Although I didn’t agree with everything in this report – some of my amendments were carried, some were not – it is hard to disagree with the three main points.

In any small team it’s always sad when someone leaves. But if he or she is moving on to where they can make even more of a difference then it’s a happy as well as a sad moment. So it is with Aisha.

This is a very sad story of an 89 year old woman who has died after being knocked down by a mobility scooter outside Costa Café beside Kings Walk.

From one of the most persistent of Leavers comes this very useful reminder of –

‘How not to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory..

I’m delighted that Gloucestershire has been allocated an extra £272k from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to expand a new service for entrenched homeless people.

The (independent) Boundaries Commission has published its final recommendations in response to the coalition government’s goal several years ago of reducing the cost of politics by restricting the number of MPs from 650 to 600.

1. This new façade is part of which organisation’s offices in Gloucester?

2. Who is this great Saxon Queen ceremonially reburied at St Oswalds Priory in June?

3. What is this new building off Bruton Way?

4. What is the name of this new micro pub on Southgate Street?

‘It welcomes sheep not Facebook’, Gloucester MP Richard Graham said, explaining the popularity of new independent pub Turk’s Head in Gloucester’s Southgate Street.

In March 2016 (see HERE) I updated readers on my vision for a greatly improved railway station, with an additional new car park and access to the station from Great Western Road; improved underpass from Bruton Way to Great Western Road, and a new forecourt and exit onto Metz Way from the existing

I write because the process of the Brexit negotiations – especially the EU mantra that nothing is agreed until everything is agreed – brings uncertainty, particularly about citizens’ rights.