Gloucestershire Echo, The back issues from March 2009:
Turf scene with robert Thornton
Mar 06, 2009 ... After months of planning and anticipation, the week everyonelooks forward to all season is nearly here. The four days of the Festival are always fiercely competitive andit's the place every jockey wants to ride a winner. I've been fortunate to be riding horses with enough ...
Hellenic league preview - part 1
Mar 06, 2009 ... Cheltenham Saracens will aim to dent another side's titleaspirations when they entertain Division One West leaders Hardwicketomorrow. Gerry Oldham's side secured their first league win since December6 when they beat high-flying Letcombe 2-1 last week. Jamie Bish and Marcus ...
Let's turn draws into wins - Gill
Mar 06, 2009 ... While more than happy to see Forest Green branded drawspecialists, Jerry Gill has victory on his mind ahead of OxfordUnited's visit to Nailsworth. Tomorrow's opponents were the last team to beat Rovers in theBlue Square Premier, prevailing 2-1 at the Kassam Stadium on ...
Five teams eyeing spots in cup finals
Mar 06, 2009 ... Five Cheltenham League teams will be just 90 minutes away frombooking a place in the final of their respective GFA County Cupcompetitions when they go into the semi-final matches tomorrow. Two of the sides lining up tomorrow are provided by one club, asStar FC Reserves will be ...
Saturday's football fixtures
Mar 06, 2009 ... Barclays Premier League: Sunderland v Tottenham. FA Cup sponsored by E.ON quarter-finals: Coventry v Chelsea(12:30pm); Fulham v Man Utd (5.15pm). Coca-Cola Championship: Birmingham v Southampton; Blackpool vNorwich; Cardiff v Doncaster; Charlton v Watford; Crystal Palace ...
West looks for positive performance
Mar 06, 2009 ... Manager Paul West is looking for a positive performance from hisEvesham United side when they travel to Oxford City tomorrow. The Robins are experiencing a spell of indifferent form but Westis confident after victory over Yate in his side's last outing. "It's always important ...
Collicutt's selection headache
Mar 06, 2009 ... Paul Collicutt is suffering a selection headache ahead of Bishop's Cleeve's important clash with Slough Town at Kayte Lanetomorrow. After losing their last two matches and conceding eight goals inthe process, Collicutt knows a win is crucial as he looks to liftthe confidence ...
Hughes wants Cirencester to bounce back
Mar 06, 2009 ... Cirencester Town manager Brian Hughes is hoping his side can putdefeat against Thatcham behind them when they travel to bottom sideWinchester City tomorrow. With their 10-match unbeaten run now over, Hughes is looking forhis side to bounce back at the first time of ...
Search for iPod owner
Mar 06, 2009 ... Police are trying to find the owners of an iPod and other itemswhich have been recovered and handed in. On February 20, a black 2GB Apple iPod was found in LeckhamptonRoad, Cheltenham, and a silver digital camera, ...
Tewkesbury regeneration plans revealed
Mar 06, 2009 ... Plans to regenerate Tewkesbury borough through an economicdevelopment and tourism strategy have been backed by councillors. The borough council is drawing up a strategy to cover the nextfive years. It intends to work with its partners on various ideasaimed at regenerating and ...
Dozens get busy networking
Mar 06, 2009 ... There was some hot networking when more than 40 people attendedthe Institute of Directors' Gloucestershire@6 event at theCanterbury Business Centre, in Ashchurch Road, Tewkesbury. The evening was jointly hosted by Charlton Networks, the ITinfrastructure solutions company, and ...
Guy becomes chair - again
Mar 06, 2009 ... Guy Hunter, the owner of Butlers Hotel in Cheltenham, has beenelected chairman of Cheltenham Hospitality Association (CHA). He previously held the title from 2003 to 2005. The CHA represents accommodation providers with a ...
Top tips to crush the crunch ; Craig Horne, Barclays local business area manager for Gloucestershire, examines which sectors are beating the crunch.
Mar 06, 2009 ... Craig Horne, Barclays local business area manager forGloucestershire, examines which sectors are beating the crunch. Figures gleaned from the spending habits of approximately 20million Barclays customers have revealed that the nation's takeawaysand coffee shops are among the ...
Bank action sees rates hit new low
Mar 06, 2009 ... The Bank of England slashed interest rates to a record low of 0.5per cent yesterday. The bank also prepared to pour an extra pounds75 billion into themoney supply in a bid to restart the recession-hit economy. The process - called quantitative easing - effectively ...
Cheese, wine and film
Mar 06, 2009 ... A Film of Churchdown through the ages will be shown at a specialevent. The Friends of St Bartholomew are organising the cheese and wineevening at St Andrew's ...
Museum returns to Jurassic era
Mar 06, 2009 ... Prehistoric times will come to life at Cirencester's CoriniumMuseum. The Park Lane venue is marking its National Science andEngineering Week. The Cotswold District Council-run museum will hold fiveactivities to highlight its collection of fossils and explore lifeduring the ...
Wife cooks up feast for leukaemia sufferer husband
Mar 06, 2009 ... Caroline fisher PATRICIA Boult cooked up a storm for a host of villagers tosupport her terminally- ill husband. She became a chef for one night at the Black Horse, Naunton, andthe close-knit community turned out to help raise pounds685 forLINC, the Leukaemia and Intensive ...
Vincent given injury boost as move put on hold
Mar 06, 2009 ... Ashley Vincent's knee injury is not as bad as the Cheltenham Townwinger originally feared. But the 23-year-old faces up to four weeks on the sidelines and apotential move away from Whaddon Road has been put on hold. Vincent was on the receiving end of a horror challenge ...
Top salon trims prices for child charity hairdos
Mar 06, 2009 ... Stylists Toni and Guy are offering haircuts for a snip in aid ofcharity. Staff at the Cheltenham branch, in Ormond Place, will betrimming, styling and grooming clients in return for a pounds10donation to charity. The fundraising effort is part of Toni and Guy's National ...
In cruise control
Mar 06, 2009 ... It's Sunday evening at 8pm and when I pull into Kingsditch RetailPark the cruise is already in full swing. Bright head-lamps and fluorescent under-car lighting illuminatethe venue, with some 150 cars transforming Malmesbury Road into ascene from the movies The Fast and The Furious ...
Cycle path project given pounds400 boost
Mar 06, 2009 ... A Campaign for a new cycle path has moved up a gear with a much-needed grant. The East Cotswold Strategic Partnership, between Fairford,Lechlade, Kempsford and Quenington, has received pounds400 from theGloucestershire Market Towns Forum to help it re-open a disusedrailway ...
Probe into power alert continues
Mar 06, 2009 ... Investigations are cont- inuing into the source of an envelopecontaining white powder which was sent to Endsleigh Insurance inShurdington. The package caused a security alert at the insurer's head officeswhen it was opened by a staff member on Tuesday morning. Emergency ...
Curfew was breached
Mar 06, 2009 ... A Teenager breached a 39-day curfew order 25 times because shedid not get on with her mother, a court heard. Charlene Holland, of Edward Wilson House, Hester's Way,Cheltenham, admitted the breaches when she appeared beforeGloucester magistrates. Eleanor Pierce, of Group Four ...
Top vet boycotts Crufts in welfare row
Mar 06, 2009 ... Celebrity vet Joe Inglis is boycotting top dog show Crufts. He has spoken out after the world-famous event became involved ina row over inherited genetic diseases caused by pedigree dogs'inbreeding. The scandal was sparked in a BBC1 documentary, Pedigree DogsExposed, which ...
Lancaster in garden talk
Mar 06, 2009 ... A Gardening guru will re-visit the famous garden he opened, aquarter of a century on. Horticulturalist Roy Lancaster is back at the Ernest WilsonMemorial Garden at Chipping Campden to give the annual lecture. He launched the attraction, at Leysbourne, in the High Street, ...
Burglar warned 'jail inevitable'
Mar 06, 2009 ... A Man who has admitted burgling two houses in Cheltenham is beingtaken around the town by police to point out other properties he hastargeted. Kenneth Davis, 27, has identified seven other premises he hasburgled and is asking for these offences to be considered when he ...
Playhouse seeks to show art-house films
Mar 06, 2009 ... Film buffs in Cheltenham will soon be able to see their favouriteart-house movies on the big screen. Cheltenham Playhouse, in Bath Road, has unveiled proposals toadapt its facilities into a cinema, which would feature top foreignlanguage movies such as Amelia and City of God, as ...
Jump to raise ms funds
Mar 06, 2009 ... Daredevils in Gloucestershire can take their fundraising to newheights to raise money for a multiple sclerosis charity. Kemble airfield, near Cirencester will host the MS Trust JuneJump, which last year raised more than pounds50,000 in sponsorship. MS is an incurable but ...
Join cancer carers - plea
Mar 06, 2009 ... A Cheltenham woman who cared for her terminally-ill father isappealing for people to support the charity which helped her somuch. June Fox is now a volunteer for Marie Curie Cancer Care, whichhelps look after terminally-ill patients in their homes. Now she isappealing for others ...
Anger over increased number of rubbish trucks
Mar 06, 2009 ... Furious residents living near a rubbish depot in Cheltenham havehit out at an increase in the number of lorries using the site. Angry locals claim they were denied the chance to object to themove, which will see Tewkesbury's rubbish collected by lorries fromthe Swindon Road ...
Green group to join protest
Mar 06, 2009 ... Members of the Leckhampton Green Land Action Group are heading toBristol to join a protest against new housing. The group, one of Gloucestershire's leading voices against theGovernment's Regional Spatial Strategy, is lending its support tothe Dundry Residents' Action ...
Morris taking it one game at a time
Mar 06, 2009 ... Cheltenham North coach Paul Morris is not counting the days tohis side's vital matches with their fellow relegation battlers. North host bottom side Camp Hill on March 28 and then travel toninth team Whitchurch before welcoming eighth outfit Walsall intheir last game in Midlands ...
Cheltenham not taking Salisbury lightly
Mar 06, 2009 ... After effectively knocking former South West Two East leadersReading out of the title race, Cheltenham know the hard work startsnow. The Prince of Wales Stadium outfit have five fixtures left andsit second, two points behind table toppers Maidenhead who they facein two ...
Pats looking up table rather than down
Mar 06, 2009 ... A Win at Weston-Super-Mare tomorrow should secure Old Patesians'place in the South West One top four at the end of the season. Fourth side Pats are three points ahead of fifth team Weston witha victory set to stretch that gap to five with four games left afterthis ...
Council bosses disappointed at drop in star rating
Mar 06, 2009 ... Emma atkinson GLOUCESTERSHIRE County Council's rating has dropped from fourstars to three following a Government watchdog assessment. But council bosses say it is not a fair representation as itfails to take into account a recent adult care rating which they ...
Fears over county c&g jobs as report published
Mar 06, 2009 ... There are fears hundreds of Cheltenham & Gloucester jobs in thecounty will be lost. A question mark hangs over the future of 1,400 people who workfor the bank in Gloucestershire, the majority of them at Barnwood. It is because of the merger of Lloyds TSB, which owns C&G, ...
Youngsters dress up for book day
Mar 06, 2009 ... Youngsters all over Gloucestershire dressed up as their favouritecharacters to celebrate World Book Day. Well-known literary figures put in appearances at primary schoolsand nurseries across the county, with an assortment of imaginativeand colourful costumes on show. The ...
Coach builder dies of asbestosis
Mar 06, 2009 ... Working at a railway coachbuilding factory in the 1950s claimedthe life of Kenneth Palmer half a century later, an inquest heard. A verdict of death from industrial disease was recorded on MrPalmer, of The Gables, Welford, near Fairford, after the inquestheard he died from the lung ...
Roadworks on the web
Mar 06, 2009 ... A New website will enable Gloucestershire residents to find outwhere roadworks are taking place at the click of a button. Gloucestershire County Council has relaunched its roadworks webpages and map, which shows where every scheme is taking place in thecounty. The county ...
Brown out to impress childhood hero
Mar 06, 2009 ... Goalkeeper Scott Brown will be out to impress one of hischildhood heroes when Cheltenham Town visit Leicester City tomorrow. The runaway League One leaders' goalkeeping coach is MikeStowell, who was Wolverhampton Wanderers' number one when a youngBrown was a regular among the home ...
Pub protesters trying their best
Mar 06, 2009 ... I Read with interest your article (Echo, February 5) on theprotestors trying to save the Greyhound Inn from being turned intoflats and the very prominent letter (with photo) from Russ P.S. Head(Echo, February 26) criticising the local MP and CAMRA members fornot being ...
Distracted driver 'wrote off 4x4'
Mar 06, 2009 ... Andrew mcgill A MAN preoccupied with his failing relationship wrote off a 4x4by carelessly ploughing his car into it, a court heard. Jason Davies said he had not been concentrating when he smashedinto Diane Gregory's Nissan X-Trail, injuring the Cheltenham mum. Davies, ...
Allen's short foxes reign
Mar 06, 2009 ... Martin Allen's footballing journey at Leicester City took himfrom the boardroom at the Walkers Stadium to pulling pints at hislocal pub. He landed the job of transforming City's fortunes afterflirtation with relegation from the Championship, but just 96 dayslater he had ...
Why can't they use same rules?
Mar 06, 2009 ... With reference to the fake blooms ban at grave of a hero (Echo,March 2). I feel sorry for Lesley Hill, I had trouble over a blackheadstone in Leckhampton church yard in memory of my daughter, and ...
Claims about nuclear power were incorrect
Mar 06, 2009 ... I Refer to the letter on March 2, which claims nuclear power isunsafe. Nuclear power reactors are designed to be inherently safe withthe basic laws of physics governing the chain reaction. If the rateof reaction increases for any reason, this increase itself willcause a decrease ...
Garden-grabbing application goes to government on technicality
Mar 06, 2009 ... A Controversial garden-grabbing proposal in Bishop's Cleeve, dueto be turned down, has gone straight to appeal. A developer wanted to knock down 132 Cheltenham Road, a detachedproperty with a large garden, in order to build eight homes. Tewkesbury Borough Council was set to ...
School has lots on offer
Mar 06, 2009 ... Students from Pate's Grammar School are holding a charitableauction tonight ahead of a trip to Romania. The sixth-formers have attracted dozens of items, including apleasure flight around the Cotswolds and a personalised watercolourpainting of your home. Next month, 26 ...
Car damage: Boys held
Mar 06, 2009 ... Police are investigating reports of youths allegedly playing onparked cars in Winchcombe. Two boys, both from the town, were arrested on suspicion ofcriminal damage following ...
Village forum online
Mar 06, 2009 ... A Blog for people in Bishop's Cleeve to discuss importantcommunity views will go live on Monday. The internet forum is being launched by the Gloucestershire Echoat a special meeting in the village on March 9. The session, hosted by Echo editor Kevan Blackadder, is open tothe ...
Care needed by hedge trimmers
Mar 06, 2009 ... Will farmers and contractors who trim hawthorn hedges withmechanical flails obey the law and keep highways and cycle pathsclear of their troublesome debris? The thorns left behind cause multiple punctures to cycle andwheelchair tyres, and ...
Gun enthusiast was no danger
Mar 06, 2009 ... I Refer to the story on the front page of the Echo (February 28) with the banner headline "Man found dead with gun stash". The unfortunate individual, Victor Cutter, was a law-abiding andtotally harmless individual who caused problems to no-one, had beena highly qualified engineer, ...
Has parenting taken back seat?
Mar 06, 2009 ... Kevin and Rachel Morris say they're doing nothing wrong, takingtheir two and four-year-old girls for a spin on Sunday nights. They say meeting up with other cruisers on Cheltenham'sKingsditch Retail Park is a "normal family outing". And well it might be: but then so is going to ...
Children out with the cruisers
Mar 06, 2009 ... Are Jessica-Sophie and Ellamay Morris the youngest cruisers inBritain? The toddlers, aged two and four, regularly join their parentsKevin and Rachel on Sunday evening trips to Kingsditch Retail Parkin Cheltenham. The girls take in the action from the back seat of their ...
Full steam ahead with civic pride
Mar 06, 2009 ... Cheltenham's Civic Pride scheme is steaming ahead and could evenbe re-branded. A bid for pounds240,000 funding from the South West RegionalDevelopment Agency is on the way from the borough council after ameeting between councillors and agency bosses last month which wasviewed as ...
Watchdog brands scrapping of GCHQ's secure it system as "appalling"
Mar 06, 2009 ... The scrapping of a secure IT system used by GCHQ for sharingsecret Government intelligence has been branded "appalling" by aparliamentary watchdog. The Intelligence and Security Committee said "tens of millions ofpounds" had been spent on the Scope system before it was dropped ...
Care home to be closed
Mar 06, 2009 ... Seven residents of a home for people with learning difficultieshave to move out by the end of the month. St Mary's in Hucclecote will close on March 31 and the residentswill be cared for individually within the community. NHS Gloucestershire, formerly the county's Primary Care ...
Pipe is backing berlais
Mar 07, 2009 ... David Pipe is hoping Madison Du Berlais can continue to surprisehim in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup. The trainer's star chaser will carry the purple, yellow and redcolours of Cheltenham co-owner Yvonne Reynolds in the feature raceon Friday. Madison Du Berlais is 8-1 ...
Alexander performs well in first road race
Mar 07, 2009 ... Cheltenham and County Cycling Club senior riders got their roadracing season underway at the prestigious St David's Day races onthe tough Parc Bryn Bach circuit near Tredegar in Wales. Ian Alexander lined up in the senior event for elite, first andsecond category riders, which was ...
Velo get set for season
Mar 07, 2009 ... Velo Club Montpellier held its Elite Team launch at Leisure LakesBikes in Cheltenham. The strong team of four riders will compete in national eliteraces across the country, including taking part in the high-statusPremier Calendar Series. The launch was a glitzy affair, with ...
Burns land knockout blow at Cleeve
Mar 07, 2009 ... Teenager Tommy Burns clinched victory in Cleeve Cloud's Marchmedal played in ideal conditions for some low-scoring rounds. Thirteen-year-old Burns won Division One, for handicaps up to 12,with a score of gross four-over-par 73, nett 64. With no birdies, two bogeys, one double ...
Registration
Mar 07, 2009 ... Registrations for the Cheltenham Skittles League front pincompetition need to be with the assistant secretary by March ...
Close win for ladies
Mar 07, 2009 ... After an extended winter break, Broadway Ladies returned toplaying competitive golf. Despite unsettled weather conditions all but one match managed tocomplete the nine-hole winter league round without getting wet. In a closely contested competition the first three pairs ...
Woodmancote's cricketing heroes are honoured
Mar 07, 2009 ... Woodmancote Cricket Club recently enjoyed its Annual Dinner andPresentation Evening. The season's star performers were presented with their trophiesby Club Vice-President John Llewellyn. The first XI batting award went to Richard Staff while thebowling was shared between Suda ...
Daredevil Richard heads striders' charge
Mar 07, 2009 ... Clc Striders had 13 competitors in the White Horse Winter FiveMile road race. Richard Dare led the team home, running a fine race for a veryrespectable time of 28.55 - placing him 17th overall in a high classfield. Next home was Phil Jowett in 27th place, two places ahead ...
Collett gearing up for new campaign
Mar 07, 2009 ... Event rider Laura Collett held an open morning at her yard inLower Swell, to show off the horses she will be riding this seasonin front of various owners and invited guests. Among them were Rayef, owned by Jason Houghton, who in 2007 wonteam and individual gold medals at the Junior ...