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Chuck Berry stands in North Wilts
CHUCK Berry is one of the candidates lining up to fight for the Minety and Purton seat on North Wiltshire District Council. But he prefers blues to rock and roll and he runs a public loo company. Roger Berry, 47, from Chelworth, has been saddled
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Election line up - 2007 candidates
A DOZEN candidates are set to be elected to Cotswold District Council unopposed at the local elections on May 3 while in North Wiltshire there are only nine wards where elections will be held. All 44 Cotswold District seats are up for grabs this time
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CDC statement on Kingshill Masterplan
COTSWOLD District Council has announced that, in order to focus on the major planning applications for major planning applications at Kingshill, Cirencester, it will not be continuing with work on the Kingshill master plan. The district council has
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Wild Hogs (12A)
Whoever came up with the concept of this story was very clever indeed, as the finished product doesn't matter that much when the film has four middle aged giants of the big screen playing bikers. It has to be worth the price of a ticket, irrespective
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Curse of the Golden Flower (15)
After director Ang Lee's massive success in the West with his flying martial arts extravaganza Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), came Director Zhang Yimou's Hero (2003), and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Neither of Zhang's films had quite the
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Watchdogs slam pipeline proposals
COUNTRYSIDE watchdogs have slammed plans for a new gas pipeline to run through the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. National Grid presented its proposal to the Cotswold Conservation Board, responsible for the Cotswold area of Outstanding
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Comment - 12.04.07
WHAT is the point of living in a democracy if people do not use their right to vote? Far too many people take for granted their right to vote. At the last general election only 61.3 percent of elligible voters cast their ballot. This was an increase
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The Rural Idle - 12.04.07
LESS than three weeks after hospital trip, husband enters for his first ever ten-mile run around Chedworth Roman Villa. Acquits himself well although seems to walk with a permanent pained expression a few days later. We are impressed with glass
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Harcombe - 12.04.07
BY THE time you read this we may all be putting up umbrellas or wearing fleeces again but at the moment the weather is just about as good as it gets. Warm but not too hot - no horseflies about yet - and cool at night so that you can sleep with the
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Gardening experts at Dean Close
JOIN gardening experts Nigel Colborn and James Alexander Sinclair for an inspiring evening of gardening advice and anecdotes at the Bacon Theatre on the site of Dean Close School, Cheltenham, on Wednesday, April 18, at 7.30pm. Nigel and James, are
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Cameron to appear at Cheltenham
ON JUNE 7 leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron will make a very special appearance at Cheltenham Science Festival. In this unique event Jonathon Porritt will be asking David Cameron, Is Blue the New Green? In this frank interview Cameron
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Beacon for Baroque in Cotswolds
FOLLOWING the tremendous success of last year's Cotswold Early Music Festival, its organisers and musical director Richard Lester have set up a period instrument ensemble, Academia Musicali, that will act as a resident festival band and provide a beacon
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Losing streak continues for Centurions
Tiverton Town 3 Cirencester Town 1 TWO poor teams were separated by the ability of Plymouth Argyle reserve, Scott Laird, to think and act a yard quicker than the Centurions' defence. Fresh from the hot potato oven, the ball never stayed with any
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Town clerk bows out for Cyprus
CIRENCESTER'S town clerk is bidding farewell to the town after nearly a decade in the post. Andrew Crook, 62, who joined the town council in 1998, is retiring next month to live in Cyprus with his wife Hazel. The father-of-two announced his successor
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West ambulance workers are miserable
EMPLOYEES of the Great Western Ambulance Trust are officially the most miserable in the land. A report released last week by watchdog The Health Commission revealed staff had the lowest positive feeling' in the country and the lowest rating for staff
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Back to basics for Advent Market
CIRENCESTER'S Advent Market festival has grown too big and will be given a radical shake-up for 2007, the Standard can reveal. Cirencester Chamber of Commerce chairman Jonathan Davies said this week that the event had lost its way and must get back
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Local firm ships brick to Australia
A COTSWOLD-based quarry firm is shipping 35 tonnes of stone halfway round the world for the construction of a single house. Farmington Natural Stone Ltd, near Northleach, received an order of its specialist Cotswold stone last month to be delievered
