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Sex, talent and creatively aren’t just in the city, they’re in the Cotswolds too

Don’t make the mistake of thinking talent, creativity, excitement and sex are just in the city. They’re in the Cotswolds too.

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Photograph: courtesy of Wilts & Glos Standard

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Would you Adam and Eve it? 2 million pints, not out

80-year old Dot Gasson, probably Britain’s oldest working landlady, has finally decided to call last orders on a career spanning almost sixty years and well over two million pints pulled.

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Welcome to 2013

Welcome to 2013. For some of my clients, the year is already shaping up to be a good one. For other clients, it’s still a tough market where every bit of progress has to be fought for.

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CPRE responds to dismissal of Ecotricity’s Berkeley Vale Wind Farm appeal

CPRE response to the dismissal of Ecotricity’s Berkeley Vale Wind Farm appeal

CPRE’s Gloucestershire branch has welcomed the Inspector’s decision to refuse permission to build four 120 metre wind turbines in the Berkeley Vale.

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Investors fly to sustainable rental values.

Investors are not flying to prime, but to sustainable rental values, according to a panel of investors at this year’s ICSC European Conference in Berlin. Risk-averse investors are also concentrating on core European markets.

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Department stores must reinvent to survive.

Department stores need to reinvent themselves to survive, according to three quarters of delegates at the annual ICSC European Conference in Berlin.  Only 5% of the 550 conference delegates, thought the exiting format could be sustained.

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Alexander Otto announced ICSC’s new European Chair

Alexander Otto, Chief Executive Officer at ECE has been announced as Chair of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) European Advisory Board. The ICSC is the premier global trade association of the shopping-centre industry.

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National Trust Director General to give keynote Glos speech

The Campaign to Protect Rural England’s (CPRE)’s Gloucestershire Branch has announced that the Director General of the National Trust, Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE, will give the keynote speech at its AGM in on 11th July at Stowell Park by kind permission of Lord Vestey.

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Not just here for the beer

More than 100 people turned out for this year’s Arkell’s Publican’s Information day at the brewery in Swindon.  One man was so keen not to miss it that after a hard day’s work in London he drove straight to the brewery rather than heading home.

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Stanley Mann wins appeal on 1930s Bentley Speed Six

STANLEY MANN WINS APPEAL

Car Dealer and vintage Bentley expert Stanley Mann of Radlett Hertfordshire today won his appeal in the Court of Appeal against a judgment handed down by HH Judge Anthony Thornton last October.

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