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  • Why the age of people who rent a home is on the rise

    THE number of people renting a home aged 35 to 54 has risen by 15 per cent in the last three years, as they struggle to get a mortgage, according to new research. Those who rent say that not being able to afford a deposit or not meeting mortgage

  • Penthouse suites approved on top of Tricorn House

    An end to residents' frustration with an infamous eyesore is in sight now that the council has approved a developer's plan to add more floors to Tricorn House. Planning officers at Stroud District Council have today signed off on Oxfordshire Estates

  • Can you help uncover this photo's secrets?

    A mysterious photograph has been posted through the door of the Stroud News and Journal offices, and the paper is appealing for help to solve the puzzle. The photograph, believed to be a portrait of a family taken in the 1930s, was not accompanied

  • Minchinhampton and Chalford share the spoils

    Stroud & District Football League Division 2 Minchinhampton 2 Chalford Reserves 2 MINCH are on the fringes of the title race, but with all the top teams still to play they will have a big say in where the silverware ends up, writes Mark

  • Yeovil boss digs in after Forest Green thrashing

    BULLISH Yeovil Town boss Darren Way has vowed to fight on after his side fell to a chastening sixth successive defeat. Yeovil fans were calling for his head after the Glovers dropped closer to the relegation zone at promotion-chasing Forest Green

  • Honda confirms closure of Swindon plant

    Japanese carmaker Honda has confirmed the closure of its factory in Swindon. Production at the plant, which makes 150,000 cars per year and employs 3,500 people, will wind up in 2022. Honda will retain its European headquarters in Bracknell

  • Here's when to see first big Severn Bores of 2019 this week

    The first big Severn Bores of the year are taking place this week. Three waves rated four stars by severn-bore.co.uk - the website's second highest rating - are hitting the river on Thursday and Friday, to the delight of surfers. The first on

  • Firefighters head to station for critical lesson

    Firefighters gathered in Stroud last week for an evening designed to help them learn more about dementia. Wholetime Watch, Stroud on call and Nailsworth on call firefighters headed to Stroud Fire Station for an event organised by the Alzheimer's

  • 'I am very sorry': Thief's apology after bike returned

    Someone who took an unlocked bike from the Co-Op in Stroud to avoid an early morning trek has returned it. The bike was found outside the shop on Slad Road yesterday with a note attached to it explaining why it went missing. The note reads:

  • Joggers armed with litter picks clean up town

    A new 'plogging' club marked its first outing in Nailsworth last week, with the joggers collecting five bin bags of rubbish. Plogging combines jogging with litter picking, a phenomenon that started in Scandinavia, and on Sunday, February 10 seven

  • Where is the best place to go for a walk?

    Where is the best place to go for a walk in the Stroud district? The Ramblers' Association wants to know. The charity has opened up nominations for this year's Britain's Best Walking Neighbourhood award, which celebrates places encouraging people

  • Man jailed for knife attack over cider in Stroud hotel

    A 36 year old man who attacked another man and seriously wounded him because he was 'in a funk after someone took his cider' in the hotel where he was staying, was jailed for sixteen months today. David Collins, of Worcester Street, Gloucester

  • What's the story with the train nameplates? asks a reader

    HOW many of you remember the naming ceremony, a few years ago at Stroud Railway Station, of the High Speed train power unit 43143, to be fitted with the nameplate of Stroud 700 in honour of the town’s 700th birthday, writes reader David Fawkes.

  • Bob Woodward deserved a knighthood, writes a reader

    IT WAS with sadness that we read in the SN&J (23/1/19) of the passing of Bob Woodward who had founded the charity Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood (CLIC) and raised more than £100 million for this charity, writes Huw Niland. What puzzled me