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  • Location is important, but so is an open mind

    SEBASTIAN Hipwood, head of Savills Cirencester, explains why lateral thinking is key to a successful property search. The rhetoric of location, location, location being the most important factor when purchasing a property is still true, with most

  • House hunting, like Brexit, sometimes needs compromise

    I READ with interest this week a report from the BBC taken from data compiled from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), that 77 per cent of their members surveyed were of the opinion that both buyers and sellers were currently ‘sitting

  • Apply for grants to conserve the countryside in the Cotswolds

    THE Cotswolds Conservation Board is offering grants for projects and activities that conserve the special qualities of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and improves the public’s enjoyment of the area. The deadline for applications

  • Extraordinary Elsie celebrates her 109th birthday

    A CIRENCESTER resident has celebrated a remarkable birthday with family and friends. Elsie Duffy marked her 109th birthday in style on Friday, March 15, with a party for family, friends, residents and staff at Hunters Care Centre in Cherry Tree

  • Huge Cirencester employer takes steps into robotics market

    LEADING international orthopaedic company, Corin Group, which is based in Cirencester, is entering the orthopaedic robotics market. The company has announced an agreement to acquire US-based surgical robotic leader OMNI Orthopaedics Inc, a pioneer

  • Thought for the Week, the gentle kindness of Buddhists

    Thought for the Week with Pammy Michell HELLO from hot Laos! I am here with my husband Paul after visiting my son in Vietnam. We are now travelling in SE Asia as lightly and ethically as we can. I have been Buddhist for over 40 years, and

  • Plans to develop historic pub into flats refused

    THE fightback against Cirencester’s pub closures appears to have begun. Members of Cotswold District Council have blocked a planning application to change the landmark Waggon and Horses into five flats. Council officers had recommended the change