COTSWOLD TIMES BOURTON TIMES AUGUST 2014 ISSUE 53 Photo Competition 2014 PAGE 9-15 1 Man, 1,000 Bookshops PAGE 18-19 County News - Bourton Library, potholes PAGE 24 9 pages of EVENTS Things to do, places to go - and places to stop for a while ….. Plus your local sports clubs and community news cotswoldtimes 2 “Family fun this August at Batsford Arboretum” Relax with friends enjoying magical walks beneath the tree canopy, pick up all your gardening essentials and treat yourself to gorgeous gifts and great food in the Garden Terrace Café. Don’t miss the Big Batsford Bug Hunt in the arboretum throughout August Batsford is open every day 10am–5pm. Batsford Arboretum and Garden Centre, Batsford, Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 9AB. 01386 701441 [email protected] www.batsarb.co.uk Ashbee Dental Care Please contact us to welcomes new patients. book your appointment. From the moment you arrive our 3 Ashbee House team at Ashbee Dental Care will Battlebroook Drive look after you in a friendly and Chipping Campden Gloucestershire relaxed environment. GL55 6JX (Chipping Campden Business Park) Ashbee Dental Care is a small dedicated team, focused on Telephone Number: 01386 840 840 providing the highest quality dental treatment. Opening Hours Monday – Thursday 9.00am-5.00pm Friday 9.00am – 1.00pm With our convenient location, and ample free parking , Ashbee Dental Care has patients coming from across the Cotswolds and beyond. NHS and private patients welcome. Denplan payment scheme also available. Only 7 miles from Moreton in Marsh 3 4 COTSWOLD TIMES BOURTON TIMES FROM THE EDITOR... INSIDE OUR AUGUST EDITION... To be in this part of the world when it is looking so stunning is such a joy! FEATURES Around every corner of the road is a different view, changing every day as the fields turn gold and the green of the trees and hedgerows darken in the 9 - 15 PHOTO COMPETITION 2014 summer heat. So to have a perfect excuse to be out ‘in the view’ is heaven! 18 One Man One Thousand Bookshops - Rachel Silcock & David Harding Well, here it is…. our annual Photo Competition is in the magazines this month, a wonderful excuse to get out and about into our beautiful market 39 Bourton Equestrian Centre - Leanne Launchbury towns and villages spotting the architectural oddities, unusual artefacts and 41 Le Tour de Spectateurs - Robert Forster one-off items that caught my eye when we went out a couple of weeks ago to take the photos for this year’s competition. I hope you will enjoy identifying the photos – and please remember than every entry could win a prize, even the incomplete ones! REGULARS In July the magazines welcomed two work experience students from 17 Book Reviews from Borzoi Books Chipping Campden School for a week – David Harding and Rachel Silcock, and we worked on creating a two page feature article from scratch to (almost) 20 Robb Eden on Tax - Job Vacancies and Volunteers print-ready in five days. Rachel and David had lots of good ideas and it was 21 Dates for Local Authority meetings, Blood Donor sessions a very enjoyable week – and you can read the finished article on pages 18 and 19. 22 Bourton Parish Council meeting in July Also in July there was a bit of a cycle ride ‘up north’ somewhere, so Bob 23 Glos Police & Crime Commissioner promoting Safer Communities, Forster got on his bike to do a spectators’ view of ‘Le Tour de Yorkshire’. Meanwhile a storm of emotion has been building up about plans for a new 24 GCC News – Bourton Library, Potholes, Building Better Lives doctors’ surgery - the need isn’t the issue, but where it should be built. It’s LOCAL EVENTS & EVENTS DIARY - Planning matters again – in our beautiful, irreplaceable Cotswolds AONB! Exhibitions, shows, cinemas, concerts, galleries, markets, museums and walks As always, there is an amazing selection of things to do, see and enjoy this month – the key is to take the opportunity and do just that. 33 Local Church Services 38 Village Halls Best Wishes Jenni Turner, Editor 42-45 News from some of our Local Schools 49 Reports from North Cotswold Rotary, Northleach Lions With approximately 40,000 readers across the North Cotswolds , we are 50 Club Notices delivering the four community magazines to letterboxes in Stow on the Wold, Moreton in Marsh, Bourton on the Water & Chipping Norton and the villages 51 Clubs, Societies, Associations & Charities listing (always a Work In Progress!) that use them as centres - Broadwell, Adlestrop, Oddington, Bledington, Icomb, Church Westcote, Nether Westcote, Wyck Rissington, Lower & Little Rissington, Great 53, 54 News from local Sports Clubs Rissington (part),Maugersbury, Nether Swell, Lower Swell & Upper Swell, Lower Slaughter, Naunton, Notgrove, Sherborne (part), Clapton on the Hill, Donnington, 55 Local Business Directory Condicote, Longborough, Bourton on the Hill, Temple Guiting, Guiting Power, Batsford (part), Blockley, Todenham, Aston Magna, Draycott (part) and Over Norton PLUS Centres With many thanks to all our many contributors this month, including: in Bourton on the Water, Chipping Norton, Moreton in Marsh, Stow on the Wold, Caroline Fisher, Bob Forster, Julie Hall, Christabel Hardacre and Jan Marley Chipping Campden, Paxford, Shipston on Stour, Great Wolford & Little Wolford, Little & Long Compton, Whichford, Heythrop, Chadlington, the Wychwoods, Northleach, Burford, Kingham, Churchill and Salford. Cover photograph: “Harvest”©Mike Boyes(08.13) Our next edition is for September 2014 Extra copies of Bourton Times are generally available in Bourton Visitor Information The copydate is 15th August 2014 Centre, The Motoring Museum, Dial House Hotel, the Surgery and the clinics. Material published in this magazine is copyright; the Editor may give permission for copy to be reproduced for some purposes. The opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Editor or any member Contact Bourton Times on: 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, the Editor/team do not accept any responsibility for the consequences of any errors that may occur. 07789 175 002 [email protected] www.bourtontimes.co.uk P O Box 6, Sheep Street, Stow on the Wold, GL54 1WD Our design team this month was Eagle Design Ltd. 0800 170 7955 / www.eagledesign.net 5 Extreme Sports, Alternative, Music, TV and Film Clothing, Footware and Accessories www.rageclothingcompany.co.uk | 01451 870390 Manson House, The Square, Stow on The Wold, Gloucestreshire, GL54 1AB BUMBLEVANS VW Campervan hire based in the cotswold Festival, adventure or a road trip? VW Campervan hire based in the cotswolds LOOK ONLINE - www.bumblevans.co.uk Contact us: [email protected] 01451 851927 or 07979776133 Great Western Railway Benches “Direct from the manufacturer” 14-15 Fosseway Business Park Moreton in Marsh, GL56 9NQ E-mail:[email protected] Tel: 01608 652505 6 7 8 CoTSWold TIMeS photo Competition Where is that? I know where that is! Where was that taken? I’ve seen that before... look up - look doWn - look behInd you! Inside the August editions of Stow Times, Moreton Times, Bourton Times and Chipping Norton Times are a set of numbered photographs, all taken recently, one in each of the communities where we deliver the magazines every month. But - these are not average picture postcard images, and they may not be that easy to identify! The Challenge... To identify the communities where the photos were taken. You will need to get out and about in our stunning corner of the Cotswolds and look for something or somewhere which is on our doorstep - and which you might not have noticed before! And EVERYONE can have a go! There will be loTS of winners nb. ONLY 2 of the team know where the photographs for the most correct answers of course, and for the were taken which means that everyone can join in! youngest/oldest entrant, the best family entry, the best local business entry, the best pub or club entry and more. That includes our contributors, our deliverers and editorial team, and everyone who has contributed prizes too. No- Timetable: one needs to be left out! So, The competition will run for 6 weeks, from August 1st to • make up a team, or 31st. Answer Sheets must be returned to the Editor by • organise a family outing or two, or Monday 2nd September 2012…please don’t be late, as late entries won’t count! The Winners will be notified early • talk your partner into getting involved,or in September and sent a voucher to claim their prize. Our • get out on your own September edition will include a list of all the contributors who kindly offered prizes This is your excuse to spend time around our gorgeous villages and towns and SpoT WheRe TheSe phoToS WeRe TAken. The Answers There are 5 pages of numbered photos in every copy of Stow Times, Moreton Times, Bourton Times & Chipping Norton Times. The answer sheet over the page has numbered boxes - write down the name of the community (eg. Naunton) against the correct number, and send the answer sheet or a copy into the Editor to arrive before 4th September, either via P.O. Box 6 at Stow Post Office, Sheep Street, Stow on the Wold GL54 1WD, or by email to: [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected] (NB. Allow a week for posted entries to PO Box 6) notes. Every photograph was taken in the last few weeks, within the 30mph signs for each community, from public land/a road, pavement or footpath, and not on private land.