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

Decimal point missing in last letter

2:14pm Wednesday 19th December 2007

Madam- Thank you for printing my second letter on the subject of Hunts Grove etc.

Does anyone have information on the dog tree?

2:06pm Wednesday 19th December 2007

MADAM - I recently produced a photograph of what I call the Dog Tree on Rodborough Common.

Canals not just for the summer

2:04pm Wednesday 19th December 2007

MADAM - Re the letter published on December 5 'Costs of canal are spiralling' - yet another rant from the anti-canal club - I cannot let pass without comment the statement that 'canals are virtually unused for six months of the year'.

Forest Green game to remember

2:01pm Wednesday 19th December 2007

MADAM - As the heroics of Forest Green Rovers at Swindon fade into memory, I wonder if I can explain to some of your non-football loving readers why this was an important event for the whole Stroud area - not just for those of us that regularly attend The Lawn.

Dumbing down to blame for voter apathy

1:59pm Wednesday 19th December 2007

MADAM - Former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke in his visit to Stroud blamed 'the dumbing down of politics' for voter apathy (SNJ November 14).

'Temporary" lights celebrate third birthday

1:54pm Wednesday 19th December 2007

MADAM - Would any of your readers care to join me in wishing the 'temporary' traffic lights above the Longfords Mill development a happy third birthday.

Teddy pushed worse crime into background

1:51pm Wednesday 19th December 2007

MADAM - The case of the English teacher in the Sudan whose naming a teddy bear Mohammed took up a lot of space in our national press, and so it should.

TB a product of intensive farming?

1:43pm Wednesday 19th December 2007

MADAM - J Williams (Why put off necessary cull? SNJ, Nov 28), advocates the cull of badgers on the supposition that they are responsible for the spread of bovine TB in cattle. Even supposing this were the case, but I firmly believe the reverse is more likely, then he proposes the unacceptable wiping out of another of our native animal species.

Referee takes golfing mantle

8:00am Saturday 1st December 2007

FORMER Fooltball League refereee Brian Stevens is set to become the new captain for Minchinhampton Old Course Golf Club.

Stylist drunk herbicide

9:00am Sunday 20th May 2007

FLAMBOYANT fashion guru Isabella Blow told doctors she had taken the weed killer paraquat just before she died, a coroner has revealed.