A NEW novel set in the Cotswolds focuses on the consequences of fixed beliefs. Bitter Pill, written by A J Linney, centres on Lexie and Pippa, who have been best friends since meeting at university.

The Stroud News And Journal has published 5 death notices in the last 7 days. Every week, the Stroud News And Journal publishes death notices and funeral announcements from the families of loved ones ...

WATER voles could soon be enjoying a new home at Fromebridge if permssion is granted to create a new pond. Mr Mitford-Slade, Fromebridge Wetlands Project Stroudwater Canal, Bristol Road has applied ...

In July, Israeli air strikes hit a girls’ school in Gaza’s central city of Deir al-Balah, killing at least 30 people ...

An Israeli air strike on the southern port city of Tyre has left at least seven dead, among them five siblings, three of whom ...

The death toll from a bombing at a railway station in troubled south western Pakistan has risen to at least 26, officials ...

Politics and royal issues jostle for centre stage on the front pages of Sunday’s newspapers. The fallout from the Budget continues to feature heavily with The Sunday Telegraph focusing on the threat ...

Phil Salt fulfilled a childhood dream at his old stomping ground in Barbados with an unbeaten century to lift England to an eight-wicket victory over the West Indies.

A family has paid tribute to their “brave” son who has been killed while fighting in Ukraine. Callum Tindal-Draper, 22, from Gunnislake, Cornwall, was killed in action while serving with the foreign ...

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot insisted his Premier League leaders needed no motivation from Manchester City’s defeat at Brighton to beat Aston Villa and take a five-point lead into the international ...

Saqib Mahmood claimed England-best figures of four for 34 but the West Indies’ jaw-dropping firepower got them to 182 for nine in the first T20 against England in Barbados.