• Linden community encouraged to increase recycling effort

  By jpatstarsmead

  Recycling is a fine thing, but it's such a pity that the other face of nice cuddly Councillor...

            

   

  By The Citizen at 07:00 on 18/05/12

  

  GREEN-MINDED children are hitting the streets of Linden to encourage members of the community to recycle. Calton Infants School has been named as one of several groups in Gloucester to benefit from a pilot project called Recycle for your Community. Championed by the Gloucestershire Waste Partnership (GWP), the scheme will see the pilot areas offered a cash reward as an incentive to increase recycling rates. Debbie Baker, Calton's...

• Lending to first-time buyers surges

  By Douglasknows

  I cannot see house prices getting back to the 2007 high for a generation or more. Unfortunately I...

            

   

  By The Citizen at 07:00 on 17/05/12

  

  Lending to first-time buyers surged almost 75 per cent during March in a rush to beat a deadline for the end of a stamp duty concession, figures showed yesterday. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said 24,000 loans worth a combined £3 billion were taken out by borrowers new to the market, up 74 per cent. Gloucester estate agent Richard Powell, co-founder of Naylor Powell Estate Agents, said he was not surprised by the...

• Big Issue: How Labour fought back in Stroud

  By Bartonite

  Perhaps dumping a housing estate (as well as a motorway service station) on the outskirts of...

            

   

  By The Citizen at 07:00 on 15/05/12

  

  A WELL-KNOWN adage in politics is 'parties don't win elections, governments lose them'. This was certainly the case for Stroud Labour – from 2008 to 2011 we had only seven councillors across the district, a drastic turnaround from a party that ran the council as we entered the 21st century. Add into the equation the loss of David Drew as our MP in 2010, and most people would think that morale in our party would be low. So how...

• Trouble at Mill as majority vanishes

  By wottonjen

  Congratulations June!

            

   

  By Stroud Life at 07:00 on 09/05/12

  

  POLITICAL talks are under way after Labour's local election gains mirrored the national picture and left Stroud with a hung district council. After the Conservative administration at Ebley Mill lost five seats to the reds, in a reflection of the blue losses nationally, the Tories were left with 22 seats. This was further dented after the count finished when council chairman Coun John Hudson told fellow members he would be...

• Tributes to 'fun-loving musician' after long battle with illness

  By LordGagas

  i remember the Good Goods, a great band

            

   

  By The Citizen at 07:00 on 02/05/12

  

  BASS guitarist David Hodson will be remembered for touring Gloucestershire's pubs and clubs, playing 60s music with bands including the Trespasses, Good Goods, Smiler and Millennium. David Richard Hodson, 64, of Furlong Road, Gloucester, died on Thursday after suffering from multiple systems atrophy (MSA) – a condition affecting the brain and nervous system. He was born in Chorley on June 4, 1947, and came to Gloucester with...

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