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• Reaching for the stars

  Essence tucks in at the award-winning restaurant at Whatley Manor read more

• Sitting in the dock, at the Bay

  THE Tudor period is my favourite historical time and secretly I always fancied strutting around in my own Elizabethan castle or house, so I was looking forward to my stay at the Bay Tree Hotel, Burford - the 'Gateway to the Cotswolds'. read more

• Class joker has the last laugh

  When Nick Page left school 18 years ago, the words of his final report gave a less than optimistic view of his future working life: "Nick has to learn that being the centre of attention is not a career option!" wrote one of his senior teachers. read more

• Marines Pole-axed by trio

  THREE Cotswold businessmen have defied the odds and beat off Royal Marines and polar bear attacks to win what has been dubbed 'the world's toughest event'. read more

• All the fun of the fair!

  COME and join the fun at this year's Suzuki Cotswold Show and Country Fair, which will once again take place in the beautiful setting of Cirencester Park. read more

• Not a run-of-the-mill day out

  National Mills Weekend, in May of each year, gives visitors an opportunity to discover some of the watermills and windmills that are such an important part of this country's agricultural and industrial heritage. read more

• The perfect retreat

  A garden should be a place of contemplation, relaxation and, above all enjoyment, says Cotswold-based garden designer Nick Dickinson. read more

• All Works and no play?

  We loved the first MINI Cooper S Works ddition and the latest version ups the ante still further. Essence goes giant killing. read more

• Up for global adventure?

  Essence meets a Cirencester-based organisation that sends people to the most inhospitable parts of the world... for fun. read more

• 18 holes

  It's often said by devotees that a bad day on the golf course is still better than any day in the office. That's particularly true when playing in the beauty of The Cotswolds. read more

• All the fun of the fair

  Essence looks forward to July's Cotswold Show and Country Fair. read more

• Have a make-over and feel a million dollars!

  A Cirencester company has launched a trendy make-over and photo shoot business - and is making local ladies feel great, as Essence discovered. read more

• Flower power

  For a brief, two-week period at the end of May each year, locals in the Gloucestershire village of South Woodchester can be seen in the hedgerows picking elderflowers by the handful. read more

• How Cirencester celebrated as the War was won

  Sixty years ago, at 3pm on May the 8th 1945, a crowd gathered in Cirencester Market Place to hear a radio relay of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's broadcast announcing the end of the war in Europe. read more

• Contemporary living... in a barn!

  Formerly used as a store for grain and wool, an 18th Century Maltings barn has now been given a future that combines its Cotswold heritage with the best in 21st Century Gloucestershire architectural design and construction. read more

• Welcome to Cotswold Essence... on-line

  Welcome to Cotswold Essence... the website. read more

• Blackpool rocks!

  Essence gets behind the wheel of the Lancashire-built TVR Sagaris. read more

• Who's watching who at the Air Tattoo?

  While you're watching the planes at Fairford, who's watching you, wonders Essence? read more

• An exclusive welcome to the Corinium Museum

  The newly-refurbished Corinium Museum offers a fascinating evening out exclusively to Cotswold Essence readers. See the end of this article for details! read more

• Second chance for posh clobber

  When Linda Purvis received a phone call from television fashion gurus Trinny and Susannah her Cirencester business took on a dramatic makeover of its very own. read more

On this day: Cirencester Archive