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Legal bid to stop Goring train gantries
01/08/15
CAMPAIGNERS hope to mount a legal challenge against Network Rail after it installed metal gantries above the tracks in the Goring area. The company erected the steel structures as part of the electrification of the Great Western line, which cuts ...
07/09/23
AFTER our two outings, one to the Berkshire Downs and the other to Dorchester, we took a break for August. We’re looking forward to meeting up again for our autumn lectures, which will be at Goring Heath parish hall on Thursdays at 7.30pm ...
Whitchurch & Goring Heath History Society
12/12/22
THE first meeting of Whitchurch & Goring Heath History Society in 2023 will be on Thursday, January 19 at Whitchurch village hall, starting at 7.30pm (coffee served from 7pm). Contributions from members will explore, among others, ...
Whitchurch and Goring Heath History Society
07/02/22
WE will hold our annual meeting at Goring Heath Parish Hall on Thursday, February 17 at 8pm. Our speaker will be Stephen Barker, a specialist on the Civil War of 1642-1646. He will talk about Oxfordshire characters of that time — ...
Village to enter Britain in Bloom contest after all
05/07/21
GORING will be entering this year’s Britain in Bloom competition after all. The committee which organises the village’s annual entry always intended to put up floral baskets, as it has done most years since 2012, but was ...
14/11/22
OXFORD is known for many things — its architecture, history, alumni and, of course, for the detective books and TV series of Inspector Morse. The first book, Last Bus to Woodstock, was published in 1975 but it is ...
Cutting back
07/06/21
CONTRACTORS from Network Rail will be cutting back vegetation from overhead power lines at Goring. The team will work overnight from 11pm to 5.30am from Monday until Friday inclusive. They will have strimmers, ...
Booster jab for elderly
28/03/22
GORING and Woodcote Medical Practice is to resume its vaccination programme to provide covid boosters. The booster is being offered to people aged over 75, care home residents and people aged 12 or over with ...
Council says it can’t give £4,000 grant to festival
06/12/21
THE Goring GAP festival next year will not receive a grant from the parish council. The council has turned down a request for £4,000, saying that it has suspended its grants policy so can’t award any. ...
Road closure
24/10/22
CLEEVE Road in Goring will be closed from 9.30am to 3.30pm on Monday so a sewer can be cleaned. Limited access will be maintained for emergency service vehicles and residents who live within the ...
Business needed to run PO
THE Post Office wants to have a new permanent branch in Goring. It is advertising for a successful retailer in the village to incorporate a “Local” into their business to run over the same ...
Spring show
04/04/22
A CRAFT and garden show will take place in Goring next Saturday (April 9). Flower arranging and photography prizes will be awarded at the Goring Heath and Whitchurch Spring Show, which ...
Silence for Ukraine
11/04/22
ALL Easter church services held in Goring and South Stoke will include specific time for silence and prayer for Ukraine. Services will take place at St Thomas’s Church in Goring and ...
Call to axe play events
A SERIES of summer events for children in Goring should be cancelled and the money sent to Ukraine instead, says a villager. David Bermingham asked a meeting of Goring Parish ...
Book now for jubilee street party
TABLES can now be booked for the street party in Goring to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee. The lunch event will take place on Sunday, June 5 along both Goring and ...
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