Tag Archives: Gloucestershire

There was a flurry of inappropriate calls to the police 999 service over the weekend that in no way could have been considered real emergencies. Gloucestershire police has urged people to keep the 999 lines clear for genuine callers after a significant rise in the number of non-urgent 999 calls …

The Post Office has today (Tuesday, April 8) revealed plans to hand over its remaining directly-owned branches to franchisees by the autumn. It confirmed that it is offloading 108 crown branches which are currently directly owned and run by the company. The list includes branches in Gloucester and Stroud in …

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 …

If you see the words “daffodil” and “poetry” in the same sentence you might well think of William Wordsworth wandering about the Like District with his sister Dorothy and being confronted by a trumpeting host of golden blossoms. But if you’ve been to a daffodil weekend in Dymock, or its …

A Gloucestershire teenager obtained pills for an illegal abortion while six months pregnant, a court has heard. Sophie Harvey is accused of taking the drug to terminate her pregnancy after discovering she was 28 weeks and five days gestation, making it too late for a legal abortion in England. Prosecutors …

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 …

One of the UK’s leading suppliers of greeting cards based in Gloucestershire wants to make customers aware they can still send a card but must think about sending them earlier ahead of a rise in the cost of stamps. Cherry Orchard Publishing located at Twyning near Tewkesbury says it is …

Many people in Gloucester have experienced issues receiving postal deliveries for months, with long delays and missed parcels plaguing some parts of the city. Earlier this week Gloucestershire County Councillor Andrew Gravels called for a meeting with Royal Mail bosses over the recent “diabolical” postal service. With the chief executive …

A Gloucestershire community will get a Post Office back when it re-opens in a supermarket. The St Johns Avenue Post Office in Churchdown will be moving to the new location more than a year since it closed. The branch will be renamed Parton Road Post Office and it will restore …

The first job of Royal Mail’s next top boss should be to sort out the “diabolical” postal service in Gloucester, according to a civic chief. International Distribution Services, the owner of Royal Mail, appointed Martin Seidenberg as their new chief executive this month. Mr Seidenberg will reportedly be paid a …