MARCH 2016 ISSUE 113

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In your

MARCH magazine

Local Beef from local cattle – born and bred in the Cotswolds PAGE 10

A Montessori School – in a Cotswold setting PAGE 13

3 Cotswold Farms – Part 2 of the report PAGES 26, 27

PLUS EVENTS, Local News highlights and Reports from our Councils, Schools, Social Clubs and SPORTS Clubs

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Mum’s get free entry to the Arboretum on Mother’s Day (when accompanied by a paying child!).Why not take the whole family and enjoy lunch or afternoon tea in the Garden Terrace Café to make her feel even more special?Booking not necessary.

Join gardening broadcaster and journalist Pippa Greenwood for an interesting talk at Batsford on successfully growing great tasting, super-fresh vegetables at home.Wednesday 16th March, 3-5pm£15 per person Tickets are limited and must be booked in advance, please call 01386 701441.

25th March to 10th April

You may have heard of an Easter Egg hunt, now find the chickens that laid them - they’re all hiding in the Arboretum!£2.50 per child, plus Arboretum admission fee (children must be accompanied by an adult). No need to book – just turn up and enjoy!

Daffodil & Early Magnolia Month, 1st – 31st MarchWander through swathes of golden daffodils and enjoy beautiful Magnolia

as they begin to fill the Arboretum

Enjoy a special day with us this MARCH

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Lunch with Lord Digby Jones

On Thursday 5th May, Lord Digby Jones will be speaking at a fundraising lunch at The Fire Service College, Moreton-in-Marsh.

The lunch is a fundraiser for the charity Read Easy UK (www.readeasy.org.uk) that helps adults learn to read.

Lord Digby Jones says: “I applaud all Read Easy are doing and I look forward to supporting them at this event.”

The lunch is expected to receive significant support from local businesses, large and small. Read Easy are currently seeking a main sponsor for the event. They are also offering businesses the opportunity to sponsor tables of ten for entertaining staff and clients. Smaller businesses and sole traders will be able to buy individual tickets to what promises to be an enormously entertaining and informative occasion.

Ginny Williams-Ellis, founder and CEO of Read Easy UK says, “As one of the world’s most acclaimed business commentators, Lord Digby Jones entertains and inspires audiences around the globe. We are absolutely delighted that he has agreed to speak at our fundraiser.”

Lord Digby Jones says, “Having a skilled population is the only way an economy like ours can succeed in this, Asia’s Century. Basic skills are the bedrock of that advantage and adult literacy and numeracy is the Number One achievable aim.”

After a Champagne reception, and a two-course lunch, Lord Digby Jones will be sharing his views and reflections on how the country, and the wider world, will fare, and what it will look like, in the months and years ahead.

Business and individuals interested in sponsoring the event, sponsoring a table, or buying individual tickets at £50, should contact Julie Dove on 01386 701006 or email: julie@readeasy.org.uk

For more press information, photographs or interviews, please contact:Julie Dove, 01386 701006 or email: julie@readeasy.org.uk

About Read Easy UK

Read Easy UK provides free, one-to-one reading tuition for adults who struggle with reading, through affiliated, locally-run volunteer groups. The charity was established in 2010

and now has a network of around 20 volunteer groups, currently mostly in South West and Central England.

The Skills for Life Survey, 2011 (Dept. BIS) revealed that 5% of the English working age population have literacy levels at or below Entry Level 1 on the Adult Core Curriculum (i.e. they can’t read or can

barely read), another 2.1% are at Entry Level 2 (i.e. have severely limited reading abilities), and these percentages have risen since the last survey in 2003. This equates to about 2.4 million adults in England alone.

Yet people with the most serious literacy problems are generally far too embarrassed to attend an adult education class. As a result they can become very isolated and their

difficulties can seriously affect their employment opportunities, relationships, social life, mental health, confidence and self-esteem. They become marginalised and there is often a knock-on effect on the next generation.

The 2006 KPMG report, ‘The long term costs of literacy difficulties’, concluded that the associated employment cost to the UK economy was £800m per annum, and that the cost to the public purse to support someone with literacy difficulties could be anything up to £64,000 over a life-time.

Read Easy was set up to address this issue. Volunteer-run Read Easy ‘groups’ provide people with one-to-one tuition from trained volunteer coaches, twice a week for just half an hour at a time at a time and place to suit themselves. The new reader and coach meet in discreet ‘reading venues’, generously provided by local businesses and other organisations. Read Easy has already helped over 400 people learn to read and, in the process, has also enabled them to grow in confidence and self-esteem, improve their employment opportunities, read to their children and grandchildren and move on to all sorts of other opportunities.

Though still a young charity, Read Easy UK is (apparently) the only organisation currently working to try to provide this type of literacy support on a national basis. It regularly receives requests to expand its work into many other parts of the country and is therefore working hard to raise the funds to achieve this. More information and some short films can be found on our website: www.readeasy.org.uk

Issued on behalf of Read Easy UKDate: 12th February 2016

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FROM THE EDITOR INSIDE THIS EDITION ...

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DELIVERING MORETON TIMESWe urgently need your help, please

We really appreciate the help we receive delivering the magazines – but there are gaps and there is a serious risk that these areas will not receive Moreton Times. Some of these areas (*) will easily split into smaller numbers and are ideal for a small group of neighbours. Can you help, please?

Dulverton Place 35 houses (about 20 minutes)Evenlode Road 64 houses (about 45 minutes)Fire Service Estate 78 houses * (about an hour)London Road 81 houses * (about an hour)Primrose Court 60 houses * (about 45 minutes)Fosseway Avenue 170 houses * (max 2 hours)Moreton Park 234 houses * (max 3 hours)

Our next edition is for APRIL 2016The copydate is 15th March 2016

With many thanks to all our many contributors this month, including:Edward Cowley, Christabel Hardacre, Emma Hope, Jan Marley and Martin Surl our PCC; also to all our volunteer deliverers. My thanks to them all – they all help to make these magazines happen each month!

Cover photograph: ‘Classic Steam ’© Taken at Glos Warks Steam Railway for Cotswold Times

Extra copies of Moreton Times are generally available in the Moreton Area Centre, High Street, Moreton in Marsh, at Moreton Library and the surgeries, and at Budgens. Copies are also carried on the Village Bus.

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 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.

Contact Moreton Times on:07789 175 002editor@moretontimes.co.ukwww.moretontimes.co.uk P O Box 6, The Square Stow on the Wold, GL54 1AB

FEATURES

10 Firbosa Hereford cattle – local beef

13 Cotswold Montessori School – a happy place to be

20 Policing our rural neighbourhoods – Martin Surl. PCC

26, 27 Cotswold Farms – Part 2 - Edward Cowley

31 Cotswold OPEN Weekend – 2 for 1 offers

REGULARS

12 Book Reviews from Borzoi Books

16 Business – 2 jobs, a school governor and business rates

17 Local Authority information, Blood Donor sessions, Community Notices

18 From Moreton Council

19 District Council – Progress on the Local Plan; parking charges

22 Heroes of Moreton

23 Correspondence: our AONB

24 Local Church Services

40, 41, 48, 56 Community Pages: What’s going on in the background

30 – 39 LOCAL EVENTS & EVENTS DIARY (cinemas, markets, music, walks, shopping, bingo, etc)

42 - 43 Club Notices & Rural Cinemas

44 Village Halls

45, 46 Local Clubs, Societies, Associations & Charities – an A-Z listing

49 - 52 News from some of our local Schools

53 Tax issues – Robb Eden

58 – 61 News from local Sports Clubs

62, 63 Local Business Directory

We launched into a number of new projects in January – you may have noticed the not-so-subtle ‘WIP’ (Work In Progress) where pages were missing in the last editions. This month I am delighted to introduce the new and complete* A-Z listing of Clubs, Societies, Associations & Charities, etc…. which spans right across the area; and a new list of Village Halls (halls and rooms, etc for hire). While appreciating that these are useful reference pages, we plan to include them in alternate months, leaving space for more community information. We always enjoy the community news, letters, comments, photos and general information that arrives here. Sadly however, there is nearly always some information that arrives after our copydate and too late to be included, possibly because the space has been fully allocated - space is always quickly taken up on these pages. So it might be useful to note our copydate – it is always the 15th of the month!

We continue our farming theme this month, and were fortunate to choose a beautifully sunny day to visit Lower Swell and meet the Firbosa Hereford cattle. Next month we hope to feature the new members of the Cotswold Farm Park families, and we will be delighted to include some of your photos. If you have a favourite photo of this year’s new additions, and are happy to share it, please send an email copy to us at the address below – we will confirm receipt. (We can accept a printed photo but please ensure that your name and address is on the back, so that we can return it to you.)

March brings Mothers’ Day and Easter. Whatever your plans are, and whatever the weather may bring, we hope that March will herald spring. Wouldn’t that be lovely!

*’complete’ at the time of our copydate (15th February for this edition) – it will always be a Work In Progress!With our very best wishes,

Editor

PS. We have a new business number 01608 678640

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Tel: 01608 684416 www.whichfordpottery.com

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Handmade, hand inscribed pots for every occasion. Endless possibilities! Please contact us for details.

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“Gary Snyder has holes in his garden fence”

From a Twitter Instagram by Robert Smith

That’s not normally the kind of oversight you’d find in a well-kept garden in a market town like Chipping Norton…. But the holes are there for a reason: hedgehogs.

Snyder’s backyard is now one small rest stop on what conservationists hope will be a network of hedgehog superhighways crisscrossing Britain.

Snyder says at first he didn’t know he had hedgehogs coming through — they’re nocturnal, hibernating during the winter months. But one night “We heard this funny grunting noise, and we looked out of the window and there were two hedgehogs in the back yard.” When he went outside, Snyder realized the wonderful thing about hedgehogs - they aren’t scared of humans. The noisy little things just rolled up into a ball, spikes out, and Snyder could pick them up. “If you tickle the spines”, he says, “they open right up”.

Snyder did some research and found out that hedgehogs are long-distance commuters, wandering as much as a couple of kilometers a night. That had lead them right into Snyder’s housing estate, where his sturdy fence was trapping them. So he made a small hole, and another - and convinced his neighbours to do the same, and so on through the estate.

The Hedgehog Street projectThe British Hedgehog Preservation Society is encouraging people throughout Britain to do the same thing, calling it the Hedgehog Street project. A couple of inches of clearance means that hedgehogs can truck right through suburbia as if it didn’t exist! Hugh Warwick, an ecologist who works with the society, estimates that the number of hedgehogs in Britain has dropped by 30% in the past ten years. Little things like hedgehog highways can help, he says, but there is a bigger issue: Britain’s small farms are

disappearing, becoming industrial agriculture plots and housing developments, and forcing hedgehogs into the human world more often.

Hedgehogs are perfectly designed to fend off predators, but those spikes are terrible when it comes to human trash. Rubber bands dropped by British mail carriers get stuck around hedgehogs and can create infections, and hedgehogs can get their little spiny heads stuck in cups thrown by the side of the road.

A hedgehog superhighway is great, Warwick says — but saving their homes would be even better.

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Beef fresh from the farmFollowing our farming theme this

year, Stow Times visited Bob and Bridget Fletcher at Rectory Farm in Lower Swell, home of the Firbosa Hereford cattle, where Bob is the stockman.

Rectory Farm is a mixed farm consisting of arable, pasture and woodland. There is approximately forty acres allocated as feed and nesting sources for farmland birds and wild flower margins as part of a Higher Level Stewardship agreement. Sustainability and conservation are at the heart of the Farm, with the aim of improving farm bird numbers and enhancing the environment value of the farm. This is extending to improvement works to the River Dikler, which runs through the farm.

The Firbosa Herefords are owned by Jane Parker, they are born and raised at Rectory Farm, with expert livestock consultancy from Mike Caunter, a neighbour from Cotswold Farm Park.

We had picked a fine morning and the herd was comfortably munching hay in their winter quarters, mums and calves on one side and the bull with his ladies on the other. The cattle are fed a predominantly grass based diet, grazing pasture in the summer and being fed silage, straw and a small amount of home grown grains through the winter months. One of the fine young bulls, formally known as Firbosa 1 Moreton, won the prestigious Bull Calf Champion at the Shrewsbury Christmas National Hereford Calf Show in December – his photo shows a very fine young bull surrounded by a proud farmer and stockman, judge and sponsor!

Bridget explained their new venture, Hereford Beef Meat Boxes – offering sustainable, grass-fed beef, hung for a minimum of 28 days. The boxes come in different sizes, offering a variety of beef joints, grilling/frying steaks, braising steak, diced beef and mince, available to order online or by calling Bridget on 07815 530372. (Still a ‘micro-business’, there is a limited supply of beef boxes, so please order in advance.)

Leaving the farm, with the sun shining across the Dikler valley, the grass green and lush below a blue sky, it was one of those morning when it is (almost) too good to go back to the office!

From L to R - Gerald Blandford (chair of the Hereford Breed Society), Nick Hine from Halls Auctioneers, Luke New (assistant stockman), Bob Fletcher (stockman), Drew Coppinger from a sponsor and Donald Biggar, the judge on the day.

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The Coffee House in Stow-on-the-Wold has a new name...

And we’re extending our opening hoursTuesday- Saturday 8:00-23:00, Monday & Sunday 8:00-18:00.

Although we may look likea brand new business, we are still

The Coffee House at heart.

Speedwells Church St.,Stow-on-the-Wold, GL54 1BB01451 870 802www.speedwellsatstow.co.uk (from 7th. March)info@speedwellsatstow.co.uk

Back in the 1950s Sam’s Grandfather, Len Adams, used

to meet 2 fellow car enthusiasts

regularly in a Coffee House in North London. Together they created a car tuning company called Speedwell. Now 50 years

later we are bringing back the

name for our restaurant.We’re taking what The Coffee House stood for – a family run place where you could get great

coffee, relax, read a paper and

enjoy some heart-warming homemade food – and adding a

little bit of an influence from our

pals across the pond.

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Are you a Couple? Do you have a Cooking Partner in Crime?

Channel 4’s hit show Come Dine with Me is coming to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud, Tewkesbury,

Cirencester, Wotton-Under-Edge and surrounding areas

and we’re looking for COUPLES to take part!

Do you and your partner host the best dinner parties in town? Come Dine With Me are looking for the perfect

partnership to create the recipe for success!

If you’re over 18 & have the combined skills to produce an amazing dinner party…

We want to hear from you!

Three couples. Three nights. Three dinner parties. And a £1,000 cash prize.

If you or any couples you know would like to take part contact us with your names, ages & numbers NOW!

Filming dates 21st -23rd OR 24TH- 26th March 2016

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Tel: 0207 157 3785 (Callers from a BT landline will be charged a set up fee of 14p per call plus 10p per minute.

Calls from other networks may be higher and from mobiles will cost considerably more.)

Have you played a round of golf at Naunton Downs yet?

If so then you’ll already know about the superb facilities and first class course that we offer. If not

then why not try them?

Bring this advert along and two of you can play for £29.00 (£14.50 each) before 31st May 2016.

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To book your round or enquire about membership from £393.00 per annum, please telephone us on

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The timing couldn’t have been better for the Cotswold Montessori School. The rural preschool in the estate village

of Great Barrington, between Burford, Northleach and Bourton on the Water had just completed their move to their permanent new premises when it was announced that Prince George of Cambridge was going to attend his own local Montessori school.

Not surprisingly this announcement has created renewed interest in this method of early years education and we went to visit the Cotswold Montessori School to find out what it is all about.

When we got there we were impressed by the bright, tidy and uncluttered feel coming from the plentyful use of light wood, clean walls and high-qualitity learning materials. The children were calmly getting on with their day, learning new skills as they were doing things like grating soap, transferring pompoms with tongs or building a roman arch out of wooden blocks. They were working by themselves or in small groups and tidying away as they went. The atmosphere was productive and peaceful - the latter statement not being something we would normally expect to say about a nursery.

“We are a proper school for little people. Not just childcare, but intelligent

childcare”, we were told by Ailsa Monk, the owner and manager of the setting. “We try to make the things that they do here so interesting that even the mummies and daddies want to stay and play.”

Speaking to some of the parents confirmed this. One mother told us: “lots of people have commented that my son has really changed since he’s been going to Montessori . We are incredibly impressed by the school.” Another family told us that they “would recommend the school to any parent, especially those with children who need a focused nurturing environment, where school is about enjoying and learning at their own pace.”

‘freedom within limits’

So, what is different between the Montessori method and regular preschool Early Years Education? Ailsa gave us a a brief explanation. “We call it ‘freedom within limits’ “, she said. “There is structure, but the children don’t really realise it. They are free to choose what they want to do but the teachers make sure that everything that is available is well thought through. There is also quite a strict set of rules which the children have helped to develop these themselves, so that they understand and follow them

of their own free will. This reduces any potential frustrations for the children, and that means that they are happy, enjoy what they do and progress very well.”

“That’s the theory anyway ,and most of the time it works like that, although there are times we can’t forget that we are between 2 and 5 years old and everything goes slightly bonkers!”, she added, laughing. We came away certain that the Cotswld Montessori School is a happy place to be.

The Cotswold Montessori School is registered to take 40 children from 2-5 years of age and is open Monday to Friday, 9:00 - 15:00, term time only. For more info or to arrange a visit please contact:info@cotswoldmontessori.co.ukTel: 01451 844350Mob: 07554 435070

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FREE ACCOMMODATIONCouple or single person sought to live rent free in our two bedroom cottage near Stow on the Wold, in exchange for domestic work in the house and

looking after two dogs.

If interested please call/ text Fiona Mob. 07966 676392

Small Business Rates Relief :

The Government are continuing to allow all businesses operating from single premises, with a Rateable Value of £12,000 or less to claim Small Business Rates Relief, and if you have not already done so, you can still re-claim rates back to April 2010.

Chartered Surveyors BANKIER SLOAN who have an office in Moreton-in-Marsh, have just published a simple free single page guide for the 2016 /2017 financial year which some readers may find very profitable ! It can be found at http://www.centre-p.co.uk/Small_Business_Rates_Relief_2016_2017.pdf

GOVERNOR VACANCY - Voluntary positionOpen to all members of the community wanting to make a valuable contribution to the strategic management of our

‘Outstanding’ school

We are seeking to fill the vacancy that has arisen in our Governing body. Governors need to have the necessary skills and commitment to contribute to the effective governance and success of the school. Governors are expected to make use of the various training opportunities available to them in order to play a full part in the work of the governing body.

For more information you are invited to:

• Visit the school; telephone: 01608 658366 or email: office.2106@kingham.oxon.sch.uk • Visit the school website: www.kingham.oxon.sch.uk• Read the online ‘Governor Handbook’ at www.gov.uk• Contact the Clerk to the GovernorsMs E Davis: email: DEnn1085@kingham.oxon.sch.ukTo apply: Please send your letter of application to the clerk and include your contact details, reasons for applying, qualifications and include any relevant personal skills and experience.

Safeguarding: Kingham Primary School is fully committed to safer recruitment practices and candidates will have to comply with safer recruitment checks.

Kingham Primary School, The Green, Kingham, Oxfordshire OX7 6YD T.01608 658366

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LOCAL AUTHORITIES MARCH 2016

C.D.C. Committee Meetings Meetings are held at the Council Offices, Trinity Road Cirencester, GL7 1PX.Agendas, reports and Minutes are published online five working days before each meeting at www.cotswold.gov.uk.

Members of the public are encouraged to attend meetings of the Council and Committee. If you live in the District and are on the Electoral Register you can take part by asking up to two questions per meeting. Information about your Councillors and committee members are on the website www.cotswold.gov.uk

MARCHTues 1st Overview & ScrutinyWed 2nd Sites Inspection Briefing Wed 9th Planning & Licensing Thurs 17th CabinetThurs 31st Joint Consultative Committee

Questions to the Council or a committee about any matter on which CDC have any powers or duties or which affects the district must first be received in writing by the Head of Democratic Services –By email no later than 5pm on the prior working day: Nigel.adams@cotswold.gov.ukBy post to CDC at Trinity Road, Cirencester. GL7 1PX.01285 623204/ 201

Petitions can be presented to express local feeling about an issue or a suggested action that we might take. A petition must contain at least 10 signatures.

Details of Meeting Agendas, Reports and Minutes can be found on the Council’s Committee Information System. Also available are details of your Councillor, Committee Meetings including dates, times and venues and Membership of the Committees.

BLOOD DONOR SESSIONS THIS MONTH

CHIPPING NORTON, Glyme Hall, 02/03/16 Burford Road, OX7 5DY

SHIPSTON, Sheldon Bosley Hub, 03/03/16 Pittway Avenue, CV36 4DQ

CAMPDEN, Chipping Campden 31/03/16 School, Cider Mill Lane, GL55 6HU

For more information/ to book an appointment to attend a session, please call 0300 123 23 23 or visit www.blood.co.uk

MORETON TOWN COUNCILNEXT MEETING Monday 14th March

PLEASE CHECK NOTICEBOARD

Residents are welcome to attend meetings. Questions* from the public relating to a

proposal in discussion by Cllrs may be taken prior to Council voting on that proposal. General questions are taken at the end of

the meeting.

* A max of 3 minutes allowed.

Town Councillors are available before & after the meeting. District & County Cllrs, representatives of Stow Police and local

Press regularly attend.

MORETON TOWN COUNCILNOTES FOR COUNCIL MEETING

FEBRUARY 2016

Abbreviated notes from the Meeting are available online at www.moretoninmarshtowncouncil.co.uk and are displayed on the Council’s noticeboard in the High Street (on Barklays House). Copies are

available at the Council’s Office, Moreton Library, and the CDC Moreton Area Centre in High Street.

Office opening hours: Tuesday – 10:00-16:00

Wednesday and Thursday – 09:00-16:00 AND subject to meetings. Moreton in Marsh Town Council, Old Town, Moreton in Marsh, GL56 0LW

Tel: 01608 651 448

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MORETON IN MARSH TOWN COUNCILOld Town, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire, GL56 0LW

Minutes of Council Meeting held on Monday 8 February 2016 at 7.00pmat the Town Council Office

Minutes from the meeting held on 11 January 2016 were approved.

Minutes from the Extraordinary meeting held 25 January 2016 were approved with 2 abstentions

Chairman’s Announcements

• Redesdale Hall: A statement correcting Cotswold Journal headline was read out. The Council understands that there is no litigation relating to any unpaid bills. See full statement below.

• Election: An election has been called to elect a new councillor to represent Moreton West. The election to take place on March 17th, applications to be received by CDC by 4pm, 19th February.

Public Participation. The public were invited to advise the chair prior to the agenda item if they wished to speak.

Reports

Police reported a reduction in crime from 56 incidents in 2014 to 42 in 2015 in the 3 month period from October to December.

Gloucestershire County Councillor Nigel Moor

• GCC’s budget has increased by 1.99% plus a 2% additional levy for adult social care.

• Fosseway Task Group. Consultation will take place on 10th March (for Councillors and Police).

Cotswold District Councillor Alison Coggins

• Spitfire Developers are considering submitting an application for building houses south of the town. A flood alleviation scheme and green open space have been offered as mitigation.

• Moreton has already exceeded its allocation for new housing development; the land being considered by Spitfire has not been identified in the emerging local plan and is outside the Town’s development boundary.

Progress Report

a) Budget / Precept: At the Extraordinary Council meeting the budget for 2016/17 was agreed and subsequently a precept request has been sent to CDC amounting to £96,117.

• For a Band D house this equates to £55.53 p.a. (£1.07 p.wk).

• The comparative figures for 2015/16 were £54.56 and £1.05 respectively.

b) Redesdale Hall: The offer of a loan to cover work required by the insurance company is being considered by the Redesdale Hall Charity Committee.

1. Market Contract (Tuesday Market). MTC agreed to renew the contract for a further year.

2. Youth Club Contract. The decision to renew the contract for a further year was deferred to the meeting in March.

3. Redesdale Hall. MTC agreed to accept the quote to investigate the leak in the clock tower and make appropriate repairs.

4. Blenheim Public Open Space. MTC agreed to allow the wet area to develop as a boggy habitat, to create flower meadows on the eastern side of the boggy area and on the slopes behind Mitford Villas/Dulverton Place.

5. Finance Software. MTC agreed to purchase Financial Software (set up and training) and also the Allotments and Cemeteries packages.

6. Expenses Policy. MTC agreed to adopt the Expenses Policy.

7. Training Policy. MTC agreed to adopt the Training Policy.

8. Committee Membership The following positions were confirmed:

a) Cllr. D Buxton to be coopted onto Estates Committee.

b) Cllr. B Martin to chair Planning Committee

9. Accounts.

a. The accounts for January 2016 were presented to members at

the meeting. They will be considered at the next meeting.

b. Resolved: Monthly payments.

Highlights from the Committee Reports – (all minutes had been previously circulated to Cllrs):

a) Estate Management. A working group has discussed parking issues; considered cleaning work/bins to be included in CDC grant application; met with a pond contractor to discuss the Horsepool; considered replacing the climbing net in QVG; worked on the Blenheim wildflower project.

b) Finance & Policy. Following cost overruns of £100,000, the Flood Alleviation Board had requested assistance. GCC and CDC will contribute £90,000 subject to MTC pledging £10,000 to the project.

(In a close vote) MTC agreed to pledge £10,000 to the project if the project goes ahead.

c) Allotments & Cemeteries. Number posts for the allotments and verges for Top Cemetery have been ordered; the pedestrian gate is being fixed; the hedge along London Road has been trimmed and the pier damaged on New Year’s Eve has been repaired.

d) Personnel Committee are considering training, pensions and electronic payroll

e) Sports, Events and Youth Services are renewing the contract with GMAS, and seeking funding for a funday..

Public Participation

• Concern was expressed about the speed of traffic by Moreton Park.

County Cllr. N Moor confirmed that this work is in the Highways programme.

• Scaffolding around the Curfew Tower has been up for too long, it is dangerous and an eyesore. Clerk to investigate.

10. Next meeting to be held on Monday 14th March 2016 at 7pm at the Council Office, Old Town.

Cotswold Journal 21 January 2016

Moreton in Marsh Town Council (MTC) wish to provide some clarification to the headline and article on Redesdale Hall that appeared in the Cotswold Journal.

MTC is responsible for the fabric of the building whilst the Redesdale Hall Charity Committee (RHCC ) has accountability for all commercial activities. Further questions on this issue should be directed to the RHCC.

MTC understands that there is no litigation relating to any unpaid bills. Certain costs concerning general safety certifications have been incurred which the RHCC has been unable to fund from its own resources; MTC have therefore provided the RHCC with an appropriate loan to cover these expenses.

Moreton-in-Marsh Town Council Election

There will be an election to fill a vacancy on Moreton-in-Marsh Town Council on Thursday 17 March. The Notice of Election has been published.

Nomination packs and candidate guides are now available.

Anyone wishing to stand as a candidate must submit a nomination paper by 4 pm on Friday 19 February.

For further information, including nomination packs and candidate guides, please see /about-the-council/elections/current-future-elections/ or contact the Cotswold District Council Elections Office on 01285 623002.

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Parking charges raise £693m surplus for councils: With thanks to Richard JohnstoneArticle written for Public Finance News (Dec 15)

An analysis by the RAC Foundation has found that councils in England made a surplus of £693m from parking charges and fines in 2014/15.

The group’s annual analysis of the excess, calculated by adding up income from parking charges and penalty notices then deducting running costs, found it has increased by 4% compared to 2013/14, when it stood at £667m.

However, the Local Government Association said it was inaccurate to portray these funds as profits, as any surplus can only be spent on transport projects.

According to the RAC Foundation, £308m of the surplus was reported by councils in London, with boroughs in the capital making up the top five places in the list. Westminster City Council raised the most (£46.4m), followed by Kensington and Chelsea (£33m), Camden (£24.5m), Hammersmith & Fulham (£23.8m) and Wandsworth (£20.4m). Brighton & Hove City Council was the authority outside London that raised the most funds, at £18.6m, while Nottingham City Council was the only other council outside London in the top ten, at £13.3m.

RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding said that the financial sums involved in local authority parking are huge. “The legal position is that parking charges are to be used as a tool for managing traffic. But with local government budgets under ever-greater pressure, the temptation to see them as a fund-raiser must be intense,” he said.

“When a parking profit is made the law states that, essentially, the money can only be spent on transport and environment projects. We are simply asking that all councils publish annual reports to tell drivers exactly where this huge excess ends up.”

An LGA spokesman said income is spent on running parking services and any surplus is only spent on tackling the £12bn roads repair backlog or creating new parking spaces.

“Councils are on the side of hard-pressed motorists,” he stated. “The average motorist is paying 30 times more to Whitehall in charges and taxation each year than they do to their town hall through parking.”

Funding boost for Visitor Information CentresVisitor Information Centres (VICs) in the Cotswolds have been buoyed by the news that the Cotswold District Council will provide grants totaling £54,000 per year, over a three year period, to help fund them.

The details are:Bourton-on-the-Water (£24,000 per year), Chipping Campden (£10,000 per year), Stow-on-the-Wold (£10,000 per year) and Tetbury (£10,000 per year), as well as retaining the Cirencester-based VIC which is located in the Corinium Museum.

District Cllr Chris Hancock believes that the VICs provide extremely good value: “Even in an age when people rely more and more on the internet to research destinations, we are seeing heavy use of the VICs. Based on the 2014/15 figures, it costs 35p to service the needs of every customer. Given the much needed income that tourism generates in this area, I believe this is a small price to pay.

Enhancing the visitor experience“Looking ahead, there are considerable opportunities on the horizon to build on the success of the local tourism sector, and maintaining a network of excellent VICs will enhance the visitor experience and help to ensure many repeat visits. Local residents also benefit as they often use VICs to find out what is going on.

“It made sense to fix the grants for a three-year period… giving the VIC operators more certainty about their longer term funding. They can now plan ahead with confidence on issues such as negotiating rents for premises.”

FAIRER FUNDING FOR SCHOOLS

Robin Walker, MP for Worcester and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Education, the Rt. Hon. Nicky Morgan, will be speaking at the St David’s Centre, East Street, Moreton, on Thursday 31 March at 7.30 pm.

His talk will cover the new national funding formula for schools, high needs and early years. This will ensure schools funding is transparently and fairly linked to children’s needs.

Robin Walker will speak following the Moreton-in-Marsh Conservative Branch AGM, which will commence at 7.00 pm. He will be pleased to answer any questions.

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“P lus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose” as every schoolboy (who did French) knows, roughly means the more things change, the

more they stay the same. Where attitudes to policing are concerned, it is a phrase which seems as true now as when it was first coined in the 19th century. A forum I attended in Moreton-in-Marsh I attended and an event I hosted for parish and town council representatives towards the end of last year, support this.

It is fair to say that in recent years, the role of the police force has broadened, with a whole new spectrum of crimes related to cyber-space and human trafficking. Yet on both those occasions, many of the questions from the floor were around crime rates, parking, busy roads, speeding traffic and rapidly growing communities with comparatively few amenities. I understand that these are sensitive issues but they should be viewed not only in the context of this extended period of austerity, but also wider social and cultural changes.

‘rural areas need intelligence-led policing’

As the policing landscape has evolved to where we now find ourselves, the small rural police station is no longer a viable option for most forces. Regrettable as this is, a similar fate has befallen the village post office, school, pub and many other local amenities. To try and compensate for their loss, I purchased a vehicle which travels around the county on a daily basis. We call it NEV, which stands for Neighbourhood Engagement Vehicle, and it acts as a mobile office where I can meet people either by appointment, or on spec, or a mobile police station where local people can report a crime or talk with a PCSO. It has developed into an effective means of maintaining a form of neighbourhood policing and has proved so useful that I have recently obtained another similar vehicle which will be on the road in the coming months. This will enable us to get out into the countryside and outlying districts more often.

Aside from that, there are numerous ways you can contact the police and we are heading in the right direction there too. I made it a priority to improve 999 and 101 response times from where they were when I took up office in 2012 and they are now consistently quicker than the national targets. The constabulary is also embracing new channels of communication, which I would encourage everyone to make use of. The 101 crime reporting email service 101@gloucestershire.pnn.police.uk is an example of this – report a non-urgent crime in this manner and you will receive a response within 4-8 hours.

Nevertheless, rural areas need intelligence-led policing, permanent officers with a real connection with the community in which they work and who will know the local issues, traffic blackspots and can empathise with local people, farmers and businesses. I recognise the importance of maintaining an effective link between rural communities and the police, which was one of the reasons I was among the first Police and Crime Commissioners to sign up to the National Rural Crime Network. The network champions a better understanding of crime in rural areas and conducted a national survey of over 17,000 people living in rural communities earlier this year. The study revealed that the under-reporting of crime is a key issue affecting rural policing, with more than 1 in 4 crimes going unreported during a 12 month period between 2014 and 2015. That is a concern - and the network is exploring the reasons behind this apprehension so that we can address it.

‘the rural community must step up and use its voice’This is where the rural community must step up and use its voice.

There are a number of reasons why people choose not to report a crime they have either been a victim of, or witnessed. Lack of trust in the

police and doubt over whether the crime will be taken seriously, or effectively dealt with, have been identified as barriers. I admit that there have been failings in the past, however, as I pointed out to the forum in Moreton, re-building the liaison with rural communities is of great importance to me so every report will be taken seriously.

When I was elected as Gloucestershire’s Police and Crime Commissioner in 2012, I had a clear vision for less crime and more peace in the county. Against a background of police budget cuts this was not a straightforward goal and it seemed clear to me the Constabulary could not do it all on its own.

I spoke to many people, businesses and organisations outside the police, and it was apparent that tackling anti-social behaviour - things that aren’t regarded as crimes but which blight our communities – was important too. That is why I was keen to tap into the public and voluntary sectors. Their involvement has been crucial as I believe they are an essential element of community policing and have an important role to play in reducing crime.

‘the same goal of making Gloucestershire safer, more inclusive’

The result is a Police and Crime Plan based on my own experience as a front-line officer, combined with what Gloucestershire residents told me they wanted. The plan consists of six priorities under the following headings: ‘Accessibility and accountability’; ‘Older but not overlooked’; ‘Young people becoming adults’; ‘Safe days and nights for all’; ‘Safe and social driving’ and ‘Safer cyber’.

To implement my Police and Crime Plan, I set aside a ‘pot’ of money from the PCC’s annual budget and once a year community groups and organisations in the county are invited to bid for a share of the money from this ‘Commissioner’s Fund’. Recipients of the fund support the delivery of one or more of the six priorities in their community work, which can take many different formats ranging from restorative justice schemes, young driver safety training, speedwatch, community building activities and centres. The vast spectrum of recipients all share the same goal of making Gloucestershire a safer, more inclusive place to live and work.

Since November 2012, and at the time of writing, I have been able to help fund 129 organisations and 240 projects which are reducing crime and anti-social behaviour in Gloucestershire – a number of them in the Cotswolds. These are primarily initiatives devised by local people which they believe will benefit their communities. All are subject to close scrutiny by my office before they are approved and the wider benefit is that they help to reduce demand on the Police and are an essential element of community policing. That is why in November, I pledged a further £1million from the Commissioner’s Fund to see recipients through until 2017, regardless of whether I am re-elected next year.

You can find out more about the Commissioner’s Fund and other aspects of the OPCC here https://www.gloucestershire-pcc.gov.uk/

Budget constraints and the changing nature of policing mean we have to make choices we might not have considered even five years ago. As Police and Crime Commissioner, I am committed to keeping Gloucestershire safe and re-building the trust of those whose faith in the police appears to have diminished. As the Commissioner’s Fund projects show, many communities are playing an important part in that process too.

Martin SurlOffice of the Police and Crime Commissioner County Police Headquarters,No.1 Waterwells, Waterwells Drive, Quedgeley, Gloucester GL2 2AN01452 754348 www.gloucestershire-pcc.gov.uk

The role of the police in our changing rural neighbourhoods

Martin Surl, Police & Crime Commissioner (13.01.2016)

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Planning Applications & Approvals

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AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY

From Andrew Lord, in response to ‘Can our AONB provide protection to the North Cotswolds’ (Jan’February 2016)Cllr Dr Nigel Moor (in the Jan/Feb 2016 issue) asked the question “Can our AONB provide protection to the North Cotswolds”. However, a more posing question would have been “How do we meet the national housing crisis whilst not affecting the nationally protected Cotswolds AONB?”.

The Town and Country Planning Association research (2013) found that to meet England’s housing demand for the period 2011 to 2031 we need to build in England 240,000 – 245,000 dwellings per year. It is no surprise therefore that all three main political parties are all committed to significantly lifting housing completions.

The challenge within nationally protected landscapes, including the Cotswolds AONB, is how we meet our communities needs whilst not affecting our primary function as the Cotswolds Conservation Board, that being the conservation and enhancement of the natural beauty of the AONB.

Unlike Green Belt, the AONB is legally protected through the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000, and alongside our National Parks it has the highest status of protection in relation to landscape and scenic beauty; but perhaps above all the designation of the Cotswolds AONB and its boundaries is subject to an Act of Parliament and designation by the Secretary of State. If a Local Planning Authority so chooses it has the ability to remove its own Green Belt boundary. Therefore, in answering Cllr Dr Nigel Moor suggestion that “Green Belt is now the only way to protect the North Cotswolds”, it is worth noting that “CPRE analysis has found that Local Plans are proposing more than 226,000 houses on the Green Belt” (www.cpre.org.uk).

The answer therefore is to work within the Local Plan and Neighbourhood Plan system to ensure we get the right development, in the right place at the right time; to fully engage with communities; to plan strategically; and for Local Authorities to consider the “tests” and “recommendations” as highlighted within the National Trust’s report “AONBs and development” . There is no “ban” on housing in AONBs, but AONBs are subject to a particularly enhanced status of protection that restricts the delivery of housing, which must be considered through the housing allocation process. Our own research indicates that housing development within the AONB was little more than half of what would have been expected in the absence of the designation. The Government still directs housing allocations to “land of lesser environmental value” whilst recognising AONBs have the “highest status of protection in relation to landscape and scenic beauty.” Having no Plan in place (an all too common occurrence in recent years), rather than the addition of a Green Belt designation (which in itself will need a new Plan to be in place), leaves the AONB vulnerable to speculative development in inappropriate locations at a time when housing need is a priority nationally.

(The Cotswolds AONB Board published a guide to “Preparing Neighbourhood Plans in an AONB” in October 2015 www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk).

(The Cotswolds AONB Board also contributed the relevant examples provided within the National Trust’s report: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/documents/national-trust-areas-of-outstanding-natural-beauty-and-development.pdf).

With thanks

Andrew LordMA BA (Hons) MRTPI

Planning and Landscape Officer

Cotswolds Conservation BoardThe Old Prison, Fosse Way, Northleach, Gloucestershire GL54 3JHDirect Dial : 01451 862004Fosse Way, Northleach, Gloucestershire, GL54 3JH 01451 862003 www.cotswoldsaonb.org.uk

Nigel Moor D BEnv BA (Hons) MCD FRTPI FRSAGloucestershire County Councillor for the Stow Division

Dear Editor,

Re: Article in the February edition of the Moreton Times: “Can our AONB provide protection to the North Cotswolds?”

Andrew Lord Planning and Landscape Officer of the Cotswold Conservation Board has rushed to defend the AONB policies following my article in the last edition. As the late Mandy Rice-Davies so famously riposted, “Well he would, wouldn`t he?” but I will deal with Andrew`s points.

• I am in no way advocating that we abandon AONB policies but that particularly in the North Cotswolds there are a number of towns and villages close to each other, that are vulnerable to urban sprawl, and the additional protection of Green Belt policy in the long term will protect them. I am not advocating the application of Green Belt policy across the whole of the Cotswolds AONB.

• I recognise the need to allocate additional land to meet housing needs, and when drawing up Green Belt boundaries, long- term housing needs can be established. I have championed the need to re-use brownfield sites, as a first priority, and I believe this should also apply to the AONB. On such sites the impact of new development will be assessed against what exists or existed on site.

• A local authority can choose to remove parts of its Green Belt – but the Secretary of State can intervene and does. This is happening in areas of extreme housing pressure such as Brentwood in Essex where the council is consulting on its draft local plan but it does not happen in an ad hoc way as at appeal and this has been the problem in the Cotswolds AONB.

• We need up - to date plans but successive governments have heaped on local authorities a huge task in gathering evidence which has slowed down the adoption of plans. This government has commissioned a Local Plans Expert Group to advise on how to simplify plan procedure, and this going forward, could simplify the preparation of a Green Belt plan for the North Cotswolds.

• I can illustrate my point of view by a recent local example. There is an area of the Gloucester & Cheltenham Green Belt that is included in the Cotswold AONB, and in an earlier draft of the Cotswolds Local Plan, officers no doubt in a “tidying-up “exercise, recommended deleting this area relying only on the AONB policy. I objected and I am pleased to note that the Joint Core Strategy group of the Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury councils want to maintain this area of Green Belt because it “ forms a critical connection between wider countryside to the east and west.” The current draft of the Cotswolds Local Plan maintains this area in the Green Belt.

Finally I do not think the Cotswold Conservation Board should be too defensive about this. Given the enormous population pressures facing Middle and Southern England – much greater than when the AONB`s were designated after World War II – areas such as the North Cotwolds need every bit of protection that the planning system can provide.

Yours sincerely

Nigel Moor

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Heroes of Moreton – The Frontline Walk

The Heroes of Moreton project began in 2014, when Kit Havelock-Davies and Adam Wood staged an exhibition marking the centenary of the start of the Great War. The event also saw lectures, brass bands, a reading of Great War poems and music performers,

bringing a feel of life in 1915 as war broke out. The central exhibition featured colourised photographs and histories of those men from Moreton in Marsh and district who fell in the Great War.

After the event Kit and Adam were joined by Jeremy Dyer, and campaigned for the creation of a new memorial stone honouring the town’s war dead. It was the first time all 60 names had appeared together on one memorial.

With a fitted brass plate supplied by the Cotswold Engraver, Andy Everson, the stone was unveiled by District Councillor Rod Hooper on 10th March 2015, 100 years to the day that Charles W Driver fell, the first man from Moreton to be killed in the Great War.

The team also arranged for the grave of Moreton soldier Albert Lamb to be repaired. Since then, we have placed a remembrance cross at the memorial on the anniversary of each man’s death, and posted details of them on our Facebook page in recognition of their sacrifice.

In 2016 the Heroes of Moreton team will be undertaking the Frontline Walk, an epic 100km trek tracing the Great War’s Western Front over three days in October 2016. The Walk marks the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme, in which over 1,000,000 Commonwealth, French and German soldiers were wounded or killed. It is intended to visit the memorials of some of the Moreton fallen along the way.

All funds raised by this event are going to ABF The Soldiers’ Charity, which gives lifetime support to soldiers, veterans and their immediate families.

To support them and enable the raising of funds two events have been organized with more to follow:

On 20th March there will be a quiz night at the Swan Inn Moreton at 7:30pm and on Saturday 26th ‘Mrs. D’s Bespoke Celebrations’ are hosting Afternoon Teas at the Moreton Women’s’ Institute between 12:00 noon and 4:00pm

For more information or to learn how support the team please visit their website at www.heroesofmoreton.com

Please contact us via the website or email contact@heroesofmoreton.com T: 01451 870797Release date 4th February 2016

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Three Cotswold farms show the resilience of the farming community amid one of the worst periods in British farming in a generation and also how

virtually all farmers are having to diversify and adapt to stay afloat.

In December Edward looked at Bould Farm, a mixed farm and Bed & Breakfast. In this second part of his report he went to Grey Stone Farm near Blockley, a medium sized dairy farm run by Rob Harrison and his wife. Rob is also president of the National Union of Farmer’s Dairy Board.

The third farm he visited was Litchfield Farm near Enstone, a contracted farm managed by a separate business to the owners. If farming is to survive then a tendency for larger, contracted farms is something that is only going to increase, while smaller family farms are sold off.

Grey Stone FarmRob Harrison is a dairy farmer near Blockley in Gloucestershire. He runs the 430 acre Grey Stone Farm with his wife, which they rent from their parents. They have one full time employee and a couple of part timers.

Like Gwyn and Lynne Meyrick at Bould Farm, Rob is very tuned into farming as a global industry. The present crisis

in dairying is because there’s too much supply and not enough demand. Two good grass growing years in Europe at the same time as the Chinese have been buying less dairy product, and the Russian trade ban, have resulted in a glut of British milk and cheese, and prices have tumbled.

“As well as all this, just like the steel industry, we are getting absolutely hammered by the strength of the pound,” said Rob. Supermarket price wars are doing little to help the global overproduction problems, as milk is sold at a loss in order to get customers to spend money on other foods. Although this doesn’t always directly affect the farmer it means there is less money in the supply chain and more pressure on dairy farmers. He’s lucky that he sells his milk to Arla, a billion litre dairy in Aylesbury and the largest liquid dairy in Europe. It also pays Rob 3-4 pence more per litre of milk than many of the smaller dairies.

But, unlike other types of farming, dairying is inelastic. It requires large amounts of capital and it’s a long cycle, which means it is not possible to produce less milk at short notice.

“I’m planning now for 12-18 months ahead. A cow milks for 12 months, so it’s a very long cycle,” Rob explains.

Although profits are relatively low, a huge amount of capital is turned over

in farming and Rob believes it plays a crucial role in rural economies. “My local fabricator is coming down to work on the sheds; I’ve got to buy feed; I support the local vet. So my dairy business is supporting probably four or five people,” he said.

Rob is positive about his medium to long term future, but understands that many dairy farmers are not in such a good position. Unless they do something different, like specialist cheese, there is no way they can compete with the big dairies. But diversifying from milk production doesn’t happen overnight – it requires getting in different equipment, learning new skills and building up a customer base.

Up to 450 dairy farmers have left the industry over the past two years.

Rob doesn’t believe the government can make much of difference to what is happening in farming - “they haven’t got any money, and they aren’t able to influence the market”. But he confesses that he’d like to see the government do more to ease regulation to help farmers be more competitive.

Although he’s not about to go under, Rob has made an effort to cut his costs and to diversify. He’s fitted solar panels to the dairy sheds’ roofs, significantly reducing his energy bills. He also has a

Farming plays a crucial role in rural economies… but it’s not easy in the current climate Rob Harrison, dairy farmer

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small caravan site and his wife does school visits. “You couldn’t live off them, but they all help,” he said.

Rob thinks it’s important to try and attract young people into farming because it is such an important fabric of the community, but admits it’s not easy in the current climate of negativity.

Litchfield FarmLike a growing number of farms across the UK, Litchfield Farm near Enstone in Oxfordshire leases its land to a contractor. Set up in 2004, Primewest Limited manages four farms in Oxfordshire and is a pioneer in specialist agricultural drill manufacturing.

In many ways the polar opposite to a family run farm, Paul Alexander, one of the managing directors of Primewest, explained that you have to treat farming like any other business and you have to be competitive and efficient.

At the moment the whole of Litchfield Farm is organic, but it may revert to conventional farming once the current five year contract is up. The demand for organically produced food has dropped off significantly and because of shrinking business margins, the owner may instruct

Primewest to ditch organic farming. As contractors Primewest do not receive

subsidies or grants, and Paul thinks the Single Farm Subsidy, a lump sum received by farmers every year from the government, should be enough for smaller tenant farmers. A single farm payment would pay for the rent on a four or five bedroom farmhouse, “so if you were living rent free with 300 acres you could probably make some money couldn’t you.” he said.

Paul’s advice for smaller farmers is to find something which is in demand and concentrate on producing that. “They’ve got to go one stage further. Get closer to the consumer. Diversify,” he said.

In 2004 Primewest Limited started to diversify in a big way. They now manufacture specialist agricultural drills for seeding, which they are starting to export to Europe as well as increasing their sales in the UK. They are also contracted to do all the snow ploughing and pest control at Oxford airport.

If the price of grain becomes so low that, for smaller farmers, farming becomes unsustainable, Primewest’s other businesses interests will keep them in healthy profit until better times.

Edward Cowley has worked as a journalist in Russia for five years. Living in Moscow, Edward has been a web journalist, a reporter and has made documentaries on various issues including the Chernobyl disaster. Edward grew up in the Cotswolds and this is still home for him when he is living in the UK. He plans to return to Moscow in a few days to begin work on a new documentary project. “ I have always been interested in the landscape and how land it is used living in Russia where the landmass is huge, It interests me how Britain, with much less space, manages to produce a good deal of its own food. Small businesses also interest me. They are crucial to the local economy and historically, small businesses have thrived in the UK. The government makes noises about supporting enterprise but a closer look reveals that they could do much more to make life easier for small businesses and farmers.”

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A NEW ERA IN BLOCKLEYBlockley locals and visitors can celebrate the return of one of the charms of the village - The Great Western Arms. The pub is reopening on Monday 7th March under new management, Steve and Amanda Aubrey, who bring with them French chef Christophe Le-Saint from The Plough Inn at Stretton on Fosse. The couple are relishing the thought of returning to Blockley and meeting up with new and old friends. There will be new exciting menus - traditional meals such as steaks, pork belly and burgers, alongside European classics such as moules mariniere and linguinis. Steve added "Blockley is very much a village, with a lovely community spirit and passion. Our aim is for the Great Western to play a key part in the community. “We will be offering set menus for group bookings and larger parties, with 30 covers available in the dining room. The Bar area will be dog friendly… perfect after a long walk! You will be able to relax and enjoy a pint of award winning Hooky and a spot of lunch.” With fantastic support from Hook Norton Breweries, Mandy, Steve and the team are looking forward very much to happy times at The Great Western Arms.

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John has been involved with Country music since the 1970’s when he played drums with a Country band based in the North East of England. The band was very successful and toured all over the UK and Europe playing country clubs, radio and television and on occasions supporting American Country artists on tour in Europe. John is also a UK member of “The Country Music Association of America”He reluctantly retired from drumming in 1985, largely due to the pressures of running his own family business in the UK, and in part tiring of the life on the road! But he kept in touch with the music!John retired to Cornwall at 55, taking up an opportunity to produce and present a Country music programme on Hospital Radio in Plymouth – introducing him to Radio.Since moving to the North Cotswolds 10 years ago he has continued to work on Radio, joining Hospital Radio Oxford and very soon after North Cotswold Community Radio.Over the years John has visited Nashville more than 30 times, and latterly visited the CMA Festival and the Grand Ol’ Opry .Cotswold Country is a two hour long programme presented live from the studio in Chipping Campden. Showcasing John’s wide knowledge of county music the show is split into 4 parts - from 12.15-1-00pm John reviews the UK and US Country charts; followed at 1pm by four easy listening tracks. Then at around 1.30pm there will be four classic tracks from the 50’s and 60’s, followed at around 1.40pm with three unsigned country tracks.The programme has featured many UK artists performing live in the studio, and telephone interviews with US and UK stars, on occasions recorded live in Nashville. The photograph is of John Bowlt with Number 1 UK Country artists “The Shires” taken when he interviewed them at “The Cornbury Festival”.

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2015 Mercury Prize nominee C Duncan talks exclusively to Nicholas JohnWhat a fantastic year it’s been for C Duncan, whose acclaimed debut album “Architect” was the surprise nominee at last year’s Mercury Prize awards, mixing lo-fi folk with electronica and intricate vocal melodies. Although losing out to Benjamin Clementine for the top spot, the prestige and attention the nomination brought this unassuming Scot has been phenomenal. Backstage at Oxford’s Old Fire Station, ahead of his recent gig there, I began by asking him how the Mercury changed things for him.

“Being nominated was a complete surprise, totally unexpected and it raises your profile tremendously, almost overnight. And I’ve had a lot of support from BBC 6 music. It all leads to radio play, selling more CDs and more live gigs!”

You recorded “Architect” single-handedly at your own studio. Was that a difficult process? “I’ve been allowed complete artistic freedom by my label, apart from occasional advice on elements of the final production. The album took just over a year to record, on my home set-up in Glasgow and I recorded everything myself, layering the instruments and vocals piece by piece.”There’s a home-grown, pastoral sound to your music – “I love working with melody, particularly with the vocals and although I listen to a lot of American music, I do think my own songs have a very British sound.”What are your influences? “I listen to an awful lot of music, from classical and jazz to contemporary and French late-romantic music. Lush harmonies!”You graduated in music composition at Glasgow’s Royal Conservatoire and your parents were classical musicians, so why did you choose to write contemporary music? “I was always writing pop songs at school, and whilst I enjoy writing classical music, I love the immediacy of pop music - the three minute single! I find that a lot of what I learned in the classical field at the Conservatoire has found a home in my songwriting.”The gig here in Oxford sold out: has it been easy bringing in a live band to perform the songs? “It was difficult at first. I kind of did the whole thing the wrong way round, recording the album on my own, then having to take it out on the road. Months after it came out, I still hadn’t played live!It was a bit karaoke at first, trying to play solo with backing tracks, but then I worked with my bass-player, then added keyboards and drums, so now we can perform the songs as they sound on the album.”And how about that ‘difficult second album?’ “I’ve already written and recorded it, again on my own at home. I found I’d written quite a lot of stuff while on tour and I was keen to get the new songs recorded. It should be released in September hopefully.” Nicholas John

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Residents - Explore our local attractions -Welcome Open Weekend – WOW!

Spring EventsFosseway Garden Centre

Stow Road, Moreton In Marsh, Gloucestershire, GL56 0DSTel: 01608 651 757

www.fossewaygardencentre.co.uk

Follow us on Fossewaygardencentre & FossewayGC

Garden centre25% off oak furniture (full price items only)

with Loyalty Card during the month of March

EasterBring your children to Fosseway

Garden Centre this Easter. Feed the baby lambs and meet baby chicks 21st - 28th March

(closed Easter Sunday) check our website and Facebook for timings.

FREE bouncy castleEaster egg hunt and Easter

bonnet parade on Easter Monday.More details will be on our website

and Facebook pages soon.

Mothers Day Treat Mum to a wonderful Sunday Roast at Timothy’s

Restaurant with a selection of meat, fish and vegetarian dishes.

2 courses £14.953 courses £16.95

With a free potted primrose for Mum.

Sunday March 6th onlyBooking in advance needed

before March 4th.

Mothers Day Gift ideas Mum in a Million rose

(£9.99 each)One in a Million rose

(£9.99 each)

We know that our wonderful Cotswolds has a wide range of amazing and interesting visitor attractions, set against a background of outstanding natural beauty criss-crossed by footpaths, cycle routes, bridleways and byways

stretching across both the Cotswold and West Oxfordshire districts. No wonder that it is so popular with visitors locally, nationally and internationally.

The exciting Welcome Open Weekend (WOW) is a voucher scheme aimed at enticing local residents (that’s us!) to get out and explore the local area and attractions. Residents will be able to pick up a discounted voucher sheet from their local Visitor Information Centre from 1st April – giving us an opportunity to see what a valuable service these friendly centres provide to promote the area.

From Blenheim to Birdland, Bibury Trout Farm, Cotswold Farm Park, Crocodiles of the World, Fairytale Farm & Head4Heights, etc...

Vouchers will be available from 1st April at Visitor Information Centres at Bourton, Burford, Carterton, Charlbury, Chipping Campden, Cirencester, Moreton Area Centre, Stow on the Wold, Tetbury and Witney, and The Guildhall in Chipping Norton and Woodstock library.

ATTENTION ALL attractions and heritage centresThe District Councils are encouraging all our attractions and heritage centres to register, and offer a 2 for 1 deal for the long weekend of Friday 15 April – Sunday 17 April 2016. If you have not already confirmed your business in the scheme please email tourism@cotswold.gov.uk or tourism@westoxon.gov.uk now. The deadline to register your businesses interest is Monday 29 February 2016. Vouchers will be available in the information centres from the end of March.

A TWO for ONE deal for the long weekend of Friday 15 April – Sunday 17 April 2016.

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EXHIBITIONSTo 13 March Tokens of Love. Oxfordshire Museum, Park Street, Woodstock, OX20 1SN Free Entry. 01993 814103 www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshiremuseum

13 Feb – 2 May Capability Brown, designer of ‘the finest view in England’ in partnership with The Embroiders Guild. Carriage rides in the Park £25. Tickets - Park £5/£4 children; Park & Gardens £14.90/£6.90; Palace, Park & gardens £24.90/£13.90. Conc & family tickets available. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock OX20 1PP. www.blenheimpalace.com

DIARY3 Whichford’s Annual Marmalade Festival – Single pot ENTRIES to St Michael’s Church, Whichford 2.30-4.30pm. 01608 684369/ 01608 684019

3 Country Music Night. Live Music with Chris Mezza. Licensed Bar. 7:30 - 11:30 pm £5 pp. Notgrove Village Hall. 07870795560 or 01451 850502

4, 11, 18 & 25 Coffee Mornings. Join us on Fridays 10.30 -11.30am. Homemade cakes, entertainment (from singing to a few poems). Come and be part of our community. Henry Cornish Care Centre, Rockhill Farm Court, Chipping Norton 01608 642364.

4 Women’s World Day of Prayer – The Methodist Church, Chipping Norton at 10am & 7pm.

4 ‘Movies & Musicals’. LIVE Cabaret of songs from Broadway & the Silver Screen. Tickets £10. Bar & nibbles. Bledington Village Hall 01608 01608 658669.

5 PLANT SALES 20% off for one day only, fundraising for Shipston Home Nursing. 9am-5pm Wyatts Plant Centre & Farm Shop, Gt Rollright, Chipping Norton OX7 5SH.

5 Festival of Sport, Kitebrook Preparatory School, Moreton, GL56 0RP. 10am – 1.00pm. Free admission. Please note - children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Taekwondo, golf, football, cricket. www.kitebrookhouse.com

5/6 Stow Flea Market and Collectors Fair St Edwards Hall, Stow on the Wold 10.00 am to 4.30 pm Free Entry. Contact Rose on 01451 870675 or stowflea@gmail.com

9 North Cotswolds Arts Association. Demonstration by Rachel Higgins, award winning metal sculpture artist. Broadwell Village Hall 2-4pm. Admission Free to members, visitors welcome £5 includes tea. Sandi 01541 822550

12 Vintage & 2nd Hand Clothes Sale. Free Entry. £20 per table to sell your own merchandise 9.30 - 11.30am at Sheldon Bosley Hub, Shipston on Stour CV36 4DQ. 01608 674929

11 Valuation Day with JS Fine Art experts. £3 per item in aid of Bledington Music Festival. Refreshments. 10am – 3pm. Bledington Village Hall.

12 – 13 ‘Artist & Artisan’ - John Limbrey at Court Barn Museum, Church Street, Chipping Campden. GL55 6JE. 01386 841951 www.courtbarn.org.uk

12 FAMILY BINGO NIGHT fundraising for local charities. Bar, refreshments. £5 includes 6 games. Children under 12, £2. More cards available. From 7pm. Guiting Power Village Hall

12 North Cotswold Disabled Club Coffee morning in Broadwell Village Hall from 10am – 12 noon.

13 Blenheim Palace & Formal Gardens open. Times, tickets etc. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock. www.blenheimpalace.com

13 Mary Poppins Sunday Matinee Movie in aid of the Forest School Garden at the Cotswold Montessori School: 13 March, 3-5pm. Windrush Village Hall OX18 4TU

15 Plonk & Pudding Party fundraising for Neuroblastoma UK, Quiz. Bring & Buy, Bar, Raffle. Booking essential. Tickets £10 – 01451 820453 or at Cotswold Sheepskin, Bourton.

15 Music from Shakespeare’s England. Elizabethan Lute music in aid of the Oddington Churches. 7pm. Tickets £25 (book early, save £5) inc. refreshments.. 0145183720 or at the church office 01451 831424/ evenvalechurches1@btconnect .com

17 Country Music Night. Live Music with George McIntosh. Licensed Bar. 7:30 - 11:30 pm £5 pp. Notgrove Village Hall. 07870795560 or 01451 850502

19 EASTER CRAFT SHOW. stalls, coffee, tea, cakes, chocolate, Raffle, plants. Bring the Family 50p Admission. (Book a stall £10. 07881 735276.) Churchill Village Hall, Churchill OX76NJ.

19 Complementary Therapies Day. 3 sessions £25. Call 01608 674929 to book. Home-made soup artisan bread and biscuits served. 10.30 - 4.30pm at The Butts, Cherington CV36 5HZ

19 One-on-One and demonstration by Heidi Warr Ceramic artist, creating ‘Celtic Cross’. 11.30am. Court Barn, Church Street, Chipping Campden GL55 6JE. T: 01386 841951

19 Cirencester Philharmonia – Dvorak, Brahms and Grieg. Tickets £10, U14 Free, on the door or in advance from Moreton Area Centre 01608.650881. 7.30pm, St Davids Church, Moreton

20 QUIZ NIGHT – Prizes, Raffle, entertainment. In aid of the Army Benevolent Fund. 7.30pm, The Swan Inn, High Street, Moreton..

19 Burford Orchestra’s Spring concert – 3 French composers. Tickets £8/children £4 from www. Burfordorchestra.org.uk 7.30pm at Methodist Church Hall in Witney, OX28 6HG.

20 Burford Singers Spring Concert Schubert - Mass in G Paul Carr – Requiem for an Angel. 7.30pm Church of St John the Baptist, Church Green, Burford OX18 4RY

20 Choral Concert ‘Music, Food & Love’ by Wychwood Choral, Guest Soloist Claire Bradshaw. Free admission & refreshments - voluntary collection in aid of Trax local training charity. 7.30pm at Chipping Norton Town Hall.

26 Tea & Cake at Moreton W.I. 12-4pm. Tombola. In aid of the

Army Benevolent Fund’. WI Hall, New Street, Moreton.

28 Easter Egg Hunt & Easter Bonnet Parade at Fosseway Garden Centre, Stow Road, Moreton GL56 0DS. 01608 651757 www. fossewaygardencentre.co.uk

31 Country Music Night. Live music with Mick McCoy. Licensed Bar. 7:30 - 11:30 pm £5 pp. Notgrove Village Hall. 07870795560 or 01451 850502

Full Information is available at the Visitor Information Centres (listed separately)

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LIVE at THE BELL!Live music Made in Moreton every weekend:

Sat. 27th February The Blues AnoraksSat. 5th March CarrickSat. 12th March Two Well Dressed MenSun. 20th March Made in Moreton Acoustic Showcase

Ben Brayshay/James Drinkwater/Chloe Hanks/Ellen Larson

Sat.26th March Average Wyatt Band

Live 6 Nations Rugby:Sat. 12th March England v WalesSat. 19th March France v England

And all other matches

THE BELL INNHigh Street, Moreton in Marsh GL56 0AF

T: 01608 651887

TRAINS RUNNING EVERY WEEKEND FROM SATURDAY 5TH MARCH� Travel from Toddington,

Winchcombe or Cheltenham Race Course stations on our award-winning heritage railway

� 24 mile round trip through glorious Cotswold scenery� 693 yard tunnel at Greet - 2nd longest on a preserved railway� Famous 15 arch Stanway viaduct� Tea room, shop, heritage trail and small museum at

Toddington, café, shop and picnic area at Winchcombe

Gloucestershire Warwickshire RailwayThe Railway Station,

Toddington, GL54 5DT � 01242 621405

www.gwsr.comM5 junc 9, only 15 mins

FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY ON EASTER MONDAY 28th MARCHplus special services running during the holidays. See website for timetable

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Touring nationally in Spring 2016www.stonesinhispockets.org

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Tues 5th April - Sat 16th April at 7.45pm & Sat 9th April, 2.30pm (BSL signed performance 15th April)

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Friday 4 March, eveningYouth Jazz ChallengeTickets £2.50

Sunday 6 March at 7.45pm‘Gin and Jazz’ with the Helen AbbeyQuartetTickets £12 with nibbles and a gin cocktail or glass of wine, £3 under 18s

Sunday 13 March at 3.30pmEllipsis …Tickets £10, £3 under 18s

Saturday 19 March at 7.30pmFestival ConcertTickets £5 (free to Friends of the Festival)

Tickets can be reserved in advance by email fromtickets@cnmf.org.uk or from Jaffé & Neale, Chipping Norton.

Local Walks with the Cotswolds Voluntary WardensMarch 2016Spinning and Weaving at Stanton – Thursday 3 March –ModerateWe will walk up to the Guildhouse where we will hear about this Arts& Crafts centre, before climbing the scarp and returning via Buckland.3 hours: 6 miles. Start: 10:00 am Stanton Village Car Park). OS Mapref SP 067 344.

Isbourne Way 3 (Toddinton to Wormington) – Tuesday 8 March –ModerateOne of series of circular walks incorporating the whole of the newIsbourne Way. Breakfast and/or lunch can be obtained at ThePheasant. 3 hours: 6 miles. Start: 10:00 am The Pheasant Inn,Toddington GL54 5DT at the intersection of the B4632 and the B4077.OS Map ref SP 048 325.

An Amble from Adlestrop – Thursday 10 March – ModerateA spring walk from Adlestrop passing Chastleton House andChastleton Barrow, the village of Cornwell and the Daylesford Estate.3 hours: 6 miles. Start: 10:00 am Adlestrop Village Hall car park –donation. OS Map ref SP 241 272.

A Glimpse through a Window – Saturday 12 March – ModerateA walk focussing on Brockhampton Park and its benefactors. Bringpacked lunch and drinks. 5.5 hours: 10 miles. Start: 9:30 amWhittington Village Green opposite telephone box, Please parkconsiderately in village. OS Map ref SP 014 209.

Water, water, everywhere – Thursday 17 March – ModerateA circuit including most of the streams flowing into the River Windrushat Guiting Power. Bring suitable refreshment. Lunch available at theFarm Park cafe on our return. 3 hours: 6 miles. Start: 10:00 amCotswold Farm Park (by kind permission). OS Map ref SP 115 266.

Sunny and Sherborne again – Friday 18 March – ModerateWe leave the Barringtons and head for Westwell before joining ariverside walk to Sherborne and back through Windrush. Bring apacked lunch; possible pub stop. 5 hours: 11 miles. Start: 9:30 amThe Fox Inn, Great Barrington. OS Map ref SP 205 132.

PLEASE use appropriate footwear as some walks may be steepand muddy in places. EASY – Length may vary but terrain is mainlyflat (level); MODERATE – includes some hills and rough ground.STRENUOUS – may be rough underfoot and ascents and descentsmay be steep. We welcome guide and hearing dogs – sorry, othersnot allowed.Walks are free although we do invite donations to help fund ourconservation and improvement work.The Wardens run a full programme of guided walks throughout theCotswolds. For more information see www.escapetothecotswolds.org.ukor Tel: 01451 862000, also for any changes to arrangements such asdue to extreme weather.

STOW RAIL 2016Sunday 22 May 2016, 10.30am to 4.30pm

St Edward’s Hall, Stow on the Wold

A selection of English, Continental and New World layouts

Adults £2.50, children under 16 freeCakes and refreshments available

A fund-raising event

EASTER CRAFT SHOW Churchill Village Hall, Churchill, OX7 6NJ

Saturday 19 March 10-5pmStalls, coffees & teas, cakes, chocolate,

RAFFLE, plants, bulbs etc etcBring the Family!

Admission 50pTo book a stall £10 call 07881 735276

Chipping Campden Festival Chorus presents

J S BACH – ST JOHN PASSION With Orchestra and soloists on Saturday, 19 March at 7.30pm

in St James’ Church, Chipping Campden

Tickets - Adults: Reserved £15, Unreserved £10, Students £1

from Chipping Campden Tourist Information Centre or at the door

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BLOCKLEY DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETYa lecture

Italian & NorthernRenaissanceby Leslie Primo

at 2.45pm on 21 March 2016in St George’s Hall, Blockley

Please contact Elaine Parker (01386 840326) for booking guests (which is essential) and more details.

Chipping Norton Amateur Operatic Society Presents

at The Theatre Chipping Norton

Songs include:- were a rich man atchmaker

Sunrise, Sunset Fiddler on the roof

Thurs 12th Sat 14th May 7.30pm & Sat 14th May 2.30pm

Tickets £13.50, matinee £11.50 conc (incl £1.00 booking fee)

Tickets from The Box Office 01608 642350

Based on Sholem Aleichem stories by special permission of Arnold Perl

Book by JOSEPH STEIN, Music by JERRY BOCK, Lyrics by SHELDON HARNICK

Produced on the New York Stage by Harold Prince Original New York stage production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins

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Moreton-In-Marsh & District LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY

The Society promotes the study of local history within Moreton-in-Marsh and the surrounding district, an area

steeped in history, The membership averages around 100. The Society meet on Wednesday evenings to hear presentations

from informed and knowledgeable speakers.Meetings are held at the Women’s Institute Hall, Moreton

commencing at 7.30pm. 01608 650349 or jinglesblenheim@btinternet.com

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There are more than five hundred local talking newspapers in the UK serving their communities by providing local news in recorded formats for people who are unable to read newsprint.

The Cotswold Listener, a registered charity, is the local talking newspaper covering the north Cotswolds, Tewkesbury and Cheltenham. Since its establishment in 1978, The Cotswold Listener’s purpose is to help the sight impaired to stay in touch with what’s happening in their local community whilst providing entertainment and specialist information. Anyone who is unable

to read newsprint owing to any sight impairment is welcome to join as a listener. The service is completely free of charge.

The Cotswold Listener is produced every week throughout the year and is available on CD or memory stick. These are sent out

by first class mail, free of any postage charge. We also provide free of charge specially designed, easy to use players for people who don’t have suitable equipment. Our recordings are also available on our website.

Each week’s edition lasts around eighty minutes and comprises three sections. There’s around forty minutes of local news,

our thirty minute “magazine” of general interest articles to amuse and entertain, and finally, a brief “Infosound” piece containing information specifically for the sight impaired. Our news is recorded by kind permission of the Gloucestershire Echo and the Cotswold Journal.

The Cotswold Listener is based in Rodney Road, Cheltenham, is run entirely by volunteers and funded entirely by donation.

The charity has more than forty volunteers who donate their time and expertise on a rota basis acting as news and magazine presenters, sound recorders and administrators to ensure that each week’s recording goes out every Thursday throughout the year.

We currently have 170 regular weekly listeners and are always willing and able to welcome more. If you would like more information or would like to try The Cotswold Listener or know someone who might, please phone or email us and we’ll be in touch. The Cotswold Listener, 21 Rodney Road, Cheltenham, GL50 1HXTelephone 01242 252072 admin@cotswoldlistener.co.ukwww.cotswoldlistener.co.ukCharity Registration No. 276631

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Oasis Events in Moreton in Marsh is 20 years old in 2016 and is celebrating with Open Days on Friday 11th March 12pm-8pm and Saturday 12th March 10am-4pm.

All are welcome to browse, or appointments to meet the team can be made via hire@oasisevents.co.uk

Oasis have notched up 20 years in business through a recession, with steady growth and low staff turnover, to become an expert in their niche.

They’re rocking the Cotswolds with their event hire and management service and work with over 400 clients annually for events on every scale all over the UK, and beyond.

Moreton-in-Marsh Election in the West Ward for a Town Councillor

KIT HAVELOCK-DAVIES is standing as a candidate.

“I have lived in Broadwell since 1997 and owned and ran Wold Galleries in Oxford Street for ten years. During that time I gained experience of community involvement acting as Chairman of the Moreton Business Association after it was reformed in 2013. Together with a small team we organised and created Moreton Art Weeks in 2013 and 2014 bringing a new event to the town involving the local education services, schools and businesses.

I have served as the business representative on the Community Plan Steering Group for Moreton-in-Marsh and hope to have further involvement in bringing this to fruition. I also served in a group looking at parking problems in Moreton and seeking solutions with Town, District and County representatives to improve this facility within the Town. I am a part of the Heroes of Moreton “We Remember Them” team that staged an exhibition and events at the Redesdale Hall on the Centenary of the outbreak of the Great War. We also campaigned for and achieved the installation of a new memorial in Moreton’s Top Cemetery bringing together all the names of Moreton’s fallen in one place.As your Town Councillor I would:

• Seek to represent the views of the electorate in the West Ward of Moreton-in-Marsh.

• Actively work hard to stand up for the interests of the Town.• Only support sensible and affordable housing initiatives that provide

benefit for Moreton.• Back any Town Centre Regeneration Projects.• Act in favour of retaining and enhancing the Town’s Schools.• Support the efforts of independent retailers and businesses in the

town• Urge for more spending on our roads and keeping them safe.

I am committed to ensuring that the community receives the representation it deservesPlease vote for me as Councillor on the 17th March

MORETON IN MARSH ELECTION FOR A TOWN COUNCILLOR FOR

MORETON WEST WARD.

Cotswold District Council have advised that 3 people have been nominated for election –

BOYZ, Jonathan, 6 Market Way, Moreton in Marsh

HAVELOCK-DAVIES, Kit, 2 School Gardens, Broadwell

SHAW, Rachael Ann, 24 Fosseway Avenue, Moreton.

The election will be held on Thursday 17 March.

Al Anon Family Group meeting for support in the Creche room at St Mary’s Church, Chipping Norton,

Fridays 10am. All welcome. Contact 07805 566773 for further information.

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The Playhouse, St George’s Hall BLOCKLEYThursday 24 MarchSUFFRAGETTE2016 Season Tickets available – £25 7.15pm. Hot dogs on sale from 6.30.Doors/Bar open at 7.00pm / 7.45pm film. Advance tickets £3.50/ on door £4. Advance tickets 01386 700647/593386

The Old SchoolBOURTON ON THE HILLSaturday 26 MarchBROOKLYN7.15pm. Wine with a donation £3.50 on the door. Tickets/Queries 01386 7013857/701396

Victoria HallBOURTON ON THE WATERMonday 21 MarchBROOKLYNFilm 2.30pm & 7.30pm Tickets £3 refreshments. Family Tickets £10 (2 adults, 2 children) Queries 01451 822365

Memorial HallCHARLBURY’S OWN CIMEMA Sunday 13 MarchMACBETH Cert 15Film: 7.30pm – Doors & bar from 6.45pm. Tickets £5 / U15s £3, at the door. Family ticket £12 (2 adults, 1 or 2 children) Queries: 01608 810713

Village HallCHURCHILL AND SARSDENSaturday 12th March SUFFRAGETTEFilm 7.30pm. Tickets £4.50 at the door. Advance tickets/queries 01608 659903screenbythegreen@btopenworld.com

Screen on the Green, Village HallILMINGTONFriday Please consult local noticesFilm 7.30pm Tickets £4.50 (students £2.50) Advance tickets Red Lion. Queries 01606 682806 Refreshments

Village HallLITTLE WOLFORDThursday 17 MarchBROOKLYNFilm 7.30pm Tickets £4.00 inc. refreshments. Advance tickets/queries01608 684223

St. Andrew’s ChurchNAUNTONTuesday 1 MarchBROOKLYNDoors open 7.15, Film 7.45. Tickets £3.00 at the door. 01451 850897 or bob@markets-international.com

Village HallODDINGTONTuesday 15 MarchBROOKLYN7 for 7.30pm. £3.00 Wine and soft drinks. Advance tickets/queries Ted 01451 830738

Lower Swell Village HallLOWER SWELLFriday Please consult local noticesDoors open at 7pm for refreshments. Film starts at 7.30pm. Tickets £3.50 Food, alcohol and hot and cold drinks for sale.

Macbeth (Michael Fassbender), the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Suffragette Foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

Brooklyn Romance Drama,12a Julie Walters & Jim Broadbent.

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CLUBS

Bourton and District U3A. Contact: Jenny Stanfield 01451 824388. u3asites.org.uk/bourtonBourton on the Water WI 2nd Tues 7.15pm, Victoria Hall, BOW. Sec Janet Randall 01451 821739Bourton-on-the-Water Probus 2nd & 4th Mondays 10 a.m. at the George Moore Community Centre. Sec Chris Fowler 01451 820787Bourton Vale Horticultural Society 7.30 pm every second Wednesday of the month at the Baptist School Room, Station Road,Bourton Panto Group www.bourtonpantogroup.comBridge Club at Broadwell Village Hall Weds afternoon at 1.45pm. Mary Wood, 01451 822313 Chadlington Flower Club Ann Aston 01608 683289Charlbury Art Society Second Weds/month at 7:30 pm. Kati Eidenbenz 01608 810911CH. Norton Amateur Astronomy Group www.cnaag.com 3rd Monday/m. 7.30pm. Methodist Rooms, CN.Chairman Robin Smitten 07527 224411 or robin@cnaag.comChipping Norton & Area U3A. Janis Paxton, 01608 644896Chipping Norton Art Club All abilities. Thurs mornings, fortnightly, 01608 730268Chipping Norton Bridge Club David Megson, 01608 645382Chipping Norton Historical Research Group Jan Cliffe, 01608 641057Chipping Norton Lions Club Liz Nason & Mike Graham both on 01608 644678 liznmike47@btinternet.comChipping Norton Museum & History Society 2nd Mondays 7.30pm, September to May Methodist Hall, West Street, Chipping NortonChipping Norton Postcard Club Brenda Morris, 01608 643779Chipping Norton Probus 3rd Tues at The Crown & Cushion 11am Sec. Geoffrey Norris, 01608 676997Chipping Norton Probus for Ladies Sec Christine Carpenter, 01608 642155Chipping Norton Railway Club Alan Brain, 01608 641586Chipping Norton Rotary Club Mons 7/ 7.30pm at The Mason’s Arms, Swerford, OX7 4AP David Haine, 07889 609221/01608 643964Chipping Norton Scrabble Club Sarah Turner. gos.info@yahoo.co.ukCots Conservative Association Moreton-in-Marsh Branch mrb1@btinternet.com. www.moretonconservatives.orgCotswold Volunteers North Lunch Club – St David’s Centre, Moreton 3rd Thursday/month – £4.00Cotswold Investment Club Meets 2nd Tues of each month. Judith Borsay, 01608 650787 Cotswold Wardens (conservation, guided walks) 01451 862000 www.cotswoldsaonb.org.ukDinner Hosts Single 35–55 yr olds, social life through dinner parties. www.DinnerHosts.net Duplicate Bridge Club Broadwell Village Hall, 2 pm every Wednesday afternoon. Contact Mary Wood 01451 822313 marcuscwood@aol.comFriends of the Town Hall, Chipping Norton Jackie Haworth, 01608 641368, jaxy1@btinternet.comInner Wheel Terry Howes, 01608 642423. www.kinghamrotary.org.uk/wwwribi.orgGloucestershire Heart Support Group 10.15 am every Wednesday morning. Moreton-in-Marsh Congregational Church Rooms. John Green, 01451 824141Knit One, Sip One Knitting Group Alternate Weds at 8pm Coach & Horses, Longborough Contact Carlin on 07769646996 or fenhill33@yahoo.co.uk Life Saving Club (Fire College) Co-ordinator Lynette Mantle 01386 882430Moreton Conservatives Chairman Nigel Moor nigel.moor@nigelmoorplanning.co.ukMoreton-in-Marsh Flower Club Meets 4th Thursday every month, 7.30 Broadwell Village Hall Joan Malings 01451 822723Moreton-in-Marsh Interest & Leisure Club 2nd Weds monthly. Club Sec Morag 01608 652621Moreton-in-Marsh Probus Club 2nd and 4th Mondays each Month.10.30 am. Swan Hotel, Moreton-in-Marsh. Secretary: Norman Frost 01608 652749Moreton-in-Marsh W.I. 1st Thursday (afternoon) W.I. Hall, New Road. Trish 01608 651367Moreton-in-Marsh (Evening) W.I. 2nd Thursday. W.I. Hall, New Road. Sec: Jo 01608 650821Moreton & District Local History Society Sec Jane Ingles 01608 650349Moreton Reading Club Newcomers welcome 01608 654111Northleach & Fosse Lions Club 2nd Tuesday/month (business meeting) at The Ox House, Northleach 8pm. northleachandfosselions.org.uk 0845 8339825N Cotswold Arts Association Sandi Garrett 01451 822550N Cotswold Bee-Keepers Assoc Julie Edwards 01608 659396 julia@ncbka.org.ukN Cotswold Bridge Club Meets Bourton-on-the-Hill on Tues, Weds, Thurs. Alan Lamb 01608 650202 www.bridgewebs.com/northcotswoldsN Cotswold CAMRA 01451810305 chair@northcotswoldcamra.org.uk N Cotswold Disabled Club Joan M Oughton 01451 830580N Cotswold Digital Camera Club James Minter 01451 824175 www.ncdcc.co.uk

N Cotswold Friendship Centre (Within Age UK) 1st Weds monthly. Peter 01608652267/annemorgans167@btinternet.comNorth Cotswold Model Aero Club Flying site at Far Heath Farm, Moreton-in-Marsh Brian Lacey 01608 652213. sites.google.com/site/northcotswoldmac/home N Cotswold National Trust Pat Poulton 01608 651372N Cotswold Rotary Club Dudley Mills 01451 820704 Bourton on the Water, Brian Honness 01451 830052 Stow, Barry Peaston 01608 650526N. Cotswold U3A. Contact: John Bissett 01386 859319. u3asites.org.uk/northcotswoldOddington WI Meet on the 2nd Tue each month Oddington Village Hall Sue John 01451 830989Oddfellows (CN Branch) A social group, 3rd Wed/M at the Lower Town Hall, Market Street. Dave Talbot, 07815 099 884. Dave.Talbot@oddfellows.co.ukOver Norton History Group Jan Cliffe, 01608 641057Round Table Gavin Southwell, 01993 730888Royal British Legion Michael Dixon, 01608 643755Royal British Legion (Women’s Section) Betty Hicks, 01608 642551Rural Living Group Betty Bryan, 01608 674255 Royal British Legion/Stow on the Wold Social Club Branch chair Derek Arthurs 01451 831550 Club at Well Lane, Stow. 01451 830242Royal British Legion Branch The Naight, Lansdown, Bourton GL54 2AR. Branch, 01451 824303Salford Players Drama & Music Group Doreen Herrington 01608 642853Scottish Country Dance Group Brenda Parsons 01451 831876 Shipston on Stour ‘The Literary Society’ Meets on the last Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm at the George Hotel. 01295 680628 or 01608 663482Single File Social group for unattached 45-70’s living within 15 miles of Chipping Norton. Fortnightly pub meetings and programme of events. 07765 598518 www.meetup.com/single-file-chipping-nortonStow Disability Association George Hill 01608 658636 www.stowda.org.ukStow & District Civic Society Meets 1st Friday evenings alternate months, St Edward’s Hall, Stow. Nigel Surman 01451 833783Stow and North Cotswold Probus Club 1st & 3rd Thurs mornings, Broadwell Village Hall, Broadwell nr. Stow, 10.30 a.m. Secretary Martin Hornby 01608 654356Stow on the Wold and Countryside Embroiderer’s Guild 01608 651006Stow on the Wold Social Club Well Lane. 01451 830242, incorporating Stow RBL Branch and Women’s Section Tredington & District Gardening Club Every 3rd Tuesday at the Tredington W I Hall at 7.30pm 01608 682644Tangent Val Carpenter, 01608 641452The Theatre Friends Heather Leonard, 01608 643691Trefoil Guild Betty Gardener, 01608 641664Twinning Association Jo Graves, 01608 643976WI Chipping Norton Prudence Chard, 01608 642903WI Over Norton Becky Pearman, 01608 643463WOWI West Oxfordshire WI Hilary Dix 01608 646228Weavers Spinners & Dyers Club Rose Kirkcaldy, 01295 253789Wychwood Old-Time Dance Club Margaret Pitman, 01993 810897Young At Heart Club 1st and 3rd Thursdays monthly, 10.30am-2.30pm, Lounge at Jameson Court. A light lunch is served; Carer Respite Service available for a modest charge. Val 01451 810637 for more info.

BUSINESS ASSOCIATION GROUPS

Bourton on the Water Chamber of Commerce admin@bourtoninfo,comMoreton Chamber of Commerce to be advisedRedesdale Hall Management Committee Clerk Sarah James 07519 330096Cotswold Business Clubs Cotswold Business Centre, sharonhooton@ymail.comStow Fund Trustee Robert BarnettTesco Community Champion Ann Lattimore stowonthewold@communityattesco.co.uk 07514 408598WIRE Network (Women in Rural Enterprise, N Cots) Emma Heathcote-James. www.wire.org/networks 01386 831379/07977 226025

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Breathe Easy Groups (British Lung Foundation) 2nd Tues/monthly 2–4pm. 01451 822102/810520 Baden Powell Hall, Bourton-on-the-WaterCarers Clubs, Cotswold Friends Kirsty@cotswoldfriends.orgChipping Norton Amnesty International Group meets 2nd Thursday monthly. 7.30pm, Lower Town Hall, Chipping Norton. Priscilla Peace 01451 830459Chipping Norton Leisure Centre Burford Road OX7 5DY, 01993 861951 euen.kennedy@westoxon.gov.ukChipping Norton ‘The Lido’ 01608 643188 Email info@chippylido.co.ukCotswold Volunteers (a local charity helping disadvantaged people) Jane Winstanley CEO 01285 658802, jane@sc-vs.comCotswold Friends Lunch Club Wendy@cotswoldfriends.org

Cotswold Friends Carers Club Kirsty@cotswoldfriends.orgFriends of Stow Surgery 01451 832200 & 830610Gateway Club (social club for learning disabled adults) 2nd and 4th Weds. Meet at Rugby Club, Greystones 7 – 9pm. Sara Mcrea 01608 643855Gloucestershire Stroke Gp Caroline Seguro www.stroke.org.uk 01452 520723Henry Cornish Care Centre (The Orders of St John Care Trust), Manager Natalya James, 01608 642364, manager.henrycornish@osjctoxon.co.uk, www.osjct.co.ukHome-Start N Cotswolds Family Support Charity 01451 831781 Independence Trust mental health, drug and alcohol support 01608 652232, www.independencetrust.co.uk. Sue Tomlinson – local contact East Glos Mental Health 01285 650523/07920 427608Insight Moreton Area Centre, High St, Moreton Mondays 10am–1pm 01242 221170. steph.mckeever@insight-glos.org.uk Kate’s Home Nursing (palliative nursing care at home) Karen Pengilley, info@kateshomenursing.org, 0754 0898 143.Lawrence Home Nursing Team Jenny Nolan, 01608 641549Lights Up Arts Club for people with dementia – meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays monthly, 10.30am- 12.30pm at Highlands, Burford Road. Lunch Clubs, Cotswold Friends Wendy@cotswoldfriends.orgMind in Chipping Norton (people with mental health difficulties) Di Taylor, 01608 645296, mindinchippingnorton@oxfordshire-mind.org.ukMultiple Sclerosis Society Carol Owen, 01993 880099Medical Detection Dogs (charity no 1124533) Oxon and Cotswold Volunteer Support group. Organising fundraising events and talking to local groups. 01993 831909 oxon.supportgrp@medicaldetectiondogs.org.ukMoore Friends Secretary, Sandra Morgan 01451 824316 sandra.morgan12@btinternet.comNational Childbirth Trust 0870 444 8707N Cotswold Community Radio Old Police Station, Chipping Campden, www.nothcotswoldonline.comN Cotswold Neighbourhood Watch Non-emergency 0845 0901234 www.northcotswoldsnw.co.ukN Cotswold Support Group – Parkinson’s UK Mike Winter 01451 831194Oxfordshire Association for the Blind Bradbury Lodge OX1 4XL. 01865 725585P3 Stow on the Wold Drop In Centre Youth Centre: every 2nd & 4th Tuesday 1pm to 4pmP3 Charity (Supporting People through Advice & Guidance) High Street, Moreton in Marsh. 01608653377. www.p3charity.orgRedesdale Hall Plays Committee Mike Rees 01608 650825Read Easy North Cotswolds 1-1 reading coaching for adults, 0844 493 0686 suebrereton@readeasy.org.ukRNLI N Cotswold Branch Chairman Diana Porter 01451 830508 The Cotswold Listener talking newspaper for the visually impaired. 01242 252072. admin@cotswoldlistener.co.ukSave the Children Fund Katherine Kimmance 01295 810189The Cotswold Listener talking newspaper for the visually impaired. 01242 252072. admin@cotswoldlistener.co.ukThe Stroke Association (Age UK) Louise Read 01452 520723, louise.read@stroke.org.ukVillager Community Bus Keith Gowing 01608 658579 www.villagerbus.com U3A – Bourton & District Sec Janet Prout 01451 821478 u3asites.org.uk/bourtonW. Oxfordshire Citizens Advice Bureau Adviceline 08444 111 444Young At Heart Club 1st and 3rd Fridays monthly, 10.30am-2.30pm Lounge at Chamberlayne House. A light lunch is served; Carer Respite Service available for a modest charge. Please call Kelly Hennessey-Ford on 07707787580 for more information.

CHARITIES

Cotswold Friends reception@cotwoldfriends.org 01608 697009First Responders (St John Ambulance) 01452 858234 countyhq@gloucestershirejja.org.ukMoreton in Marsh Save the Children Joyce Rees 01608 650825

SPORTS AND OUTDOORS

Adlestrop Cricket Club Mr S/N Kean 01451 831458 Angling Club Chairman Neil Halley 07961 920708, www.moretonanglingclub.co.ukAngling Society Robert Jarvis, 01608 643494Athletics Club Allen Souch, 01865 372484 / 0798 1089457Banbury Ornithological Society Frances Buckel, 01608 644425BBOWT Reg Tipping, 01295 251673Bourton Badminton Club Monday evenings 6.30–10pm. 07840 113477 bourtonbc@gmail.comBourton Hockey Club Chairman Stuart Colmer 01451 821921/07900028732. Home fixtures at the Cotswold School, The Avenue, Bourton-on-the- Water, GL54 2BDBourton Roadrunners Tuesday & Thursday evenings at Bourton Leisure Centre, 7.00 and 7.30pm. Info on adult sessions Lynn Hudson 01242 820920. Juniors meet at Cotswold School, Tuesdays 7pm. Richard Bufton 01451 824379/ Chris Hartley 01451 830015Bourton Vale Cricket Club Philip Winter 01451 821920 philip@inkshed.vispa.comBourton Vale Equestrian Centre Pony Club Weds 3.45-5.45. 01451 821101. leannebvec@aol.com

Local Clubs, Societies, Associations and Charities

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Bourton Vale Lawn Tennis Club Ann Whitney, 07917163001 awhitney@btconnect.comChipping Norton Bowls Club Greystones Leisure Centre, 01608 644154, chippybowls@hotmail.com Indoor (Oct-Mar) Roberta Jarvie 01608 643556. Outdoor (Apr-Oct) Val &Mike Harris 01608 65820. www.chippingnortonbowls.co.ukChipping Norton Cricket Club Graham Beacham, 01608 810047Chipping Norton Easy Riders – Cycling Club Jill Reynolds, 01608 642667Chipping Norton Golf Club 01608 642383 golfadmin@chippingnortongolfclub.com www.chippingnortongolfclub.comChipping Norton Green Gym (environmental projects, Weds mornings), jennyharrington@btinternet.com www.chippygreengym.orgChipping Norton Horticultural Assoc Sec. Eileen Forse, 01608 643275Chipping Norton Hockey Club Clive Briant, 01608 677913Chipping Norton Pistol & Rifle Club John Chaplin, 01608 641245Chipping Norton Rambling Club: First Sunday afternoon in the month. Heather 01608 643691 rheatherleonard@yahoo.co.ukChipping Norton Rugby Football Club Andy Dawson, 01608 683352Chipping Norton Skater Hockey Club Contact Louise Murphy, 01608 644091 for details.Chipping Norton Town Football Club Shaun Green, 07845216412. info@chippyswifts.co.ukChipping Norton Yacht Club Duncan Wheatley, office@cnyc.co.uk www.cnyc.co.ukCotswolds Aikido Club Friday nights 7.30-10pm. Village Hall, Hawker Square, Upper Rissington, GL54 2NT. 07738 837904 info@cotswoldsaikido.org.ukCotswold Voluntary Wardens Wendy Lines, 01608 642360Cotswold Walkers Sarah Clifton-Gould 01285 623450 Every Thurs 2pm Moreton Area Centre. Wed 2pm Bourton Parish Church. Alan Robinson 01451 821067 Great Rissington Archers Sat 10.30am at Gr Rissington Social Club (+ Weds 6.30pm in summer) Michael Ebelthite 01451 824161, Niall McIntosh 01451 870221Little Compton Bowls Club All Year Club. Play stars April. Sue Grantham, 01608 642859London Chinatown TaeKwondo Weds 6.30pm kids and families, 7.30pm teens and adults Redesdale Hall, Moreton 0751 7437300Moreton Badminton Club Mike and Joyce Rees 01608 650825Moreton in Marsh Bowling Club Club Captain, Brenda Dix 01451 821020 brendadix@gmail.com Club Chair, Helen Tuff 01608 650893 demonstitcher@btinternet.com Moreton Cricket Club Capt: 01608652630 Sec: 01608 650929 www.moretoninmarshoc.co.ukMoreton Rangers Football Club Sec: 01608 650955 www.moretonrangersfc.co.ukMoreton Tennis Club www.moretontennis.co.uk Sec Sue Bull 01386 853298Monkey Dragon School of Karate Chipping Norton Leisure Centre. John 01608 643903 or 07984 791866North Cotswold Cycling Club Club Secretary: Fiona Barnett, 01608 650217North Cotswolds Aikido Club Thursday nights 8-10pm.Village Hall, Naunton, GL54 3AS. 07554 252021 www.northcotswoldsaikido.co.ukNorth Cotswold (Chipping Norton) Badminton Club Contact: James, james@coffeeandcountries.com, 07917835325 or Mick, micksaffrette@tiscali.co.uk, 01993 881545North Cotswold Cycling Club Club Secretary: Fiona Barnett, 01608 650217Northwick Bowls Club 01386 700390/ 01608 650853N Cotswolds Youth Cricket Club Shaun Williams 01608 652138 www.nycc.co.ukRambles Association Peter Barbour, 01608 641081 Wychwood Forest (Friends of) Stuart Fox, 01993 832004Riding for the Disabled Ann Nobbs, 01869 338404Stow Badminton Club Forbes Campbell 01451 832188, Dennis Fisher 01451 830068Stow Cricket Club Captain Ash Andrews 07891 536418 ashandrews@yahoo.co.uk, http://stowotw.play-cricket.com/homeStow Gymnastics and Trampoline Club Wed, Thurs and Sat. Sessions for 2-17 year olds. Caroline Ardron :07793949198. www.stowgymnastics.co.ukStow Rugby Club Tim Bevan/Liz Fraser/Andrew Cartlidge www.stowrfc.co.ukTae Kwon Do Assoc of GB Lee Chapman 07977 560086. Tues 6.30 Adults, Thurs 6.30 Juniors, 7.30 Seniors, 8.30 Adult Self Defence info@combinedselfdefence.co.uk www.combinedselfdefence.co.uk

MUSIC

Bell Ringers, Bourton-on-the-Water, Anne Clark, 01451 821 759Bell Ringers, Great Rissington, Mondays 7:30-9pm, Sheila Jesson, 01451 820 395Bledington Music Festival www.bledingtonmusicfestival.co.uk Blockley Blokes Choir (BBC!) Thurs 7.30-9 pm Little Village Hall. David Artingstall, Sec: 01386 701556 blockleyblokes@gmail.comBlockley Brass Band Friday 7.30–9.30 pm St George’s Hall. Sec: Rachel Galt 01386 841677Blockley Ladies Choir Tues 7.30–9pm Little Village Hall. Sue Wareham 01608 654299, 07917198327 smwareham@gmail.com Burford Singers www.burford-singers.org.uk (Box Office The Madhatter Bookshop, High St Burford)

Burford Orchestra (community orchestra) Rehearse Monday evenings at Witney. burfordorchestra@gmail.com www.wospweb.com/site/The-Burford-Orchestra Helen Jenkins, 01993 830559Campden Music Society Carol Jackson – concert mgr cra.jackson@virgin.netChipping Norton CHAOS (Amateur Operatic) David Court, 01608 811031Chipping Norton Choral Society Sarah Cobb, 07836 518868, sarah@cobb.uk.netChipping Norton Creative Arts Society Kathee Coonerty, 01993 891312Chipping Norton Folk Club www.chippingnortonfolk.org.uk/contact usCotswold West Gallery Group Annette Smith 01451 830160Cotswold Youth Choir Every Saturday for children ages 3-6, and 7 upwards. Burford Methodist Church. Contact Amanda Hanley 07976 353996Hook Norton Film Society Harry Smith, 01285 737417Kingham Choral Society Linda Sale, 01608 658647North Cotswold Chamber Choir Shauni McGregor, 01608 642352Nortonians Amateur Dramatic Soc Andrew Pitman, 01993 830930 Society of Recorder Players Jenny Graham-Brown, 01285 740156Naunton Music Society Barbara Steiner 01451 850897 info@NauntonMusic.org.uk Stour Singers Vic Twyman Choir Manager 01451 870361 vicandjill@btinternet.com

YOUNG PEOPLE AND CHILDREN

Activity Camps All holidays for ages 3-13 years old. 07793949198 www.activity-camps.comAikido for Kids Saturday mornings 10-11am. Village Hall, Hawker Square, Upper Rissington, GL54 2NT. 07738 837904 info@cotswoldsaikido.org.uk6th Chipping Norton Scout Group and Explorer Scout UnitIan Bushrod Group Scout Leader, ian@6thchippyscouts.co.ukBourton BumblebeeZ babies/pre school group St Lawrences Church, Thursdays 9.30-11.00am. Contact Linda Powell 01451 822206.Bourton Pre-school & Out of School Clubs, Contact Pam Coombes 07950048066 or email: bourtonpreschool&eygloucestershire.co.ukChildren & Young Peoples Directorate Stephen McDonald – Senior Youth Worker. North Cotswold Rural Youth Work Team. Bourton Youth Centre, The Avenue, Bourton-on-the-Water 01451 820525. Mobile: 07825732523. email: stephen.mcdonald@gloucestershire.gov.ukBlockley Toddler Group Jubilee Hall, Blckley Thursday 10 - 11.30am (term time only) Clare 01386 701695 blockleytoddlers@hotmail.co.ukBledington Toddler Group Nicki 01608 658137 Mon 10–11.30amChipping Norton St Mary’s Toddler Group Julie Jennings, 01608 643796 Kingfishers Playgroup 01608 659502Chipping Norton Air Training Corps Steve Taylor, 01608 641299Chipping Norton Army Cadets Colin Tye 07917 273535Chipping Norton Brownies 1st CN Tracey Shadbolt, 01608 645563Chipping Norton CN Rainbows Alison Dunbar, 01608 644480Chipping Norton Crusaders (11–13) David Radcliffe, 01993 831472Chipping Norton Crusaders (14+) David Radcliffe, 01608 646202Chipping Norton Guides 1st CN Tracey Shadbolt, 01608 645563Chipping Norton Pre-School 01608 643376Children’s Art Club (ages 4–12) After school, Saturdays and holidays, Gill Parkes 01386 700991Condicote Playgroup & Toddlers Leader Jo Abrahams 07796 987173 Guiting Power Brownies (age 7–10) Tuesday Evenings 6.15–7.30pm, Leader Cheryl Millar 01451 831233Guiting Power Pre-School Playgroup 01451 851742, Becky Roseblade, leader playleaderguitingpowerplaygroup@outlook.comKingfishers Playgroup 01608 659502Methodist Junior Church Club Sec 01608 643847Monkey Music (pre-school music classes) Tues afternoons. 07768 457403 or Sian.ferris@monkeymusic.co.uk Moreton in Marsh Guide Unit Wednesday 6.30-8pm at the Scout Hut. Open to girls 10 - 14.Alison Eastabrook 01608 650515Moreton Scouts Beavers Mondays 17:30–18:45 Age 6–8½ Cubs, Mondays 18.45–20.15 Age 8–10 Explorer Scouts, Wednesday (fortnightly) 20.00–22.00 Age 14–18 Scouts, Thursdays 19.30–21.30 Age 10½–14 Dave Manley, Moreton Scout Group Secretary 01608 650814 N Cotswold St John Ambulance & St John Cadets (from age 10) Meets at Bourton Thurs 7–9pm. 01451 820570Springboard Children’s Centre St Edwards Drive, Stow on the Wold. 01451831642. www.springboardcc.co.ukStow Gymnastics Club Every Saturday,Tuesday and Thursday for a fun Gymnastic Session for 2-13 year olds. Caroline:07793949198 www.stowgymnastics.co.uk Stow Youth Centre Fosseway, Stow. Youth Worker, Linda Burke, Stow Town Council, 01451 832585. Office hours T, W, Th, 10am–1pm

LOCAL AUTHORITIES

Bourton on the Water Parish Council George Moore Community Centre, Moore Road, GL54 2AZ. 01451 820712 clerk@bourtononthewaterpc.org.uk ww.bourtononthewaterpc.org.uk

County Cllr Paul Hodgkinson Shire Hall, Gloucester GL1 2GT. 01285 831359/ 07785 263759 paul.hodgkinson@gloucestershire.gov.ukDistrict Cllr Len Wilkins (Bourton Ward) 01451 821063 len.wilkins@cotswold.gov.uk District Cllr Richard Keeling 01451 831146. richard.keeling@cotswold.gov.ukChipping Norton Town Council The Guild Hall, Chipping Norton OX7 5NJ 01608 642341 cntc@btconnect.co Chipping Norton Town Councillors Mrs L Carter, G Saul, G WallChipping Norton Intermediate Care Unit Russell Way, Off London Road. Ward clerk and nurses office in-patient number 01608 690411. Out-patient unit which houses physio, x-ray, podiatry and other clinics 01608 648200.Chipping Norton Visitor Point The Guildhall, Middle Row. Mon to Fri 8.45–13.00, 14.00–16.00. 01993 861000County Councillor Hilary Hibbert-Biles (Chipping Norton) 01993 831822 / Mob07793 935655 Hilary.biles@oxfordshire.gov.ukCounty Councillor Rodney Rose (Charlbury & Wychwood) 01865 810419 / 07919 298277 rodney.rose@oxfordshire.gov.uk Chipping Norton District Council Guy Wall, 01608 643306 Guy.wall@westoxon.gov.ukOxfordshire County Council County Hall New Road OX1 1ND. Tel 01865 792422West Oxfordshire Council Offices The Guildhall, Middle Row, OX7 5NH Open Mon–Thurs 08.45–13.00 & 14.00–16.00 Fri 08.45–13.00 & 14.00–16.00.Cotswold District Council Trinity Road, Cirencester. 01285 623000 www.cotswold.gov.uk County Cllr Nigel Moor 01386 700240/07778 207034 Nigel.moor@gloucestershire.gov.uk Shire Hall, Gloucester GL1 2GT Glos Homeseeker applying for affordable housing www. gloshomeseeker.co.uk 0300 666 6330 –charged at local rateGlos Rural Community Council Marilyn Cox 01452 528491 marilync@grcc.org.uk gloscc@grccorg.uk www.grcc.org.ukMoreton Area Centre High Street, Moreton 01608 650881. moreton@cotswold.gov.ukMoreton in Marsh Town Council, Council Office, Old Town, Moreton in Marsh. GL56 0LW. 01608 651448 www.moretoninmarshtowncouncil.co.ukMoreton in Marsh District Councillors Alison Coggins 01608 652124 alison.coggins@cotswold.gov.uk. Robert Dutton 01608 651914 robert.dutton@cotswold.gov.ukStow Town Council Stow Council Office, Stow Youth Club, Stow, GL54 1AB 01451 832585 info@stowonthewold.net Stow-on-the-Wold District Councillor Barry Dare barry.dare@ cotswold.gov.uk (01386) 700457Village Agents maureeng@villageagent.grcc.org.uk. stevew@villageagent.grcc.org.uk

KEY INFORMATION

Bourton-on-the-Water Police Station Moore Community Centre, Moore Road, GL54 2AZ Non-emergency 101, Emergency 999Bourton-on-the-Water Visitor Information Centre Victoria Street. 01451 820211 / 822583. bourtonvic@btconnect.comBourton on the Water Citizens Advice Bureau Moore Health Centre Freephone 0808 800 0511 (10am-4pm Monday to Thursday). www.cotswoldcab.org.ukCarers Oxfordshire (Support Group for Carers) 0845 050 7666 carersoxfordshire@oxfordshire.gov.uk Chipping Norton First Aid Unit Rear of Chipping Norton War Memorial Community Hospital, Russell Way, off London Road. Open Monday to Friday 5.00pm– 9.00pm, weekendsand bank holidays 10.00am–9.00pm, no appointment necessaryChipping Norton Health Centre The White House Surgery & West Street Surgery are now amalgamated as – Chipping Norton Health Centre, Russell Way, Chipping Norton, OX7 5FA 01608 642742kChipping Norton Police Station London Road, OX7 5AW. Non-emergency 101, Emergency 999Cotswold Maternity Unit at Chipping Norton 01608 648222 chippingnortonmidwives@ouh.nhs.ukChildrens Physio Direct helpline 0300 421 6980 9.00am-12.00pm, Monday-Friday (except Bank Holidays) Childline 0800 11 11Childline 0800 1111Chipping Norton Veterinary Hospital Albion Street, Chipping Norton, OX7 5BN 01608 642547Crime Stoppers 0800 555 111Citizens Advice Bureau Freephone 0808 800 0511 (10am-4pm Monday to Thursday). www.cotswoldcab.org.ukGlos Heart Support Group Weds 10.15am. Moreton Congregational Church Rooms. John Green 01451 824141First Responders (St Johns Ambulance) 01865 378228John Radcliffe Hospital Casualty 01608 644655Mobile police station: MPS can still be booked to attend local community events by contacting PCSO Simon King, 07718 708520 or simon.king@gloucestershire.police.ukN Cots. District, Community First Responders, Notgrove Training Centre, SJA, Bourton-o-t-Water 3rd Monday at 7.30pm. You can train to be a CFR in this area, William Warmington 01608 651886North Cotswold Hospital Stow Road, Moreton in Marsh GL56 0DS. daily 8am-8pm, 0300 421 8770 www.gloshospitals.nhs.co.ukN Cotswold Neighbourhood Watch Non-Emergency 0845 090 1234. www.northcotswoldsnw.co.ukPolice Station High Street, Stow on the Wold. Mon-Fri 08.30–16.30. Non-emergency 101, Emergency 999

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NEW-LOOK WEBSITE LAUNCHED

cotswolds.com“Welcome to the Cotswolds”

Cotswolds Tourism have launched a brand new website to promote and market the Cotswolds to the domestic and international travel market.

The six month project to transform www.cotswolds.com follows consultation with Cotswolds Tourism partners to create a new website that reinforces the area as one of the country’s leading tourist destinations. The emphasis on bold and beautiful imagery makes the website a great showcase of what the Cotswolds can offer visitors. It’s also easy to navigate and has a clean and contemporary look, all in a responsive format for optimum mobile browsing.

Cotswolds Official Visitor Guide AppThe new website will complement the Cotswolds Official Visitor Guide App – one of the top performing destination apps.

The Cotswolds are already one of the most recognised brands both nationally and across the world thanks to the unique landscape, picturesque villages, vibrant towns and cities as well as great food and drink, accommodation and attractions.

In March the Moreton-in-Marsh Business Association (MIMBA) is once again organising a month-long celebration of everything produced in and around the town. Every local business who is producing items - from heavy engineering

and homes, to food and gardens – can participate in this exciting annual event promoting our vibrant market town. This year it is hoped that the hospitality businesses, schools and retail outlets will also take part.

MIMBA will be promoting out vibrant market town and the event encourages local businesses to get involved – they anticipate a variety of open days, demonstrations, receptions for invited guests, displays and exhibitions, and much more.

In the first instance, any local business interested in taking part in this event, and located within a 4-mile radius of Moreton-

in-Marsh, should contact the Moreton in Marsh Business Association’s secretary Sabeeha Jackman via sabymba@hotmail.com or Ian Sloan at Bankier Sloan Chartered Surveyors via reception@centre-p.co.uk

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At last, someone has admitted that the tax system needs a thorough overhaul & it’s a former Chancellor, Nigel Lawson, who has put the case for a complete change. As I have said

many times, the current system allows some businesses to avoid paying a fair rate of tax leaving us poor individuals & those honest businesses to bear the brunt. I believe that a radical step should be taken, perhaps initially for non-Vat registered businesses, where tax is paid at a flat rate based on sales. This will not only help to lift the burden of bureaucracy for small businesses, it could also be the first step towards synchronising PAYE & self-employed business tax so that both are paid over by a set date the following month (currently the 19th of each month for PAYE). The effect on our economy will be immediate & increase the tax take significantly. It will also mean that the self-employed won’t have to find a large lump sum twice a year or to make payments on account (money they haven’t actually earned but still are asked to pay). The added bonus for those who hate paperwork is that calculating a percentage of sales is so much easier. The downside for accountants is that many could become redundant. However, I would far rather see a fair tax system for all than one that keeps accountants in business for the sake of it.

With the above in mind would it not be a good thing if all government departments were required to make things for easier for people rather than introducing rafts of legislation that no one can understand? The buzzword “mindfulness” springs to mind.

If you’re in business, or you are an employer having problems with year-end paperwork, don’t hesitate in contacting your accountant or you can contact me by phone or e-mail for free, impartial advice. Robb Eden is based in Moreton-in-Marsh. He can be contacted via e-mail at robbeden@aol.com or by telephone 01608 651802.

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Celebrate your Community Health Hero

Patients, carers and their families are being given the opportunity to acknowledge local healthcare professionals who have gone ‘above and beyond’ to deliver exceptional health and social care across Gloucestershire.

The Community Health Hero award will be nominated by service users, and the winner revealed at the Trust’s third annual Celebrating You awards on Wednesday 25 May.

When thinking about your experiences with local community services, please consider: Did a member of staff make extra effort to reassure you

and make your stay/appointment as comfortable as possible?

Did they explain what would be happening to you during your stay/appointment?

Did they treat you and your family with true dignity and respect?

Did they take the time to discuss your concerns, or find someone who could?

Were they caring and attentive to your needs? Were they particularly approachable, kind and helpful?

If the answer to one or more of these points is Yes, then please nominate!

You can nominate someone from your local community healthcare services by using the form on our website:

www.glos-care.nhs.uk/communityhealthhero OR by picking up a nomination form from one of our

community hospitals or clinics.

Nominations close on Friday 1 April 2016. If you have any questions or would like to speak to someone about your nomination, please email celebratingyou@glos-care.nhs.uk or call 0300 421 8599

Thank you to the Freemasons of Stow

Insight Gloucestershire would like to thank the members of the Prince of Wales Lodge in Stow, for their kind donation of £1000. The cheque was presented to Insight Gloucestershire by Clive Dellow, Worshipful Master and Mike Jacques, Charity Steward of the Lodge

Insight is a local charity that provides practical advice and support to people living with sight loss throughout the county of Gloucestershire.

If you know anyone living with sight loss or are yourself, please get in touch 01242 221170 or

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Mike Jacques, Clive Dellow from The Princes Lodge, Monica Farthing and

Steve Martin of Insight

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On Thursday 11th February Chipping Norton Bowls Club entertained 13 members of the Joint Air Delivery. Test and Evaluation unit from RAF Brize Norton to an

afternoon of Bowling . The Unit comprised of twelve men and one woman with

three from an army unit with four civilians and six RAF engineers. They were given training by members of the Bowls Club and later played a match.

Mike and Val Harris from the bowls club organised the event and Mike said “ It is a pleasure to host members of the armed forces here to the club and we hope you have enjoyed your afternoon and will continue to play bowls in the future .”

The visit was organised by Chief Technician Daryl Lockwood

and Craig Benson and afterwards Daryl said “ Many thanks to the members of Chipping Norton Bowls Club for providing such an interesting and entertaining afternoon and I am pleased to announce that there is a good possibility that up to six of our group could be interested in taking up bowling in the future. “

“This afternoon also provides an opportunity for our social group to say good bye to one of our members Matt Usher, who is leaving the Army today, on his birthday, after 12 years of service. We wish him well in his new civilian role “

Chipping Norton members who helped throughout the afternoon were Carol and Ron Thornhill, John Bowlt and John Cox .

From John Bowlt press officer (01608 684140)

Chipping Norton Bowls Club

Members of the Unit plus Chipping Norton members

North Cotswolds to welcome top women cyclists in June

The world’s top women cyclists will ride through the North Cotswolds on Thursday 16 June.

Just under 100 of the world’s top racers, including Olympic gold medal winner Lizzie Armitstead, will compete in the second stage of the world leading Aviva Women’s Tour. They will tackle a 140-kilometre route, crossing the Warwickshire countryside and passing through Atherstone, Kenilworth, Warwick, Shipston-on-Stour and Stratford-upon-Avon. The racers then cross into North Gloucestershire, passing close to Chipping Campden and Moreton-in-Marsh.

Taking place over five days, the race is part of the new UCI Women’s World Tour calendar, currently one of just four multi-day stage races on the season-long programme for the world’s top riders and teams. Highlights of each stage will be shown on ITV4 every evening during the race.

The Warwickshire stage starts on Wednesday 15 June; competitors ride from Southwold on the Suffolk coast to Norwich. The Day 2 stages go through Warwickshire/North Cotswolds. The route then goes north to Derbyshire, Nottingham- shire and Staffordshire, before the final day of racing between Northampton and Kettering, on Sunday 19 June.

Look online for more details: http://www.womenstour.co.uk/stages/index.php#.VrHblrfcuM9

STOW MARTIAL ARTS CELEBRATESTUDENT OF THE YEAR

Stow Tae Kwon-Do club are celebrating this month after awarding student of the year to Ben Davidson in the junior class. Ben has been training for 2 years and attends almost

every lesson. He works hard and pays attention, and as a result, has a good performance in his Tae Kwon-Do.

Kerrie Harrison has been training with Stow Tae Kwon-Do club for 8 years now, both in the junior and adult lessons. Kerrie is about to start training to become a Black Belt, which

involves 2 separate pre-grading and grading events and 2 black belt seminars, before taking the grading in April. Kerrie has worked very hard over the last year to implement small tweaks to her training in preparation for the grading.

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A n inspirational coach who picked up a top honour at the West Oxfordshire Sports

Awards has urged others like her to come forward to have their achievements recognised this year.

Debra Courtenay-Crane won the Coach of the Year category in 2015 for her work at Carteron Gymnastics Club. She said it was a “huge surprise and honour to win. As a volunteer, to be recognised like that was phenomenal and I felt very proud. People should apply, as they may not realise how much they are doing for their communities.”

Carteron Gymnastics Club also picked up the title of Sports Club of the Year, where Debra has worked in the project team at West Oxfordshire District Council. She has run Carterton Gymnastics Club for the last 25 years and coached members who have gone on to compete at the World Championships and Commonwealth Games.

With a catchment area stretching beyond Oxford, members range from aged five to 76-year-old Marge Scholes, herself a British champion. “The club would not be successful if we did not have the infrastructure and support from volunteers, committee members and parents.”

“Gymnastics is not just about keeping fit – it helps with problem solving, delivering goals and building confidence.”

Debra – a shining example for West Oxfordshire sports stars

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The Clubhouse, Oddington Road, Stow on the Wold , GL54 1JAH. 01451 830887 www.pitchero.com/clubs/stowrtfc/ CHECK THE WEBSITE FOR REPORTS, PHOTOS, NEWS & INFO From Sean Clarke

Stow on the Wold & District RFC

Photos by Sean Clarke, Joe Cooper, Matthew Maynard and Neil Piercy.

Spotlight On Barney Maynard

Team U11s

Position Prop but wherever my coaches say !

Favourite Player Mike Brown (Quins & England) & Henry Slade (Exeter & England)

I enjoy Rugby because it’s a great team sport that everyone can play and all respect each other & the ref

My Rugby ambition is to play for Gloucester & England of course!

Each Month the Spotlight is focused on a player

from the club

Here Come The Girls

Time To Consolidate Tourists Are All Lit Up Stow’s U10s and 11s hosted touring teams from Birkdale Prep. School from Sheffield on Friday the 12th of February. For most of the players, it was the first time they had played a competitive match under floodlights and they and their parents loved it. Indeed, it led one of the Birkdale supporters to question whether it was Twickenham or Stow, such was the atmosphere. A high number of Stow parents turned out and the Birkdale Barmy Army travelled down from Yorkshire to join their children on tour. The rugby by all 4 teams was played in the right spirit with teamwork, respect, en-joyment, discipline and sportsmanship shown by all. The matches were all fairly even with both clubs winning and losing some. Birk-dale, in both age groups, were particularly good at the breakdown, with their communication and moving the ball out wide also of note. Stow also played some great rugby with strong tackling and recycling of the ball. After the post match meal, the teams settled down in the clubhouse for a sports quiz organised by Birkdale. A measure of the new found friendship between the teams was the fact that they combined to make 6 quiz teams. The 2 clubs swapped gifts with Birkdale U11s captain Andrew Charlish presenting Stow with a commemorative shield. Evenings like this at the club are great and we will look to make them a more regular feature in the future. The photo below shows both Birkdale and Stow’s U11s.

It’s fair to say that results have not gone the 1st XV’s way this sea-son with some narrow defeats and some not so narrow. The team were unlucky to lose 10-13 at home to Wallingford, in the middle of February, with the teams drawing with 3 minutes to go. Stow were camped on the opposition’s line for the last play but couldn’t con-vert it into points. The season so far has been a case of ‘what might have been’. However, the positives are that there are a lot of good young players coming through, as was noted in the last issue. Cou-pled with the experience the team has (there are still a good num-ber of players such as James Holmes above from the 20 wins from 20 season) and the future looks bright. Stow are sitting ninth in the table and the remainder of the season is about consolidating with a view to pushing on next year. There are 7 games left and all are matches that the team are capable of winning. A run of wins will move them up the table and give them confidence going forward. There is a tour to look forward to and lots of good rugby ahead.

All That Jazz Take a step back in time on the 5th of March when the club will be hosting a Roaring Twenties night. The Jazz band are booked and cocktail waiters will be there to get you into the party spirit. Tickets are £25 or 5 for £ 100 and available from James Holmes on 07717 376635. Flapper Dresses for the ladies and Black Tie for the gents.

A handful of dedicated girls are training at Stow with the hope that they will be joined by more to help form a team. No experience is needed and all abilities are welcome.. The girls are receiving plenty of support from the RFU with Ben Smith, below, helping to coach along with Martha Farnworth (far right) of Worcester Warriors. However, the club are also looking for a coach to help take the team forward. If you would like to join the girls or help coach, get in touch with Sean Clarke on 07971 287733. The club and RFU will support you. At the moment training is on Tuesdays at 6.30pm for one hour.

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Moreton Rangers FCBarnett steps down after 10 years as Manager

Moreton Rangers first team coach Gary Barnett has stood down as manager but will remain as Director of Football at the club. Gary made the decision during a recent visit to Australia to see his daughter with his family. The former professional player, manager of Barry Town and assistant at Kidderminster and Hull has been with Moreton Rangers for the past 10 years, leading the team to the Cheltenham League title, promotion to the Gloucester Northern Senior League and into the Hellenic League this year. Club Chairman Paul Luker said “Gary was a great acquisition for the club due to his vast experience in the professional game, and our current squad of young players have all benefited from his coaching, all at the club will wish to thank Gary for his commitment”.

Reserve Team Coach Nick Timms has taken on the first team coaching role until the end of the season.

On the PitchThe weather played its part as several games were postponed. However, the First team managed wins at Hook Norton 5-0 with Paul Whitehouse and Lee Brooks scoring twice and Ben Shurmer adding the fifth. They then travelled to Purton and won 7-1 with hat-tricks for Lee Brooks and Harry Peters with Robbie Shurmer adding the seventh.

The Reserves also secured two wins with a victory be 3-1 at local rivals Kingham. Will Wall opened the scoring before Dave Toon netted twice. This was followed by a home victory over FC Nomads 2-0 with a goas from Callum Peters and an own goal securing the win.

Quiz Night We are holding another quiz night on Sunday 6th March at the Inn on the Marsh. 7.30pm start with teams of four @£10.

Left: Rangers Reserves Graham Jones in action at Kingham

Goal scorer Will Wall challenges a Kingham Player in the 3-1 win.

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SUNDAY 6TH MARCH 7.30PM

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Mini Eggs cakes£2.25 each, 6 pack, 5 pack

£5 OFF To the customer: Redeemable at Warner’s Budgens Bidford on Avon, Broadway and Moreton-in-Marsh only. Only one coupon will be accepted per transaction, and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. The offers excludes tobacco, infant formula, e-top up, fuel, concessions (Post Office), stamps and National & Health Lottery. Photocopies are no acceptable. Offer only valid if presented with this coupon. £40 must be spent in one transaction. Valid until 31st March 2016.

WHEN YOU SPEND £40 IN STORE

EASTER SHARINGHALF PRICE

HALF PRICE

£9each

£8each

£3.50each

£1.50each

£1.50each£1

each

£2each

£3.50each

SAVE1/3

SAVE1/3

SAVE1/3

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Crème Egg Minis, Crème Egg Multi pack200ml, 197g

J2O Spritz£2.49

Banrock Station£4.99 £9.99

Budweiser12x300ml £12.29

Pringles190g £2.70

Carling12x440ml £11.45

Hot Cross Buns£1.25 per pack, 6 pack

Diet Coke10x330ml £6.35

Freixenet Cava£10.95

Mionetto Prosecco £8.99

Coke10x330ml £6.35

Carlsberg Export10x440ml £10.59

Yellow Tail£5.99 £8.99

Blossom Hill£3.99 £5.99

Oyster Bay£9.29 £13.99

Mini Eggs cakes£2.25 each, 6 pack, 5 pack

2 for

£4

2 for

£2

High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh, GL56 0AFTel: 01608 651854

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