Organisers gearing up for 401st Cotswold Olimpicks

Ouch: The infamous shin kicking.

5:40pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

ORGANISERS are gearing up for the Cotswold Olimpicks which is going back to the “old format”

Tributes to Woolwich terror victim soldier

KILLED: Lee Rigby

5:26pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

The victim of the terrorist murder in Woolwich was named today as father-of-one Lee Rigby.

Ilmington May Queen to be crowned

Ilmington Morris men dancing on May Day

4:20pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

School will be crowning its May Queen tomorrow.

Have your say of the future of the Cotswolds

Burford is a big draw for visitors from Britain and abroad to the Oxfordshire Cotswolds

3:48pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

THERE is still time for residents, landowner agents and parish councils to have their say on future development in the Cotswolds.

Historic Cotswold Olimpicks book returned 'home'

PIECE OF LOCAL HISTORY: Graham Greenall, chairman of the Cotswold Olimpick committee, left, and town counciilor Bill Buckland with the rare book.

2:10pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

A RARE book celebrating Robert Dover’s Cotswold Olimpick Games has been returned to its rightful home.

Town's first festival of music and the arts

12:12pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

TICKETS are still available for many events taking place at the third Winchcombe Festival of Music and Arts this weekend.

Fairytale Farm set to open in Chipping Norton

GREETINGS: Fifteen-year-old Olivia Laister makes friends with one of the alpacas

12:00pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

AFTER four years in the making, a farm park for disabled children is opening its doors to the public for the first time on Saturday.

Ex-nursery boss in dock as child left in vehicle

Playgroup to shut after 41 years

10:31am Thursday 23rd May 2013

A FORMER Cotswold nursery owner accused of leaving a child in her care in a vehicle for “over five hours” has appeared in court.

Taking the train on steam night

A steam engine

3:00pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

RESIDENTS are invited to join the Winchcombe team of parishes on a steam engine ride.

Surface dressing in Cotswolds to begin next week

Gas works to hit main city route

11:50am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

WORK is set to start next week on a £2.5million project to improve Gloucestershire’s roads.

Pupils dish up big breakfast

Pupils dish up big breakfast

9:00am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

CHILDREN at Swell Primary School showed off their cookery skills when they took part in the Wallace and Gromit’s Big Breakfast.

Gipsies enjoy ‘quieter’ fair

FAMILY HOME: Enjoying the sights and sounds of Stow Fair are Susan Biggs, left, with Abigail Biggs, aged seven, Jonny Biggs, five, Leona Smith, five, and Tom Smith, 13.

3:00pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

STOW Horse Fair was “quieter” than normal, according to some regulars who turned out for last Thursday’s traditional event.

Three days of Festival fun in Winchcombe this weekend

A scene from Janapar - Love on a Bike

3:00pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

TICKETS are still available for many events taking place at Winchcombe’s third Festival of music and arts this weekend.

Stow street sweep raises cash for charity

Manager of the Red Cross Charity Shop in Stow, Jax Franklin, with assistant manager Hilary Strangwood

2:16pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

SWEEPING the street might not be the usual way of raising money but two volunteers at a Stow charity shop made an exception.

Cotswold leisure services takeover will save nearly £3m

Scheme to help with people’s cash woes

2:14pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

LEISURE centres in the Cotswolds are to be transferred to a new operator in the summer in a bid to save taxpayers nearly £3 million over the next 10 years.






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