Kids have enjoyed a summer of swimming for £1 at Cirencester Open Air Pool thanks to grant funding from Gloucestershire County Council.

£5,000 from the children’s activity fund is available to each of the 53 electoral divisions in the county. Successful bids need the backing of the local county councillor, which in this case is Cllr Joe Harris.

“A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room”, so said Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the scout movement.

Now, thanks to Gloucestershire County Council funding and the Whitby’s Boy Scouts 2^nd Cirencester Company, 30 children from Cirencester have the chance to experience camp life for themselves.

Local Councillors have welcomed news that yellow lines are finally about to be put down in several roads in Cirencester, ending what residents have described as a 'parking nightmare'. 

Joe Harris has promised to continue to fight to protect Cirencester's Minor Injury Units (MUIs) and other units across Gloucestershire after they were described as “a thing of the past”.

Councillor Joe Harris is calling on Gloucestershire County Council to begin a review of on-street parking in Cirencester. 

A landslide victory saw Joe Harris re-elected as one of Cirencester's two County Councillors in the local elections.

Cirencester Library will be lighting up the life of local children from April when a new sensory area, full of lighting, toys and other fun items, is created.

The Liberal Democrats have reacted angrily after the Conservatives voted to prevent local Councillors from voting on a controversial planning application to build 2350 houses on the edge of Cirencester.

Cirencester’s schools are set to loose out on hundreds of thousands of pounds under a newfunding formula being consulted upon by the Conservative government.

Cirencester’s County Councillor, Joe Harris has called for immediate action to address the number of vehicles driving down Cricklade Street after a boy has hit by a vehicle on Tuesday afternoon.