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  • Saints are top shots in repeat success

    BASKETBALL featured highly when a number of the District's female Secondary School students took to the courts at Stratford Leisure and Visitor Centre. The annual event, organised by Stratford-on-Avon District Council saw seven schools take part in the

  • From the Archives - February 21, 2008

    100 Years Ago February 22, 1908 THE annual meeting of governors and subscribers of Moreton-in-Marsh Cottage Hospital was held in the Sands Cox boardroom on Thursday afternoon. The report of the committee was as follows: "The number of patients admitted

  • Call for action at Mill Dene

    THE owner of a popular north Cotswolds tourist attraction has called for action to tackle the silting up of Blockley Brook. Wendy Dare, owner of Mill Dene Garden in Blockley, has organised a public meeting tomorrow (Friday, Feb 22) to discuss the future

  • Fire probe over

    POLICE are no longer investigating the cause of a fire that broke out at a cottage in Moreton High Street in the early hours of last Wednesday morning. Police spokeswoman Hannah Swingler said the blaze, which led to tenant Daphne Taylor, 39, and her

  • Flood victim's last-gasp plea

    A MORETON flood victim has made an eleventh-hour appeal to Gloucestershire Highways to delay road works due to start outside his home this week. Charles Harmsen, 53, who lives on the High Street service road, where resurfacing works are being carried

  • Club loses court fight

    MORETON Community Club members have lost their legal battle to stop the Royal British Legion regaining possession of its premises. About 150 members of the 300-strong club attended a meeting at the Station Approach premises in Moreton on Sunday to hear

  • Top 20 flood-hit areas

    MORETON, Chipping Campden and Bourton top a "priority" list of 20 Cotswolds towns and villages worst hit by last summer's floods. The list is contained in the first major report into the unprecedented flooding that devastated large parts of the Cotswolds

  • Invitation to help boost charity funds

    Evesham and District Crib League THE league welcomes all players to the Evesham Hospital Social Club on Monday at 8.15pm for the Iris Davis Memorial Crib Drive with the proceeds going to the Friends of Evesham Hospital. The entry fee per pair is £2

  • Rugby Festival to celebrate a famous clash

    THE Cheltenham Rugby Festival will make its bow on Friday, May 2 at the Prince of Wales Stadium and will comprise two major elements. The All Golds Cup, named in honour of the famous New Zealand team that defeated England in Cheltenham on February 15