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  • Police anticipate delays on roads during Monday's rush hour

    GLOUCESTERSHIRE Police are advising drivers that, due to the continuing wet weather, they anticipate disruption on some of the county’s roads tomorrow. It is thought that the main routes in and out of Tewkesbury will see flooding, potentially making

  • Environment Agency flood warning for Malmesbury tonight

    THE Environment Agency issued the following flood warning at 4.25pm today for the Sherston Avon from Luckington to upstream of Malmesbury: "A band of rain will push into the area this afternoon and evening. This rain will be fairly fast moving with

  • RUGBY: Unbeaten Stow go clear at the top

    Berks/Bucks & Oxon Premier. Swindon College Old Boys 10 Stow 26. THERE was all to play for in this game as the winners would go clear at the top of the league – and it was Stow who made it seven wins out of seven this season. In very

  • RUGBY: Man-of-the-moment Burns wins it for Gloucester

    GLOUCESTER captain Jim Hamilton admitted his side were not at their fluent best but paid tribute to his pack of forwards as they beat Sale Sharks 29-3 in the Aviva Premiership, writes Charlie Talbot-Smith. It was man-of-the-moment Freddie Burns

  • Malmesbury prepares for more flooding tonight

    SANDBAGS were being piled outside the doors of properties by the Town Bridge in Malmesbury tonight as more bad weather was forecast. Earlier today firefighters rescued four people from two properties at the bottom of St John Street after the force

  • Tetbury Hospital receives funding boost

    A GLOUCESTERSHIRE hospital has received a boost thanks to a generous donation. At a dinner at Minchinhampton Golf Club arranged by the Friends of Tetbury Hospital, Highgrove Enterprises chief executive Christine Prescott presented hospital manager

  • Keep an eye out for fatal ash tree disease

    WITH ash trees around the country being affected by the potentially fatal dieback disease, residents are being asked to report any potential cases to the Forestry Commission. Although there have been no recorded cases in the Cotswolds so far, with

  • Women's exercise class break Movember gender barrier

    MEMBERS of a women-only exercise class at Cirencester’s Cotswold Leisure Centre aren’t letting a little thing like not being men get in the way of taking part in Movember. Rachel Vigor-Hardwick’s exercise class sported fake moustaches earlier this

  • South Cerney soldier's epic cycle for fallen heroes

    A SOUTH Cerney soldier has raised thousands of pounds for charity by commemorating the death of every British soldier killed so far in the conflict in Afghanistan. Staff Sergeant Billy Webb, who recently returned to South Cerney after a six-month

  • Cirencester children given visibility vests

    PRIMARY school pupils in Cirencester will be extra safe when walking to and from school in the dark winter months thanks to a generous local opticians. Cirencester Primary School has been given 100 high-visibility vests by the town’s branch of