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Barrow Jane Tindle 01509 414201 Jane.Tindle@outlook.com

BISHOP BEVERIDGE CLUB

NEWS. Today, June 21, is the date for the next Wednesday afternoon Bingo.

Cost is £1.50 members and £2 visitors and includes tea and cakes. Both full houses and a line on each of the six games has a prize. All welcome.

The notice for the Strawberry Tea is now on display for members to book. Please note that the price of £3.50 must be paid on booking. It will be held at the club on Wednesday, 5 July starting at 3pm, the cost being just £3.50.

Places are limited, lifts can be arranged.

The annual coach trip to Skegness will take place on 19 July. The booking notice is now on the board. Cost will be £14 for members and £16 and for non-members who are most welcome to join us.

Call Wendy on 413212 for details.

The Monday Movie for July is ‘United Kingdom’ on 17th, details later. Monday Movie August.

Please note that due to our kitchen alterations, we have amended the film ‘Lion’ date from Monday, 21 August to Monday, 28 August.

Our kitchen refurbishment commences with the replacement boiler and radiator work and cooker on Monday, 31 July and Tuesday 1 and Wednesday, 2 August.

Daytime groups will be informed of cancellations. Evening groups will not be affected. Re-decoration to be undertaken at a later date.

LUNCHEON CLUB. Please note there will be no luncheon club at the Baptist Church in June and July due to refurbishment. WI MEETING FOR JUNE. Lin ( Webb) started the meeting giving details of Barrow Open Gardens which are on 24/25th June. Her own garden is open and she will be selling homemade cakes, proceeds to Rainbows.

Donations of cakes from the WI would be very welcome.

The WI garden is also open. We also need baked goods for the summer market on 9th July. Continuing the baking theme, next month’s meeting is “Rosie Makes Jam” with a scone bake-off as the competition.

The small group that went to Chatsworth House, enjoyed their visit.

There is a possibility a further trip may be organised for Chatsworth’s Christmas Market and seasonal display. Our guest speakers for the evening John & Annette Christophers from Albrighton Pottery gave a light-hearted talk on “Clay” starting with a brief history of clay and its uses, (interjected with many jokes from John which we were not expecting!)

The definition of clay is - a natural, earthy material that is plastic when wet, used for making bricks (including many other parts of houses) pottery, etc. Heating to a high temperature, removes the water, changing it to a strong consistency and shape.

Its use originates before the Neothlic period; digs uncovering artefacts from Japan to Mexico. It is one of man’s oldest inventions.

The early form of pottery, earthenware, was used mainly for cooking pots.

Heated on open bonfires using wood or cow dung, it was unglazed and hand decorated. It has evolved greatly over time.

We are more familiar with our “own” potteries in Stoke-on-Trent. In it’s heyday, the skyline was dominated by 4000 bottle-shaped smoky kilns with only 46 remaining today (now listed) after the Clean Air Act.

John distributed a piece of clay to each of us with the instruction to make a disc shape with half, shape the initial of your christian name and a symbol of a favourite hobby with the remaining half. Any left overs, had to be made into “malteser” shapes. Not good if you were wearing white or had your nails painted!

John continued with more pottery history whilst Annette was beavering in the background. She then stood in front of us with a cloth covering an object she was holding, whipping it off she showed us a large, decorated terracota bowl which was made from all our efforts merged together. Amazing!

Annette explained that we could have the bowl once fired but we would have to collect from Wolverhampton where they are based. It would look lovely in our WI garden planted up.

The evening finished with us admiring the lovely pottery they had brought with them.

We thanked John & Annette for their very amusing talk and demonstration.

Next month’s meeting will be on 12 July 2017 at the conservative club function room at 7.30pm when Rosemary Jameson will be entertaining us with “Rosie makes jam”.

Visitors are always welcome. SATURDAY STORIES. Barrow Community Library has Saturday Stories, weekly at 10:30am - 11am at for children 7 and under the. £1 donation suggested.

PARISH WALK TO STANFORD HALL DNRC DEVELOPMENT AND HOTON HILLS. This is a parish walk with a difference. We will meet up with the director of this iconic development and find out more about what facilities will be provided for seriously wounded personnel from our Armed Services and then walk the delightful Hoton Hills and Kings Brook.

Meet in the Three Crowns car park at 2.40pm on Wednesday, 21 June ready to arrange car share and meet up at Stanford Hall at 3pm. Information from the Parish Office on 416016. KNIT AND NATTER. On Wednesday, 21 June the Methodist church is holding their knit and Natter group from 2pm – 4pm.

RHYME TIME. On Friday, 23 June, Rhyme time will be held in Barrow library at 10:30am. This is for age 3 and under for a suggested donation of £1. SUMMER FAYRE. On Saturday, 24 June, Hall Orchard school are holding their Summer Fayre from 12 noon until 3pm. Amongst the many attractions are face painting, sweets and ice creams, music, archery, magician, tombola, raffle, bouncy slide, games, food and craft stalls.

BARROW UPON SOAR

OPEN GARDENS. Barrow Open Gardens (BOG) in aid of Rainbows will be open between 11am – 5pm on Saturday, June 24 and Sunday, June 25.

We can guarantee immaculate and classic village gardens, quirky havens and much loved vegetable plots. Head to any garden with the Open Garden sign to purchase your weekend ticket.

With such a wide variety on show, every garden in our village has a story to tell. Visitors old and new can be sure of a very buying your £4 (under 14’s visit free) two day programme in advance.

Programmes are for sale in Barrow Upon Soar now at one of the following village shops; Taylors Florist & The Paper Shop on the High Street, Barrow Express next to the Library and Feather ‘n’ Fur down Babington Road or alternatively from village houses displaying the programmes for sale signs.

Venues for plant sales, refreshments and additional parking will be indicated on the large, clear map in the revamped programme alongside other attractions.

For further information please search online; facebook for Barrow upon Soar Open Gardens or BUSCA community website / gardening / open gardens.

SUMMER STREET

MARKET. The Parish Council will run this event on the High Street on Sunday, 9 July from 10am – 4pm.

We expect stalls by local food/drink producers and retailers (including veggie and handmade crafts, artwork, vintage/retro and street food sellers - vegan), retailers of high quality goods (plants, collectables, recycled goods, local community groups and more, clothing, tools, books, jewellery etc).

We’ll enjoy a lively as click atmosphere with lots of colour and delicious smells, activities for kids, musicians -- a really good community event! It’s not too late to book a stall.

Contact us now and reserve your place: http:// www.emme.uk.com SKEGNESS COACH TRIP. In July the Bishop Beveridge Club coach trip will be to Skegness on Wednesday, 19 July, call Wendy on 413212 for details. T

he cost will be £14 for members and £16 for non-members.

To clear up any misunderstanding these trips are open to other than Barrow residents and non-members pay just £2 more than members. SOUTHPORT FLOWER SHOW. The Bishop Beveridge coach trip in August is to Southport for the annual Flower Show on Friday, 18 August, although you can just spend the day in the seaside town.

This is the largest flower show in the UK.

Details later.

Costock

ANNUAL MEETING. Costock’s annual parochial church meeting saw the two churchwardens, Kath Owen and Gill Starmer re-elected.

The ual meeting was held in St. Giles Church and the Rector the Reverend Tim Parker was among those present. Mrs Owen also agreed to be St. Giles Deanery Synod representative for the next three years.

The church Electoral Roll consisting of twenty-two people was presented to the meeting and accepted.

Reports as to the Fabric of the Church, the activities of the life of the Church in the previous twelve months and the activities of Deanery Synod were given, and the Financial Accounts for 2016 were also presented and discussed.

Reverend Tim encouraged all present to discuss the balance of services on offer at Costock, including the time of the current Afternoon Praise service. It was decided that the service pattern would be re-visited in October and people were encouraged to continue to think and pray about this and any future improvements which can be made to the building.

OPPOSITION TO PLANS

FOR NEW HOMES. Plans for up to 25 new homes in Costock are being strongly opposed by the parish council.

The application for the proposed development has been made jointly in three names, Mr Collington, Mrs Henson, and Mr Robinson, and involves land north of 66 Main Street. It calls for the construction of up to 25 dwellings with open space and landscaping together with associated infrastructure works.

The parish council say they object, for a number of reasons, pointing out that Costock is a small rural village which is not scheduled for development in the Rushcliffe Draft Local plan. They say there are currently 265 houses in the entire village (including outlying areas such as Ash Lane) and an additional 25 houses would constitute an increase of nearly 10% which is a substantial proportional increase in a small rural community.

“As a percentage of the central focus of the community the proposed development would be an increase of approximately 15%. If Phase 2 were to follow this would increase to 20% over the whole village.

“This is an inappropriate and unnecessary increase in a village community which is not part of wider development plans.

“There are already issues of road safety through the village, particularly in proximity to the village school, the proposed development is very close to this area. The proposal for possible traffic calming would exacerbate the problem at busy times, particularly between 8.20am and 9.00am when there are already bunches of traffic with larger vehicle mounting the pavement to get past.

“Despite comments in the submission that there were no cars parked in the area, this is not the case in the morning when there are frequently parked cars from opposite the Pinfold to the end of Bars Hill with only the ‘zig-zag’ area outside the school to enable vehicles to pull in to allow oncoming vehicles to pass.

“The regular chaos which ensues makes it dangerous for children to cross the road and for local residents to get out of drives and roads. Any increase in volume of traffic, even if the amount generate by a new development does not fit within standard measures, can only make this worse.

“The development would create a new, slightly offset crossroads with Bars Hill. The traffic calming would create issues for cars turning into Main Street from any direction

“The traffic measures used date from 2013. Hundreds of new houses have and are being been built in East Leake in recent years generating a lot of extra traffic. The route through Costock is one of the major exit and access routes for East Leake and there has been a substantial increase in traffic. 2013 figures are no longer valid.

“Much is made of the bus services to and from Costock. The Kinch 9 service is good, However the half hourly service stops at around 18.30 and the evening service is only every 2 hours. The 863 service from Keyworth to Gamston is only 3 times a day and is not particularly useful for shoppers, it is useless for commuters.”

The parish council say local services, shops, health facilities etc in East Leake are limited and health centre facilities are already overstretched by the massive development in East Leake itself. “There is already great difficulty in obtaining access to health care due to increased demands from East Leake. Further development in Costock can only lead to further deterioration of the service.”

It is stated by the parish council that it is not clear from the application that the access road to the development includes a footpath in an already narrow entrance. “Anyone exiting the development on foot will immediately have to cross Main Street to get to a footpath in either direction.

“The application claims that the development would ‘mirror Bars Hill’ and not extend the line of the village. In fact, it does spread outside a direct line and, as such, could potentially create a precedent for further development in future thus compromising the village as a separate community from East Leake.

“This area does flood. It is not clear what measures would be taken to prevent further flooding when a large area is concreted over.

“As a result of mining by British Gypsum there is uncertainty about the stability of the ground and the possibility of subsidence.

“The number of comments made from a small village shows the strength of feeling and concern felt by residents.”

Quorn Joan Bloodworth 01509 620481 joan99@talktalk.net

ST BARTHOLOMEW’S. Services this Sunday at St Bartholomew’s Church are; 8am Holy Communion with Rev D Bowler, 10.30am ‘Fresh Start’ with Rev D Bowler, 6.30pm Methodist Evening Prayer with Alfred Mosley.

BAND ON THE BANKS.

Quorn Parish Council is seeking a volunteer to co-ordinate Band on the Banks scheduled for Sunday 20th August.

This is a very popular event that has until now been co-ordinated by David Cawdell but David is standing down this year. If you would be interested in co-ordinating the event this year please contact the Parish Clerk on 01509 414491.

QUORN OPEN GAR

DENS. Saturday July 1 and Sunday, July 2, 12.30pm to 6pm.

Passports are £4 per person (accompanied under 16s free admission), which allows entry to all the gardens and the Craft Fair. Available from Bradley’s and Od’thorpes (Station Road) and the Co-op (Loughborough Road).

They can also be bought at any of the participating gardens over that weekend and from the Craft Fair at the Church Rooms. Proceeds to LOROS.

Craft Fair (Saturday & Sunday, 12.30-5.00pm): Art and craft stalls, refreshments and homemade cakes at the Church Rooms, Church Lane (opposite The Quorndon Fox).

Saturday only: Holloway House (Abbeyfield) on Sutton Close will be open for viewing from 11.00am and doing lunches until 2.00pm.

Sunday only: Quorn Mills Park Bowling Club – have a go at bowling. Also, Quorn Baptist Church will be open for Church service (and refreshments).

For further information, please see the Quorndon Village Website or the National Gardens Directory – www.opengardens.co.uk

SCHOOL SUMMER FETE.

St Bartholomews School Summer Fete, Saturday, June 24 12noon -3pm.

There will be stalls, rides, refreshments, games, activities and much more. Kids free entry, adults £1. Everybody welcome to come.

Wysall

MORE WORK NEEDED

FOR CHURCH. Wysall Holy Trinity Parish Church, after their success in raising funds to replace the leaking nave roof and the South Aisle roof, have more tasks before them to yet again improve their building.

A statement from the church said that during the last twelve months they had successfully replaced what was needed on the roof following a very successful period of fund-raising and grant applications.

“We now have a surplus in the Fabric Fund and we hope that you will be happy for us to use this money to continue to maintain the church.

We have a list of work that will require funding which includes pointing the north chancel wall, keeping the pigeons out of the tower and replacing our antiquated electric installation before next winter,” says the church statement.

The parochial church council has vacancies for anyone who would like to be more involved with the business and workings of the church.

The council meet five times a year including the AGM and anyone interested is invited to speak to the current members.

Normanton on Soar Heather Herrington 01509 646240 heather.herrington@live.com

ST JAMES’ CHURCH There will be a service of Holy Communion on Sunday 25 June starting at 9.30am.

Everyone is welcome to the service. MEN’S ASSOCIATION

On June 26 the men will be holding an evening of bowling at Sutton Bonington Bowls Club.

Residents of both villages are welcome to join us.

For more information contact John Herrington 01509 646240.

Long Whatton and Diseworth Mike Elliot 0115 937 6506 elliottnews@btconnect.com

TREASURE HUNT. A Treasure Hunt – usually a popular event – is being staged by Diseworth Village Hall on. Saturday, July 1, and will start from, the hall at the Village Hall from 10am.

The latest for moving off on the route will be 12 noon..

Those taking part will be asked to visit the local villages involved and then park-up walk and around that village looking for answers to the clues.

There is a £10 charge per car to enter and there will be Sausage and bacon, tea and coffee available to buy at the Village Hall before anyone sets off.

The invite is for everyone to meet back at the Plough later in the afternoon to hand in their answers. The driver of the winning car gets a prize. SPORTSV EXTRAVAGANZA. A Sports Extravaganza event is being staged by the Diseworth Church of England Primary School Friends group, on Saturday this weekend, June 24. It will run from 2pm to 5pm with gates opening at 1.30pm

The attractions include trade stalls, games, a raffle, a BBQ, Bouncy Castle, beer tent, refreshments, sports races --for children and adults-- … and more

The organiser has appealed: “Please come and support your village school’s summer fundraising event and join in the fun.”