• Police attend eviction after weapon alert

  By fatfarmer

  Things will only get worse now that people on benefits handle their own rent.

            

   

  By The Citizen at 06:00 on 15/05/13

  

  ARMED response officers were called to Dursley yesterday after people emerged from a house carrying knives and a gun. Police were asked to assist a baliff at about 11.30am who was trying to evict a woman from a property in Bramble Drive. The officer who attended said she became "aggressive" and was joined by friends carrying the weapons. Back-up was called for and 11 officers attended in total. The woman in her 50s was...

• Michael Trinder jailed for failing to carry out unpaid work twice

  By Hubert1841

  Geld him, then thrash him.

            

   

  By The Citizen at 06:00 on 16/05/13

  

  A MAN has been jailed after failing to turn up to unpaid work after he punched a man in the face and broke his nose. Michael Trinder was handed a 42-week prison sentence, suspended for 24 months last year after he admitted grievous bodily harm when he knocked Wayne Todd to the floor in the Yew Tree pub. The 24-year-old was also ordered to carry out 120 hours unpaid work by Judge Jamie Tabor at Gloucester Crown Court. But Trinder,...

• It's lift off for campaign to boost our High Streets

  By Bonkim2003

  Consumption based regeneration will not succeed until we start producing the things we consume...

            

   

  By Stroud Life at 07:00 on 15/05/13

  

  HIGH Streets with an eye to entertainment are celebrated with the launch today of the new In Our Towns campaign. Already four shopping centres in the Five Valleys and Severn Vale are on board with In Our Towns, which aims to encourage even more visitors in future to their myriad attractions. Based on shopping guru Mary Portas' review of British high streets, In Our Towns has already won £10,000 in government funding which was...

• Jehovah's moving

  By DanielHasard

  The big difference between Jehovah's Witnesses and other Christians is that the Watchtower Society's...

            

   

  By The Citizen at 06:00 on 08/05/13

  

  JEHOVAH'S Witnesses in Dursley plan to move from Long Street to take over larger premises at the former NHS clinic at Sandpits.

• Control of Gloucestershire County Council hangs in the balance

  By BishopHooper

  Good old Stan stan the burning man... If all else fails.. Ignore the facts in front of your eyes....

            

   

  By Stroud Life at 08:54 on 09/05/13

  

  POLITICAl jostling is under way following last Thursday's election which saw the Conservatives lose overall control of Gloucestershire County Council. UKIP made a strong showing, with three councillors elected, and Labour made gains. The county's 53 seats are made up of 23 Conservative, 14 Liberal Democrat, nine Labour, three UKIP, one Green and one People Against Democracy members and two independents. In the Stroud area, ...

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