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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A good morning's foraging for Sloes. The stock for next year's gin secured.

Sloe berries on a bush with leaves in a field in Gloucestershire

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The last Perry Tap of the year at the Hartpury Orchard Centre, and Phil of 99 Pines has some special Perry on offer 🍐🍺

A green glass bottle that contains precious Perry on a wooden picnic table. The bottle has a white label with blue writing. The table has lovely lichen. There's green grass in the background with two bikes propped up against a stock fence. We are in Gloucestershire.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Tonight’s the night for the BBC Radio Gloucestershire Make A Difference Awards 🏆

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WottonCinema @wottoncinema.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our new autumn season brochure is out now! Available to pick up from the cinema, or you can read it online at www.wottoncinema.com/FCKfiles/Fil...

A stack of autumn cinema brochures, with Shaun the Sheep on the cover.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

On August 11th 1999 at Zone Point on the Roseland Peninsula in Cornwall.... it was cloudy. Today in Gloucestershire... It's cloudy 😆

Cloud obscuring the sun in the sky over a field in west Gloucestershire. The partial eclipse is behind the cloud

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🇫🇷 Can I add "Use both lanes on the Over Causeway if you're turing right to Hempstead"? Merge in turn Indicate on roundabouts And don't just stop on The Westgate Island if you're coming from the Cattle Market heading to the Forest "Vive le French Driving Rodney" What a time to be alive

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A417 drivers urged to 'be more French and use both lanes' amid long queues

With temporary traffic switches in place, Céline Acard encourages drivers to make use of all space.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A new addition at the Perry Pear National Orchard Centre in Hartpury 🍐

A Hartpury Green Perry Pear carved from stone with a wrought iron stalk sitting on a plinth. My clay German tankard is enjoying a prime position. In front of the plinth is a frame holding a sheet describing the pear, how it was made and who crafted it.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Can @jonysmith.bsky.social and the rest of the BBC Radio Gloucestershire Breakfast Show team set a new World Record? They need to eat more than fifteen fish fingers in sixty seconds. Everyone thinks it will be easy... but The Clag! The Clag hits hard.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Still two more days of Tewkesbury Live 2026 to go Free music right across the town A great atmosphere #tewkesburylive26

A crowd of people sitting at picnic tables in front of a big stage where there is a four piece band playing live. Off to the side is a stall selling Sri Lankan street food. There's people of all ages. It's the beer garden of The Black Bear Tewkesbury.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

That's been the problem at Swindon Town Football Club for decades... What's that? {checks notes} Oh. Another STFC with a swirling vortex of financial instability you say? Must admit I did wonder who UKRI were... "Are you Oxford in disguise???" ⚽🏟️

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We've got our football shirts, but ended up with too many by mistake. Listen to Jon Smith at Breakfast on Friday 3rd July for a chance to win a retro themed football t-shirt. 18+ full T&C and privacy notice at bbc.co.uk/radiogloucestershire We will send the T-Shirt to the lucky winner by post ⚽

Two men in a radio studio in Gloucester. One is wearing a Germany top the other an Ecuador top. They are retro style football t-shirts. The men look very happy about it all, even though the posing is a touch Littlewoods Catalogue.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"He's a good man but he's got to go". Labour MP @mattbishopmp.bsky.social tells Jon Smith at Breakfast on BBC Radio Gloucestershire why he wants Sir Kier Starmer to quit as prime minister. Matt represents the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Forest of Dean MP says Starmer must step down - BBC Sounds

Jon Smith speaks to Matt Bishop amid growing calls for Starmer to quit.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The May Day Bank Holiday holding up well so far in Gloucestershire 🍻 Hope you have a great weekend

A pint of Hobgoblin on the arm of a bench overlooking the River Severn in Gloucestershire

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Scratch the earth of Gloucester and you'll see an Ancient Empire Right in the middle of the King's Walk shopping centre is the entrance to the Roman King's Bastion And it's open for tours for the first time in years We've taken a trip down the steps and thousands of years back in time

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Underground at the King's Bastion - BBC Sounds

Heather Hughes speaks with Amy Washington on a tour of the King's Bastion.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

⛷️ Always an absolute joy to speak to Eddie The Eagle Edwards 🦅 And if you've got £625k to spare, you could buy your own Dry Ski Slope The Gloucester Ski and Snowboard Centre is on the market Find out more with @jonysmith.bsky.social on BBC Radio Gloucestershire 📻

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Eddie "The Eagle" first skied here - BBC Sounds

Do you want to buy Gloucester's Ski & Snowboard Centre? Find out more with Jon Smith.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

💷💷💷 We're in the money (Well... Gloucester Monopoly Money) What to spend it on? It's £500 so surely we can pick up a few cracking bargains around the city? Listen through BBC Sounds 📻👇

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Spending Gloucester monopoly money - BBC Sounds

Heather tries to spend Gloucester monopoly money across the city.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The daffodils are still looking great in the Golden Triangle of Gloucestershire

A field of wild daffodils at Shaw Common in Gloucestershire's Golden Triangle near Newent in the Forest of Dean.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Best day of 2026? Certainly feels like it here 🍐🍺

A glass of perry next to a brown bottle on a blue table in a garden in West Gloucestershire. The bottle has a wood cut label with pears and blossom and the words Severn Cider Perry. The sun is out and all is well.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Bruce, Phil & Alison delivered 4x4 vehicles to the front line in Ukraine. They've now all safely returned back to Gloucestershire and have been reflecting on their time there with @jonysmith.bsky.social on the BBC Radio Gloucestershire Breakfast Show.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Next on the way as Spring gets established... The first of the Cragford Narcissus 🌷

A Cragford Narcissus with three white heads that hold golden trumpets growing in West Gloucestershire

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I love snowdrops, and it's always sad to see them start to fade for another year But then these appear to bring more joy 🌸

The flowers of five crocus plants in bloom. There's purple and white petals and orange stamen. They're growing out of green grass in West Gloucestershire.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

🍐🌳🍻 Wassailing at The Hartpury Orchard Centre Always a great evening And the rain eased off too 🙂

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

✨Deerhurst, Gloucestershire. A kitchen in the nave and a bedroom in the chancel hid within plain sight an Anglo-Saxon chapel built by Earl Odda (a relation to Edward the Confessor). Re-discovered in 1865, it is the most complete surviving Saxon church in England.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Great shot, and love the Folk of Gloucester in the background. Great part of our city.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Whatever you're up to Gloucestershire, have a great weekend. (And in case you're wondering this is Wye Valley Brewery's Anchorman at 3.4%)

A pint of Wye Valley Brewery's Anchorman at 3.4% on a red beermat on a wooden table in what's argued to be Gloucestershire's oldest pub The Black Bear Inn, Tewkesbury. There's light streaming in from the windows on the left of shot.

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Suffering for my art - absolutely pouring down in Bishop's Cleeve, #Gloucestershire, but a #AdoorableThursday door like this needs to be photographed! I've brightened it slightly so you can see better than I could in the ghastly gloom! #Romanesque and lovin' it...

Romanesque church stone doorway with bands of zig zag ornament, the outer course ending in a dragon and on the side a snake biting it's own tail. Two columns on the door jambs, wooden door.

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Ste Lingard @stelingard.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The Abbey Church of St. Mary, #Tewkesbury, formerly a Benedictine Abbey church. The fine crossing tower is 12th century, and one the best surviving examples. It used to have a wooden spire, but it blew down. #TowerTuesday #Gloucestershire #ChurchCrawling 📷 my own, from 2019

A very large abbey church on a sunny day, with the odd fluffy cloud. It is viewed across a field, framed by trees. The massive central tower is the most prominent feature. The dominant colours are sandy yellow (the stone and parched grass), green and blue.

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Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

'God Speed the Plough!' it's #PloughMonday today, when the ploughmen, having had their ploughs blessed on the Sunday, would go out a-visiting round the houses - but here's a ploughman at work at Ebrington, #Gloucestershire, by Christopher Webb, 1964.

Stained glass image of a ploughman driving a plough pulled by two white oxen, caught in a roundel of feathery foliage, a detail of a larger design.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Cold start to the week in Gloucestershire. How cold? Well the canal at Saul Junction is frozen. (Thanks to Trudi for emailing this photo to the show this morning)

A frozen canal in Gloucestershire with the sun rising. The stern of a narrow boat is on the foreground and there’s trees in the distance.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Ewe know when ewe get that feeling someone's following ewe? 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

Plenty of sheep (perhaps Badger Faced Mules) all looking at the viewer in a field in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. The sky is leaden, the grass is green and sheep are keen.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas Gloucestershire 🎄 I’m reading your festive news this morning Wishing you and yours a lovely, happy and peaceful day 🎄

Studio 2 at BBC Radio Gloucestershire. There’s a microphone, mixing desk, many screens, a notepad, glass of water, cup of tea, a mobile phone and a newspaper

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

We've got to pay for ourselves somehow 😉 Ladies and Gentlemen... The first ever commercial break on BBC Local Radio (disclaimer read in sped up voice "this is not an actual commercial break, none of the products exist, terms and conditions apply") Merry Christmas - I'm reading your news tomorrow 🎄

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The first "commercial break" on BBC Radio Gloucestershire - BBC Sounds

Some quality products that don't actually exist in our "ad break".

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Bryan Higgs was one of the BBC Radio Gloucestershire Make A Difference award winners this year 🏆 Top man! Keep up the good work Bry 🥊

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🪈 You too can play the Carrot Flute. Big thanks to Michele from the Phoenix Recorder Orchestra who showed @jonysmith.bsky.social how it's done. Listen through BBC Sounds 📻 👇

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Learning to play the Carrot Flute - BBC Sounds

Michelle from Phoenix Recorder Orchestra teaches Jon Smith how to play a vegetable.

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Forest Archaic Collective @forestcollectiv.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Swear this happens every year, I catch a bunch of #Autumn pics that i'm pretty fond of, but then because they're not on the usual tags, no one gets to see them but... well this view of the Devils Chimney, Cheltenham was pretty gorgeous esp. considering its moniker 🍂

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

👻 We've met some characters on our Heather's "Spooky Tour of Gloucester" Albert Jones' Handlebar Moustache (and love of beer) The Watcher of St Mary's Gate Demaris Deighton and her cellars And of course Mischievous Maurice and his incontinent ghost dog 🐕 Big Thanks to The Gloucester Civic Trust 🎃

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A spooky tour of Gloucester - BBC Sounds

Heather Hughes is shown around by Civic Trust guide Debbie Vass.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Love the carving on the Saxon Font in Deerhurst 🌀

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Apologies to everyone in Gloucestershire yesterday that had to endure me reading the news for the first time in more than two years. Whilst there was not enough in the way of animal stories for my liking, I did go large on Leather Shorts, Wooden Stools and Puddles of Beer. Off the subs bench 🎙️📰

A radio studio with multiple screens, keyboard, mixing desk, controller, headphones and microphones. There's a jacket hanging on that back of a chair and beyond that a glass window into the operations room.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

⚽ Big win for Mushet and Coalway at Fintan in the Gloucestershire Northern Senior League Division Two If twelve goals isn't enough for you what about Rodborough Old Boys v Falcons Reserves in the Gloucestershire FA Intermediate (North) Cup Second Round? You can keep your top flight snore draws ⚽

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Interior view of Odda’s Chapel at Deerhurst in Gloucestershire. It was built in 1056 by Earl Odda, a relation of Edward the Confessor, for the soul of his brother Aelfric. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Deerhurst #OddasChapel #Gloucestershire

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Jo Durrant @jodurrant.co.uk · 14/10/2025

It was lovely to have a chat with Dame Jacqueline Wilson at Cheltenham Literature Festival about her latest book and revisiting characters from her much loved children’s books. Hear with @jonysmith.bsky.social on his BBC Glos Breakfast Show 6-10am @paddytracey.bsky.social

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Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I’m back on the Beeb! Tune in tomorrow and come with me on an art historical adventure!

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

🤖 Yes... I got binned off by a bot 💔 Find out what happened when we placed our order with "Sophie" at The Nippy Chippy in Stonehouse She's the creation of Brad-Lee Narfuz who has rolled her out to more than ONE HUNDRED other takeaways 🍟 Listen through BBC Sounds 📻👇

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"Sophie" from The Nippy Chippy takes our order - BBC Sounds

Jon Smith meets "Sophie" the AI bot designed by Brad-Lee to help out at his Chip Shop.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

🍺 Will you be going to the pub this weekend? You might be surprised how little they make on each pint Emma Gibbon from Cheltenham pubs The Plough and The Hewlett Arms wants the government to give the industry more support Listen through BBC Sounds 📻👇

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"It's getting really tough to turn a profit" - BBC Sounds

Jon Smith meets Emma Gibbon at The Hewlett Arms in Cheltenham.

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Paddy Tracey BBC Gloucestershire @paddytracey.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🗺️A map of smutty place names sent Dee and Tash from The Forest of Dean on a Rude Road Trip (and if I ever see any innuendo in the show I whip it out) Listen through BBC Sounds 📻👇

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On a road trip to see all those saucy place names - BBC Sounds

Jon Smith meets Dee and Tash on a tour of all those smutty signposts.

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