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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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 …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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It stands high above the Cotswolds and from the top you can look out across Gloucestershire. Inside it features designs by William Morris, who was inspired by the view. But underneath the Broadway Tower is a piece of history that is far less romantic. And you wouldn’t know it was …
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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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