The US remake of This Country is missing a vital ingredient – Cotswolds humour
This Country has been remade by people have never been to the Swindon branch of TK Maxx, or even a steam fair. What s the point?
Charlie Cooper and Daisy May Cooper in This Country
You can’t take Kerry and Kurtan Mucklowe out of the village. You just can’t. The Cotswold setting is the absolute heart of This Country. It’s in the cadence, the characters, the countryside surroundings – charming and curiously bleak all at once. It’s territory that Charlie and Daisy Cooper, the show’s creators and stars, know well. The West Country is inherently hilarious – a humour that can’t be replicated anywhere in the world.
LOCAL ELECTIONS
Clockwise from top left: Pam Adams (Labour), Geoffrey King (Lib Dem), Rod Hebden (Green) and Sudha Nukana (Conservative) One of Swindon’s best-known buildings sits towards the margins of Rodbourne Cheney ward – but will be at the heart of the campaign running up to the May 6 elections. The famous Oasis dome is prominent in the south part of the ward but arguments about how the leisure centre – leased by Swindon Borough Council to Seven Capital – came to be closed, how soon it can be reopened or whether it is better to rebuild a new centre will continue all the way up to polling day.
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Elena Cocca, 25, opened Impact Studio and Impact Beauty in Old Town s Godwin Court in October. While closed under lockdown rules, she learned this month she had topped the Best of Brows category at the UK Hair and Beauty Awards. Elena said: “I opened the beauty salon at the end of last year, it’s everything under one roof except for hair. “I’ve been in the beauty industry since I was 16 years old and since then my dream has been to open my own salon. I started off at Swindon College where I did a brow course and ever since then that’s been my passion.
THE Duke of Edinburgh made several official visits to Swindon during his long life, both with the Queen and in his own right. The first was on February 12, 1960, when he came here to perform two duties and crowds of cheering spectators lined the streets along his toute through the town. The first of those duties was at the Drill Hall in Church Street, where he presented an accolade called the Trophy Challenge Shield to 4th Battalion The Wiltshire Regiment (TA). Later that day, he visited what was then Pressed Steel but is now BMW’s plant in Stratton St Margaret, where he was given a guided tour by managers and frequently paused to speak with production line workers. During this period, the Duke was very active in promoting British industry and encouraging bosses to make their businesses as competitive as possible.