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It is a great shame, but the web site of our local newspaper, The Citizen is just about unusable. The comments are often batant trollism with arguments, bullying and quite disgusting personal comments. Those that do get banned simply register with another user name. It is impossible to sort for local news. I try clicking on Gloucester news and every day find it full of Cheltenham Tewkesbury and Forest of Dean Stories.

What a shame. We do need local papers.

This weeks featured Business is Restorative Techniques, a company that specialises in cleaning buildings. Do contact us if you would like your business highlighted here. Naturally you must be based in Gloucestershire

http stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol which is the protocol the web works on.  If we add an s to make it https , then the last letter stands for secure. It means the page is encrypted, so it can’t be “overheard”

If you have done any shopping on line, by the time you get to give your credit card you should be on an https page. This is also marked by the padlock icon at the top of your browser. You can even click on the padlock to see who issued the certificate and how valid it is.

This page is an ordinary http page, but go to https://www.soft-data.net/contacts.html and you should see the padlock.

So what about www? Well www ( world wide web ) is just a sub domain in the same way that http://oldgloucester.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/ is a sub domain.

We are always hearing that we should support local business, and that is something dear to my heart. I have always done my best to do just that, and now I’m going to have a regular Featured Business of the Week .

The first is up now, TammyLynn Photography

Once more, we see the prejudices of the governing class over-riding the democratic feelings of the people of this country. The truth is Mr Cameron, Mr Milliband and Mr Clegg are horrified by the prospect of a referendum because, they fear the result might reveal the true depth of anti-EU feeling in the country.

To say it is a distraction is disgraceful. This is an abuse of power by all our political parties.

Pixel

As the regulars know, we sadly lost Pixel a few weeks back. Vanda emailed Central News to ask if they stil had the film they took when she was just a very young pup. They very kindly emailed the clip for us and you can see it here

So a very big thank you to ITV for outstanding customer service.

In the third day of a judicial review into plans to shut 10 libraries and reduce opening hours at others across the county, James Goudie, defending, challenged the prosecution’s claim that the council was “failing to meet statutory obligations” to provide a comprehensive library service, as required by the Libraries Act 1964. He said: “A comprehensive service doesn’t mean a library in every village in every town and every suburb of Gloucestershire.

In Gloucestershire less than one fifth of the population has borrowed one item or more in the past 12 months, and we know that library use has declined nationally as well as locally over the last decade.

This court case is imo another case of the give me evrything for nothing brigade. Libraries, like other services must take their turn in the queue for public money.

Southgate St Gloucester in the 1900s

Many of you will Remember John Tocknel who created the Old Gloucester web site showing photos of the Glorious past of Gloucester city. Sadly John is no longer with us, but I did promise to retain his site which I have done. This week I’m updating the site, giving it a modern style sheet, and I’m part way through and should finish this weekend. At that point I’ll start adding photos from my own archives, showing the Knight family and the Heath ( freemen of Gloucester ) who are all related to me.

If you have any photos that you would like to add to this site then please send them in. If you would like to use any of the photos, please ask, don’t just take them.

Gloucester city council are often criticised, but the Gloucester Tall Ships Festival is the best event that we have at Gloucester, and they should be very pleased at the outcome. It runs today and tomorrow. I popped into Gloucester docks yesterday to watch the first of the Tall ships, the Kathleen and May come sailing into the main basin at Gloucester docks.

We are holding our annual photograph contest this year again with some marvelous prizes.

As well as the beautiful tall ships there is a wealth of activity, including a funfair, Pirates, bands, inflatable pirate ship adventure and water balls, paintballing experience, football challenge, activities on the water and lots more. So get down there and enjoy yourself and support a fantastic day at Gloucester Docks.

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