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Gloucestershire Independent


AN OUTLINE planning application for 55 homes in Hardwickehas been ap- provedbyStroud District Council. Plans for aresidential


development at Mayos Land offBristol Road came before the council’s development control com- mittee on Tuesday, Janu- ary 14.


Councillors approved the application but high-


lighted anumber of con- cerns,including the ef- fect of extra traffic on the alreadybusy B4008, the lack of apedestrian cross- ing and suggested that the speed limit on the B4008 be reduced from 40mph to 30mph. Cllr Graham Lit- tleton (Con, Hardwicke) said: “I propose that we grant permission but alot of points need to be taken on board.


“This is still an outline application and there are many,many questions still to be resolved.” Cllr David Drew (Lab,


January 30, 2014 Plans fornew homes approved On thecatwalk to success


Farmhill and Paganhill) also raised concerns about access to schools. Councillors asked that SDC’shead of planning, Phil Skill, write aletter to Gloucestershire County Council highlighting their concerns.


Teacherrevived heartattackdad


AYOUNG PE teacher has been hailed ahero for bringing adad of twoback to life when he suffered a massive heartattack. Jess Lee was wokenin


the middle of the night by frantic knocking on her door and told by her neighbour that her hus- band had collapsed at his home offStratford Road, in Stroud. The man’s hearthad stopped but Jess,who had


learnt CPR on atraining course,spent sevenmin- utes battling to bring him back to life. “When Igot into the house and sawhim lying at the bottom of the stairs my training just kicked in,” said Jess,22, who qualified as ateacher last year. “It was the first time I


have had to do anything so serious and the adrena- line helped.


“I have only ever had to administer first aid for cuts and bruises before.” Jess had recently been


on aBritish RedCross first aid refresher course. Jess administered CPR


for sevenminutes before paramedics arrived. She managed to get aheart beat back after four min- utes. Wayne is nowrecovering


in the John Radcliffe Hos- pital in Oxford.


EleanorTrockiistaking the modellingworld by storm (3420552)


ACIRENCESTER teenager is set to takethe modelling world by stormafter beating thou- sands of rivals to makethe fi- nals of the country’sleading modelling competition. Eleanor Trocki, 16, wholives


in the Watermoor area of Cirencester,has seen offcom- petition from thousands of oth- er aspiring models to makeitin to the final 16 of this year’sTop Model UK on April 5. The annual search, which is


nowinits eighth year,scours the country to find the next person destined for alife on the catwalk. Eleanor,known to her friends


as Ellie studies at Stroud High Sixth Form,


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ANEW £2 coin launched to remember the startofthe First WorldWar has been criticisedbyaprominent Green Party politician be- cause it bears the iconic image of Lord Kitchener whoappeared on the famous ‘Your Country Needs YOU’ army recruitment posters. Dr Molly Scott-Cato,who leads the Green group on Stroud District Council and is the party’slead candidate for the South West region in European elections later this year,believesthe coin ‘glorifies war’. The district councilor is calling for the coin to be re- placed with adesign that ‘honours peace’. Commissioned, produced


and sold by the RoyalMint, the coin is the first of aspe- cial collection to markthe 100th anniversary of the Great War. The poster featuring the


former WarMinister formed partofa military recruit-


ment drive, which enticed more than 2.5 million young men to sign up for the army between 1914 and 1915. According to the UK coin-


maker the new design is ‘in- stantly recognisable’ and a ‘fitting tribute’ to those who died. But the choice of Lord Kitchener has provedcon- troversial, provoking aback- lash on social media. Cllr Molly Scott-Cato,


whoisher party’snational spokesperson on economic affairs,said: “Weneed to use the 1914 centenary to focus attention on the futil- ity and ‘the pity of War’ as described by the great WW1 poet, Wilfred Owen.” The RoyalMint, however,


says the coin “remembers one of themost significant moments in British history with adesign that recalls the spirit, and with hindsight, the poignancy, of the rush to enlist encouraged by Lord Kitchener.”


Newcoin criticised


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