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Business & Openings Valley
A carved Spanish cupboard from Sir Michael Caine’s personal collection is due to go under the hammer at Wotton Auction Rooms, with an estimate of £3,000 to £5,000.
Business & Openings Central
Six of Gloucestershire’s seven council leaders have asked ministers for a clear route into an enlarged West of England Combined Authority, arguing that devolution could bring greater regional control over transport, housing, skills, infrastructure and economic growth.
Business & Openings Stonehouse
Woodcock Lane Dental Care is celebrating four decades of serving Stonehouse patients and families after Tara Conway became its owner and Principal Dentist in March 2026.
Business & Openings Five Valleys
Home of Vintage at Five Valleys Shopping Centre is expanding its independent retail, gallery and creative offer, with new traders, 17 additional artists, a jewellery collaboration and art workshops scheduled through December.
Business & Openings Nailsworth
Avening-based actor Richard E Grant became the centre of attention in the opening episode of BBC’s The Celebrity Traitors after appearing to reveal his secret role moments after Claudia Winkleman selected him as a Traitor.
Business & Openings Nailsworth
Actor Richard E. Grant, a familiar face around Stroud and Nailsworth, will appear in the second series of The Celebrity Traitors, which begins on BBC One and iPlayer at 8pm on Thursday 1 October.
Business & Openings
Forest Green Rovers chairman Dale Vince has confirmed Robbie Savage has been offered the manager’s job at Peterborough United after asking to leave the Stroud-area club for personal reasons.
Business & Openings Nailsworth
Country Quality Meat in Nailsworth has kept its offer of two pounds of diced venison for £10 since the Britpop era, using the long-standing deal to introduce generations of customers to game meat.
Business & Openings High Street
Hobbs House Bakery has won Tetbury Music Festival’s 2026 Best Dressed Window Competition after Mary Portas judged displays from more than two dozen businesses. The windows will remain in place until October 4, helping promote the festival and raise funds for St Mary’s Primary School’s music programme.
Business & Openings Five Valleys
Nice Baps will close its Cossack Square premises in Nailsworth on Saturday, September 26, after the building was sold. Owner Lisa Gatley is holding a breast cancer fundraiser and hopes the business may reopen elsewhere.
Business & Openings Five Valleys
The Happy Cinnamon Artisan Bakery and coffee shop in Market Street, Nailsworth, will close after trading for the final time on Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26, 2026. The independent business said quieter trading and the challenges of running the location had made the decision unavoidable, while leaving open the possibility of returning to the area.
Business & Openings
Stroud-based entrepreneur Dale Vince says he will take responsibility for the loss-making Camden New Journal newspaper group and invest in its future, describing local journalism as vital to democracy.
Business & Openings Nailsworth
Nailsworth Computer Shop is celebrating 18 years in business, with father-and-son team Paddy and Adam Coyle continuing to run the long-established family company from its A46 premises outside Stroud.
Business & Openings
Stroud Wine Company is bringing six bottles from South African winemaker Pieter Walser to Griffin Mill, promising a fresh challenge to familiar assumptions about grape varieties.
Business & Openings Nailsworth
Renishaw has launched a new PH20 PLUS 5-axis touch-trigger system at its New Mills operation, offering manufacturers greater access to deep and difficult-to-reach features during coordinate measuring machine inspections.
Business & Openings Stratford Park
A handwritten three-page letter from George Orwell is among the highlights of Quire Auctions’ autumn sale, alongside rare editions from children’s writer Geoffrey Trease’s literary estate.
Business & Openings
Marco Pancetti is celebrating six months as owner of Stroud restaurant The Corner House, more than a decade after leaving Foresto in Tuscany to work in the UK as a pizza chef.
Business & Openings
Renishaw has launched three new RLE laser interferometer encoder systems for semiconductor manufacturing, with the top-end RLE300 designed to deliver measurement uncertainty as low as ±0.2 nm.
Business & Openings Nailsworth
Country Quality Meat has installed new signage at its Nailsworth premises as it prepares to mark 40 years of trading in the town next January.
Business & Openings
Building work has started on a new relaxation, recovery, heat and cold destination in the heart of Stroud.
Business & Openings Five Valleys
The Old Nelson in Stroud is due to close on Monday, September 7, as Whitbread shuts its remaining Brewers Fayre sites. The venue is understood to have been acquired by Queensway Inns, which bought 53 former Brewers Fayre locations and is expected to reopen the pub under new ownership.
Business & Openings Stratford Park
Independent café Willow & Co is celebrating five years at Wheelwrights Corner in Nailsworth after growing from a takeaway coffee shop run by Sally Norman into a business employing around eight people. The café is now planning new savoury options, more workshops and possible pop-up events.
Business & Openings Nailsworth
The Contrast Suite, a family-run wellness business owned by Tom and Amy King, has opened at Gouldings Estate in Nailsworth, offering private sauna and cold-plunge sessions to customers from across the Stroud district.
Business & Openings Cainscross
Lettings at Tricorn House in Cainscross have been put on hold. Stroud MP Simon Opher described the decision as “a shame” while stressing that the building’s future remains a matter for its private owner.
Business & Openings Stratford Park
Stroud’s much-loved Stratford Park Outdoor Pool has reopened following refurbishment, with a preview video highlighting the renewed facility and the hopes of local councillors and campaigners for its future.
Business & Openings Central
Renishaw has reaffirmed its commitment to Earth science and mineralogy by sponsoring an international conference marking the 150th anniversary of the Mineralogical Society, according to Stroud Times Business.
