A Cheltenham man was one of two robbers who threw an axe at a police car during a long police chase through Worcestershire in a desperate and ultimately failed attempt to avoid arrest. Christopher Lamb, 27, of Vittoria Walk, Cheltenham, and Christopher Keylock, 56, of Evesham Road, Cleeve Prior, carried …
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Cheltenham is set to honour the 84th anniversary of the momentous Battle of Britain on Sunday (September 15).. The town will pay tribute to RAF Fighter Command’s significant triumph over the German Luftwaffe back in 1940. A poignant ceremony will take place at the War Memorial at 11am to mark …
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Numerous Gloucestershire heroes have been recognised for their outstanding achievements in King Charles’ Birthday Honours list. Charity workers, emergency service workers and educators from the region are among those celebrated in the list which also includes Post Office campaigner Alan Bates and former prime minister Gordon Brown. The list honours …
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Cavendish House is no more. Not so much a shop, more a Cheltenham institution, it provided for the needs and wants of local people from cradle to grave for two centuries. As much an essential of the spa town as its ornamental ironwork, regiments of scarlet geraniums in the Long …
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Published on 10th April 2024 The next scheduled elections to take place in Cheltenham are the Borough Council and Police and Crime Commissioner elections on 2 May 2024. All forty borough council seats will be up for election due to ward boundary changes. New postal vote handling rules are in …
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Into the first week in October and the temperatures are surprisingly quite warm after the hottest September on record. As ever, here are seven weekly stories in Gloucestershire where we have a range of stories from all six parts of our county. This week the overwhelming news Gloucestershire Live has …
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Announcing the passing of a loved one in local news media is a long standing tradition and we are proud of the trust placed in us to make these important announcements. Every notice published to our newspaper and news site also appears on funeral-notices.co.uk – the UK’s number one site …
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A charity that sends out weekly talking newspapers and magazines to blind people in Gloucestershire has put out an urgent notice due to the Royal Mail strikes. ‘The Cotswold Listener’, who service Cheltenham, Tewkesbury and the North Cotswolds, have said that due to the postal strike, there have been severe …
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Fears that strike action by Royal Mail staff could hinder postal voting for a Gloucester City Council by-election have led to calls from civic chiefs to voeters to cast their ballots and post it early. Voters head to the polls next Thursday October 13 to elect a councillor to represent …
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A university professor was taken aback when he received a handwritten letter vaguely addressed to him after he appeared as a guest on Radio Four programme ‘The Life Scientific’. The envelope had been addressed to the ‘department of Creepy Crawleys (sic) University of Gloucester, somewhere in Gloucester or Cheltenham, website …
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