If your company is within 75 miles of Gloucester you will be listed. The key is local content. We are not a general directory, so we don't list foreign sites unless they deal with our area. In the main from submissions. We started the site with a core of 100 local sites and our spider occasionally goes looking.
Every site is checked by a human being.
Unfortunately we can't allow direct unchecked submissions because we would loose our local flavour. During the month of August we had to reject 50 submissions as they had no local content at all. You can either submit a site of your own, or a favourite local site of yours. Our public message boards are open to everyone. So long as your post is not obscene or illegal you can say what you like.