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Donate to Gloucestershire Hospitals

Donate to Gloucestershire Hospitals For many people in Gloucestershire, hospital care is no longer close to home. The hospitals at Lydney and the Dilke have closed, so residents and visitors now rely more on Gloucester Royal Hospital and Cheltenham General Hospital for treatment, tests and urgent care. People feel that change every day. Trips take longer. Families face more pressure …

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Laurie Lee Event

Laurie Lee Event If you are interested in the Gloucestershire’s very own poetLaurie Lee, then this event looks like one not to miss. In a captivating weave of music and Lee’s own writing, Red Sky at Sunrise follows Laurie Lee through his much-loved Cider with Rosie trilogy, when he famously walked out of the Slad valley one summer morning, to …

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Loads of Books for a tenner

Loads of Books for a tenner We are having a grand clear out and I have loads of books that must go, mostly paperbacks but a good number of hard backs as well. I will attempt to list some of them for you. Mostly Science Fiction but not exclusively. Available for collection in Cinderford Xelee by Stephen Baxter Eon John …

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Gloucester Goods

Buy Gloucester Goods Although I live in Cinderford now in the beautiful Forest of Dean, I was brought up and worked for most of my life in the City of Gloucester. I also run a web site all about the city and it   is now also an e-commerce site that sells Gloucester Goods. I have not gone for the cheap …

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Forest of Dean Hospital Update

Forest of Dean Hospital Update The new Forest of Dean Community Hospital is due to open in Spring 2024 and we have recently published our transition plans. The transition will begin within the next few months, with teams and services gradually moving out of the former hospitals to the new site. We had previously planned to move the existing X …