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• Add to town's blueprint for the future

  A TOWN reflecting Dursley's heritage and culture, a place where shoppers and tourists wish to linger and shop - this is Vale Vision's goal. read more

• Business suffers with Long Street closure

  A BUSINESSWOMAN from Dursley is urging Bymacks site developers Crest Nicholson to get on with scaffolding the remains of the Victoria Works. read more

• 2005 point-to-point preview

  THE new point-to-point season starts on January 3 and this campaign could be one of the most dramatic yet. read more

• Team aims to help long-term patients

  MEMBERS of the North Nibley Romania Team made their annual Christmas visit to remote psychiatric hospital in the former Eastern Bloc nation. read more

• Singers sought for new group

  A NEW singing group is being launched in Thornbury by the founder of community choirs already established in Chipping Sodbury and Wotton-under-Edge. read more

• Investigation called off

  A POLICE investigation into the death of a woman in Dursley last week has been scaled down. read more

• Demolition on the cards

  THE VICTORIA Works building on the former Bymacks site in Dursley will be completely demolished if the faade can not be saved. read more

• Difficulties for small businesses

  SIR - Goldinghams' letter in this week's Gazette mentioned "extreme difficulty" in recruiting young professionals to Wotton and other local towns, which "may lead to closures elsewhere". read more

• Gazette Comment

  IT has been 12 days since the world was, quite literally, shaken by one of the biggest natural disasters of our time. read more

• Events around the region

  Berkeley, Cam, Dursley and Wotton-under-Edge read more

• Getting health message across

  MENTAL health problems have had a certain stigma attached. read more

• Volunteer your help

  COULD you make a difference in Gloucestershire in the Year of the Volunteer? read more

• Recycle used batteries

  HOUSEHOLDERS are urged to put any used batteries in their recycling green boxes to be collected by Stroud District Council from January 24. read more

• Local politics

  SIR - With reference to Sarah Alvis's letter in the Gazette of December 24, I would suggest she gets herself involved in local politics instead of criticising - and find out what is involved before she puts pen to paper (she has not got a clue). read more

• Wotton's tournament challenge

  ONE of the largest indoor hockey tournaments in the UK takes place this weekend and Wotton-under-Edge Hockey Club will a part of it, competing against the cream of indoor hockey. read more

• Unique double for county

  GLOUCESTERSHIRE has become the focus of the golf world after the county became the first ever to hold the presidency of the English Golf Union and the chairmanship of the English Ladies' Golf Association at the same time. read more

• Fouling will be prosecuted

  SIR - May I remind the person(s) who exercise their dog on Upper Poole Road, Dursley, and allow it to foul the pavement on almost a daily basis, that they can be fined a maximum of £1000 consistent with a bye-law for this offence. read more

• Churches unite to face Asian tragedy

  CHURCHES in and around Gloucestershire will be united in their prayers this Sunday for all those affected by the Asian tsunami tragedy. read more

• Give help now and for future

  SIR - I would like to thank the public for the fantastic response so far to the Disasters and Emergency Committee Tsunami Earthquake Appeal. In the first 24 hours over £5 million has been donated while Oxfam itself has already raised £1.5 million following its own appeal. read more

• 'I didn't get her removed'

  A TOWN councillor has refuted claims that she asked for the owner of Wotton Animal Centre, who has since shut her sanctuary, to be removed from the doorway of a shop. read more

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