Literature festival calls for talks as it faces an uncertain future

The irony that the solution to a financial threat to Cheltenham Literature Festival resulting from a protest by authors could be ‘better dialogue’ will not be lost on some, but it's serious.

Dear Readers,

Welcome to Monday’s edition of The Raikes Journal. We hope you had a great weekend.

We’re a bit late delivering today because we’ve being in conversations with firms from outside of Gloucestershire about how they see the county as an economic force, following their visit to Cheltenham during last week’s science festival.

In particular we talk…