More than 200 firearms have been handed in to Gloucestershire Police during Operation Aztecs gun surrender. The Force are the first to implement the nationwide surrender, which saw six times the amount of guns and firearms handed in the last firearms surrender in 2014. The operation was organised by NABIS (National Ballistics Intelligence services) […]
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DECEMBER 08: Gloucestershire Weather Forecast
SNOW has fallen in some areas this morning with a light dusting affecting western areas of the county. The light snowfall is expected to continue to fall at various times during the weekend. Temperatures across the county will reach highs of up to just 4°C later on in the day. Snow falling over #Gloucestershire now. […]
Culinary Crimes
Culinary crimes, a very serious issue causing arguments throughout the country, but what is right and what is wrong? Milk before tea? Tea before milk? Jam before cream or cream before jam? Brown sauce or Ketchup? Sprouts or no sprouts? How about some of these stranger food choices – Chips in yoghurt or milkshakes Crisps in lemonade […]
Police appeal for witnesses after Forest of Dean crash death
Gloucestershire police are appealing for witnesses after a fatal crash in which a woman died. The crash, which involved a car and a pedestrian, happened at around 5.30pm on the A48 between Blakeney and Newent on Severn, in the Forest of Dean yesterday. The blue Citroen Berlingo collided with the pedestrian, causing the road to […]
Sex Education: Is it outdated?
Do you remember being shown a VCR tape of how reproduction works in school, and the teachers calling that sex education? Because I do. And that tape was clearly from the 70’s. My teacher, literally blew dust off it before she put it in the TV. So with sexual culture changing rapidly, especially in the […]
Studying Abroad: Christmas in the Czech Republic
Being a student in England can be stressful enough, imagine what its like moving away from home for the first time and not even speaking the language. That’s exactly what Meg Jenner from Cheltenham did, when she decided to pack up her bags and move so she could study at Prague College. While freshers are […]
The 11 year gap – A mature student’s experience in Higher Education
It’s midnight, I’ve already spent 3 hours on the phone trying to calm my nan down who’s hallucinating, telling me she is seeing men stab each other in her house. She has severe Alzheimer’s. I help my mum to calm her down. The phone goes a further 3 times that night, my nan has now […]
Are you smarter than a 10-year-old?
There’s no doubt that we all learned a lot at school – from subtraction to science, algebra to accounting, our days were not boring. However, were the barrels of facts that were thrown our way actually useful to us in later life? Our journalists took a quiz to see what they remember from school ARE YOU […]
Reassessment mess: How Gloucestershire students nearly missed out
Nearly a hundred GCSE results in Gloucestershire have been changed after reassessment due to an administration error. Students at the Cotswold School and Balcarras School submitted their papers to be reviewed, expecting them to change by a couple of marks. However, after some papers came back with a difference of two grade boundaries, schools resubmitted […]
Survey suggests public want politics rather than religion
The majority of the British public believe that religious studies should be replaced by politics at secondary school, a survey suggests. In the survey of 2,000 people, commissioned by the political youth platform Shout Out UK, 92% said they believed politics should be a compulsory subject in the national curriculum, with 57% of respondents saying […]