Gloucester Joins National Initiative to Love Local on 14th February Gloucester Business Improvement District in collaboration with ShopAppy.com is encouraging people to support their local businesses on the 14th of February for ‘Love Local Day’ – Love Local Day is one...
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Artist Call Out – Digital Commissions in Gloucestershire Libraries
Libraries are needed more than ever. Children and young people have experienced a period of upheaval, uncertainty and profound change in their home, school and social worlds. They need imagination and creativity in large doses as they make sense of what they have...
Gloucester CAN! January Pledge
#GloucesterCan January Pledge is a call to action for individuals and families living in Gloucester to bring some kindness back into the communities where they live. One of the most encouraging things to witness during the first lockdown was the undeniable rise in...
National lockdown: Stay at Home
Coronavirus cases are rising rapidly across the country. Find out what you can and cannot do. National Lockdown - Stay at Home - England - 4 Jan 2021
Cathedral Quarter
Learn more about Gloucester's High Street Heritage Action Zone - Cathedral Quarter, Westgate Gloucester Westgate is one of the oldest and best preserved areas of Gloucester and the main commercial route linking the cathedral to the rest of the city. One of four...
Latest Government COVID Update
Following on from the latest Government: From midnight, tonight (31st December), Gloucestershire is in Tier 4: Government Guidelines for Tier 4: Stay at Home: Businesses and venues which must close To reduce social contact, the regulations require some businesses to...
Eddie the Elf & Friends Christmas Trail
Eddie the Elf and his friends are hiding all over the City. Can you find them and discover their Christmas message? Join us this Christmas on a magical search around Gloucester City to try and find Eddie the naughty Elf and all his friends! All you need to do is...
Christmas competition launches in Gloucester to win a £1500 Gloucester Gift Card.
A new Christmas competition has launched giving people the chance to win a £1500 Gloucester Gift Card. The Great Town and City Christmas Quiz is a national competition where places all around the UK compete against each other for a chance of being crowned the...
Extra enforcement for bus lanes in Gloucestershire
© Copyright Jaggery and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. Gloucestershire County Council has started installing three bus lane cameras in Gloucester and Cheltenham to help keep the lanes clear for buses, taxis and cyclists. They will be switched...
Trapped Escape Rooms in Gloucester has reopened its doors
Following the end of the second national lockdown, Trapped Escape Rooms in Gloucester has finally reopened its doors to the public once again. Trapped Escape Rooms, situated in Gloucester town centre, was forced to close its doors back in March when the whole country...
Gloucester City Council and Gloucester BID launch Shop Local Advent Calendar to support high street
Gloucester City Council is working with Gloucester Business Improvement District (BID) to promote small, independent businesses in the run-up to Christmas with a Shop Local Advent Calendar. The digital advent calendar will engage shoppers by highlighting a different...
Thursday Free Parking for Safer Gloucester Shopping
Free parking is coming to Gloucester every Thursday until Christmas at two city centre sites. Gloucester Business Improvement District (BID) and Gloucester City Council are funding free parking in both the Kings Walk and Eastgate Shopping Centre car parks, all day,...
Movement for Good – 12 Days of Giving with Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical Insurance are building a movement for good and this December they are giving 120 charities a £1000 donation. The charities are chosen based on public nominations. Anyone can nominate a charity to win one of the £1,000 awards. And it’s quick and easy to...
The Continental Street Market is heading back to Gloucester this Autumn
After previous visits to Gloucester city centre earlier this year, the Continental Street Market is heading back to Gloucester next week from Wednesday 28th to Saturday 31st October, hoping to bring with it a continental atmosphere during the half term holidays....
Local firm wins contract to transform Kings Square
Gloucester based construction firm E G Carter & Co Ltd has been appointed by Gloucester City Council to take forward plans for the £5m transformation of Kings Square. The project will see significant improvements made to the city centre square with the...
Resurfacing scheme completed on Gloucester’s London Road
Resurfacing work in London Road in Gloucester has been completed as part of the county council’s £150 million investment in the county’s roads. The work was carried out between 21 and 28 September as the surface between the Cheltenham Road junction and Barnwood Road...
Recycling centres switch to winter opening hours
Household Recycling Centres in Gloucestershire will be moving to winter opening hours from this weekend. Pyke Quarry, in Stroud will also be going back to its normal pre-covid opening days from 25 October as well as winter opening hours, 10am until 4pm. The site has...
Gloucester welding specialists come to Team BRIT’s rescue
A firm of welding specialists based in Gloucester has helped a team of disabled racing drivers after it had some key equipment stolen. R-Tech Welding Equipment, a leading manufacturer and supplier of welding machines and plasma cutters to a range of industries,...
Community Garden set to Bloom
A scheme to turn an overgrown and unloved patch of land into a community garden will receive funding from Gloucester City Council after councillors agreed to back the project. The area known as ‘The Rose Garden’ on the corner of London Road and Great...
Renewed appeal for witnesses to rape in Tredworth
Police investigating the rape of a young teenage boy in the Tredworth area are renewing their appeal for witnesses. Officers received a report on Friday that a boy had been raped in Tredworth Cemetery between 8pm and 9.20pm on Sunday 11 October. Investigating officers...