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.

In 2011 I led a small group to link our celebration of the relief of the Siege of Gloucester (Gloucester Day: reinvented by Alan Myatt in 2008 on the first Saturday of September) to the national Heritage Open Days programme (second weekend of Sep), fill the gap with a week of talks at Blackfriars

During a particularly hot summer, with bedroom windows open everywhere in Gloucester, the noise of the seagulls during their breeding season has been a source of sleep deprivation for many residents here. And that’s putting it politely.

One aspect of membership of the EU that most of us have always found very hard to defend has been the Common Fisheries Policy - under which lots of other countries have been allowed to fish in UK waters, discarding dead fish caught over quota.

I’ve been contacted by passengers on GWR commuter trains to Bristol about the number of carriages on this service.

This is a bit of very good news for cyclists.