Check out changes to services at Christmas
COUNCIL and other public services will be operating for reduced hours or under special arrangements during the Christmas and New Year period.
Here are some of the services subject to change:
Royal Mail Hinckley delivery office on Station Road will open from 6.30am to 5.30pm through the week and from 6.30am until 3pm on Christmas Eve.
Earl Shilton delivery office on Oaks Way will open from 6.30am until 5pm through the week and from 6.30am until 3pm on Christmas Eve.
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council
Services at Hinckley Hub will close at 4.30pm on Friday December 23 and re-open on Wednesday December 28 at 8.30am.
There will be no borough council services at Hinckley Hub on Monday January 2 2017.
Emergency calls to the council on those days should be made to Hinckley 251137.
Hinckley Leisure Centre Will close at noon on Christmas Eve (last admission at 11am) and reopen at 6.30am on Wednesday December 28.
From then until Friday December 30 centre opening hours will be from 6.30am to 7pm.
The centre will close at noon on New Year’s Eve (last admission 11am) and remain closed on New Year’s Day.
It will open as usual from Monday January 2 2017 onwards.
Visit www.placesforpeopleleisure.org/centres/hinckleyleisure-centre
Christmas Markets There will be a market daily until Christmas Eve but no market on Monday December 26 or Monday January 2 2017.
Markets will resume on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays from Friday January 6 2017.
Refuse & Recycling All garden waste (brown bin) collections will be suspended for two weeks from Tuesday December 20 until Monday January 2 2017, after which they will begin again as usual.
Christmas Day Hinckley St Mary’s traditional communion 8am
Hinckley St Peter’s RC Christmas morning mass 8am
Hinckley St John’s Christmas day celebration for all ages 9.30am
Hinckley URC 10am celebration service 10am
Hinckley St Peter’s RC Christmas morning mass 10am
Hinckley Salvation Army service of celebration 10am
Refuse (black bins) due to be collected on Monday December 26 will be collected on Friday December 23.
Recycling (blue lid bins) due to be collected on Monday December 26 will be collected on Christmas Eve.
Refuse (black bins) due to be collected on Tuesday December 27 will be collected on Wednesday December 28.
Refuse (black bins) due to be collected on Monday January 2 will be collected on Friday
Hinckley St Mary’s all age Christmas morning communion 10.15am
Hinckley Baptist Church Christmas day special ‘Shepherds Surprise’ 10.15am
Hinckley Methodist Church celebration service 10.45am
Burbage St Catherine’s holy communion 8am
Burbage Methodist Church service at Burbage CE Infant School all-age celebration 10am
Burbage St Catherine’s Christmas eucharist 10.30am
Barwell St Mary’s holy communion 8am
Barwell Methodist Church all-age celebration 10.45am
Earl Shilton Methodist Church all-age celebration 10am
Earl Shilton St Simon and St Jude all-age Christmas worship December 30.
All other refuse and recycling collections will be made as usual.
Full information can be found on residents’ collection calendars and online at www. hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/collections
Community Houses Barwell, Earl Shilton and Gwendoline Community Houses are now closed for Christmas.
Boxing Day Burbage St Catherine’s holy communion 10am
Hinckley Methodist Church coffee morning and faith lunch 11am to 2pm
Tuesday December 27 Burbage St Catherine’s holy communion 10am
Wednesday December 28 Burbage St Catherine’s holy communion 10am
New Year’s Day Hinckley URC morning worship 10.45am
They will all re-open at 9.15am on Tuesday January 3 2017.
Pharmacies & Health Care Pharmacies across the borough will be closed on Christmas Day.
On Boxing Day, Asda pharmacy on Barwell Lane, Hinckley, will open from 9am until 6pm and Boots pharmacy on Stockwell Head, Hinckley, will open from 10am until 4pm.
On December 27 Asda pharmacy will open from 9am until 6pm and Boots pharmacy will open from 10am until 4pm.
On New Year’s Day, Asda pharmacy will open from 10am until 1pm and from 1.30pm until 4pm Boots pharmacy will open from 10am until 4pm, Cohens Chemist in Castle Mead medical centre on Hill Street, Hinckley, will open from 10am until 8pm and HBS pharmacy in Burbage Surgery on Tilton Road, Burbage, will open from noon until 10pm.
On January 2 2017 Asda pharmacy will open from 9am until 6pm and Boots pharmacy will open from 10am until 4pm.
Full information on nearest open pharmacies, walk-in centres, urgent care centres and minor injuries units can be found by typing a postcode into the NHS Choices website www. nhs.uk