This column has been written by Ellen Winter, Stroud Community Wildlife Officer for Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. In the hedgerows the hips and haws, blackberries and sloes are turning colour and starting to be devoured. The songbirds are either
FARMING is the backbone of our rural economy, our food supply and our rural environment. But farmers are among the many groups let down by this Government this week. Proroguing Parliament doesn’t only mean that MPs have lost their ability to
I DID not enjoy reading this newspaper on August 29. The story with the headline ‘Thug jailed after attacking a police officer yet again’ makes disturbing and distressing reading. It continues mentioning ‘weekend of violence against police in
A DEDICATED dinner lady has said goodbye to the school she has served for three decades. Kath Withers, who started as a cleaner at Cam Woodfield Infant and Junior Schools 30 years ago, is now retiring. Kath wasn’t at the school long before she
Here are four of the crown court stories that have featured in the SNJ, Gazette Series or Wilts Glos Standard over the past few days. Click the description below to read the full story. Police officer who had 9,000 indecent images of children
