Archive | Homepage - Gazette Series

On this day: Dursley Archive | South Gloucestershire Archive

Dursley Archive

• Electric cinema to plug in this autumn

  A COMMUNITY cinema is on target to reopen in the autumn. read more

• Dresden bombing

  ON reading the letters column (Gazette, April 22) I was rather surprised at the one letter from Dr Chris Burns, in which he wrote Messers Blair, Straw and Hoon were, in many people's view, war criminals. read more

• Not all teenagers are instant troublemakers

  AS a parent of the Berkeley teenagers accused of being trouble makers in last week's Gazette (April 29) I would like to set the record straight. read more

• Dad broke his ban to walk dog

  A BEREAVED father who took his late son's Staffordshire bull terrier out for walks although he was banned from being in control of a dog for four years, has been conditionally discharged by magistrates in Stroud. read more

• Will anchors rugby visit

  ROYAL Navy officer Will Jerrold has just returned to sea following an eventful weekend involving a rugby tour in and around Gloucestershire with a team of fellow officers. read more

• Smaller class a big help to pupils

  Aidan Farrell is head teacher of Vale of Berkeley College, one of the smallest secondary schools in England, with just 250 pupils across the whole age range, including the sixth form. While this small scale can present difficulties there are also enormous advantages, as Mr Farrell explains. read more

• Winterbottom hooks up with top academy

  OLIVER WINTERBOTTOM, a Year Ten student at Rednock School in Dursley, has been selected for Gloucester RFC's rugby academy. read more

• A college masterclass

  FILTON College Golf Academy's Andrew Hale, Spencer Vickery, James Jakes and Robbie Wilkinson were the winners of the Avon Schools Golf Association Championship team prize last week in what proved to be the most impressive performance yet from the academy team. read more

• Club lit up by Twenty20 vision

  GLOUCESTERSHIRE CCC have been busy looking ahead to the new-look 2005 Twenty20 Cup this week, with a brand new kit just one of the club's incentives to do well this year. read more

• Rogers pledges future to Rovers

  FANS' favourite Scott Rogers has pledged his future to Forest Green Rovers but has urged The Lawn's top brass to make a swift decision on a new manager. read more

• Calling all car lovers

  The Rotary Club of Cheltenham Cleeve Vale has booked the world famous motor hill climb circuit at Prescott for a unique event next weekend that is open to classic car lovers across the region. read more

• Early birds beat big queue sign on

  EIGHT HUNDRED people queued for up to two hours outside a dental practice on Saturday to register with an NHS dentist. read more

• The day people came to blows

  VISITORS to an historic Norman castle over the May Day Bank Holiday were taken back to the English Civil War. read more

• Little heroes pull boy, 9, from river

  A BOY of nine was dramatically saved from drowning in the River Cam thanks to the bravery of his brother and a friend. read more

• Pulling pints, raising funds

  THE SECOND Dursley Rugby Club Beer Festival proved to be a great success with some excellent weather and some classic beers. read more

• Clampdown on hostile hedges

  ANTI-SOCIAL high hedges are to be outlawed under new legislation brought about in part by the persistence of a North Nibley man. read more

• Too close to call in Stroud

  IN a night of high tension at Stratford Park Leisure Centre yesterday, fortunes swung from Labour to Conservative with the regularity of a pendulum. read more

• Clifton-Brown looks a certainty

  COTSWOLD Conservative candidate Geoffrey Clifton-Brown looked certain to hold on to his seat in Westminster as the votes were being counted. read more

• Crook's fitness ambition

  A 22-YEAR-OLD Cam crook who was sentenced to 11 months imprisonment last Thursday for attempted theft, hopes to make a new life as a fitness instructor when he comes out, Gloucester Crown Court was told. read more

On this day: Dursley Archive | South Gloucestershire Archive