Local Peugeot dealership, Olympic Cars Limited, has some cool tips to keep drivers in Stroud from overheating behind the wheel, after research has suggested almost half of UK drivers have experienced road rage*. As the mercury continues to rise
NATIONAL wildflower expert Donald McIntyre will talk at the Stroud Festival of Nature on Saturday, September 7. The talk has been organised by Stroud Valleys Project as part of the charity’s 25th anniversary celebrations. Tickets cost £6 in
MORE than 150 youngsters packed into the hall of Downfield Sixth Form to give a whole new meaning to music piracy. The budding young musicians, who were taking part in a week-long course run by Gloucestershire Music and Cotswold Music Tutors, performed
RESTORATION work has begun on Dudbridge and Foundry locks in Stroud. Contractors Land & Water has starting work on the removal of a narrow stone-sided flood relief channel installed in the 1950s. The size of the machines and narrowness
A CCTV image has been released of a man that police would like to speak to in relation to an assault in Stroud. The incident happened outside the Warehouse nightclub on George Street in the town between 3am and 3.20am on Sunday morning, July 28
POLITICS is often a catty business but this week Stroud MP Neil Carmichael had a more pleasant encounter with a much-loved family feline. Neil was delighted to be reunited with his pet cat Minouche, a seven-year-old blue Burmese, after it spent
POLICE have released CCTV images of two men they are eager to speak to in connection with a distraction theft at a supermarket in Stroud. A series of similar crimes have taken place across the whole of the county. The thieves watch as shoppers
NAILSWORTH equestrian firm EquiFeast has welcomed two young recruits to the team. Rachel Taylor, 21, and Sarah Mann, 22, have recently joined the company, which manufacturers supplements to aid horse behaviour. Both girls have recently graduated
TOP chef Michael Bedford and his wife Sarah are celebrating a year at The Butchers Arms in Oakridge Lynch. Michael and Sarah previously ran the Chef's Table in Tetbury and but with young children they wanted a more family-friendly working environment
AN opticians in Stroud has given the gift of sight by providing specs for people in Sri Lanka who do not have proper, affordable eyecare. Unwanted glasses collected by staff at Specsavers in King Street were given to Stroud Rotary Club before a
MADAM - Paganhill Lane is is a busy main arterial road in a fairly densely populated area of Cainscross with a total of four schools close to either end of the lane. Normally, although busy there is no particular traffic problem outside of the
MADAM - We are urging people to get their walking boots on and sign up for a Three Peaks Challenge - to help fight meningitis on all fronts. Whether you join as an individual or a group from a club or workplace you're promised an unforgettable
MADAM - It is important that the planners and councillors of Stroud District Council think carefully about the 'change of use' issue on both sites designated for the development of two large supermarkets. Chris Harmer (letters, July 31) made it
MADAM - I would like to say a huge thank you for our son Robert's memorial bench. This would never have come about but for the help and kindness of Clive Field of the Cotswold Canal Trust. He helped us plan and organise the placing of the bench
MADAM - I admire your editorial optimism that the Javelin Park incinerator will be refused at appeal but I am afraid this may be misplaced. Whilst it is universally acknowledged that the incinerator will have a detrimental impact on the landscape
MADAM - Having read the letter by Howard Price in the SNJ, I have to agree, he is right on the effects of alcohol and tobacco, why do governments not tackle is robustly, because it generates a huge amount of income for the government of the day.
MADAM - Leaving Whiteshill church cemetery on completion of a graveside duty I decided to walk back along the old road from Whiteshill to Stroud via Callowell and Salmon Springs. It was a sunny afternoon with a warm breeze. The farm fields
MADAM - May I through your column, say a huge thank you to Edna Powell, Michelle Welch, Mavis and Tony Wyatt and all their many helpers for another wonderful Stroud Country Show. Another excellent day out with something for everyone, a chance to
MADAM - May I through your column, say a huge thank you to Edna Powell, Michelle Welch, Mavis and Tony Wyatt and all their many helpers for another wonderful Stroud Country Show. Another excellent day out with something for everyone, a chance to
MADAM - Having twice visited the impressive Asda exhibition at Stroud Rugby Club, I came away somewhat concerned. My first concern was that their proposed entrance was to be almost opposite my drive and I assumed that for me to drive out would
MADAM - Cllr Marjoram is wrong in all three of his 'Ghandi' stages, I have never ignored him, I do not revile him and I can assure him that I am certainly not going to accept his political views. John then turns his letter to topics of national
WORK has started on Gloucestershire Constabulary's new £12.5 million custody suite next to the force headquarters in Quedgeley. The state-of-the-art facility, which will be capable of holding up to 50 detainees in secure accommodation, is expected
POLICE in Quedgeley are investigating a series of incidents involving young people setting off fireworks. Since the beginning of August there have been at least five reports of teenagers launching large fireworks at the skate park near Fieldcourt
THE jury will be sent out today, Wednesday, to consider their verdict on businessman Stephen Read who is accused of sexually molesting four boys over a 15-year period. Read, aged 58, from Bussage, has pleaded not guilty to 15 charges of sexual
A MAN has been arrested as part of a police investigation into an assault at the bus station in Gloucester over the weekend. Officers arrested the 24-year-old man from Quedgeley in the early hours of yesterday morning (Tuesday, August 6) on suspicion
STROUD man Peanut sexually assaulted an 18-year-old girl and exposed himself to a group of children while wearing a skirt, a court heard. Peanut, 51, who has legally changed his name from Trevor Cooper, admitted sexually assaulting the girl and
RURAL postal services are under threat from Government plans to privatise the Royal Mail, according to Stroud Labour Party. The group is concerned that rural areas could lose post offices and villagers might end up having to collect their own post
POLICE investigating a frenzied attack on a delivery vehicle are appealing to the public for information. The incident happened at around 9pm on Sunday (August 4) when a 25-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman, both from Cheltenham, were making
Forest Green Rovers' playing squad - Top row: Scott Bartlett (coach), Jason Ford (clinical manager), Ed Asfu-Adjae, Omar Koroma, Eddie Oshodi, Chris Stokes, Danny Wright, Aarran Racine, Jamie Turley, Ben Wright (now Salisbury), Reece Styche, Kevin
STROUD Cats Protection is holding a Felines@Frocester fair at Elmtree Cottage in Bath Road, Frocester on Sunday, August 18 from 11am to 3pm. There will be refreshments, competitions, a tombola, raffle, new cat goods and bric-a-brac plus lots more
AROUND 250 people attended a weekend exhibition organised by Stroud Local History Society at the Museum in the Park. The popular event, held over the Stroud Country Show weekend, featured photos of long-gone people, scenes and buildings from the
