STROUD was given the go ahead for a £7.2 million leisure centre yesterday including a brand new cinema for the town. Construction of the four-floor complex on the site of Merrywalks bus station will feature a five-screen 720-seat cinema, a 20-lane bowling
STROUD'S only music shop will close within the next six months when its owner retires after 46 years of trading. Stroud Music Centre is one of the oldest shops in the town but owner David Smith, 73, has decided the time has come to call it a day. He said
MORE than 100 fish died and many more were left gasping for breath in Stratford Park's lake due to a sudden drop in oxygen levels this week. Alan Churchill, chairman of Stroud Angling Association told the SNJ how he made the grim discovery of dead roach
THE Meningitis Trust in Stroud has gained a celebrity supporter from the cult television series Big Brother. Anouska, the first person to leave the Big Brother house posed for photographs for the News of the World at the weekend to raise funds for The
CHALFORD residents are celebrating after securing the future of the village post office and stores. The fate of the post office at the bottom of the Chalford Valley hung in the balance after sub-post master Tony Walsh, who had run the business for nine
A PARTY of ten Stroud teenagers will be the only school pupils in the world to attend a UN conference on child slavery in Geneva next month. The sixth formers are trying to raise £2,000 to bring two speakers from India to discuss issues of forced migration
THE banner flying in Amberley and the smiles on their faces say it all. After months of worry during the Iraqi war mum Cynthia Weaver couldn't hide her pride and delight this week at having her boy back in the Five Valleys. Jamie has been away since February
THE owner of a cat shot in the leg by an air gun has branded the culprits 'inhuman.' Mrs Jenny Russell from Bunting Way, Forest Green found her cat Toffee limping in pain on Friday. Vets removed two small pellet's from the animals back leg and now Toffee
AN ECO-FRIENDLY scheme designed to cut congestion and pollution was unveiled in Stroud at the weekend. David Drew MP launched the Stroud Valleys Car Club which aims to provide members with the flexibility of owning a car without the hassle and cost of
A MAN who has kept his store of heroin in his girlfriend's knickers while she was wearing them escaped jail at Gloucester crown court on Friday. Judge Michael Roach heard that when police stopped Graham Little's car in Stroud, his partner Rebecca Keen
A FROCESTER home which provides care for more than 40 disabled people is set to close. The Home Farm Trust is winding up operations at its Frocester Manor site because it doesn't meet the requirements of its clients and the trust can no longer afford
TWO TEENAGE boys accused of terrorising their neighbourhood will go on trial at Stroud Magistrate's Court in the town's first Anti-Social Behaviour Order case. The boys, aged 13 and 14, have denied Stroud District Council's complaint they had caused harassment
A DEVOTED couple who couldn't bear the thought of growing old drowned themselves in a suicide pact, an inquest heard on Friday. Publicans Bob Dorey, 60 and wife Barbara, 59, who ran The Stirrup Cup at Bisley, left a suicide note detailing their 'failing
CHILDREN could be putting their lives at risk by playing a deadly game on Rodborough Common. Police received reports of youngsters attempting to torch a swathe of the common on Saturday evening and have said it is a prank that could all-too-easily get
DAVID Drew MP has defended his stance on the Iraqi war and dismissed claims from critics that his views are inconsistent. The MP has attended several meetings organised by the Stroud Peace Movement where he has openly spoken of his opposition to the war
