SHOPKEEPERS are being asked to be on the look out for fake £10 notes. According to police on Monday, January 25 a man was seen in the Olveston area trying to buy goods with a counterfeit £10. Acting Sergeant Neil Whyman, from Thornbury Police Station
DAVE HOCKADAY has swooped for prolific Chasetown striker Reece Styche in time for tonight’s Blue Square Premier trip to Hayes and Yeading (7.45pm). The former Hednesford Town and Shepshed Dynamo forward has bagged 13 goals in 15 games for the Unibond
STROUD District Council has approved a 1.9 per cent rise for its services next financial year – expected to be the lowest hike of any major local authority in Gloucestershire. The below-inflation increase, which compares to last year’s 3.5 per cent
CHRISTMAS is coming a little late for Yate boy Mitchell Webber, but it will be worth waiting for. The 11-year-old and his family are taking a trip of a lifetime to Disneyland in Florida this spring after their local pub raised thousands of pounds for
OVER 2,800 Save our School campaign coupons were handed to Gloucestershire County Council in a bid to convince the authority the Vale of Berkeley College should not be shut. The Gazette, together with representatives from the school, travelled to
NATURE lovers everywhere are being encouraged to hug more than trees in February. Staff at the National Arboretum in Westonbirt are hoping that those who have found love in the 600-acre grounds will come forward with amorous anecdotes to prove just
A YATE school teacher has spoken about his battle with cancer in a bid to save more men from the disease. Nigel Yea, a science and biology teacher at Brimsham Green School, was diagnosed with Oesophageal Cancer in July last year after experiencing
THE speed limit is set to be lowered on a road branded the "most dangerous" in South Gloucestershire. The A46 in Old Sodbury will become a 50mph zone following two fatal crashes in 2008 and a string of other serious accidents. South Gloucestershire
