10 top reasons to move to Cheltenham
Bursting with culture, heritage and natural beauty, there are many reasons Cheltenham is a wonderful place to live – with SoGlos sharing 10 of them.
Incredible independent restaurants, world-famous festivals and stunning architecture are just a few of the reasons to move to Cheltenham.
Cheltenham is famous all over the world for its sport, culture and architecture, so it’s no surprise that the Regency town is a top choice for house hunters in Gloucestershire and beyond.
From its gorgeous period properties to its thriving independent scene, SoGlos shares 10 reasons to move to Cheltenham in this hot list, sponsored by Naylor Powell.
New Year celebrations for the end of 2020 are set to be a rather muted affair - with none of the drinking, fun and debauchery which has been enjoyed by many down the years. We have delved into our archives to bring you this feature by Martin Wade first published in 2016 on the customs which have been a feature of welcoming the new year in Gwent for hundreds, if not thousands of years. CARRYING a horse s skull around might seem a strange way to greet the New Year, but a revived South Wales tradition, popular in Gwent, does just that. The Mari Lwyd is a celebration centred around a horse’s skull carried on a stick and decorated with rosettes and coloured ribbons. Meaning grey mare in Welsh, it sees a party of revellers going from door to door singing ribald songs.
2020 has been one hell of a year, with no shortage of massive news stories: the coronavirus pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, the Australian bushfires, the US presidential election.the list goes on. We have seen some outstanding coverage on these big topics.
The year has also been tough for the media industry, with redundancies and furloughed staff, disrupted newsrooms and working from home. Journalism.co.uk went through the same challenges as many others but we continue to monitor what is happening in our industry while working from our bedrooms and lounges.
As 2020 draws to a close, we look back on some of our - and your - favourite news stories of this year. If you read, watch or listen one thing, make it this.
Masses of starlings have been jangling power lines in Airth, causing brief blackouts around sundown.
An engineer with ScottishPower witnessed a colossal flock in a midair dance before landing on the cables en masse.
The tiny birds collective weight causes the cables to touch, short-circuiting the power for a few seconds at a time.
Starlings typically form murmurations in the early evening in fall and winter as they ready to roost for the night.
Their large numbers provide warmth and ward off falcons and other predators.
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Thousands of starlings landing on power lines at the same time, in a technique called a murmuration, have been causing ongoing outages in the Scottish village of Aith