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  • Landslip forces train line closure

    THE Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway – the ‘Honeybourne Line’ – has with immediate effect, altered its steam train services following a landslip on an embankment near Gotherington. Malcolm Temple, the railway’s chairman, says: “The slip was

  • Council wants you to tell them how well they are performing

    PLANNERS at Cotswold District Council are urging residents to let them know how well they are performing by means of an online questionnaire. Over the last couple of years the development control department at the council has introduced major changes

  • Arthritis charity needs people for fundraising trek

    A GLOUCESTERSHIRE-BASED arthritis charity is appealing for people to take part in fundraising "trek" based on the famous Three Peaks Challenge. Gloucestershire Arthritis Trust (GAT) hopes it Great Arthritis Trek will raise £10,000 for much-needed medical

  • Bands contest winners will open festival

    THE honour of opening this year’s Cornbury Festival will go to the winner of the Chipping Norton School’s West Oxfordshire Battle of the Bands contest, which takes place at The Theatre, Chipping Norton on May 11. Festival organiser Hugh Phillimore shares

  • Parents can apply for meals online

    PARENTS who wish to apply for free school meals for their children in Warwickshire can now do so online. Warwickshire County Council is the first local authority is the first in the country to introduce an online application form for free school meals

  • Signing the way for those at a crossroads

    A CHIPPING Campden author is helping to signpost the way for those who have reached a crossroads in their lives. Tim Binder has published a book, Walk with the Wise, with fellow life coach Ron Owen from Winchester. The book, which is published by

  • Good news for history buffs

    HISTORY buffs in Gloucestershire can now get free access to the Annual Register Online until July. The register offers users a simple way to search for every major event in any country in the year of their choice. There are more than 240 printed volumes