A TALENTED video producer and former Cirencester College student who died in a road accident in Vietnam is set to be remembered with a dream internship. Josh Edmonds was 22-years-old and three months into the trip of a lifetime in South East Asia
A MEMORIAL service to Cirencester grandmother Susan MacKenzie, who was killed after being hit by a car on the A429 on January 2, will be held at St John the Baptist Church, Coln St Aldwyns, at 12.30pm tomorrow. Susan’s family are raising money
BRAINY pupils in Gloucestershire have proved themselves to be among the smartest in the county. Gloucestershire was the top performing county of its size and second in the south west for pupils achieving five GCSEs at A*-C, including English and
RESIDENTS trying to stay warm during the wintry weather has led to an upswing in chimney fires in Gloucestershire. Firefighters have been called out to 15 chimney fires across Gloucestershire in the past week. The county’s deputy chief fire
A DARING father and son team have been praised for their heroic actions in saving a drowning pensioner from a Lechlade river. Stuart Morse and his 20-year-old son Dean were travelling over the Halfpenny Bridge on Monday morning when they spotted
A LEADING Cotswolds Liberal Democrat has hit out at Cotswold District Council’s waste contractor Ubico for cancelling collections for the entirety of this week as a result of the snow. No waste or recycling collections have been made in the district
THREE tonnes of salt has been used to treat icy pavements throughout Cirencester. Although Gloucestershire County Council are responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of roads and pavements throughout the county, Cirencester Town Council (CTC
A BROKEN down tanker has partially blocked the A417 southbound carriageway near Cowley. The tanker has broken down between the Cowley/Brimpsfield roundabout and Dower’s Lane near where the road becomes a single carriageway. Drivers are advised
FRESH snowfall yesterday has meant Batsford Arboretum is unable to open today. The garden centre, cafe and gift shop are open as normal. Westonbirt Arboretum is open as normal.
RESIDENTS have until Monday to have their say on the police budget for Gloucestershire. Newly appointed Police and Crime Commissioner Martin Surl has been considering the force’s budget for the next financial year and has suggested it should be
THE chairman of Malmesbury Town Council’s planning committee claims that giving a developer permission to build a large housing estate on the outskirts of town will make a mockery of the government’s Localism Bill. Gleeson Strategic Land is appealing
A WINDOW of opportunity for Wiltshire Police recruits opened and closed within two hours this week. The force website was overwhelmed with hopefuls when a pre-assessment tool for candidates went live on Wednesday. More than 283, 800 hits were recorded
A DANCE show in aid of the Timmy Mason Trust will be performed at Cirencester’s Bingham Hall at 7.15pm tomorrow and again at 2.15pm and 7.15pm on Saturday. This will be the 20th annual performance by the Cirencester-based Body Workshop Dance group
BUILDING snowmen will not help reduce the risk of flood, the Environment Agency has confirmed. Many news outlets had reported remarks by a spokesman from the organisation that building snowmen may help reduce risk of flood as compacted snow melts
WHILE many in Gloucestershire were sheltering in the warm over the weekend, an army of dedicated workers were going the extra mile to make sure vulnerable residents across the county were taken care of. The Gloucestershire Village and Community
IN VIEW of the fact that a few inches of snow closes hundreds, possibly thousands of schools across Great Britain, would the following be worth considering? Fix Christmas Day on the fourth Thursday in December. Schools close on the previous Tuesday
AFTER the success (?) of the ice skating rink in the Abbey grounds over Christmas I see it has been decided to allow the pavements of Cirencester to become one. Where is all the salt? T E BENNETT Cirencester
CLLR David Fowles wrote about the introduction of kerbside plastic recycling last week, the latest addition to a long running service. The real innovation was in the early 1990s when Cotswold District Council became the first rural district council
'Odd Ode to the Bin Boys!' Flashing lights and lots of noise, Look out folks, here come the bin boys. To clear the green bin then the black, The newspaper box and the cardboard sack. A job well done by this happy breed,
HAVING read the letter from Brian Robbins about the removal of public recycling facilities (Standard, January 17) I think it would be useful to remind readers that the recycling banks which the council is removing by the end of January are for plastic
I RECENTLY stood as the UKIP candidate in the Stratton/Whiteway by-election for the town council. First of all may I, through the offices of your paper, congratulate the Lib-Dem candidate who won that election. I wish him well. Secondly, may
THANK you for highlighting the plight of poor Humbug, the dog summarily castrated by Greyhound Rescue (GRWE), (Standard, January 10). However, we cannot allow them to yet again misrepresent our case by suggesting that a reason for castrating dogs rather
SADLY, it seems from your letters page on January 17, that Cllr Hincks’s New Year resolutions have not extended to finding out the facts before tapping away at the keyboard. If she had talked to the head of leisure & cultural services, the
'Winter' Winter Sharp, see through ice, Melting, dripping, on the snow. Crunch, crunch, crunch, Frosty windows, toasty toes. That's my sort of winter! Beautiful bare ice trees, Glittering, sparkling snowflakes.
SAND and gravel extraction is important to the UK economy, but there are local issues associated with the workings that go far beyond lorry traffic and water management. We have already seen how the owners of some existing lakes and lakesides choose
AS WE begin this New Year, many of the South West's young people are still without work. The headline rate of unemployment has thankfully come down recently, but official estimates suggest it could go up again over the next year. It's a tough time
THE article on cheaper short stay parking in Cirencester (Standard, January 10) beggars belief. Councillor Fowles states that short stays will now be charged at a rate of 50p for 30 minutes and that this would help Cirencester's traders. Councillor
I HAVE been talking to people in Cirencester and the local villages about the proposal to pedestrianise the Market Place. Without exception, everyone is against it. Nobody will come into the town if they can’t park quickly and cheaply. Another
