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The Big Draw is back
PENCILS at the ready! The Big Draw, the world's largest celebration of drawing, is back at the Museum in the Park on Saturday, 11am to 4pm.Join students and staff from Stroud School of Art to help create a collection of postcards celebrating the museum
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Stroud hailstorm - your pictures
PHOTOGRAPHER Tammy Lynn Kwan sent in these dramatic pictures of the freak hailstorm which hit Stroud at lunchtime. Tammy took them at her home in Rodborough.
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Co-op ceiling falls through in freak hailstorm
PART of the ceiling of the Co-op store in Slad Road, Stroud caved in during today's freak hailstorm. The shop was closed as staff tended to bits of fallen ceiling on the floor. Rain and hailstones battered Stroud in a five minute storm, clogging
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Organisers need help with Stroud's festive Goodwill Evening
CHOIRS, musicians and bands, stallholders, charities and volunteers are needed to help make this year’s Stroud Goodwill Evening one to remember. One very important vacancy which needs filling for the night on Friday, December 5 is the role of Santa
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Family exhibition sees love of art passing down the generations
A UNIQUE exhibition showcasing three generations of artwork from one Cotswold family opens in Stroud.Family Perspectives will show at the Lansdown Gallery from Tuesday, October 14.This artistic journey begins with Robert Ball, a renowned painter and printmaker
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Appeal for information after motorist drives over binman's foot in Stonehouse
POLICE are appealing for information about an incident in Midland Road, Stonehouse in which a vehicle ran over a binman’s foot. The incident occurred at about 8am on Wednesday, October 1 when a car, believed to be a silver Jaguar XJ, partially
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Stonehouse man, 40, found guilty of sexually assaulting a grandmother
A STONEHOUSE man has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a 60-year-old grandmother over a two year period. David Buckley Harrison, aged 40, of Pheasant Mead, Stonehouse, was found guilty of five offences which all included him touching or
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Swarm of bees removed from tree in Cashes Green
THERE was a buzz of excitement when beekeeper Robert Howlett turned up to remove a swarm of bees from a Cashes Green street. Mr Howlett removed the swarm of activity from a tree in the Bassets on Thursday afternoon. “In my 25 years of being
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Comedy magician records DVD
STROUD comedy magician Tom Elliott is to record a debut DVD at the Bacon Theatre in Cheltenham on Saturday, October 18 at 7.30pm. He will be supported on the night by comedian and writer of Miranda and Not Going Out, Paul Kerensa.Tom Elliott, 24, went
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Join Katharine Hepburn for tea at five
A ONE-WOMAN show about the life of stage and screen star Katharine Hepburn tours to the Sub Rooms on Saturday.Tea at Five is the story of the rise and fall of the four-time Academy Award-winning Hollywood actress, narrated as though by Hepburn herself
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Hot-shot Lee Hughes snatches a victory for Forest Green at AFC Telford
Vanarama Conference AFC Telford 0 Forest Green 1 THE performance was unconvincing, but the end result was by far the most important factor, as Lee Hughes struck a second half header that earned Forest Green maximum points at basement boys
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Supermum Angela in running for top award celebrating achievements of businesswomen
SUPERMUM Angela Roach is in the running for a top award which celebrates the achievements of businesswomen who juggle work with family life. Angela, who runs The Hotel Nanny, which provides professional childcare services to the luxury hotel market
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Vibrant collection of artwork will show in Kendrick Street
VIBRANT paintings and drawings of landscapes, interiors, and still-lives open at a show in Stroud this weekend.Rendered by Katharine Neilson, the collection will open at Kendrick Street Gallery on Saturday, and Katharine will be on hand to discuss her
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'We all have an inner anger which should be used to a positive end' - John Lydon speaks to the SNJ ahead of the Cheltenham Literature Festival
"IT'S not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog," - Mark Twain. After speaking to former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, this is the phrase that springs to mind. With the emergence of the punk
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Bandit rock and pop sessions return for half term
YOUNG music makers will create songs on the theme of superstition at the Bandit 13 workshop this half term.The popular rock and pop sessions return to Maidenhill School from Monday, October 27 to Thursday, October 30.Seventy students aged 7 to 17 will
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Mr Twitchett’s at The Sub Rooms is extending its opening hours
MR TWITCHETT’S at the Sub Rooms is extending its opening hours.The cafe bar is now open from 10am Monday to Friday, and from 9am on Saturdays. It will also be open Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings, even if there’s no performance
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Manufacturing company plans to expand factory doubling its work force
AN INTERNATIONAL manufacturing company is planning to expand into a new factory in Stonehouse and double its workforce in the next seven years. Sartorius Stedim Lab Ltd wants to move from Stonedale Road on the Oldends Lane Industrial Estate into
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Plans to build six retirement homes in Minchinhampton thrown out by planning inspector
PLANS to build six retirement homes on a treasured field in the heart of Minchinhampton have been thrown out by a planning inspector. Blue Cedar Homes appealed after Stroud District Council refused an application for the Lemon Field in Tetbury
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Fundraising efforts across the Five Valleys serve tasty results
STANDISH residents brewed up a storm and raised £551 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Organisers Rachel Stafford and Heather Llewellyn took part in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning event on Friday, September 26, and 50 people attended. Ten bakers
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On this day - October 8
OCTOBER 8 1754: Henry Fielding died, aged 47. He is famous for his novel Tom Jones, but it is not widely known that as a justice of the peace he organised the detective force that became Scotland Yard. 1871: The Great Fire of Chicago started
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Grab a Forest Green shirt for free
FREE Forest Green shirts remain up for grabs. More than half of the 500 shirts have been snapped up by school children. As part of Rovers’ 125th centenary celebrations, school children in Years three and four across Stroud are eligible to pick
