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Karting star completes unique double at Shenington
CASTLE Eaton karting star Richard Hughes completed a unique double last weekend by competing in both the World Rotax Max Challenge qualifying round and in the Shenington SuperPrix at the same meeting. The double entry involved a dozen practice sessions
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Model car club championship proves gripping affair
THE final round of the Stroud Tool Hire Championship proved to be a gripping affair until the end of the last race on Saturday. Twenty drivers booked in on a hot sunny afternoon to race on Cotswold Model Car Club's outdoor track near South Cerney. In
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George is squash champion in Minety tournament
MINETY Squash Club's annual knockout tournament, played from February to April, culminated in an exciting finals night recently. In the semi-finals, last year's champion George Arnold just saw off new member Philip Copestake while the previous champion
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Tennis season is now in full swing at Cirencester
THE tennis season is now in full swing with Queens, Edgbaston and Nottingham playing host to all the top names in world tennis. And Cirencester Tennis Club is doing its bit by putting five ladies' and five men's teams into the Gloucester Summer League
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Demos cost county tax payers £375k
POLICING peace protests at RAF Fairford will cost Gloucestershire tax payers £375,000. The county force says it incurred costs of £1.069 million during the Iraq War, including the drafting in of officers from around the country. The operation was the
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Shelly scores maximum points in Scottish Rally
PIRELLI British International Rally championship contender, Shelly Taunt, from Highworth, has retained her lead in the Formula 1400cc championship after taking another maximum score on the Scottish Rally. Taunt also leads the women's category ahead of
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A belting double success for 'golden girl' Emily
WHEN it comes to the very competitive world of tae kwon-do, a local schoolgirl has admirably demonstrated that she knows all the right moves. For Emily Greenwood, a first-year pupil at Farmor's School in Fairford who took up the sport barely two years
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Town cricketers celebrate a first win of the season
A GOOD all round team performance brought Cirencester their first Readers Glo'shire County League, Division Two victory of the season by the slim margin of nine runs against Birdlip at the Park on Saturday. Having won the toss for the second week running
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Marchant steals a march on his cycling rivals
SWINDON Road Club's Steve Marchant returned on form to win the Over 40s category in the third round of the National Rudy Project Time Trial series. A visit to Ashford in Kent proved worthwhile for the Lechlade-based rider, despite a last-minute course
