloucester’s city centre 'gate streets' safer for pedestrians from Monday, March 2. The new automatic bollards will operate seven days a week between 10am and 5pm and will stop any vehicles accessing the 'gate streets
ACCUSATIONS of ‘skullduggery’ and suggestions that Shire Hall should be renamed Wolf Hall set the tone during Labour’s motion to cancel the Javelin Park incinerator. Three Ukip councillors swung the vote by backing the Conservatives in favour of
POLICE are looking for two male suspects who broke in to a pub in Gloucester and smashed open three fruit machines - stealing an amount of money. The incident happened between 6am and 6.15am on Tuesday, February 24 at the property on Bristol Road
Wrexham 0 Forest Green 0 A DOGGED performance earned Forest Green a point at the Racecourse Ground as Ady Pennock’s side extended their unbeaten run into a ninth game, writes Richard Joyce. Worryingly for Rovers,injuries forced Sam Wedgbury
BRIMSCOMBE artist James Milroy sent this comic-style poster to the SNJ as a representation of the debate about the planned Javelin Park incinerator. He said: “I thought your readers might be interested in this old film poster. “It’s uncanny
FRUSTRATION was vented over the lack of access to the contract with Urbaser Balfour Beatty at the extraordinary meeting to cancel the incinerator. The Lib Dems, Labour and the Green Party called for “total transparency” saying they should have
COTSWOLD Costumes in Nailsworth has become home to a lost rabbit – and owner Jim Robinson is keen to reunite the cuddly toy with its owner.Jim says: “The rabbit was left in the shop in January, and we’ve tried to find its owner via Facebook but to no
GLOUCESTERSHIRE Police are appealing for witnesses after a family home was burgled sometime in the last week. The property in Solomon's Tump Road, Huntley was broken into between 5am on Tuesday, February 17 and 1am on Wednesday, February 25.
PUPILS, staff and governors at Leonard Stanley Primary School are delighted with their latest Ofsted report, which rates the school as ‘good’. The previous report,in January 2013, had stated that the school ‘required improvement’. On their latest
TWO months out from their World Cup tilt in Australia, England Women's Touch Rugby team arrived at Minchinhampton RFC for a training day. Thirty-five representatives from the club united under the banner of 'Minch RFC Ruckers' to take on England
AMBERLEY-based artist Mike Dawson is holding his debut exhibition at Star Anise Cafe in Stroud. Mike completed an access course at Stroud College in 2013 after returning to education for the first time in 50 years. Since completing the course, Mike
MR MARKO will be performing a live electronic music set at the Sub Rooms on Friday at 9.30am. “The lyrics in my songs are about the big things in life, like space and time and love and the cosmos,” he said. "Influences are Kraftwerk and early Gary
