Anyone that’s stomped into a country pub on a cold winter’s day will understand the distinctive delights of a roaring fire. But how realistic are they for most homes? And what about eco concerns, not to mention safety? We spoke to Vincent Thurkettle
Photographer Shane Healey captured the action from Forest Green's 2-1 home defeat to Walsall. Take a scroll through the action as it unfolded.
Conrad Logan – five Distribution good at times and almost saved a penalty in the first-half. Another match without a clean sheet. Kevin Dawson – six Did okay and made some decent inroads from defence as an auxiliary right-back. Got forward
A missing Gloucestershire woman has been taken to hospital after being found. Ann Bond, 77, had last been seen at her home address in Tuffley at 7pm yesterday (Saturday). She was found this afternoon and has been taken to hospital for treatment
Dozens of domestic and international flights have been cancelled as Storm Ciara is set to batter the UK and Ireland with heavy rain and winds of more than 80 miles per hour. Weather warnings have been issued across the country for Sunday amid forecasts
I DON’T know why but we were just in the mood for a good old fashioned pub, the proverbial spit and sawdust type of affair. You know the ones where you are even afraid to make eye contact with the female bar staff - well this WAS the Five Alls
Wetter winters are leading to new challenges for the horticulturalist, so Hannah Stephenson asks RHS expert Guy Barter for some top tips. It may have been a relatively mild winter, but the rain has been incessant and we're not out of the woods yet
IT was an ordinary Saturday night in Stroud. Bars were filling up and the atmosphere was beginning to build in and around the town centre on a typically chilly February evening in 2017. Groups of friends were catching up over a drink, filling
We hope you enjoy this selection of old pictures from the area. We will be uploading these every Sunday. Thanks to Howard Beard, Heather Cook, Robert Heaven and Stroud Area Photos & Cotswold Picture Postcards for letting us publish them.
With the dust now settled on the recent general election result, and as the commentariat endlessly pore over the entrails, it’s important to place the result here in Stroud in some kind of perspective. Nationally, Labour’s share of the vote fell
Here are some of the crown court stories that have featured in the SNJ, Gazette Series or Wilts Glos Standard over the past few days. Man who fled country after attack on Yate family given additional jail sentence Cirencester phone shop fraudster
Column by the leader of Stroud District Council, Doina Cornell. THIS week got off to a sad start with the news that Dursley’s branch of Lloyds Bank is closing. It’s a blow - Lloyds was my first bank when I turned 18 (before I lived in Dursley
Patients failed to show up for nearly 150,000 GP appointments in Gloucestershire last year and cost the NHS millions of pounds in the process, new figures show. The Royal College of GPs says missed appointments are “frustrating” for doctors but
