East Hagbourne Speedwatch Group(EHSG) were finally up and running yesterday afternoon (26^th Nov) along New Road. Whilst we were only up and running for an hour, it was pleasing to note that we only had two vehicles speeding excessively!

A big thank you to the speedwatch members that attended and to the other members unable to attend, but who have volunteered to help in future sessions.

In the coming weeks and months more sessions will be held at various locations and times around the village, and hopefully encouraging motorists to be aware of their speed and driving behaviour in our village.

Roger Bartlett

Speedwatch Coordinator

In addition to the events, the church is open daily from 10 to 5pm so please do come to enjoy the trees and vote for your favourite. Entrance is free. Refreshments always available.

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Saturday 7 Dec

12:00-2:00pm Soup Lunch

2:00-4:00pm Children’s Craft Activities “Present Corner” open noon onwards

From 3:30pm Official Festival Opening with Mulled Wine & Mince Pies & Christmas Sing Song with Hagbourne school choir

4:15pm Tree ‘Lighting Up’ with the Mayor of Didcot

Sunday 8 Dec

10:30am Parish Eucharist

3:30pm Kate Gooday Piano Student’s Concert

Monday 9 Dec

6:00pm Hagbourne School Carol Service

Tuesday 10 Dec

11:00am Pre-school visit to the Trees

Thursday 12 Dec

11:00am Ukulele strum-along

Friday 13 Dec

6.30pm Carols in the Close with Blewbury Brass Band

Saturday 14 Dec

12 noon Soup Lunch

“Present Corner” open noon to 3pm

12:30pm The Nightingale Singers

2:00pm Hagbourne Community Choir

Sunday 15 Dec

10:30am Parish Eucharist

5:00pm Festival of nine lessons and carols

Friday 20 Dec

7:00pm The Big Wassail

Favourite Tree Announced

Raffle prize winners announced

Festival Ends

EVERYDAY 10:00am to 5.00pm Tree viewing and Festival Café open

Tickets are available at the Festival Café for the Festival Raffle with many fantastic prizes and an opportunity to win a beautiful homemade Christmas cake by correctly guessing its weight

New scheme offers a ‘Safe Place’ for vulnerable residents in Didcot

Drivers in South Oxfordshire can benefit from free parking in district council car parks on certain days in December. This annual free parking tradition is designed to encourage people to shop locally for their Christmas presents. The free parking days allocated to each area are agreed with the individual town councils depending on which day would best suit local traders.

Free Christmas parking days also means people don’t have to pay to park if they wish to catch up with friends and family in the pubs, cafés and restaurants during the festive period.

Drivers will be able to park without paying for a ticket in local car parks on the following days next month:

· Wallingford -Thursdays (5, 12,19 December)

· Didcot – Mondays (9, 16, 23 December)

· Goring – Saturdays (7, 14, 21 December)

· Henley – Tuesdays (3, 10, 17 December)

In Vale of White Horse:

· Abingdon – Saturdays (7, 14, 21 December)

· Faringdon – Saturdays (7, 14, 21 December)

· Wantage – Saturdays (7, 14, 21 December)

On the above days there’s no need to display a ticket.

TEMPORARY TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS

LOCATION:        

Road Closure: West Hagbourne , Brook Lane and Park Road

Prohibition of turns to and from Road through Coscote in to Park Road and Brooke Lane.

 REASON:            

To facilitate carriageway patching and drainage works.

 DURATION:        

Starting on 14 October 2019

The anticipated completion date is 16 October 2019 (date included). This is a 24 hour per day closure. (Traffic Regulation Notices cover a maximum of 5 consecutive days.)

ACCESS:            

Limited access will be maintained for emergency service vehicles  and for frontages within the closed section of road, subject to the progress of the works

SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVE ROUTE:

The alternative route for traffic for Brook Lane and Park Road is via Park Road, Wantage Road (B4493), the B4493 new link to  the A417, the A417 to Main Road East Hagbourne and vice versa.

The alternative route for traffic wishing to access East Hagbourne or Park Road from   West Hagbourne is to travel north on the New Road (B4016) to the junction with Broadway, Didcot and continue along Broadway to the Park Road junction. For access to Park Road follow the principal diversion in a clockwise direction down Park Road; and for East Hagbourne follow the principal route in an anti-clockwise direction along the B4493 and A417.

The Parish Council is keen to provide residents with information relevant to the Parish and in a bid to broaden our methods of communication, we are asking residents who are interested to join to an email contact list.

Please click on the below link to subscribe.

https://mailchi.mp/9791c642ed24/ehpc

***DEFIBRILLATOR TRAINING***

Now the new defibrillator is in situ at the village hall, the Parish Council is arranging additional training sessions with South Central Ambulance Service.

The sessions will be at Hagbourne Village Hall at 7.30pm, and the following dates are currently available:

Friday 25th October

Friday 8th November

Friday 22nd November

Please contact the Clerk directly on easthagbourneparishcouncil@gmail.com confirming which date you wish to attend.

The training is offered free of charge, with a maximum of 12 people per session.

Thank you!

Laura

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Laura Lloyd

Parish Clerk, East Hagbourne Parish Council

There will be a private family cremation service on Wednesday 9th October followed by a thanksgiving service at St Andrews for all at 11.00am and afterwards at the Fleur.

Many thanks
Geoff Lawson and family

Thank you to St Andrew’s for welcoming and blessing our pets.  A wonderful selection of 10 dogs, 3 rabbits, 2 cats, a tortoise and a Shetland pony as well as many children filled the church.

Many congratulations to the cup winners at the 2019 Village Produce Show and thanks to all entrants for the very high quality of entries this year.

David Rickeard  -The Community Cup

The Egg Cup – Michelle Bowden

Children’s Cup – Alice Stephenson

Outstanding Entry in Children’s category -Evie Virgo

Flower arranging Cup – Denise Horswell

Produce Cup – Helen & Charles Stutley

Kenyon Baking Cup – Annabel Ainger

Craft Cup – Malcolm Brownsword and Annabel Ainger (jointly)

Newcomers Cup – Jim and Vikki

Curry Cup – David Brewer