The latest news as it happens from Stroud, Stonehouse, Nailsworth and across the Five Valleys

Slimbridge visitors can book their own coracle capers

10:00am Sunday 14th March 2010

VISITORS to Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre can now explore the sanctuary’s waterways on board an all-together different mode of transport.

Volunteers needed to organise charity walks for under-fives

1:00pm Saturday 13th March 2010

VOLUNTEERS are needed to organise sponsored walks for under-fives next month in aid of the Meningitis Trust.

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Tenants at the Woolaways in Minchinhampton are officially asked to relocate

10:00am Saturday 13th March 2010

TENANTS living in 35 threatened council homes in Minchinhampton have been officially asked to relocate.

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No cheese please - Gloucestershire's historic cheese-rolling event called off

3:30pm Friday 12th March 2010

GLOUCESTERSHIRE’S annual cheese-rolling event has been cancelled amid concerns about the number of spectators it attracts.

Thieves steal more than 400 lawnmowers from back of lorry

2:00pm Friday 12th March 2010

MORE than 400 lawnmowers were stolen from the back of an articulated lorry parked in a lay-by on the A417 near Cirencester.

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Stroud District Council approves plans for new rugby pavilion

1:00pm Friday 12th March 2010

A NEW rugby pavilion can be built at Victory Park in Cainscross after plans were approved by Stroud District Council.

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Christian Comment by The Revd. Simon Richards, Vicar of the Benefice of All Saints, Bisley, Christ Church, Chalford, St John the Baptist, France Lynch and St Bartholomew, Oakridge

11:54am Friday 12th March 2010

We are in a ‘phoney war’ stage with the General Election. Everyone knows it has to happen, but no-one (except the one person who can decide) knows precisely when it will be – as I write. Over succeeding elections, it has become almost fashionable not to vote. What a dreadful shame, when we consider the bravery of those who won the vote for everyone over the age of 18, sometimes through the sacrifice of their own lives.

Double yellow lines re-instated in Folly Lane, Stroud after motorist is wrongly fined

10:00am Friday 12th March 2010

DOUBLE yellow lines were re-painted along an unmarked section of Folly Lane in Stroud on Thursday, March 11 after motorist Charlotte Macdonald was wrongly fined £35 for parking in the gap.

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Stop Press - Students cut their journalistic teeth on BBC School Report news day

6:50pm Thursday 11th March 2010

STUDENTS experienced a day in the lives of journalists when they took part in the annual BBC School Report project today, Thursday.

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