AFTER a lifetime as an artist, 75-year-old Trevor Duncan has no intention of hanging up his pencils and paintbrushes.

Trevor, who has lived in Stroud since his family moved here when he was a baby, has been busy producing a new comic strip for the Stroud News & Journal aimed at our younger readers.

Here is the last of the series.

Meet Fred

FRED is an active pensioner.

He lives on his own with his dog Roger.

He is untidy and wears a stretched cardigan and spectacles.

He is independent but forgetful.

He will take any job that comes his way but it usually ends in disaster for him and his dog.

Sid, Fred’s grandson, loves to visit him to delve into his old shed, which his full of junk, or play Fred’s wind up gramophone.

Fred lives next door to Lord and Lady Smith, who think he lowers the tone of the village.

This, as you can imagine, gets Fred into a lot of hot water with them.