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25th February 2015    27th February 2015

  • Cracking the code at SWR

    YEAR 8 and 9 students at Sir William Romney’s School in Tetbury have recently completed the Hour of Code, joining more than 98 million people from around the world who have completed coding puzzles and challenges on code.org. Hour of Code is a one-hour

  • What you are saying on our website

    ON the legal challenge by Stroud District Council against the decision by Eric Pickles to approve plans for the £500 million incinerator at Javelin Park. Posted by JPatStarsmead: It is high time for a serious challenge to Pickles and the cabal

  • A rare glimpse of nature at its most marvellous

    MADAM - In reply to M Stocken’s letter (re. cloud rainbow, SNJ, February 4), I too saw it. Unfortunately by the time I got my camera out, the rainbow was fading. The enclosed photo is all that I could get. Audrey Mitchell Rodborough

  • Climate change may swing vote

    MADAM – Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change is the catchy title of a book that was published last year. It was recently described by a leading commentator as: “The most important book about climate change

  • Answering some points on NHS

    MADAM –With regard to Neil Carmichael’s opinion piece, ‘A Record of Achievement’ 1. In the late 1940s, with a national debt of more than 200 per cent of GDP (twice what it is now), we avoided default and set up the welfare state and NHS. Privatising

  • Board bound to miss key point

    MADAM – Michael Seals, chairman of Animal Health and Welfare Board England, expresses doubts as to whether the TB Eradication Advisory Group will be able to establish a truly independent board to advise on future TB Policy, and take the politics out

  • A reminder of the project’s history

    MADAM – In recent weeks, there has been a lot said about plans to build an incinerator at Javelin Park. One statement which has been repeated by the Tory leader of the county council, Mark Hawthorne, is that: “It was a Labour and Liberal Democrat

  • Dismay over mess – and sympathy

    MADAM – Recently, I paid a visit to Stroud with my two dogs. The last time I had visited the town was about 35 years ago. This time, I enjoyed a walk in the sunshine round the town centre and bought a copy of the News and Journal (February4).

  • Sticking to landfill would be cheaper

    MADAM – Every time anyone questions the incinerator contract, Messrs Hawthorne and Theodoulou of the GCC cabinet recite the same old mantra that “this £500million, 25-year contract will save Gloucestershire £150m compared with landfill”. But they

  • Neil Carmichael receives Beer Champion Award

    NEIL Carmichael has been honoured with the unique ‘Beer Champions’ award in Parliament.Neil who has championed Britain’s beer industry throughout his time in Parliament has been honoured with a unique award in Parliament.He was presented with a certificate

  • Charity Reaches Milestone With ‘Darkness’ Operations

    THANKS to the continued support and generosity of the public, Midlands Air Ambulance Charity has been able to extend its life saving service into the hours of darkness for the first time. For over 23 years, the charity has been at the heart of HEMS (Helicopter

  • Leonard Stanley Wine Circle

    THE February meeting was well attended and members were welcomed by Tim Smith, the Chairman who said that as both he and Bob Britton would be on holiday for the March meeting, Tim Vale would ably take his place.Photographs of the Burns Supper were now