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Classic comedy on stage in Fairford
FAIRFORD Amateur Dramatic Company presents 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'. This is a musical comedy which follows the attempts of the young, foolish hero to gain the love of the girl of his dreams -who just happens to be a courtesan
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Bridge To Terabithia (PG)
Stories that make children use their imagination are the best and this tale based on a novel by Katherine Paterson ticks all the right boxes. It's good old-fashioned story telling, which reminds me of films like Pollyanna (1960) and Mary Poppins (1964
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Row over future of councils in Wiltshire
A SQUABBLE has broken out between Conservative MPs and Wiltshire County Councillors over plans to bring in a unitary authority. North Wiltshire MP James Gray has said he is undecided, but colleagues Andrew Murrison, Michael Ancram and Robert Key have
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Ciren man jailed for glass attack
A CIRENCESTER man has been jailed for 12 months after a vicious assault that left his victim needing 40 stitches. Craig Quilter, 22, of Burge Court, sobbed I love you' to his girlfriend in the public gallery of Gloucester Crown Court on Monday after
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Valets dump car at Tesco
AN UPMARKET London hotel has been forced to apologise to a Tetbury man after parking valets dumped his car at a supermarket overnight. Nathan Elphick had paid an extra £35 for the secure parking service on top of the £400 bill for a night at the Radisson
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Comment - 03.05.07
OUR front page story this week of the reckless damage caused in Moor Lane, Fairford, should shock local parents and rightly so. Vulnerable residents were cut off for two weeks when vandals destroyed the cables of a phone cabinet which connected the
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The Rural Idle - 03.05.07
THIS week I have mostly been worrying about potatoes. I have been checking twice daily for any signs of life and panicking at the sight of fellow plot holders who have enough leaf that they need to fleece in the evening in case of a rogue frost.
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Bonfire sparks barn blaze
EMBERS from a bonfire set alight to a barn at a farm in Quenington, near Fairford, yesterday afternoon. Four fire crews from Gloucestershire, as well as a water tanker from Oxfordshire, battled the blaze at Donkey Well Farm, on the Fairford Road, for
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Walkers stage protest in Fairford
MORE than 200 walkers and their dogs joined forces in Fairford on Saturday to fight for the right to walk around a picturesque lake. The protest was the latest development in an ongoing feud between dog walkers who use Lake 104 and Cygnet Investments
