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• Peanuts is 'nuts

  While welcoming any additional real terms funding which comes into our county's schools, I must point out to parents while a 6.7% increase looks good on paper, in reality, how good it is depends on the original amount of funding it was applied to in the first place. read more

• Shame on you!

  IN three quarters of an hour four trees were cut down on our estate. No warning was given to any of the residents. When I approached the tree surgeon, he said residents had complained because leaves and berries were falling on their cars! read more

• Reason will was delayed so long

  Re: Miss Margaret Nancy Hewins Deceased. We have been asked by the Executors of the above to express their appreciation of your article in last week's edition. read more

• Rise above the retail price level

  MY daily newspaper informed me that the December retail price index which is used to calculate the state pensions has risen by 2.2 per cent. read more

• Gardener Guy runs his truck on chip fat

  AN environmentally aware landscape gardener in Shipston is using old chip fat to run his work vehicles. read more

• Thieves flee with haul of fresh fish

  STRATFORD police are warning restaurant owners and pub managers to be extra careful with their deliveries after thieves made off with a haul of fresh fish from the rear of a pub near Bidford. read more

• Abbey safari

  CHILDREN can liven up half-term by going on safari in Tewkesbury Abbey. read more

• Tidy-up team stops the grot

  TEWKESBURY Grotspotters - the tidy-up arm of Tewkesbury Area Partnership - collected 15 bags of rubbish in a litter-pick in Lankett Lane. read more

• Building site car snags 'avoidable' - councillor

  THE problems of construction traffic getting to the former Masterline site in Tewkesbury's Cotteswold Road should never have arisen, according to county councillor Graham Dawson. read more

• Rotarians' gift appeals to all the senses

  LIFE is getting better for clients at Tewkesbury Adult Opportunity Centre. Thanks to a £5,000 donation from the local Rotary Club they can now enjoy a multi-sensory environment in their hydrotherapy pool. read more

• Joy as walk is completed

  A RIVERSIDE walk planned many years ago is set to be completed in Tewkesbury. read more

• Attacker hunted

  POLICE have issued an e-fit of a man they would like to interview in connection with a serious sexual assault on a 15-year-old girl in Tewkesbury. It happened as she was walking through the underpass beneath the Northern Relief Road at about 10pm on December 22 last year. He is described as a white male, aged around 20 and six feet. He was wearing a top with a Drunknmunky logo. Anyone with any information is asked to ring the police on 0845 090 1234. read more

• Tips for top food from star chef Gordon

  CELEBRITY chef Gordon Ramsay brought his regional master class tour of Britain to Tewkesbury last week. read more

• Tel delays new star's radio role

  SIR Terry Wogan's busy life is stopping a Tewkesbury woman enjoying a special Christmas present. read more

• Exhibition 'hypocrisy'

  TEWKESBURY Borough Council has been accused of hypocrisy for backing an art exhibition celebrating traveller culture while at the same time evicting two local travelling show families. read more

• Weddings 'in danger' from offices move

  THE north Cotswolds is set to lose its register office in a planned shake-up of the countywide service. read more

• Group 4 man among richest

  A BROADWAY-based multi-millionaire businessman has been named as the fifth wealthiest man in the Midlands. read more

• Debate is fuel for thought for farmers

  IT made sense to reduce the amount of unsustainable fossil fuels and replace them with sustainable fuels from crops, according to Dr David Hall, former principal of Pershore College. read more

On this day: The Cotswolds Archive