GFM News

Plans are in progress to make Gloucestershire’s historic Cheese Rolling event even better from next year. This years event though has still been cancelled. Expanding into the city centre and streaming videos of the event onto big screens are just some of the possibilities for future events. A cheese and cider festival could also be […]

All UK airports – including Gatwick and Heathrow – have been closed after a massive cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland drifted into UK airspace. Thousands of flights across the UK have been cancelled leaving passengers facing massive disruption. Gatwick and Heathrow alone normally cater for 260,000 passengers a day. UK airspace will […]

Officers from the Gloucester City Safer Community Team (SCT) will be security-marking bicycles in Kingsholm on Saturday May 1. Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) Frankie McIntosh and Becki Kent will be joined by members of the Crime Prevention Panel at the family centre in Sherbourne Street, Kingsholm, between 10am and 1pm. They will be on […]

Moreland Community Partnership would like to remind residents that the Tuffley Avenue Rose Garden planting day is taking place this Friday, 16th April, 10am-4pm. Moreland Community Partnership and Gloucester City Council have set up a project to restore the gardens back to an area of beauty. Funded by Gloucestershire Criminal Justice Board’s Community Cashback scheme […]

A new operational Chief Inspector has started work in Gloucester city centre today and says he is eager to work with local people to ensure the area remains a safe place to live and work. Chief Inspector Richard Burge, who has held uniformed and plain-clothed roles at every rank from Constable to Chief Inspector in […]

Police are asking for a missing youth from Gloucester to make contact with them so they can check his welfare. Saud Khan Nasseri, aged 17, has not been seen at his home in Gloucester Road, Hartpury, since 8.30am on Monday March 29. He left his house to go to college near the docks in Gloucester […]

Police are appealing for information after a number of items were stolen and damaged caused at a Longlevens address. On Saturday April 3 a teenager was holding a birthday party at an address in Mandeville Close when, between 9.30pm and 9.45pm,a group of young people who had not been invited to the occasion entered the […]

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 […]