Gloucestershire County, England News

Failing to fix broken tiles in a Bristol nightclub, which went on to cause serious injury, has cost a businessman his director's status as well as a 27,500 penalty.

Age Concern Wiltshire is calling on people to keep on knitting woollen items for Innocent drink bottles.

A gang of 13 men were jailed yesterday after a string of raids on cash machines - including two in Gloucestershire.

Buses in South Gloucestershire are to begin carrying posters urging people to HIV tests.

A microlight pilot who crashed his flimsy aircraft into a garden - badly injuring himself and his passenger - was jailed for eight months yesterday.

A motrocyclist is recovering in hospital after suffering a life changinga injuries following a crash on the B3109 near Bradford on Avon yesterday.

A TORQUAY man whose then seven-week-old baby son had been 'shaken' and suffered injuries to his brain has walked free from court.

Former soldier Stuart Ballinghall starts a life sentence today after being found guilty of murdering popular Gloucester musician Kim Hibberd.

Salt is in plentiful supply and gritters are on standby as Gloucestershire County Council looks to avoid a repeat of last winter.

An angry Tewkesbury dad whose daughter was injured when she was hit by a bike stormed into the cyclist's house and attacked him with a tyre wrench, a court heard.

TWO burglars absconded from Leyhill Open Prison because one did not like being surrounded by sex offenders and the other was concerned about alcohol being available, a court heard.

The company will begin operation from 16 November working from new headquarters near Gloucester.

TWO people from a Monmouthshire village were arrested by police investigating an alleged multimillion pound international fraud case.

A covert recording of a conversation between the man accused of killing Trowbridge builder Adrian Cooksey and his friend in the back of a police van, was played to a jury at Bristol Crown Court today.

A TORMENTED resident claimed he attacked a youth with a pickaxe handle after being lunged at with a knife, a court heard.

A Gloucestershire teenager who attacked a Polish man and his dad was last night behind bars after a judge finally lost patience with him.

Police are appealing for information following a serious sexual assault in Gloucester in the early hours of Saturday October 31.

Monday, November 02 10:57:21 A deal between Royal Bank of Scotland, EU regulators and the UK government could include unplanned disposals, the bank said for the first time, ahead of a radical shake-up of the UK banking sector.

Scientists have identified the most ancient fossil relative of the predatory dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex.

A 19th century bicycle normally found in museums fetched A 5,800 at an auction held at the Castle Combe racetrack on Saturday.