ON the editorial comment praising Stroud High Street.

Posted by James J 12: So you’ve pointed out what is good about Stroud on a Friday and Saturday. What about the other five days in the week? For someone in their 20s who has always lived in Stroud, the town centre is drab and boring the majority of the time. I am glad I no longer work in the town and instead work somewhere where there is more life and a lot more variety.

On the plans by Newland Homes for 17 houses on greenfield land at Pike Lane, Nailsworth.

Posted by taylorpen: This is not the sort of development we want anywhere near here particularly as this site has an ancient protected oak tree On the Christian Comment by Helen Bailey, rector of Minchinhampton with Box and Amberley.

Posted by Salendine: The Great War started the slow march to a secular society. God wasn’t there for the millions who died in appalling circumstances. It is pitiful to say that he remembers them.

On the photograph of a mutilated deer found on Minchinhampton common.

Posted by K D Cranston: Big cats do not eat the bones and there is often a lot of other stray body parts around the site of a kill. Very rarely would a big cat start at the rear end of its prey and eat away everything so neatly. These deer corpses look more like they have been butchered and dumped.

Posted by bigcatman: This deer, small and comparative to its species, has nothing whatsoever to show and prove that this was the kill of any ‘big cat’. Remember when previous DNA sampling was taken from previous so-called attacks, which turned out to have traces of badger, fox and dog along with other normal insect predation.

This has nothing which indicates any ‘big cat’ predation.

Furthermore, there are no ‘big cats’ roaming wild, free-living and breeding within mainland UK.