A NEW novel set in the Cotswolds focuses on the consequences of fixed beliefs. Bitter Pill, written by A J Linney, centres on Lexie and Pippa, who have been best friends since meeting at university.

WATER voles could soon be enjoying a new home at Fromebridge if permssion is granted to create a new pond. Mr Mitford-Slade, Fromebridge Wetlands Project Stroudwater Canal, Bristol Road has applied ...

The Stroud News And Journal has published 5 death notices in the last 7 days. Every week, the Stroud News And Journal publishes death notices and funeral announcements from the families of loved ones ...

A group of nurses has urged MPs to embrace a “historic opportunity” to change the law on assisted dying, but opposition campaigners have claimed a new Bill is “being rushed with indecent haste”. The ...

Politics and royal issues jostle for centre stage on the front pages of Sunday’s newspapers. The fallout from the Budget continues to feature heavily with The Sunday Telegraph focusing on the threat ...

Phil Salt fulfilled a childhood dream at his old stomping ground in Barbados with an unbeaten century to lift England to an eight-wicket victory over the West Indies.

Phil Salt continued his stunning T20 form against the West Indies with a swashbuckling 103 not out off 54 balls as England drew first blood in the five-match series in Barbados. Salt followed up ...

The King will open two hubs designed to save and circulate tonnes of surplus food as he marks his 76th birthday. The opening of the distribution centres will also mark the first anniversary of the ...

Camilla, 77, pulled out of an Olympic and Paralympic reception at the Palace and the opening of the Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey earlier this week after developing the seasonal ...

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot insisted his Premier League leaders needed no motivation from Manchester City’s defeat at Brighton to beat Aston Villa and take a five-point lead into the international ...

The main tax rise in Rachel Reeves’s fiscal statement was a change to employers’ National Insurance contributions.