Residents, businesses and road users are being invited to a series of public information events to find out more about the next major stage of Gloucestershire County Council’s M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme. The scheme will transform junction 10 into an...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter The hard work and commitment of Gloucestershire firefighters has been commended as inspectors say the fire and rescue service has made significant progress. His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter There is frustration over Tewkesbury “looking so shabby” due to a reduction in how often the grass is cut, with the “road into town from the motorway” being branded a “disgrace”. Wildfire fears, road safety hazards...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter Complaints over delays of up to three weeks for post have prompted civic chiefs to call on Royal Mail to “take all possible steps to improve the situation”. A Royal Mail representative will be invited to give a...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter “Shameful” changes to planning rules which will come into force on Halloween have been blasted by civic chiefs amid fears the Government is acting like “Big Brother”. The power councillors currently have, allowing...
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Local Land Manager Harry Smith is calling on people to support efforts to restore the Severn Hams, a vast floodplain stretching between Gloucester and Tewkesbury, through Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust’s biggest campaign to date, Mission Wild. Decades ago, the...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter The pause affecting Gloucestershire’s local government shake-up should be used to look at another option which would keep a council for each of the county’s six “very different” areas. That is the view of a former...
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Sir Lindsay Hoyle has been pictured with Alex McIntyre MP and Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP holding the Gloucestershire flag in New Palace Yard. The moment forms part of celebrations for Gloucestershire Day, which highlights pride in the county’s landscapes, heritage,...
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Officers are appealing for information and footage from the public after a moped was stolen from Bishop’s Cleeve and later found abandoned. Police were called on Tuesday 8 September with a report that a white Aprillia SXR50 moped had been stolen from a driveway...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter A Conservative councillor has defected to the Liberal Democrats after the “final straw” of the selection of an ex neo-Nazi as a Tory candidate in Somerset and Kemi Badenoch’s comments about councillors. Heather...
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Police investigating the assault of door staff at a pub in Tewkesbury have released CCTV images of two men they would like to identify in connection with the incident. It was reported that a man had tried to enter the pub but was stopped by door staff and told to wait...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter Pleas have been made to Prime Minister Andy Burnham to provide the vital funding needed for a major upgrade of an M5 junction in Gloucestershire. Highways chiefs have been working on a project to provide a new...
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a report that two men assaulted another man with a hammer in Tewkesbury. Officers are investigating after it was reported that two men had approached the victim while he was resting under a tree in The Vineyards, close to...
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The Government has confirmed plans to create a single unitary council for Gloucestershire. It will replace the existing county, city, district and borough councils on 1 April 2028. The decision affects Gloucestershire County Council, Gloucester City Council,...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter There are fears much-needed improvements planned for junction 9 of the M5 could be in peril as the Government slashes £700m from its roads fund to boost defence spending. Gloucestershire County Council has been...
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Gloucestershire Libraries is launching this year’s Library Challenge as part of the county’s Year of Reading. The free challenge is open to children aged three and over and runs from Saturday 11 July to Saturday 12 September. This year’s theme is Tales Through Time,...
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Police are appealing for witnesses and information following a fire at a protected Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in the Cotswolds on Wednesday evening (1 July). Officers were called to a blaze on Cleeve Common in Bishop’s Cleeve at around 9.45pm,...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter Plans for a huge expansion of a business park near the M5 and M50 in Gloucestershire have been given the go-ahead by a planning inspector. Tewkesbury Borough Council had rejected Tiarks Property Developments plans for...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter A Reform UK councillor at the centre of a row over a council leader’s comments on homophobia has explained why he voted against flying the Pride flag last year. Councillor Graham Bocking, who is Reform UK’s only...
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Cameron Thomas – MP for Tewkesbury A Liberal Democrat MP was arrested on suspicion of controlling and coercive behaviour and assault, it’s understood. A party spokesperson said on Thursday that Cameron Thomas had the whip suspended pending the outcome of a...
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Police in Tewkesbury are investigating reports of motorbikes and off-road bikes being ridden anti-socially over recent weeks and they are appealing for information to identify the riders. The Tewkesbury Neighbourhood Policing Team have been receiving reports of...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter A council leader, who has called out homophobic insults he suffered growing up, has sparked backlash from Reform UK after suggesting homophobes have gone on to become councillors for Nigel Farage’s party. Liberal...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter The preferred names of Gloucestershire’s future councils and how many councillors they could have has been put forward by Shire Hall chiefs. Local government is being reorganised in the county and, under the current...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter The cost of improving junction 10 of the M5 near Cheltenham has ballooned from an estimate of around £250m six years ago to more than £400m in 2026. Gloucestershire County Council chiefs have today (June 10) agreed to...
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A man has been jailed after he subjected his former partner to more than eight years of sexual assaults, controlling and coercive behaviour, strangulation and physical assaults. Scott Herbert, aged 57 and of Bishops Walk in Forthampton, Tewkesbury, appeared at...
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Police have issued a CCTV image of several men officers would like to identify following a theft from a shop near Tewkesbury. It was reported that four men had entered a shop on Tewkesbury Road in Twigworth before stealing gardening items valued at £300. The incident...
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Police investigating an assault are releasing an image of a woman they need the public’s help to identify. A woman hit a man in the face at the ASDA service station in Bishops Cleeve at around 1am on Monday 27 April. When the victim tried to call police, the...
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By Carmelo Garcia – Local Democracy Reporter Gloucestershire villagers “feel abandoned” over housebuilder Persimmon Home’s delays in delivering a community centre which residents have so far been waiting eight years to be built. Bishop’s Cleeve councillors have...
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UPDATE: the M5 northbound carriageway has now reopened following this morning’s collision. The motorcyclist, a man aged in his 70s, was airlifted to Southmead Hospital in Bristol for treatment to injuries which are not deemed to be life threatening. His next of...
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A man has died following a collision on the M5 yesterday (Wednesday 6 May) and police are appealing for witnesses. Emergency services were called at around 12.20pm with a report that a white Luton Van had collided with a Volkswagen Transporter and come off the...
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