Changelog

Today's air quality in central Cheltenham, updated hourly, with the grass and tree pollen through hay-fever season. It's the modelled area-wide picture, with the traffic and the escarpment that can trap still air explained, and Defra's official forecast linked.

Where's the Bus? shows where the Stagecoach West town buses are right now — how far each one is from the town centre and which way it's heading, in plain words, for the D, A, C, 10, 94 and W routes. Live positions come from the Department for Transport's Bus Open Data Service.

A new tool for Cheltenham: pick your band (A to H) and see this year's council tax charge, what it works out to a month, and how the bill splits between Gloucestershire County Council, the adult social care precept, Cheltenham Borough Council and the police. It also lists the five parishes that add a precept. The figures are the council's own 2026/27 amounts, worked out with the standard band proportions; the council's own schedule stays the authority.

Cheltenham now has its own page. It starts with three tools: a live River Chelt flood watch reading the Environment Agency's gauges, the festivals-and-racing calendar that shapes the town's year, and a plain guide to the fortnightly bin cycle that flags bank-holiday changes. More will follow as residents suggest them.