Whether it's deadly serious - like the Cromwell street mass murder case - or frothily frivolous, like the ridiculous Harvest Festival baked beans ban, we cover all the big news stories that break in Gloucestershire.

Indeed, we're often the agency that breaks them!

Routinely, we are present every day at the county's only crown court, covering all Gloucestershire's most serious criminal cases. And we always attend, too, the inquests held by either of the county's two coroners.

From hour to hour we are keeping in touch with the police and fire service so we can report instantly on the most serious of Gloucestershire's crimes and accidents.

We closely monitor the news output of all the newspaper and radio media in the county so that their best stories can be expanded and supplied to the wider news market.

And we have a variety of contacts in all walks of life in the county who keep their ears to the ground and inform us whenever there's a story worthy of our attention.

Rest assured, if news is breaking in Gloucestershire we are among the first to know.