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Stories for 1 June 2005

Stroud Arts

Joint musical offering for Mill

THE Rosetta Ensemble will be performing works by Piazzolla, Dvorák, Julian Rowlands and Ravel in a concert at Ruskin Mill in Nailsworth next weekend.   more...

Quite like a Rolling Stone

THE BEAT of the jungle drums will be pulsating through Cheltenham next weekend as The Counterfeit Stones beat a path back to the Everyman theatre.   more...

Art looks East for inspiration

AN exhibition of Japanese art and art inspired by the rich and vivid cultural traditions of Japan opens at the Stroud House Gallery this week.  more...

Artists paint spirit of places on canvas

JOHN and Fiona Owen open their 15th Midsummer Celebration exhibition at the Old Chapel Studio, Marle Hill, Chalford this weekend.  more...

Chilean sounds are set to thrill

PREMA in Uley present a thrilling night of chilled Chilean music with much-lauded band Quimantu next weekend.  more...

Stroud News

Green fuel on tap

FILLING up on biodiesel is set to become a lot easier as a Stroud filling station becomes one of the first in the UK to have its own pump.  more...

Licensees and staff told of underage drink blitz

POLICE in Stroud have warned the town's licensees and their employees that they face an £80 fine if they are caught serving alcohol to underage drinkers.  more...

Boy's sudden death

A STROUD schoolboy is believed to have experimented with sniffing an unknown substance hours before he collapsed and died.  more...

'Evil' yobs thought to have stoned cygnets

MYSTERY surrounds the death of five tiny cygnets after their bodies were found floating on the canal by a horrified Stonehouse resident.  more...

Local TA soldiers back from Iraq

TWO Territorial Army soldiers are back home in Stroud after seven months alongside regular army comrades at Shaibah in Southern Iraq.  more...

Closure threat for Stroud home

A HAVEN for mentally ill people in Stroud faces the axe unless it can raise £150,000 by the end of the summer.  more...

Shock over Abbey attack

VANDALS ran amok at Prinknash Abbey on Sunday, smashing a statue of the Virgin Mary and daubing anti-Catholic graffiti on the walls of the main chapel.   more...

Green fuel on tap

VANDALS ran amok at Prinknash Abbey on Sunday, smashing a statue of the Virgin Mary and daubing anti-Catholic graffiti on the walls of the main chapel.   more...

Bandstand to be grand

TWO Stroud businesses are working together on an unusual project, which takes them from their bases at Aston Down and Woodchester to the elite racecourse at Ascot.   more...

Young people urged to take up royal challenge

YOUNG people in and around the Five Valleys are being offered a chance to make a difference to their lives and take part in a 12-week life-changing challenge.   more...

Stroud Picture Special

Sun comes out for Grand Village Fete

THE sun shone on Thrupp as record crowds enjoyed the biggest ever Grand Village Fete on Saturday.  more...

Artists make a welcome Site

THE ninth Site 05 festival was described as "a spectacular success" by organiser Colin Glen as an eclectic range of work was unveiled at the launch evening in Stroud on Friday.  more...

A raft of ideas for top floats

LANDLUBBERS and seafaring folk joined forces on Saturday to make Gloucestershire's Great Raft Regatta a rip roaring success.  more...

Stroud Sport

The time is right for Owers

TODAY marks a fresh chapter for Forest Green Rovers and Gary Owers as the former Sunderland and Bristol City midfielder begins his first working day at the helm of the Nailsworth side.   more...

Jones driving future still on course

ROLAND JONES' drive in a works sourced MG ZR 1.4 rally car is still under threat two months after the collapse of MG Rover.   more...

Rookie Reed is great - Redgrave

OLYMPIC legend Sir Steve Redgrave paid tribute to Peter Reed after the Nailsworth rower scooped gold in the final of the World Cup regatta at Dorney Lake on Saturday.  more...

Ace Trainor runs riot

Premier Two Frocester 346-2 Downend 203 all out  more...

  
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