Here are five of the biggest crime stories that have featured in the SNJ, Gazette Series or Wilts Glos Standard over the past few days.Police are appealing for information following an assault on farmland near the South Gloucestershire/Wiltshire border…
Cotswold District Council has reminded residents of their responsibilities when it comes to health and safety after two “extremely dangerous fly-tips” of asbestos was dumped next to a public footpath.Council officers say that on both occasions, asbesto…
A group of offenders broke into a shop that is being redeveloped in Gloucester last night and lit multiple fires, as well as urinating and defecating at the scene.
Eastgate Street in Gloucester was closed off late last night as investigations were carr…
In 2020, time has proved itself to be just a construct.
Some parts of the year dragged, the rest whizzed past – and now its nearly Halloween.
Halloween is nothing without a pretty pumpkin lighting up your living room window or front path, so we’ve comp…
1st October 2020
The latest important news and updates from across Gloucestershire as the coronavirus crisis continues.
1st October 2020
Harlow-based Simon Moir has been disqualified from acting as a director for 14 years, one year below the max…
Gloucester Food Bank can now go the extra mile to support its local community, thanks to a new food delivery van provided to the charity by Gloucestershire Constabulary and the OPCC. The former police van is unmarked and will be sold to the charity for…
Profits have climbed at The Watts Group while sales have also neared the £45m mark at the family-owned business which revealed its results for 2020 are expected to be “much better than we feared” when lockdown rules were first brought in.
The Glouceste…
Video footage has captured a car driving down a pavement in Forest of Dean as it overtakes two vehicles.
The video shows a car overtaking a bin lorry and another driver who is waiting to pass the lorry.
Captured by driver Donna Cairney, it happened on …
A businessman used a forklift truck to move the body of his wife’s secret lover after shooting him dead on a remote farm, a court heard.
Michael O’Leary’s blood was found by forensic scientists on an industrial vehicle a week after he had been allegedl…
A LORRY driver has been killed after crashing into an HGV which had stopped to protect a smashed Fiesta – as cops arrest a 21-year-old man.
Emergency services rushed to the M5 in Gloucestershire at 5.20am yesterday after the smash caused a fireball tha…
A lorry driver has died following a crash involving three vehicles along the M5 motorway.
Gloucestershire Police said there had was a report of a Ford Fiesta losing control on the northbound carriageway, between junction nine for Tewkesbury and 10 for …
Diversions are in place following the three-vehicle crash on the M5 in Gloucestershire in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The motorway remains closed in both directions, and the road is expected to remain closed until Monday morning.
At around 5.20a…
A man has been arrested after a lorry driver died in a crash on the M5.
Gloucestershire Police said a 21-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink and/or d…
A lorry has overturned in Cirencester, causing delays on the A419.
The A419 is partially blocked at the Kings Meadow roundabout, near Tesco.
Glos Roads tweeted this morning: “We have been made aware that a large vehicle overturned at Kings Meadow round…
Estes Express Lines, a major freight transportation carrier based in Virginia, US, will add 50 new trucks fuelled by Clean Energy Fuels’ Redeem™ renewable natural gas (RNG) to its fleet.Estes is acquiring the Class 8 natural gas trucks equipped with th…