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Dominic Cotter writes...

So the end of a packed week on my first run of Breakfast Shows on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Gloucestershire filling in for Mark Cummings, and what a great welcome you've all given me...

Thanks!

On Monday I was asking you what makes you misty eyed?...

Why?...because enthusiasts were gathering at a pace at a ship restoration project in Gloucester in preparation for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations next year.

A 65 foot Second World War fire fighting boat is being transformed at the docks.

On Tuesday, you also had a thing or two to say about calls to upgrade Junction 10 on the M5 Motorway to full north and southbound access whilst the bridge over the motorway is closed for a YEAR.

Local businesses are supporting an online petition calling on the agency to use the planned closure of the A4019 in March as a chance to open access to the junction.

From Highways to homes, with 25 million unoccupied bedrooms in British homes the group - the intergenerational foundation - launched a campaign on Wednesday to encourage the government to make it easier for people to downsize their homes - as well as to rent out their spare rooms. Sandra in Brockworth made a good point. She lives in Brockworth on her own in a three bedroom house and altough she would be interested in renting out one of her rooms she feels she might be vulnerable.

Thursday and it was the price of heating oil that got you boiling...In the last ten years the price has more than DOUBLED. And as the cold weather returns a campaign launched to try and avoid last year's supply problems...by getting customers to stock up EARLY this time.

But many people listening to Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Gloucestershire said even if they fill their tanks up now, it won't last the winter anyway!

Plus, love it or hate it Junk Mail is here to stay. An average of 453 pieces of junk mail are coming through our letterboxes every year and you had some great suggestions for cutting down on it

On Friday 21st October, the news was of course dominated by the news that Colonel Gaddafi was killed in Libya. We had a powerful reaction from Zaina Ahmed who is a Libyan PHD student at the University of Gloucestershire who was up all night
speaking to her family and friends in Tripoli

And on a lighter note, we discovered that the price of stamps are going up again so we decided to launch an experiment. I'm sending two postcards to Claire Carter's parents in Kent, one with a First Class Stamp, the other a Second Class. The question is which one will get there first. We'll find out!...

Bye for now

Dominic Cotter.