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Stories for 23 March 2005

Stroud Arts

Bouncers muscle their way into heat

DEAD Ernest Theatre Company were, to their considerable delight and surprise, triumphant at the All England Theatre Festival Gloucestershire heat at Cheltenham's Playhouse last week.  more...

AKnight of laughs from funny four

JONGLEURS on the Road returns to the Subscription Rooms this week with over two hours of laughs from four great comedians.  more...

Two decades of top theatre

HEXAGON Theatre Company is celebrating 20 years of performing this year with a production of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales at The Space in April.  more...

Stroud Features

Fathers unite to fight unfair law

"We can and do frequently fall out with our partners. It is a pain that is impossible to explain when we feel betrayed by someone we once loved and entirely natural that we feel the desire for revenge.   more...

Stroud News

School's news

A FIVE Valleys school was so keen to make the news after a successful Ofsted report that one of the parents made a celebratory front page to sing its praises.  more...

Gridlock threat

TRAFFIC in Stroud could grind to a halt as the town's main artery is clogged by cars from edge-of-town estates and the throngs expected to flock to the new cinema.  more...

Man behind the machines

Dr Mark Tilden, the inventor of the smash hit toy Robosapien was born in Stroud. The former NASA physicist left the Five Valleys with his family for the USA when he was just two years old but reporter David Gibbs tracked him down to deepest China where while riding in a bumpy van on the way to the production factory he answered some burning questions from his mobile phone and attributed some of his creativity to his Gloucestershire roots.   more...

Hospital site anguish

THE trailblazing community group vying for the Standish Hospital site fear their bid may crumble if they do not get a green light from Westminster within days.  more...

Poultry in motion

A POULTRY lover from Minchinhampton was not eggs-aggerating when he told the SNJ about this monster egg.  more...

Forever striving for peace

MORE than 100 people, including many from Stroud, attended the funeral earlier this month of peace activist Judith Dawes who lived in the Five Valleys for more than 20 years.  more...

Alas! Poor taxpayers' £4,500 drama bill

EBLEY Mill has paid experts from RADA nearly £4,500 to teach district councillors how to ask questions, it was revealed yesterday.  more...

Homes plan outrage

THE district council is caught between a rock and a hard place with Government pressure forcing it to consider development on greenfield sites in the AONB.  more...

Efforts to raise funds on land and sea

AS Cranham's amateur yachtsman Richard 'Artie' Tuckwell battles his way across the Southern Ocean in the Global Challenge, fund racing for his breast cancer appeal for the Gloucester Royal Hospital continues on land.  more...

Forest Green's green light

FOREST GREEN'S proposed new £3million stadium has been given the green light. In a champagne ceremony at the football club's current home, representatives from the county, district and town council, as well as Forest Green and sponsors Smiths (Gloucester) Ltd put pen to paper on the £3million project on Monday.  more...

Stroud Sport

Reed aiming for Boat Race revenge

NAILSWORTH'S Peter Reed will be aiming for rowing revenge when the Oxford oarsman takes to The River Thames this Sunday for the annual Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities.  more...

Easter fayre could hold key to survival

HOLD on tight, the white knuckle ride is going to get that little bit more intense as Forest Green enter the final eight games of the season during an Easter period that could decide Rovers' Conference future.  more...

Painswick march on to final

Stroud Combination Senior semi-final Painswick 23 Cirencester 15  more...

Gidman shines

FORMER Wycliffe pupil Alex Gidman was the hero on Monday as England A claimed a five-wicket win over Sri Lanka A in Colombo, writes Nathan Woolford.  more...

Stroud Viewpoint

Thanks for the memories

BY the time most of you read this I will be gone. At 12 noon today my tenure at the SNJ comes to an end.   more...

Laters, Stroud

WELL, now it's my turn to say goodbye.  more...

  
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