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New Gloucestershire events calendars

While readers regularly get in touch to say how much they enjoy the Gloucestershire events calendar, the SoGlos.com team has also been asked to come up with specific calendars for the six main areas of our fine county. Hey presto! Check out the new, dedicated Cheltenham events calendar, Cotswolds events calendar, Forest of Dean events calendar, Gloucester events calendar, Stroud events calendar and, last but not least, the Tewkesbury events calendar. With longer days and the weather brightening up, there's never been a better time to get out there and enjoy everything Gloucestershire has to offer...

Gloucestershire spas, restaurants, music and more

With the New Year in full swing, the SoGlos.com team have already been busy, busy, busy. Highlights include the new Gloucestershire Spa break guide, a review of modern European eatery Merlot Brasserie in Cheltenham and a preview of the not-to-be-missed Cheltenham Folk Festival 2008 - not to mention a whole host of new Gloucestershire events just around the corner. You'll also find the Gloucestershire live music gig guide, Gloucestershire art exhibition guide and Gloucestershire restaurant reviews jam-packed as ever. And who said January was a miserable month?...

New Gloucestershire Theatre & Comedy section

The SoGlos.com team are delighted to announce the online magazine's brand new, dedicated Gloucestershire Theatre & Comedy section.

Theatre and comedy events were previously covered in the Gloucestershire Art & Culture section, but with the wealth of fantastic performances being held at venues including The Everyman Theatre, The Roses Theatre, The Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham Town Hall and Gloucester's Guildhall - cramming everything in was no mean feat.

The new section will thus offer Gloucestershire residents and visitors an unrivaled guide to county stage performances, while the team will be able to focus more on attractions, art and museums in the original Gloucestershire Art & Culture section.

Gloucestershire Pride of Place

The national Pride of Place website has set out to try and find the locations and attractions across England which members of the public are most proud of. Some local personalities have been asked to provide nominations to get the ball rolling; with Mark Cummings from the BBC Gloucestershire Breakfast Show nominating Minchinhampton and Rodborough Commons, and Gloucestershire Echo Newspaper editor Anita Syvret going for Dover’s Hill – while there are a number of other attractions and beauty spots on the list.

Berkeley Castle, Bibury, Bourton-on-the-Water, Cheltenham, Gloucester Cathedral, Symonds Yat, The Sculpture Trail and the view from Cleeve Hill – as well as the two mentioned above – have all made it. The last time we looked Bourton-on-the-Water had a clear lead with 34 per cent of votes – perhaps due to the Facebook campaign which has quickly organised itself to muster support. Head over to the Pride of Place website to show support for your favourite attraction. You might also want to check our SoGlos.com's comprehensive directory of Gloucestershire attractions.

SoGlos.com Webuser review online

The review of SoGlos.com which recently appeared in Webuser - the UK's best-selling Internet magazine - can now be read online. The picture, in case you're wondering, is from this year's Three Choirs Festival - one of the Gloucestershire's cultural highlights when it comes to the county ever three years.

Gloucester cheese rolling at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

This year’s annual cheese rolling in Gloucester seems like such a long time ago, but SoGlos.com hasn’t been able to escape from the attention its now world-famous video of the event generated – having been watched by more than two million people on websites around the world.

But even more unsuspecting viewers will no doubt become mesmorised by the action this weekend, as comedian Arthur Smith uses SoGlos.com’s video as part of his exhibition at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The long-standing stand-up is apparently making a move into the arts and is revealing his first exhibition – a major respective of paintings, embroideries and movements – as well as a miniature Cooper’s hill with mini Babybell cheeses!

Arthur told SoGlos.com why he was so fascinated by the video: ‘Cheese rolling is an insane competition. And so is the Edinburgh Festival. I’m overjoyed the two have been joined in marriage,’ he said.

We’re overjoyed that Gloucestershire is being represented at this year’s cultural fest – check out the exhibition at the Bridget Christie room for yourself this weekend, if you’re in bonnie Scotland.

Oh, and if you still haven’t seen what all the fuss is about…