Tears as Gloucestershire begins its biggest challenge to date

Tears greeted the start of possibly the county’s most ambitious and courageous fundraising campaign to date – a bid to raise millions of pounds to transform cancer treatment for everyone.

Dear readers, 

Welcome to Monday’s edition of The Raikes Journal. I hope you had a great weekend. 

I’ve gone all ‘first person’ on you because I owe an explanation for last week’s radio silence here at The Raikes Journal. 

I took a decision to shut up shop after the death of a close family member. It was an emotional end to a challenging few weeks.  

As you know, Raikes is a micro-business, a community interst company working to establish itself and to serve the county with regular editions you can rely on, usually published on a Monday, Thursday and Friday. 

The Monday edition is beginning to attract as many readers as any other email ‘newsletter’ covering business in the county - (I know because I used to write the best-read stories on those newsletters) – but as important as it is to stick to publishing on those days to build that readership, somethings are more important. 

I remember an era when it was frowned upon to take time off for anything at all, potentially even career defining, …