FAIRFORD TOWN boss Jody Bevan has backed a national sin bin trial. The 10-minute dismissals are being issued this season by referees as a sanction only for dissent and indicated by the official showing the guilty player a yellow card and pointing
Fancy a nice cold pint? Well there is plenty going on in and around Gloucestershire to quench that thirst. Here are some dates for the diary. Hillside Brewery Beer Festival When: August 9 - 11 Where: Hollybush Farm, Near Longhope Hillside
Talented Stroud seamstress Gabrielle Martin-Goff, 21, is on her way to the national finals of Young Market Trader of the Year Gabrielle, a nursery worker, designs and makes baby clothes and accessories which include reusable, eco-friendly make-up
STROUD'S waste is temporarily being taken to landfill sites across the county due to 'technical problems' at the Javelin Park incinerator. The incinerator is still being tested ahead of becoming fully operational later this summer. A Gloucestershire
A WOMAN from Stroud has admitted to assaulting a police officer. Victoria Everett, 39, of Brick Row, pleaded guilty to beating the female officer in Stroud on April 27. At a hearing at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court on August 9, Everett was
DESPITE the cancellation of Stroud Fringe Festival, there will be live music in and around the town over the bank holiday weekend. Festival goers were left disappointed last week after organisers announced they had pulled the plug on the event.
Here are some of the upcoming events near you this week. Friday, August 9 Painswick Country Market Homemade cakes, pastries and savouries, local honey, jams and chutney, seasonal plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables, crafts and greetings
The executive headteacher of two primary schools near Cirencester has been nominated for a Pride of the Cotswolds award. Suki Pascoe, who works at Bibury C of E Primary School and North Cerney C of E Primary School, is up for Teacher of the Year
Farmers' Market news with Gerb Gerbrands. We have the Stowe Herd old spot pork stall away this week and Bow Brook Farm will be filling in for them. Bow Brook had a spell at our Wednesday market in Stroud a couple of years back and attend Gloucester
Pupils at a primary school in Stroud are celebrating having collected a bumper harvest. Severn View Primary pupils grow a range of produce and worked hard to prepare their growing beds before the start of the Summer holidays. Year four pupil
