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The Gloucestershire Portal has been promoting local business for many years. There are also many ways that you can promote yourself here as well.

• Join our bulletin boards ( free of charge )
• We have a section “Tell us about your business” that you can use to advertise your services, again free of charge
• Astute posters will take part in the discussions here. So long as you have set up your profile, then every post leaves a link to your website.
• You can send every post you make to your twitter, facebook or Google + page with a single click
• Advertise with us - The best advertising rates in the county
• Make sure you are listed in our local Directory , the largest on the web

Don’t forget that SoftData Internet are full nominet members and can register your domain and host your web site. Again, local companies recieve many extra benefits.

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.

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.

Don’t forget that this weekend we have the amazing Gloucester Tall ships festival, and as usual we are offering somw great prizes for the best photos taken over the weekend. Click here to see the contest

It is a fantastic event and there is something for everyone, so get your self down to Gloucester Docks this weekend.

The Gloucester Tall ships Festival will be held on August Bank Holiday, Friday 26th – Sunday 28th. This festival has always been well worth attending with wonderful sailing ships cruising into Gloucester docks.

As usual we are holding a photo contest for the event. You can see more details of the contest and prizes here

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Visit Gloucestershire is, not surprisingly a site all about the beautiful English county of Gloucestershire. The website contains bulletin boards where you can safely chat with others on local issues, a directory of Gloucestershire websites listing over 8000 local websites , Photos of Gloucester past, and a whole lot more including Alan’s Gloucestershire Transport history site. It is run by Gloucestershire people, for Gloucestershire people.

We even have boards that allow local businesses to post about their service, and a best of board for you to review anything gloucestershire

Enjoy the site, and why not join our boards and take part in local discussions.

After a year of development, Taxi Pro Gold is nearly ready. We hope to launch on, or before 1st June.  Every copy sold includes a free web site with a years hosting thrown in.

Visit the Taxi Pro Website

We have a board on our Gloucestershire forums called Tell us about your business . Any Gloucestershire business is welcome to post there and leave a link to their site.

We are expanding as we need new staff. See this post

A very busy week coming up next week for me. More information