Tetbury community news by Kevin Painter ON Monday, Cotswold District Council deputy leader Mike Evemy was invited to the heritage and regeneration committee to discuss the council’s plans to remove the ability to pay by cash at council car parking machines. Obviously the concerns are that not everyone would be able to use the new system and that this would be brought into place when the town and its businesses will be trying to regenerate and entice people back shopping. We asked Mr Emery to look at some figures and disappointingly for some, this is what the reply was: “The percentage paying by card has grown significantly since the pandemic at The Chippings and Church Street whilst at West Street, phone payments have now overtaken cash.
Tetbury news with Kevin Painter ONE of the nicest parts of writing the Tetbury Talk community section for this newspaper is when members of our community who write or even call with a simple story, as was the case when Sallie Dearnley contacted me. Sallie was out for her daily exercise when she chanced upon what could’ve been mistaken for an oasis, however it was a family who had made a table of scrumptious yummy treats. I think Sallie put it perfectly herself with her note to me that said: ‘During my walk today, I came across this table of goodies on a front drive in Tetbury. What an act of loving kindness.”