The British stiff upper lip. It’s engrained in our national psyche. It’s a defence as strong and robust as the white cliffs, the mighty longbow at Agincourt, the red squares at Waterloo.
“They think it’s all over. It is now”. An iconic phrase that entered England’s consciousness back in 1966. I know it grates on some of our Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish countrymen as much as it cheers and inspires the English.
There’s always been a healthy rivalry between Cheltenham and our near neighbours, Gloucester. Make no bones about it; the city has done well in the last few years. Thanks to the vision and hard work of their local MP Richard Graham and the City Council, Gloucester is on a massive regeneration journey
Summer time, so the song goes, and the living is easy. Maybe so, but for hundreds of students in Cheltenham there is something far less relaxing on their minds – exams.
