The Cotswolds | Archive | 2003 | January
VISITORS to Huntingdon Hall, Worcester, will be enjoying some blasts from the past next week when 70s hit wonders Strawbs appear, under their new name Acoustic Strawbs, followed by tribute band The Beach Boys Inc. more...
SHUNNING the rap metal and punk trend being taken on by so many young bands is Evesham band The BottleneX. more...
PERSHORE's Number 8 is currently showing an exhibition of watercolour paintings. more...
PEOPLE aged over 50 can tone up and maintain joint flexibility in a dance and exercise class designed for their needs at Pershore each Tuesday. The Gentle Steps sessions are being held at Number 8 from 10.30am-11.30am. Details are available on 01386 556665. more...
JAZZ diva Salena Jones will be delighting fans at The Theatre, Chipping Norton, on Wednesday January 22. more...
STROUD Brass Band Festival presents Yorkshire Building Society Band at the town's Subscription Rooms on Saturday, January 25, at 7.30pm. Tickets are available on 01453 760900. more...
THE Fitzwilliam String Quartet, known for its close association with Shostakovich, will play at Huntingdon Hall, Worcester, on Sunday at 3pm. more...
INTRUMENTAL trio 1651 launch a series of Sunday afternoon concerts at the Subscription Rooms, Stroud, on Sunday, January 26 at 2.30pm. more...
A PROGRAMME for clarinet, strings and piano will be played by the Andrusier Ensemble at Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham on Wednesday. The concert, beginning at 8pm, is presented by Cheltenham Music Society. more...
THE final curtain is to come down at Worcester's Swan Theatre at the end of January as a funding crisis has forced its closure. more...
CULTURAL diversity will be illustrated through dance at The Theatre, Chipping Norton, on Friday, January 24. more...
SIXTIES pop star Joe Brown is still going strong and will appear at Tewkesbury's Roses theatre on Friday, January 31, at 7.30pm. more...
BRAZILIAN pianist Christina Ortiz joins the orchestra of St John's for a performance at Cheltenham Town Hall on Tuesday. more...
A TEN-week course - Creative Writing for Seniors - gets under way at the Theatre, Chipping Norton, on Monday. more...
THE first British woman to have climbed Everest will speak about the history of the world's highest mountain at Worcester's Huntingdon Hall on Wednesday. more...
COMIC cult figure Rik Mayall returns to his Worcestershire roots at the end of January to play the classic Coward role of Garry Essendine in Present Laughter. more...
PHOENIX Theatre Group will be full of beans when its production of Jack and the Beanstalk begins a five-night run at Evesham Arts Centre next Wednesday. more...
A STEAMY new play containing strong language and sex scenes is being performed by one of Stratford's leading drama groups. more...
BOURTON Panto Group stages Jack and the Beanstalk at the village's Victoria Hall from Tuesday, January 28, until Saturday, February 1. more...
A SATIRE on current political problems in South Africa is being presented as a Martin Luther King birthday celebration event at Oxford's Pegasus Theatre on Saturday. more...
THE Rotary Club of Pershore and Pershore Town Council send sincere thanks to all local companies, shops and members of the public for supporting the Pershore Tree of Light appeal and remembrance of loved ones. more...
HOW can members of the Worcs County Council who have been elected to serve all ratepayers justify the proposed 15% increase on Council tax, bearing in mind that the current rate of inflation is hovering around 2%? more...
AN increase of 15% on Council tax is outrageously unjustifiable. Over the past eight years the Council tax on my Band D house will have doubled. Indeed, for a couple of years it has exceeded my Income Tax liability. more...
WITH reference to the "£2 million plan for pub" article in The Journal, January 2, I would like to express some areas of concern. more...
LAUGHTER may not seem appropriate to the serious issue of protecting wild animals from being harassed and killed by dogs but I couldn't resist a smile when I saw those strange "Tosh/Poff" Ads featured in the Journal and espousing the joys of killing foxes over the Christmas break. I thought, given that humorous slant, you might like to share the following little ditty with your readers. more...
THE Cotswolds is justly famous for its honey-coloured limestone, which does much to lend the area its distinctive appearance. more...
AH, a New Year and a volley of seasonal greetings from the anti-hunters ringing in the pages of last week's Journal. A fine winters fare indeed of inaccuracy and half truths seasoned with just a little spite. more...
WE must take issue with some of the details included in the report about the new Chipping Campden development at Charlotte in North Carolina. more...
HERE we are again, water, water everywhere, yet not a drop to drink, my thoughts go out to the people in the Vale and surrounding counties, watching the flood waters rise again, the filth, smell, cost of redecoration and refurnishing, will the insurance pay? Will they be covered again next year? more...
THE Caravan Club wants to expand its site in Station Road, Broadway, by building two extra hard-standings. The club has submitted a planning application to Wychavon District Council. The council has also received an application to demolish a flat-roofed garage and workshop at the rear of Pond Close Farm, in High Street, and to substitute a fence for a boundary wall at a builder's yard in Leamington Road. more...
A PARTY at Shear House, Broadway, marked the start of a new service provided by Evesham and Pershore Housing Association to its sheltered housing schemes at Shear House and Meade Court, Evesham. more...
"I COULD still be here looking after cats when I am 80," said Audrey Spooner. more...
ACTRESS Sheila Hancock will open an unusual exhibition at Tewkesbury Abbey. more...
Tewkesbury's millennium beacon could have a new lease of life as the basis of an eye-catching floral display. more...
TEWKESBURY Town Council met this week. more...
THE experiences of a well-known Tewkesbury antiques dealer are living on to help others. more...
NO-ONE who was in Tewkesbury High Street on Tuesday morning can be in any doubt that Tewkesbury now has a special relationship with Tewksbury, New Jersey. more...
LOCAL people will have a chance to air their views when the BBC TV programme Daily Politics is broadcast from Tewkesbury. Crews will be in town next week filming background material and the outside broadcast unit will be in Spring Gardens car park on Wednesday. more...
A RADICAL shake-up may be on the way for Tewkesbury's markets. more...
THE Tewkesbury mural may be about to disappear. more...
TEWKESBURY Swimming Club has all its missing trophies back... and a whole load more as well. more...
THE man who died in a crash on the A40 near Andoversford last week has been named as 32-year-old teacher Gerald Harris. more...
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PANTOMIME: Performed by children Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was very entertaining at the Crawford Hall on January 3 and 4, and was well appreciated. A credit to the co-ordinators. more...
A SEPTEMBER calved heifer from Mike and Shan Miller's Shanael Holstein herd at Greville Hall Farm, Hinton-on-the-Green, Evesham, made 4,200gns at the Borderway Black-and-White sale at Carlisle. more...
THE Cotswold Hills contain some of the country's most important areas for birds, according to a new survey by the RSPB, but alarm bells are ringing for corn buntings and skylarks. more...
LAND owners should register their land if they want to benefit from the new Land Registration Act that comes into force this year. more...
THE mid-nineties will be recorded in history as the good times farmers never realised they were having, according to NFU president Ben Gill. more...
MEMBERS of the Lifford Hall Trust at their annual meeting took the unusual step of planning a second meeting because the financial information submitted turned out to be unsatisfactory. more...
HOW nice it is to come out of my drive, no streams of traffic coming from both ways. A big thank you to those who use the bypass, shame on the few who are speeding, can you not see the 30mph signs. They are big enough if not I suggest you get your eyes tested, I am noting down who you are. more...
THE big screen is coming to Westcote next week. The rural cinema scheme, organised by Cotswold District Council, will be presenting The Cider House Rules at the Village Hall next Thursday, January 23, at 7.30pm. Admission is £3 and a bar will be available. Proceeds from the evening will go to Westcote Church funds. more...
A BLOCKLEY woman has been made an honorary member of the Women's Institute at the age of 99 thanks to her knitting skills. more...
A PLANNING application for a new community centre has been postponed due to concerns over a ban on live music. more...
Hundreds of residents gathered across the Cotswolds in an expression of hope for the beleaguered agricu-ltural industry. more...
DESPITE freezing temperatures, the year's first farmers market in Stow Square has been declared a success. more...
A GLOUCESTERSHIRE county councillor has slammed a Government decision to cut the county's road repair budget by more than £2 million. more...
COTSWOLD District Council has decided to restore a popular grant-giving fund, which it scrapped last year. more...
A BLOCKLEY man who caught his neighbour's cat in a snare has been ordered to pay a proportion of the vet's bills by a county court. more...
DOZENS of replica and ball-bearing guns have been handed in to Chipping Norton police as part of an amnesty on fake weapons. more...
THIEVES went on the rampage in Draycott on Tuesday night, stealing two vehicles and breaking into two more. more...
THE keenly-awaited £2.4 million leisure centre in Bourton opens its doors on Saturday. more...
MONEY being collected for a primary school was stolen from a hotel bar last weekend. more...
STAFF at Chipping Campden school rolled up their sleeves and grabbed mops and brushes to clear up after a flood yesterday. more...
ROYAL BRITISH LEGION: The new year meeting of the women's section took place on January 7. The meeting was opened by chairman, Wendy Griffiths, who welcomed members and thanked them for turning out on such a cold night. more...
INTEREST AND LEISURE CLUB: The venue for the club's New Year lunch was The Wychwood Golf Club at Lyneham in Oxfordshire. more...
WEDNESDAY CLUB: The chairman opened the meeting on December 4, greeting 42 members to the Christmas tea. The entertainment was provided by the Alcester Ladies Choir who rendered a selection of carols and amusing poems. more...
LAMBING season started early in Welford this year when two arrivals made a New Year's entrance. more...
WEDNESDAY CLUB: Last Wednesday was a typical extremely cold winter day, but the weather notwithstanding, a goodly complement of members braved the elements for their fortnightly meeting and very glad they were that they had done so, for they were regaled with a wonderful show put on by a group of ladies and one gentleman. They had kindly stood in for another entertainer who was ill. Members watched a delightful show which included music from the 50s, nostalgically recalling younger more carefree times, there was the pathos of a sad clown to the tune of `Where are the Clowns?' and some highly amusing sketches and dancing, the whole being permeated by the feeling of joyfulness emanating from the troupe and their leader Kate. The enjoyment of it was such, that on any dull dreary day, of which there are many at this time of year, members can recall that truly lovely show and really powder their faces with sunshine as sung by one of the performers. more...
FARMERS staged a protest at the Defra offices in Worcester last Friday calling for an end to restrictive controls on the movement of livestock. more...
WEDNESDAY CLUB: Members met on January 8 when Mrs M Boath presided. Birthday cards were distributed. A few of the members are on the sick list and best wishes are sent to them for a speedy recovery. more...
PARISH COUNCIL: Minutes of Parish Council Meeting held in Lower Moor Village Hall on Thursday: more...
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: The annual meeting was held in the Baptist Church schoolroom and in spite of inclement weather was attended by about 40 members including several new members. Apologies were received from Mrs M Fisher, Mrs M Morley and Mrs M Davies. more...
FIRST SCHOOL: The children, staff and parents have been raising money for the Acorns Children's Hospice Appeal. more...
RESIDENTS of six Shipston Streets are being consulted on proposals to introduce residents parking permits. more...
A POSTCODE lottery and an apparent pocket of warmth denied Shipston pensioners their winter fuel payment after the cold weather last week. more...
WORK to repair a damaged wall in Shipston's cemetery started this week. more...
JIM Condie, a Scottish blues guitarist who was recently featured on Paul Jones' Radio 2 programme, will be performing at the George Hotel in Lower Brailes on Monday night. more...
WEED killer worth almost £1,500 was stolen from a barn at Great Wolford, near Shipston. more...
AN historic Morris side needs new members to help it maintain an unbroken tradition. more...
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