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February 2016 Issue 145, 146 COTSWOLD TIMES STOW TIMES JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016 ISSUE 145, 146 In your FEBRUARY magazine 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 Trains running again every weekend from Saturday 5th March Plus ‘Eggspress’ services for Easter week - see our website for full details and timetable CLASS 37 DIESEL BACK IN SERVICE SAT 19TH & SUN 20TH MARCH Ⅵ Travel from Toddington, Winchcombe or Cheltenham Race Course stations on our award-winning heritage railway Ⅵ 24 mile round trip through glorious Cotswold scenery Ⅵ 693 yard tunnel at Greet - 2nd longest on a preserved railway Ⅵ Famous 15 arch Stanway viaduct Ⅵ Tea room, shop, heritage trail and small museum at Toddington, café, shop and picnic area at Winchcombe Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway The Railway Station, Toddington, GL54 5DT ෟ 01242 621405 www.gwsr.com M5 junc 9, only 15 mins 2 | COTSWOLD TIMES COTSWOLD TIMES | 3 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 Kingham Hill School Boarding and day school for girls and boys from 11-18 yrs Call +44 (0) 1608 658999 or email [email protected] to request a prospectus or arrange a visit. Kingham, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 6TH www.kinghamhill.org.uk Church Street The Stow-on-the-Wold GL54 1BB Tel: 01451 830268 BORZOI www.borzoibookshop.co.uk T: @BorzoiBookshop Bookshop F: Borzoi Bookshop JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2016 SPRING EVENT Our annual event with Rebecca Tope will this year take place at The Three Ways House Hotel in Mickleton. Rebecca will be joining the Lunch Club on Tuesday 5th April to talk about and sign her new Cotswold mystery Guilt in the Cotswolds. The ticket price will include a delicious two-course lunch and a signed copy of the book. To reserve a place, please contact the hotel on 01386 438429 or email [email protected]. 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.
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