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• Snow forces North Cotswold schools to close

  THE following North Cotswold schools were closed today because of the snow. Gloucestershire: Bledington School, Blockley Church of England Primary School, Bourton Church of England Primary School, Chipping Campden School, Cold Aston Church of Englan...

• Register Office is to close.

  For many years now there has been a Register Office (for births, deaths and marriages) at the Town Council offices at Clark House.  Although by appointment only, it has meant that people from Shipston and the surrounding villages haven�...

• Moreton to host training event for teenage drivers

  AN event at which teenagers, aged 15 to 17, can learn how to drive safely and legally will be held in Moreton from 10am until 3.15pm on Wednesday, February 17. The Roadrunners project will be held at Cotswold District Counci...

• Police warn householders about burglars hunting for Christmas presents

  POLICE have warned people in Shipston and throughout Warwickshire to beware burglars seeking to steal their Christmas presents. Warwickshire Police say burglars are on the look out for easy pickings at this time of year and may be unable to resist w...

• Villagers help pub's new arrivals

  LANDLORDS Jamie Powell and Esme Mitchell found they were not the only new faces behind the bar at The Red Lion Inn, Little Compton, near Moreton. Half a dozen villagers also stepped over the threshold to help the couple install a new bar and shelvi...

• Christmas Fair raises £1,469 for lifeguards

  THE North Cotswold Branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) raised £1,469 by holding a Christmas Fair at the St David’s Centre, Moreton. Most of the proceeds will be donated to the RNLI appeal to raise £500,000 to help fund the ...

• Woman injured in collision in Moreton

  AN ambulance took a 60-year-old woman to Cheltenham General Hospital to be treated for a suspected minor back injury suffered when she was in collision with a Honda Civic car at the A44/A429 junction in High Street, Moreton shortly after 5pm on Sunday...

• Work begins on phase two of housing development

  A STRETTON-on-Fosse housing development looks set to be completed 20 years after it was started. In its 20th anniversary year, Warwickshire Rural Housing Association (WRHA) has started working on the second phase of Harold’s Orchard, its first eve...

• Shipston police help tackle organised crime

  POLICE Sergeant Darren Fretwell and Police Constable Clair Price, of Shipston police’s Safer Neighbourhoods Team, participated in Operation Laser - Warwickshire Constabulary’s initiative to cut organised crime across the county. Of 19 peopl...

• Moreton's Cotswold Christmas Market

  COTSWOLD folk went to market in Moreton to buy goodies for this Christmas. For the first time, a Cotswold Christmas Market was held in High Street as a precursor to the annual switching on of Moreton’s Christmas lights. Sarah Carson, of the...

• Female motorcyclist injured after collision with bird

  A LEAMINGTON Spa woman suffered a slight knee injury when falling off the silver Honda motorcycle she was riding along the A429 Fosse Way, at Moreton, shortly before 12.45pm on Saturday, December 5. Stow police said the accident is believed to have...

• Shipston hospital wins award for hygiene and healthy meals

  STAFF at Shipston’s Ellen Badger Hospital are celebrating after receiving a top award for excelling in food hygiene practices and providing healthy meals. The Stratford Road community hospital has received the Young at Heart Award from Warwick ...

• Finegan scores in a loss

  SHIPSTON Seconds lost 11-10 to Southam despite a superb try-scoring display from debutant Jack Finegan. Key to Shipston’s superior 2-1 try count was Shipston’s latest talents, 18-year-old Finegan at prop and Carl Robinson at fly-half. ...

• Shipston High wins environmental award

  SHIPSTON High School has received national recognition for helping save the planet. The Darlingscote Road school has received the prestigious Eco-Schools’ Green Flag Award, which honours outstanding work for the environment, from the Foundation fo...

• Most Shipston residents are satisfied with where they live

  MOST Shipston residents are satisfied with where they live, a survey has revealed. Stratford District Council conducted the district-wide Place Survey, on the government’s behalf, between October and December 2008 to ascertain people’s perceptio...

• Shipston police make arrests

  SHIPSTON police said they issued a fixed penalty notice to a 24-year-old male for causing a “significant” amount of damage to a car’s windscreen in Ilmington. They also said they arrested another male, aged in his 20s, on suspicion of causin...

• Collision at petrol station

  THE occupants of a silver Mercedes drop-side lorry and blue Ford Fiesta car escaped serious injury when the vehicles were in collision at Rowborough Filling Station on the Fosse Way, near Shipston, at about 12.45pm on Friday, November 13. This imp...

• Shipston police station temporarily closed for building work

  SHIPSTON police station has closed for refurbishment work, which is expected to take three months. Shipston police’s Safer Neighbourhood team will temporarily be based at Wellesbourne police station until the building work is completed. By: C...

• Shipston Christmas concert

  MARY’S role in the Christmas story will be contemplated in Stour Singers’ concert to be staged in St Edmund’s Church, Church Road, Shipston on Saturday, December 5 at 7.30pm. Soprano Sarah Power, mezzo-soprano Cathy Bell, tenor Patrick Ashcr...

• Shipston flood report set to rule out dredging

  DREDGING the River Stour will not be among the means employed to prevent flooding at Shipston - it has been claimed. Coun Richard Cheney, Shipston’s representative on Stratford District Council, says the Environment Agency’s draft report into fl...