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  • Hundreds of Dursley homes left without power

    Hundreds of homes in Dursley are without power this evening. Western Power Distribution currently estimate that 146 homes are affected by the outage, but this number was previously over 200. Some house in the GL11 have power cuts, with Coaley

  • Man, 19, arrested after assault in Dursley supermarket

    A MAN, 19, was arrested after an assault in a Dursley supermarket. The police were called to Sainsbury's on Castle Street yesterday afternoon after one man assaulted another during an altercation at around 2.15pm. The 19-year-old was also found

  • Two-time Olympian offers Stroud Half cash boost

    GLOUCESTERSHIRE runners are in line for a cash boost at the 2019 Stroud Half-Marathon. Former two-time Olympian and 2006 Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Dan Robinson and Stag Homes have pledged prizes of £150 for first, £100 for second and £50

  • Extinction Rebellion protesters guilty of obstructing highway

    Four protestors who chained themselves to a bath tub on a major Bristol Road have been found guilty of obstructing a highway. The protestors, who were involved in the Extinction Rebellion protests in in July, were filmed walking onto Newfoundland

  • Dursley start season with narrow defeat

    Dursley RFC 17 St Brendans 21 Dursley kicked-off the 2019/20 season with a narrow defeat to newly promoted St Brendans on a hard ground under a hot September sun, writes Chris Perrett. Dursley took the lead inside 60 seconds following the

  • New plans to turn Alveston House Hotel into retirement flats

    A HISTORIC hotel near Thornbury could soon be demolished after developers submitted a new application to turn the building into retirement flats. Developer David Cahill has made several attempts to build on the site of Alveston House Hotel, with

  • JOINT SPATIAL PLAN: What happens now?

    Plans to build 105,000 homes across the West of England, including in Thornbury, Charfield, Buckover, Yate and Coalpit Heath are in tatters after government inspectors ruled the entire process must start all over again. Last month, planning inspectors