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• Campaign group sees Minister

  SIX members of the School Funding Campaign Group for Gloucestershire met David Miliband, Minister for School Standards, in London on Tuesday. read more

• Remember those first days

  The Class of 2004 - The Gazette features more pictures of the children from the Berkeley, Cam, Dursley and Wotton-under-Edge and district areas who started primary school this year. If you would like to order any of the photographs, make a note of the picture code number and contact the Gazette reception on 01453 544000 for details of sizes, prices and special offers. read more

• Has Greenidge's time arrived?

  GLOUCESTERSHIRE CCC have completed their third signing of the winter with the recruitment of paceman Carl Greenidge on a two-year contract. read more

• 'Frustration' over litter

  WOTTON Town Council has received a complaint regarding the state of the town but the council says it is doing its best. read more

• Blair must be impeached

  SIR - The news that 100,000 Iraqi civilians, half of them women and children, have now died in Iraq since the invasion, is shocking. The Lancet medical journal's study, the first reliable look at the death toll by Iraqi and US public health experts, says most deaths were the result of airstrikes by coalition forces. read more

• Pritchard rides to race glory

  RACEHORSE trainer Phil Pritchard was celebrating this week after claiming a spectacular win at the home of British horse racing. read more

• U-turn leads to wariness

  AN APPARENT U-turn on the completion of the Berkeley by-pass by Gloucestershire County Council has made Berkeley Town Council suspicious of the future development of Sharpness. read more

• Men who backed hunting

  SIR - The Scott Henderson Committee, set up by a Labour government to inquire into hunting with dogs, came to the following conclusion, and I quote: "Fox-hunting makes a very important contribution to the control of foxes, and involves less cruelty than most other methods of controlling them. It should therefore be allowed to continue." read more

• Gazette comment

  IT is pretty unlikely that anybody could argue that a new Severn crossing from Sharpness to Lydney would not make certain journeys across the river much more convenient. read more

• Europe needs the reform

  SIR - Graham Bartlett is right to question the expense claims by our MPs (Gazette, November 12). However this is not another sleaze story. The vast majority of these expenses are fundamental to the work of an MP. read more

• Jailed burglar says sorry

  AN ELDERLY couple, shocked to arrive home and find their house being burgled have had an apology from one of the intruders. read more

• MPs on too low a wage

  SIR - Need a yardstick? Borrow mine! read more

• Council sets precept figure for 2005-06

  DURSLEY Town Council has set its precept for the year 2005-06 at £161,814. read more

• Thanks to many for dock success

  SIR - It was good to read (Gazette, November 12) of the positive interest in many quarters in the port of Sharpnes. Congratulations in particular to David Drew in securing a Parliamentary adjournment debate at fairly short notice, and I'm sure we all welcome the generally upbeat response he received from Charlotte Atkins, Transport Minister on the government front bench. read more

• Don't be conned by your 'win'

  A CAM women is warning people to be wary of letters from a Spanish company telling them they have won money. read more

• Duo depart The Lawn after changes

  FOREST GREEN duo Jon Holloway and Danny Greaves have left The Lawn. read more

• Bridge 'too dear'

  A RENEWED attempt to drum up support for a road bridge between Sharpness and Lydney has not captured the imagination of town and parish councils in the area. read more

• Ideas are ridiculed

  SIR - I wish Mr John Wilkes would take his triangular-shaped windows and his polycarbonate lighting panels that he wishes to see installed into Durley's new library up to Tetbury, Bourton-on-the-Water, Chipping Campden, Stow-on-the-Wold, or any other Cotswold town and see how quickly they make a complete mockery of his ridiculous ideas. read more

• Planning now for festival

  AFTER the success of last summer's Dursley Town Festival, the committee is already arranging another memorable event for July, 2005. read more

• Saviour on horizon for town post office

  A SAVIOUR could be on the horizon for the post office in Wotton-under-Edge. read more

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