Author: Shaun Moore

Officers from Gloucester City Safer Community Team (SCT) helped brighten up Easter for children in hospital in the county over the bank holiday weekend. Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) Jordan White, PCSO Mohamed Ginwalla and PCSO Steph Mason visited the children’s wards of Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital on Easter Sunday to deliver […]

The Gloucester South Safer Community Team (SCT) has been working hard in Tuffley during March to tackle those issues that matter most to local residents. County Council funded officer PC Emma Macdonald has been working closely with the Gloucestershire Youth Service to secure funding for a youth club in Tuffley. The club runs at the […]

Off licenses in the Forest of Dean were tested during an undercover operation on Saturday March 27 to see if they would sell alcohol to underage volunteers. Police officers from the Forest North and Forest South Safer Community Teams (SCTs) tested 13 off licenses throughout the Forest of Dean. Two underage volunteers, a 14-year-old and […]

Police are investigating who is responsible for two reports of criminal damage to a road sign in Slimbridge. At sometime between Friday February 12 and Sunday February 14 and again between Sunday March 21 and Monday March 22 an unknown offender has spray painted the world ‘Lel’ or ‘Lol’ over the chevron signs on the […]

Gloucester’s unique Language Immersion Centre moved a step closer to reality today with the submission of a planning application. If planning consent is granted, the centre will be built on the former Clutch Clinic site on Commercial Road in the city. Demolition of the existing buildings started last week. The proposed centre will kick-start the […]

Police would like to make contact with two boys who helped them catch a suspect in Gloucester.  Officers responded to a call from a member of the public reporting a man breaking into a blue Citroen Picasso in Horton Road at around 4.45pm on Sunday March 14. The suspect fled the scene on a bike […]

Police are appealing for the public’s help to trace Mark Joseph Hawkins, aged 54, who is wanted for recall to prison.   Hawkins was arrested in Cheltenham on Friday March 5 and charged with attempted burglary and he was released on bail by the court. His licence has since been revoked and he is aware […]

A special school in Gloucester is asking for donations of old plastic bags, which will be recycled into a picnic bench. Milestone School in Gloucester is one of only 14 schools in the country to be chosen to take part in a recycling competition organised by Warburtons bakery. Staff at the bakers are offering a […]

Gloucestershire is facing a landfill tax bill of £7.7million this year as the cost of burying waste rises. Recycling more household waste is essential if the council is to avoid these hefty bills in future. From April, landfill tax increases by £8 to £48 for every tonne buried and it will increase again next year. […]