Just one Gloucestershire company has made it into the latest Sunday Times Top Track 250 of Britain's leading private mid-market companies.

The publication ranks the mid-market growth companies by latest sales.

Stroud-based Ecotricity is positioned at 227 - a fall from the 212 spot last year.

The green energy supplier had sales of £126.5 million and profits of £6.7 million with more than 200,000 UK customers.

Last week Dale Vince, boss of Ecotricity, announced he had revised his scheme to build a football stadium and eco-business park at Eastington near the M5 junction.

Blaming highways delays, he has moved the proposed new stadium from south of the A419 road to north of the highway and shelved the business park plan-at least for the time being.

But the decision may provide cold comfort for William Morris College at Eastington whose premises are just a few feet from Ecotricity's southern site. For many believe that eventually, under the "flipped" scheme, the business park will be built in a later, second phase causing major disruption to the life of the college and its vulnerable students.

Mr Vince wants to provide a new stadium for Forest Green Rovers which he owns. But speaking on BBC Radio Gloucestershire he said he had revised his plans, mainly because of delays in gaining the go-ahead from county highways officials.

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