Gloucestershire gritters travel distance twice around the Earth’s equator
Gloucestershire county council’s highways teams have tackled storms, flash flooding and snow this season. Since October last year, the council has been busy with winter operations. The eventful season began with unprecedented levels of rainfall in the autumn, followed by...
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11th April 2025
New car parking system set to save over £100,000
Gloucester City Council is set to bring the management of its car parks back into the council, saving taxpayers over £100,000 annually. Councillors gave their backing at this month’s cabinet to a plan which will see management of the Kings...
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11th April 2025
Funding awarded for flood prevention in the Forest of Dean
Gloucestershire County Council is working in partnership with Forestry England to deliver large scale natural flood management measures throughout the Cannop Catchment. Recently we’ve been carrying out work to reconnect the historic watercourses of the Cannop area, which became diverted...
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11th April 2025
Forest of Dean farmer banned from keeping livestock for 10 years
A farmer from the Forest of Dean has pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a lamb, failing to dispose of two sheep carcasses and animal movement records offences. Shaun Saunders, aged 61, of Broadmeads, Coleford Road, Bream, Lydney, appeared...
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11th April 2025
Market town waterfront could get ‘Gloucester Docks style’ revamp
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter There are plans afoot to redevelop a historic Gloucestershire market town mill and warehouse which has become a “sad eyesore”. The former Borough Flour Mills in Tewkesbury, also known as Healing’s Flour Mills,...
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11th April 2025
Harry Taylor pens fresh Kingsholm deal
Gloucester Rugby has confirmed an extension to the contract of young back row, Harry Taylor. A product of Cinderford RFC & Chepstow RFC, the now 23-year-old has been a part of the senior ranks here at Kingsholm since 2020 and...
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11th April 2025
Paedophile Liberal Democrat councillor resigns from council triggering by-election
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter A paedophile Liberal Democrat councillor has resigned from a Gloucestershire council after being convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl. Tewkesbury Borough Councillor Paul Ockelton, 60, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting...
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11th April 2025
Long waits for hospital treatment cut by almost two thirds in county
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter Long waits for hospital treatment have been reduced by almost two thirds in Gloucestershire. The NHS in Gloucestershire has made significant progress in reducing the longest waits for treatment such as planned care...
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11th April 2025
Police investigating report that men in car followed girl
Police are investigating a report that two men who were in a car followed a child who was walking in Gloucester yesterday evening. It was reported that an 11-year-old girl was walking along Seymour Road at around 7pm when she...
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11th April 2025
Tewkesbury ‘insulted’ as Cheltenham and Cotswold exclude name from council plan
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter Tewkesbury civic chiefs feel “insulted” that their borough name was excluded from plans to split Gloucestershire into two council areas. Cheltenham Borough and Cotswold District chiefs are submitting a proposal to create two...
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11th April 2025