It started like the common cold, constantly blowing my nose and taking paracetamol to tame the headache. Later, it developed into vicious migraines, sometimes taking my breath, so I struggled to breathe. I am fully vaccinated, I have even had the booster, yet for four to five days, I isolated myself from my family; this […]
Author: PattisonE
Jenna’s tinder date goes south
Jenna returns home with her date that she met on Tinder, politely asking him to wait in the living room whilst she puts her things away in her room. She returns downstairs and preps the look of herself before entering the living room, where the guy she met around three hours prior is waiting in […]
Man fined £1426 in court for collecting scrap without a license.
A man has been fined £1426, after he was collecting waste without a Waste Carrier Registration. The Gloucestershire Constabulary contacted the Stroud District Council after they suspected that someone was collecting waste illegally. Chloe Turner, Chair of Stroud District Council’s Environment Committee has said that “this an excellent example of collaborative working between the police […]
Pensioner Paul Shakespeare given nine-year sentence after DNA recovered showed he raped an 18-year-old 30 years ago
Paul Shakespeare, 66, has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of rape in 1990. Gloucester Crown Court was told he targeted an 18-year-old dog walker as she was walking on Honeybourne Line in Cheltenham 30 years ago. The teenager, who at the time of the incident was 18 years old, […]
In lockdown, my dog is what kept me sane (because I took care of him.)
The 19th of May 2019 was my last day of college, and at the time, I didn’t realise it. There was a short period when all my friends and I thought it was an excuse to have a three-to-four-week holiday, how we were embarrassingly so wrong… I like to keep busy, and like many people […]
5 Independent Cafes on Bath Road you should support.
Cheltenham’s, bath Road has a great selection of independent cafés, each having the individual qualities that make them authentic and original. It is now more important than to support local businesses to get back to where they were before the pandemic. Here are five fantastic Bath road independent cafes that you should try. Lucy’s – […]
Covid- 19: Gloucestershire hospitals still overrun, despite fall in Covid figures.
The number of positive coronavirus cases has decreased by an estimated 57% in two weeks in the UK, despite hospitals still being busy. Whilst positive cases have decreased over two weeks, hospitals in Gloucestershire are still struggling to care for covid patients. The current positive cases are estimated at around three thousand, compared to the […]