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• Dealing with a litter menace

  Members of Charity Crescent Residents Association (CHACRA) carried out a successful litter pick recently. read more

• Dangers of the dreaded weed!

  IT is only in recent times that we have become aware of the effects of passive smoking of tobacco. Concern being particularly for young children's health. read more

• Consulting on old site's future

  I NOTE in a recent edition that Wychavon District Council are spending up to £50,000 on consultants to look at the future use of the old sewage works site now known as Abbey Road Depot. read more

• A better World in which to live

  ALL Roger Martin's negative letter about Christianity illustrates is that we are fallible sinful people. The moral teachings of Christianity have been an enormous influence for good down the centuries. If only today we all loved our neighbours as ourselves, as Christ advised us, it would be an infinitely better World. read more

• Manifesto move by other parties

  WHY is Blair and Kennedy jumping up and down with irritation having read the Conservative manifesto, instead of spending the time expounding their own? Is it because, they are thinking what we are thinking? Personally I prefer the Conservative policies to their own respective ones. Less waste; better, cleaner hospitals; less taxes a better Britain; oh yes and more importantly better immigration controls; who wouldn't. read more

• Creating the Tewkesbury sandwich

  TEWKESBURY youngsters are being invited to create The Tewkesbury Sandwich. read more

• Eight in fight for two county seats

  EIGHT candidates are battling for the two Tewkesbury seats in the county council elections on Thursday, May 5. read more

• Recycle banks for old Yellow Pages

  SPECIAL recycling banks have been installed throughout Tewkesbury borough to take old copies of Yellow Pages. read more

• The mellow sound of a Sixties singer

  SIXTIES star Donovan is heading to Cheltenham next month. read more

• Guitar ace in concert to boost Tracy fund

  TOP guitarist and Vale favourite Gordon Giltrap is playing another charity concert for the Tracy Sollis Leukaemia Trust this month. read more

• Coppin is back on the record

  TOP Cotswold singer-songwriter Johnny Coppin has released his first major album in 12 years. read more

• A sheep trick to get a snack!

  A EWE in the flock at Overbury Farms is proving to be one in a thousand. read more

• Gamekeepers guide launch

  A NEW guide for gamekeepers, produced by British Association for Shooting and Conservation, BASC, is to be launched at the Gamekeepers' Fair at Shugborough, Stafford, this weekend. read more

• Flying flag for farming

  FARMERS and landowners are calling on the Government to trumpet the public benefits delivered by the new payments made under the Common Agricultural Policy, particularly as interest has been heightened by the release of old figures by the Regional Payments Agency. read more

• Updating NFU members

  A SERIES of meetings for NFU members aimed at updating them on the latest information on the Single Payment Scheme take place during April. read more

• Evesham

  ART SOCIETY: The March meeting was a practical session where a good turnout of members enjoyed an evening painting and drawing a model and still life arrangements of flowers. read more

• Marathon man has a marathon target

  THE 26 miles of the London Marathon will be just one step closer to a bigger challenge for record-breaking Cotswold runner Steve Edwards. read more

• Hall sale is thrown out

  TEWKESBURY'S museum building can go but the Watson Hall stays, town councillors agreed this week. read more

• Safety message is off the menu

  PLANS to give out paper napkins with a home safety message have been put on hold in case senior citizens choke on them. read more

• Still no decision

  TEWKESBURY borough councillors have deferred a decision on the introduction of car parking charges on Sundays and Bank Holidays. A period of public consultation ends tomorrow. When the environment committee met on Tuesday there had been 16 objections and 300-name petition had also been handed in. Members decided, by the chairman's casting vote, that it would be wrong to make a recommendation to the full council until the consultation period was over. read more

On this day: The Cotswolds Archive