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  • PUB SPY: Exotic offerings at friendly pub

    Warm weather and a taste for something exotic enticed me to visit the Old Fleece Inn at Rocksmoor Hill, Stroud. A friendly welcome was received upon entrance into the old school bar area, which even has a wooden floor. That’s not all to this

  • Tanker crash closes M4 between Swindon and Chippenham

    A milk tanker crash closed the M4 between Swindon and Chippenham last night. Police, fire and ambulance services were all called to the scene after the tanker hit the central reservation. Pictures taken at the scene by Wiltshire Police's traffic

  • THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: With Peter Langman

    IT was St Swithun’s Day on Tuesday July 15. In folklore it was traditionally believed that if it rained on St Swithun’s Day it would rain for 40 days afterwards, or vice versa. “St Swithun’s day if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain

  • Nostalgia: When the papers were delivered by rail

    Before the Internet and modern print production, Cirencester used to have quite a number of newsagents in town and dotted about the estates and other parts. They sold daily newspapers which at one time had been brought down overnight by rail to

  • JOHN LIGHT: We will all benefit from Missing Link work

    At last there is a date (2021) for work to begin on the Birdlip “Missing Link”. The sceptics among us will believe it when it happens but the naming of the actual year for starting is a hopeful sign. I am waiting to hear of nature lovers say the