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  • Westonbirt to feature on set of special stamps

    Westonbirt Arboretum will feature on a special set a stamps released by the Royal Mail. The set of six capture views of forests from across the UK, including Westonbirt's Acer Glade. Also featured are Glen Affric, Sherwood Forest, Glenariff Forest

  • New cycle trail planned between Stonehouse and Nailsworth

    This column is written by Ellen Winter, Stroud Community Wildlife Officer for Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. A lone song thrush skulks out of my path looking slightly moth eaten with moulting, while speckled wood and tortoiseshell butterflies flutter

  • DAVID DREW: Universal Credit rules are inhumane

    WHEN a Stroud resident diagnosed with stage-four terminal cancer contacted me saying he had been declared ‘fit for work’, it was yet another reason to call for change to inhumane Universal Credit rules. Despite his advanced and debilitating condition

  • IN THE DOCK: 4 cases from crown court this week

    Here are three of the crown court stories that have featured in the SNJ, Gazette Series or Wilts Glos Standard over the past few days. Click the description below to read the full story. A 51-year-old man from Yate has been found guilty of groping

  • A happy ending for story of Stroud war refugee

    THIS photograph of Jewish refugees from Germany arriving in Stroud during WW2 appeared in the Stroud News in May 1939.  Whilst researching the fate of the youngsters in this image, Chalford Parish Local History Group has unearthed a happy ending

  • JOHN LIGHT: I'm impressed by our new prime minister

    Listen to our new Prime Minister and you will be impressed. He is confident in manner, fluent in speech and has exciting ideas. The two that impress me most are extra police to be recruited and improving travel in the north of England. You