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• Residents call on council to help skaters

  A GROUP of youngsters is making life intolerable for residents of a respectable residential area because there is nowhere suitable in the town for skateboarding. read more

• Buildings inspire music

  ACOUSTIC Triangle will be in concert in Aust Church on Saturday, July 16 as part of their "inspiring music in inspiring buildings" tour. read more

• Yate heartache for brave Bulldogs

  GLOUCESTER City Ladies needed sudden death penalties to see off a spirited Cam Bulldogs side in the most dramatic of conclusions to the Yate Town six-a-side tournament. read more

• Electrician set to be ordained

  A DURSLEY electrician is among 22 candidates being ordained in Gloucester Cathedral at the weekend. read more

• Beauty contest

  I WAS disappointed to read that yet again the Gazette is running the Dursley Rosebud competition. read more

• Belief goes a long way

  Ukrainian Pastor Vitaliy Taranenko has seen it all - threats from the Mafia, left by his own wife and persecuted for being a member of a religious group. This week, as part of his church-organised tour of Wotton-under-Edge, he tells ALEX ROSS about how far he will go for his own faith. read more

• Massive Sudoku grid a puzzle to villagers

  BAFFLED villagers in the sleepy village of Hinton woke up on Wednesday morning to the sight of a colossal puzzle which had appeared overnight on the hillside. read more

• Cam slump after dismal display

  A STOIC batting performance from Upton opener Tony Sadler put an end to Cam's excellent unbeaten run on Saturday. read more

• Andy soars into Championships

  TWO pilots from the Bristol and Gloucestershire Gliding Club, based at Nympsfield, are hoping to add to their already impressive list of successes at the European Gliding Championships which begin this weekend. read more

• Dry day for traders

  TWO major companies are in hot water with traders in Long Street, Dursley, after contractors cut off the water supply four times in a matter of weeks. read more

• Sporting stars line up for charity match

  Jack Russell is making a rare outing to play cricket at Stone on Sunday (July 3). read more

• Pupils get into carnival spirit

  YEAR 9 pupils at Katharine Lady Berkeley's School celebrated their passage from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4 with a carnival. To promote the carnival, seven pupils produced a newsletter detailing the events that were to take place. The editorial team - Robert Whittle, Joe Boyd, Liam Dawe, Josh Griffiths, Nick Bird, Charlie Ball and Henry Ball - have now written a review for the Gazette. read more

• Standish decision

  I AM glad that Diana Harvey now admits that the decision to close Standish was initiated in the late 1980s (Gazette letters, June 24). To further correct her memory however the hospital was announced for closure in the early 1990s. That is why Save our Standish changed tack then, for the then Tory Government drove through that decision and the run down began. read more

• Flooding forces pub to close

  TORRENTIAL rain forced a pub in Wotton-under-Edge to close its doors to customers on Tuesday night. read more

• Will they listen

  THE Gazette recently reported Stroud District Council had wasted more taxpayers money on lessons to teach councillors how to speak! A great pity the lessons were not on how to listen! read more

• Those happy school days

  STAFF, pupils and local dignitaries celebrated the opening of Uley Primary School's new buildings this week. read more

• Take care to give credit to those who work so selflessly for loved ones

  FOLLOWING your lead letter of 24th June, I feel I must write to correct the false impression given that care workers are carers. read more

• Town to swing for entire week

  THE appeal of jazz in Thornbury has long been recognised and the town's Community Association is commmited to having more of it at the Chantry in Castle Street. read more

• GPs recieve award for patient treatment

  DOCTORS surgeries in Cam, Dursley and Frampton-on-Severn have been recognised for their treatment of patients across a wide range of conditions. read more

• Kidnap plot on sunshine isle

  TWO Cromhall men could be facing 25 years in a Barbados prison for their part in an alleged kidnapping at the weekend. read more

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