The House of the Tailor of Gloucester shop and museum is located in Westgate street Gloucester, just round the corner from Gloucester Cathedral.

The web site - http://www.tailor-of-gloucester.org.uk/ has been up for some time now, but this week sees the E Commerce Section go live.

The 23 books in the Peter Rabbit range can now all be ordered on line, and every book comes with a special wrapper showing it was bought from the official shop in Gloucester.

You can also buy a special book of postage stamps in a lovely booklet. All sales support this lovely old building.

I have always been proud of our Gloucestershire Directory. During June it grew to 6487 sites, and every month the amount of seraches grows.

Over the years we have had many imitators, but I can say without fear of contradiction that none of them match us either for quantity or quality.

Of course there is always a down side. The number of spam submissions has also increased, particulalry from America.

A big thank you to all our visitors.

I’m hearing lots of stories now about fuel thefts in Gloucestershire. Theives siphoned 500 litres of diesel fuel from two tractors  at a farm near Moreton  and petrol was pinched from several cars in Stroud and Gloucester. A sign of the times ?

The redoubtable Lyn has launched a new web site about her popular ghost walks at http://www.gloucesterghostwalks.co.uk/ If you are interested in the history of Gloucester with a ghostly emphasis, then the site is well worth a visit. You can even book a walk on line. Lyn frequently dontates to local charities with the profits from her walks.

There has been a long discussion of this problem that plagues Gloucestershire at:

http://www.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/boards/index.php?showtopic=2035 

Many of our local politicians are struggling to help us, but I see the notrious Julie Gurling from Gloucestershire county council has put her oar in once again to frustrate the discussion

This week saw an important ‘high level’ meeting organised by David Drew MP, to which all of Gloucestershire’s MPs and, we hope, the County Council are signing up to.

Due to rumours persisting about a delay in the doubling of the railway line between Swindon and Kemble, allegedly in order to assuage one Mr David Cameron MP who’d rather see the North Cotswold line prioritised in its stead, Stroud’s David Drew sprung in to action to help us get organised.

Cross-party support across Gloucestershire seemed to be building, but oweing to the shortness of notice for the ‘high level’ meeting at Shire Hall, those of us with existing commitments were to send a representative. My right hand man David Purchase, the Chair of Haresfield Council and ocassional irritant of Shire Hall as the champion of the “Quedgeley Against a Giant Incineratior” campaign was briefed and ready to go on my behest.

Alas, a message via officials that Councillor Julie Gurling, Tory Euro Candidate and these days the official spokesperson on just about everything for Shire Hall got in touch to bar my representative. Apparently this would be a meeting for MPs only (excluding Mr Purchase), shame really because I thought we’d all be signed up to this mission across the County’s political lines.

But then amidst much mirth about “that Queen Bee from Shire Hall” and “who does she think she is!” from some parliamentary colleagues, it became apparent that the bar on representation from my office was to subsequently hit hard Laurence Roberston - who also needed to send a substitute! Indeed when David Drew arrived for his cross party meeting at Shire Hall, the only MP from the five of us who could get there at such short notice was Martin Horwood.

Unfortunately, Councillor Gurling wasn’t there either. Represented by a substitute no doubt. Perhaps you could call that a good day for the Hon Member for Witney at the expense of the Gloucestershire to London commuters. Mr Drew and the rest of us were left spitting nails, and I suspect a couple of Tories were left inadvertantly stung.

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Traffic wardens are issuing over 175 parking tickets a day in Gloucestershire.

Gloucester  have given out the most tickets, issuing 12,554 tickets, with Cheltenham coming second with 12,399 .

Since November car drivers have paid over £1000,000.00 in fines since last November. A nice little racket.

The Gloucestershire Echo and the Gloucester Citizen are the “local” newspapers for this county. The web site is on one of the thisis network ( www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk ) Recently they revamped their web site with appaling results.

The search function is crippled, the have your say function seems to be even more crippled, all the old links no longer work and in short they have made a pigs ear of the site. A great shame.

You can see a discussion at http://www.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/boards/index.php?showtopic=4784&st=0 

Gloucestershire Airport have claimed jobs will go and revenue will drop if a development is blocked.

Once again inflated claims from this company. It is true that they wont make as much money as they would like if they dont gt the extension onto green belt land that they want, but what other business would have the cheek to even ask for taxpayers to pay for losing their amenities in this way.

Gloucester council should say a resounding NO

A government report published today says that the government should completely rethink its aviation policy and shelve plans to expand airports - campaigners opposing the expansion of Gloucestershire Airport have given it a big welcome.

http://ruscombegreen.blogspot.com/2008/05/government-report-supports-staverton.html 

I have been sorting through old photos in the lat few days and it is plain that the city of Gloucester has changed out of all recognition, and so has our society. You can see some of these photographs on our message boards at

http://www.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/boards/index.php?showtopic=4796&hl=

The scottish mafia ( Gordon Brown and Co ) are determined to carry on removing the few rights that Blaire didnt manage to take away from us.

We already have the 28 days you can be held without being arrested, the longest in any democracy, but Brown is determined to extend this to over 42 days. That is 42 days the police can lock you up without telling you what for.

If this does get through it wil make us the laughing stock of the free world, and all our enemies wil be rubbing their hands in glee.

Parmjit Dhanda, MP for Gloucester thinks that the convenience of the police is far more important than your civil liberties, although the majority of Gloucestershire MPs will vote against this wicked bill.