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See the fair from the air
ORGANISERS of this year's Frampton Country Fair have put together an exciting programme of activities in celebration of the event's 20th anniversary. This year's show takes place on Sunday, September 11. In addition to many favourites there will also
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Rachel is head over heels
A FORMER Archway School pupil is flying high after joining the RAF's elite aerobatics team the Red Arrows. Rachel Huxford has joined the world renowned display team, famed for its adrenalin pumping airshows, as a public relations officer. The 29-year-old
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Jamie tackles Everest
GRADUATE Jamie Rouan is bidding to become one of the youngest climbers ever to reach the peak of Mount Everest. As part of the Everestmax expedition team, Sheepscombe resident Jamie, 22, will ascend Everest's north side - the most gruelling route to the
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Pick of the flicks to view at festival
THE Cotswold International Film Festival returns to Stroud's Subscription Rooms next weekend with a plethora of fine short films. Now in its sixth year, the festival attracts filmmakers from around the globe. Drama, comedy, documentaries, fairy stories
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Glorious Painswick seal promotion spot
PAINSWICK sealed promotion to Division One with a hard fought 36 run victory over Chalford. An opening partnership of 110 between Simon Savides and Japp Neville laid the foundations. Savides hit a six and 14 fours in his 72 with Neville reaching the boundary
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Appeal to missing 15-year-old
POLICE are keen to trace the whereabouts of a 15-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Lower Street, Stroud, on August 3. Sharni Bradney was last seen at approximately 11.45pm on that evening. She is known to frequent the West Midlands area,
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Shock as artist is killed at college
LAWRENCE Hart was talented artist with a loving family, a gentle man who believed passionately in the ideals of Hawkwood College, where he lived and taught. Warm tributes have been pouring into the SNJ since his brutal death. And his family have paid
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Abbey set for Forest Green home bow
FORMER Norwich City striker Zema Abbey is set for his Forest Green home debut and could be handed a starting spot alongside Lewis Haldane, with Gary Owers aiming to freshen up his strike force. The duo will come into contention for this Saturday's home
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Electric fence sparks fears
A MOTHER-OF-TWO who came across a live electric fence on Rodborough Common fears someone could be injured by the device. Clare Hatherall, 39, from Stonehouse, had been walking on the common near the Prince Albert pub with her daughter Francesca, six,
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Finish line is in sight
A PARTIALLY-sighted student is to run the Stroud Half Marathon to raise money for the eye hospital which helped her as a child. Determined Bronwyn Large, 21, wants to take on the tough 13-mile challenge to help the thousands of people treated by the Moorfields
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FA Cup glory for Shortwood stars
FA Cup glory over Cornish side Bodmin Town this Saturday (3pm) would guarantee Shortwood United a trip to Southern Premier League Yate Town in the FA Cup First Qualifying round. The Nailsworth minnows achieved their rite of passage to face Bodmin with
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A-level success is best yet
EMOTIONS ran high on Thursday as Stroud students proved themselves to be among the country's best and brightest with superb A Level results. Screams of joy, excited chatter and a few inevitable tears marked the end of a nervous wait for hundreds of teenagers
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Yobs locked up for drunken violence
FOUR Stroud louts are starting jail sentences this week for booze-fuelled violence. And police have welcomed the custodial terms handed down to Bryan Baxter, Andrew Wheatley, Alex Hannah and Ben Jones, saying it sends the right message to thugs intent
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Rovers slide to first defeat
FOREST GREEN'S hitherto splendid Conference campaign turned sour on Saturday when they suffered their first defeat of the season. However, Forest Green boss Gary Owers took some spositives from the defeat. He said: "We were very good in the last half-hour
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Kindness of King's
REGULARS at a Stroud pub have ensured a long-serving customer can carry on enjoying their company by raising £1,000 to buy him an electric scooter. Kind-hearted punters at the King's Head in Kingscourt raised the cash for former journalist Robin Haine
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Charlie joins a class act
CHILDREN at a Stroud school raised money for the hospital that treated a classmate who needed a kidney transplant operation. Charlie Powell, five, who is in the reception class at Rodborough Primary School, was born with reflux nephropathy, which meant
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Second theft of 4x4 leaves family reeling
A MOTHER-OF-TWO is calling for thieves to return a Landrover left to her by her recently deceased father after it was stolen from her Stroud home - for the second time this year. Patricia Tinsey is desperate to retrieve the 1991 Defender 90, which was
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Two men charged with murdering artist
TWO men have been charged with murder after a fatal attack on a peace-loving artist at Hawkwood College. Lawrence Hart, 53, died and a 52-year-old man was injured in the brutal attack, which happened as a yoga class of about 40 people was being taking
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Mum fights for service
HER teenage son has to hitch-hike to see his friends and she is paying £600 a year to put her daughter on the school bus. And today, Chalford mother Jane Harris joins the SNJ's campaign to Save Our Buses. The mother-of-two has spoken out about how the
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Campaigner blasts poverty celebrities
SLAD Make Poverty History campaigner Anne Russell condemned celebrities who imply politicians are solely responsible for Africa's problems at a meeting last week. She hit out at campaigners like Bob Geldof for blaming governments for poverty while ignoring
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New era for Hazel
ONE of the highlights of the Fringe Festival weekend in Stroud is a concert by Hazel O'Connor at Stroud Subscription Rooms on the opening night. O'Connor, who came to prominence in classic post-punk film Breaking Glass, is joined by The Subterraneans,
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Watch out, there are artists about
AMBUSH Artists, an exciting new collective of poets and musicians from across England and featuring Stroud born poet Helen Gregory, are to launch themselves onto a heretofore unsuspecting public at this year's Stroud Fringe. Fantastical, fun, frivolous
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Superstar DJ releases platter that matters
AFTER two years of work, thousands of hours of tweaking and a little help from a Chilean saxophonist, a Stroud DJ has finally released his magnum opus. Summer Street DJ Giles Wood has just completed his first full-length album A New Way 4ward, released
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Films go full screen ahead
THESE are the first pictures of what the interior of Stroud's new £2.1 million cinema is likely to look like when it opens in November. The six-screen facility will feature plush leather seating, a caf bar and state-of-the-art ticketing systems that owners
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Warriors are sent to Coventry
TOTALrl .com Rugby League Conference Championship Southern Semi-Final Gloucestershire Warriors 36pts, Kingston Warriors 16pts THREE tries in six minutes midway through the first half gave the Gloucestershire Warriors the cushion to hold off a spirited
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Radiation probe after SNJ story
GOVERNMENT watchdogs have launched an investigation into possible radioactive substances at Aston Down after last week's story in the SNJ. We revealed the MoD had admitted the site did contain low-level radioactive contamination when it was sold on -
