COTSWOLD TIMES COTSWOLD TIMES CHIPPING NORTON MARCH 2020 • ISSUE 111 CHIPPINGMORETONCHIPPING NORTON NORTON TIMES TIMES AUGUST 2015 ISSUE 106 AUGUSTAUGUST 2015 2015ISSUE ISSUE 57 57 w Fabulous Fare at FEASTIVAL PAGES 10-11 #CarryMeHomeKate PAGES 14-15 WHAT’S ON? – PAGES 27-3625-31 Events Diary PAGE 32 PHOTO COMPETITION PAGES 33-43 PLUS – Your local sports reports, schools and community news cotswoldtimes cotswoldtimes 1 PICK UP YOUR FREE COPY, LOCAL NEWS, COMMENT, EVENTS + FEATURES. • Under New Management • Recently refurbished • Beautiful gardens • Real Ales • Excellent Food 01451 850344 Halfway House Kineton Guiting Power Cheltenham GL54 5UG Discover beautiful Batsford Arboretum for yourself, or with friends and family this August The BIG Batsford Make a day of it! 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Fosseway Garden Centre Stow Road, Moreton In Marsh, Gloucestershire, GL56 0DS Tel: 01608 651 757 www.fossewaygardencentre.co.uk Follow us on Fossewaygardencentre & FossewayGC 4 COTSWOLD TIMES CHIPPING NORTON TIMES FROM THE EDITOR INSIDE OUR AUGUST EDITION . What gives you a FEATURES Cotswoldsmile? 10-11 Fabulous Fare for Feastival – Caroline Fisher 14-15 The #CarryMeHomeKate campaign – Caroline Fisher 33-43 Our 6th PHOTO COMPETITION – Your choice of 23 prizes Send us a postcard REGULARS Where are you? 8 Book Reviews from Borzoi Books Lounging in the garden? Under the brollie – it’s raining! 16 Job Vacancies Shoes off, feet dangling from the bridge at Lower Slaughter? In boots and jodhpurs on a pony ‘across the wolds’ . 17 Local Authority information, Blood Donor sessions Under the tent flap, with ears full of music. 18 WODC Partnership, Rural Housing shortage I know . picking beans and radishes on the allotment! Lighting the barbeque? 21 Planning – Summary of Applications received Send us an instant postcard of the places and things, the people – 20-21 Community Pages: What’s going on in the background whatever makes you smile, share it! There are times and occasions when a mobile phone can be the most 22 Village Hall Listing sociable, even mood- making thing, in the world….the instant photo that everyone wants to gather round and see – “Hey, look at me, I was doing 23 Church Services my best Cotswold Smile!” At Cotswold Times we are inviting you to share your Cotswold Smiles - 25-32 LOCAL EVENTS & EVENTS DIARY (including local cinemas, and we have provided you with a perfect excuse – our Sixth (where does fairs & fetes, concerts, etc) the time go?) PHOTO COMPETITION. I promise you that it isn’t difficult – you could be posing for a selfie and find just what you were looking for, 40 Clubs, Societies, Associations & Charities listing (always a in the frame behind you (like that river in number 40?) But you do need Work In Progress!) to look carefully. Happy hunting (Have you picked your prize yet? See pages 35-37! 41 Club Notices Whatever the weather, even whatever the traffic, the Cotswold Times team wish you a happy August – A SMILE-Y MONTH! 45 Report from the Royal British Legion, Lions and the Charity Commission Best wishes, 46-47 Clubs, Societies, Etc. Lists & Club Notices Jenni Turner 51-54 News from some of our Local Schools Editor 59-61 News from local Sports Clubs With over 40,000 readers across the North Cotswolds, we are delivering the four community magazines to letterboxes in Moreton, Todenham, 62-63 Local Business Directory 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 What gives you a Compton, Salford, Over Norton, Hook Norton, Heythrop. Bourton-on-the-Water, Little Rissington, Upper Rissington, Westcote, Gt Rissington, Clapton-on-the-Hill, Cotswoldsmile? 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. Our Next edition is for September 2015 The copydate is 15th August, 2015 With many thanks to all our many contributors this month, including: Caroline Fisher, Christabel Hardacre, Emma Hope, Nigel Moor, Jan Marley Contact Chipping Norton Our stunning cover photograph: ‘Cornbury Festival 2015’ with thanks to various contributors, including Times on: sponsors Heart FM Extra copies of Chipping Norton Times are generally available West 07789 175 002 Oxfordshire Information Point, The Leisure Centre and at the Surgery. [email protected] Also at the Old Mill Café www.chippingnortontimes.co.uk Material published in this magazine is copyright; the Editor may give permission for copy to be reproduced for some purposes. 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