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• Dursley celebrate and look ahead

  DURSLEY Rugby Club held the annual award evening on Saturday, with some new and deserving names appearing on the roll of honour. read more

• Why lock up birds

  I WONDER if some of your readers could enlighten me as to the purpose of the bird cages/traps that I see in some people's gardens. read more

• Rail users left at platform

  RAIL users at Cam and Dursley station are missing out on a wider range of services because of the remoteness of the station from a built-up area. read more

• Car smashed into speed camera

  A DRIVER was going "like a bat out of hell" when he crashed into a speed camera - seriously injuring two passengers, a court heard last week. read more

• Prison for offender who rejected CSO

  A DURSLEY man who asked to be sent to jail rather than complete a community rehabilitation order has been sentenced to four months imprisonment. read more

• Call for road signs to ensure pupil's safety

  SPEEDING traffic outside a small Severnside primary school is putting the children at risk and the community is calling for better road signs. read more

• Pupils told of poverty in world

  STUDENTS at schools in Dursley, Thornbury, Wotton-under-Edge and Winterbourne learned the importance of cancelling debt in the developing world at a special conference on Monday. read more

• Schools on agenda

  SURPLUS school places and changing admission numbers was the focus of the panel looking at education in the Stroud area this week. read more

• Cam shoppers don't mindo who owns store

  THE shock sale of the Cam Co-op to Tesco has far reaching implications. Gazette reporter Keith Watson went to both Cam and Dursley to find out what shoppers in the area think. read more

• Tip-top Tipper shows the way

  Cam v Cheltenham Saracens read more

• Post office must remain

  TESCO will be asked to give assurances that they will not jettison two important community resources as a result of their takeover. read more

• Yvette wants a career as a Kat

  WOULD you Adam and Eve it? read more

• Let kids have fun

  WHAT a shame that someone actually thinks that the 'Dursley Rosebuds' is not a good idea. Last time I looked, dressing up in a pretty dress, meeting new friends and joining in with a community event was not a crime. My daughter took part last year and still talks about the 'Rosebuds special day' even now. read more

• Fury as grocery giant buys out rival store

  SUPERMARKET giant Tesco has been accused of playing a mean trick on Dursley after an announcement this week that it will be taking over the popular Co-op store in Cam. read more

• Dismay at Co-op sell-out

  CAM parish councillors have accused the Co-op of prostituting themselves and lacking in ethics after the announcement that Tesco had bought the Cam-based supermarket. read more

• Rovers sqaud starts to take shape

  GARY OWERS is insisting he will have his squad in place well before the opening Conference fixture at home to Cambridge United on August 13. read more

• Urgent meetings needed

  VERY serious meetings are needed to address the crisis in Dursley's regeneration programme, according to the town's two Gloucestershire county councillors. read more

• They all share what they have

  SINCE 1993 Rangeworthy couple Eleanor and Frank Felton have made more than 40 journeys to Romania to distribute aid to the underprivileged. The couple recently returned from their latest Romanian visit and are already planning to go back in September. Gazette reporter Sarah Carless spoke to them about the work that has come to dominate their lives read more

• Blair's a climate coward

  TONY BLAIR has completely lost any credibility on climate change. In his address to the European Parliament in Brussels to set out his priorities for the six-month UK presidency of the EU he devoted just half a sentence to the issue. Yet in the past Mr Blair has said that climate change is the greatest threat we face and that it will be a priority for the British presidency. read more

• Youth team move into county league

  SLIMBRIDGE Youth FC has been accepted into the prestigious Gloucestershire County Youth U18 League. read more

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