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A CHARITY CEO has embarked on a 450km cycling challenge which will stop off at more than 100 towns and villages across the Cotswolds along the way.
4 March 2021 • 12:02am Lady of the manor, 11th-century Godiva, cradles a cat at St George’s church, Woolhope Credit: Liam Bunce/Alamy SIR – The Rev David Keighley says: “It is sinful not to sell empty churches” (report, March 2). By his definition, my local parish church is “a museum gathering dust”. I beg to differ. Our congregations rarely exceed 30, other than for major festivals and (in non-Covid circumstances) weddings and funerals, but possibly they have not done so for centuries past. Yet the church has been at the heart of the village since before the Norman Conquest and...
Farm dog thefts prompt survey to be launched >More in © FLPA/Wayne Hutchinson/Shutterstock Police are appealing for help to combat gangs of thieves who are targeting farms and stealing dogs to sell on the black market. A spate of farm dog thefts has been reported in recent weeks – part of a wider problem which has seen criminal gangs stealing pets to order. Lincolnshire police and crime commissioner Marc Jones said the situation was increasingly serious and affecting local communities. “Dog theft has been a growing scourge and we ...
Welcome to our first weekly round up of crime across Gloucestershire. It's been a busy week for the police with incidents ranging from a car being seized in connection with a murder probe, a woman being threatened with a stun gun to a burglary at a fire station and stones being thrown at moving cars. Police rely on witnesses with information to come forward. If you have any information please contact 101 or fill in a report using the website, quoting the crime reference number if given. Or, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. Two men charged in connection with burglary Las...
A LITTER of five puppies was stolen from a Cotswold farm last night, Gloucestershire Constabulary said.