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The Royal International Air Tattoo, due to take place at RAF Fairford in the Cotswolds this summer, has been cancelled.
A statement from the Tattoo organisers said: “It is with enormous regret and disappointment that we have to announce the cancellation of this year’s Royal International Air Tattoo, due to take place from 17 to 19 July, as a result of the challenging and unprecedented environment presented by COVID-19.

Sir Michael Morpurgo, the internationally bestselling author of War Horse and Private Peaceful, has issued a letter to supporters of the Barn Theatre in Cirencester, pleading for support as the theatre launches its Save Our Barn campaign.
Last Wednesday, the Barn Theatre announced that their production of Patrick Barlow’s Ben Hur, and all future performances including the world premiere of Vicki Berwick’s stage adaptation of Morpurgo’s The Mozart Question, would be postponed until further notice due to the Government guidelines around Covid-19 and in response to the Prime Minister’s statement.

Staff at Da Luigi Bistro in Chipping Campden will don nurses’ tunics for a Nightingale Night of great Italian food and entertainment on 12th May – the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.

The Cotswolds’ much-loved Cornbury Music Festival has announced Irish singer-songwriter and all-round superstar Ronan Keating and legendary US troubadours America to head its Sunday night line-up.

A case of coronavirus has been confirmed in the Cotswolds.
Debra Lapthorne, centre director for Public Health England South West, said today (Saturday): “Public Health England is contacting people who had close contact with one of the latest confirmed cases of COVID-19. The case is a resident from the Cotswolds area and became infected whilst in Northern Italy.

The first residents to move in at a luxury housing development in the Cotswolds have bought ‘new’ for the very first time in their homeowning history.
Eleanor French and her husband Jim Collinson moved into their brand new three-bedroom Wyatt home at St Jude’s Meadow in Milton-under-Wychwood at the end of 2019, having previously only lived in older, second-hand properties across Oxfordshire.

The Cotswold village of Bibury has been revealed as being amongst the most ‘Instagrammable’ villages in the world.
The picturesque village, which attracts visitors from all over the world, was rated the most Instagrammable village in the UK with over 78,000 hashtags in a new survey.

The Church Times Festival of Faith and Literature 2020, the popular literary festival with a theological twist, will take place from 21-22 February at Bloxham School, Oxfordshire.
Novelists, broadcasters, journalists, actors, poets, historians, theologians, artists, priests and a bishop are among the wide range of speakers taking part in this month’s festival.

Cotswold District Council is taking a leadership role in bringing together all 15 local authorities within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) to work together more effectively to protect and enhance this iconic landscape.

Local boy Jack Savoretti, a festival favourite discovered at Cornbury Music Festival in his early days, now holding court on prime time TV shows, bags the Saturday, July 11, headline slot this year.

The team at Hoburne Cotswold has met with the Alzheimer’s Society after the South Cerney holiday park raised almost £8,000 for the care and research charity.
Hoburne Cotswold chose Alzheimer’s Society as its nominated charity for 2019 and initially pledged to raise £5,000.

Athelstan Museum Malmesbury are thrilled to announce their acquisition of the watercolour of Malmesbury Abbey by the world famous artist Joseph Mallord William Turner.
This acquisition was made possible by £380,900 National Lottery funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and funding from Art Fund.

Cotswold resident and professional comedy magician Tom Elliott is to preview his new show, ‘Oh My Days’ at the Sundial Theatre in Cirencester on Friday, May 15 ahead of his debut run at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer.

Plans to build a new railway line from Kemble to Cirencester are back on track after councillors agreed to bridge a funding gap.
Fundraising for a £53,000 feasibility study on the line had hit the buffers until a meeting of Cotswold District Council signalled a £13,000 cash injection to make up the shortfall.

Cornbury Music Festival begins with a mighty double bill this summer of legendary troubadour Van Morrison and electropop singer songwriter Dido.
These big-hitting stars will both take to the stage on Friday, July 10, the first day of the three-day festival held at the stunning Great Tew Estate in Oxfordshire.

A Cotswold coaching inn is offering guests a ‘wellbeing package’ that is the perfect way to shake off the winter blues.
The luxurious staycation at the King’s Arms at Didmarton is being offered from just £96.