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wellbeing and fire safety. Community wardens will be in attendance. Surgeries: There will be a borough and parish councillor surgery at the fete on Saturday, June 27 from noon-5.30pm. A police surgery will be held the same day from 10am11am at the library. Correspond­ent: Claire Adams, Woodmancot­e, Rumstead Lane, Stockbury, ME9 7QL Tel: 01795 841140 foxglovead­ams@ aol.com Gardening: The Stockbury Cottage Gardening Associatio­n next meets on Thursday, July 2 at the memorial hall at 8pm. Cricket club: There is a friendly away match against The Mote CC Sunday XI on June 28 starting at 2pm. Then on July 5, they are home to Kings Hill CC Sunday 1st XI starting at 2pm. Correspond­ent: Eileen Riden Tel: 01622 844953 riden887@ btinternet.com Correspond­ent: Ron Stubbs Tel: 01622 726962 Strawberry Tea: The Coffee Stop Ladies invite you to an afternoon strawberry tea from 2pm-4pm in the village hall on Saturday, June 27. The charity this month is Spadework. Patronal Festival: This will be celebrated in the church this weekend from 11am-5pm and photograph­s of church events will be displayed along with some archive material with light lunches and teas served. On Sunday at 3pm, there will be an excellent opportunit­y for anyone interested in local history when Dennis Astridge presents an illustrate­d talk on the church and tickets will be available at £5, which includes a cream tea. A service will begin at 6.30pm. Fun fete: Last Saturday’s traditiona­l Fete on The Green was well supported thanks to all the volunteers who helped make it such a success and the organisers wish to thanks them and all of the many visitors who came. Open Church: Most of those who come to Open Church on Tuesdays from 10am-noon and 2-4pm, do so regularly but there are the occasional people who attend. All are most welcome to enjoy a relaxing time talking to others with teas, coffees, cakes and sandwiches in the church. Correspond­ent: Mike Brine Tel: 01732 845825 mbriney.yoda@ hotmail.com Correspond­ent: Alison Chew Tel: 01622 675628 ace.chew@ blueyonder.co.uk PARISH COUNCIL: At the reconvened June meeting, the following issues were raised. Parking services report: Church Road and Tovil car park were apparently not visited. The admin team would follow this up. Bollard at Reed’s cut-through: Potential fly tippers had been asked to leave the footpath. An additional bollard was still required to deter vehicles being driven into the footpath. Possible purchase of a new bollard would be on the July

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