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  • Stroud man jailed for robbery and burglary

    A STROUD MAN has been sentenced after admitting to robbing a man before burgling his home earlier this year. John Munson, aged 38 and of no fixed abode appeared at Gloucester Crown Court last Monday (15 November) where he was sentenced to four

  • Stroud woman guilty of indecent exposure

    A 45-year-old Stroud woman has been convicted of indecently exposing herself, making a menacing phone call to the police and assaulting a man. Katherine Botchett, of the Old Common, Chalford, failed to attend Cheltenham Magistrates' Court for her

  • Man who spat at policewoman jailed

    A 43-YEAR-OLD man who spat at a policewoman in an area of Stroud town centre from which he is banned has been jailed Ben Holloway admitted assaulting a PC by spitting and breaching a criminal behaviour order by entering an exclusion zone in Stroud

  • Stroud MP in tears over mum's online abuse

    SIOBHAN BAILLIE fought back tears as she highlighted in the Commons how anonymous trolls target parents of dead or dying children. Millions of people would be spared being 'routinely harassed' through their mobile phones under a proposed law to

  • Ads for cosmetic procedures targeting under 18s to be banned

    Adverts for cosmetic procedures targeting people under 18 are to be banned, the Committee for Advertising Practice has announced. It means companies will not be able to advertise directly to young people encouraging them to undergo any cosmetic

  • Tennis coach's sickening sex chats with young girl

    A 29-year-old tennis coach described as a 'predatory paedophile' has avoided jail after being convicted of having sex chats with a thirteen year old girl. Emyr Pepperell, of Two Mile Lane, Highnam, Gloucester, told the girl she was 'hot' and made