Village news

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

BISHOP BEVERIDGE CLUB NEWS. Southport full day coach outing on Friday 18 August. It is too late to book for the Flower Show, but there are still places for the seaside resort only, although you may be able to book direct and travel with us.

Please call either Wendy Woodhouse on 01509 413212 or Joyce Noon on 414519. All are very welcome to join us, you do not need to live in Barrow or be a club member. Prices are £18 coach only members, visitors cost £20. We start from Sileby at 8.20am, Barrow usual stops shortly afterwards, no other pickups.

Note that monies are now due to Wendy, and can be paid at the club Thursday Coffee Mornings.

This month’s Friday lunch is on August 18. Bingo sessions this month are Wednesday 9th and Wednesday 30th, both start at 2.30pm, cost £1.50 members, £2 for visitors.

Monday Movie ‘Lion’. Our film for this month is on Bank Holiday Monday 28 August. 2pm start, doors open at 1.30pm.

This is a true story. A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometres from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia.

Twenty five years later, he sets out to find his lost family. £4 members. £4.50 visitors and includes tea and cake.

Don’t forget our Games afternoons held each Tuesday at 2.30pm. You can bring your own board games, or play scrabble or cards. The cost is just £1 members and £1.20 visitors. Cost includes drinks and cake as well as a lovely social afternoon.

The film for September is ‘Viceroy’s House’ on Monday 18th. Details to follow.

We have tickets for the Town Hall production ‘Priscilla Queen of the Desert’ on Saturday, 27 January 2018 matinee at a cost of £17. Please contact Val on 413227 or put your name on the list on the Club notice board. Payment due with booking please.

The canal trip on Friday, September 8 is now full, but Joyce will take reserve names.

On Wednesday, September 13 we will be visiting Hardwick Hall, a National Trust property in the Peak District, and stopping along the way at Chesterfield.

Julie Ede will be giving a presentation at the Club entitled ‘Bess of Hardwick’ on Wednesday, 6 September at 2.30pm as a preview to the visit to Hardwick. Details later.

SATURDAY STORIES. Barrow Community Library has Saturday Stories, weekly at 10:30am - 11am for children 7 and under. £1 donation suggested. Refreshments available. CRAFT AFTERNOON. Join us for a craft afternoon on Wednesday, 9 August from 2pm – 4pm in the Methodist Hall. Watercolour painting and other crafts. All welcome.

BINGO AFTERNOON. The next Bingo session at the Bishop Beveridge Club will be on Wednesday, 9 August, starting at 2.30pm, the cost for the afternoon, including tea and cake, is £1.50 members, £2 for visitors.

We have six games, prizes for a full house on each and a line, 12 prizes in total. We welcome visitors, who do not have to be a member, or live in the village. You can find us at 22 South Street.

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE. Barrow W I are meeting at 7:30pm on Wednesday, 9 August in the function room at Barrow Conservative Club. Penny Harris will be speaking about Hypnotherapy.

SOUTHPORT OUTING. Coach outing to Southport, organised by the Bishop Beveridge Club. Please call either Wendy on 413212 or Joyce on 414519. Prices are £18 members, £20 visitors.

We start from Sileby at 8.20am, Barrow stops shortly afterwards, no other pickups. All are welcome to join us, you do not need to live in Barrow or be a member.

CROCHET CLUB. Please note that the crochet club will only take place in October, as the organiser is unavailable August, September and November and the December date is the village lights switch on day.

HOLIDAY AT HOME. The Baptist Church is arranging several events during the week commencing Monday, 14 August. On Monday, 14 August at 12:30pm lunch will be available, followed at 2pm, by the Loughborough Male Voice choir in the Baptist Church, booking would be helpful. On Tuesday, 15 August.

There will be a film show at 2:30pm followed by afternoon tea at 4pm in the Baptist Church. On Thursday, 17 August, a fish and chip lunch at 12:30pm, will be followed by activities/entertainment in the Baptist Church, booking is essential.

KNIT AND NATTER. On Wednesday, 16 August in the Methodist church, the Knit and Natter group is meeting from 2pm – 4pm.

Costock

PARISH COUNCIL REPORT. Before the start of the monthly meeting of Costock Parish Council a resident raised a question of a tall overhanging bush outside 33 Main Street, saying it obstructed the pavement for pedestrians.

The clerk was asked to write to the owners and the agents to seek attention being given to the problem. A letter was also to go in respect of a tree causing a problem at 39 Main Street.

Two nominations have been received for the casual vacancy, on the council, being John and Mike Mears . Information on both candidates had been passed to members. On a ballot vote Mr Mike Mears was co-opted.

Over 120 local responses were received by Rushcliffe Borough Council to the planning application for erection of up to 25 dwellings on land North of 66 Main Street, Costock. The Borough have yet to make a decision on the application.

Coun.John Cottee, the Notts County Council member for the village, outlined to members his new role at the County Council and said he was settling down to the wide range of responsibilities he has. Coun. Reg Adair explained the new system at Rushcliffe Borough of dealing with planning applications. Both the members offered support towards funding for an interpretation board for the Nature Reserve.

The chairman presented her suggestions for the Village Hall Trust deed and asked members to look at the proposed Deed and comment to her. It was hoped the Deed could be formally accepted at the next meeting in September. The chairman would seek a comment on the proposed Deed from the Nottinghamshire Association of Village and Community Halls (NAVACH,).

Notts ALC gave notice of their annual meeting on November 15,at Epperstone. Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire Craig Guildford was to speak on Policing in Nottinghamshire. The meeting clashes with a parish council meeting, The clerk was asked to check on the question of changing the date.

Rushcliffe Borough Council’s Andrew Pegram, wrote with details of the new planning decisions arrangements.

Rushcliffe Borough Council planning applications: 17/01161/ful. John Hayes, Barrington house, Leake Road. Replacement of existing stables with new office building, parking and landscaping. Revised description. No objection.

Rushcliffe Borough Council planning decisions: 17/00769/ful. Mrs Alison Wheatley-Bridges, Aslis Cats Cattery Hill Top Farm, Ash Lane. Erect new structure to contain 10 additional cattery pens and ancillary works to existing cattery business, alterations to opening hours and to number of cats housed. Grant. Condition: No more than 60 cats to be boarded at any one time.

17/00985 Mr Santoro, The Beeches, Leake Road. Convert double garage into granny flat, annexe to existing house. Grant.

Nature Reserve: Coun. Everard Robinson reported on progress of the work being carried out. The question of the use of weed killer was still being progressed. Rushcliffe Borough Council had said it was a matter to be cleared with Notts County Council and not them. The clerk was to give details of contact for Peter James to Coun. Robinson so he could deal with him directly in regard to ground maintenance etc.

Couns. Adair and Cottee said they would be happy to consider a request for fundraising towards the cost of the interpretation board planned for the Reserve. PLANNING APPLICATION. Rushcliffe Borough Council has approved a planning application from Ms Claire Johnson of 21 Wysall lane, Rempstone to remove existing conservatories and to erect a single storey rear extension, and a two-storey side extension. The parish council did not object.

Lockington and Hemington

PARISH COUNCIL REPORT. omment was made during the open session at the meeting of Willoughby on the Wolds parish council of the overgrowth of a hedge affecting access in the area around the post box, the need for action on provision of a warning sign for children on Church Lane and the need for further action in regard to Church Lane itself. The clerk said the County Highways officer for the area had visited the Lane and was not unhappy at the situation there. The clerk said he would be willing to forward any comments he received on to the Highways.

The meeting was told the chiming of the church clock has been corrected but had since gone wrong again. Jenny Kirkwood, RCAN, had given apologies for not being available for the meeting that evening. It was the date of a family funeral. The clerk was asked to invite her to the next meeting.

Rubbish bin outside The Willows at Westhorpe. Rushcliffe Borough Council had said if complaints were made in regard to non return to their place of storage, a letter would be sent to the house owner concerned.

Defib: The clerk said the council had paid for the new battery for the unit.

The Highways department of the County Council had confirmed they would not allow the provision of a traffic mirror on a highway. They said if someone was to come to an agreement with a landowner a privately funded installation of a mirror off the public highway would be above their jurisdiction. The borough council say providing they are not erected on a listed building they do not come under their jurisdiction. Insurance would be required.

The meeting chairman Coun. Don Aldiss said Coun. Edyvean had asked him to raise the question of dates of future meetings, explaining that the Chairman is now a member of the Cabinet at Rushcliffe and its meetings clash with the parish right through to the end of this financial year in March.

The clerk said the hall is not available other than on a Tuesday and not all Tuesdays, but could be available on some Fridays.

The clerk was asked to check with the village school to see if council meetings could be held there. The next parish council meeting is September 12 but could be held on a different date. The clerk said he had no other Tuesdays that month free but could do Monday 4th or 17th, but the hall would not be free on those dates.

Rushcliffe Borough Council planning committee changes were advised by Mr Andrew Pegram, Service Manager for Communities, that in future a named member of the parish council could attend meetings of their newly named Planning Committee --it was Development Control Committee -- and speak for a maximum of three minutes on individual applications involving the parish.

Pork Farms wrote in regard to a series of national Pop Up Parties they are planning to hold, aimed at finding the country’s local community heroes. The item was to be put on the Willoughby facebook.

The meeting agreed to form a Planning Committee of three members and to give it executive powers. The membership of it would be determined at the next meeting. All council members would continue to be told of applications when received by the parish.

The Manhole cover on Church Lane had been repaired, although comment was made it had not been a totally satisfactory repair. The meeting chairman said steps were being taken to survey residents in regard to the possibility of an entry in 2018 for the Notts Best Kept Village competition.

The clerk said he had taken advice in regard to a lease for use of the parish field for wildlife purposes by Mr Needham and that would not constitute Agricultural use. The question of Mr Needham sub-letting part of the land to the previous tenant for cattle grazing would need to be investigated in relation to the lease.

The council agreed to proceed with registering the parish field and the Back Lane allotments with the clerk contacting a solicitor to do so.

Quorn Joan Bloodworth 01509 620481 joan99@talktalk.net

SALE. A sale is being held in Quorn Church Rooms on Saturday, August 12, from 11am till 4pm .

Clothes, new and pre-loved scarves, handbags, shoes, costume jewellery, crafts and music items. Raffleand refreshments

Cash only please. Come early to bag a bargain .

All proceeds to Guide Dog Association. In Memory of Anna Hayes

WEDNESDAY FILM SHOW. An invitation to all children, parents and grandparents to come along to The Village Hall on Wednesday August 16 to the Wednesday Film Show.

The film is “Swallows And Amazons” a family adventure. Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons) as both groups want to claim the land as their own and decide to role-play as pirates. In the meantime they encounter a mystery man on a houseboat and must work together to find out who he is and why he is there, but have they got themselves involved in something much bigger?

Screening is at 2pm (doors open at 1.40pm). Adults pay £4 at the door and accompanied children £2 to include tea, squash, biscuits and a free raffle ticket with prizes for young and not so young!

ST BARTHOLOMEW’S. There is only one service this Sunday at St Bartholomew’s Church; 10.30am Service of the Word with Rev H Cade.

QUORN MEDICAL CENTRE HEALTH WALK. The next walk will take place on Thursday, August 17. We meet at 10.30am in Quorn village car park.

We will walk across Barrow Slabs and along the River Soar to Pillings Lock, returning via Flesh Hovel Lane. Approx 1 hr.10mins. Enjoy some gentle excecise in the fresh air. Optional coffee stop at end of walk. Everyone welcome. Contact Judith Smithard on 01509 812956 for further details.

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN OPEN DAY. The Neighbourhood Plan Open Day will be held at Quorn Village Hall on Saturday 19th August, 10.00am-1.00pm. Everyone with an interest in the future of the village is invited and encouraged to attend.

QUORN FOOD & CRAFT TRAIL. There are a few outside spaces left for Quorn Food & Craft Trail being held on Sunday, September 3 from 11am - 4pm .

Please contact Helen at quornfoodandcrafttrail@virginmedia.com

BACON ROLL DAY: Arrangements for the 10th Annual Quorn Bacon Roll Day taking place on Wednesday, September 20 are well in hand with the first entries already received but a few more contestants are still needed to make the competition robust.

The event has always brought good media interest that raises the profile of our village around the county.

It is a friendly and novel way to spend the morning and this year we are again in the pleasant surroundings of Odd John’s Kitchen so please can we have some more contestants.

If you would like to have a go, full details are available from Terry on 01509 414287 or terrystirling@ntlworld.com.

Our guest judges this year are the Mayor of Charnwood (Coun Pauline Ranson), BBC East Midlands Today presenter Maurice Flynn, with Darren Ellison - chef at Odd John’s Kitchen providing the professional guidance as chair of judges.

Quorn Bacon Roll Day is organised by the Quorn Old School Trust as part of their community heritage events programme and is supported by Quorn Parish Council and this enables a contribution to be made to each contestant towards the cost of ingredients.

Sileby

SILEBY METHODIST CHURCH. It was strange not having a coffee morning on Thursday, 3rd August but Betty and Ann were open on Saturday as usual. Thank you for your support.

We will be back to normal on Thursday next, 10th August, open from 9.30am - 11.30am.

On Wednesday this week, August 9, at 4pm there will be a Valuation Evening with Vanessa Savage of Hanson’s Auctioneers.

Don’t worry if it is raining as Redland School allow us to use their car park during school holidays and Betty and Ann will be serving refreshments to cheer you up, we will offer you a warm welcome when you arrive.

There will be a small fee of 50p per item which will go towards Church funds. Vanessa will be with us until 8.00pm and we look forward to welcoming her.

Sunday, 6th August saw our Local Pastor, Granville Mercy bringing the word of God to the 10.45am congregation. His theme was ‘Jesus, the Light of the World’ and he told us how important it was to walk in the Light of God.

This was one of Granville’s shorter services (only three hymns) and was followed by refreshments. His wife Debra had made some delicious cakes to serve with the tea and coffee and everyone enjoyed the fellowship which followed the service.

Next week Rev Jonathan Gichaara is our preacher and it will be a Communion Service commencing at 10.45am.

Our Booking Officer has changed. Following the retirement of Jim Healy, Jane Holloway has taken on the position so if you wish to hire the hall and kitchen, please contact her on 01509 813609 and she will be pleased to give you further information.

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

WOMEN’S INSTITUTE. The ladies of the WI enjoyed a hilarious and very competitive evening of kurling on Tuesday, August 1.

On two occasions there were heated arguments with the referee over the placement of the stones – it was agreed in both cases to award one point to each side!

The winning team managed a cumulative score of nine points and were awarded pots of posh jam for their efforts. There was no competition and the 50:50 draw was won by Heather Herrington.

The ladies were reminded of the member’s day on September 5, which starts with coffee at 10am and will end at around 3.30pm. Details from Heather Herrington 01509 646240. There would be a garden party at Costock WI on 8 August.

PARISH COUNCIL Around 100 people of all ages gathered on the village playing field on 7 August for the village picnic.

The entertainment consisted of a variety of live popular and classical music.

The bar was open, the community shop was providing teas and coffees, and the BBQ did a steady trade for those who had not brought a picnic – or wished to supplement what they had already eaten!

The weather was really kind after some heavy rain during the morning, and a good time was had by all. The event was sponsored by Normanton on Soar Parish Council; and thanks go to Councillor Sue Ponting who organised the event.

ST JAMES’ CHURCH There will be a service of Holy Communion on Sunday 13 August starting at 9.30am. Everyone is welcome to the service.

MEN’S ASSOCIATION Normanton on Soar Men’s Association wil be playing Petanque at the Soar Bridge Inn, Barrow on Soar on Tuesday evening 15 August. Cost £9 to include hot supper and transport.

To book a place contact Neil Blythe 01509 843825.

Rothley

STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM. Rothley Methodist, Howe Lane, Rothley, invite you to their Strawberries & Cream, with lots of tea and cake , Wednesday, August 16 at 3pm.

Tickets are £5, please call Sue Wainwright on 07585 55748, Christine Hall on 01162 374658 or Carole Jordan 01162 375069

Please bring a friend or relative.