Sam Pope is a film maker based in Stroud. On Sunday 7 June, he's screening THE LITTLE CINEMA IN GLOUCESTER at the Sherborne Cinema alongside three other indie films.

Here we go again… WE ARE PROTESTING THE PROPOSED DOWNGRADING of Stroud Maternity Unit planned for this autumn — a move that represents a clear, back‑door attempt to close the unit entirely.

Stratford Park's outdoor pool has been at the heart of our community life for nearly ninety years. Now it faces an uncertain future, and this week, we have the chance to make our voices heard.

On February 1st 2026, a group of around 80 people gathered on Rodborough Fields to celebrate imbolc - the first signs of Spring - and to bless the river.

Sometimes I wonder if the Dickens family ever imagined they would still be flitting through the minds of so many millions of people, so far into the future.

A group of young boys come to the UK in the Summer of 1966. They go to the park at the weekends to play cricket but their heads are turned by the nationwide obsession with football.

UK households throw away around 300,000 tonnes of clothing each year, with much ending up in incineration or landfill. Emergence Re-Stock aims to change this.

Italian anti-fascist ska punk heroes Los Fastidios are returning to Stroud this month for what promises to be a second sold-out gig in two years.

I blinked through the sunlight dancing in the trees, feeling, in that moment, at one with the world. Until I saw it. There, attached to a pole on a caravan, flapping in the cool breeze like a sharp sl...

A peaceful, non-confrontational gathering will be held in Gloucester on Sunday 5 October to show support for people seeking asylum and challenge attempts to stoke division and racism.

At 500m barrels, Rosebank is the UK's largest undeveloped oil field. It lies about 80 miles north-west of Shetland. The Norwegian Energy giant Equinor has partnered with Israeli owned Ithaca Energy to...

Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Stroud becomes a hub for rethinking community, economy, and democracy this September.

Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, ...

Local activist Jeremy Green interviews Colin Levine from the Gloucestershire branch of Na'amod to get his perspectives.

IT FEELS LIKE SOMETHING OF a moment for me to cover a conversation between Emma Kernahan and Nick Hayes at day two of the NeoAncients festival 2025 on a sunny weekend in Stroud.

Glyphosate, an herbicide linked to cancer, is also abundant in the United States.

Something that stuck me about the speakers was how rascally they seemed, like they had never lost their sense of play. Call it a mischievous twinkle in their eyes.

A multimillion-pound project to encourage people in Leeds to design and try an alternative to private vehicle ownership has been announced by researchers.

Stroud is a maker's paradise and always will be and there are lots of women doing amazing things creatively but it is the crafts that are seen as inherently male.

On 17 & 18 May 2025, 200 years on from the gathering of 5,000 people on Selsley common, there will be a festival to commemorate the event.

Our economic system is doing exactly what it is designed to do. It’s time to build a new one centred on the things that actually matter.

Government plans to reform benefits for disabled people, known as Personal Independence Payments (PIP) have been met with strong backlash from ill and disabled Stroudies, and prompted concerns amongst...

Gloucestershire councils are going to be abolished and replaced with one or two Unitary Authorities linked to a regional Strategic Authority with an elected mayor. This is a seismic change for local d...

Alex and Alyssa take on the world of politics, policy, and posh canteens with Stroud MP Dr Simon Opher

There are many reasons I’ll probably regret saying this but I can’t not say something: Last week, some of the UK’s finest journalists - at one of the most… | 263 comments on LinkedIn

Ahead of the upcoming return of NeoAncients to Stroud this May, we look back at Amplify coverage of last year's festival

The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.

Former Stroud MP David Drew explains the civil war unfolding in Sudan and remembers his experiences of the troubled country.

Ben Stuart and James Sadri from Led by Donkeys recently held a sold out talk at Stroud Subscription Rooms as part of the Stroud Book Festival. Amplify Stroud had the opportunity to cover it and to tal...

30 years on, Stroud remembers the horrors of the Bosnian war from the testimony of one of those who experienced it.

Each year, the people of Stroud come together to commemorate the Holocaust, reflecting on the horrors of fascism and persecution and renewing their commitment to ensure such atrocities are never repea...

The BBC is facing an internal revolt over its reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza. Owen Jones investigates.