The Cotswolds | Archive | 2002 | February
STRATFORD Civic Hall has announced its new spring season, the last which will contain professional entertainment. more...
CHIPPING Campden School is the venue for a major fund-raising concert early next month. more...
ART teacher David Durston is staging an exhibition of his own work - in a hospital. more...
POPULAR musical Singin' in the Rain is sure to get audiences pouring into the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham from the end of this month. more...
EVERYMAN Theatre, Cheltenham's education officer has organised two workshops to brighten up the school holidays. more...
FORMER bar room hell-raiser and comedian Jeremy Hardy comes to the Everyman for one night only. more...
SINGER/songwriter Boo Hewerdine will appear at Worcester's Huntingdon Hall on February 21. more...
THE George Hotel in Lower Brailes is celebrating Valentine's Night tonight with singer, songwriter and guitarist Helen Watson performing a Valentine's special. more...
FIDDLE fanatics are advised to book quickly for fund-raising folk frolics at Huntingdon Hall. more...
THE CROWN and Trumpet in Broadway is continuing its Blues on Broadway sessions with the Bluesmen Cometh on Valentines day, today. This is to be followed by Freewheelin' Blues on March 7. more...
VETERAN singer and songwriter Harvey Andrews will be stopping by for one night only at Huntingdon Hall tomorrow. more...
STRATFORD-based Philip Banham is giving a magic lantern show on Warwick and Life in Victorian Times at the Bridge House Theatre, Warwick School, at 7.30pm tomorrow. more...
THE arts scene in the north Cotswolds has been given a tremendous fillip by Tamara Malcolm, but the grande dame of Chipping Norton Theatre is now set to retire. more...
FALCON Productions in Stratford is looking for two young actors to perform in Twelfth Night, which is being staged at Hall's Croft Gardens in Stratford from June 19 to June 29. more...
RELIVE teenage experiences in a comedy which comes to Cheltenham next Tuesday. more...
DURING February and throughout March the RSC's Swan Theatre is host an exciting diverse mix of music and drama. more...
BRITISH life goes under the microscope in an adaptation of a hugely popular novel at the Everyman. more...
ALAS, I have to confess I am the same Mr Potter who hunts and shoots small furry animals (ref G Moyse's letter Journal, February 7). more...
Re Wyre Piddle bypass - questionnaire. It was disappointing to read Mrs Smout's comments, particularly as our council has been very `up front' over its views, not only at all council meetings, but we circulated every villager prior to the exhibition day, pointing out options, and making the decision a personal one, as villagers completed the form. more...
A NATION of animal lovers? I think not!! more...
STOW police are looking to question a man following a break-in at Moreton Pharmacy. more...
IT was recently reported in the Journal that the Royal National Lifeboat Institution are seeking donations to their funds of unwanted good quality jewellery, war medals, and memorabilia. What was not mentioned is that broken or incomplete items are also perfectly acceptable. more...
POLICE are appealing for information after a "very individual" Land Rover was stolen from a farm in the Cotswolds. more...
Just a short note to bring you up to date with the Tree of Light Project. more...
FIREFIGHTERS from Stow were called to a road accident on the A429 Fosse Way between Bourton and Northleach shortly after 7pm last Thursday. more...
I was not only saddened, but appalled after reading your front page story about the possibility of 750 or so asylum seekers and 300 staff being homed at throckmorton. more...
Re: Proposed Asylum Camp at Throckmorton. No, no no! Whoever thought of the crazy idea of housing 750 asylum seekers between a land fill site and 130,000 buried rotting carcasses has obviously not stopped to think of the implications. And that is a polite way of putting it! more...
BOURTON'S Sue Beech has been praised for her work helping the Cots-wold School raise funds for charity. more...
The service has been launched at Cheltenham General and Gloucestershire Royal Hospitals with a small team in each hospital to help patients or their families with questions or worries. If the scheme proves a success it could be rolled out to community hospitals, such as Bourton, Moreton and Winchcombe later in the year. more...
THIEVES who forced the boot of a metallic grey Ford Sierra parked in Fosseway Avenue, Moreton, made off with a carrier bag containing 60 PlayStation games, overnight last Saturday. more...
BURGLARS who entered a house in Fosseway Avenue, Moreton, overnight last Friday, stole a ladies black shoulder bag, together with a purse containing about £120. more...
HIEVES stole a sideboard together with a tailboard from a tipper lorry which was parked in St George's Close, Moreton, overnight on February 6. more...
TOWN councillors in Moreton are writing to the parents of three youths to ask them to pay the costs of repairing play equipment. The trio were cautioned by police after a wooden platform on the Queen Victoria's gardens climbing frame was damaged by fire last year. more...
KATHLEEN (Kitty) Styles who died on the Isle of Wight in September, was a well known Bidfordian and an authoress. more...
BOURTON'S existing library is too small and should be extended to take over part of the youth centre, says a parish councillor. more...
PUPILS at St Mary's Catholic School in Broadway have been jumping for joy to raise cash for the British Heart Foundation. They organised a sponsored skip last Friday afternoon and raised hundreds of pounds. more...
STAFF at Chipping Campden Surgery were delighted with a new defibrillator. more...
100 years ago more...
A CHIPPING Norton war veteran who fought in the Second World War has recalled the events of his part in the fall of Singapore almost 60 years to the day. more...
FARMERS in the Vale of Evesham have the chance to take part in a free workshop providing advice and support on how to sell their goods at Farmers' Markets. more...
A FORMER Broadway woman who started a new life in Winchester with a new house, came back to the village last week to collect a new car. more...
IT was a day to cherish for the Hutsby family at Sunday's Farmers Bloodhounds meeting at Dunthrop. The Ettington stable sent out three winners, all ridden by Fred Hutsby, who completed his first ever treble. more...
CHIPPING Norton police are appealing for information after £760 worth of horse tack was stolen. more...
FOUR months before retired headmaster John Mathias was found hanged in his home, he had written a suicide note, it was revealed during an inquest at Tewkesbury. more...
THE vegetable industry in the Vale of Evesham has been going through radical changes in the growing and marketing of vegetable crops in recent years. more...
VILLAGERS, including children, turned out in force at Cleeve Prior on Tuesday to lend a hand to improve the local environment. more...
SIR Donald Curry's Policy Commission report on the Future of Farming and Food will be met with stiff opposition from many corners of the farming industry, according to farm business consultants Strutt and Parker. more...
MORETON Show Society has named its first winners of the year in the competition to find the area's best silage makers. more...
Your "Community in backlash" front page article, uses rhetoric which suggests that that people who may have fled from terror are "a major threat to the environment" of people living in and around Throckmorton, are a threat akin to the dumping of dead animals, and are likely to "resort to petty crime". more...
FEWER than 5% of people who have voiced an interest in joining Gloucestershire Constabulary have actually applied. more...
COTSWOLD villagers say a planned new development is too much. more...
VILLAGE hall committees in the Cotswolds may be counting the cost of new disability legislation after a report revealed a shortfall of £2m in funding for Gloucestershire. more...
A SALFORD man who invented a flood defence system for houses has paid tribute to a Stow man who helped him to construct it. more...
POLICE are appealing for information after thieves broke into a Moreton pub and stole charity cash as well as a large quantity of alcohol. more...
A MOTORCYCLIST suffered a broken leg after his bike was in collision with a car in Moreton. more...
POLICE in Gloucestershire could be firing rubber bullets during future crime fighting operations. more...
A BOURTON company is bidding to be allowed to store waste asbestos at its base. more...
A COTSWOLD couple, whose daughter was born with a rare heart condition, have raised thousands of pounds for charity. more...
THE name of a sailor killed in the Korean War is to be added to Moreton's war memorial as part of a refurbishment. more...
A BLOCKLEY man died after his car left the road near Gloucester last Saturday. more...
Gloucestershire County Council's council tax will rise by 9.6% after councillors approved a budget increase of £32.4 million. more...
SHIPSTON councillors are to campaign to bring a cattle market back to the town. more...
THESE images of almost a century ago help to shed a new light on Chipping Norton's past. more...
ANGRY Shipston councillors are up in arms after being told by a Warwickshire County Council officer that "accidents happen on zebra crossings". more...
A robber terrified a shop worker by holding a hypodermic syringe an inch away from his face, Worcester Crown Court heard. more...
THE following planning applications for Shipston area have been lodged with Stratford District Council. more...
FUTURE meetings of Shipston Town Council could be held in the Old School House, home of the museum, in a bid to make them accessible to disabled people. more...
SHIPSTON Home Nursing has marked its fifth anniversary by appointing a professional fund-raising co-ordinator. more...
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