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Skills bring awards reward
YOUNG cricketers at Badsey CC showed off their skills with bat and ball during a ten-week English Cricket Board introductory course to the game. Wychavon DC Sports Development Officer, Steve Brewster, presented the Kwik Cricket Skills Awards to youngsters
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Picture sparks memories of a family and Titanic
I WAS intrigued with your article about Sargent and the Millets (Journal, November 23). My grandfather was an acquaintance of the Millets, an American family, who came and settled in Broadway. Mr Millet was an artist and as a child I remember seeing in
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Why so damning about committees?
MR Cynic is wrong. I, for one, haven't "lived at the bottom of a well for 60 years" (Intervention which is not needed,, November 23). If I had, I could have adopted a pseudonym like him - Mr Bucket would seem appropriate. I am not advocating squandering
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Slow movers quickly pull over
THE safety message for motorists is that "Speed Kills" and I am sure that it does. At least in the wrong hands and the wrong place, after all Damon Hill and his mate seem to survive, but then they are not on our local roads. But let us take another aspect
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From the Stratford archives
100 Years Ago, October 13, 1900 SHIPSTON: Police Court - Before Mr J Pratt. A Violent man - Damage to the oak at Whatcote. A Tysoe labourer, a big well built man about 6ft 4ins, was charged with wilfully damaging the windows, doors, and articles of furniture
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Bourton
AGAPE DONATION: The evening Agape supper held by Bourton Christian Council last month raised £89 which has been donated to famine relief in Ethiopia. Thanks to all who helped raise this sum. BREAST CANCER EVENT: On Saturday, there will be a sale at the
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Chipping Campden
DEBATING SOCIETY: The Chipping Campden debating Society met onNovember 25 to debate the motion 'This House believes the power of big business is threatening the power of the state'. It was proposed by Mr Keith Studer, seconded by Mr Antony Easthaugh.
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Condicote
CHURCH NEWS: There will be a service of Holy Communion at St Nicholas at 9.30am on Sunday to be taken by Rev Jenny Barber.
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Defford/Besford
PARISH COUNCIL: Report of the meeting on November 14: Planning application W00/1376/LBC by Prowting Homes for the construction of a new fire/sound screen compartment adjacent to the protected timber glazed screen of unit no 3 Main Court House, Besford
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Eckington
THURSDAY CLUB: Over 30 members and friends joined the coach on November 16 for the Thursday's Club outing to Hereford for Christmas shopping. Travelling via Malvern Hills, where the autumn colours of the trees and hedgerows were indeed spectacular. A
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Evesham
PHOTOGRAPHY: Next Monday The Vale of Evesham Camera Club will be holding 'Club Competition No 2', judge - Godfrey Outram LRPS APAGB, at the Friends Meeting House, Cowl Street, Evesham, 7.15pm for a 7.30pm start. New members always welcome. CYCLISTS TOURING
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Ilmington
n PARISH COUNCIL: Chaired by coun Tony Wilkins, the parish council heard that a letter had been received from Mr Malcolm Lowe, treasurer of the Tennis Club, complaining about the state of the skateboard ramp. The Merediths had had the order to repair
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Mickleton
GARDENING CLUB: The hall hung with Christmas decorations, and the tables being laid with beautifully decorated candle centrepieces, each made by the committee, set the scene for the annual supper on November 24. President, Ann Wall, welcomed some 69 members
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Moreton-in-Marsh
INTEREST AND LEISURE CLUB: It was a wet and windy journey on the coach to Bath but eventually the sun did come out in the afternoon although it was still cold. Members went their various ways, some to shop some to the fascinating Costume Museum (based
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Pershore
HERITAGE AND HISTORY SOCIETY: In spite of the miserable weather, some 60 members turned out for the November meeting to hear Mr Richardson's talk on the Doomsday Book. Much amusement was created when the audience began, successfully but with a great deal
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Cold conditions fail to halt George weigh in a winner
Evesham and District Disabled AC and Partnerships A FEW hardy members bra-ved Sunday's cold wind when they visited a private lake near Evesham. Fish proved hard to find but George Read proved the most resilient of the visitors as he took top place with
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Have a heart this Christmas and try to look after yourself
DEATH rates from coronary heart disease (CHD) in the UK are among the highest in the world, although they have been falling. One reason why CHD rates in the UK are so high is because the average diet is so unhealthy, according to the British Heart Foundation
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Saddling up for a piece of the action
THE world of horse racing is traditionally the haunt of the rich and famous, but an increasing number of 'ordinary' folk are getting involved with the Sport of Kings. There are those who enjoy spending an afternoon out at the races, having a flutter and
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Top two all tied up but it's Stanton who stay at summit
Evesham and District Airgun League LAST week saw the halfway point in the season with leaders Stanton Club travelling to the second place team the Lygon Arms. The match finished all-square with Carl Ambrose scoring 47 for the Lygon and Ian Harwood and
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Double gold in medal handful as juniors prove they're tops
It's official. Evesham Rowing Club boasts the best junior indoor section in the country. They left the 2000 British Championships last Sunday with five medals and, for the second year running, both Andrew Walker and Crystal MacLeod scooped gold. Rowing
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Watts a winner
Evesham III 2, Bridgnorth III 1 EVESHAM continued the DTZ West Midlands Premier League season with a second successive victory with an impressive performance. Dominating throughout the first half a spirited Evesham side strung together a succession of
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Point a solitary reward
Rugeley II 1, Pershore II 1 AFTER dominating the first half of this DTZ League fixture Pershore threw away their lead to give Rugeley their first point of the season. With a strong midfield centred around new signing Brett Pittam, Pershore pinned Rugeley
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Cassey cracks in a winner
Blockley Ladies 3, Wootton Bassett 2 BLOCKLEY hit back from two goals down to win Saturday's league game on the Astro at Evesham High School. The hosts enjoyed the bulk of the first half possession but they were unable to capitalise on their territorial
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Lee lands top award
GREAT Britain international triathlete Lee Perry was named Senior Sports Personality of the Year at last Friday's Wychavon Parish Games presentation evening. The Evesham College tutor represented his country at the World Biathlon Championship in South
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Rain halts Head
HEAVY rain forced the cancellation of last Saturday's annual Head of the River on the Avon. Organisers at Evesham Rowing Club made the decision last Wednesday evening in the interests of safety. "We had a meeting and decided to call off the event because
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Double delight
STRATFORD Fencing Club took two first places in this year's Leon Paul League. Chris Horner, aged 16 from Warwick School, won the Under 17 league and Michael Stone, aged 14 from KES, won the Under 15 league. Will Garrity, of Chipping Campden, was fourth
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Putting clue to Card loss
A BAD week with the putter was the sole reason behind Jeremy Robinson's failure to retain his Tour Card. The Evesham golfer finished tied 65th at Qualifying School in Spain, six shots off a top 35 position after six punishing rounds at San Roque and Sotogrande
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Yates's are toast of the town after Carlo winner
HEAVY rain on Saturday decimated last weekend's programme, however, several first round matches in the Evesham Sunday League's Evesham Mechanical Services Subsidiary Cup survived the downpours. Third Division Stratford Yates surprised Division Two Anchor
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Leams land points on a disappointing afternoon
Evesham 8, Leamington 22 AFTER the better results of recent weeks, it was a great disappointment for Evesham to lose at home to Leamington in a game they could have won. The visitors started impressively but it was Evesham that took an early lead with
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Government aims to help countryside bounce back
Countryside Minister Chris Mullin was in Pershore yesterday (Wednesday) for the regional launch of the Government's Rural White Paper. He said the paper, published on Tuesday, set out Government policies which he felt would encourage the sustained prosperity
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Stock
Cirencester, Tuesday CIRENCSTER Market report light steers to 72p (average 65.8p), medium to 87.5p (76.2p), heavies to 94p (79.1p). Light heifers to 78.5p (65.3p), medium to 80.5p (65.6p), heavies to 95p (77.8p). Medium bulls to 75p (75p), heavies to
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Produce
Evesham Wednesday CABBAGE tundra £2.40 to £2.60 crate, January king £2 to 32.80 six, savoy £2.80 to £3 doz, crate, dutch white £1.60 to £1.80 net, red £1.80 28lb, purple sprouting 50p to 80p lb, cauliflower £4 to £5.60 doz, sprouts £1.50 to £4.50 net,
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Grant's in the pink!
FORMER Evesham High School pupil Grant Pinkney made his debut for Lincoln City earlier this month. The 17-year-old who started his football career as an eight-year-old with Evesham Colts came off the substitute's bench to help the Imps defeat Bracknell
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Senior councillor vows to fight on in charities row
A SENIOR Stratford town councillor has vowed that his fight to clear the names of former councillors and officers blamed for the misuse of the town's charities is not over. Councillor Ted Lloyd said he would not let the matter lie after councillors rejected
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Sunday best a feature
PERSHORE staged their annual general meeting and annual dinner in the clubhouse at The Bottoms. The club has had a reasonably successful season, the highlight of which was the first eleven winning the Wor-cestershire Sunday Lea-gue in its first season
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Can we go back to the good old days?
I WAS pleased to read in the Journal that Latin is again being offered to pupils at Prince Henry's even if only as an after-school activity. I attended PHGS from 1966-1973 and, benefiting greatly from being taught to A level by Mr A J Eden, I went on
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Yellow line petitions were not mine
I WAS surprised and disappointed to read your report about Longborough parking in last week's edition of the Cotswold Journal. You refer to my being criticised "for carrying out (my) own petition over the yellow lines and car park, which members felt
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Good luck councillors
ALTHOUGH the turn out was only 28.9% in the recent elections that took place in Bengeworth. It was good to see democracy in full flight. I realise that under certain conditions being co-opted by your fellow councillors is legal and a pragmatic way to
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Well, well
MR Cynic writes: "Anyone who has just lived at the bottom of a well for 60 years ... " I used to live down a well, but it got too damp for comfort. I had to keep coming up for air. GEORGE COWLEY, Windermere Drive, Worcester.
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The cost of this hideous red paint
WHAT a lot of common sense from Mr Alan Boyes on the subject of traffic calming measures last week! The measures he so rightly objects to seem to be born of the need to be seen to be doing something without actually doing anything useful. Ironically,
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The price to save lives is worthwhile
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with your correspondent who railed against the despoiling of our towns and villages with attempts to raise awareness of the speed limits in force (A rising tide of angry motorists, Journal, November 23). However, I would back any
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From the Cotswold archives
100 years ago December 1, 1900 CHIPPING NORTON: Guild of Bellringers - The weather, unfortunately proved very unfavourable for the above fixture on Saturday last, but even this did not prevent a goodly number of the guild and several friends interested
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From the Evesham archives
100 years ago December 1, 1900 PERSHORE: Cottage Hospital - The annual meeting of the subscribers of the cottage hospital was held on Wednesday week. The report for the past year said the year had been one of the most momentous years in the history of
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Bredon
BURGLARIES: The dark evenings are bringing their seasonal round of burglaries to our parish. Our ever vigilant Neighbourhood Watch representatives keep us up to date with the latest problems. The police would like to hear of any sightings of these unwelcome
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Bretforton
PARISH COUNCIL: Open Forum: One member of public. County Council Report: Following the publication of Focus, concerns had been raised by residents on the lack of progress at the cross border meetings re proposed weight restrictions in Gloucestershire.
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Chipping Norton
NEWS CALL: The AGM of the Chipping Norton News will be held at the White Hart next Tuesday at 7.30pm. The news team would welcome local people with an interest in the town, to come along to the meeting to support them in their continuing endeavours at
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Harvington
C OF E FIRST SCHOOL: The official opening of the new nursery wing - the Heron Nursery unit - took place last Saturday and proved to be a pleasant and popular occasion, followed as it was by an open morning to which everybody was invited. After a short
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Longborough
CHRISTMAS FAIR: Longborough School holds its Christmas Fair on Saturday at the school between 2 and 4pm. Some of the children will be having stalls and there will be gifts, soft toys, crafts, home made produce, raffle and tombola. Father Christmas will
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Westcote
ICOMB AUCTION RESULT: The Auction of Promises held in Bledington Village Hall last Saturday was a great success. Auctioneer Martin Lambert, from Tayler and Fletcher's Bourton office, disposed of 70 lots which had been donated to an enthusiastic audience
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Outlining better healthcare
A NEW document detailing the care the people of South Warwickshire can expect if they fall ill or when they grow old was launched last week. The new Warwickshire County Council Care Charter aims to highlight the main services people could need, while
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Cash boost for county schools
CHILDREN in their early years of secondary education are set for a boost in basic skills after an injection of Government cash. The Department of Education and Employment has allocated £755,746 to Warwickshire from a total of £82 million cash award announced
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Time to move on after three years at the fund-raising helm
AFTER just 18 months of operation, the Shakespeare Hospice has proved to be one of Stratford's most vital services, but changes are set to be made at the top as one of its most vital assets has decided to say goodbye after three years at the fund-raising
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The right words at the right time
ANYONE who has ever been married, or maybe had to organise a funeral service, will be well aware of the difficulties of finding suitable words. Poets, philosophers, essayists and song-writers have between them produced several forests-worth of words to
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The Regal was the place where Hollywood dreams came to life
THE OPENING of the Regal 'super' cinema back in 1932 was one of the most significant events in Evesham's history. Evesham already had one highly popular cinema in the High Street, but it was the heyday of film making - picture houses were packed - and
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A campaigning health group which is always looking for complements
HOMOEOPATHY has been available within the National Health Service since it was formed in the 1940s - and not a lot of people know that. One group which does and is trying to spread the word is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year and hoping that
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Start is first class
EVESHAM archers kicked off the indoor season's campaigns with the first leg of the British Archer Postal League. Shooting the 60 arrow Port-smouth round at a 60cm face, Malcolm Porter led the way with a good 574 from a possible 600. Peter Williams was
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Wheelers on road
TWENTY Evesham Wheelers members and one guest from Lincoln took part in Sunday's club run to Staverton last Sunday. The race training run was led by Adrian Main, and battling against a strong headwind took a route through The Combertons, Bredon, North-way
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On a high at Oldbury
THERE were plenty of first places when the Evesham club competed in a friendly B Grade Gala at Oldbury. Clemence Rich, Jessica Wheatley, Nicola Adams and Justine Bennett all achieved first places in the freestyle and medley relay events with Clemence
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Elite leaders have that seven-up sparkle
WYRE Piddle Elite lead Division One of the Evesham and District Associa-tion after seven straight wins. Matt Hartwell and Mark Green both won three singles in their 8-2 victory over clubmates Livewyres. They then visited nearest rivals Bengeworth Tigers
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Martin strike clinches points
Evesham II 1, Telford II 0 EVESHAM started to fulfil their early season promise with an excellent win against promotion contenders Telford. Evesham started shakily when Telford's youthful and skilful forward line created a number of scoring opportunities
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Poor Pershore sunk by second half goal glut
Pershore 1, Droitwich 8 PERSHORE entertained high flying Droitwich in the DTZ League on the Evesham Astro on Saturday in what turned out to be a "game of two halves". In an evenly contested first half Droitwich took the lead from a well-worked penalty
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Junior football round-up
Pershore Town U-11 2, Stratford Colts 0 TOP of the table Town overcame awful conditions and resolute opposition to take the points. Goalkeeper Glenn Jones didn't have a save to make such was the domination of Pershore's defence and in particular the performance
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Draw is first for two years
Hallow 0, Littleton 0 ON a very heavy pitch against physically imposing opponents, a much changed Littleton side came away with a hard earned point. Amazingly, this was their first drawn league game since September 12, 1998. Littleton had the advantage
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Five on mark as Badsey blast beats Old Boys
JUST three matches escaped the latest bout of precipitation that will cause further problems for fixture secretaries. Badsey United boasted a handful of different marksmen as they easily overcame Stratford Alliance Journal Premier Division rivals Bretforton
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Top scorer Sam shown the door
TOP scorer Sam Bowen has left Common Road. The surprise news came earlier this week when manager Phil Mullen revealed he had released the former Worcester City striker. "He didn't fit into my plans," the United manager declared. "Sam is an out and out
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City slickers sunk by Phil's muddy marvels
Evesham Utd 3, Gloucester City 2 TWO goals in the space of a minute transformed Saturday's match that United never looked like winning until Mark Wolsey's speculative cross embarrassed the City keeper. A game that was only given the go ahead 90 minutes
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Mary Arden didn't live here
IT has been one of the greatest historical mysteries, with more plot twists and turns than a work penned by the Bard but this week, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust revealed it had solved one of its toughest puzzles. Some clever detective work by a local
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Eyes on the skies as festive lights switch on
THOUSANDS of eyes turned to the skies to witness the spirit of the festive season wrapped up in a series of magical events at the big switch-on of Stratford's Christmas lights. Parents, families and fascinated passers-by stopped for more than 45 minutes
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Outlining better healthcare
A NEW document detailing the care the people of South Warwickshire can expect if they fall ill or when they grow old was launched last week. The new Warwickshire County Council Care Charter aims to highlight the main services people could need, while
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Cash boost for county schools
CHILDREN in their early years of secondary education are set for a boost in basic skills after an injection of Government cash. The Department of Education and Employment has allocated £755,746 to Warwickshire from a total of £82 million cash award announced
