Stroud parks in the same September news cycle: longer lido season, police inquiry after stabbing
Stroud’s public leisure spaces appeared in local coverage within days of each other, as a longer lido season coincided with a police investigation into a stabbing in a town park.
SoGlos reported that Stratford Park Lido was staying open longer in 2026, with the council extending the outdoor swimming season through September 2026 [1]. Separately, the Gazette Series reported that a 15-year-old boy was rushed to hospital after being stabbed in a Stroud park, while BBC News Gloucestershire said an 18-year-old was arrested in connection with the incident in Stroud [3][2]. The reports do not say the lido and the stabbing were in the same park, but together they show Stroud’s parks and leisure sites drawing very different kinds of local attention in the same period [1][3][2].
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