Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), which provides the electricity distribution network across central southern England, has prepared this very useful leaflet containing information about what to do in the event of power failures during storms.
There is more information on the SSEN Website: www.ssen.co.uk
This year’s end of year play, performed by the leavers of Long Wittenham Primary School was a mix of pantomime and musical comedy, and it was great fun.
There was a combination of many styles of theatre: music, dance and comedy. The comedy took many forms, one liner jokes, slapstick, more puns (starting with the play’s title) than you would hear in an edition of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue and Continue reading
For over fifteen years the villagers of Long and Little Wittenham and Clifton Hampden have been providing sandwiches and cakes once a month for The Gatehouse in Oxford, a charitable organisation that provides hot drinks and food daily throughout the year for the homeless.
If you would like to join our army of sandwich and cake makers, your help would be greatly appreciated. Continue reading
The Parish Council has been advised by Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) Highways Department that the road between Long Wittenham and Little Wittenham will be closed for four days in September to allow for the installation of new water connections. Work is due to start on Tuesday 3rd September and should be completed by 6th September.
There will be limited access for emergency services and for homes within the closed Continue reading
Residents will be pleased to hear that Oxfordshire County Council Highways Department has installed new bollards on the chicane outside Street House on the High Street. Thanks to Sally Duff for the photograph below.
There is growing opposition to plans for an Oxford to Cambridge expressway, one possible route of which could go south of Oxford and close to Clifton Hampden. Both South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse District Councils have voted to oppose the proposed new road and a local MP has joined in the chorus of complaints.
Highways England opened the public debate last year when the government body revealed details of several possible routes the new road could take eastwards from the A34 in Continue reading
More than £160 was raised at a recent afternoon tea party in aid of locally based charity Against Breast Cancer.
The event at The Old Stables on Fieldside on 25th July, was organised by the Wittenhams branch of the Women’s Institute which is celebrating its seventieth birthday this year.
Against Breast Cancer (ABC) was started in 1993 by Anthony and Patricia Leathem who Continue reading
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More information on the Pendon website: www.pendonmuseum.com
The Mikron Theatre Company will be performing this Sunday (28th) at The Plough Inn starting at 3.30pm. This year’s show is all about the Butlins Redcoats and as ever, the show is free, although the cast will be going around the audience with a hat to collect voluntary contributions.
For those who don’t want to cook Sunday lunch in the heat, The Plough will be serving takeaway fish & chips for the show at £7.95. If you wish to order fish & chips please arrive Continue reading
Councillors in South Oxfordshire have agreed to take a little more time to consider options for the district’s Local Plan following a vote at a Council meeting last week.
Councillors want to find effective and suitable ways to ensure the plan takes into consideration feedback from local residents, who have raised concerns about the emerging plan’s approach to providing land for housing in the district. Continue reading
