South Cerney 
Mike Stuart
mikestuart.scerney@btinternet.com
01285 860439

  • AS COTSWOLD District Council (CDC) has received no requests for a by-election to fill the casual vacancy, the Parish Council will co-opt a new member to its ranks. Anyone interested in joining the Council should contact the Clerk giving a brief account of why they consider themselves to be suitable candidates. No qualifications are needed except a desire serve the community and to be prepared to attend at least two meetings every month. To be able to use and own a computer is essential. Further information from the Parish Council web site and notice board in Clarks Hay.
  • ALTHOUGH the R-Way Youth Group continues to be well attended, Young Gloucestershire, the company which runs the meetings on behalf of and financed by Parish Council, have decided to withdraw completely from youth club provision throughout the county and will cease their work in Cerney on July 18. The Parish Council is seeking a new professional group to restart R-Way in September. Anyone who knows a suitable organisation should please contact Robert Cowley the Clerk to the Parish Council on clerk@southcerney.corg.uk 
  • ANN Edwards School fete starts at 3pm tomorrow Friday, June 23 in the school grounds in Berkeley Close. Stalls, bouncy castle, face painting, uniform stall and much more. Profits to school funds. After the fete, there will be “It’s a Knockout” with teams each of 10 adults competing for a trophy by attempting the get through a course of eight different inflatable obstacles. Teams should assemble at 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Entry is £50 per team. BBQ and bar. Details from admin@annedwardsprimary.co.uk.
  • THANKS to the public-spirited man and his dog who cleared the rubbish scattered over the Upper Up car park last Sunday morning. 
  • DIGGER Uppers allotment holders held a working day at their gardens last Saturday resulting in the entire site looking extremely smart.
  • PLEASE ensure all outbuildings, garages and sheds are secured as there has been a few incidents of such places being entered by opportunist thieves.  
  • THE Village Hall has been booked as a place in which to learn how to play guitar or violin. Two professional teachers, Samantha Holmes and Allan Greenwood, have moved to the area and are starting classes in the immediate future. For full details call 0794 1239093.
  • SOUTH Cerney Flower Show is to be held in the Village Hall on Saturday, August 5 (2-5pm) and Sunday, August 6 (11.30am-4.30pm) with seven sections and 99 classes. Please collect a schedule from the Post Office and join in.

Siddington
Alison Wagstaff
01285 655838
awsiddington@yahoo.co.uk 

  • THE Parish Council received notice on Tuesday, June 13 that the Severalls Field outline planning application, which went to appeal after being refused by Cotswold District Council, has been approved by the Planning Inspectorate. This permits ‘the erection of up to 88 dwellings, to include vehicular access off Park Way; new pedestrian and cycle links to the wider area; improvements to Siddington School, including improved access facilities and the erection of a new purpose built school hall; a solar park; ecological enhancements; strategic landscaping; and associated infrastructure’.
  • ORGANISERS of Siddington Grow and Show invite anyone with a small business that makes and/or sells products to hire a table at the event, which is on Sunday, September 3. For further details contact show@siddington-allotments.org.uk.   
  • MORNING Praise takes place at St Peter’s Church on Sunday, June 25, starting at 10am.

Down Ampney 
Melanie Fouracre
dastandard44@gmail.com

  • EMMERSONS Farm nr Aldsworth is the venue for a Barn Service for young people with fun activities on Saturday, June 24 at 6pm. For more details contact the Rev’d John Swanton on 01285 851309.
  • PARISH Communion will be held at 10 am on Sunday, June 25 at Ampney Crucis, there will also be a Taize Service at 6pm. 
  • WEDNESDAY, June 28 is the date for the Down Ampney coffee morning at 11am in the Dakota Room in the Village Hall.  All are welcome.
  • THE Mobile Library will visit Down Ampney on July 5. It will be outside the school as usual between 3.15-4.15pm.
  • ADVANCE notice of a Poppy Stitching Morning being hosted by the Village Shop. At least 200 poppies have now been knitted or crocheted and these all need sewing into chains to hang up in the Church for the Arnhem Reunion Service and Remembrance Day in September. Villagers are invited to a ‘Sew a Chain of Poppies’ Coffee Morning at Lark’s Cafe in the Village Shop on Friday, July 14 from 10 am to noon. Coffee at only £1 a cup. If anyone is still busy knitting/crocheting poppies, can they please make sure they are delivered to Janet Singleton by July 14.
  • FLY tipping in and around Down Ampney has increased. This has been noticed and discussed by the Parish Council. It is important that villagers notify a Parish Council member as soon as they notice an instance of fly tipping, to enable CDC, or in some cases the Wellcome Trust, to be informed so that speedy action can be taken to remove the rubbish.
  • FLY tipping is an offence and will be prosecuted. Fosse Cross Recycling Centre is six miles north of Cirencester on the A429 near the Hare & Hounds Pub and is open from 9am to 6.15pm daily, except Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.