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Correspondent: Jean Watson Mob:

07966 361434 Tel: 01622 687053 Ceilidh dance: Being held in St Nicholas Church Hall on Saturday, July 29 from 6.30pm-10pm. Tickets cost £5 for adults and £3 for children with under sevens having free entry. Strawberries, cream and shortbread provided. Take your own drinks and nibbles. Tickets available from 01622 685984 or rbec_uk@yahoo.co.uk Proceeds in aid of St Martins Church Maidstone. Mums and Babes: Next meet in St Nicholas Church on Friday, July 21 from 10am-noon, offering an opportunity to relax and spend time with other new parents. Thereafter meetings are held once a month on a Friday. AGM: The annual meeting of Allington Millennium Green Limited will be held on the Green on Thursday, July 27 at 7.30pm. All interested people are invited to attend especially those who live in Bridge and Allington wards which are immediately adjacent to the Green. Play reading: URC and St Nicholas Church present J.B Priestley’s They Came to a City, an amateur dramatic play reading on Friday, July 21 at 7.30pm in St Nicholas Church and Saturday, July 22 at 7.30pm at the URC in Week Street, Maidstone. Tickets cost £10, concessions £5 available from: buytickets.at/thewaypointproject or by phone from Ann Sargent 01622 764063 for St Nicholas Church and URC Church office on 01622 686053. Hadlow, both at 1.30pm. On Sunday, the team host Addington Village at 2pm. St Mary’s Church: The church made a total of £145 on their stall at Bearsted Fair. Thanks to everyone that supported them. Otham Church friends: An organ recital is to be held at St Nicholas church on Sunday, August 27 at 3pm. We will remember: Meet on Monday July 31 at noon to remember Harold Jenner who was killed in action at Yser Canal aged 20. Meet at School Lane outside Mote Lodge, which is next to the entrance to Mote Park. Coffee morning: At Holy Cross Church on Friday, July 21 from 10am-noon. The cost is 50p per visit. For information call Mark on 07786 257498 or Debbie on 07444 539171. Farmers’ market: On Sunday, July 23 from 9am-1pm. Local producers selling a range of meat, bread, juices,fruit and vegetables with a variety of craft stalls. Held every fourth Sunday on the village green. village hall and was operational. He also advised that the exterior of the hall was being repainted. Cllrs Underdown and Fitzgerald attended the East of Maidstone Bus group meeting at which the bus company explained that overhanging vegetation, particularly in Horseshoes Lane was the main reason for delayed buses. The contract for the buses was due for renewal. It was reported that Peter Underdown had given the pavilion a major clean in readiness for the start of the new football season. Cllr FitzGerald reported that he had attended the flag raising ceremony at County Hall for Armed Forces Day. He also spoke of a meeting in Westminster regarding HGVs using unsuitable roads, a big problem around the village. Helen Grant, a local MP was commissioned to produce a report for the next meeting of Kent MPs in October. Cllr FitzGerald spoke of the overgrown weeds in the roads of the village and Cllr Waring advised that they should be sprayed twice a year, however this had been reduced to once so the clerk was asked to obtain prices from Highways for an extra spraying. It was agreed that Cllr Waring should continue to carry out the initial grass cutting and maintenance in the churchyard, at a cost of £350 plus Vat.