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Door Youth Project receives £10,000 to tackle unemployment
THE Door Youth Project has been awarded a £10,000 grant to help tackle long-term unemployment. The grant, from national awarding organisation apt awards, will be used to employ a team of qualified and experienced teachers and youth workers, responsible
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Video to teach about council’s recycling service
A RECYCLING video is being made by Stroud District Council in partnership with Gloucestershire County Council. The video explains the wide range of materials which can be picked up at the kerbside and goes into detail about what happens once it
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Nailsworth TIC moves premises
NAILSWORTH Tourist Information Centre has moved from Fountain Street to Old Market. The centre is now based at the former police station, which closed last year. Town councillors were successful in purchasing the building, located next to the
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Give blood at St Lawrence Church
SAVE a life by giving blood at St Lawrence Church, the Shambles, Stroud on Thursday, August 29. Sessions run from 1.30pm to 3.30pm and from 4.30pm to 7.15pm. To book an appointment see blood.co.uk or call 0300 123 23 23
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Skatepark to be built in Stonehouse thanks to £50,000 lottery grant
A £50,000 lottery grant awarded to Stonehouse Town Council means a long-awaited skatepark will soon be built at Oldends Lane Playing Field. The funding has come from Sport England's Places People Play legacy programme. Plans to build the park
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Game, set, cash - Nailsworth Tennis Club receives £35,000 lottery grant
TENNIS players are making a racquet about the news that their club has secured funding to build a new court. Nailsworth Tennis Club has been awarded £35,000 of National Lottery funding from Sport England to develop a derelict piece of land into
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Inside the Pavilion with Gloucestershire CCC president John Light
THERE is still all to play for in the YB40 competition. Defeat for our county side at Taunton is sad, but not disastrous. Hopefully there will still be something to play for when Somerset come to Bristol on August Bank Holiday Monday. That
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No star farewell billing for Brimscombe's Beckingham
THERE was no Oscar winning finale for Brimscombe striker Mike Beckingham at the Meadow on Saturday. Beckingham jets-off to Hollywood this week to follow in the acting footsteps of his famous older brother Simon Pegg this week, but he was unable
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Measles-free month for county
THERE were no cases of measles reported in Gloucestershire in June as the national immunisation catch-up programme continues. Figures released by Public Health England show that a total of 63 cases have been recorded so far this year compared to
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Plans to extend Fieldview care home in Stonehouse have been allowed
PLANS to extend a nursing home in Stonehouse have been allowed on appeal. Stroud District Council refused an application for planning permission in January for the development of a building on the land adjacent to Fieldview care home in Pearcroft
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Minchinhampton Common celebrates its 100th birthday with a Beating of the Bounds
CELEBRATIONS to mark centenary of Minchinhampton Common continue this month with a Beating of the Bounds. There will be five organised walks on the morning of Sunday, 25 August, covering the common’s six mile boundary. Afterwards volunteers
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Harescombe village hit twice by fly-tippers
FLY-TIPPERS returned to the same spot just 48 hours after one lot of waste was cleared away by Stroud District Council. Fly-tipping has long been a problem in Harescombe but in the last six months SDC alongside local residents have made great headway
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Dale Vince to receive honorary degree for contributions to Stroud
ECOTRICITY founder Dale Vince is among several big names in Gloucestershire to receive an honorary degree from the University of Gloucestershire this year for his outstanding contribution to the Stroud community. The chairman of Forest Green Rovers
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Cotswold Camerate Chamber Orchestra to perform in Nailsworth
COTSWOLD Camerata Chamber Orchestra perform at Christ Church in Nailsworth on Saturday, September 14. The programme includes Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture and Haydn’s The Clock Symphony. Music starts at 7.30pm and tickets are available
