Sadly the weather forecast is for heavy rain at 6pm once again this year. We will therefore move the annual Carols on the Green to the Village Hall. We will start at 6pm and mulled wine, mince pies and hot sausage rolls will be served throughout. Please tell your friends and neighbours to come to the village hall instead.
Don't forget that Carols on the Green in Upper Wardington are next Thursday, 19th December from 6 to 6:45pm. Come and join us for mince pies and sausage rolls, mulled wine and hot chocolate. The Wardington Hand Bell Ringers will be coming again this year and our regular brass players, the Mackenzie-Lawrie boys will be with us as usual. We will be collecting for the Friends of St. Mary Magdalene so please bring along all of your loose change and give as generously as you can. Our church costs over £1,000 per month to keep going and we really need your support in looking after this wonderful building in the heart of our community. Even if you're not a church-goer,
After the success of the first Wardington Village Cinema night in November, we are proud to present a second film night screening the Oscar winning ARGO! ARGO is an exciting and tense film, based on the true story of a CIA agent sent on a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980. It stars and is directed by Ben Affleck and won the best motion picture of the year Oscar in 2012. Please see the trailer here. The film will be screened on Friday 3rd January at the Wardington Memorial Hall - Doors open at 7.15pm and commences at 8pm. Please Contact Sam Young or Paul Bimson for tickets (£6 standard,
Monday 2nd December saw Robert Harwood launch his autobiography entitled ”My Life in Service” at the Plough in Upper Wardington. Attended by Neil Gadsby, Chairman and Founder of The Katharine House Hospice and large numbers of villagers, the event was great fun and very well supported. Mr Gadsby gave a very warm speech of thanks to Robert and Robert replied with a very moving tribute to all who had helped in publishing the book. Robert's commitment and dedication to Wardington was clearly greatly appreciated by all who attended however his popularity within the community may well be dimmed once everyone reads what he's written about them in the book!
A reminder that there will be carol singing from 6 to 6.45pm on Thursday 19th December in Upper Wardington on the Old Pool green. The Friends of St. Mary Magdalene will be providing hot sausage rolls, mince pies and mulled wine with hot chocolate for the children. There will be a brass band and the Wardington Hand Bell ringers will once again come to entertain us. Song sheets will be provided - please bring yourself, your family and friends and a torch! We will be collecting for the Friends of St. Mary Magdalene whose aim is to raise money for both special projects and the daily upkeep of our wonderful Grade I listed church. Please bring as much as you
The Friends of St. Mary Magdalene, Wardington, are pleased to announce that we will once again be staging our festive sing song In Upper Wardington on the Old Pool Green on Thursday 19th December 2013 6.00pm – 6.45pm Carols around the brazier Mulled wine, mince pies and hot sausage rolls. We will be accompanied by a brass ensemble and song sheets of well-known carols will be available. The Wardington Hand Bell Ringers will also be playing for us. Please bring along a torch and join us in celebrating the festive season. We will be collecting money for the Friends of St Mary Magdalene to help look after our beautiful church. Please give generously. For further information contact Philippa
We are very excited to announce the first (of hopefully many) Wardington Village Cinema evenings! The inaugural event will take place on Saturday 9th November at the Memorial Hall and will screen "Quartet" - Certificate 12A. A hilarious comedy, set in a home for retired musicians; the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean (played by Dame Maggie Smith), an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents. Please follow this link for the trailer: http://youtu.be/xy7ayii0TFk Please Contact Sam Young or Paul Bimson for tickets (£6 standard, £4 concessions) - all money taken will go towards the hire of equipment and future presentations. Complementary nibbles will be provided, but please bring your
This evening there was a fire at the Wobbly Wheel in Shotteswell which has gutted a significant part of the building. I happened to be flying over it and took the pictures here:
Oxfordshire County Council has awarded a multi-million-pound contract to BT, marking the start of a two and a half-year programme to bring better broadband to thousands more homes and businesses in the county. The £25 million programme is made up of £10 million from the council, £4 million from the government and £11 million from BT. It will build on the existing commercial footprint in the county with the aim that at least 90 per cent of all premises will have access to superfast broadband speeds of 24Mbps and above by the end of 2015. This map has been published by the Council and appears to show that Wardington should receive 24Mbps broadband by the end of 2015. However, until
Message from Thames Valley Police Neighbourhood Action Group Team News The team participated in operations to tackle Halloween and Bonfire Night related crime and disorder. We are pleased report that we did not receive any reports of Anti Social behavior or related crime during these evenings. Neighborhood Officers were tasked with proactive patrols to ensure vulnerable people and previous victims of crime were given reassurance visited prior to the event. Officers attended local schools and village shops to provide education and support. Auto Crime During September we experienced a series of twelve thefts of Catalytic converters from vehicles in Bodicote, Adderbury, Twyford and Hook Norton. The offender has overnight cut through metal to remove the converters from underneath vehicles. The