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Cheltenham

Astronaut Tim Peake looks at the camera, smiling. He is wearing a blue jumpsuit with his name on a badge below air wings.

Cheltenham Science Festival announces 2025 line-up

Astronaut Tim Peake and Prof Brian Cox are among the star names who will be appearing at the event.

Two police men with their backs turned. They are wearing high-vis, green jackets with white writing that says 'police'. They have black helmets.

Police appeal after fire started in block of flats

Residents were reportedly awoken by a loud bang at around 23:00 BST and found a lit firework.

Gloucestershire

A middle aged woman with long blonde hair hugs a younger woman with a brown bun from behind in front of a digital display

Women who switched lives on TV now 'best friends'

Katy Wilson is mentoring Katy Goff after the pair met through a television show.

Gloucestershire

A closed road showing traffic cones and police tape across the road. There is a police officer to the left of the image and a woman walking away to the right, near a police car.

Town centre street reopens after WW2 shell found

Experts have confirmed the item, spotted by a member of the public, was a World War Two shell.

Gloucestershire

A white Staffordshire Bull Terrier with it's ears pointing up looks at the camera.
She is wearing a pink neckerchief which has the word 'cute' written on.

Animal shelter given £115k to replace leaking roofs

Cheltenham Animal Shelter has been given the money by the charity Pets Foundation.

Gloucestershire

A narrow alleyway through the High Street is flanked on either side by old brick buildings. The one on the left is the Retreat pub, and there are numerous hanging baskets of flowers hanging from the external wall of the pub. Up in the air between the buildings on either side of the alleyway is a sign hanging from a metal pole, which is the pub sign for the Retreat.

Pubs encouraged to join Ask for Angela scheme

Several Gloucestershire councils consider whether to adopt scheme in pub and club licences.

Gloucestershire

FKA twigs pictured in Paris in June 2024. Her head is almost entirely shaved, except for a long pony tail at the back of her head. She wears large earrings, a black dress and make-up featuring dozens of black crystals dotted across her face, neck and shoulders.

FKA twigs blames her team for late tour cancellation

The Cellophane singer says her production team failed to sort her US visa paperwork in time.

The front of The Bell Inn in Cheltenham, a pub with a green brick exterior and a black sign with gold lettering

Happiness as two sites become community assets

The two sites have been given asset of community value status by Cheltenham Borough Council.

Rachael, in a white branded t-shirt, stands next to her husband Elliott who is wearing a black chef's tunic. They stand in the kitchen at their home, with a plastic box of prepared dough balls on the worktop in front of them. There is also a wooden chopping board upon which is a red pepper, brown onion and a handful of tomatoes.

'We went from software to selling pizzas in Covid'

On the anniversary of the first lockdown, people who launched businesses at the time look back.