Miaow! Cat-loving girl makes best-selling greetings card );
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A GIRL who designed a greetings card featuring her favourite cat has seen sales take off.
Winter Cullen, nine, was diagnosed with autism three years ago and has found the coronavirus pandemic hard to deal with but her creativity has helped to pull her through.
She lives in Crays Pond with her father Brian, 34, who is also autistic, and mother Sarah, an artist.
Mrs Cullen has an online business selling pet and baby portraits as well as cards and wrapping paper.
Winter had always wanted to have an item of her own on sale so earlier this month her mother arranged as a birthday treat.
Pedestrian crossing and bollards to improve safety );
ROAD safety improvements could be made in Whitchurch high street.
The parish council is in talks with Oxfordshire County Council, the highways authority, about installing bollards along the pavement in front of the Ferryboat pub and a new pedestrian crossing near the junction with Eastfield Lane.
Members would like two trials to be carried out in order to show if the bollards would be effective.
The first trial would involve giving priority to traffic coming from the south as the street narrows to a single lane, where there are “Give way” markings at both ends so there is no clear priority for drivers.
Former village pub made asset of community value once again );
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CAMPAIGNERS have succeeded in having a former village pub relisted as an asset of community value despite opposition from the owner.
They want to re-open the White Lion at Crays Pond as a community “hub” with shops selling local produce, a coffee shop or bar and other amenities.
The pub was first registered as a community asset after it closed in 2013 and was bought by businessman Satwinder Sandhu.
He failed to re-open it and lived at the property unlawfully with his family until being forced to leave in 2019.
The best walks in the Thames Valley to beat the lockdown blues
There are waterside meanders, brisk hikes amid flint cottages and strolls to long barrows, Iron Age hill forts and white horses
The meandering river at Medmenham
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A motorway is not the obvious place from which to spy the perfect walk – one of our few remaining freedoms as another lockdown begins. They funnel through monotonous scenery, lined with concrete and metal, giving nothing away to what lies beyond the tarmac strip of snaking headlights in our rearview mirrors. Yet, to find a stroll in the Thames Valley, veined by the M25, M40, M4 and the M3, it’s one of the best places to start looking.