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Bus company disappoints young people
YOUNG people in the Five Valleys have expressed their disappointment with bus company Stagecoach, after it pulled out of an agreement to extend concessionary fares to 16-18 year olds in Gloucestershire. Campaigners Alex Farrow, 16 and Katy Dainton, 18
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Hat-trick of dance nights
STROUD'S Subscription Rooms will celebrate the end of the year with three days of dance in a row this week, with the season's climactic sessions from A Cocktail of Dancing and Just Jive-In Dance, as well as an Xmas Soul Party extravaganza. The Steve Holmes
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Verging on the ridiculous
DRIVERS travelling between Chalford Hill and Bisley might be forgiven for thinking they had indulged in a drop too much over the festive season. For these newly painted white lines snapped by SNJ photographer Cyril Laffort are enough to send anyone around
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Mother tells of her terrifying ordeal
A BRAVE mum-of-three whose alcoholic ex-boyfriend terrorised her with a sledgehammer in front of her children has spoken of her horrific ordeal. Emma Case, 27, has nightmares and is scared to leave her home on Stroud's Paganhill Estate since the vicious
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Life, not as we know it
THE NAILSWORTH Valley is the latest book from author Howard Beard and is filled with fascinating photographs showing life long before iPods and mobile phones. Howard lives in Stroud and has family connections with Nailsworth going back decades - in fact
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'Sweet shop' for artists
WHEN Jane and Simon Fisher saw an art shop for sale in Stroud they were quick off the draw and bought it. Jane, an accomplished artist, had long cherished a desire to open her own art materials outlet. That idea took wings just before Christmas with the
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A fine campaign
SMOKERS could face on the spot fines of £50 for discarding cigarette ends - that was the message from council officers last week when they hit the streets of Stroud as part of a litter crackdown. Members of the Environmental Contracts Department at Stroud
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Oh yea - a great trip
TONY Evans, Town Crier for Nailsworth, Minchinhampton and Leves attended the Town Crier World Championship in Australia in 2005. Here he recalls the highlights of his tonsil-straining visit. WE left home on October 3 and some 38 hours later booked into
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Magic Madjo's late show
Conference Forest Green Rovers 2 Hereford United 2 GUY MADJO'S sublime late Boxing Day Christmas cracker was just as much of a surprise as was his delayed arrival at The Lawn. Madjo had earlier been ear-marked for a starting place but the on-loan Bristol
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Boat marks start of port's regeneration
THE DELIVERY of a narrow boat symbolised an exciting future for the once thriving Brimscombe Port. Simpson's Boats, which fits-out and sells steel boat shells, moved its entire operation to the port ahead of the imminent regeneration of the Cotswolds
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Cainscross rue shocking first half
CAINSCROSS 2ND'S VS CHELTENHAM NORTH 3RD Saturday 17TH December 2005 With Cheltenham turning up 2 players short, Cainscross entered into the spirit of second team rugby by lending them 2 players. Playing up the slope in the first half cainscross carried
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Rebuilding lives after the Tsunami
Stroud businessman Lakshman Gallage is currently in his home country of Sri Lanka visiting houses being built with cash he raised in the wake of last year's devastating tsunami. Before leaving, he told reporter Sian Davies about how the project to build
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Lucky 13 for grandparents
THIRTEEN may be an unlucky number for some but for Burleigh grandparents Gill and Peter Tomlinson it brought double good fortune at the end of 2005. For two of their daughters gave birth to baby girls on the same day, December 13. "You wait forever for
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Bob brings equine world into focus
If you've ever seen a professional photograph of a horse the chances are it was snapped by Five Valleys photographer Bob Langrish. After 30 years in the business he has built up one of the largest equine picture libraries in the world and has travelled
