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Night Owl Rocks Back the Clock ; the Section That Celebrates the Best Years of Your Life

Jimi sat on the sofa just behind you," says Stu Phillips, pointing to the corner of his office. "Someone sent me a picture of him recently, from before he went on stage." Hendrix played the Night Owl in Cheltenham, then called the Blue Moon, on February 11, 1967. Stu, who now owns the High Street club, first visited it in 1984. He's 42 now, but had to sneak past the bouncers, because he was underage at the time. "My mates and I loved rock music like AC/DC, and this was the place to come," he ...

Moon Club Was the Place to Be Seen

I misspent some serious chunks of my teenage years at the old Blue Moon Club. Back in the Sixties, when I went there regularly, it was THE place to see and be seen for mods from all over Gloucestershire.

What Kind of Hospital Do You Want?

People living in the Bridgwater area are being invited to share their views about the sort of health services they would like to see delivered from the town's new community hospital. NHS Somerset is now preparing an outline business case for the development of the new hospital to replace the existing hospital on Salmon Parade. Since 2007 it has been pursuing an ambitious investment plan to replace four of its oldest community hospitals with new hospitals, fit to deliver 21st-century healthcar...

Top-Level Talks Aimed at Seeing Off Seagulls ; Meeting with Government Officials Over Bird 'Menace'

They may well be the West Country's least-liked bird and it now seems that even Whitehall is going to try to scare off the seagull. The problems caused by gulls in the West's seaside towns and Bristol, Bath, Cheltenham and Gloucester are well-documented, but a solution to halting their burgeoning populations has so far eluded local authorities.

D-Day for Donations to Charity

Businesses are being urged to take part in a clothes recycling scheme to help homeless cats and dogs in Bath. Bath Cats and Dogs Home has come up with an easy way of donating, called D-Day, whereby employees bring in one item of clothing or bric-a-brac for the charity.

Wheat Yields Down

Wheat production is down on the five-year average by over a million tonnes this year. Harvest survey returns show both area and average yields have reduced - with part of the blame at least laid on the appalling planting conditions last autumn.

A Happy Pig Tale ; It's Many Years Since Wiltshire Could Claim to Be the Centre of Uk Bacon. But Though the Large Processors Have Gone, One Farmer Keeps Up the Tradition, As Chris Rundle Discovered

If you only normally buy from a supermarket you will notice something unusual happening when you drop a rasher of Roger Keen's bacon into a frying pan. It sizzles, shrinks slightly, curls up and finally browns attractively. No suspicious white gunge oozes out of it, the contents of the pan don't spit at you and there is no suspicious chemical smell either - just a faint, seductive aroma of wood smoke.

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Tv Advert of Cheese Memories

One of the South West's best-known independent cheesemakers is investing an impressive Pounds 800,000 in a new autumn TV advertising campaign. Wyke Farms, based in Wyke Champflower, near Bruton, is now the country's largest independent cheese producer and milk processor.

Labour's Brave Face Fails to Fool Anyone

The Labour Party enters its conference in Brighton with its leaders in defiant mood even though, some would say, they face the prospect of annihilation at the forthcoming general election. But while the Prime Minister, Peter Hain and other luminaries do their utmost to bolster morale and insist that all is not lost, there is nevertheless an overwhelming fear and feeling that political disaster is waiting for them just around the corner.

Speaker Is Right to Call Off Search for Expenses Mole

The maligned Commons Speaker John Bercow, inset, has got something right - and he should be commended for that. He has stopped the hunt (started by his predecessor Michael Martin) for the mole who leaked details of the MPs' expenses scandal, saying it is wrong because it gives the impression that the MPs, and not the taxpayers, were the victims of this whole affair. In addition, he said it was a waste of public money.

The Fact Is - She Broke the Law

The storm over Baroness Scotland, the Attorney General, and her illegalimmigrant servant gets murkier as each day passes. The sacked former housekeeper Loloahi Tapui swears that she did not show Lady Scotland her passport when she was first employed in January.

Nick's Dream Out of Reach

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, ended his "Why I want to be Prime Minister" speech at the party's conference, with what can only be described as a "Hugathon". He appeared to be hugging every male within arm's reach and kissing the ladies, even those who did not demurely offer up their cheeks to this silver-tongued Lothario who has boasted that he has enjoyed not more than 30 women in his time.

No Wonder She's Cross

I am not surprised that the veteran Liberal Democrat peeress Lady (Shirley) Williams has taken a dig - in her new book - at the late Roy Jenkins, a fellow member of the so-called Gang of Four in the old and short-lived Social Democrat Party. Because it was he who explained her absence at a press conference by quite unnecessarily telling reporters that she had got on the wrong train.

Tv Baby 'in No Danger' ; Watchdog Finds Wife Swap Did Not Break Rules

AN episode of Wife Swap in which a Bristol mum said she never got out bed until midday and then gave her daughter a bag of crisps for breakfast/lunch did not breach the broadcasting code, Ofcom ruled yesterday. The programme, which prompted 50 complaints and was broadcast on Channel 4 on June 21, featured 22-year-old Kelly Moyston, from Bristol, who said she fed her young daughter Georgina junk food and regularly stayed in bed for half a day.

Flying the Flags for Carnival

Italian-style street flags will help flag up Europe's largest illuminated carnival in its home town of Bridgwater. Former mayor and mayoress, Graham and Kay Granter, nominated Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival as their official charity while holding the prestigious positions last year, and some of the money raised has now been used to buy 140 flags each 4ft 6in x 3ft to be mounted on poles and hung in the town-centre streets.