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Can the AONB still protect the Cotswolds PAGES 20 - 22 Local Care Homes - the latest CQC report PAGES 26-29 Mike Boyes took his camera to Shetland PAGES 10-12 PLUS EVENTS Local News highlights and Reports from our Councils, Schools, Social cotswoldtimes Clubs and SPORTS Clubs 10866 - GWR.Cots.Times.Feb_Layout 1 06/01/2016 16:47 Page 1
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COTSWOLD TIMES STOW TIMES FROM THE EDITOR INSIDE THIS EDITION ...
Catch your breath and look forward to Spring! FEATURES
Does it seem to you as if 2016 has started at a tremendous pace 10 Shetland wildlife. Mike Boyes - or it just me? 20 Can our AONB provide protection? Nigel Adams The excitement has been extraordinary already this year, with 24 Cotswold Discovery Centre (advertorial) The Sky at Night and a British major walking in space, tennis champions and cheaper car fuel all adding to the fun! There 26 Local Care Homes – latest reviews. Paul Jackson have been downsides, of course – the news is full of drama and 40 Delivering Cotswold Times. Jenni Turner sensation every hour of the day, if you want it – but it had been the speed which has been causing consternation in this family. 51 Alabama Rot. Martin Whitehead MRCVS Christmas seems light years’ away and New Year a blip on the calendar. REGULARS Brimming with new ideas, the team has been up for the 8 Book Reviews from Borzoi Books challenge but, a little bit like road works or BT, there will be WIP (work in progress) for a little while yet. (A bit tongue in cheek, we 16 Business – 1 job, 2 new business, rates hope that ‘Good things are worth waiting for’!) Meanwhile if you 17 Local Authority information, Blood Donor sessions, spot something that isn’t right or that could be better, or (better Community Notices still) is a change for the good, please let us know. 18 Report from Bourton Parish Council We are fortunate to include some amazing photography, research 19 Planning - Summary of Applications received and local information this month. February brings Valentine’s Day and Half Term of course, and there are lots of things going on – 23 Correspondence. there are options to small screens and earphones from time to time! Our plans for the year are on their way and we hope that yours are too. 30 – 38 LOCAL EVENTS & EVENTS DIARY (cinemas, markets, music, shows, etc) With our very best wishes, 36 - 38 Club Notices (NB. Clubs & Village Hall Listings - WIP, back next month!) 39 Reports from N.Cotswold Rotary and Northleach & Fosse Lions Editor 40 Tax issues – Robb Eden. Times’ Deliverers PS. We have a new business number 01608 678640 46 - 49 News from some of our local Schools 54 – 57 News from local Sports Clubs 62, 63 Local Business Directory With over 40,000 readers across the North Cotswolds, we are delivering the four community magazines to letterboxes in Moreton, Todenham, Evenlode, Kingham, Bledington, Maugersbury, Stow, Condicote, Longborough, Donnington, Broadwell, Adlestrop, Daylesford. Churchill, Idbury, Fifield, Ascott–Under-Wychwood, Shipton-Under-Wychwood, Chadlington, Charlbury, Chipping Norton. Bourton-on-the-Hill, Blockley, Aston Magna, Draycott, Chipping Campden. Gt Wolford, Little Wolford, Shipston-on-Stour, Whichford, Long Compton, Little Compton, Salford, Over Norton, Hook Norton, Heythrop. Bourton-on-the-Water, Little Rissington, Upper Rissington, Westcote, Gt Rissington, Clapton-on-the-Hill, Notgrove, Northleach, Temple Guiting, Guiting Power, Naunton, Upper Slaughter, Lower Slaughter, Wyck Rissington, Lower Swell, Upper Swell. Icomb, Lower Oddington, Upper Oddington, Great Tew, Ford, Church Westcote, Batsford, Stretton-on-Fosse, Chedworth, Sherbourne. With many thanks to all our many contributors this month, including: Mike Boyes, Christabel Hardacre, Emma Hope, Paul Jackson, Jan Marley, Our next edition is for MARCH 2016 Nigel Moor and Martin Whitehead; also to all our volunteer deliverers. My The copydate is 15th February 2016 thanks to them all – they all help to make these magazines happen each month!
Contact Stow Times on: Cover photograph: ‘Snowdrops in the Swell Valley’© Cotswold Times 07789 175 002 Extra copies of Stow Times are generally available in St Edwards Hall and [email protected] Stow Library. Copies are also available 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 P O Box 6, Sheep Street the Editor or any member of the team. The magazines are produced and delivered almost entirely by volunteers. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information printed in the magazine, Stow on the Wold, GL54 1WD the Editor/team do not accept any responsibility for the consequences of any errors that may occur. COTSWOLD TIMES | 5 6 | COTSWOLD TIMES COME TO OUR OPEN DAY 6TH FEBRUARY 2016 11AM - 2PM
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NEW YEAR, NEW BOOKS New novels from Julian Barnes, Helen Dunmore, Alaa Al Aswany, Yann Martel, (Sir) A P McCoy and Jeffrey Archer. Katie Fforde, Erica James, Carol Drinkwater (her first novel) and Dinah Jefferies (author of The Tea Planter’s Wife) also have new stories coming out. There is a previously unpublished novel by Stella Gibbons (of Cold Comfort Farm fame), Pure Juliet. For a really gripping thriller, try Victim without a Face by Stefan Ahnhem, or there’s The Widow by Fiona Barton, which is being billed as The Girl on the Train for 2016. The story of the Romanov dynasty from Simon Sebag Montefiore should be suitably epic and masterly. Joan Bakewell tells her life story in Stop the Clocks. Literary life in Britain since 1918 comes under the spotlight in The Prose Factory by D J Taylor. Simon Barnes goes on a search for humanity’s heartland in Sacred Combe, while Anna Pavord returns with a delightful foray into the British landscape in Landskipping. Healthy eating is to the fore in new cookery books from Amelia Freer, Cook, Nourish, Glow, and Ella Woodward, Deliciously Ella Every Day. If you enjoyed the TV series of Levison Wood Walking the Himalayas, you’ll be pleased to know that his book is available. Feeling the winter blues? Then cheer yourself up with A Bus Pass Named Desire by Christopher Matthew, a collection of comic verse.
TEENAGE AND CHILDREN World Book Day takes place on Thursday 3rd March, but you can start using your special £1 tokens from 29th February. There will be 10 exclusive books from authors such as David Baddiel, Roald Dahl and Mick Inkpen. There will also be a special Star Wars title! For our teenage readers, we like the sound of Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton, the first in an epic fantasy trilogy. But we have lots of exciting new books for all ages, so pop in some time and prepare to be amazed!
8 | COTSWOLD TIMES COTSWOLD TIMES | 9 Shetland and its abundant Wildlife
A keen amateur photographer, Mike Boyes took a short holiday in Shetland – rugged and beautiful, with long summer daylight.
here were few days during visitors to these islands come to see unique to Shetland. our holiday in the Shetland the abundant wildlife or explore its Shetland is famous for its wildlife, Isles in June 2015 when unusually diverse geology. and especially for birds. Over a million the wind was not blowing, Some of Britain’s oldest rocks seabirds (of more than 20 species) but after months of high are to be found in Shetland, and return to breed every summer along Twinds in Gloucestershire this winter, the landscapes reveal almost every the coasts and on the moors and lochs. Shetland weather does not now seem geological phenomenon known. The Many of these spectacular colonies are exceptional. scenery in Shetland is not as bleak as accessible from land or sea, particularly The Shetland Isles, part of Scotland you might imagine (though there is those at Sumburgh Head, Noss, and since 1469, lie some 210 miles north an absence of trees) and much of the Herma Ness. We visited all of these as of Aberdeen and 250 miles west of coastline is spectacular, from beautiful part of a wildlife group run by Shetland Bergen. The first people to arrive in beaches to rugged, rocky cliffs. The Wildlife, and I would recommend Shetland may have been Mesolithic permanent sandbar, or tombola as it is travelling with a specialist wildlife group hunter-gatherers some 7000 years ago, known, that separates St Ninian’s Isle for your first visit. There is so much to though the oldest surviving structures, from the mainland, is stunning, and a see, and detailed local knowledge is dating back to 3250BC, were left walk around the isle on a fine day will invaluable if you are to get the most by Neolithic farmers. If your primary linger long in the memory. Nowhere out of a week or so on Shetland. We interest is archaeology, however, is more than three miles from the sea, spent ten days on Shetland, followed head for Orkney. Although Shetland and you are never far from a carpet of by a week of independent travel on has some impressive remains, most wildflowers in summer, some rare or Orkney. A car (plenty of hire cars 10 | COTSWOLD TIMES Gannets billing, a pair bonding ritual – Herma Ness, Unst Puffin landing beside its nest hole amongst sea thrift, Sumburgh Head
available) is a must if you are not part of a group – it takes about an hour and a half to drive from one end of Mainland to the other, and there are so many little bays or lochs well worth visiting. And when you cross to Unst – Britain’s most northerly inhabited island famous for its gannet colonies at Herma Ness, Great Skuas, and rare wildflowers at Keen of Hamar Nature Reserve – you will certainly need a car to get around. It is not just the numbers but also the diversity of species that is impressive. Here is a partial list of the estimated numbers of breeding pairs of seabirds in Shetland: Fulmar (300,000), Puffin (100,000), Guillemot (90,000), Kittiwake (36,000), Gannet (21,000), Arctic Tern (10,000), Black Guillemot Gannet with nesting material taking off below cliffs at Noss COTSWOLD TIMES | 11 Black Guillemot in flight on the island of Mousa
Above: A rare Oyster plant, which grows in a few places along the shoreline
(7,000), Eider Duck (7,000), Razorbill (6,500), Great Skua (6,000), Shag (6,000), Storm Petrel (4,000), Common Gull (2,500), and Arctic Skua (2,000). We saw all these species and very many more, including Red-throated Divers, Great Northern Divers, Red-necked Great Skuas, also known as bonxies, Golden Plover on moorland, evening light Phalarope, Curlew, Golden Plover, are very aggressive Corncrake, Dunlin and Sanderling – too many to enumerate here. Of course we also saw at close quarters common and grey seals, and the occasional otter. Part of the magic of Shetland is the constantly changing light, and in June I was able to photograph, hand held, distant islands in the last glimmers of sunset at midnight. The hours between sunset at around 10.30pm and sunrise at about 3.30am are known as the simmer dim, and on a clear night it is possible to read outside for the entire night. So, if you enjoy wildlife, and a feeling of remoteness that feels different from the rest of Britain, amongst very friendly people, think about a holiday in Shetland. We certainly hope to
return there another year. Photography ©Mike Boyes Nature Red-throated Divers breed in Shetland in the summer 12 | COTSWOLD TIMES
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C.D.C. Committee STOW TOWN COUNCIL Meetings STOW TOWN COUNCIL NEXT MEETING Thursday 25th February NOTES FOR COUNCIL MEETING Meetings are held at the Council Offices, Trinity Road Cirencester, GL7 1PX. PLEASE CHECK NOTICEBOARD DECEMBER 2015 Agendas, reports and Minutes are published online five working days before each meeting at Abbreviated notes from the Meeting are www.cotswold.gov.uk. Residents are welcome to attend meetings. available online at www.stowonthewold. Questions* from the public relating to a net and are displayed on the Council’s proposal in discussion by Cllrs may be taken Members of the public are encouraged to attend noticeboard on St Edwards Hall in Stow prior to Council voting on that proposal. Square. Copies of Minutes, associated meetings of the Council and Committee. If General questions are taken at the end of committee meetings and correspondence are you live in the District and are on the Electoral the meeting. Register you can take part by asking up to two available from the Council’s Office, in George questions per meeting. Information about your * A max of 3 minutes allowed. Alley off Stow Square. Councillors and committee members are on the The Council office is open Tuesdays, website www.cotswold.gov.uk Town Councillors are available before & Wednesdays & Thursdays, 10 am – 1 pm after the meeting. District & County Cllrs, (subject to meetings) representatives of Stow Police and local Press regularly attend. Tel: 01451 832 585 FEBRUARY E: [email protected] Wed 3rd Sites Inspection Briefing Wed 10th Planning & Licensing Thurs 18th Cabinet Tues 23rd Council – Setting of Council Tax
Questions to the Council or a committee about any matter on which CDC have any powers or Road safety in the North Cotswolds duties or which affects the district must first be received in writing by the Head of Democratic From Cllr Dr Nigel Moor, Chairman Gloucestershire County Council Services – A428 Fosse Way Task Group By email no later than 5pm on the prior working Over the Christmas period two fatal accidents in the North Cotswolds raised concerns over day: [email protected] road safety on our rural roads. The first was on the A429 between Northleach cross roads and By post to CDC at Trinity Road, Cirencester. GL7 Fossebridge when a Renault Traffic taxi people carrier taking two passengers to an airport left the 1PX. road and struck a tree. The driver died and the two uninjured passengers were treated for shock 01285 623204/ 201 by paramedics. The second occurred on Boxing Day and was on the A436 between Stow -on-the- Wold and Oddington. A horse transporter and an estate car were involved in a head-on-collision. Petitions can be presented to express local feeling The car driver was killed on impact and his passenger died subsequently following a cardiac arrest. about an issue or a suggested action that we Those in the horse transporter were uninjured. I know that all readers will wish to join me in might take. A petition must contain at least 10 signatures. expressing condolences to the families concerned.
Details of Meeting Agendas, Reports and Minutes The issue of road safety was considered by Cotswold County Councillors at the meeting of can be found on the Council’s Committee the A429 Task Group in January which received a report from the Gloucestershire Road Safety Information System. Also available are details of Partnership. Information was presented on ten locations between Kemble village and the county your Councillor, Committee Meetings including boundary beyond Moreton in Marsh, analyzing casualties by severity and the cause of accident. dates, times and venues and Membership of the Casualties peak in December although weather and road surface were not the major cause of Committees. the accidents. Post code information indicates that the majority of casualties and drivers involved in collisions are local and probably users of the A429 and therefore likely to know the road well. Causation factors seem to be mainly driver error.
Responding to national concerns about fatal casualties on rural roads the Gloucestershire Road Safety Partnership launched an initiative in January: “County Roads Campaign - Brake before the bend not in it “, using social media to publicise the campaign. Presently a pilot, the campaign will be launched more extensively in August this year. The Task Group plan a public meeting at the end of February to engage with parish and town councils and local road safety groups to discuss BLOOD DONOR SESSIONS THIS MONTH road safety and other concerns affecting the A429 Fosse Way.
STOW, Stow Rugby Club, 24/02/16 Oddington Road, GL54 1JJ Clean up after your dog! Cheltenham Magistrates Court fined Cotswold resident Stephen Gittens £375 and ordered him to pay a victim surcharge of £37.50 - plus costs of £250 - for failing to bag up and bin the mess caused by his dog. Mr. Gittens, who lives at Old Quarry Bungalow, Nether Westcote, did not attend the hearing but the court For more information/ to book an appointment to noted that he had allowed his dog to foul in public spaces near his home on three occasions during March and attend a session, please call 0300 123 23 23 or April 2015. He received two warnings and a fixed penalty from the Council and also twice failed to attend an visit www.blood.co.uk interview to discuss his behaviour. A spokesman for Cotswold District Council said: “Offenders who fail to bag and bin their dog’s excrement can ruin a family day out. Even worse, their actions can have a profoundly negative impact on the health and wellbeing of others. The message is very clear – clean up after your dog!” For more information about this issue, including how to report dog fouling in Cotswold District, please visit http://www.cotswold.gov.uk/residents/environment/environmental-health/ animal-control-welfare/dogfouling/
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Stow Youth Centre, Fosseway, Stow-on-the-Wold, GL54 1DW [email protected] │ 01451 832 585 Notes from Kim Bedford, Clerk to Stow Town Council
Cadbury’s delivered a beautiful Christmas tree to Stow square 18 | COTSWOLD TIMES Planning Applications & Approvals
PLANNING AND LICENSING COMMITTEE APPLICATIONS FOR CONSIDERATION AND DECISION
Information about large / major new developments or CDC Planning Committee meets once a month – the details those which are likely to raise public interest (not ‘general are on p17 of this magazine. Full information is available domestic’ and small residential applications). The top table online at www.cotswold.gov.uk. This website also explains includes the Applications within our area that went to the planning procedures, how to comment on applications and recent CDC Planning Committee Meeting for decision. speak at public planning meeting at CDC.
Change to Duty Planning Officer Service
There will no longer be a duty-planning officer available. In the event that an enquiry relates to an alleged breach of Instead, the Council’s Front of House control and the Front of House team are unable to assist, team will deal with straightforward enquiries but customers then the enquiry will be processed in a similar manner as will be encouraged to self-serve described above unless - in accordance with the Council’s using the Council’s website or – for more detailed enquiries - Enforcement Plan - the alleged breach requires urgent use the Council’s chargeable scheme investigation/action. In such cases the Front of House team for pre application advice. will contact an officer in Planning Enforcement.
In all other cases, the Front of House team can forward enquires to planning officers. However, there will possibly be a delay of 2-3 weeks before we can reply. Customers are encouraged to provide detailed information to support their enquiry and avoid further delay. APPROVED COTSWOLD TIMES | 19 Can our AONB provide protection to NEWSFLAH 540 extra houses agreed for the North Cotswolds? Chipping Cllr Dr Nigel Moor argues that a Green Belt is now Campden the only way to protect the North Cotswolds
an our AONB provide The reports make protection to the North revealing reading Cotswolds? At the first planning Cllr Dr Nigel Moor argues meeting in November that a Green Belt is now the last year some Conly way to protect the North Cotswolds. committee members Blockley is a community that believes expressed astonishment in campaigning on issues that affect its when they learnt future and character. The campaign it that BEAG had fought to first save its village shop and commissioned a then to build a new community shop in legal opinion which the centre of the village is now part of concluded that local folk- lore in the North Cotswolds. the analysis and Now, by a supreme irony that is perhaps reasoning in the only observable in the contorted area report presented to of planning control, the same officer the committee did who recommended that the planning not display full, clear, committee refuse the building of the adequate reasoning. new community shop, has supported Blockley was clearly the construction of a new estate of 23 ‘getting above itself’. houses on a greenfield site – outside the The application village, prone to flooding, with highway was deferred to issues and probably the site of a Romano- the December position has not British settlement - the archaeological meeting, by which time both the been preferred.” The barrister advising exploration of which is not yet complete. applicant and the council had themselves the council concluded on the central issue During the interminable progression of gone off to seek legal opinions to of the impact on the AONB “The authority the Cotswold Local Plan, Blockley Parish support the recommendation to grant concerned is merely ‘to have regard’ to Council has organized public meetings planning permission. These reports the ‘purpose of conserving and enhancing and seminars to discuss the development make revealing reading. The barrister the natural beauty’ of the AONB. I take options put forward by Cotswold District advising the applicant commented “The the view that the officer`s analysis in the Council, commissioned a review of the report sets out in detail the content report is sufficient to discharge that duty Conservation Area and a local needs of representations made by the local but the opportunity can now be taken housing survey and, in light of all this community objecting to the application. to put that beyond doubt”. I draw two information, put forward well-argued However, in the assessment section of conclusions. Firstly that the barrister objections to this estate development. the report, there is little reference to the confirmed what the community had felt These were supported by the majority impact or relevance of these objections all along - that the officer had failed to of the local community, the Blockley on the consideration of the site. It would engage with the objections made and this Environmental Action Group (BEAG), be useful, where relevant, for the Officer is why the whole episode leaves such a and by the local MP Geoffrey Clifton– to respond to particular concerns raised bitter taste. Secondly, to the legal mind, Brown. MP`s rarely intervene in local by, for example BEAG, in relation to the AONB policy is just a taxonomy that planning disputes but Blockey`s MP not the assessment of the impact of the can be easily side-stepped by judicious only supported the building of the new development on the AONB, so that it wording in the officer`s report. community shop but also the objections is made clear the reason why BEAG`s At the meeting of the planning to the estate development. committee on 9 December 2015, a 20 | COTSWOLD TIMES resolution was passed giving outline planning consent for the residential development of the site. Of the fifteen committee members present, six voted in favour of the resolution – less than half. Because two members abstained and the local member who opposed the application was not allowed to vote, the vote resulted in a tie. The chairman then exercised his second casting vote in favour of the resolution, as he is lawfully entitled to do, but in doing so ignored the obvious reservations of the committee reflected in the initial vote. BEAG in their representations pointed out that within ten miles of Blockley there are at least 13,000 proposed dwellings (see chart) but this fell on deaf ears. Blockley has been described in the Bradt Guide to the Cotswolds as one of the most compelling destinations within the North Cotswolds but some committee members thought otherwise, and that it should have its own portion of the tsunami of house building planned for the area.
The presumption is in favour of sustainable development... …and landowners and housebuilders are willing to build The common thread running through this and the other cases where planning permission for estate Blockley campaigns to keep its community shop residential development has been allowed is that planning policies applying to the AONB no longer afford the protection to the setting of historic settlement modern developments that have had that hitherto was the case. The a detrimental impact on the edges of National Trust have recognized settlements and this should be avoided in this and recently published the future.” the document ‘AONB`s and Frankly this is a pious hope that Development’ which identified existing policies will not achieve. Since shortcomings in the way the adoption of the National Planning existing planning policy is being Policy Framework (NPPF) by the national applied on the ground. government the presumption in favour The Local Plan Consultation of sustainable development has meant document recently published that these designated areas no longer by CDC (Paragraph 6.1.5) have the special protection previously notes: “A particularly afforded. This is quite evident in a wide important issue for the range of planning decisions both in the AONB and other parts of the Cotswolds AONB and elsewhere in the District is the conservation country. Additionally some parts of the and enhancement of the North Cotswolds are outside the AONB setting of historic settlements and therefore at additional risk in terms (including individual of the setting of their towns and villages. farmsteads, as well as towns The message to be drawn is that when and villages). Development there is a national priority to increase pressures over the last 50 the amount of housebuilding, these The National Trust is concerned that AONB policy is being years have led to some existing and proposed policies will not undermined COTSWOLD TIMES | 21 protect the character, appearance and land permanently open, and the most sites becomes that more difficult. diversity of the North Cotswolds. important characteristic of Green Belts is But, once these areas have been Chipping Campden, Moreton in Marsh, their openness. identified, long term protection is given Stow on the Wold and Bourton on to the surrounding areas. Development the Water are strung along the Fosse In the Green Belt urbanisation is boundaries for Cirencester and the corridor like beads on a necklace. It restricted – principal settlements have been proposed may be some years before there is an in the Draft Local Plan and once these actual risk of each merging into the Is it the way to protect the have been agreed with local communities other but, in recent years, development character of the towns and and adopted, they would provide the as noted in the consultation document villages of the North Cotswolds? basis for drawing up the boundaries of has compromised their character, and In order to maintain a Green Belt in the North Cotswolds Green Belt. My own the Strategic Housing Land Availability the long term, and it is this protection view is that the only way to protect the Assessment (SHLAA) carried out by the that distinguishes the concept, the local character of the towns and the adjoining district council has shown landowners planning authority must ensure that the villages of the North Cotswolds in the and housebuilder willing to build detailed boundaries facilitate the long long term is a Green Belt. It is not a around these towns and their adjoining term needs of the towns and villages, and popular view in some quarters but it is villages. Elsewhere in Gloucestershire, this can include brownfield sites. Back based on some fifty years of planning the character of the larger towns in 2010 at the beginning of the Coalition experience and witnessing the loss of of Gloucester and Cheltenham and Government, Greg Clarke was the Planning character of so much of our unprotected their adjoining villages is protected Minister and championed the use of environment. The character of the by the Green Belt which extends brownfield sites - he was replaced by the North Cotswolds is unique in the United into the Cotswold District. Since the more ideological Nick Boles, who was Kingdom and must be protected as a publication of the NPPF this is the more interested in the number of houses legacy for future generations. only effective planning policy that can built than where they were built. Greg My division covers a large part of restrain development and protect the Clarke is now the Secretary of State and the North Cotswolds and I try through character of towns and villages. In the again urging that we use our brownfield the medium of the Cotswolds Times to Green Belt urbanisation is restricted sites. But brownfield is one side of the inform residents of current developments for the foreseeable future, and planning coin - on the other side there but these are my personal views and agriculture, forestry and outdoor leisure must be real protection for greenfield not necessarily those of either the are the predominant activities. The sites in protected areas. If housebuilders Gloucestershire County Council or the fundamental aim of Green Belt policy can build on any greenfield site they can Cotswold Conservative Association. I am a is to prevent urban sprawl by keeping option, getting them to tackle brownfield member of BEAG.
22 | COTSWOLD TIMES CORRESPONDENCE In the Editor’s Opinion ...
Never mind about the junior doctors – here is a wonderful quote from an old ‘western’ film - one What is happening about our surgery? cowboy turns to another and says: “It’s quiet around There”, to which our hero replies, “Yeah, too quiet!” just Letter to the Editor. moments before we see the Indians coming over the hill. It “Now that we have Christmas over and out of the way, can we seems to have been a bit like that in the last couple of months…. please take a new lease of life. What is happening about the and as experience tells us that when things go quite, particularly new surgery? Never mind about the junior doctors. I am a Times but not especially in local affairs and/or planning, it is likely that reader and enclose a piece I cut out to send you (Patients at risk things are happening out of sight and hearing. And that is when from dirty GP surgeries’ by Kat Lay, Health Correspondent) it whispers, rumour and guesswork come into their own. That makes my blood boil. needn’t be all bad, of course – but it isn’t good either. There have been a lot of questions about progress on the I wonder if any of your readers have the FOSS (Friends of Stow proposed site for the new Doctors Surgery at Tall Trees - and Surgery newsletter)? I am writing this out for the benefit of NHS England are eager to see progress, as are we all. I gather those who do not have the FOSS. It is all about Dr Healy’s that some initial plans are slowly being agreed following many retirement: ‘After more than 30 years I have decided that now delays put down to the doctors being busy. Meanwhile, there is is the time for me to retire from general practice and I will be a planning application for building on the gypsy field which could leaving in April 2016. I have greatly enjoyed helping to care for open up further development opportunities, and there are fears the local community. General Practice has changed significantly that Bovis will get their way and build on the Oddington Road from when I joined in 1984. Our personal involvement in out site, despite having lost at Appeal. With rapidly changing planning of hours care and our involvement with the two community decisions coming out of Government, seemingly weekly, it is hospitals is very different now, but the basic delivery of Primary difficult to keep up with what may and may not be approved. Care remains, and I am fortunate in having an excellent team to hand, too. Dr. Nigel Moor’s article on our AONB is a call for community discussions on the options available to protect the Cotswolds ‘There are a few reasons why this is the right time to go. The AONB, coming into its 50th Anniversary year. Quoting from changing face of Primary Care in conjunction with my other the Cotswold Conservation Board: ’In 1966, the same year in role as an Endoscopist, along with the strain of finding new which England won the Football World Cup, the Cotswolds was promises, have taken their toll; and personal health matters officially designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty also had a part to play. I will continue my work as an Endoscopist (AONB): recognising it as one of the country’s finest landscapes so will still have some link to the community. and a place to be looked after for future generations.’ Since then three things have happened: 1) the AONB has ‘Stow Practice has been a major part of my life since I started become the Cotswolds’ greatest income earner, marketed and I feel privileged to have been able to contribute to my around the world and attracting thousands of visitors every patients’ care. I will leave with sadness as after many years a month of the year; 2) developers have been buying and close bond develops with many patients, which sometimes hoarding land and growing land-banks, only to be wanting more crosses generations – but also I will leave with many fond and bigger sites on which to build mini-villages, tacked onto memories.’ existing communities without thought for how the amenities and services will cope, and despite fierce local opposition; and I hope this is not too rude and cutting. This is my opinion: it does 3) assisted by low interest rates on investments, agents are not look good on paper. seeking ever-more properties for willing buyers and generating ever- higher prices on both new-build, existing homes and Yours sincerely, MJG. property rentals. Affordable homes for local people have got lost in the money-making melee as local incomes stay below the Please note: The Editor reserves the right to publish national average, and young families (older people, too) struggle correspondence without disclosing the sender’s details – only to stay in the area. The seller of the land will make money, the when the Editor is provided with the sender’s name and address. developer and the agent will make money. But it comes at a high Replies via the Editor are forwards directly to the correspondent cost to the community. who may/ may not respond. People don’t come to the Cotswolds to look at roofs and roads!
Reducing tourism will hit income into our communities and our Please address correspondence to: prosperity – the only thing going up will be the prices. The Editor at Stow Times, P.O.Box 6, The Square, Stow on the Wold GL54 1AB Debate: Is development a sign that the community is doing [email protected] well? It could be the kiss of death. In Blockley and elsewhere, what agenda is behind the planning officer’s decision to change its mind?
Jenni Turner, Editor (NB. An opinion is a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.) COTSWOLD TIMES | 23 The Gateway to explore the Cotswolds
There is so much to DISCOVER about the Cotswolds…
The Cotswolds Discovery Centre is the visitor centre for the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), a place where you will learn and discover more about this beautiful and unique protected landscape and how people have helped shape it over thousands of years. The Cotswolds Discovery Centre is housed in the grade II* listed Old Prison, a fascinating 18th century building and now a unique historic visitor attraction in the Cotswold market town of Northleach. The centre is also home to the Cotswolds Conservation Board and the Cotswolds Dry Stone Walling Academy.
Housed within the grounds of the Cotswolds Discovery Centre is the unique Lloyd Baker Rural Life Collection – a wonderful display of historic agricultural and farming machinery.
This fascinating, and nationally important, collection of farm wagons, carts and implements along with two shepherd’s huts will take you back in time to the days learn when the land was toiled by man and beast and tractors about the Cotswold landscape & the heritage hadn’t yet been invented. of its people & buildings
Through imaginatively designed information displays you will learn how geology has shaped the landscape; when dinosaurs first roamed the area; and how the wealth of the area came as a result of the ‘golden fleece’ of the Cotswolds sheep.
You will also find inspiration for great places to discover and visit across the Cotswolds AONB such as historic sites and gardens, wildflower grasslands, ancient woodlands plus the Cotswold Way National Trail which runs the length ex plore of the Cotswolds escarpment providing sweeping views for the fascinating Rural miles around. Life Collection
A visit to the Old Prison offers you a unique glimpse into life in a 19th century house of correction. Built in the 1790s, this was once a fine example of a model prison used to inspire better care and rehabilitation of prisoners throughout Britain and further afield. It even served as a blueprint for London’s Pentonville Prison. Over the years the building has seen many changes of use including a police station, petty sessional court and tramp station. You can still see one of the original cell blocks built glimpse in 1844 along with the historic court room which was in use into life in a 19th century house right up until the 1970s. ‘Walk inside the chilling cells and capture the feeling of being of correction bursting with history locked inside!” 24 | COTSWOLD TIMES The Gateway to explore the Cotswolds
relax and enjoy locally sourced, delicious homemade ADMISSION food from our café Admission to the centre is FREE with free parking. Donations Welcome. The Cotswold Lion Café serves homemade food, Group visits welcome but please prepared from locally sourced fresh ingredients. We pre-book. offer a wide range of delicious breakfasts, light lunches and afternoon teas, along with speciality teas, coffee EVENTS FOR ALL THE FAMILY and soft drinks. Coming up … We use local suppliers where we can to provide the best quality raw ingredients in order to make our homemade specials 16 Feb @ 2:30pm Family storytelling FREE including: organic Cotswold Brie from Upper Slaughter, apple 8 April and 5 August Children’s flax making workshop juice and chilli oils from Cheltenham, fresh meats and salamis FREE drop-in event from Cirencester and chutneys and pickles from Moreton-in- 16 April Star-gazing evening Marsh. 2 May Sheep and Wool Day FREE There is outdoor seating available in our family friendly 4 June Medieval Pardoner re-enactment courtyard where you can relax and enjoy your visit or get FREE drop-in event snuggly warm in front of our new wood burning stove. The café is licensed, has free WiFi, and is also available to hire for your Coming soon …. own private party or event. Camping events, afternoon talks and outdoor theatre! We bake seriously good food with a friendly welcome to all, whether you are arriving by car, bus, bike, on foot or with Check our website for further details of all events, your dog.. activities and rural skills courses. Please note this storytelling replaces that on 11th Feb. Opening Times Tuesday 16 February 2:30pm Family Storytelling FREE 1 Jan to 29 Feb: Local entertainer Chloë of the Midnight Storytellers brings Tuesday – Sunday 9:30am – 4:30pm half term fun to the Cotswold Discovery Centre. With her singing bowl, silver dancing drum and colourful outfit, 1 March – 30 November: Chloë delights audiences of all ages with folktales and Monday – Sunday 9:30am – 4:30pm legends from around the world. The 45 minute show is free, and followed by a free session with colouring sheets. Open Bank Holidays except for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. Plentiful free parking is available. Disabled parking bays are located directly outside the entrance of the centre. Cotswolds Discovery Centre at the Old Prison, Fosse Way, Northleach, Gloucestershire, GL54 3JH Tel: 01451 861563 www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk/discoverycentre /CotswoldsDiscoveryCentre@OldPrison
COTSWOLD TIMES | 25 LOCAL CARE HOMES The LATEST REVIEWS from the Care Quality Commission Researched and written by Paul Jackson
he facts that 1 in 8 of us will end up in a Care Home and 1 in 10 of those Reviewing the 12 that have been inspected in 2015 will spend more than £100,000 are shows a remarkably high level of 6 requiring Safe compelling statistics from the CQC the improvement: independent regulator of health and • Ramping Cat/Burford Tsocial care in England, so how does one select a • Mill House/ Chipping Campden • Beech Haven/Chipping Norton local Care Home? • Enstone House/Enstone • Southerndown/Chipping Norton In the Cotswolds Times area there are 14 Care • Tall Trees/Shipton under Wychwood Homes, some who specialise in ailments (see list) but all are reviewed by the Care Quality Worse still is that 8 require improvement on Commission (CQC) on a regular basis (12 in 2015). Responsiveness: These reviews are publically available and anybody • Jubilee/Bourton on the Water with relations in a care home or contemplating • Ramping Cat/Burford using one should study http://www.cqc.org.uk/ • Beech Haven/Chipping Norton • Enstone House/Enstone There is a new rating system (since January 2015) • Henry Cornish/Chipping Norton • Southerndown/Chipping Norton with areas of inspection: • Tall Trees/Shipton Under Wychwood • Oak Tree/Moreton in Marsh Safe: Effective; Caring; Responsive and Well Led. The ratings( which should be shown on the care home websites) are: The worst performing Care Homes with 4 Outstanding is performing exceptionally well. categories (out of 5) Requiring Improvement are: Good is performing well and meeting CQC expectations. • Ramping Cat/Burford Requires improvement isn’t performing as well as it should • Tall Trees /Shipton and CQC have told the service how it must improve.
The only Care Homes in our area who have yet to be reported under the new system are A recent development by the Care Quality Langston at Kingham (which is being inspected as we go to Commission is to introduce a “share your press) and Newlands in Stow which previously received 5 experience” facility on their website. It seems to positives (ticks) against the following: operate like Trip Advisor i.e. encouraging positive as well as negative comments from existing as 1. Treating people with respect and involving them in well as past experiences on a confidential basis their care for the Care Quality Commission inspectors ... 2. Providing care, treatment and support that meets sounds like a good idea ... use it! people’s needs 3. Caring for people safely and protecting them from NB If you have urgent concerns, especially about harm someone’s safety, you can use a form on the CQC 4. Staffing website of the specific care home or call 03000 5. Quality and suitability of management 616161 and the feedback will be prioritised. 26 | COTSWOLD TIMES LOCAL CARE HOMES
Top of the pile (see league table) has to be The Cotswold at Burford with a rare Outstanding for Caring and 4 Good categories. The only other Care Home awarded an Outstanding is Henry Cornish (Chipping Norton) for Caring but it is spoilt by needing improvement in Responsiveness.
This means that Old Prebendal/Shipton Under Wychwood with no “Requires Improvement” is placed second.
Others who have 4 out of 5 “Goods” i.e with only one area Requiring Improvement are: • Mill House/Chipping Campden • Oak Tree/Moreton • Northleach
There are 3 homes Requiring Improvement in 2 categories: • Jubilee/Bourton Effectiveness and Responsiveness • Beech Haven/Chipping Norton Safe and Responsiveness • Southerndown/Chipping Norton Safe and Responsiveness
O...Outstanding G….Good R….Requires Improvement GOOD* (*Overall CQC rating) 1. COTSWOLD Burford OGGGG 2. OLD PREBENDAL Shipton Under Wychwood GGGGG 3. HENRY CORNISH Chipping Norton OGGGRI 4. MILL HOUSE Chipping Campden GGGGRI NORTHLEACH Northleach GGGGRI OAK TREE Moreton in the Marsh GGGGRI REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT* (*Overall CQC rating) 1. BEECH HAVEN Chipping Norton GGGRIRI JUBILEE Chipping Norton GGGRIRI SOUTHERNDOWN Chipping Norton GGGRIRI 4. ENSTONE HOUSE Enstone GGRIRIRI 5. RAMPING CAT Burford GRIRIRIRI TALL TREES Shipton Under Wychwood GRIRIRIRI
Langston/Kingham and Newlands/ Stow on the Wold are not included
COTSWOLD TIMES | 27 LOCAL CARE HOMES
BOURTON ON THE WATER Jubilee Lodge CHIPPING CAMPDEN Mill House Meadow Way, Bourton-on-the-Water, Cheltenham, GL54 2GN 55 Sheep Street, Chipping Campden, GL55 6DR (01451) 823100 The Orders Of St John Care Trust (01386) 848990 Caring Homes Healthcare Group Ltd June 2015 December 2015 • Dementia • Diagnostic and screening procedures • Diagnostic and screening procedures • Physical disabilities • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury • Caring for adults over 65 yrs • Caring for adults under and over 65 yrs *GOOD ... Effective/Caring/Responsive and Well-led *GOOD ... Safe/Caring/Well led REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT ... Safe REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT…Effective/Responsiveness (*Overall CQC rating) (*Overall CQC rating)
BURFORD Ramping Cat Nursing Home White Hill, Burford, OX18 4EX 01993 822088 Grace Care Service Ltd November 2015 CHIPPING NORTON Beech Haven Care Home • Dementia • Diagnostic and screening procedures 77 Burford Road, Chipping Norton, OX7 5EE • Mental health conditions (01608) 642766 Maricaire Ltd • Physical disabilities June 2015 • Sensory impairments • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury *GOOD ... Effective/Caring and Well-led • Caring for adults under and over 65 yrs REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT ... Safe/Responsiveness (*Overall CQC rating) *GOOD ... Caring REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT … Safe/Effective/ Response and Well- led (*Overall CQC rating)
BURFORD The Cotswold Enstone House Cox Lane, Chipping Norton, OX7 4LF Woodside Drive, Bradwell Village, Burford, OX18 4XA (01608) 677375 Marcus Care Homes Ltd (01993) 824225 Elizabeth Finn Homes Ltd June 2015 January 2015 • Dementia • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury • Caring for adults over 65 yrs • Caring for adults over 65 yrs *GOOD ... Effective/Caring *OUTSTANDING ... Caring REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT … GOOD ... Safe/Effective/Responsive/Well-led (*Overall CQC rating) Safe/Responsive/Well Led (*Overall CQC rating)
CHIPPING NORTON Henry Cornish Care Centre Rockhill Farm Court, Chipping Norton, OX7 5AU (01608) 642364 January 2015 Provided by: The Orders Of St. John Care Trust • Dementia • Diagnostic and screening procedures • Physical disabilities • Sensory impairments • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury • Caring for adults over 65 yrs *OUTSTANDING ... Caring GOOD ... Safe/Effective and Well -led Henry Cornish Care Centre, Chipping Norton REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT ... Responsiveness 28 | COTSWOLD TIMES LOCAL CARE HOMES
CHIPPING NORTON Southerndown Worcester Road, Chipping Norton, OX7 5YF (01608) 644129 Barchester Healthcare Homes Ltd September 2015
• Dementia • Mental health conditions • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury • Caring for adults over 65 yrs Northleach Court Care Home
*GOOD ... Effective/Caring and Well-led MORETON IN MARSH Oak Tree REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT ... Safe and Hospital Road West, Moreton In Marsh, GL56 0BL Responsiveness (*Overall CQC rating) (01608) 650797 HC-One Ltd May 2015
• Caring for adults over 65 yrs CHIPPING NORTON The Langston *GOOD ... Safe/Effective/Caring and Well-led Station Road, Kingham, Chipping Norton, OX7 6UP REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT ... Responsiveness (01608) 731732 J Sai Country Home Ltd (*Overall CQC rating) September 2013 - Under Inspection
• Diagnostic and screening procedures NORTHLEACH Northleach Court Care Home • Physical disabilities High Street, Northleach, GL54 3PQ • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury (01451) 861784 Mrs Sally Roberts & Mr Jeremy Walsh • Caring for adults over 65 yrs October 2015
• Dementia • Diagnostic and screening procedures • Physical disabilities • Sensory impairments CHIPPING NORTON The Old Prebendal House Station Road, Shipton-under-Wychwood, • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury Chipping Norton, OX7 6BQ • Caring for adults over 65 yrs (01993) 831888 Mitrecroft Ltd March 2015 *GOOD ... Safe/Effective/Caring and Responsive REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT ... Well Led (*Overall CQC rating) • Physical disabilities • Sensory impairments STOW ON THE WOLD Newlands Nursing Care Centre • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury Evesham Road, Stow on the Wold, GL54 1EJ • Caring for adults over 65 yrs (01451) 870077 Berkeley Health Care Ltd November 2013 *GOOD ... All categories (*Overall CQC rating) • Treating people with respect and involving them in their care • Providing care, treatment and support that meets CHIPPING NORTON Tall Trees people’s needs Burford Road, Shipton Under Wychwood, • Caring for people safely and protecting them from Chipping Norton, OX7 6DB harm (01993) 833833 Caring Homes Healthcare Group Ltd • Staffing April 2015 • Quality and suitability of management • Dementia • Diagnostic and screening procedures • Diagnostic and screening procedures • Physical disabilities • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury • Sensory impairments • Caring for adults over 65 yrs • Treatment of disease, disorder or injury, • Caring for adults over 65 yrs *GOOD ... Caring REQUIRES IMPROVEMENT … Safe/Effective/ FIVE TICKS…………..Old inspection system Responsiveness and Well-led (*Overall CQC rating)
COTSWOLD TIMES | 29 FEBRUARY 2016 Full Information is available at the Visitor Information Centres (listed separately)
EXHIBITIONS To 13 March Tokens of Love. Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, Woodstock, OX20 1SN Free Entry. 01993 814103 Ext: 203. www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshiremuseum
13 Feb – 2 May Capability Brown, designer of ‘the finest view in England’ in partnership with The Embroiders Guild. Carriage rides around the Park £25. Tickets for Park only £5/£4 children; Park & Gardens £14.90/£6.90; Palace, Park & gardens £24.90/£13.90. Conc & family tickets available. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock OX20 1PP. www.blenheimpalace.com
OPEN GARDENS 26- 28th Feb & 4, 5 March Spring Walks in the Royal Gardens at Highgrove, Tetbury GL8 8PH. 0333 222 4555 Tickets £17.50. Booking essential. www.highgroveshop. com/tours-events
To: 28 Feb Weekends Only Snowdrop collection at Colesbourne Park. Garden OPEN every Saturday and Sunday, from 1pm, last entry 4.30pm £7.50, Ch free. Dogs on leads welcome. Teas, Coffee and Cake provided by local charities. For information 15 “ MAD DOG “ Music from Shakespeare’s England. An about a weekday guided tour contact the Estate Office 01242 870264. evening of Elizabethan Lute music in aid of the Oddington Churches with Hopkinson Smith. 7pm. Tickets £25 & £20 (book early, save £5) inc. refreshments.. 0145183720 / DIARY [email protected] or at the church office 01451 831424/ 6/7 Stow Flea Market and Collectors Fair St Edwards Hall, Stow on evenvalechurches1@btconnect .com the Wold 10.00 am to 4.30 pm Free Entry. Contact Rose on 19 Burford Orchestra’s Spring concert – 3 French composers. 01451 870675 or [email protected] Tickets £8/children £4 from www. Burfordorchestra.org.uk 11 Snowdrop Study Day at Colesbourne Park. Places are limited. 7.30pm at Methodist Church Hall in Witney, OX28 6HG. For information contact [email protected] 20 Burford Singers Spring Concert Schubert - Mass in G Paul Carr 20 Empty Bowls at the Straw Kitchen Café, Whichford Pottery Requiem for an Angel. 7.30pm Church of St John the Baptist, CV36 5PG, fundraising for Motor Neurone Disease and Shipston Church Green, Burford OX18 4RY Home Nursing. 12non – 4pm. Please book Tickets £20 from 077788 45318. 20 Wine & Cheese Evening with Fun Quiz & Raffle. Tickets £10 including first glass of wine & refreshments. In aid of and held at Bledington Village Hall. Tickets 01608 658669 28 Bourton Roadrunners Annual 10km Road Race (entry now full). Fundraising for local charities. Well signed ROAD CLOSURES approx 10-11.30am. Map on www.bourtonroadrunners.co.uk
FORTHCOMING EVENTS MARCH 2016 4 Women’s World Day of Prayer – The Methodist Church, Chipping Norton at 10am & 7pm. 5 Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway RE-OPENS. Look online for Easter Holiday services; www.gwsr.com’. Toddington Railway Station, ToddingtonGL54 5DT. 01242 621405 11 Valuation Day with JS Fine Art experts. £3 per item in aid of Bledington Music Festival. Refreshments. 10am – 3pm. Bledington Village Hall. 12 – 13 ‘Artist & Artisan’ - John Limbrey at Court Barn Museum, Church Street, Chipping Campden, GL55 6JE. 01386 841951 www.courtbarn.org.uk 12 Charlbury Farmers Market 9am – 1pm Playing Close, Charlbury 0X7 3RJ 13 Blenheim Palace & Formal Gardens reopen. Tickets for Park only £5/£4 children; Park & Gardens £14.90/£6.90; Palace, Park & gardens £24.90/£13.90. Conc & family tickets available. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock OX20 1PP. www.blenheimpalace.com
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COTSWOLD TIMES | 33 CHURCHES a place to worship
34 | COTSWOLD TIMES CHURCHES a place to worship
COTSWOLD TIMES | 35 Club Notices
36 | COTSWOLD TIMES RURAL CINEMA February The Playhouse, St George’s Hall The Old School Victoria Hall Memorial Hall BLOCKLEY BOURTON ON THE HILL BOURTON ON THE WATER CHARLBURY’S OWN Thursday 25 February Saturday 27 February Monday 15 February CIMEMA WOMAN IN GOLD SUFFRAGETTE SUFFRAGETTE Sunday 14 February 2016 Season Tickets available – £25 7.15pm. Hot dogs on sale from Film 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets £3 TESTAMENT OF YOUTH 7.15pm. Hot dogs on sale from 6.30. 6.30. Wine with a donation £3.50 refreshments. Family Tickets £10 (2 Film: 7.30pm – Doors & bar from Doors/Bar open at 7.00pm / 7.45pm on the door. Tickets/Queries 01386 adults, 2 children) 6.45pm. Tickets £5 / U15s £3, at film. Advance tickets £3.50/ on 7013857/701396 Queries 01451 822365 the door. Family ticket £12 (2 adults, door £4. Advance tickets 01386 1 or 2 children) Queries: 01608 700647/593386 810713 served
Village Hall Screen on the Green, Village Hall Village Hall St. Andrew’s Church CHURCHILL AND SARSDEN ILMINGTON LITTLE WOLFORD NAUNTON Tuesday 2 February Friday 12 February Friday 12 February Thursday 18 February SUFFRAGETTE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. SUFFRAGETTE Doors open 7.15, Film 7.45. Tickets £3.00 at Film 7.30pm. Tickets £4.50 at the Film 7.30pm Tickets £4.50 Film 7.30pm Tickets £4.00 inc. the door. 01451 850897 or bob@markets- international.com door. Advance tickets/queries (students £2.50) Advance tickets refreshments. 01608 659903 Red Lion. Queries 01606 682806 Advance tickets/queries [email protected] Refreshments 01608 684223
Village Hall Lower Swell Village Hall Testament of Youth a classic description of the impact of World War 1 on the lives of ODDINGTON LOWER SWELL women and the middle-class civilian population of Great Britain. Woman in Gold The story of a Jewish refugee, who, together with her young lawyer, Tuesday 16 February Friday 5 February fought the government of Austria for almost a decade to reclaim a painting of her aunt. SUFFRAGETTE SUFFRAGETTE Man from UNCLE CIA agent helps Gaby Teller defect to West Germany despite the 7 for 7.30pm. £3.00 Wine and soft Doors open at 7pm for opposition of a KGB agent. All three find themselves working together to stop a criminal drinks. Advance tickets/queries Ted refreshments. Film starts at 7.30pm. organization using Gaby’s father’s scientific expertise to construct their own nuclear 01451 830738 Tickets £3.50 Food, alcohol and hot bomb. and cold drinks for sale. Suffragette Foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.
COTSWOLD TIMES | 37 Regular Events
1st MON Folk Night Ebrigton Arms 9pm. www.theebringtonarms.co.uk 1st THURS Free Self Defence / Jeet Kune Do Lessons for Men and Women (Adults only) Stow-on- MON Dance Fusion Adult dance class. Mixed styles. No experience necessary. Exercise in a fun the-Wold Primary School 07977 560086 www.selfdefencevoucher.co.uk way. No pre-booking necessary. THURS Fitness League Exercise and movement to music 9-45am to 11-15am in the British § Chipping Campden Town Hall 9.30-10.30. £4.50 Legion Hall, Bourton on the Water. Kathy Kirk 01993 882350 MON Scottish Country Dancing St Edwards Church Rooms, Stow. 5.30-7pm Children and THURS Belly Dancing Informal & relaxed classes for ladies of all ages, shapes & sizes 7-9pm Adults 01451 831876 Longborough V Hall, 7.30-9pm, Beginners 7-8.30pm, 01608 663480 MON Childrens Dance Class Chipping Campden Town Hall.6-8 yrs 4-5pm, 9-11 yrs 5-6pm. THURS Ceramics Class (adults). Blockley High Street, 4.30-7pm. 01386 700903. Single class £7pp, Monthly membership £22pp. 07527 757057 [email protected] MON YogaChipping Campden Town Hall. 2pm Starts again 21st Sept 01386438537 THURS Quiz Night at The Volunteer Inn, Ch.Campden 8.30pm 01386 840688 MON ‘Old Sweats NAAFI break’ at Royal British Legion, Bourton on the Water (10am -12) for THURS Chippy Art Club Fortnightly in Glyme Hall, next to Leisure Centre. £5 per morning. 10.30- anyone to come along for a cup of tea and a chat, 12.30 Friendly group. All abilities. 01608 730268 MON Burford Orchestra Rehearsals 7.30-9.30pm at Witney Community Primary School THURS Adult Arts & Crafts Workshop 09.30 - 12noon. Moreton Congregational Church Hall. OX28 1HL. [email protected]. 07984 492 976. New members welcome; Tel: 01608 653377 for more info no audition. THURS Line Dancing 1.45pm beginners, 2.30 others. King George Hall, Mickleton MON Powerfreestyle Kickboxing at Guiting power Village hall. Juniors 7-7.50pm. Adults 01386 438 537 7.50-8.30pm. freestyle Kickboxing or adult Boxersize. Call Adam 07774285459 THURS Notgrove Country Music Every other Thursday, 8pm to 11:30 pm. £5 entrance. Contact MON Bridge Club @ Northleach 7.30pm. Partners not necessary. Non members welcome, Ken on 07870795560 for further details. 01285 750288 Tim Morris THURS Blockley Blokes Choir (BBC) 7.30-9 pm Little Village Hall. David Artingstall, MON Dance Fusion Adult dance class, mixed styles. No experience necessary.All Welcome. Sec: 01386 701556 [email protected] Ch.Campden Town Hall, 9.30-10.30 £4.50 (conc £2.50) THURS Toddler group Village Hall in Upper Rissington. 10-12. £2 per Family. Newborn to 5 years MON Robert Cox Pilates 4U relocation for Monday 7pm classes to Haybarn, Daylesford near old. Contact 01451 822379 or [email protected] Kingham, GL56 0YG MON Jun/July Samba drumming group Bourton-on-the-Water. (Not bank holidays) 7.30- FRI Kettle’s On coffee morning 10.30am to 12 noon. Henry Cornish Care Centre, Rockhill 9pm British Legion Hall. £5/£4 per drop in session or block discount. Farm, Close off London Road, Chipping Norton, OX7 5AU. Contact Sylvia Evans on www.olasamba.co.uk 01608 642364. 3rd Mon West Oxfordshire WI St. Mary’s Parish Rooms, 7.30pm. 3 sessions at £4 and then hope FRI Belly Dancing New beginners class. 11-12.30 The Church Room, Chipping Campden. you’ll become a member! Contact Hilary Dix 01608 646228 Informal & relaxed classes for ladies of all ages, shapes & sizes. 01608 663480 Last MON Whist Drives at Burmington Village Hall. 7.30pm. In aid of the village hall FRI Blockley Brass Band 7.30-9.30pm St George’s Hall. Rachel Galt 01386 841677 FRI Dance Fusion Adult dance class, mixed styles. No experience necessary. All Welcome. TUES Fosseway Cafe Orchestra at Stretton on Fosse Village Hal lGL56 9SD 10 - 12. Ch.Campden Town Hall, 9.30-10.30 £4.50 (conc £2.50) No auditions - players are Grade III - VI. Cost £3.00 per session. 07967 423550. FRI Active & Able classes for older people. Baptist Church Rooms, Stow 01285 623450 TUES Baby Bounce and Rhyme 10.30-11am, Moreton Library, Stow Road. Free FRI Art Class by Jill Jarvis at Oddington Village Hall 9:30 - 12:00. 01451 831862 / TUES Blockley Ladies Choir 7.30 - 9.15pm Little Village Hall. Sec: Sue Wareham 07908 512734 [email protected] 01608 654299: 07917198327. [email protected] FRI Painting Class with Fleur Grabow at Longborough Village Hall. 9.30-12.30. TUES Fit For Life at Baden-Powell Hall, Bourton. Tai Chi: 9.30-10.30am £4.50/session. Balance 01451 830767 [email protected] & strength: 11-12noon £4.50/ session. Contact Denise Nethercott 07909874186 or FRI Line Dancing Willersey Village Hall, near Broadway 01386 438537 email [email protected] FRI Active & Able Classes Posture & Stability – Tai Chi Chi Kong at Bourton, Moreton and TUES Art Class by Jill Jarvis at Oddington Village Hall 9:30 - 12:00. Stow. 01285 623450 01451 831862 / 07908 512734 [email protected] FRI Moore Lunch Club The Naight, Bourton on the Water. Secretary: Sheila Thorpe TUES Seated Tai Chi 11.15am – 12 noon. Henry Cornish Care Centre, Rockhill Farm, Close off 01451 822846 [email protected] London Road, Chipping Norton, OX7 5AU. £2 per session. Sylvia Evans 01608 642364. TUES Pottery Class Lower Swell Village Hall, 9:30-12:00 noon. £95 plus materials/ firing cost SAT Drama sessions for 5-7 year olds. 10-11am or 11.15-12.15. £55 per term. Ch Norton per 10 weeks. Beginners welcome. [email protected] 01451 870734 Theatre, OX7 5NL. 01608 642350 TUES Great Rollright Baby and Toddler Group 10-11.30am in the village hall. Last SAT Great Rollright Village Market 9.30-12.30 in the village hall. Ann White 01608 737437 www.greatrollrightvillagemarket.weebly.com 1st TUES Stow on the Wold and Countryside Embroiderer’s Guild Afternoon meetings with speaker then tea & cake. Broadwell Village Hall. 01451 821291 1st SUN Chippy Rambling Club Leisurely 2 hour afternoon walk in countryside. Heather 01608 643691 [email protected] 1st WED Free Martial Arts Lessons Separate adult & children’s classes. Chipping Norton Leisure Centre. 07977 560086 www.martialartsvoucher.co.uk LATE DIARY ENTRIES – FEBRUARY 1st WED North Cotswolds Friendship Centre, Broadwell Village Hall, Nr. Moreton in Marsh - 10.30 - 12 noon 10 TALK ‘Yeoman Guard’ by Shaun McCormac at Moreton in Marsh Leisure Club. 2nd WED Charlbury Art Society 7:30 pm. Many other activities arranged throughout the year. 01608 650665 Marion Coates 01608 810116. LIVE MUSIC from Glovebox - www.gloveboxlive.uk WEDS Recorder Consort meet @GL56 9SR. Playing in 4 parts. Cost 50p. Contact Chirstine 07967423550 4 Sean Taylor blues guitar, Old Fire Station, Oxford WEDS Fitness classes and Kettlercise 5.15 - 6.30pm/6.30 - 7.45pm. Stow on the Wold 12 C Duncan at The Old Fire Station, Oxford Primary School. email millyjopt@gmail 25 Case Hardin ‘americana’ at Fat Lil’s, Witney WEDS Art Class by Jill Jarvis at Oddington Village Hall. 1:30 - 4:00 01451 831862/ 9.03 Hunter & The Bear, celtic folk rock, Old Fire Station, Oxford. 07908 512734 [email protected] 21- 24 April CHIPLITFEST Chipping Norton @chiplitfest #chiplitfest. Tickets 01608 642350 WEDS Chipping Campden Bridge Club 7.15 for 7.30pm Duplicate Bridge. Upper Town Hall. Non members welcome. Partners not necessary, 01608 664456 WEDS Environmental projects 10-1pm. Chipping Norton Green Gym is a friendly group with COTSWOLDS DISCOVERY CENTRE jobs for all! 01608 643269, [email protected] www.chippygreengym.org EVENTS in FEBRUARY at The Old Prison, Northleach WEDS Awareness Through Movement classes 7pm at Church Westcote Village Hall, OX7 6SF £10/£40 for 6 classes. Karin 01993 832520 [email protected] GL54 3JH | 01451 862000 WEDS Dance 50+ Termly, 9.45am-10.45am. Keep fit and mobile. Upstairs in The Theatre’s 21 Willow Garden Structures. 10-4pm. Gallery. £60 for ten week term. 01608 642350 www.chippingnortontheatre.com Workshop £69 including lunch in the Cotswold Lion WEDS Weds Walk Easy/moderate walks. Start at 10am. 01451 862000 Café. Create your own beautiful and useful willow 3rd WEDS N Cots Support Group for Parents & Carers of people with additional needs. Childrens structures for your garden. Centre (behind Stow Primary Sch) 7.30-9pm. [email protected] 01451 831642 FEBRUARY HALF-TERM WED & FRI Adult Garden Workshop 1.30 - 4pm. P3, The Windrush, High Street, Moreton. Activities to entertain children – crafts and tales from the Dragon Tel: 01608 653377 for more info. Whisperer. 16 Storytelling at 2:30pm. 1st THURS Free Martial Arts Lessons Separate adult & children’s classes Stow-on-the-Wold Primary School. 07977 560086 www.martialartsvoucher.co.uk, 01451 862000 | www.escapetothecotswolds.org 38 | COTSWOLD TIMES The Rotary Club of the North Cotswolds
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We don’t’ get it in our street, our village! 01608 651802 We are frequently asked why we don’t deliver Stow Times [email protected] to ‘this’ village or ‘our’ area, and sometimes to ‘our’ street, where residents are not receiving a copy of the magazine The January rush is finally over & accountants can now look through their letterbox every month*. forward to the payroll & tax year-end which will soon be with us. Since the introduction of Real Time Information (RTI), a few years The answer is - we can, but we need local help! We ask local ago, HMRC have not been penalising many employers for filing people to help deliver in their area, or to let us know where late but it’s only a matter of time before they do. For a government we can drop a bundle of magazines for people to collect who pledged to reduce bureaucracy they seem to have it in for – maybe the local shop, village hall, meeting place, etc.. many small employers who, in 2016, also have to contend with Most often one or two people will take magazines for their pension auto-enrolment for the first time. Many small employers street or their area and arrange to deliver the magazines have yet to understand the implications of auto-enrolment or act themselves. So if you aren’t receiving a magazine, can you to ensure that they comply with the law. Those I have spoken to and/or your neighbours help? haven’t got a clue about how to go about setting up a pension scheme for their employees & yet many have to do it this year. It Why don’t you pay for delivery? seems that, yet again, the onus is put on the employer to ensure We don’t have the budget to do it! Two thirds of our pages that their employees comply rather than have a system where the are local information which is carried free of charge – that employee is responsible for their own welfare. means that one-third of the pages carry the commercial advertising which meets our bills. But the magazines are Once again the retail economic data from the Christmas period full of adverts! Yes they are - and the majority are from was a mixed bag with poor results from a number of large retailers event organisers, school secretaries, etc., and are free of who, in the past, have posted increased sales. These results indicate charge. A commercial magazine would have twice/ three that not only is the consumer becoming choosier where he or she times the amount of business advertisements – and/or shops but the impact of online shopping is taking its toll. There’s charge people for the magazines. And they may not have no doubt that some retailers will have to up their game if they wish the circulation, readership and long shelf life of the Cotswold to survive. I feel sorry for the retailers who have to pay business Times magazines. rates and increasing rents at a time when profit margins are decreasing. Something has to be done otherwise our High Streets So we need your help, please will disappear & consumer choice will disappear with it. At the moment Stow Times is being delivered almost If you’re planning to join the ever increasing numbers in the everywhere is needs to be, which is wonderful and we really service sector or are looking to start another type of business, appreciate the help of all our deliverers. Without them these either self-employed or as a limited company, then now is a magazines couldn’t work, so our deliverers are all valuable good time to start thinking about setting things up. If you start members of the team. But there is a gap: your business at the beginning of April your business year will run alongside the tax year making life a little bit easier as all Lower Park Street approx 37 houses your year-end & tax paperwork can be prepared together. It’s important to remember that by getting your paperwork in order This round will take approx 30 minutes, at the end of every from the start you will make the running of your business so month*. We deliver the magazines to you during the last much easier. You should also talk to your bank’s business manager week of the month (we can leave them in a porch, shed or contact one of the many business groups who offer advice. All or garage) for delivery ideally during the first week of the will be in a position to give you help or put you in touch with month. (We don’t expect deliverers to be out and about in people who can give you the information you require. You should rain, snow or storms- but we do appreciate having someone also make an appointment to see an accountant, or a solicitor if who help out when you are away. needed, at the earliest opportunity.
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here has been recent media coverage of a new started, cases have been seen in Cornwall, Dorset, Surrey, disease that has caused dog deaths in the New Worcestershire and Co. Durham. Forest area. The disease starts as skin lesions, usually Chipping Norton Veterinary Hospital has received several on the face or the lower legs below the elbow or phone calls from dog owners worried about this disease. We knee, that are typically 1-4 cm long and look like emphasise that most skin lesions will not be caused by this Tulcers or erosions. Affected dogs go on to develop kidney disease, and most cases of acute kidney failure will also failure over the next two to seven days. The cause of the have another cause. If you see unusual skin lesions on your disease is not known, so vets have no specific treatment dog, particularly if on the lower legs, do take your dog to for it, but with aggressive supportive care for acute kidney your vet, but because the disease is so uncommon, our failure about 20% of cases have survived. advice is not to worry about it otherwise. This disease appears similar to a disease of dogs that Because the disease is new and in the press, it seems has been recognised in the USA for about 25 years called scary. However, the truth is that there are several far more ‘Alabama rot’. Its veterinary name is ‘idiopathic cutaneous common, long-established diseases around that are not in and renal glomerular vasculopathy’ which, when translated the news but that can just as easily make your dog very ill into plain English, means “we do not know the cause but or be fatal, including the bacterial infection leptospirosis, something damages blood vessels resulting in skin lesions which can also cause kidney failure, and parvovirus. A and kidney damage”. 16-week old puppy died of parvovirus recently in our All of this sounds alarming, but in fact only 16 casesPROOF hospital, despite SHEET several days of intensive treatment. These have been identified in the UK so far, out of about eight diseases are much more of a threat to your dog, and there million dogs in the country, all over the last 14 months and is something that you can do to very effectively protect mostClient: between Stow Dec Skips 2012 and March 2013. AlthoughIssue: mostMay-June against 2012 them + 3 – make sure your Addogs Size: are 1/2fully page vaccinated had been walked in the New Forest before their disease against these diseases.
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190x136mm_2015.indd 1 09/07/2015 12:30 he third round of the Gloucestershire Fletcher (38th), Edward Jones (39th), and Acer Tarrant Cross Country League was at Blackbridge (45th). Several of these runners are still under nine years of in Gloucester on Saturday 12th December. age, impressive! The course is relatively flat but strong winds The U13’s started the day in 2nd place overall. Isabel made it very demanding on the day. Bourton Kiey-Thomas finished 4th,Lauren Farley 8th despite TRoadrunners had thirty runners taking part and aggravating a previous injury, with Helena West (15th) and recorded excellent results against bigger clubs such Annabella Tallis (20th). The girls were 2nd on the day and as Cheltenham and Gloucester and from outside the overall with one race to come. county. The U13 boys team all showed quality and class on the The U11 course was a little longer than usual at approx day, starting 4th team on the day and achieving 2nd place by 2.2km over 2 laps, but the runners all ran extremely well. the end of the day, which could move them up a place. Kan The U11 girls did very well, with Maria Watkins (18th), Ikeda (6th)led the team home followed by Louis Mutsaars Annabella Williams (20th) our 2nd runner home and (13th) and Jago Tarrant(20th), with James Mace (22nd), Abigail Barnett (31st) our 3rd runner home - all three girls Johnny Walling (23rd), Connor McGuinness-Dean (24th) are potential stars. They were well supported by Isabel and Harvey Sawyer (25th). Dennett (33rd), Celia Darwent (35th) and Nell Ash (37th) The U15 girls started 7th team overall and managed 3rd with the team finishing 5th and 10th. place on the day, which should move them up a few places. The U11 boys did extremely well with 2nd, 8th and 10th Emily Field (10th) had her best finish to date, withKoumi team positions on the day. Beau Griffin (5th) ran well Ikeda (14th) and Gabby Jones running well (18th). with his brother Alfie (12th) the 2nd runner home and If our runners turn up in force for the final round at Christopher Hunt (13th ) the 3rdrunner home. With three Kenilworth in February, I am sure there are a number teams finishing on the day these athletes were extremely of County Medals up for grabs. If a team wins a medal, well supported - Lysander Tarrant (16th) ran extremely well anybody who has finished in the top three for the club in any as did Sean Farley (32nd), Peter Fletcher (35th), Arthur of the four races will win a county medal.
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COTSWOLD TIMES | 55 Moreton Rangers FC Mixed Fortunes for Rangers Report from Martin Jones s 1st team manager Barnett sunned himself in to lose 1-0 in what was probably the best defensive Australia, his side were running out to face what performance of the season. could have been their toughest test so far this They got back on track over Christmas with a 2-1 win over season. A home fixture against Cheltenham Saracens with goals from Harry Kidlington on Saturday 12th Peters and Ben Ward. ADecember would be challenging even with Barnett to guide them through. Thanks for Christmas Lunch Seemingly, however, there was nothing Big thanks to the Black Bear pub for hosting to worry about. Caretaker manager Sam our fundraising Christmas Lunch. Our team Tyack has clearly got the dressing room chefs Dave Toon and Dave Lawrence served on side and was able to mastermind a 5-0 up a super spread of Christmas Fair. A thanks victory and probably, more noteworthy, a goes to Rob Walker Butchers for the turkey fantastic performance from all involved. Adam Shipman challenges a Kidlington and Dave Toon for the puddings. With Player in 5-0 victory Blustery conditions could have made the members of the first team helping with serving game a dogged battle in a bog, although both sides were and washing up it was a great success raising over £300 for clearly trying to play with the ball on the floor. The 1st half the club. saw a Lee Brooks brace and a sending off for the visitors. The second half ended up being a rout as Lee Brooks completed Coaching Volunteers Needed his hat trick, Joe Jarvis slammed in a smashing strike and Ben If you have any interest in the future of football then Shurmer rounding off a man of the match performance with what better way to help deliver the players of the future a well taken 1st time finish. through helping coach players. Moreton Rangers will pay The team then travelled the next Saturday to Oxford for any course you take to become a coach with any of our Nomads who were top of the league with a goal difference teams. Club Contacts are available at our website www. of plus 62. Rangers rose to the challenge and were unlucky moretonrangersfc.com.
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