Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
Ambulances in Gloucestershire are set to reach calls in record time thanks to an £850,000 satellite dispatch system.
The Computer-Aided Dispatch project is designed to automate many of the human-intensive processes of manual dispatch systems ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
A 59-year-old Stroud woman who ran a sophisticated cannabis factory from her home was jailed yesterday.
Lesley Elcock claimed that she grew the £5,000 worth of cannabis to help friends with illnesses such as Multiple Sclerosis.
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
Domestic abuse or violence has touched more than 3,000 children's lives in Gloucestershire, a massive new survey reveals.
The survey was released yesterday, with pupils from Beaufort School talking about their experiences.
The ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
Plans for councils to push ahead with new incinerators have been condemned in Gloucestershire.
The Audit Commission says more incinerators are needed to meet long-term targets to cut landfill and avoid landing taxpayers with millions of pounds ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
"BEFORE it was demolished, it was dirty, disgusting - no one wanted to live here. It had a reputation."
So says Sheena Scarratt, a longstanding resident of White City in Gloucester, which underwent a massive redevelopment throughout the 1990s.
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
Teenager Alex Sims' mistake when overtaking another car cost him his life and that of his friend Dan Hales.
Gloucester coroner Alan Crickmore said the 19-year-old, of Blakeney, had clipped another car and both drugs and speed may have played ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
Yet another letter extolling the virtues of the Railway Triangle for a new rail station. Have people not looked at the map and seen where the existing rail lines run?
A new station has to solve the problem of trains needing to change direction ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
Schools from across Gloucester have voiced their anger at the prospect of having to give thousands of pounds of their money to Gloucestershire County Council.
A report by the local authority's school finance manager says too many schools have ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
Gloucestershire's Director of Public Health is calling on young people in the county to take part in a major new screening programme for the sexually transmitted infection chlamydia.
During the next six months, all 16 to 24-year-olds in Gloucestershire ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
Business as usual - and probably well into the future - is the message from British Energy's top figure at Barnwood following its takeover.
Immediately after the £12.5bn buy up by the French company EDF, unions praised the deal, but raised concerns ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
A Staunton man did a double take when he plucked a carrot shaped like a hand out of the ground.
Peter Burford, 70, spotted it in his yard at Eldersfield, where he grows vegetables.
He said: "It's a one-off. I've never seen ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
A 38-year-old Gloucester drug dealer who made a £139,000 fortune from crime is to have just £19,000 confiscated from him, the city's crown court heard yesterday.
Although accepting last May that he had assets of £42,099, Gary Waugh, who is serving ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
Two Hundred workers will lose their jobs or be forced to move due to the closure of GE Aviation.
Their union has vowed to fight for substantial compensation payments for all of them.
Staff at the Arle Court site of Gloucestershire's ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
Children in Tuffley have been rocketing through their first days at school.
The new reception pupils in Red Class at Tuffley Primary School have already embarked on their first project which sees them learning about space.
The ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
Hello, I'm David Smith from BBC Radio Gloucestershire's afternoon show and along with my producer Liz Day we are spending this week broadcasting from a narrowboat on Gloucestershire's waterways.
Our journey so far has taken us to Lower Lode, ... |
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Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT |
When the Prime Minister walked onto the stage to deliver the leader's speech at Labour Party Conference the atmosphere in the hall was electric. We all rose to our feet, ready to hear what the papers had already dubbed, "the speech of Brown's political ... |
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