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Munro efforts are crucial
LATEST action in the WCB Indoor Cricket League saw comfortable victories for Overbury and Dumbleton. The former scored 120-2 in reply to Harvington's challenging 119-5 - a total helped by the efforts of Dave Waters and John Coleman who scored at eight
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Trials will test top bikers
THE Stratford-Upon-Avon Motorcycle Club are holding the Colmore Cup Trial near Bourton-on-the-Hill on Sunday. Round two of the British Clubmans Championship, the Colmore Cup is the oldest trial in the current calendar being first held in 1912. Past winners
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Cassey itching to get back on track
BWRDC Junior champion and student with the Race Driver's Academy, Cassey Watson has committed to the 2008 Junior Ginetta Championship and to York-based team Tockwith Motorsport. The high profile BTCC support championship gets under way on March 29 at
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Hammerton's hat-trick inspires Broadway to victory
Lakeside 3, Broadway Utd U-13 5 BROADWAY had to twice come from two goals down to take all three points and maintain their five-point lead at the top of the table. A lacklustre first half saw United two goals behind within the first 15 minutes. The
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More flood cash for Winchcombe
WINCHCOMBE is to get £100,000 from Gloucestershire First to help retailers and other businesses get back on their feet after last summer's floods. The cash is being provided by Gloucestershire First, the countywide economic partnership, from the £1.1
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Chippy could seal a title triumph
VICTORY for title favourites Chipping Norton at Abingdon on Saturday will almost certainly wrap up top spot in rugby's Berks/Bucks & Oxon Premier. The Greystones outfit are currently six points clear of closest rivals Bicester with just four games to
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Double success as Willersey rise to occasion
Cotswold Floorball League WILLERSEY claimed fifth place in the Mixed A Championships after easy wins over teams from the A Division. Two goals from Daniel Needham and a clincher from Georgia Palmer, her 20th of the season, helped overcome St James'
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Centre backs Sport Relief Mile
THE Cotswold Leisure in Bourton is doing its bit for charity next month when it hosts the Sainsbury's Sport Relief Mile. Manager Jo Whitfield is calling on runners of all abilities to come along to centre in Station Road, to take part in a sponsored
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Talks on play area
CHIPPING Campden Town Council is to enter into talks with Cotswold District Council about taking over responsibility for a small play area at Castle Gardens in the town. The district council is keen for the town council to assume responsibility for the
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Thieves close Cotswold school
A FLOOD-HIT north Cotswolds school was forced to shut on Monday after thieves cut electricity cables, leaving it without power. Pupils at St David's Primary School in Moreton missed a day's lessons as a result of the theft of about 100 metres of electricity
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Consulation a 'sham' - council
THE government's consultation process over post office closures has been condemned as "nothing more than a pre-determined sham" by Cotswold District Council. A meeting of full council last night passed a unanimous motion expressing total opposition to
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Stratford gearing up for opening race meeting
OFFICIALS at Stratford have alerted racegoers that the Centre Course picnic enclosure will not be open for the first meeting of the season on Monday. Managing director, Stephen Lambert, said: "The £1m post flood refurbishment work that has been carried
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Tourists shine off field rather than on it!
SHIPSTON'S fine staging of the famous 1930s monologue of Albert and the Lion in Blackpool's North Shore Working Men's Club proved to be less than ideal preparation for the challenge of Blackpool's vets side! Lion Tom Wilson roared impressively as a thespian
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Meeting on skateboard plan
MEMBERS of the public are being urged to attend a meeting in Moreton next week to discuss plans for a skateboard park in the town. The meeting at the Redesdale Hall on Thursday, March 6 at 7pm is an opportunity for local residents to comment on the proposal
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Horses aiming for repeat success
THE two winners of last month's feature races at Dunthrop return to the course for Sunday's Bicester with Whaddon Chase Hunt meeting. Irilut, a facile winner of the Men's Open at the Heythrop meeting in February for Edge Hill owner and trainer Robert
