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Stories for 12 January 2005

Stroud Arts

Art of Home Life

STROUD House Gallery opens the new year with a skewed look at domesticity, in the shape of the exhibition Home Life which opened on Wednesday, January 12.  more...

Students show to boost appeal

TWO SECOND year BTEC Performing Arts students from Stroud were so moved by the devastating images of the Tsunami that struck the shorelines of the Indian Ocean at Christmas that they decided to put together a Charity Cabaret to help raise funds for those who are suffering as a consequence.  more...

Stroud Features

'Grab chances and squeeze'

HE has been bashed by battle-axes, slashed by swords and hoofed by horses.   more...

Stroud News

Peace campaigner in road rage attack

A GENTLE peace campaigner was savagely beaten after urging a motorist to slow down on a dangerous stretch of road.  more...

Dogs escape falling tree

FEROCIOUS winds brought a tree crashing down at a Whitminster animal shelter on Friday night narrowly missing two dog kennels.   more...

Charitable Judith was a 'real one off'

FRIENDS have paid tribute to a dedicated nature lover and charity worker whose life was cut short by cancer at Christmas.  more...

Kids selfless sacrifice

MINCHINHAMPTON Primary School is sending money to a former teacher working in Sri Lanka who cheated death in the Asian tsunami so he can help victims recover their lives.  more...

Store ban for gran over 30p crisps

A GRANDMOTHER was banned for life from a Stonehouse supermarket and told she would face hefty legal bills after she forgot to pay for a 30p packet of crisps for her two-year-old grandson.  more...

Radio station cut down in its prime

STAFF from a radio station with a unique connection with its listeners were left mourning the day the music died at Christmas.  more...

Hard-hitting art

STUDENTS at a Stroud school have been learning about the realities of homelessness and have put together an exhibition of hard-hitting posters highlighting the problem on show at the Museum in the Park.  more...

Poet well-versed in local life

A WANDERING teacher who came home to the Five Valleys after a lifetime away has published a collection of poetic reflections on the Cotswolds.  more...

Missed death by ten minutes

Former Minchinhampton Primary School teacher Glyn Jackson now lives in Sri Lanka and was holiday on its south coast when the Boxing Day tsunami struck.   more...

Eco-house doom looms

ECO homeowner Jack Everett's 20-year battle against council bureaucracy could soon be at an end as councillors pursue an action to bulldoze his Sheepscombe home.  more...

£10 million appeal target

A STROUD schoolboy hopes to raise £10 million for tsunami victims by organising a national non-uniform day from his bedroom.  more...

Stroud Sport

Rutter scores Stateside dream

GLOBE-TROTTING Tommy Rutter is living the American Dream with top USL Pro-Soccer League side Utah Blitzz.  more...

New year gloom for sorry Stroud

South West 2 West Barnstaple RFC 11 Stroud RFC 3  more...

Olympian Robinson takes Epney

OLYMPIC star Dan Robinson raced to victory in Gloucester AC's 10 mile road race at Epney.  more...

Beach life suits Lewer's men

Scarborough 0 Forest Green Rovers 0  more...

Stroud Viewpoint

Consumer bites back

WHEN it comes to shopping I am well known for being a wimp; the service or product has to be truly dreadful or unusable before I will summon up the courage to complain.   more...

  
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