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Stories for 3 October 2001

Stroud Arts

Enigma

ENIGMA (15)  more...

Brackets is back

FOLLOWING a break for the summer, a new series of the hugely successful Brackets and Jam sessions gets under way at The Space, Lansdown, Stroud this Friday, October 5.  more...

Jazzing up the blues with a star

JAZZING the blues is the theme of the next performance at Stroud's new venue for live jazz and blues music when the one-time guitarist for Little Richard and Neil Young takes centre stage at the Stroud Jazz Cafe.  more...

Stroud Features

Dulcie swaps by-lines for an online existence

Author, script writer and creator of the chaotic Dulcie Domum so beloved by Guardian readers everywhere, Sue Limb invited Linda Diggory to her Cotswold cottage to talk about her abiding love of words, her family and her hopes for the future.  more...

Journeying into poetry

FEATURES  more...

Stroud News

Waiting list for convent

NUNS are hoping to extend their convent at Brownshill in response to an increase in applications  more...

Tributes to councillor

A BRITISH Legion colleague carried the standard this week at a moving funeral ceremony for Stonehouse councillor, Norman Kimber.  more...

Have-a-go hero beaten with iron bar

HAVE-a-go hero Phil Bradley was beaten across the face with an iron bar after challenging two thugs who were breaking into a van.  more...

Fiasco of speed humps

A BLUNDER by contractors Ringway cost them dear after they were forced to rip up ten 'sleeping policemen' - because they were too high.  more...

Pensioner refuses to foot the bill

AN EBLEY pensioner whose car was stolen by joyriders now faces a hefty bill well beyond his means to get it back.  more...

Frog saved by warden

A STROUD traffic warden proved her profession has a heart when she rescued a frog from the wheels of a car.  more...

Opposition to mast proposals

A PROPOSED TETRA mast on the edge of the Golden Valley has been backed by community leaders - but a leading campaigner and a local resident believe planners should throw it out.  more...

Woman is hit by tractor

A PENSIONER was critically ill in hospital yesterday after being crushed by a runaway tractor in a field near Stonehouse.  more...

Tarbuck's namesakeis a monk

FANS of Jimmy Tarbuck may wonder where he is at times - but he can be found in a monastery near Painswick.  more...

Call for safety review after glider club crash

CALLS for an investigation into safety procedures at the Cotswold Gliding Club have been made following the fatal crash at Aston Down.  more...

Stroud Sport

'Wood bow out with a wimper

Complete Music Challenge Cup Fairford Town 2, Shortwood United 0 FOLLOWING a fine midweek performance at Almondsbury that saw Shortwood move into fourth place in the Hellenic League, their poor away form in cup competitions continued with defeat at Fairford.  more...

Lacklustre Painswick

Old Cryptians 25, Painswick 24  more...

Mervyn goes spare for a massive 90

One of the Nailsworth Skittles League's longest serving players, Railway A's Mervyn Painter, delighted all of his team mates when he recorded the highest score of the season and the highest of his career on September 27.  more...

  
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