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Here are the family announcements carried in the Stroud News and Journal this week.

A Stroud grandmother who worried about catching Covid-19 and giving it to her family killed herself by standing in front of a train when she felt 'a…

Rosalind Weaver was hit by an express passenger train in Gloucestershire last year. Her death came without any warning and she left no suicide message of any kind, the inquest was told.

SERIOUS injuries were narrowly avoided at lunchtime today, Friday, when the handbrake appeared to fail on a people carrier parked in Stroud. The black Ford C-MAX Titanium had been left in the car park in the lane leading up from Locking Hill surgery at the rear of the SNJ office. Eyewitnesses said that at 12.30pm the vehicle rolled down a steep incline, coming to a rest outside the entrance to the OPENhouse homeless shelter at the Painswick Inn, where it dislodged a bollard. The lane is in constant use by pedestrians, as is the entrance to OPENhouse. Witnesses said two people walke...

The fabulous staff have always provided an excellent service when I and family members have used it. I suppose it is a casualty of changing times as Locking Hill surgery, along with the Stroud Valleys practice, is planning to move to what I still fondly remember as Woolies (That move itself raises questions a whole load of questions about whether there will be space for Poundland within the town when that happens as they have provided a great service and is well regarded by some but, hated with equal measure, by others, but this is Stroud and people are entitled to hold different opinions...