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Stories for 15 September 2004

Stroud Arts

Review - Claire Martin

Claire Martin The Subscription Rooms, Stroud. Friday, September 10.  more...

Hop to it if you want to buy rabbit art work

ART lovers will need to hop to it if they are going to catch a chance to get their paws on one of the popular rabbit paintings that have been popping up around town as if they were breeding like, well, rabbits.  more...

Review - Chumbawamba

Chumbawamba The Subscription Rooms, Stroud. Saturday, September 11.  more...

Fairies feature in fantasy art show

THERE are fairies at the bottom of John Street in Stroud as an exhibition of fantasy art is on show at Touche.  more...

Review - Popcorn

POPCORN is one of those plays that you enjoy at the time but gets you thinking for days afterwards.  more...

Stroud Features

Egyptian refugees reunited

IN the winter of 1956-1957 hundreds of Suez crisis refugees evicted from Egypt by Gamal Abdel-Nasser began arriving at a disused Stonehouse hostel. Five decades later, in August this year, an emotional reunion took place. David Gibbs reports  more...

Fringe benefits from variety

FOR one glorious weekend Stroud once more became a hotbed of music, drama, cabaret and street entertainment as festival fever hit the town.   more...

New lease of life after trip

AFTER a traumatic year yoga teacher Girish Patel took his son Nikhil into the foothills of the Himalayas on a voyage of self discovery.   more...

Crowds cope with country fair rain

RAIN and gales lashed Frampton Country Fair on Sunday causing brief havoc for many of the stallholders.  more...

Stroud News

Patients treated for Legionnaires disease

THREE cases of Legionnaires, disease are being investigated in Gloucestershire.   more...

Island homes plan rejected

MAVERICK Stroud district councillors defied officer advice to reject a planning application for eight homes on a small island of land in Stonehouse.  more...

Landmark faces bleak future

USE it or lose it is the stark warning issued this week by the chairman of Minchinhampton landmark the Market House.  more...

Guess at mastiff's mass

THE WEIGHTY matter of a giant dog will be testing the speculative wits of visitors to Saturday's Horsley Grand Fete. People will be invited to guess the weight of Onslow the outsize Old English Mastiff at the annual extravaganza at Horsley Court between 12.30 and 4.30pm .   more...

Controversial mast given the go-ahead

VODAFONE has won permission to build a controversial 20-metre mast on an area of outstanding natural beauty at Edge on its second application.  more...

Uproar over vacant homes

A COUNCIL house has been left empty for nine months despite SDC's recent pleas to private landlords to help house the homeless.  more...

Support for circus

A GROUNDSWELL of support for Giffords Circus is rising up in Minchinhampton after it was criticised by the parish council.  more...

Slimmer revels in her fresh image

A STROUD slimmer who lost almost six stone after being inspired by Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow is now feeling absolutely flab-u-less.  more...

Help us gain gold

SUPPORTERS of Stroud in Bloom are celebrating floral success after receiving a top award for this year's efforts.  more...

Fun day in memory of Sharon

FUN-LOVING staff at a Stroud building society have raised over £1,000 for a very serious cause.  more...

New-born calf in false alarm

A CLUMSY calf caused concern on the commons last weekend when walkers mistook its giddy gait for a broken leg.  more...

Taxi-bus service project

A TRANSPORT service which is part taxi, part bus is set to serve the villages north of Stroud in the new year and the county council would like to hear from potential users.  more...

Complaints rubbished

COUNCIL bureaucrats have refused to pick up an elderly homeowner's rubbish for nine weeks because she leaves it at the bottom of her garden - where until now they have been happy to collect it for the past 20 years.   more...

Seedy side of life caught on camera

THE talents of a Stroud-born photographer who spent weeks capturing the lives of Bristol drug addicts and prostitutes have been recognised in an international photography competition.   more...

Daleks invade Stroud

EVIL alien pepperpots the Daleks revealed the latest stage in their assault on earth when they invaded the Stroud Subscription Rooms on Tuesday.   more...

Stroud Sport

Medal joy in biathle

HUSBAND and wife duo Sean and Gwen Kinsey tasted success at the World Biathle Championships in Marktoberdorf, Germany.  more...

Hockey: Norman strikes treble

Stroud Men's 1st XI 6 Witney 3 STROUD Men's 1st XI, hit Witney for six in a friendly victory.  more...

Tickets moving fast for Alliss

BRISTOL CITY'S football ground will be turned into a mini Stroud on Friday, October 1 when Stroud's professional pugilist Leigh Alliss fights for the Western Counties light heavyweight championship.  more...

Lewer is shock Lawn choice

FOREST GREEN ROVERS' top brass have named Alan Lewer as their surprise managerial choice.   more...

Rugby: Cleve are flattered

South West 2 West Stroud RFC 28 Cleve RFC 12  more...

Large field ready for Gatcombe test

MORE than 500 riders will compete at the Autumn Gatcombe Novice, Intermediate and International CIC** Event, which takes place this Saturday and Sunday.  more...

Hero Peachey picks off the wilting Bluebells

Gloucestershire County League Hardwicke 3 Sea Mills Park 1  more...

Stroud Viewpoint

Charities should stay at home

CHARITY begins at home, they say, and that's fine with me.  more...

  
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