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On this day: The Cotswolds Archive

The Cotswolds Archive

• Crowd can give a lift to high-flyers

  THE last time Evesham United lost at Common Road was more than four months ago when Mangotsfield, 3-1 winners at Stourport on Monday night, were the winners. read more

• Legendary Earth Summit 'most wonderful' horse

  EARTH Summit, the only horse ever to complete the National treble, has been put down after being diagnosed with cancer. read more

• Heartache for gran as special school to close

  A COTSWOLD grandmother has spoken of her devastation following the decision to close the Alderman Knight School next year. read more

• Patient-led fund-raising group marks five years

  A PATIENT-LED fundraising group in Stow is celebrating its fifth birthday. read more

• Honour for nurse hailed a local hero

  A BROAD Campden woman was hailed a "living legend" at a major national awards ceremony in London last week. read more

• Good reception for radio station trial

  VOLUNTEERS are giving a proposed community radio station in the Cotswolds a tremendous reception. read more

• Call to collectors to show off treasures at exhibition

  COTSWOLD collectors are urged to bring out their treasures and show off their hobbies at a one-day exhibition. read more

• Teenage karting brothers celebrate double triumph

  KART racing Tewkesbury brothers Chris and Mat Dittmann are celebrating after they both succeeded in claiming the winter series championship titles in their individual formulae at Shenington, near Banbury at the weekend. read more

• Littering the country

  Parents and teachers up and down the land are endeavouring to instil high standards of personal behaviour and responsibility among young children. We decry the use of bad language or harmful images. So what does the Countryside Alliance do? It litters the roadsides with posters of foxes putting up two fingers to the world. read more

• Bringing bite to a world of bytes

  HOLD on to your neck - a new version of Dracula, Bram Stoker's Gothic masterpiece, is set to send shivers down the back of Cheltenham audiences next week. read more

• Birthday party for Pinter's party play

  HAROLD Pinter's is 75 this year and there has been a revival of his first full-length play The Birthday Party, described as one of the greatest plays of the 21st century. read more

• Belinda rides to a winning finale

  SNOWSHILL trainer Dolly Maude retired L'Idefix immediately after the horse had ended his racing career on a high note with victory before a record crowd in Monday's North Cotswold Point-to-Point Members' Race at Paxford. read more

• They're turning Japanese.. but only on the straight!

  MAXED, modded and outrageous are three of the terms used in describing the growing sector of the Japanese import performance market. read more

• Revival of wartime songs

  OLDER readers of Cotswold history buff Dennis Hughes' latest book are guaranteed a musical trip down memory lane. read more

• Kathy's charity choice

  NAUNTON Downs Golf Club's new lady captain is Kathy Alderman and her choice of the captain's charity this year is the Fund for Oncology Centre Users and Supporters. read more

• Players will be in a spin for laughs

  EXPECT a real farce of a show on the stage in Stratford this month. read more

• Police hunt for the Vale flasher

  A FLASHER has indecently exposed himself to two teenage girls in Broadway as they cycled near a disused railway bridge. read more

• With a bit of luck we'll love Stanley

  HE was a star in the Ealing comedies, he played dustman Alfred Doolittle in the film of My Fair Lady and was an old-style entertainer of the highest calibre. read more

• Twinning link with France set to end

  A TWINNING project between Stow and a town in western France looks set to be wound up. read more

• Residents to lobby council as decision is expected on scheme to convert pub

  PLANS submitted by the wife of a millionaire fashion designer to convert a village pub into a private home will be considered by Cotswold District Council next week. read more

On this day: The Cotswolds Archive