Citizen Gloucestershire, The back issues from May 2009:
Car fan drives to help our troops
May 01, 2009 ... By Sarah Webbsarah.webb@glosmedia.co.uk A CAR enthusiast from Redmarley will take to the roads today toraise money for Help for Heroes. George Stayt-Mackey, 20, will take his Peugeot 205 on a 3,000-mile trip to Croatia and back to raise money for injured soldiersand their ...
'Blind' woman chased security officer
May 01, 2009 ... By Dennis Apperly Crime Reporter dennis.apperly@glosmedia.co.uk A WOMAN claiming to be almost completely blind chased a securityofficer down the road, a court heard. The 26-year-old also stormed out of Gloucester Magistrates' Courton Wednesday after being told ...
Pub brawl man fined
May 01, 2009 ... A Midnight punch-up outside a city pub landed a 22-year-oldGloucester man in court. When police arrived at The Vauxhall public house in Barton Streeton April 16 they saw Sean Devlin squaring up to two other men. Prosecuting solicitor Sharon Jomaa said: "The defendant ...
'No justification for this terrible attack'
May 01, 2009 ... Readers have been infuriated by the story we told you about a mumwho was attacked while out walking her dogs. Joanne Young, from Upton St Leonards, was punched in the faceafter being accused of failing to clean up her dog mess at Painswick Beacon. Joanne, 45, told how she ...
University of Gloucestershire student applications rising
May 01, 2009 ... By Fiona Dryden Education Reporter fiona.dryden@glosmedia.co.uk APPLICATIONS to the University of Gloucestershire have risen thisyear, despite the biting recession. The university, which has campuses in Gloucester and Cheltenham,has received 9,700 applications ...
Memories of another farnborough battle
May 01, 2009 ... Tomorrow will not be the first time Gloucester City andFarnborough have locked horns in a promotion battle, writes GarethButler. Back in 1991 the scene was set for a nervous final day when theTigers travelled to Bromsgrove in second place behind theirHampshire rivals in the ...
Closeness of team has been the key - sysum
May 01, 2009 ... Teenage defender Matt Sysum says team spirit has been the key toGloucester City's success this season. Sysum played the last 20 minutes of Tuesday night's win overCambridge City that set-up tomorrow's winner-takes-all showdown withFarnborough. He replaced Alex Sykes as ...
Fitness worry Smith confident he will play
May 01, 2009 ... Lee Smith is ready to declare himself fit for Gloucester City'sdo-or-die play-off final at Farnborough tomorrow. The wing-back is manager David Mehew's only injury worry after hewas carried off 15 minutes from the end of Tuesday night's semi-final win over Cambridge City. But ...
Factory plans for greenfield site fury
May 01, 2009 ... By Ben Falconer Chief Reporter ben.falconer@glosmedia.co.uk A METAL pressing factory's expansion plans have come under firefrom Stonehouse residents who don't want it on their doorstep. Stroud Metal Company wants to build a new factory at OldendsFarm. It has ...
Artist wins pounds3k award
May 01, 2009 ... International textile designer Cath Kidston helped to chooseartist Francesca Chalk as the winner of this year's pounds3,000Stroud Arts Award. Ms Kidston, who lives near Slad, was among the seven judges whodecided the commission for a textile work to be displayed at theCotswold ...
Activities to enjoy holiday sunshine in Gloucestershire
May 01, 2009 ... By Sarah Webbsarah.webb@glosmedia.co.uk HOLIDAYMAKERS wondering what to do over the Bank Holiday willhave no shortage of entertainment. A Met Office spokesman said: "I think there will be quite a bitof fine, dry weather over the weekend. May be a few showers butoverall it ...
Mum's fall led to breach of curfew
May 01, 2009 ... A Churchdown man started breaching a curfew order when hismentally-ill mum had a fall in London and needed help. Gary Kelly, of Dowding Way, admitted breaching the curfew on 11occasions, when he appeared before city magistrates. The curfew was imposed for an offence of vehicle ...
Sad ending to lost dog
May 01, 2009 ... A Couple, who lost their cocker spaniel, have found that she hasdied. Nicola and Adrian Gladwin appealed for help looking for Megan in Saturday's ...
Bishop bails out church
May 01, 2009 ... By Janet Hughesjanet.hughes@glosmedia.co.uk THE Bishop of Gloucester has stepped in to save Lydbrook churchfacing legal action for claiming tax rebates it was not entitled to. The Rt Rev Michael Perham agreed the diocese could paypounds18,446 to stop the Inland Revenue pursuing ...
Warriors face final pre-season friendly
May 01, 2009 ... Gloucestershire Warriors conclude their preparations for thissummer's Co-operative Rugby League Conference season with a trip toSwindon St George tomorrow (2.30pm). This will be the Warriors' 11th campaign and one in which theyharbour hopes of glory. With their first league ...
Robinson best to take charge of auld enemy
May 01, 2009 ... It is a St George's Cross we have to bear. No witness to the self-conscious, underconfident celebrations of the feast day forEngland's national saint could be under any illusion we are aparticularly nationalistic race. And, given the politically correct -not to mention morally correct - ...
Lydney have plenty to play for - Bartlett
May 01, 2009 ... After the heroics of last week as Lydney fought to stay inNational Three South, there is still plenty to play for this weekagainst Canterbury. Most observers would see the clash as a dead rubber, but theSevernsiders can move up a place with victory and salvage some prideafter a ...
I am not afraid to drop people - cornwell
May 01, 2009 ... Cinderford coach Mark Cornwell has warned his troops aboutbecoming complacent with two games left in the season. The Foresters slipped to a 52-14 defeat against Wharfedale lastSaturday in National Two, ending their good run of four straightaway wins following just one defeat in six ...
League wins are the priority
May 01, 2009 ... Dean Ryan has been the most successful director of coaching theclub has had in terms of the number of wins over his years in office- more than any other Guinness Premiership club, albeit withoutsilverware. The young players that have come through this period, those thatare ...
Citizen should be impartial
May 01, 2009 ... Dean Ryan has a point. He is being hounded out. Players losematches, not coaches, and all these useless players will get to gooff to new clubs and take no blame. Too often ...
Chronos keeps cutting edge sharp
May 01, 2009 ... Research and development is at the heart of the cutting edgeactivities at Chronos Technology. Based in Lydbrook, Forest of Dean, Chronos is best known fordeveloping and maintaining super-accurate timing and synchronisationtechnology without which home and mobile phone networks ...
GCW skipper likes the look of his squad
May 01, 2009 ... A Trio of new faces and some blossoming young talent could takeGloucester City Winget to a new level this summer. The Spa Road outfit have bolstered their batting with Lee Driver-Dickerson, a prolific run scorer for Frampton for several seasons. Former Redmarley captain and ...
Matt ready to get rocking and rolling
May 01, 2009 ... New Rockhampton skipper Matt Tyler has set his sights onclimbing into the top half of the table this season. Under former captain Simon Hore the Rocks established themselvesin their first campaign in the Glos/Wilts Division with a mid-tablespot. But Tyler, who has returned ...
Innovation is key if we are to survive
May 01, 2009 ... Former Hp Labs, Bristol, director Robin Gallimore is chair of theSouth West Science and Industry Council (SWSIC), which is funded bythe South West Regional Development Agency to advise it on scienceand technology investments and promote the South West as aninnovative region. As part of ...
Leaders offer insights
May 01, 2009 ... Leading figures from industry and academia make up the South WestScience and Industry Council helping to fly the flag for the region. It advises the South West Regional Development Agency on scienceand technology investments and helps to promote the area as aninnovative region ...
Snap up fine advice
May 01, 2009 ... Businesses are being offered expert advice to help them survivethe downturn with a continuing series of seminars across the SouthWest. As business owner-managers address the need to analyse how theyrun their companies, The Real Help, Right Here, Right Now - theBusiness Advice ...
Bennett searches for elusive consistency
May 01, 2009 ... Kingsholm captain Colin Bennett knows consistency is key if hisside are to steer clear of relegation trouble. Too often last season Bennett was unable to field his first teamand, as a result, a side which should have been at least mid-tablein the Gloucestershire Division were ...
MPs defend gurkha stance
May 01, 2009 ... By Jenni Silverjenni.silver@glosmedia.co.uk TWO MPs have defended their decision to vote against a motion toallow retired Gurkhas to settle in the UK. Although Ministers offered a series of minor concessions intendedto win over MPs, the Liberal Democrat motion was backed by ...
Frocester target the title
May 01, 2009 ... Frocester are motivated by the need to give rivals Bath a run fortheir money as they gun for the Premier One title this season. As holders last year, Nick Trainor's men were disappointed tofinish third, but are preparing for an assault on regaining thetitle, starting against ...
Gloucester shop manager caught fraudster
May 01, 2009 ... By John Hawkinscitizen.news@glosmedia.co.uk A JUDGE ordered a reward for a 'valiant' Gloucester shop managerwho was injured as he chased and caught fleeing fraudster PetruNovac. Bath-based Novac, 25, an illegal immigrant from Moldavia, had afake Lithuanian passport with him ...
More departures at Kingsholm this summer?
May 01, 2009 ... We Are assured that the players leaving Kingsholm will be matchedby players coming in this summer, as chairman Tom Walkinshawconducts his review and weeds out the dead wood. If the influx is to match those on their way out, that means atleast nine more signings. The biggest ...
Painswick boosted by star batsman's return
May 01, 2009 ... Painswick captain Wayne Neville is optimistic the return of keybatsman Simon Savides can signal a promotion push from theGloucestershire Division. Star batsman Savides returns to the club after a year working inWigan and is sure to be among the runs despite not playing ...
Stonehouse-based unite modular solutions is revolutionising the way buildings are constructed
May 01, 2009 ... By Robin Brooksrobin.brooks@glosmedia.co.uk UNITE Modular Solutions Ltd is quite literally building on itssuccess after winning the business innovation category in lastyear's Citizen and Echo Business awards. The pioneering Stonehouse-based modular manufacturing companyowned ...
Disabled mum's car clamp battle
May 01, 2009 ... By Freddie Whittakerfreddie.whittaker@glosmedia.co.uk A DISABLED mum, whose car was clamped as she rushed to thetoilet, has vowed to fight the charge despite the company dismissingher appeal. Libby Knight, 35, who suffers from a systemic form of lupus hadher car clamped at ...
Supporting the economy of the county
May 01, 2009 ... Business Innovation AWARD SPONSOR THE University of Gloucestershire is delighted to once againsponsor the Business Innovation Award as part of its ongoingcommitment to the economic development, sustainability andprosperity of Gloucestershire. Alongside a commitment to ...
Campaign for pedestrian crossing in linden
May 01, 2009 ... Calls have been made for a pedestrian crossing to be built on oneof Linden's most dangerous roads. The Moreland Community Partnership has launched a petition forpeople to get behind the campaign for the crossing to be built inSeymour Road. Gloucester city councillor Mark ...
Germans buy oldbury land
May 01, 2009 ... Land in South Gloucestershire is one of three sites which havebeen sold for new nuclear power stations, raising pounds400 millionfrom foreign firms. The Government claims each new nuclear power station could beworth pounds2bn to its region, bring 9,000 jobs during constructionand ...
Innsworth drug dealer jailed
May 01, 2009 ... By John Hawkinscitizen.new@glosmedia.co.uk A 21-YEAR-OLD Innsworth man was jailed yesterday for more thantwo years after he admitted being a low level drug dealer. There was crying from the public gallery as Ricky Farrant, ofRookery Road, was sent down by Judge William Hart ...
Innsworth homes plan not welcome - council
May 01, 2009 ... By Robin Jenkinsrobin.jenkins@glosmedia.co.uk CONTROVERSIAL plans to build 1,750 houses on greenbelt atInnsworth would have been turned down by Tewkesbury Borough Council. Robert Hitchins Ltd wants to build the homes at Dry Meadow Lane. But it has gone straight to appeal ...
Oscar the dog is face of gmtv campaign
May 01, 2009 ... When a photographer snapped Dennis Magill's dog Oscar on a BankHoliday trip to Clevedon, little did he know his beloved pooch wouldbecome a TV sensation. Dennis and his wife Pauline, from Quedgeley, were walking alongthe seafront with the St Bernard when a freelance photographer ...
Evelyn celebrates her 99th birthday in style
May 01, 2009 ... A Popular great gran from Pauntley has celebrated her 99thbirthday in style. Evelyn Stallard enjoyed a party with her family on Sunday beforecelebrating with her friends at Sheppard House in Newent on Monday. Evelyn's daughter-in-law Elizabeth Stallard said: "We all had ...
Animal lover told to stop feeding birds.
May 01, 2009 ... By Dan Charlesdan.charles@glosmedia.co.uk A BIRD loving woman has been left heartbroken after being orderedto stop feeding her feathered friends. Ann Bell, of Brookthorpe Close, Tuffley, has been ordered byenvironmental health officers to stop feeding birds in her gardensas ...
Man who raped student nurse in prison appeal
May 01, 2009 ... By John Hawkinscitizen.news@glosmedia.co.uk A RAPIST who was jailed for life last year after DNA evidenceconvicted him of attacking a student nurse is to appeal against hissentence today. Psychopath John White, 45, subjected a student nurse to ahorrifying rape ordeal in an ...
Relief as soldiers return from Iraq
May 01, 2009 ... By Emma Atkinsonemma.atkinson@glosmedia.co.uk AS British soldiers ended combat operations in Iraq yesterday,county people said they were relieved to know troops were finallypulling out. In a historic move, UK forces can now return home after a bloodyconflict that has lasted ...
Tributes paid to poet ua
May 01, 2009 ... By Citizen Reportercitizen.news@glosmedia.co.uk THE poet UA Fanthorpe has died, her publisher said yesterday. A spokesman for Peterloo Poets, which has printed her work since1978, said she passed away in a hospice near her home in Wotton-under-Edge, on Tuesday, following an ...
Swathe of players on their way out
May 01, 2009 ... Winger Mark Foster and centre Anthony Allen are two of a swatheof players departing Gloucester this summer, the club has confirmed. Willie Walker and fringe prop David Young are also on their wayout, as the Cherry and Whites confirm 12 departures, including thosealready committed ...
Manager mehew confident of Tigers victory
May 01, 2009 ... Gloucester City manager Dave Mehew believes the signs arepointing in their favour as the Tigers prepare for what is arguablythe club's biggest game in 12 years. Not since the 1997 FA Trophy semi-final replay with Dagenham &Redbridge have Gloucester been involved in such a crucial ...
Davis confident of good start
May 01, 2009 ... Lydney secretary Andrew Davis is confident of having a strongcampaign in Gloucester and Wiltshire Division One. The club lost more games than anyone else in the division toabandonments and cancellations last year because of the bad weatherand ended up eighth out of ...
Stroud ready for step up
May 01, 2009 ... Stroud head into the new season brimming with confidencefollowing their march toward the Gloucestershire Division title lastyear. Captain Paul Frape's team won 13 of their 18 matches to secure areturn to the Glos/Wilts Division. They open their campaign with a trip to ...
Key players missing
May 01, 2009 ... Stone skipper Pete Lavis is without a number of key players, suchas Charlie Viney and new recruit Pierre Bell for the trip toWoodmancote. Viney is on a football tour while Bell, who has played at asimilar standard in the Bristol/Somerset Division, will have to waitto make his ...
Elton, Williams point the way
May 02, 2009 ... Leading the way with 81 is Sally Elton (Romping Rovers),including spares of 15 and 14, and Sandra Williams (007s) withspares of 14 and 10. Mandy Biggs (Rainbows) managed 79 with a 14 spare and 77s werescored by Mary Pereira (Grasshoppers) and Sonia Smith (BrandySnaps) with a 15 ...
Baker rises to occasion with superb exhibition
May 02, 2009 ... Two players earned a certificate by scoring 90. Martin Baker took the honours for Palmers Loafers in the PremierDivision on the Hardwick RBL alley two. His slate was 14, 9, 4, 9,9, 18, 5, 7, 7, 8. The other 90 was floored by Dave Buck of the Likely Lads inDivision Two East ...
Skittles kings get their crowns
May 02, 2009 ... The Charity League's champions for their respective divisionshave been confirmed. They are Librarians, Piledrivers, Pilot A, Tabs, Boneheads, TourGolf, Crackpots, Coney Hill Turkeys and Must Get Beers. These teams will receive an invitation to the Champions ofChampions ...
Sykes - we have the edge
May 02, 2009 ... Top scorer Alex Sykes believes Gloucester City have the edge overFarnborough in today's BGB Premier play-off final. Despite finishing eight points above Gloucester in second place,Sykes said that Boro will be the worried team at Cherrywood Road. They had the title wrestled from ...
Title was no surprise - hardwicke boss Evans
May 02, 2009 ... Hardwicke manager Warren Evans was not surprised by his youngside's canter to a second successive league title. The Green Lane club followed up last season's GloucestershireCounty League success by winning the Hellenic Division One Westchampionship by 15 points. It capped a ...
Tigers skipper Mustoe wants no regrets
May 02, 2009 ... Captain Neil Mustoe has issued a rallying cry to his GloucesterCity team-mates: "Let's give it everything we've got," writesJonathan Herbert. The Tigers today face their biggest match in the past decade whenthey take on Farnborough in the BGB League Premier Division play-off ...
Shortwood boss John Evans looks back on the season
May 02, 2009 ... Monday's Challenge Cup final will bring the curtain down on aremarkable Hellenic League season when Shortwood United were pippedfor the championship on goal difference. After a stuttering start that saw Wood lose two of their firstthree games they embarked on an astonishing run ...
Hill look to rule roost
May 02, 2009 ... Coney Hill will be looking to secure their third grand slam ofNorth Gloucester Combination Cups in the past four years at thecompetition's three finals at Kingsholm tomorrow. First up is the Glanville Cup at 11am between Coney Hill andChosen Hill FP. Then at 2pm defending ...
Azam faces new RFU hearing
May 02, 2009 ... Hooker Olivier Azam will be hauled back before an RFUdisciplinary panel for his alleged eye-gouge on Cardiff Blues centreJamie Roberts. Just when he thought he was in the clear, the Frenchman has beencalled to appear in Coventry after the case was re-opened. The case was ...
Long wait over for proud skipper Gidman
May 02, 2009 ... Alex Gidman hailed his injury-ravaged Gloucestershire troopsafter ending the club's tortuous wait for a County Championship win. Gidman's men survived a nervy final day at Northamptonshire totriumph by 44 runs, 19 months to the day since beatingLeicestershire in the 2007 ...
'Elf 'n' safety
May 02, 2009 ... There is a man in the place I works, obsessed, possessed by 'elf 'n' safety. He is young and keen and never shirks, beware, if you make a cup of tea. "Is the kettle PAT tested?" he shouts. A birthday cake, baked for our mates. "Passed by food and ...
On love
May 02, 2009 ... If love were perfect as decreed, would there ever be a need for more than just a kiss or squeeze your constant partner, home, or her, to please should you have to use those words so free I love you, do you love me? Along life's path some may ...
Stop bussing of all these pupils
May 02, 2009 ... I have to disagree with Ted Easterbrook who thinks Gloucesteris a dump (The Citizen, April 25). I came to Gloucester over 30 years ago intending to stay for ayear or so but have stayed here ever since. I live in Gloucester out of choice, not because of an accident ofbirth ....
Oh! For England
May 02, 2009 ... Oh! for England, England of old. When summers were hot, and winters were cold. Oh! for England, the England we knew. Where smiles were so often, and hardships were few. Oh! for England, so open, so free. No ...
All change at sloping playing field
May 02, 2009 ... By Sarah Webbsarah.webb@glosmedia.co.uk WORK has started to make sure football in a Forest village isplayed on a level playing field. For years matches on Longhope Recreation Ground have beenhampered by a sloping pitch. But last week heavy machinery moved into to ...