• New Temporary Closure Order for The Groaten for up to two weeks in July. See Public Notice.

• New Important advice from West Mercia Police for protecting your home in the summer weather. Please visit our Neighbourhood Watch page.

• New Thanks to everyone who helped make this year's Ashton Open Gardens such a great success. Garden owners, traffic marshals, parking stewards, programmes sellers, those serving lunches and teas, raffle ticket sellers, and many more all helped make it a truly memorable occasion for our visitors. Our 2010 event will be on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 June 2010.

• New The Don Hands Memorial Bench (see photo) was unveiled at a brief ceremony at the War Memorial at on Saturday 6 June. Representatives of Evesham Post Office and Don's family were present, together with many Ashton residents.

• New The June edition of the Beckford Group Parish Magazine is now available for download. Please click here.

• New Minutes of the Annual Parish Council Meeting on 12th May are now available. Please click here to go to our Parish Council Minutes page.

• New Warning about theft of garden ornaments in South Worcestershire. Please go to our Neighbourhood Watch page.

• New Table Top Sale Saturday 4 July 2.00pm to 4.00pm in the Village Hall; organised by Ashton Girl Guiding units in aid of Acorns Children's Hospice. Call Ali Stephenson 01386 882052 or Nicola Joscelyne 01386 424630 to book a table, just £5. An ideal opportunity to get rid of all that clutter!

• New Ashton Frolix - Fun Summer Activity Days for children aged 7 - 13 years. Following the successful workshop last year, Ashton Social Centre Committee has organised four more exciting fun-filled days of children's activities during the summer holidays - including Sports, Circus Skills, Dancing and much more! Please click here to download further details and a booking form.

• The May/June issue of our village newsletter, Ashton News is now available for download. Please click here to go to our Ashton News page.

• Ashton First School has an updated website - why not take a look? Please click here. They also have a new Information leaflet about the school.

• Ashton's local, The Star Inn, has an attractive new website:

click here to visit.

• View or download the latest 2009 programme for Ashton WI.

• Rainbow Guides in Ashton for girls aged 5-7 years. Click here for more details

 

• Removal of overhead power lines in Ashton. Obtaining of consents for undergrounding of overhead lines is now almost complete. It would be helpful if the two or three people who have yet to sign their consent forms could do so. The schemes can then hopefully proceed. Click here for further details of the plans...

• Ashton Footpath Volunteer Team Progress Report. Click here to visit our Footpaths page.