Stroud | Archive | 2005 | April
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THE 2005 Stroudwater Textile Biennale opens this weekend with Installations, an exhibition by Carole Waller, Malcolm Martin and Gaynor Dowling. more...
WEST Country girls can meet an East End boy this weekend as Stroud nightclub Uptown Downtown plays host to returning Eastenders hardman Steve McFadden. more...
THE Thelma and Louise of the SAGA generation come to Cheltenham Everyman's Other Space studio theatre this weekend in the form of Breakaway Blues. more...
RESPONDING to the needs of local film and video artists, Trial Pit Cinema, premiering at Stroud's Subscription Rooms next week, is a new Stroud Valleys Artspace initiative - organised by Stroud video artist Beth Szczepura - that hopes to give frustrated film-makers a much needed outlet. more...
On Thursday, May 5 the people of the Five Valleys will go to the polls to elect their next Member of Parliament and county councillors. The elections are sure to be hotly contested - to help you make your mind up, here is a full list of the candidates. more...
ALLOTMENT holders have been reassured that their plots will not be bulldozed after their determined efforts to turn a once barren site into a flourishing community. more...
THE Nailsworth Festival starts on Saturday and the line-up looks even bigger and more spectacular than last year. more...
STROUD'S canals were signed over to restoration leaders at British Waterways this week in what has been heralded as a "momentous day" for the district. more...
ECO-friendly plans to convert a former chapel and cinema into a car-free shared housing development were treated cautiously by town councillors on Monday night. more...
A STONEHOUSE man has received a letter of thanks from HRH Prince Charles for a poem he wrote commemorating the royal wedding. more...
A HISTORIC cricket pavilion was reduced to smouldering ashes after a suspected arson attack on a Dudbridge sports field. more...
THE names of Painswick's fallen heroes are set to be recorded by civic leaders as wind and time erode them from the town's war memorial. more...
STROUD'S Shirley Linton ran her third marathon in London on Sunday. more...
A YOUNG woman has told how she is lucky to be alive this week after cheating death in a 50mph crash on the busy A46. more...
A CANAL barge home was destroyed on Monday after it caught fire at Saul Junction. more...
A CANVASSING election candidate found out about life at the sharp end of politics when his fingers were savaged by a vicious dog lurking behind a letterbox. more...
OUTRAGED residents have applied for a tree protection order after a construction company chopped down trees originally protected by a covenant. more...
DISTRICT councillors will not vote on the political hot potato of the Local Plan until after the elections in May, it was confirmed this week. more...
Adventurer, traveller, musician and Nailstock organiser Hamish Guerrini may look like a maddened castaway, but beneath the bushy beard is a man who has gone a long way to think big thoughts. With the annual Nailsworth Festival due to start on Saturday, SNJ reporter Will Saunders spoke to the Ruskin Mill worker about his life on the road and what he thinks of his Five Valleys home. more...
Stroud author Jamila Gavin, winner of the 2000 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year for one of her many novels, Coram Boy, was recently invited to Iran for the very first children's book festival to be held there. Here she questions why she was chosen to be a guest in this highly religious country and describes some of the changes which she believes is opening up Iran to the west. more...
Breathtaking and imposing, the building that houses Hawkwood college could not have been better chosen to inspire personal development. more...
ALAN LEWER is set to appeal against his sending off against Hereford United after the Forest Green boss was ordered from the dug-out during Rovers' 3-1 defeat last week. more...
ALTHOUGH it maybe mathematically possible to stay up, Forest Green Rovers seven-year love affair with the Conference is all but over. more...
THE Gloucestershire Warriors have been forced into a late change in their coaching staff just weeks before the start of the 2005 TOTALrl.com Rugby League Conference campaign kicks off. more...
FORMER Shortwood United boss John Evans has left his role as Slimbridge caretaker manager after failing to land the role in a permanent capacity. more...
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