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Cotswold Times Chipping Norton January/February 2015 Issues 50/51 COTSWOLD TIMES CHIPPING NORTON JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015 ISSUES 50/51 STAR GAZING 1 – urban astronomy in LIVING WITH DIABETES – WHAT’S ON – Chippy PAGES 19 & 20 Concerts – classics, folk & blues; PAGES 10-11 local cinema, markets, and fundraising PAGES 33-41 SHALL WE DANCE? – the romantic dance of Grebes FIVE PAGES OF SPORTING SUCCESS – Plus your local sports reports, PAGES 14-15 PAGES 57-61 schools and community news 1 Monday - Friday 09.00 - 17.00 | Saturday - 10.00 - 15.00 Sunday and Bank Holidays - Closed T: 01608 682628 E: [email protected] | www.greyhoundstoves.com 10 Blackwell Business Park, Near Shipston-on-Stour Warwickshire CV36 4PE It’s Valentine’s . Fall in love with Batsford Arboretum Treat the one you love to lunch at The Garden Terrace Café and a walk in the Arboretum Main course, dessert, hot drink £29.95* per couple including Arboretum entrance (*Friends of Batsford £19.95) Please book in advance for a table at 12 noon or 1.30pm. Call us on 01386 701441 The Arboretum is stunning in February (subject to the weather!) – with early flowering daffodils, snow drops, winter aconites, cyclamen, hellebores and winter flowering shrubs. Opening details There are few better places than Batsford Arboretum to enjoy the changing seasons and we are open every day except Christmas Day. 9 am-5 pm daily; 10 am-5 pm. Sundays Prices: Adults £7.00; Concessions £6.00; Children (4-15) £3.00 Family ticket (2 adults, 2 children) £17.00 Batsford Arboretum and Garden Centre, Children of 15 or under must be accompanied by an Batsford, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire GL56 9AB. adult. 01386 701441 For health and safety reasons, during periods of high winds [email protected] and other severe weather the arboretum may have to close. www.batsarb.co.uk Please Tel: 01386 701441 for information before your visit. 2 JOIN US AT OUR NEXT OPEN DAY Saturday 7 February 11am –2pm High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 0AD Day pupils warmly welcome Five School Bus routes: Including local free pick up from Moreton, Kingham, Stow and Chipping Norton*. Plus Andoversford (small charge). An exceptional school with an inspiring history, stunning setting and ambition for every pupil. Call +44 (0) 1608 658999 or email [email protected] to request a prospectus or arrange a visit. Kingham Hill School, Kingham, Chipping Norton, Oxon, OX7 6TH *Free for first year – small charge thereafter Day and boarding school for girls and boys from 11-18 yrs www.kinghamhill.org.uk 3 love Slimming NEW World for2015! Join a warm and friendly group Power up near you today… Framing your weight loss Stow-on-the-Wold Stow Primary School St Edwards Drive - Mondays 5pm & 7pm • Photos • Paintings • Tel: Mandy 01608 641923 Chipping Norton • Mirrors • Sports Shirts • Town Hall - Tuesdays 9.30am, 5pm & 7pm Tel: Mandy 01608 641923 • Anything! • Shipston-on-Stour Townsend Hall Sheep Street - Wednesdays 5pm & 7 pm Stow-on-the-Wold Churchill Tel: Christine 01608 686288 Curator Gallery Manor Farm Moreton-in-Marsh Market Square, OR Workshops, Congregational Church Hall Stow-on-the-Wold, Near Chipping Oxford Street Thursdays 5.15pm & 7 pm GL54 1AB Norton, OX7 6NP Tel: Christine 01608 686288 visit the website to read Jess’s story save £5 [email protected] slimmingworld.com join now! Just £9.95 on week one 01451 870 246 0844 897 8000 then £4.95 each week Meeting Peter Andre was 'insania', say Christine and Mandy Two Slimming World Consultants from the Cotswolds, Christine Dudfield and Mandy Widdows, were thrilled to get a chance to cuddle up to singer and TV presenter Peter Andre when he co- hosted the Slimming World Awards in Birmingham at the end of the year. VAST CHOICE OF BEAUTIFUL JEWELLERY SHAWLS Christine runs Slimming World groups at Shipston on Stour and in UNUSUAL GIFTS TOGETHER WITH TIBETAN RUGS Moreton in Marsh; Mandy runs Slimming World groups at Stow on the Wold and Chipping Norton. Christine said that meeting Peter Andre was PRODUCED BY TALENTED CRAFTSMEN IN NEPAL a wonderful way to round off a great 12 months for slimmers in ALAIN ROUVEURE GALLERIES Cotswold, as well as the perfect way to kick start another successful TODENHAM, NEAR MORETON - IN - MARSH . TELEPHONE 01608 650 418 year. “I’m so proud of all of our members. They lost fantastic amounts VISIT US FROM 10AM TO 5PM WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY of weight during 2014, and many of them reached their target weights, OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE www.AlainRouveure.com improving their health substantially. It’s so rewarding to see people Active member of RUGMARK against Child Labour achieve things that they didn’t think possible before losing weight, Winners of The 2000 WORLDAWARE Award for Fair Trade (Patron HM The Queen) maybe that’s wearing smaller-sized clothes, taking up new hobbies, reducing medication or being able to do more with family and friends.” Peter told the audience:” Since becoming a dad I’ve realised it’s about more than just looking good; it’s much more important to me that I’m fit Patricia Cook and healthy and setting a good example to my children.” Catering Mandy said: “On top of seeing success on the scales, our groups are great places to make friends. We’ve had a lot of fun throughout the year for every occasion – we’ve held parties, raised money for charity and members have 01451 830450 cheered each other on with every step of their weight loss journey. I [email protected] can’t wait to see what 2015 holds for Slimming World in the Cotswolds. Photo (L to R): Christine Dudfield, Peter Andre, Mandy Widdows. 4 COTSWOLD TIMES CHIPPING NORTON TIMES FROM THE EDITOR INSIDE OUR JAN/FEB EDITION . One month into 2015 and have you noticed how there’s quite an emphasis on FEATURES getting fit(ter) and healthier this year? We’ve drawn the line at carrying recipes in the magazines but there are enough ways to improve your wellbeing to ensure 10-11 Star-Struck 1 – Caroline Fisher that you build up a good appetite every day! The variety is amazing. While some offer personal attention and discretion, others are encouraging large gatherings 13 Love, life, crime, painting . and great writing of people, all arriving with the same ambition as you, with wobbly confidence and Launching Moreton onto the literary map needing to meet friendly non-judgemental eyes! There’s a worldwide swimathon, Girls Who Can and (also for the guys I expect) the ‘King of the Jungle’ super-bike 14-15 Shall we Dance? – Andy Lewis, photography by Mike Boyes champion will be leading a 3,000 strong biker ride-out raising money for our Air Ambulance. Quite different to the fundraising day at Whichford Pottery (of Tower of 19,20 Living with Diabetes – Judy Dean & Dr Peter Dean London poppy fame) for local charities – but luckily they are on separate days so you could attend both! 30 The Cotswolds charms a Chinese superstar Talking about champions….. if you haven’t caught up with your local sports teams 41 Investment Clubs – Paul Jackson recently, take a look at our sports pages this month! There are champions and winners galore, in almost every age group - including Alice Powell from Bourton 49 Henry Johnson - Chipping Campden’s Young Student 2014 – who recently won a motor racing Championship in China and became the first Formula Renault Asia Series female champion, and Emma Slevin who has won Caroline Fisher an athletics scholarship to an American university where she will be training with REGULARS Olympians. Our congratulations to all of them, our home-grown stars! The excitement is starting to build for a couple of national events here, too – firstly 8 Book Reviews from Borzoi Books there will be an eclipse of the sun on 30th March. “The sky will get eerily dimmer at breakfast time,” revealed CNAAG founder and chairman Robin Smitten: “It 14, 17, 19, 52, 54 Community pages – Cotswolds AONB, cancer nursing, Job will be the last such eclipse anyone alive in the UK will see.” I don’t think we are vacancies, Drivers needed, Volunteers, fund-raisers and local authors expecting the world to be hit by a massive meteorite, but to find out you’ll need to read the article! 16 Walks with the Cotswold Wardens The other national event is of course the Elections, where we will be voting for 22 Cinemas & Regular Events our district and town or parish councils, too. Nonplussed? In a year when there is lot of talk about democracy it’s worth reminding ourselves what it means. “The 25 Dates for Local Authority meetings, Blood Donor sessions benefit of democracy is that everyone can have a say in the debate – and a stake in the result” - which could ring very true, locally! We can all make a difference in News from Chipping Norton Town Council our communities, by having a say on who represents our interests on parking, planning, playing fields, and how our precept is spent. 26 Council Partnerships Chipping Norton Times is always brimming with information and this month is no 27 Cllr Jo Graves Planning BEM exception. Thank you to everyone who contributed to our varied and interesting content, we do appreciate it – and we hope you will enjoy it! 28,29 District News Best wishes, 31 Church Services Jenni Turner Editor 32 – 36 LOCAL EVENTS & EVENTS DIARY 38,39 Clubs, Societies, Associations & Charities listing (always a Work In With over 40,000 readers across the North Cotswolds, we are delivering the Progress!) four community magazines to letterboxes in Stow on the Wold, Moreton in Marsh, Bourton on the Water & Chipping Norton and the villages that use 40 Reports from Chippy Lions and ChippyRotary them as centres - Broadwell, Adlestrop,
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