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• Karter Hughes outguns his Rissington rivals

  CASTLE Eaton's Richard Hughes continued his run of victories in the Senior Rotax class at Rissington on Sunday. read more

• Wilts CCC suffer disappointing start to new campaign

  WILTSHIRE CCC produced a dismal performance to lose to Oxfordshire at Banbury in their first Minor Counties Championship match of 2005 by a massive margin of 257 runs. read more

• Savoyards new show

  THE COTSWOLD Savoyards present Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham from Monday, June 13 to Saturday, June 18. read more

• Magical win for Lechlade CC in National Village Knockout

  LECHLADE conjured up a spell of pure magic in the National Village Knockout last weekend with their surprise defeat of the mighty Goatacre. read more

• A tail of two sergeants

  HAVING played a leading role in taking Malmesbury police station to the top of the county crime busting charts Sgt Gavin Williams is moving on. read more

• Waterman takes his kart to first British Championship win

  MORETON-in-Marsh kart racer Will Waterman has scored his first outright victory in the British Championship, beating his nearest rival by just two-100ths of a second! read more

• La Boheme kicks off Longborough Opera season

  THE 2005 season at Longborough Festival Opera opens on Friday, June 17 with Puccini's bittersweet La Boheme in a new production designed especially for LFO by the Opera Project. read more

• African beats to echo across the Water Park

  TONIGHT, June 9 at 8pm, the roof of the Gateway Centre at the Cotswold Water Park will be reverberating to the sounds of Black Umfolosi. read more

• Science festival kicks off in Cheltenham

  THE ever more popular Cheltenham Science Festival began yesterday and runs until June 12, bringing with it a marvellous mix of scientific material to suit all tastes and all ages. read more

• Week of mixed racing for Swindon RC riders

  A WEEK of mixed racing brought good results for members of Swindon Road Club. read more

• Dance show to hit Cheltenham

  IMAGES of Dance, the vivacious young company, directed by Margaret Barbieri, former principal dancer of the Royal Ballet, makes its first visit to the Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham for one night only on Wednesday, June 15 at 7.30pm. read more

• New jobs for the county

  A NEW study suggests 18,000 new jobs will be created in Gloucestershire over the course of the next decade. read more

• Music among the trees at Westonbirt

  WESTONBIRT Arboretum will echo to the sound of heavy metal, rock, pop, dance - you name it - when Beautiful South perform a back-to-back show with Madness on Friday, June 17 and Saturday, June 18, the first of the Westonbirt summer season of concerts, promoted by the Forestry Commission. read more

• Dan Duke wins the Fairford 10k in record time

  THE prolific Dan Duke admirably demonstrated his liking for the annual Fairford 10k by winning Sunday's event for the third year in succession. read more

On this day: Cirencester Archive