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Cotswold Bookstore MoretonTimes_May09.qxd 28/4/09 16:34 Page 1 MORETON TIMES Issue 31 • May 2009 An independent paper delivered FREE OF CHARGE to every home & business in Moreton in Marsh, Blockley, Bourton on the Hill and Todenham. Copies also go to Batsford, Draycott and Dorn, Great Wolford and Little Wolford, Little Compton and Long Compton Copies of Moreton Times are generally available at Moreton Area Centre, Moreton Library, and are carried by the Mobile Library. Warmer days and longer evenings... And there’s LOTS going on Climate Change & energy efficient houses Exhibitions, concerts, fetes & The Prof on the Four Shire Stone festivals, open gardens, Ben Eddols with something for the weekend! glorious walks and Is this the worst best place... record-breaking picnics! With Local Sport, Clubs and Join in! Cinemas – this is your May edition! MoretonTimes_May09.qxd 28/4/09 16:34 Page 2 MAY EVENTS 27th April ~ 2nd May : Fosse Manor Fish Week 4th ~ 30th May : Asparagus Season 10th May : Jazz Sunday Lunch 14th May : Ladies Lunch Club £14.00 per person 28th May : Ladies Lunch Club trip to Abbey Gardens and the Old Bell Hotel in Malmesbury Please telephone for details - booking essential LOOK OUT FOR JUNE EVENTS Website: www.thekingsarmsstow.co.uk Email: [email protected] Telephone: (01451) 830364 AWARD WINNING NASEBY RESTAURANT MAY SPECIAL OFFERS GREAT STAFF AND SERVICE TWO COURSE SET MENU £12 REAL ALES & FINE WINES THREE COURSE SET MENU £15 LOCALS ALWAYS WELCOME! ROOMS FROM £79 B&B BOOK NOW 2 MoretonTimes_May09.qxd 28/4/09 16:34 Page 3 MORETON TIMES From the Editor Inside this edition First, I must say Thank You. I really appreciate all the readers who have told me that they like the way Moreton Times looks these days. Feedback is always FEATURES welcome, especially when it’s positive, and it is good to know that the magazine is being well received. 10 & 11 ‘Climate Change’ – Ed Pomfret & Charlie Mckinnon-Little tackle this emotive subject When summer starts to swing into step it is wonderful to see all the events notices coming on two very different fronts through. This year, with many more people 31 Is this ‘The Worst Best Place’? holidaying in UK and many of us looking for local Asks Alana Powell, our newest correspondent events rather than travelling miles at the weekends, our fetes and fairs should all do well. Of course they REGULARS don’t ‘just appear’, and with the planning already underway there is still lots of time to get involved 5 Rotary & The Cotswold Festival, from Brian Honess ourselves. If you haven’t baked a cake for a charity stall for ages you may have forgotten the excitement 6 Round up from Local Schools of seeing how quickly they sell out! If your 7 A Pledge from our Community Police youngsters haven’t made chocolate crispies to take along, dipped apples into pans of homemade toffee 8 Book Reviews from Cotswold Bookstore or grown a few pots of trusty bright nasturtiums, 9 The Prof writes about The Four Shire Stone then there is lots of fun to be had before you even get there! Check out your local Notice Boards – now’s the time to get local and be involved. And if you like LOCAL INFORMATION & EVENTS it, do write and tell us – we’ll love to hear from you. 16 Notes from Moreton in Marsh Town Meeting Best wishes, Jenni Turner Editor 17 Information from our Local Authorities Our copy date is generally the 16th 18 Church Services of the month. 19 Village Halls & Rural Cinemas Approximately 80% of the content of Moreton Times 20 – 23 LOCAL EVENTS appears in Stow Times, including the commercial 24 EVENTS DIARY advertising and community news etc. Community and fundraising events are all carried free of charge. 25 Local Walks in May & Notes from Specific to Moreton Times / Stow Times are the Local Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Authorities, Council, Churches, Letters and Club pages. In total we deliver over 6,000 copies of the 26, 27 NEWS & Information from some of local Agencies – two magazines each month, centred on Stow on the New Grants & Local Funding Success Stories Wold and Moreton in Marsh. 28 – 30 YOUR LETTERS, EMAILS & TELEPHONE CALLS Front cover photo: St David’s Churchyard fills with 37 ‘Something for the Weekend’ – from Ben Eddolls, sunshine now that the trees are gone. our Motoring Correspondent 38 Moreton Rangers – the future looks bright, Telephone Moreton Times on from Martin Jones 39 Stow Rugby – young teams achieve success 07789 175 002 with style, from Huw Powell and Ian Roberts 41 Your Club Reports (The phone will take your messages too – leave your name & contact number and we 42 Local Directory of Clubs, Societies & Associations will return your call.) 43 LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY email MORETON TIMES on [email protected] Thank you to all our contributors, writers, sources of www.moretontimes.co.uk information and deliverers. Extra copies of Moreton Times are generally available at P O Box 6, Sheep Street, Moreton Area Centre in the High Street, in Moreton Library Stow on the Wold, GL54 1WD and in the Mobile Library. 3 MoretonTimes_May09.qxd 28/4/09 16:34 Page 4 CherishCherish massage and beauty room Massage Massage Swedish – Deep tissue – Hot Stone Indian Head – Hydrotherm – Reflexology Beauty Facials – EyeBeauty treatments – Waxing Manicures – Pedicures – Body treatments 1st Floor, Parklands House Park Street, Stow on the Wold, GL54 1AQ Tel: 01451 833640 www.cherishmassage.co.uk 10% off your first treatment – quote Stow Times ** Gift Vouchers available. Men welcome for all treatments ** BEING A LOCAL … is supporting local businesses. (please tell them if you saw their advert in Stow Times) 07789 175 002 WEDNESDAY 27TH MAY 2009 at the: Fosse Manor Hotel, Stow on the Wold. FROM 10AM TILL 4PM & FREE PARKING • FREE "Open Day" for all Hearing Aid users and anyone who suffers with To celebrate our 1st year anniversary in Stow on the Wold, hearing difficulties Imperial Hearing would like to invite you to our • NHS users welcome. Hearing Awareness Open Day Event at Fosse Manor Hotel • SPECIALIST advice from leading professionals on Wednesday 27th May. • FREE hearing aid servicing on the day • FREE hearing aid batteries for Call FREE on 08000 199575 everyone who attends ...to book your place! • Complimentary refreshments or feel free to just drop in on the day www.imperialhearing.com Telephone: 08000 199575 4 MoretonTimes_May09.qxd 28/4/09 16:34 Page 5 THE COTSWOLD The Rotary Club of FESTIVAL the North Cotswolds STOW-ON-THE-WOLD From Brian Honess From Brian Honess Cotswold Festival Report The last week of April will have been a busy one for the Rotary At the time of going to press many of you from Stow and the Club and unfortunately this month’s report has been prepared in surrounding Cotswolds will have been reading about the closure of the advance of a number of scheduled activities. However with the Visitor Information Centre (VIC) in Stow and the possible immediate support that was being shown, we can be assured that the events involvement of The Cotswold Festival organising committee in were successful and enjoyed by all who supported them. We will attempting to keep the VIC “door open” – if only for free literature and have some photographs for you next month! advice for the passing tourist. There was an obvious advantage for us Wednesday evening 23rd April a fun evening, known by the in having the outlet, in order to promote the Cotswold Festival. When a Rotary Club as “Memory Lane”. The Naunton Players put on group of us came together last August and decided to go ahead with an annual entertainment inviting many elderly and disabled people running a Festival, we never dreamt that the VIC would be threatened from the area to the Village Hall in Naunton to watch (and join in!) with closure, for it is a VIC that is second to none in the area, for its their production. This year’s event, entitled “Old Thesbians Never activities and with the need to promote the Cotswolds and service the Die “ will have been packed with it’s usual local flavour, and the ever increasing number of visitors to the area, it was inconceivable that enthusiasm of the performers in their various song and dance there would be any move towards closure. activities will have been equally enthusiastically received by the packed hall. As usual it will have been a late night for many of the However, things were to develop otherwise and no matter how the Town audience – but well worth it!! Thanks to The Naunton Players yet Council fought and objected to the closure of the VIC, it seemed pretty again for inviting so many to come a join in one of your most obvious that sanity (or at least what we considered sanity) was not successful activities. going to prevail. There was only one thing to do and that was to Secondly, the Rotary Club hosted its third “Youth and Music” attempt to put in place some form of temporary system and through Concert in St Edward’s Church, Stow on Saturday 25th.As approaches made to the owners of the VIC property and Martin Elliot & usual this will surely have been a “night to remember”, as a group Partners, it was agreed, subject to a number of conditions, that we of highly talented young musicians will have entertained a packed could have use of the vacated VIC possibly up until The Cotswold audience. This year the musicians came from the Young Musicians Festival at the end of September.
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