Winslow's New Farmers' Market

Winslow’s new Farmers Market was officially opened on Sunday 6th September.

Located in Winslow’s historic Market Square the market will feature produce grown or made within a thirty-mile radius, including rare breed meat, locally grown vegetables, home-made preserves and local honey.

It will run regularly on the 1st Sunday of the month between 11am and 2pm,
with free car parking a short walk from the Market Square.

The market is a joint venture between Winslow Town Council and Winslow Chamber of Trade and has benefited from a substantial grant from LEADER programme run by The Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) and funded by Defra and the EU.

Support Winslow Market and support your local farmers.

Road resurfacing in Buckingham Road and Sandholme

I am delighted to see that Bucks County Council has resurfaced the worst bits of Buckingham Road and Sandholme. In the summer Angelina and I spent an evening marking out on a map where all the potholes were together with other committed members of the Parish Council, and subsequently I have been particularly pestering Bucks Highways about the state of the road surface in Sandholme, which was appalling.
I am glad that this persistence seems to have paid off.

I am also glad to see that the road sign to Verney Junction on the road between Sandhill and the Kingsbridge crossroads has also been replaced after several months of waiting.

Calvert Incinerator decision 14th September

The decision on the location of the new Energy from Waste incinerator will be made by Bucks County Council cabinet on 14th September.
Last week Steeple Claydon Parish Council passed a motion opposing its location in the site at Edgcott near the existing Calvert landfill site.
I have signed the online petition against the incinerator which has been organised by SAVI - Stop Aylesbury Vale Incineration.

Latest news from our excellent local PCSO Wendy Taylor

Speeding

Due to the holiday season not a lot of enforcement work has been carried out in
Buckingham South. However, work using Speedwatch continues, thanks to dedicated
members of your communities being out there, supporting your concerns and doing something about them. The more who help the easier it becomes so please offer to help them.

Countryside Crime

We do encourage any farmers whose sheep are being mauled/killed to report it. We cannot do anything to help if we do not know about it. Incidents have been raised at
the NAG meeting which has highlighted the fact that such incidents are not being reported.

Flytipping

We would also like to know whether you have been on the receiving end of flytipping. The NAG is looking at this element of Countryside Crime. Please continue deal with it
in the usual way but please call PCSO Wendy Taylor as well so we can establish the extent of the problem.

Local crime analysis

The crime figures for Winslow year on year to August 2009 make good reading.
Total crime for July-Aug 2009 against July-Aug 2008 is down 29%. Public Order, Burglary/Theft, and Criminal Damage are all down but sadly Vehicle Crime is up slightly. This category includes theft of, from and damage to vehicles. However, when I put the actual numbers against the percentages for total crime, the incidents for the two months in 2008 amounted to 49 and for the same period in 2009 was 35.
Buckingham South therefore continues to be a low crime area.

Contact details

If you need support from TVP regardingany aspect of security, ring 0845 8
505505 and ask for anyone in your neighbourhood team.

New Winslow Police Office

There will be a Winslow Police Office! The dotted line has been signed and there
will be a police office in the centre of Winslow. All things being equal we hope to
move into the premises in October 2009. This co-incides with the news that the
Dispersal Order will not be extended.
However, with the Neighbourhood Policing Team now resident in the town we are
confident that we will be able to sort out anti-social issues very quickly.

More Good News

Newton Longville has finally got its own dedicated PCSO. Lucy Andrews commenced work in the area on 17 August 2009 and is currently working with PCSO Wendy Taylor to
understand their issues. 50% of her time will be spent in Newton Longville and Gt Horwood, Little Horwood, Nash and Whaddon will share the rest of her time.

Engagement with young people

The Neighbourhood Action Group (NAG) are establishing a Youth NAG to run
alongside the main NAG. This is to help us really understand what it is the young
people of the area really want and have a method by which ideas can be put into
actions. The Bucks South NAG are working with Extended Services, Community and
Young Engagement Services, and Connexions to ensure we reach all young people.
PCSO Wendy Taylor is working with Christian Fellowship, Extended Services and
AVYFC to start a Youth Café in Winslow. It is envisaged that this will be free to
all young people and will provide a weekly place to meet. Watch this space for
details.

Congratulations to Wendy and all her hard working team of PCSOs.

Decision on Incinerator in September

The County Council have stated on their website that the decision between the 2 tenders for the new Energy from Waste facility - and thus the decision on whether it will be located near Calvert - will be made in September

Another successful Village Fair

This year's theme for the Steeple Claydon village fair in the Recreation Ground was 'Toytown' The sports pavilion was transformed into a toy fort complete with soldiers on guard, and a lot of work went into other decorations and costumes to complete the theme. A great afternoon and the weather stayed warm and dry. And I even won a prize in the raffle ! (free tickets to the Leighton Buzzard steam railway). Congratulations and thanks to all who worked so hard to make it a success.

35th Anniversary of the Centre for Policy Studies

It is 35 years since the Centre for Policy Studies was founded by Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher to promote timeless Conservative principles of freedom and individual responsibility.
To celebrate this anniversary, Lord Saatchi has restated some of its key principles as follows:


A rising tide lifts all ships.
A bigger cake means a bigger slice for everyone. But first you have to create the wealth to make the cake bigger.
Caring that works costs cash – the Good Samaritan shows that first you need to money in order to do the good works.
Lower tax is good – for moral reasons, because it means more freedom and choice for individuals; and for economic reasons, because lower tax rates can mean higher tax revenues and more wealth creation.
A smaller state is required; the Government is already far too big.
A man or woman has a right to spend what he or she earns, to own property, to have the State as servant and not as master; that these are the essence of a free country and on that freedom all our other freedoms depend.
People are not numbers in a State computer; they should be seen as individuals.
Everyone has the right to be unequal. No one, thank heaven, is quite like anyone else.
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
The essence of mankind is the power of choice; the glory and dignity of man is that it is he who chooses, and is not chosen for.
Human dignity resides in independence, individuality, self-determination.
The greatest restriction on the liberty of the citizen is a complete absence of money.
It is wrong that the majority of people in Britain are financially beholden to the State. This makes the State the master; the complicated tax and benefit system the chief instrument of its power.
A paternalist government, based on the benevolence of a ruler who treats his subjects as dependent children, is the greatest conceivable despotism and destroys all freedom.
When a man or a woman stands up for an ideal or strikes out against injustice, people are filled with hope; which is why idealism is more satisfying than pragmatism.
People have been tortured and died for these principles which, so at any rate they believed, were universal and binding on all men; part of the human essence in virtue of which men were rightly called men.
We cannot break these principles, without feeling that we had forfeited all rights to human respect. We could not betray them and face ourselves or others.

See:www.cps.org.uk.

Amen to all the above.