Archive

  • Arts festival coming to town

    STROUD'S 57th Arts Festival is coming this May and it promises an eclectic programme covering everything from poetry to embroidery. Not to be confused with September's Fringe festival, the arts festival has a long and distinguished history of bringing

  • Back in the spotlight

    SCREEN icon Marilyn Monroe is back in the spoltlight forty years after her death in a biographical play that is currently touring the South West. Still Marilyn revolves around the intimate relationship between the screen goddess and Eve Arnold, a young

  • Adam Smith hat-trick pushes his tally to 17

    Cainscross 1st 19 Old Cryptians 1st 5 ADAM Smith increased his personal tally to 17 tries for the season with another hat-trick as he benefited from a strong performance from Cainscross this weekend. Playing with the slope in the first half, the forwards

  • Summer outdoor show is saved

    A GROUP of amateur thespians have got together to rescue a popular summer outdoor production at Painswick's Rococo Gardens. The annual production, which attracts a total audience of nearly 3,000 people, was under threat after the Gloucester Drama Association

  • Shortwood's wait comes to an end

    Bishops Cleeve 0, Shortwood United 0 Shortwood win 1-0 on aggregate. IT HAS been seven long years but it was certainly worth the wait. Not since the GFA Trophy winning side of Steve Hurn's team of 1996 have Shortwood gone through to a major final. The

  • Lives are at risk

    ANTI-TETRA mast campaigner Lynne Edmunds has condemned a Government report which insists that communication masts fall within safety limits. "I don't regard this finding as any comfort whatsoever ever," said Ms Edmunds,who is national TETRA co-ordinator

  • No grants for churches

    A CONTROVERSIAL decision not to give any grants to churches has been made by Stroud District Council. Any church asking the council for money will find the collection bowl empty this year. The decision has been made on the basis that churches are only

  • College conducts inquiry

    MYSTERY still surrounds the suspension of Stroud College principal Hugh Pollock. Mr Pollock has been absent on sick leave since November 28 of last year. Earlier this month he was suspended on full pay but this week it emerged that sickness might not

  • Grace's personal battle in Baghdad

    PEACE campaigner Grace Trevett has been spending this week with Iraqi schoolchildren painting a giant peace mural on the wall of a school. A relaxed Grace spoke to the News & Journal from Baghdad on Thursday as she recovered after her fraught journey

  • 'We just want people to sort their lives out'

    MANY of the men who appear in the dock at Stroud court could do with the calming influence of a good woman. At least that's what magistrate Gillian Lunn thinks and she should know, having been a Justice of the Peace since 1987 and recently elected chairman

  • Rovers cruise into FA Trophy quarter finals

    Dover Athletic 0, Forest Green Rovers 3 ROVERS' journey towards a third FA Trophy Final continued with a comfortable win at The Crabble, home of Dr Marten's Premier Division side Dover Athletic. Two goals before the break and another immediately after

  • Right, this means war

    BATTLE lines have been drawn up in Brimscombe between two warring families. The Lloyd family were furious when a neighbour dumped a battered old car on their Brimscombe Lane land this week. At first they were furious to discover police were powerless

  • Sale of land robs children

    NAILSWORTH councillors have condemned the county council's 'smash and grab' attitude to public services. At a meeting last week they accused Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) of selling off Nailsworth amenities to fund projects in other parts of the

  • Renovation appeal to save grange

    Monks at the famous Prinknash Abbey have launched an appeal to try and save St Peter's Grange which stands in the grounds of the historic monastery. The fund raising kicks off next week with a marathon reading where the Bible will be read out loud non-stop

  • Gates stormed at US airbase

    ANTI-WAR campaigners stormed the gates at RAF Fairford on Sunday, briefly gaining access to the base before being repelled by police. Ten men and three women were arrested and face charges ranging from theft of police helmets to aggravated trespass and

  • Quick thinking saved our son

    A STROUD dad has praised the county's medical staff and the teaching profession after his young son was rushed to hospital with suspected Meningitis. Little Calum Mathison, four, went off to school as usual last Tuesday but at lunchtime his parents Jim

  • Tax burden increase

    COUNCIL tax is on the rise. Gloucestershire County Council has just agreed a record rise in taxes and police stand to receive over half again what they asked for last year. Only Stroud District Council and some parishes have managed to keep down its own