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FORMER New Wave musician turned TV producer and director Paul Aitken starts strumming one of his favourite tunes - Blackbird - from the Beatles' White Album - and the choice is entirely appropriate. read more
HALFWAY through my speech as middle-aged Doreen in Alan Bennett's A Talk in the Park, I realised I was doing a Julie Walters impression - not a bad thing of course, but it made me want to make a blushing exit from the stage of the Townsend Hall in Shipston. read more
CHICKENS: possibly not the most exciting subject matter on which to base a visitor attraction, but nestled in the Honeybourne countryside is a new centre set to prove that statement wrong. read more
DAVID Leadbeater is an author with a difference - he doesn't want to sell his book. read more
AS a Scotsman living south of the border, I'm used to hearing cracks about the value of Scottish banknotes. read more
WITH a new psychedelic Sixties display, Cotswold Motoring Museum's wheels are, like the Julie Driscoll song, on fire for the new season. read more
THE country lanes and byways around Long Marston are very much the same as they were in Shakespeare's England, as are the descendants of the hedgerows that still divide the lush green pasture lands. The only country feature missing is probably the majestic elm trees. read more
ANDREW Wildman of Chipping Norton is an internationally-renowned comic book illustrator whose most famous work is on the Transformers' series. read more
M C Beaton's latest book to be published in this country is entitled Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham. The wizard in question is a hearthrob hairdresser who captivates the heroine before being exposed as having a rather nasty sideline as a blackmailer and is eventually murdered in his own salon. read more
A MICKLETON shoe designer is joining forces with one of the oldest bridal shoemakers in the country - Rainbow Club. read more
YOUR Yucca's looking yucky, your Ficus is funny and your Flaming Sword has drooped - who you goin' to call? read more
AT the end of last year the Guild of Handicraft Trust in Chipping Campden received an early Christmas present from the Heritage Lottery Fund. read more
INSPECTOR Alistair Stenner, the new "top cop" in the north Cotswolds, believes his role is to help improve the quality of life for people on his patch. read more
WHEN Welsh-born Mark Turner came to the Cotswolds, he never expected to have a piece of his native town follow him. read more
TIME lapse camera work, in which plants grow from seed to bloom and insects devour the leaves of a tree, all apparently in seconds, is a specialist area of filming requiring concentration and attention to detail. read more
YOUNGSTERS were given a chance to see what was on offer in Chipping Norton last Friday. read more
PEOPLE are always demanding more Bobbies on the beat. read more
WITH weather forecasters predicting one of the severest winters for at least a decade, farmers in the Cotswolds are bracing themselves for tough times ahead in the next couple of months. read more
FIREFIGHTERS from the Fire Service College at Moreton have been praised for the vital part they played in tackling Europe's biggest peacetime fire. read more
THE modern game of croquet had its birth in Moreton in the 19th Century, due largely to a local man who went on to organise the first real croquet tournament in Evesham. Guy Stapleton, of Moreton Historical Society, told Gerry Barnett about the game and the man. read more
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