Month: October 2024
Free multi-sports day for blind and partially sighted people in Gloucester
A free multi-sports day dedicated to blind and partially sighted people is coming to Gloucester this October. The UK’s leading sporting charity for blind and partially sighted people, British Blind Sport, is hosting a Have a Go Day at The...
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2nd October 2024
Gloucester City council calls for ‘heartless’ cuts to winter fuel payments to be reversed
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter The “heartless” withdrawal of the winter fuel payments has prompted civic chiefs in Gloucester to lobby the city’s MPs to get the decision reversed. The new Labour government announced it was cutting the...
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2nd October 2024
Successful prosecution for noise pollution
Cheltenham Borough has successfully prosecuted the construction company that built a new supermarket on Cirencester Road in Charlton Kings, Cheltenham. On 16 September 2024, at Cheltenham Magistrates Court, construction company ‘Soldi Investments Ltd’ was found guilty of failing to comply with...
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2nd October 2024
Boy arrested after man shot with pellet gun in Gloucester
Police have arrested a teenage boy in connection with an assault by an air gun in Gloucester last month. It follows a report that a large group of youths were engaging in anti-social behaviour in Gloucester Docks on the afternoon...
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2nd October 2024
Cotswold people isolated by ‘bloody disgraceful’ bus cut as offer is ‘ignored’
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter The axing of a vital bus link in Gloucestershire has been branded a “bloody disgrace” as people in their 80s are “confined to their own homes”. The number 84/85 bus service – which...
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2nd October 2024
Christmas market and ice rink secured at Gloucester Quays for next 5 years
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter The Christmas market and ice rink will be returning to Gloucester Docks for the next five years despite concerns over noise, smell and disturbance. Gloucester Quays has been granted permission from the City...
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2nd October 2024
‘No plan B’ for Eastgate Shopping Centre revamp amid £11m uncertainty over levelling up
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter There is currently “no plan B” for the regeneration of Eastgate Shopping Centre should Labour not honour the £11m which was promised by the previous Government to Gloucester for the scheme. Gloucester City...
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2nd October 2024
Dobbies to shut Gloucester and Cheltenham stores as part of restructuring plan
Dobbies has announced its plan to shut down 17 of its sites across including Gloucester and Cheltenham. The proposed closures are part of a restructuring plan to help return the business to profit and reduce its rent bill. Sites will...
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1st October 2024
Cheltenham women’s groups call for ban on strip clubs amid licence policy review
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter Feminist groups in Cheltenham are calling on the council to ban strip clubs to stop “the commercial sexual exploitation of women” in the spa town. Cheltenham Borough Council’s sexual entertainment venue (SEV) licensing...
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1st October 2024
Golden Valley plan near GCHQ ‘will continue with or without levelling up funding’
By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter The Golden Valley Development which aims to play a key part in cementing Cheltenham’s place at the heart of the UK’s cyber and technology cluster will go ahead with or without levelling up...
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1st October 2024