Care Committee

As many of you will know, the Care Committee has a car service to take people to the Oxford hospitals for appointments. You could also be taken to the Water Eaton Park & Ride from where you can get a bus to the John Radcliffe or Churchill Hospitals.

Perhaps you would also find the Shopmobility scheme helpful if you have limited mobility. This is a free service offering the loan of electric scooters or wheelchairs for shopping or sightseeing in Oxford city centre. The Shopmobility office is based on level 1 of the Westgate Car Park near the disabled parking. If you use their mobility equipment you can have free parking for the duration of your stay.

For more information call Judy Mitchell on 374104 or the Shopmobility number, which is 01865 248737, or log on to www.oxford.gov.uk

Farewell to Rev'd. Andrew Parkinson

Andrew and Sarah Parkinson and their daughter Chloe will be leaving the village in January and moving to a new parish in Cumbria. Andrew has accepted the post of Priest-in-Charge of the Benefice of Kirkby Stephen with Mallerstang and Crosby Garrett with Soulby, in the diocese of Carlisle. He says ' I’m very sad to be leaving you, having made such strong relationships over the past seven years here, which has been my first post as vicar, and will of course miss you all dearly. However, this feels the right time to move, particularly now Sarah and I have Chloe, as we will be much closer to Chloe’s grandparents and wider family, who are on both sides of the Pennines. Kirkby Stephen with Mallerstang and Crosby Garrett with Soulby is a single rural parish, with three churches centred around the market town of Kirkby Stephen. It is made up of Mallerstang Dale and the beginning of the Eden Valley, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. We will be moving in the New Year; I do hope you will be able to come and join me for my final service here which will be in January. God bless you, Andrew.'

Andrew's final service at St. Bartholomew's is on Sunday 15th January at 11 a.m.

We all wish him, Sarah and Chloe all the best for the future.  He will be missed very much in the village.

Congratulations to Fraser's Budgens

Fraser’s Budgens of Yarnton – Best UK Forecourt 2011                                                                                  

Your local store recently won the top forecourt prize at the prestigious Retail Industry awards. The awards are a national competition and only the best stores are entered into them. This is a major honour and saw them brushing shoulders with some of the big suppliers and supermarkets in the country. 

Budgens as a group won best convenience retailer and for the 4^th consecutive year, best produce retailer.                                        

On the same evening they were also entered into the Forecourt Trader of the Year awards. In these awards they won best forecourt in the midlands area, best customer service, best forecourt facilities and best forecourt over 2.5M litres.

Congratulations to everyone at Fraser’s Budgens.                     

Recycling bank at the Red Lion, Yarnton

Cherwell District Council report that some people are using the electrical recycling bank at the Red Lion as a litter bin.  They have requested that people only put the correct items for recycling in the relevant bins, in order to protect the provision of this very useful facility.

Agrivert Anaerobic Digestion site at Cassington

The attached information notice has been sent by the Environment Agency, to reassure local residents concerning the proposed storage lagoon.