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• Legion searches for more ex-servicemen

  A BRANCH of the Royal British Legion is looking to recruit new and much-needed members. read more

• Free flu jabs

  PEOPLE over the age of 65 are being urged to get their free flu jabs. read more

• Wallace and Gromit are alive and well and in museum

  WALLACE and Gromit are in residence in Explore @tBristol, a stay that happily coincides with the opening of their new feature film. read more

• Sharks bitten by brilliant Bulldogs

  Gloucestershire Northern Senior League Division One Cam Bulldogs 2 Sharpness 0 read more

• Festive turn-off

  BERKELEY may be a dark town this Christmas if local figureheads cannot decide who should fund and organise the festive lights. read more

• Youth lessons

  CATERING for the needs of young people in Wotton-under-Edge had local council leaders on their hands and knees this week. read more

• Title still on for lethal Lee

  SYNWELL Amateur Boxing Club's Greg Lee took another step towards his ambition of winning the National ABA Heavyweight Championship with a victory by knockout over Cleeve ABC's Steven Campbell at a packed Lister Hall, Dursley, on Saturday. read more

• Scott hammers the nail into Cryptians coffin

  Rugby Union Gloucester Division Two Dursley 13 Old Cryptians 8 read more

• Nuclear concerns

  GREEN councillors have spoken out in support of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) despite public concerns about accelerated decommissioning. read more

• Conflict of interest

  A POLITICAL party is this week pressing for a full-scale inquiry into the much-derided plans for a new supermarket in Dursley. read more

• Big company beats the little company

  THE owner of a business in Dursley is in despair after admitting defeat in her David-v-Goliath battle against developers whom she claims cost her business thousands of pounds. read more

• Misses prove costly

  Gerrard Hockey League Premier One Wotton-under-Edge 1 Yeovil & Sherbourne 1 read more

• Pedal power

  IN about 1890 Mikael Pedersen arrived in Dursley from Denmark bringing with him plans for a startlingly new design of a bicycle which became known as the Dursley Pedersen. read more

• Four-goal Farragher fires feisty fightback

  Gloucestershire County Women's League Division One Oldland Abbotonians Ladies 4 Dursley Town Ladies 4 read more

• Talented team supports youth

  THE annual craft fair in Uley at the weekend has been hailed a success. read more

• Trusts to be cut in bid to save ten million pounds

  INFORMATION about the status of all migratory goose and swan populations found in the UK is now available on the internet thanks to the Slimbridge-based Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT). read more

• Cash aid

  VOLUNTEERS from Cam will soon be searching for rare water voles, otters and other wildlife along the 12 miles of the River Cam thanks to a government grant. read more

• Funding axe forces blind club to close

  A GROUP of blind pensioners are confined to their homes since social services axed funding from the group when the chairman retired. read more

• Exhibition focuses on help for Romania

  GAZETTE photographer John Anyon and former Gazette chief photographer Matthew Bigwood are staging an exhibition at Wotton-under-Edge Civic Centre to raise funds for the North Nibley Romania Team. read more

• Presentation night

  WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE Bowls Club held their annual presentation evening on Friday, September 30, when club president Vernon Jotcham presented the trophies and prizes to the club competition winners, who were as follows. read more

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