http://www.longmarston.org Wilstone, Puttenham & Astrope Villages Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:42:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en PLANNING is underway for the annual village show which will be held on Saturday 7th August. Anyone wanting to have a stall at the show please contact me for information. Any help on or around the day of the show is very welcome. There is a lot to do setting ... http://www.longmarston.org/2010/07/long-marston-village-show-2010-help-required/ AS has been mentioned in previous edition of village news, the village hall in Long Marston has been identified as in need of some modernisation. At a recent meeting of the village hall committee, particular attention was drawn to the roof and we are now trying to take action, subject ... http://www.longmarston.org/2010/06/your-village-hall-needs-you/ A TEAM of five police officers carried out speed and mobile phone checks at several points in the villages one morning this month. Cllr Mike Tomlinson said that the police would be repeating the exercise, unannounced, at intervals. June 2010 http://www.longmarston.org/2010/06/speed-checks/ TRING RURAL Parish Council has made a grant of £240 to Village News to cover the cost of buying software licences for a new editor. The grant was approved at the May meeting of the Parish Council. Editor Phil Buchi said: “Although 80% of the cost of producing the magazine ... http://www.longmarston.org/2010/06/council-grant-for-village-news/ Mrs Olli Wheeler-Cornell from Long Marston is the new Parish Councillor filling the vacancy left by the departure of Mrs Kim Deathe. She was sworn in at the May meeting of the Council and signed the register accepting her duties. Mrs Wheeler-Cornell was one of several people who expressed an ... http://www.longmarston.org/2010/06/new-councillor/ A consequence of the failed affordable housing scheme in Wilstone is that additional parking spaces in Grange Road will not now be provided either. The extra parking spaces were to have been paid for by the developer, Aldwyck Housing Group, who abandoned the site in March after walking away from ... http://www.longmarston.org/2010/06/no-extra-parking-for-grange-road/ FIVE children from Long Marston School have produced colour posters illustrating the problem that dog mess is causing in the villages. Councillors agreed that these were all much better than the official notices and awarded each child a book token as a prize. The posters will be reproduced and used ... http://www.longmarston.org/2010/06/dog-mess-posters/ PLANNING approval has been given for a temporary mast 80 metres high to be erected in Aylesbury Vale to gather data for a possible renewable energy project using wind turbines. Cllr Abby Fermont had been to see the experimental station at Kings Langley, and reported that there is likely to be ... http://www.longmarston.org/2010/06/wind-test/ Mrs Sarah Winter, head teacher at Long Marston School since September, is to leave at the end of the summer term after only one year in the post. Cllr. Jill Finlan, a governor at the school, told Councillors that Mrs Winter cited personal and family reasons for her resignation. She ... http://www.longmarston.org/2010/05/head-teacher-resigns/ Residents of Rosebarn Lane in Wilstone may now be able to venture out when it’s raining once more as the blocked culvert which caused the lane to become awash has been cleared. Though the Parish Council had asked for action to deal with this problem, credit must also go to a ... http://www.longmarston.org/2010/05/culvert-cleared/