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Artist Will Help Pupils at Festival

AN international artist will be helping Broadway school children make their mark at the village's inaugural arts festival.  Jeremy Houghton, who lives in Broadway, will visit pupils at Broadway First School and St Mary's Primary School, as well as Prince Henry's High School in Evesham and Chipping Campden School, to tell them about the festival and encourage them to take part.

The 35-year-old, who is on the festival's organising committee, will accompany the Broadway schools in May on a trip to the garden at Russell House where artist John Singer Sargent worked on his celebrated painting Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose.

THIS MONTH! The new Availability and Booking System

accommodation_langholmEarly this month we shall be launching our new availability and booking system.  We are in the final stages of launching this system and are i nthe process of informing the accommodation providers who have signed up for our system of how it works and allowing time for them to enter their availability details into the system.  Read more about the sytem here

 

Car Parking

35 years Ago April 10, 1975 THE proposed car park at Wolds End, Chipping Campden, has been deferred pending a visit by the director of planning, Mr T Ridge, to the annual parish meeting at Campden next Wednesday. The car park is expected to be the most controversial item at the meeting, which always attracts a boisterous full house, and Mr Ridge has been invited to be there to answer questions. The Cotswold planning committee therefore decided at its meeting to make no decision at present on an outline application by the director of technical services of the Cotswold District Council to construct a car park for about 200 cars and 10 coaches. The area planning officer, Mr Ivor Jones, told the committee that the town council felt that the car park was out of scale. The Campden Society objected to the plan and maintained there were 10 alternative sites.

Literature Festival

A literature festival is being launched in Chipping Campden with the box office opening today.  Organisers are hoping visitors will flock to the inaugural event in the picture- sque Cotswold town, boosting the economy.

From May 4 to May 8 townsfolk of all ages and visitors alike are being invited to readings, poetry and workshops in various venues throughout the town.

The festival is the first of its kind and will be celebrating the art of writing and the joy of reading. Its theme - In The Margins - explores what it is to be on the edge of society.

One of the organisers from Campden Bookshop Nikki Holt said: "The lively informative events include readings by highly acclaimed contemporary authors and talks and workshops in various venues including Chipping Campden School."

She said it was hoped the festival would bring about sharing of ideas in the pursuit of reading and writing.

Artistic director Vicky Bennett thought up the idea, supported by Ms Holt and her colleague Mary Gray.

Ms Holt added: "Without any public funding or grants, all of this has been made possible by our sponsor Lloyds Pharmacy, and the festival is also in partnership with Chipping Campden senior school."

Other events include storytelling for children in the local library and poetry readings by Chipping Campden School pupils to the residents of Mill House and a literary trail around Chipping Campden.

Fringe events include Henry Porter with his novel The Dying Lights and Paddington Bear selling the ‘little issue'.

Tickets to the event are on sale in Chipping Campden Book Shop in the High Street. For further information visit campdenlitfest. co.uk. Mrs Holt said there had already been lots of interest from people looking on the website.

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