Thistlecrack took a successful first step towards the Cheltenham Gold Cup after winning a novices’ chase. Despite never jumping a steeplechase fence in public, the champion long distance hurdler is already favourite for the sport’s top prize. Trained by Colin Tizzard and ridden by jockey Tom Scudamore, the eight-year-old put in a near-foot perfect round […]
Author: Paul Wiltshire
Gloucester City FC are set to return home
Plans have finally been agreed for GCFC to return to a rejuvenated Meadow Park for the start of the 2017/18 season. The environmental agency have signed off on plans for the club to rebuild their stadium and give the team a home for the first time in nine years. Meadow Park was all but destroyed in […]
Telephone boxes in Cheltenham could get innovative uses
Red telephone boxes have been an iconic British institution for over 100 years, as synonymous with Britain as fish and chips. Designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, the first phone box was produced in 1925. By 1980, public telephones were a huge institution within the UK – 73,000 telephone boxes in total. However, over the […]
16 new schools needed for Gloucestershire
Scape Group, a public sector owned built environment specialist, has claimed that Gloucestershire County will need to build 16 new schools by 2020 to keep up with the rising number of pupils. The county council do not see the situation as this severe though. Instead, they are following forecasts that say the county needs just two more […]
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“This is our land” – Residents furious over threat to Cheltenham green belt
Controversial plans to build more than 500 new homes on green belt land between Springbank and Hayden have been heavily criticised. Former Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, visited Cheltenham yesterday to protest against the proposal alongside campaigners, local residents and councillors. The proposal was made in an interim report by Government planning inspector Elizabeth Ord, […]
Violence in Cheltenham – Is there a chronic problem?
Waking up to smashed bottles, vomit and bloody evidence of yet another hostile Cheltenham night has become an all too familiar sight for the Cheltenham public. On the 8th October, two men were hospitalised after an altercation in the middle of Cheltenham High Street. A week before, one man was arrested after brutally attacking a […]
Gloucestershire’s struggle to end slavery continues
Many people may think that slavery is a thing of the past, confined to the history books and no longer an issue that affects people. However Modern Day Slavery is a growing issue, even in the UK. According to the Global Slavery Index there are an estimated 11,700 slaves in the UK, and these slaves […]
Which restaurant is coming to Cheltenham?
After Andrew Kojima’s pop up Japanese restaurant opens its doors today, there was yet another Japanese restaurant announced last night to be coming to Cheltenham. Wagamamas may not have a location in Cheltenham yet but the town was added to a list of “new restaurants opening” on their website. The eatery will provide diners Japanese […]
Report shows murdered woman suffered 40 years of ‘neglected’ abuse
Jane Wiggett, 57 was strangled to death following 40 years of domestic abuse by her ex-husband. The mother of two repeatedly reported him to police during their 30 years of marriage but her complaints fell on ‘deaf’ ears as police failed to stop him which eventually resulted in her refusing to call the police at all […]