Members of local charity Hollie Gazzard Trust are celebrating after their CRUSH support programme for teenage victims of domestic abuse has been successfully rolled out thanks to Vodafone’s Community Connection Award. Hollie Gazzard Trust was selected by the Vodafone...
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£1,500 worth of cigarettes stolen from shop
Police have released CCTV images after £1500 worth of cigarettes were stolen from a shop in Churchdown. The incident happened between 1pm and 1:10pm on Tuesday 21st September. Officers said the man had entered a shop on Cheltenham Road and stole the cigarettes from...
£1.25 million investment in new fire service vehicles
Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service (GFRS) is set to acquire three new and more modern specialist vehicles. A report submitted to Gloucestershire County Council’s cabinet says the current fleet is ageing and needs to be replaced. Three new specialist vehicles will...
£1.5million cash injection into Gloucester’s culture scene
Gloucester has secured £1,489,300 funding from the Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery Fund’s Great Place Scheme to help put art and culture at the heart of the city. This grant will support an ambitious project led by Gloucester City Council. It’s...
£10,000 donation towards new Commemorative Garden at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
Gloucestershire County Council has donated £10,000 towards a commemorative garden at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. Cheltenham and Gloucester Hospitals Charity is raising funds to create new and improved outdoor spaces, including a commemorative garden at...
£10,000 worth of items stolen from garage in Lydbrook
Police are appealing for information and witnesses after around £10,000 worth of items were stolen from garages in Hangerberry, Lydbrook. Between 6pm on Sunday 14 and 9am on 15 February a garage door was removed completely and the door of an adjoining garage was...
£100 million to be invested into Gloucester Quays development
An extra £100M is to be invested into the Gloucester Quays development over the next three years. More than 400 new houses and apartments will be built and a new marina is planned for the Monk Meadow area. Peel Outlets say another 770 jobs will be created – excluding...
£100,000 of suspected stolen chewing gum recovered and two teens arrested
Over £100,000 of suspected stolen chewing gum was recovered from a lorry and two men arrested after a pursuit involving police dogs in the early hours of this morning. Shortly after 3am today (Wednesday 4 May), police received a report of a man at Gloucester Services...
£101m investment in Gloucester and Cheltenham hospitals
More than £100m will be invested in upgrading the hospitals in Gloucester and Cheltenham. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will spend the funding on modernising buildings, transforming services and providing better patient care at Cheltenham General and...
£12m levelling up bid to revamp Eastgate Market
Gloucester will bid for around £12m of government funding to revamp Eastgate Market and the Greyfriars area. Gloucester City Council leader Richard Cook (C, Kingsway) has taken the urgent decision to submit another bid the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and...
£14.1 million active travel bid success for Gloucestershire
The delivery of the county council’s ambitious 26-mile ‘cycle spine’ from Stroud to Bishops Cleeve has been given a real boost after the Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed that Gloucestershire County Council will be awarded £14.1 million. The cycle spine extends...
£15,000 worth of tools and machinery stolen from Matson building site
Police in Gloucester are appealing for witnesses after a building site was burgled over the weekend. Officers were contacted with a report that unknown offenders had forced entry to a site on Winnycroft Lane in Matson before stealing a large quantity of tools and...
£15.5m groundbreaking Trevone House welcomes first young people
Young care leavers in Gloucestershire are settling into their new home at Trevone House, which has been transformed into the first facility of its kind in the UK. Trevone House will provide groundbreaking specialist support and semi-independent accommodation to help...
£184m EuroMillions couple from Gloucestershire to go public after biggest ever UK win
Lottery bosses say a record-breaking 184-million pound jackpot was scooped by a couple from Gloucestershire. They claimed the EuroMillions prize last week. It’s the biggest ever lottery payout in the UK. Camelot says the couple will go public at a news...
£1million funding for businesses in Gloucestershire
Grants of £10,000 to £40,000 are being made available to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Gloucestershire. The Scale Up 4 Growth (S4G) programme is a collaboration between the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), NatWest and Gloucestershire...
£2.2m boost for Gloucester to build 180 affordable homes
Gloucester has been awarded £2.2 million to kick start its plans to develop a new urban village at St Oswalds with 180 affordable homes. The project will see nine acres of land next to St Oswald’s Retail Park at the site of a former cattle market, redeveloped by...
£2.5 million boost for Llanthony Road improvements
Approval will be sought next week at Gloucestershire County Council’s cabinet meeting to increase its budget for the improvements set for Gloucester South West Bypass. On Wednesday 18th April the council’s cabinet will be asked to agree an extra £2.475 million from...
£2.6 million investment on its way for new railway station car park
Investment from Great Western Railway (GWR) has been made possible by Gloucester City Council for the regeneration of the vacant, semi derelict land on Great Western Road. The derelict site located on Great Western Road will be transformed into a new car park for the...
£20 million of good news for Gloucester City Centre Regeneration
Gloucester’s £20 million Levelling Up Fund Bid has been approved by the Chancellor. The funding will support the first transformation in the country of a former department store into a university teaching campus as the University of Gloucestershire reinvents the...
£25m investment for rail line between Gloucester and South Wales
Details revealed of a multi-million-pound plan to rescue a railway line increasingly ravaged by climate change and extreme weather. The Newport-Gloucester line connects South Wales with the West Country, Midlands and north of England, providing a vital link for...
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