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  • Brimscombe 4 Abingdon 0 Champagne on ice for table-toppers

    HELLENIC PREMIER DIVISION Brimscombe & Thrupp 4 Abingdon United 0 BRIMSCOMBE’S Southern League promotion dreams are on ice after they leapfrogged title rivals Wantage Town at the top. Sam Prior’s side finished their season on 71 points

  • Williams set to be out 'for a while' with ankle injury

    Forest Green attacker George Williams could be out 'for a while' after injuring his ankle against Tranmere Rovers on Good Friday.  Williams was substituted at half-time as a result and was replaced by Dayle Grubb.  The injury occured in the

  • Motorcyclist killed in crash on Crickley Hill

    A man has died after his motorcycle crashed on Crickley Hill in the early hours of the morning.  The single vehicle accident happened on the A417 shortly before 1am. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The A417 between the Air Balloon

  • Stroud District Council chief answers your questions

    Kathy O’Leary has been chief executive of Stroud District Council since November. Here, she answers SNJ readers' questions. How have you enjoyed your first few months in the job? I’ve really enjoyed my last few months. I’ve met local community

  • Riders call for protection from dangerous drivers

    Horse riders, walkers and cyclists came together last weekend to raise awareness of the need for car drivers to pass wide and slow. Twenty-six riders took part in the event in Harescombe on Sunday, April 14. Denise Lerego Prout and Sally Watkins

  • JOHN LIGHT: Defensively we can no longer stand alone

    My springtime visit to Eastleach was not without a severe shock. The morning was bursting with spring sunshine and the daffodils as beautiful as ever. Pausing on the stone footbridge I was surrounded by the sounds of the season. Water burbled

  • FOOD REVIEW: The best steak I have tasted for some time

    FOSTON’S Ash Inn must have been a lonely place when all that passed were the occasional stagecoach or farmer’s cart. It stands in a windswept spot high in the Cotswolds on the B4070 Slad-Birdlip Road near its junction with Calf Way, an ancient

  • YOUTH VOICE: Classical music with beatboxing

    HI SNJ, last week I went to see a band called Stringfever at Stroud’s Subscription Rooms. There was four people in the band, two brothers playing the electric violin, the other brother playing the electric cello and the cousin was playing the electric

  • Stroud woman fined after fraudulently claiming benefits

    A Stroud woman has been fined for fraudulently claiming housing benefit for more than four years. Lisa Bridle, 27, of Fishers Way, illegally claimed payments between May 2013 and August 2017. She failed to give accurate details of her partners