Moreton tiMes Issue 44 • June 2010 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 also go into Chipping Campden & Chipping Norton Extra copies are generally available at the Moreton Area Centre in Moreton High Street, and at Moreton Library. CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE ACROSS THE CARE SECTOR The Great British Care Awards are a celebration of excellence across the care sector, promoting best practice within the sector and paying tribute to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding excellence within their field of work. There are a total of twelve awards categories, representing all areas of the care sector, whether it be older people or specialist services. From frontline staff such as care workers and care managers to people who have made an impact in other ways such as training, IT and innovation. Winners from the regional awards held in 2009 were invited to attend the national finals spread over two dates by category. The Home Care Team Award This award is presented to the team who are able to best demonstrate a shared vision and agreed goals. The team will require a leader whose role is known and accepted, and who takes personal responsibility for their tasks. Teams require an excellent communication process, with each member’s skills being recognised within the team. The team will demonstrating a commitment to dignity and privacy for clients - respect for their team members is paramount. At the Awards ceremony at The Guildhall on 15th May 2010 Kate’s Home Nursing was officially declared The champion ‘Home Care Team’ for 2010. We knew you were special, and now everybody knows! Well done - we are so very proud of you. Moreton tiMes From the Editor Inside this June edition A little three letter word, s-u-n, can make such a huge difference! Not only do people smile more, there are more people around in the town and the FEATURES villages – and that certainly gives Moreton a summery buzz of busy-ness. 7 The Villager – Ed spends a half day on one of our local busses We’ve been busy too - this is a packed edition, with five pages of events! There is masses going on and with the weather looking up too, there is no 8, 9 Bourton House Garden re-opens for the summer excuse for sitting around and getting bored this month! This is the time to get out and potter round some of our local lanes….within four or five REGULARS miles you can gaze over a different view, walk fresh paths, admire new gardens and nature at her best. Take your time…the days are their longest 13 Robb Eden consider the time needed to file a tax return this month. (By the way, it’s not many weeks now until we run our 14 BOOK REVIEWS - from Cotswold Bookstore second Photographic Competition, featuring photos from all the villages and hamlets where we deliver - and that includes deliveries in and around Local Walks in June Stow and Bourton as well as Moreton in Marsh! This year we are hoping 15 Church Services & Events for lots more entries and plenty of prize-winners.) 16 Community Police News for Moreton area Meanwhile the uncomfortable shadows of two huge and unwanted housing developments still loom on the horizon, with proposals and National Moth Night 2010, from Mike Boyes objections temporarily stuck in Planning at CDC whilst the Cabinet 17 Local Authorities, meetings & information arrange to visit the sites (and hopefully talk to local people themselves about their opinions). There has been some excellent lobbying from 18 Community & LOCAL JOB OPPORTUNITIES Robert Dutton and Simon Young who have been working hard to promote 19 Village Halls & Events the strength of feeling held by residents to the new Government, through Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, our MP, and put forward well reasoned 20 - 25 LOCAL EVENTS & EVENTS DIARY for June arguments against the developers’ proposals. There is correspondence on 24 Rural Cinemas & Events the issue on pages 28 and 29. 27 Royal British Legion in Stow – Armed Forces Day; Celebrating I hope that you’ll enjoy this month’s Moreton Times. Every month there VE Day; National Memorial Arboretum is new content, and every month there’s an opportunity for you to send in a letter, an email, an article or a photo – we really will be delighted to hear 28, 29 Correspondence - The proposed over expansion of Moreton from you. Tuesday Waste collections in Moreton 30, 31 Local Schools – news & reports Best wishes, 33 Ten into 75 goes nicely - a welcome return to writing from Ben Jenni Turner Eddolls, our Motoring Correspondent Copy Date for the July edition is 16th June. 37 Moreton Rangers (The 16th is our copy date for every month this year) 39 Stow Rugby Football Club – Elliott Stooke moves up; Moreton Our Front Cover Photo ‘Duck family at the Horsepool in Moreton in Marsh’, with Bowling Club; Bourton Roadrunners thanks to Gary Gleghorn.© NCDCC.2010 40 Stow Cricket Club reports from Ash Andrers, Capt 41 Clubs News and Reports 42 Local Clubs, Societies, Associations & Charities 43 Local Business Directory Thank you to all our contributors and writers, to Diana Murphy who Telephone Moreton Times on researches and edits local information, to Janet Marley who is managing our deliveries and finds time to do a little sub-editing too, and to all our 07789 175 002 deliverers and sources of information. We always appreciate their time (The phone will take your messages too – leave and commitment. your name & contact number and we will return your call.) Our design team this month was Eagle Design Ltd. email MORETON TIMES on www.eagledesign.net [email protected] www.moretontimes.co.uk Extra copies of Moreton Times are generally available at Moreton Library and at Moreton Area Centre, High Street, Moreton. Copies are P O Box 6, Sheep Street, also carried on The Villager Bus. Stow on the Wold, GL54 1WD DO YOU WANT YOUR HOUSE PAINTED? Just joking! Would you like to commission a line and wash drawing of your home? Telephone Michael on (01993) 891 219 for more details and to see samples of work. Pictures normally need three visits – to produce a pencil cartoon, to ink in the detail, and to apply the washes. If the weather is kind and things go particularly well I can do a picture in two visits. It is not possible to work if it might rain as the slightest drop of water ruins the job, so work is limited to the summer months. I only work from life so please do not ask me to do a picture from photographs. The copyright belongs to the person commissioning the picture. I produce pictures on a sheet of A2. This results in an image about 15 or 16 inches by 20 inches, landscape or portrait as dictated by the property to be depicted. Mounts are about 3 inches wide but can be reduced when you order the frame. The charge is £175 and for this you get a picture mounted and wrapped. If the picture fails to please you may reject it. From Nick Smith, Stow-on-the-Wold We are a local team - businessmen, firefighters, building contractors and their families, who are cycling 125 miles from Stow on the Wold to Bournemouth over the Bank Holiday weekend 4th -6th June, to raise as much money as we can for the Help for Heroes charity. I decided that I wanted to do "my bit" following an invitation from my brother in law, Corporal Rick Muirhead to a charity auction for Help for Heroes at RAF Lyneham back in November 09, following a sponsored 40 mile moonlit walk by the RAF dog handlers in full combat kit. So sitting with family and friends at The Royal British Legion one Sunday in February we plotted our charity event with much enthusiasm. Wanting to raise as much awareness as possible we contacted local papers and radio, Please look out for 24 cyclists wearing Help for Heroes t- featuring in a live broadcast in Stow square on Tuesday 11th May on BBC Glos and an shirts donated by Travis Perkins, and the support article in the Glos Echo on 10th of May. On Saturday 5th June we will be doing a live vehicles kindly donated by Hacklings Transport Bourton- broadcast with Claire Carter on her morning show on BBC radio Glos between 7.30 on-the-Water (which will be decorated with flags and and 8.30am banners kindly driven by our team of safety marshalls). Included in the team of cyclists is my 10 year old son Alfie Howells-Smith who We also have two motorcyclists for rapid response help. recently completed the forty mile Cotswold bike ride in aid of the Heart Foundation, Adam Stone 13 and Charlie Vinton 14 from Stow, and our only girl Emma Wise 15 Please support us by going online to from Moreton in Marsh. www.justgiving.com/cotswolds2christchurch125mls and kindly donating/ or call in to The Royal British Legion to The planned route planned goes from Stow on the Wold Royal British Legion leaving sponsor the team. at 10am and cycling via Burford, Letchlade, Highworth around Swindon to Marlborough Cricket Club who have very kindly donated their facilities for our first Thank you. night. The route then takes us to Pewsey, Upavon, Amesbury, Berwick St James for our second night, where Stonehenge campsite have kindly donated facilities.