Tag Archives: Gloucestershire

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 …

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 …

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 …

The last day that you can send something through the Royal Mail has been brought forward this year by almost a week due to ongoing industrial action, meaning Gloucestershire residents have just days to get Christmas cards and presents in the mail if they want them to arrive in time …

Bosses at kitchenware brand ProCook have reported renewed trading momentum after a “challenging” summer. The Gloucestershire firm, which listed on the London Stock Exchange last year, said it generated £15.9m in revenue in the second quarter – a 9% dip on the same period last year, but up more than …

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 …

Cinderford Post Office is set to be temporarily closed to allow for major building work to take place. It will be closed from 5.30pm on Thursday, June 9, and the work is expected to take just over three months. The branch at Dockham Road is expected to reopen at 9am …

A Gloucestershire soldier along with three other brothers-in-arms have made regimental history. They are believed to be the first fully formed crew from the British Army’s Armoured Reserve Regiment, to serve on Operations since the Second World War. Lance Corporal George Dwight, 27, from Cirencester and his Challenger 2 Main …

This year a total of 6,370 Gloucestershire children have been offered a primary school place for September, with 98 per cent being admitted to one of their preferred schools and 91 per cent of pupils receiving a place at their first preference school. “We aim to ensure that as many …

The nation’s posties are among the most trusted and well-liked of public professions, delivering our correspondences whatever the weather. Across Gloucestershire there is a mixture of jobs going at the Royal Mail, that could set you off down the county’s urban and rural roads – or fixing the vehicles that …