Author: Shaun Moore
Gloucestershire County Council will soon publish its blueprint for dealing with the county’s waste. The Waste Core Strategy for 2012-27 is a planning document which, by law, all Waste Planning Authorities have to produce. It sets out how we intend to handle all waste streams in the county and includes some strategic sites that are […]
Thieves have stolen two fruit machines from a snooker club in Gloucester. Police have arrested one man on suspicion of burglary and two men on suspicion of theft of a motor vehicle following the burglary, which happened at 2.40am today at a snooker club in Southbrook Road. A Nissan Cabstar van that is believed to […]
Police in Quedgeley and Hardwicke are asking local residents for their views on what should be the policing priorities in the area. Officers will be in the car park of Matalan on Bristol Road and going door-to-door in The Causeway from 2pm on Sunday, November 21. They will then be visiting residents in Merlin Drive […]
A woman from Stroud is offering a £200 reward for information that leads to the safe return of a distinctive ladies ring which was stolen in a burglary. It is white gold and set with a row of tiny white diamonds top and bottom and three flowers each made up of four pink petals with […]
Anti-Domestic Abuse Messages sent to Mobiles Make Reporting Mistreatment Easier Messages explaining how anyone affected by domestic and sexual abuse can seek help will be appearing on mobile phones in Gloucestershire next week (Nov 22-26). The messages are supported by Gloucestershire’s Public Protection Bureau (PPB) and partner agencies. They will be sent out around the […]
As part of this year’s Waste Reduction Challenge, people across the county are being invited to go green and start home composting. Gloucestershire County Council is running the Waste Reduction Challenge between 20th and 28th November and people across the county are being asked to sign up to at least one pledge to cut their household waste. […]
During National School Meals Week (8th-12th November), uptake of school dinners continues to rise across the county – from just over 7,000 meals a day a year ago to 8,600 a day now. Gloucestershire’s schools now have many new and refurbished kitchens, new transport boxes and hot servicing trolley for schools that receive a delivered […]
At approximately 10.25 this morning, Monday November 8, police were called to reports of an assault at a car park in The Chippings, Wotton-Under-Edge in which a woman had been seriously injured. Officers have arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder. The woman has been taken to Frenchay Hospital by air ambulance. Her injuries […]
A woman who reportedly fell from a building in Gloucester has been pronounced dead at the scene. Police confirmed the woman, who was found outside Primark on Eastgate Street has died. She is believed to be in her 40s. The bottom of the street is still sealed off as ambulance crews prepare to remove the […]
One of Gloucester’s oldest monuments is being prepared to bloom with vibrant colour next February. The grounds of St Oswalds Priory, which is owned and managed by the city council, are being planted with 8,000 crocus bulbs. A team of students from Gloucestershire College along with staff from Enterprise will be taking on the mammoth […]
