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• Berkeley, Cam, Dursley and Wotton-under-Edge and district diary

  Friday, April 30 read more

• Classic car championships

  DURSLEY driver Matthew Watts (left) driving his 1965 Brabham BT16 roared back into action at the HSCC Classic Racing Cars Championship first round at Donington at Easter. read more

• Family's new life in Canada

  A KINGSWOOD family is emigrating to Canada today. read more

• Bonfire nightmare

  SIR - I would like to say 'thank you' to those residents of Uley who as soon as we have a warm summer evening feel the conditions are ideal for lighting bonfires - so that we cannot remain in our gardens to experience a summer's evening and have to close our windows! read more

• Join carnival fun

  LITTLE OWLS Playgroup and Owlets Toddler Group are making sure they are part of Dursley's big day out. read more

• Shock at shortfall

  SIR - I was shocked to read your lead article last week about the shortfall in funding for Gloucestershire schools. read more

• Costs crease cricketers

  A CENTURY and out - that describes Berkeley Cricket Club's exit from the town after more than 100 years of matches there. read more

• Full circle for club

  A CHANGE in lifestyle and increasingly busy lives have contributed to the demise of a Dursley women's community group that has folded after 44 years. read more

• Hospital treatment 'quicker'

  PATIENTS are being treated more quickly in hospitals, accident and emergency departments and in GP surgeries than 12 months ago. read more

• Sadness as tree is felled

  SIR - I also purchased a Tree of Heaven from the Woolworth's shop in Dursley (Gazette, April 23). I planted it in the garden of my house in Berkeley where it flourished for quite a few years. read more

• Kingswood turn the tables

  Gloucestershire Northern Senior League Division Two Kingswood 5 Lydbrook Athletic 0 read more

• Jacqui aims to bring choice

  A NEW shop opened in Wotton-under-Edge yesterday. read more

• Delays on lift for town hall

  WORK on the installation of a lift in Berkeley Town Hall has been put back until the end of May. read more

• 'We need parking not more houses'

  DEMOLITION of a Wotton-under-Edge business to make way for housing would result in an "oppressive overdevelopment" of the site, according to residents who turned out in force to voice their objections. read more

• James does the double

  RACEGOERS turned out in their thousands when the Berkeley Point-to-Point was held under almost cloudless skies on Saturday afternoon. read more

• Sports stand row persists

  BERKELEY Town Council is no nearer to solving the problem of anti-social behaviour in the football stand at Canon Park. read more

• Costs crease cricketers

  Keith Watson read more

• Brian ready to bounce back

  DURSLEY'S Liberal Democrat councillor Brian Marsh says he is raring to get back into his duties with Stroud District Council and Dursley Town Council after his recent heart scare. read more

• Clearance is worthy of a look

  SIR - John Smallwood could perhaps be accused of blowing his own trumpet in highlighting the recent scrub clearance work on Stinchcombe Hill (Gazette, April 16). read more

• Cash promise for homes

  A MULTI-MILLION pound investment in affordable housing in Dursley will help to combat a massive shortfall in reasonably priced homes across the district. read more

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