TRAFFIC REGULATION NOTICE

ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT, 1984

Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 14(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act, 1984, that the Oxfordshire County Council

TEMPORARILY PROHIBITS THE USE OF THE HIGHWAY BY ALL MOTOR VEHICLES

LOCATION: Stoke Row, unnamed road running through Stoke Row

REASON: To facilitate water mains repair

DURATION: Starting on 4 February 2019

The anticipated completion date is 8 February 2019

(Traffic Regulation Notices cover a maximum of 5 consecutive days).This is a 24 hour closure.

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: via Stoke Row Road-Gallowstree Road-B481-and vice versa

Owen Jenkins, Director for Infrastructure Delivery Communities Date: 7 January 2019

Throughout the past sixty-six years, each cricketer playing at Peppard Common will have passed beneath a memorial with the names of eighteen Peppard men inscribed who lost their lives during the Second World War; in whose memory the pavilion was built in 1952.

In the present day, it’s likely that many players will not notice the memorial. Blended into the fabric of the building, the names no longer stir memories and do not provide prompts into the lives of the men, which is vital to help and encourage future generations to remember those that went before them.

As part of plans to rebuild the pavilion in 2019, we have been exploring the stories of the eighteen men on the memorial. We are also hoping to find out more about the lives of the men and women who served and survived the war. Based on Parish Magazines that cover 1939 to 1945, we have drawn up a list of over 130 men and women who were recorded to have served during the conflict. Information found to date includes;

Four men with links to the area who died are not on the memorial. They are Arthur James Saunders, Sydney Pryke, Richard Edward Christmas and Cyril Aubrey Clayton.
Harry Burr, Frederick Hutchings, Leslie Austin, William Wise, Stanley Harris and James May were all reported to have been wounded during fighting.
Joe Bowles, Cecil Farr, Sidney Dolphin, Reginald Hermon, Arthur Smith, George Waite, Cyril Humphreys and Charles Bowles were taken prisoners of war.

A full list of names from the Parish Magazines, history of how the pavilion came to be built and information on the lives of the eighteen on the memorial can be found on the Peppard Stoke Row Cricket Club website at

http://peppardstokerow.play-cricket.com/website/articles/21914

and

http://peppardstokerow.play-cricket.com/website/articles/21473

We would love to hear from you if you served or know someone that did.

James

James.Hern@gmail.com

The ‘Health Walks’ project was set up by Dr William Bird, a GP in the village of Sonning Common. The aim of the project was to improve people’s fitness, both in body and mind, by encouraging them to use their local countryside for walking. Together with Val Lunn, a local fitness instructor, Dr William Bird promoted the project which has now grown into a very successful scheme that has been adopted nationwide.

Our programme of walks will take a short break over Christmas: there will be no walks between Saturday 15^th December and Tuesday 1^st January (inclusive) We aim to have two trained volunteer leaders on every walk, one to lead the way, and the other to bring up the rear to ensure no-one gets lost. In the event of really bad weather (heavy rain/strong wind/snow) the walks may be cancelled – but it has to be quite bad for that to happen!

Timetables are available from the library the Health Centre and the Herb Farm, or on the website at www.sonningcommonhealthwalks.co.uk/timetable.

The PPG is a small group of active and helpful patient volunteers from Sonning Common Health Centre. We provide a link between patient and staff to improve it’s health care provision and environment to mutual benefit.

The role of the PPG is to be a ‘critical friend’ to the practice. We are there to gain information about responsiveness and quality of services, from a patient perspective, therefore being able to provide informed insight back to the practice.

The PPG are also present to encourage patients to take greater responsibility for their own health and their family’s health; this is done by organising health promotion events in consultation with the Health Centre and improving health literacy available to patients.

The Sonning Common Health Centre PPG will communicate and research regularly with the patient and practice users about current Health Centre issues and advances as well as any other concerns or recommendations they may have. This helps us to optimise knowledge of the patient population and make sure they are as informed as possible. In turn we can then help make their whole Health Care experience as efficient as possible.

Sonning Common Health Centre was rated Outstanding after its last Care Quality Commission visit. We are very proud to say we are one of only 6% practices in the country to receive this rating. And in a recent patient satisfaction survey the Health Centre came 51st in the country out of 7,901 practices. The PPG are here to help the practice continue to provide the best service it can and hopefully improve on this already amazing ranking.

If you have any feedback or comments, please don’t hesitate in getting in touch – we would appreciate hearing from you via the communication links below.

The PPG is currently looking for new members to help it fulfil its role. If you are interested in joining Sonning Common Health Centre PPG, or have any questions or feedback for us, please do get in contact either via the website’s “Contact Us” link at http://www.sonningcommonhealthcentre.co.uk via our email address schcppg@gmail.com or directly at the Health Centre on a PPG contact form which is held in reception.

The top three teams at the club are all the top division of the Reading & District League.

The A team, Gary Morgan, Jason Roberts, Joe Barraclough, Malcolm Gregory and Neil Hurford are locked in a battle for 3rd place with Kingfisher C.

The B team are in 5th place, largely due to their Chinese player Andy Wang with 30 wins from 33.

Nigel Maltby, Brian Meheux and Jeremy Willis have all contributed with Nigel doing particularly well this season.

Tim Raby, Denise Weller, Matt Isherwood, Matt Stone and Niall McGrane have the C team well placed around mid-table and they should have no fears of relegation.

In division 2 the D team are also in mid-table, with particularly Angus Jones and Alan Mollet in good form, while in division 3 the E team are currently just above the drop zone, Jamie Legg, Derek Wavell, Melvyn Lovegrove and Oliver Sayer all performing well to keep them just ahead of the bottom two.

The club and especially the E team players were saddened by the recent death of one of their players, Jim McClure, who sadly died while attending a match in December.

Derek Maltby, Mike Casserely, Julian James, Gerry Bacon and Steve Knott have kept the F team in the top half of division 4 while the G team will be aiming to join them in the top half having recently gained two useful recruits in Ian Davenport and Jim Warren to team up with Anthony Reeve, Arun Reeve, Marko Madzar and Simon Blake. A recent 6-4 win at leaders Tilehurst Methodists C was a good sign of their intentions for the 2nd half of the league playing season.

Anyone interested in joining the club or in attending junior coaching session can contact Nigel Maltby for further information at n.maltby587@btinternet.com

Nigel Maltby – Club Secretary