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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Ball and Chain wedding ale for Alex and Alice

Ball and Chain wedding ale for Alex and Alice

27-year old head brewer Alex Arkell has been keeping himself busy in the run up to his wedding later this month to long-time sweetheart Alice Braithwaite.

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Stone Roofs add character to a landscape

Stone Roofs

From the Cotswolds valleys to the Yorkshire moors, stone roofs represent the character of the British landscape. So much so that a house with a badly laid roof, or one using the wrong roofing materials for the local environment, stands out a mile – and not for the right reasons.

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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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Hop Harvest delivers for Arkell’s

Everyone’s heard of food miles, but Arkell’s Brewery has believed in beer miles for years – and at hop harvest time head brewer Alex Arkell drives just eight miles down the road to inspect this year’s hop crop, at Berkshire Hops, Kingston Bagpuize (which is actually in Oxfordshire – confusing we know).

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Alex has brewery over a barrel

Wiltshire brewery, Arkell’s will take delivery of over £200,000 of new beer barrels over the next five years.

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Haskoll wins refurbishment project on Finland’s biggest shopping centre

Award-winning architects Haskoll have commenced a €90 million project to renovate Itäkeskus, Finland’s largest shopping centre first opened in 1984.   When completed in 2014, the centre will be repositioned and reaffirmed as the country’s leading shopping centre.

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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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