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Savoyards new show
THE COTSWOLD Savoyards present Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Monday, June 13 to Saturday, June 18. Princess Ida has heard the rallying cry of the feminists and taken it one step further. While the suffragettes
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African beats to echo across the Water Park
TONIGHT, June 9 at 8pm, the roof of the Gateway Centre at the Cotswold Water Park will be reverberating to the sounds of Black Umfolosi. This internationally acclaimed harmonic a cappella singing and traditional African dance group, based in Bulawayo,
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Science festival kicks off in Cheltenham
THE ever more popular Cheltenham Science Festival began yesterday and runs until June 12, bringing with it a marvellous mix of scientific material to suit all tastes and all ages. This year's festival takes its visitors further into science's most controversial
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New jobs for the county
A NEW study suggests 18,000 new jobs will be created in Gloucestershire over the course of the next decade. The report - commissioned by Gloucestershire First and the South West Regional Development Agency - concludes that Gloucestershire is unlikely
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Karter Hughes outguns his Rissington rivals
CASTLE Eaton's Richard Hughes continued his run of victories in the Senior Rotax class at Rissington on Sunday. The Total Butler-supported driver has now won all four meetings and leads the 2005 Championship by over 150 points on his Arrow kart. Saturday's
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Dan Duke wins the Fairford 10k in record time
THE prolific Dan Duke admirably demonstrated his liking for the annual Fairford 10k by winning Sunday's event for the third year in succession. In a race started by former Olympian Sharron Davies, the Cheltenham Harriers member also broke the course record
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Wilts CCC suffer disappointing start to new campaign
WILTSHIRE CCC produced a dismal performance to lose to Oxfordshire at Banbury in their first Minor Counties Championship match of 2005 by a massive margin of 257 runs. In last week's encounter, Oxfordshire won the toss and batted and were soon in trouble
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Magical win for Lechlade CC in National Village Knockout
LECHLADE conjured up a spell of pure magic in the National Village Knockout last weekend with their surprise defeat of the mighty Goatacre. The local side travelled to Goatacre on Sunday full of confidence and on the back of some good league form, even
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A tail of two sergeants
HAVING played a leading role in taking Malmesbury police station to the top of the county crime busting charts Sgt Gavin Williams is moving on. The 35-year-old has been promoted to Acting Inspector at the divisional headquarters in Melksham, where he
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Waterman takes his kart to first British Championship win
MORETON-in-Marsh kart racer Will Waterman has scored his first outright victory in the British Championship, beating his nearest rival by just two-100ths of a second! Following a successful start to his challenge for the British title, Waterman arrived
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La Boheme kicks off Longborough Opera season
THE 2005 season at Longborough Festival Opera opens on Friday, June 17 with Puccini's bittersweet La Boheme in a new production designed especially for LFO by the Opera Project. There will be a total of 20 performances of three different operas staged
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Week of mixed racing for Swindon RC riders
A WEEK of mixed racing brought good results for members of Swindon Road Club. Some 95 entries indicated a healthy interest in the Hillingdon circuit races, boosted last week by two American visitors on a short working trip. In the 42-mile elite/1/2/3
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Dance show to hit Cheltenham
IMAGES of Dance, the vivacious young company, directed by Margaret Barbieri, former principal dancer of the Royal Ballet, makes its first visit to the Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham for one night only on Wednesday, June 15 at 7.30pm. Twenty-two young dancers
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Music among the trees at Westonbirt
WESTONBIRT Arboretum will echo to the sound of heavy metal, rock, pop, dance - you name it - when Beautiful South perform a back-to-back show with Madness on Friday, June 17 and Saturday, June 18, the first of the Westonbirt summer season of concerts,
