Gill Oliver

3 weeks ago | stratford-herald.com | Gill Oliver

Published: 11:00, 07 June 2025 A PENSIONER who campaigned for years to save beds at Ellen Badger, is a victim of the exact thing she’s protested about. Eighty-eight-year-old Maggie Goren, who lives in Lower Brailes, fell at home and fractured her wrist and hip in two places, so needed a hospital stay. But rather than being cared for at the Ellen Badger in Shipston just four miles and eight minutes from her home, she was sent to the Horton in Banbury, almost three times the distance away.

3 weeks ago | stratford-herald.com | Gill Oliver

IT’S TAKEN four years but developers finally have the green light to turn the former Green Dragon site on the corner of Arden and Greenhill Streets into a mixed residential and commercial-use block. Despite strong and long-running objections that the four-storey development is ‘overbearing’, ‘dwarfs’ other buildings and is ‘not appropriate for an historic town’, the scheme at 1 Arden Street was granted planning permission by Stratford District Council, subject to conditions.

3 weeks ago | stratford-herald.com | Gill Oliver

Published: 09:25, 06 June 2025  | Updated: 09:25, 06 June 2025 ACTIVITIES, walks and workshops to mark Great Big Green Week will be everywhere over the next fortnight. Here’s your guide to what’s taking place and when. The Heart of England Forest’s Bioblitz on Friday and Saturday (6th-7th June) at Spernal Park and Morgrove Coppice near Studley, is a 24-hour race against the clock to discover wildlife species.

3 weeks ago | stratford-herald.com | Gill Oliver

AN eight year old says he’s ‘really happy’ to be cycling more than 100 miles to raise money for other youngsters. Harvey Yorke, who lives in Shipston, will pedal from Windsor Castle all the way back to his hometown on Saturday June 7th. Harvey, who goes to Ilmington CofE primary, will ride alongside dad Charlie, mum Gemma and grandma Mindy when he tackles the enormous challenge.

3 weeks ago | stratford-herald.com | Gill Oliver

Published: 07:43, 02 June 2025 PARENTS have been pleaded with to ‘be respectful’, after a series of rows over parking outside Wellesbourne school. Reports of “ridiculous” behaviour claimed one parent became confrontational with a resident, when they complained about their driveway being blocked.