Saturday 2nd August 2.00 – 4.30pm Over Community Centre Main Hall Calling all Over residents to make a note of this date in your diary. Why not make this the first time you enter one or more of the categories. We have all the usual Produce classes:  Vegetables, Fruit, Plants, Flowers & Arrangements, Home Cooking, Jams and Preserves, Homemade Beers and Spirits and Photography.  People, Places and Pets are the three themes for both Adults and Children’s Photography 2025 so keep these in mind when you are out and about with your cameras or mobile phones. This year we are introducing a new Craft Section with 12 classes to participate…

Four-day week consultation Until 23rd March 2025, people can share their views on the quality of SCDC’s services during its trial of a four-day week. It can be accessed here: www.scambs.gov.uk/4DW and anyone who prefers a paper copy can request one here: communications@scambs.gov.uk or call 01954 713000. The consultation is designed to allow residents to comment on the service they received during the four-day week trial and the information gathered during the consultation will help SCDC councillors to decide on the next steps for the four-day week at the Council. As a reminder, during the four-day week trial, staff were asked to deliver 100% of their work, in 80% of…

Over Village News is proud to be supported by a number of local businesses who help make it possible for our volunteer-led organisation to continue to serve our village. Over the coming weeks, we’re excited to feature these local businesses in our ‘Business Spotlight’, to share a little more about their work and their place in our community. For the full list of local businesses supporting Over Village news, click here: Businesses – Over Village News With a heritage dating back over 100 years, Clear Glass was formed in 2012 by an Over resident,taking over former business, Constables, on retirement of the owner. With a staff of 8, they’re nowbased…

Restoration Business as Usual At Ouse Fen the RSPB are now working in partnership with Brice Aggregates to transform their minerals quarry at Needingworth into the largest reedbed in the UK, and a wetland that will support threatened bird species like Bittern along with a host of other wetland wildlife. It’s a great place to visit too – so get your boots on this Spring and take a look! Recent Wildlife News (Photograph courtesy of Gill Street) During the autumn migration and lingering into winter we saw a procession of wading birds pass through Berry Fen and one of the partly restored reedbeds including Greenshank, Spotted Redshank, Green, Wood and…

About forty attended the talk on “A Very English Dynasty: Four Generations of the D ‘Oyly Carte family”.  Jim Stebbings of East Dereham in Norfolk gave a  very detailed presentation.  In 1839 Richard Cart (1808 – 1891), a respected flautist and partner in the Rudall and Rose Company, makers of musical instruments, married Eliza, who traced her descent to the Norman “D’Oyly” family.  They extended the name of their first son Richard born in 1844, to Richard D’Oyly Carte to distinguish him from an already well-established musician.  On leaving university in in 1861, he entered his father’s business and also began to compose operettas before theatrical management began to take…

It was lovely to see everyone back at W.I. in January and we kicked off the new year with a, sometimes saucy, talk from Alan Osborne about Ada Lovelace. Born Augusta Ada Byron on December 10, 1815, Ada is celebrated as one of the first computer programmers and a visionary thinker in the field of mathematics and technology. Ada was the daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron (from whom, it seems, she inherited some of his passionate and unconventional pursuits) and his wife, Annabella Milbanke. Her parents’ turbulent marriage ended shortly after her birth. and Ada was raised by her mother, who was determined to ensure she received a…

Over Village News is proud to be supported by a number of local businesses who help make it possible for our volunteer-led organisation to continue to serve our village. Over the coming weeks, we’re excited to feature these local businesses in our ‘Business Spotlight’, to share a little more about their work and their place in our community. For the full list of local businesses supporting Over Village news, click here: Businesses – Over Village News Situated at 25 High Street, Ponders Cruise and Travel is another of Over’s little jewels – a local family-run, independent travel agency, where the 8 staff members go above and beyond to ensure that…