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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. […]

Gloucestershire begins the switchover to digital TV this week. On Wednesday the first channel will be switched off for people served by the Mendip transmitter near Wells, which includes people living around the Stroud Valleys. The second stage of the switchover will take place on April 7th. You will need freeview, satellite or cable TV […]

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Gloucestershire County Council is changing the way it provides information and advice to young people to ensure that its services are relevant to 21st century teenagers. A new website called WhatnowGlos will include information about positive activities, help with education, training and employment and will provide links to local and national help and support services […]

The Gloucestershire Polish Club would like to invite Polish-speaking members of the community to their next meeting on Saturday March 20. The meeting will start at 5pm and is being held at the GAVCA in Eastgate Street, Gloucester. A family information service agent will be at the meeting to give information and advice to families […]

Officers from the Roads Policing Unit (RPU) apprehended 13 drivers in just 45 minutes during a mini operation in Quedgeley on Friday March 12. The operation was conducted after local residents raised concerns about traffic offences with their council funded officer PC Fraser Mackie from the Gloucester South Safer Community Team. Following the request from […]

Sara Hobbin, the Police Authority member for Gloucester, will be in the city centre this Saturday to speak to passing shoppers. Sara is keen to hear people’s views on policing issues in the area and would like to give local community members the chance to raise any concerns they may have. So if you are […]

Police are appealing for witnesses following a robbery in Gloucester on Thursday March 11. The robbery occurred between 7.45pm and 8.10pm in an area of grassland between Bishops Castle Way and Bishopstone Way. The victim, a 34-year-old man from Staunton, was walking from his aunt’s house in Coney Hill towards the Over roundabout when the […]

People in Cheltenham and Gloucester are being asked to take part in a review of residents parking. Following the introduction of Gloucestershire County Council’s new Residents Parking Policy in January, there starting to assess where schemes are most needed. The first stage of the review involves sending out questionnaires to residents to find out more […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was assaulted in Lydney on Monday March 1.    The incident happened between 4.45pm and 5pm in Newerne Street.    The victim, a 17-year-old woman from Lydney, got off a bus from Gloucester and walked to the public toilets at the rear of Caplins Café.   She […]