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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gloucestershire parish hit by spate of mutilated animal carcasses being found A vicar has warned his congregation of an increase in "satanic activity" after he found a severed sheep's head mounted on a pole outside a church in his Gloucestershire parish. The Rev Nick Bromfield warned that "dark forces" were on the rise in the area and revealed a series of mutilated animal carcasses...
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The English Kitchen (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The other day when I got that tasty piece of beef from the people from Abel and Cole , they also very generously included a package of their delicious free range organic back bacon. The Ensor family have had a butcher's shop in Gloucestershire's picturesque Royal Forest of Dean for nearly a century. They currently cure outstanding bacons and gammon hams for Abel and Cole. As well as running the butcher's...
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Ordinary World (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Readers of the blogs of Sir Bruin and Errol the Sheep (and anyone who had the patience to plough through my photos on Facebook) will know that the large bear and I have been on holiday. We managed to drag ourselves away from our virtual Facebook farms and spent a week in the real countryside. We stayed at a cottage in Gloucestershire, near the Forest of Dean and Wye Valley. Why the Wye? Well, Sir Bruin...
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Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I f September is the month that never fails to confuse us as to whether summertime really has or hasn't finished, then October allows for no such indecision, as the leaves begin to change colour and flutter down onto the ground, the evenings become dark earlier, the squirrels begin to frantically search for acorns to store for winter and the summer breeding birds are replaced by their winter counterparts...
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Forest of Dean Wildlife (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
As many of you reading this are probably aware, there is a literature festival being held over the next week at Cheltenham Town Hall. The project I was involved in was organised and led by BBC Gloucestershire and the Arts Council England for Made in England. I was one of 20 individuals selected from Gloucestershire to work with Marcus Moore and Ben Cavvana on a project called Art from the Heart, which...
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Geology in the West Country (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009
Sunday 11 th October 2009. Tutor: Dr Nick Chidlaw (geologist who has worked for several years in a coal mining consultancy). Morning Lecture: (10 am - 1 pm) - Community Centre, Coleford , Forest of Dean; Afternoon field trip : (2 - 5 pm) - Blackpool Valley near Parkend (exposures of Coal Measures strata including Coleford High Delf seam, and visit to entrances of freemines ). No prior knowledge of...
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Cryptozoology Online: Daily News (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Thursday, 24 September 2009 Autumnwatch By Rob Ward, Forest of Dean Website contributor I was saddened by the loss of our white stag in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, in 2007 and I thought I would never have the opportunity to see and photograph one of these magnificent beasts in our forest again. However, this was until Tuesday, 22 September, 2009, when I found and photographed a young pure...
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DOCK GREEN (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The Forest of Dean District Council has been forced into an apology, after one of its officials faked evidence in a vendetta they were pursuing against a local couple. The question is, now that a council official has admitted committing a crime, where are Gloucestershire Police?
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Helen at home (Free subscription) | 22/08/2009
Upon moving to Devon in 2005 (having lived in the North of England my entire life until then) I made a list of places I wanted to explore. Most of them we visited in the first couple of years - Dartmoor, Exmoor, Dorset and we've made it across the south of England to Hampshire and even Sussex a couple of times. What we hadn't managed until this week was to visit the Forest of Dean. The Forest of Dean...
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Normal for Norfolk (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Thirteen long years ago, summer of 1996. Home from an Irish tour, gig free weekend, best buddy Mark n' me threw a few things in the band bus and headed to the Cotswolds. Prescott hillclimb. Pitched up atop an empty field and went to watch the Vintage Sports Car crowd throw vintage cars up the hill. The Orchard, Esses, the Circle and across the finish. Rained on the Saturday so we picked a dry bank...
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Bloggers4UKIP (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
The UK Independence Party has set up a new branch to cover the Forest of Dean and West Gloucestershire. This follows the Party’s success in the recent elections for the European Parliament where it scored 22% of the vote in the South West.The Inaugural Meeting was addressed by William, Earl of Dartmouth, the newly elected M.E.P. for the South West, at the Courtfield Arms Hotel in Lower Lydbrook....
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Doctor Who News (Free subscription) | 24/07/2009
Kasterborous often carries Who news which simply doesn't get covered anywhere else. Here's their latest: News: Julie Gardner Dodges Movie Question One third of the Three Who Rule, recent Executive Producer Julie Gardner has since moved on from Doctor Who and is developing BBC projects in the United States. She's attending the San Diego Comic Con this weekend, and has given io9.com a brief one to one...
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Kasterborous (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
The leafy Gloucestershire area of the Forest of Dean is the next step for the Eleventh Doctor as filming continues on the 31 series of Doctor Who. According to ThisIsGloucestershire.co.uk, filming will take place in local attractions that include Puzzlewood as well as the Clearwell Caves in the Forest of Dean. At the end of the month film crews are expected to move into the Clearwell Caves to build...
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Rockingham Forest Cider (Free subscription) | 13/07/2009
The cupboard was bare. I hadn't racked any of our cider for a couple of weeks now, consequently the 'House Supply' of Rockingham Forest Cider had dried up. When the urge for a 'proper' cider takes you, nothing else quite hits the spot. We could of course pop down to our local the Red Lion for a pint of home-made cider, but it's a matter of principal for us that when we deliver cider to the pub, it...
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World History Blog (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum - Gloucester's museum portraying the history of regiments, the Glorious Glosters Regiment and theirs antecedents. Also features an online shop selling military books, and regimental souvenirs as well as genealogy search to find military ancestors. From the site: We portray the history of our famous regiments, The Gloucestershire Regiment (The Glorious Glosters) ,...
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