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Cotswold Times Stow Times June 2015 Issue 138 COTSWOLD TIMES STOW TIMES JUNE 2015 ISSUE 138 Helping a village in crisis: Alain Rouveure’s Nepal Fund PAGE 11 MAGNA CARTA in 20 places: a Review by Colin Piper PAGES 14-15 Go that extra furlong – Robin Furlong, master craftsman PAGES 22-23 Northleach House of Correction PAGES 46-47 Rural Policing – is it endangered? National Policing Survey PAGES 28-29 WHAT’S ON? – Exhibitions, fetes, fairs and festivals. Live music, great markets, a train ride, galleries and LOTS of things to get you out into the sunshine! PAGES 33-47 1 BEAUTIFUL BESPOKE FURNITURE VAST CHOICE OF BEAUTIFUL JEWELLERY SHAWLS New bespoke furniture handbook available now UNUSUAL GIFTS TOGETHER WITH TIBETAN RUGS 01608 650 567 PRODUCED BY TALENTED CRAFTSMEN IN NEPAL www.robinfurlongfurniture.co.uk ALAIN ROUVEURE GALLERIES TODENHAM, NEAR MORETON - IN - MARSH . TELEPHONE 01608 650 418 VISIT US FROM 10AM TO 5PM WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE www.AlainRouveure.com Active member of RUGMARK against Child Labour Winners of The 2000 WORLDAWARE Award for Fair Trade (Patron HM The Queen) Patricia Cook Catering for every occasion 01451 830450 [email protected] Twelfth Night outdoor theatre, Thursday 9th July, performances at 1pm and 7pm. A unique opportunity to see the all-male company, The Lord Chamberlain’s Men in Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ in the wonderful setting of the Arboretum. Gates to beautiful Batsford Gardeners: Whatever your level of open an hour before each performance so Arboretum & Garden Centre. Wander freely, love gardening experience, our Garden Shop and bring your own picnic and a rug/low-backed the ambiance and refresh your inner person. Plant Centre team are always on hand to offer chair, settle down and enjoy magical theatre NB. There’s free entry to the Arboretum for Dad help and advice about growing, whether in your in a magical venue! Tickets cost £17 (£12 on Father’s Day (on production of a valid child, back garden or allotment . from roses to for concessions, £10 for children) on sale at of course!) rhubarb, with propagators and pots to please. Batsford or by calling 01386 701441. Discover beautiful Batsford Arboretum for yourself this June Batsford is open every day 9am–5pm (Sundays 10am) 01386 701441 Batsford Arboretum and Garden Centre, Batsford, [email protected] Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 9AB. www.batsarb.co.uk 2 Free Personal Shopper Service Now open at . Talbot Court, Stow-on-the-Wold Framing 01451 830743 • Photos • Paintings • • Mirrors • Sports Shirts • • Anything! • Stow-on-the-Wold Churchill Curator Gallery Mount Farm Market Square, OR Workshops, Stow-on-the-Wold, Near Chipping GL54 1AB Norton, OX7 6NP [email protected] 01451 870 246 ST IVES – STOW-ON-THE-WOLD – TRURO • Under New Management • Recently refurbished • Beautiful gardens • Real Ales • Excellent Food 01451 850344 Halfway House Kineton Guiting Power Cheltenham GL54 5UG 3 An AMAZING month for a small bookshop in Ashbee Dental Care Chipping Campden welcomes new patients Emily Dunn followed her dreams and opened her own ‘indie’ (independent) Ashbee Dental care is a small dedicated bookshop last year. ‘A Festival of team, focused on providing the highest Books’ opened in Chipping Campden, 3 Ashbee House quality dental treatment. specialising in children’s books. Battlebrook Drive It was a brave move – although we have a choice of bookshops in the NHS and private patients welcome. Chipping Campden Cotswolds, bookshops have been Denplan available from £6.87 Tel: 01386 840 840 in decline for some years. Seriously www.ashbeedentalcare.co.uk worried about the future for ‘indie’ bookshops, the author James . Ample Free Parking Patterson launched a new award for independent bookshops, providing a fund of £250, 000 a year to support outstanding bookshops across the country. website and in their magazine New Books, along with a social media In May Emily had news that “Not campaign. Also the Booksellers Association have chosen to do a feature on only was I awarded some of the me and the shop for their magazine too. James Patterson grant money for “The grant money went towards four wonderful events indepen-dent bookshops, but that the for children at the local Campden Schools during the shop was Book Shop of the Month in Literary Festival and Abi Elphinstone, debut author of May as voted by Love Your Indie in The Dreamsnatcher is due to visit in June. A very busy association with the Guardian and month, I hope it continues and I can keep selling books Nudge and will be featured on their in Campden for many years to come!” Tuesday 16th June Tuesday evening 30th June Sunday 12th July - Family Day Sunday 19th July - Ladies Day Thursday 30th July Join Thomas and Friends™ at the Gloucestershire Thursday 20th August Warwickshire Railway Thursday 27th August Experience a ride on a real steam train and take part in Saturday 5th September Thomas-themed activites Monday 14th September Saturday 17th October Saturday Thursday 29th October - Halloween Fun Day 20th and Sunday 21st June 2015 Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway The Railway Station, Toddington, Glos GL54 5DT www.gwsr.com or call 01242 621405 Day Out With Thomas™ Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends™ ©2015 Gullane (Thomas) Ltd © 2015 HIT Entertainment Ltd 4 COTSWOLD TIMES STOW TIMES FROM THE EDITOR INSIDE OUR JUNE EDITION . The sky was blue from very first thing today – and the early FEATURES chorus of birdsong was bursting with energy. It’s impossible to 9 A Pop Up Gourmet Dinner – Jenni Turner be dreary when nature turns on the sunshine. Even a day in the office is cheerier when I can slide outside for coffee without 11 Alain Rouveure’s direct link with Nepal having to put on extra layers. Julie Hall and Alain Rouveure Each month as the news and articles arrive for the next edition 14-15 Magna Carta in 20 Places – and in Stow it is easy to see the ‘big issues’ that are being talked about in Colin Piper reviews the book the community. Our community is . concerned about families 18-19 Cotswold Breweries – Nigel Moor in Nepal (Alain Rouveure at the Rouveure Galleries – you have possibly met some of his Nepalese craftsmen when they are 21 Sheep Shearing at Cotswold Farm Park – Hannnah Ward here in the summer months); interested in the Magna Carta (the 22-23 Robin Furlong – bespoke furniture maker – Caroline Fisher book Magna Carta in 20 Places by Derek Taylor who lives in Stow, has a public ‘signing’ here in June – our reviewer found 28 Policing Survey it ‘witty and enchanting and impossible to put down’!); enjoys 30-31 Correspondence – a new surgery, of course, but where? its local beers and breweries; admires and ‘relishes’ bespoke And why does it matter? furniture and is always interested in our local history; and loves having the Lido open again! The police appeared on the radar 47 Banging down the Doors – Caroline Fisher at The Old Prison twice and we have an article on the national policing survey which is running all month. Notable by its absence was local REGULARS politics – but maybe that is understandable after all that hype 10 Robb Eden – need help dealing with bureaucracy? and rushing about. 13 Book Reviews from Borzoi Books Essentially though, June brings lots of good things and this edition is packed with an amazing choice of events and places 24, 48, 49, 52, Community Pages: Cadets, Volunteering, The other to visit, mostly on our doorsteps or within a short journey. With side of Caring family and friends or footloose and fancy free, I hope you will 25 Local Authority Information, Blood Donor sessions, enjoy the best that June can bring – summer! Our new District Councillors Best wishes, 27 Planning – Summary of Applications received Jenni Turner 32 Church Services Editor 33-47 LOCAL EVENTS & EVENTS DIARY 42 Clubs, Societies, Associations & Charities listing (always a Work In Progress!) With over 40,000 readers across the North Cotswolds, we are delivering the four community magazines to letterboxes in Stow on the Wold, Moreton in Marsh, Bourton on the Water & Chipping 43 Club Notices Norton and the villages that use them as centres - Broadwell, Adlestrop, Oddington, Bledington, 44 Reports from Rotary, Lions and the Royal British Legion Icomb, Church Westcote, Nether Westcote, Wyck Rissington, Lower & Little Rissington, Great Rissington (part),Maugersbury, Nether Swell, Lower Swell & Upper Swell, Lower Slaughter, 53-57 News from some of our Local Schools Naunton, Notgrove, Sherborne (part), Clapton on the Hill, Donnington, Condicote, Longborough, 63-65 News from local Sports Clubs Bourton on the Hill, Temple Guiting, Guiting Power, Batsford (part), Blockley, Todenham, Aston Magna, Draycott (part) and Over Norton in Bourton on the Water, Chipping Norton, Moreton in 66-67 Local Business Directory Marsh, Stow on the Wold, Chipping Campden, Paxford, Shipston on Stour, Great Wolford & Little Wolford, Little & Long Compton, Whichford, Heythrop, Chadlington, the Wychwoods, Northleach, Burford, Kingham, Churchill and Salford. With many thanks to all our many contributors this month, including: Our Next edition is for July 2015 Caroline Fisher, Tony Ferrige, Julie Hall, Christabel Hardacre, Emma The copydate is 15th June, 2015 Hope, Nigel Moor, Cotswold Farm Park, Jan Marley, Colin Piper and Chris Turner. Cover photograph: Contact Stow Times on: There can only be one ‘King of the Castle’- spring lambs playing above Lower Slaughter. Photographed for Cotswold Times ©2013. 07789 175 002 Extra copies of Stow Times are generally available in St Edwards Hall [email protected] and Stow Library. Copies are also carried on The Villager Bus. www.stowtimes.co.uk Material published in this magazine is copyright; the Editor may give permission for copy to be reproduced for some purposes. The opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Editor or any member of the team.
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