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Stories for 1 February 2006

Leisure

The rhythms of the East

JAPANESE taiko drummers Joji Hirota and Hidekazu Kato will be appearing at Number 8 Community Arts Centre in Pershore next month as one of only three performances during their UK spring tour.   more...

A band's big sound

THE newly-formed John Wood Big Band will be presenting their Strictly Swing concert at Evesham Arts Centre on the weekend of February 18 and 19.   more...

Gaslight - Everyman, Cheltenham

THERE is a narrow line between intense domestic drama and melodrama, especially when the setting is clasically Victorian.   more...

The Creeper - Malvern Theatres

FUNNY sort of job, being a young live-in male companion to a slightly dotty old landed gentry type.   more...

The sounds of the Savoy

TAKING a break from their six-year resident spot at the Savoy Hotel, the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra offer a cocktail of jazz, swing and dance band classics from the Art Deco era, played and sung with style, humour and impeccable musicianship.   more...

Icons of showbiz together on stage

LOVERS of those two icons of showbiz Frank Sinatra and Shirley Bassey are in for a treat at Evesham Arts Centre on Saturday.   more...

Folk and feminism on theatre's menu

A FOLK festival, Gardener's Question Time, an evening with Germaine Greer and a Pinter double bill are the February highlights at The Theatre, Chipping Norton.   more...

Caine's tough guy makes an entrance

RED Shift Theatre Company won rave reviews for their last production, a film noir-style adaptation of The Third Man and now they are giving the same treatment to another iconic movie.   more...

If you go down to the woods...

BREAKING new ground, The Oxford School of Drama will present its first musical, Into The Woods, by Stephen Sondheim, at The Theatre, Chipping Norton, from Thursday, February 9, until the following Saturday.   more...

Coward and the ex-factor

DIVORCEES Amanda and Elyot thought they had seen the last of each other but in an uncanny coincidence five years on they find themselves honeymooning with their new respective spouses in the same hotel.   more...

Sport

Season's spoils shared out

THE annual presentation evening of the Evesham and District Disabled Club, sponsored by Partnership's, took place at Badsey Recreation Club last Friday when the honours of a successful season were handed out.   more...

Nigel turns up the heat as Town peg turns up trumps

LAST Saturday saw the penultimate round of the Fisheasy Teams Winter League where ten teams are vying for a place in the prestigious Avon Teams Championships to be staged at the annual Evesham Festival in August.   more...

Indoor nets to start

EVESHAM Cricket Club's quest for further glory gets under way next Wednesday evening with the start of indoor nets, coaching and training.   more...

Stow rock bottom after woe on road

Bletchley 21pts, Stow 7   more...

Friendly success tonic ahead of visit in Vase

Evesham 12pts, Hereford II 5   more...

King stays cool!

Bromsgrove Vets 17,   more...

Four for Buchanan as visitors fly high

Birmingham Exiles II 12, Shipston III 48pts   more...

Charlie the darling with top try treble

SHIPSTON Under-12s visited Stratford last Sunday when both teams played with great spirit and commitment.   more...

Juniors out in force

A JUNIOR section now boasting 55 members has led to junior organiser Jenny Reynolds having to reorganise the coaching and competition schedule for the forthcoming season at Chip-ping Norton Golf Club.   more...

Trio at the top

THE fifth round of the Winter League at Broad-way turned the attention to the greensomes format and again scoring was excellent.   more...

Thwarted by late stop

Wootton Bassett 2, Blockley Ladies 1   more...

Captain aggrieved after late goal loser

Walsall 1, Evesham 0   more...

Solitary goal settles it as Bretforton lose on travels

Lansdowne 1, Bretforton Ladies 0   more...

Bredon's cup exit

Bredon 0, Drakes Broughton U-16 3   more...

Court action

NEXT Tuesday sees the start of the Primary Schools High 5 Netball League.   more...

Bell given a bashing

SECOND from bottom of Division Three of the Birdseye Sports Evesham Sunday League, Stratford-based Queens put their struggles behind them when rattling up their biggest ever league win.   more...

Kwik on the draw!

SIX Special Schools from all over Gloucestershire came together at the GL1 Leisure Centre in Gloucester for the second county disability cricket festival staged during the past 12 months.   more...

Star Charity hopes dimmed by Town's seven-up sparkle

Tewkesbury Tn 7, Star FC 1   more...

Saints into play-off spot but progress not assured

SHIPSTON were hoping to earn themselves a place in the Cotswold League play-offs this week but had to endure two close and well-fought matches.   more...

County help for coaches

NEXT month, the Gloucestershire Sports Partnership will play host to the single biggest week-long event to help develop sporting coaches in the region.   more...

Latest crib league round-up

Moreton and District League   more...

Latest darts league news

Birdseye Sports Evesham   more...

Saints into play-off spot but progress not assured

SHIPSTON were hoping to earn themselves a place in the Cotswold League play-offs this week but had to endure two close and well-fought matches.   more...

Nigel nicks Skeet honours

MEMBERS of Childswickham Gun Club met for the first time in 2006 last Sunday to contest for the Herbert Sandals Skeet Cup.   more...

Elite stay on top

Evesham and District Table Tennis Association   more...

County help for coaches

NEXT month, the Gloucestershire Sports Partnership will play host to the single biggest week-long event to help develop sporting coaches in the region.   more...

Golden girls row to a glorious hat-trick

EVESHAM Rowing Club's junior girls were on top form at last Sunday's Stourport Head of the River as they returned home with three wins and two second place finishes.   more...

`H' bombers blast down Broadway

ILMINGTON rattled in six of the best at home and away in the Stratford Alliance last Saturday.   more...

Bonetti back in town

THE annual coaching week organised by Evesham Uni-ted's junior section takes place at Evesham High School during half-term week.   more...

Road weary Robins back to old ways

Halesowen Tn 2, Evesham Utd 0   more...

Junior round-up . . . Junior round-up . . . Junior round-up

Combe 5, Moreton Rgrs U-13 3   more...

Queens queue up to score as Bell blitzed

SECOND from bottom of Division Three of the Birdseye Sports Evesham Sunday League, Stratford-based Queens put their struggles behind them when rattling up their biggest ever league win.   more...

Results, fixtures and tables

Results   more...

Tigers need taming in relegation scrap

ONE win and nine points from the last 11 matches is hardly the sort of form to lead Evesham supporters to believe that their side can avoid relegation, writes Mervyn Collins.   more...

Treble topper

Cheltenham Saracens 3, Moreton Rgrs 3   more...

  
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