A BIRDLIP-based company today became the first to be convicted of corporate manslaughter following the death in September 2008 of geologist Alex Wright. Mr Wright, 27, from Cheltenham, was taking soil samples in a 3.8-metre deep unsupported
CAMPAIGNERS desperately trying to save the South Cerney Outdoor Education Centre have expressed their relief this week after the county council promised the land would not be sold off to a property developer. The centre, based at Lake 12
I HAVE suddenly become the most popular man in Cirencester. Smiling strangers accost me in the street or supermarket aisle. They laugh or commiserate. Many offer gifts of the edible variety, many containing red meat. You will all know why. Forest Green
A NEW club for single parents has been launched in Fairford. The Lounge Club, a new single parent families club and the first of its kind in the area, opened at the Fairford Community Centre last Wednesday, February 2. It was set up by mother-of-four
YOUNG scientists from Cirencester Kingshill School and Bourton-on-the-Water’s Cotswold School will be joining other pupils this week for an engineering challenge. Both schools will put a team of six 12 and 13 year-olds forward for the Faraday engineering
A DEDICATED youth worker in South Cerney is applying for up to £500,000 in a bid to improve facilities for children in the village. Emily Mallett, who works for South Cerney Parish Council, has applied to the Big Lottery Fund (BLF) this week in the hope
Dorset & Wilts Div 1 North. Fairford 17, Chippenham II 40. FAIRFORD suffered a heavy defeat against Chippenham on Saturday, although the score was not a true reflection of the game. Fairford’s forwards dominated the early exchanges but when an attempted
SWINDON Wildcats played three games in four days last week and the busy schedule eventually took its toll, writes Scott Gummerson. Having extended their winning sequence to four with the 5-1 away victory at Bracknell Bees on Thursday night, the Wildcats
West of England (North 1). Gloucester City A 4, Cirencester 2. CIRENCESTER’S slim hopes of promotion appear to have slipped away with this defeat at Gloucester. With five regular players missing and a late withdrawal, they travelled with a bare 11
ELEVEN apprentices working at Nationwide in Swindon saw their hard work rewarded when they successfully completed their apprenticeship programmes in Customer Care. Cirencester College managed the scheme for the financial services giant. Richard Ashwood
LEADING figures in Tetbury have moved to stem fears that plans for a new community hall in the town are being railroaded through without consultation. Concerns were raised by an advertisement in the Lions club magazine stating that developers would reveal
SPOOKY sightings of a ghost have been captured on CCTV in Cirencester. Footage of the supernatural spectre was spotted on cameras in Seventeen Black Wine Bar and Club, in Castle Street, and has since attracted a lot of attention online. To check out
For the last three years a Lechlade charity has been making a difference to school children in Nepal. Charlotte Shepherd meets the founders of Nepal Schools Aid. IT WAS the death of a son to cancer in 1997 that triggered a chain of events leading
BUSINESSES in Cirencester will now be charged £50 to display a banner following recent changes by Cirencester Town Council. Councillors debated the fee, which previously did not exist, for some time at their recent monthly meeting. Cllr Gary Selwyn
Katie Parry, 6, and Erin Rosaman, 9, admire their handiwork after the school toilets were redecorated by the school council at Watermoor School in Cirencester. Pupils took matters into their own hands when they decided that the girls’ toilets were looking
A CIRENCESTER mother of four has lost custody of her children because she had drugs openly in front of them at her home. At Gloucester crown court on Monday Tegan Muldowney of Fairfax Road, Watermoor, pleaded guilty to possessing 31.9 grams of cannabis
THE Swindon Robins speedway team for 2011 has been finalised this week with Tomasz Chrzanowski , Josh Grajczonek and Cory Gathercole coming in to complete the line-up. What boss Ronnie Russell does not yet know for certain is which team he might be meeting
