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  • Police appeal for missing Gloucestershire woman

    GLOUCESTERSHIRE Police are appealing for help finding a missing woman. Julie Jackson, who is 43-years-old, went missing from her home in Vauxhall Terrace in Gloucester overnight between yesterday, Sunday March 25, and today, Monday March 26

  • £200,000 scheme to improve The Promenade

    REPAVING work between Imperial Square and Ormond Place in Cheltenham's Prom starts on April 10. The scheme is estimated to cost around £200,000 and will finish in August. The new work is jointly funded by the county and borough councils, and

  • Drivers advised to avoid Chippenham

    Drivers in the Chippenham area are being advised to avoid the Hungerdown Lane area of the town while Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Service tackle a property fire. The Service was called to a fire in a flat in Hungerdown Lane, near the junction with Southmead

  • Police investigate South Cerney football club break-in

    POLICE are investigating after a football pavilion in the Cotswolds was broken into and vandalised over the weekend. The pavilion, at the playing fields in Upper Up, South Cerney, had its windows smashed and the offenders then broke in and

  • FOOTBALL: Ailing Purton suffer another defeat

    Uhlsport Hellenic Div 1 West. Easington Sports 6, Purton 2. PURTON'S recent losing run continued on Saturday when a poor display of defending left them 6-2 losers at Easington Sports, writes Alan Eastwood. Since Christmas Purton

  • BOXING: Fran Barker makes exciting winning debut

    FRAN BARKER made history as the first female boxer to represent Malmesbury ABC on Saturday – and was an impressive winner of her debut in Swindon. The occasion was the first all-female show instigated by the ABA (Women's Box Series). Barker faced Charlie

  • GOLF: No luck for the Cirencester pros

    FOR ONCE, Cirencester Golf Club professionals were not prominent on the leaderboard at the latest Gloucestershire & Somerset PGA Medal at Tall Pines. G&S PGA Secretary Andrew March, from Brean, and Farrington’s Somerset County player Tom Small shared

  • FOOTBALL: Bibury continue their fine run

    Cheltenham League Div 2. Brockworth Res 0, Bibury FC 5. ANOTHER great performance – and a clean sheet - from the table-topping Bibury. The visitors took the lead as early as the third minute, Kanne Outram firing home from the edge of the box off

  • Diamond couple celebrate 60 years together

    A COTSWOLD couple who met at a village dance more than six decades ago have celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary. John and May Freeman, of Shepherd's Way in Cirencester, spoke of their happiness as they remembered how they met all those years

  • Judgement day at inter-school mock trial

    IT WAS judgement day for primary school pupils across the Cotswolds when they took part in this year’s Cirencester Mock Trial competition, with many ditching uniform for court attire of suits, ties and briefcases. Now in its seventh year, 11 schools

  • Crime decreases in Tetbury

    CRIME dropped slightly in Tetbury over the last month. There were eleven crimes recorded in the town in February, compared with 12 in the same period last year. There were no recorded incidents of violence, in comparison with three in 2011, and one