Cotswold Chatterblog

Cotswolds based bakery Four Anjels are finalists in the Bakery Category of the Heart of England Fine Foods (HEFF) Diamond Awards. Four Anjels have two products in the running for an award - Four Anjels Stem Ginger Cake and Four Anjels Stem Ginger Biscuits and the winners will be revealed on Saturday May 17th at HEFF’s 10th Anniversary “Dinner of the Decade” at the Coventry Ricoh Arena. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: cotswolds | food | draycott | moreton

Million year old fossils, strange fungi and the secrets of a Cotswold farm are all waiting to be discovered during the May half term break.

The Cotswolds Conservation Board is providing a programme of ten short family strolls across the AONB, which are designed to provide families with the opportunity to get out and about over the school holidays. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: walks | conservation

Following last Friday’s announcement that all twelve Cotswolds’ Post Offices subject to consultation were to close, Cotswolds MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown yesterday tried a last ditch personal appeal to Mark Partington the Network Development Manager of Post Office Ltd. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: cirencester | post office | cotswolds

Friday 9th May to Sunday 18th May - Brathay, Ambleside in the Lake District
Steve Edwards from Moreton-in-the Marsh has one day left before he starts his World Record Challenge to run the fastest ever cumulative time for 10 marathons in 10 days. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: cotswolds | marathon | charity | moreton

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, MP for the Cotswolds, today reacted with anger and disbelief at the news received over the weekend that the closure of the Post Office branches at Stratton, The Beeches, Weston-sub-Edge and Meysey Hampton is to go ahead as scheduled following Post Office Ltd’s public consultation. Read the rest of this entry »

Businesses will be boosted thanks to a £6,500 grant awarded to Cotswold District Council to help improve health and safety in workplaces.

The funding – which has come from the Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust – will be used to help the Council’s Food and Safety team to deliver important messages to businesses to safeguard the health of employees across the Cotswolds.  Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: cotswolds | safety | health

The Better Accessible Responsible Development Campaign Group (BARD) organised two public meetings in Honeybourne and Mickleton last Friday - 25th April - to discuss the proposed new Eco-Town at Middle Quinton. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: cotswolds | mickleton | gloucestershire | warwickshire | worcestershire | honeybourne | eco-town

Helping communities all over the Cotswolds to cope with whatever fate may throw at them is the task for recently-returned Cotswold District Council employee Tim Dowan.

Tim is the authority’s new Community Resilience Liaison Officer, and has a key role helping towns and villages prepare for future emergencies, while helping them to recover and learn from problems in the past. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: cotswolds | floods

Cotswolds based Steve Edwards has completed marathon number 453 in his world record challenge to complete 500 marathons in an average time of under 200 minutes- 3 hours 20 minutes. Marathon number 453 was completed in 3 hours 12 minutes and 57 seconds - so Steve is well on target and for once this was a local marathon so he didn’t have to spend hours travelling as well as hours running. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: cotswolds | marathon | shakespeare | warwickshire

Saturday 10th May 19.00 for 19.30 Ebrington Village Hall, Ebrington, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire.
Ebrington is again holding it’s annual Home Made Wine Festival and everyone is welcome to come and taste the proceeds.

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