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  • The Return of the Original Essex Girls

    This week at the Theatre Royal in Bath you get a chance to catch up with the original Essex girls, Sharon, Tracey and Dorien in Birds of a Feather. They were last seen in 1998 after a nine year run on the BBC. Back then sisters Sharon, played by Pauline

  • Burglary prompts shed security warning

    RESIDENTS are being reminded to keep their outbuildings secure this spring after a burglary in Berkeley. At around 1am on Tuesday, April 10 thieves forced entry to a garden and then a garden shed at a home on Marybrook Street and stole a £400 recycling

  • Cricket: Gloucestershire get off the mark with thrilling win

    SKIPPER Alex Gidman said he felt "proud" after Gloucestershire recorded their first County Championship win of the season against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl. They wrapped up a thrilling 33-run victory with just a few overs left on the final day to bounce

  • Police hunt for fail-to-stop driver

    POLICE are appealing for information after a pedestrian was hit by a car which failed to stop in Frampton Cotterell. The victim, a 30-year-old, was walking along Lower Stone Close in the direction of Church Road when she was struck by an old style red

  • South West in drought status

    THE South West has been moved into official drought status. The Environment Agency announced this morning, April 16, a further 17 counties were now in drought status following two dry winters. Areas now affected include South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire

  • Titanic sinking remembered in Wotton-under-Edge

    AT the weekend the world stopped and remembered the 1,514 lives that were lost with the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In Wotton-under-Edge the town has not only commemorated that fateful night in April 1912 but is also hoping to highlight its links to

  • Young dancer to perform at West End show

    DANCER Milan Cacacie is busy preparing to really move it at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End. Milan, from Yate, was selected to perform at the show on June 3 after getting through her freestyle dance heat and winning the final at the Move

  • Intrepid alpinist to attempt world record climbing challenge

    A FEARLESS alpinist from Thornbury will tread where no British mountaineer has ever dared to before when he climbs five mammoth 7,000-metre peaks in an epic endurance challenge this summer. Jon Gupta, 25, is bracing himself for one of the most dangerous