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Welcome to Bolsover Voice
It’s been a crazy busy month this month, two weddings and a holiday for me with Carla’s steady Don’t forget to hand on the AVV wheel making sure everything mention the Voice runs like clockwork! Of course, prior to the when you use any of holiday, chaos ensued...we discovered what we the companies in this thought was a wasp nest at home, until our good Magazine friends at GB Pest Control came out and identified it as a honey bees nest...in which case, we just have to put up with the buzzing and that is to name just one calamity! It’s all good fun though! I also had my debut on the Sally Pepper show, ’loudmouth’ slot on Radio Derby (no puns please!), which was great but my feet had hardly touched British Soil, so I didn’t really feel as up to press with current affairs as usual but I seem to have got through it with only mild mocking from friends and family!! Anyway, that’s enough about my latest 4 weeks. Lots of fun things going on over the next month including the South Wingfield Social Club Summer Fayre...come along, you know you want to!! As always, if you have something happening that you would like to publicise or you would just like to promote your business, give us a call!! See you next month,
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Amber Valley Rugby Club - Summer Camp Out
Starting from 3pm on Saturday 24th August...next day is new season registration day!
Upcoming walk with Alfreton and District Rambling Club
We walk on alternate Sundays and meet in the car park near Alfreton Library at 9:30am. Bring a drink and packed lunch. Suitable footwear and clothing required. New faces made welcome. September 1st, Little Longstone and 15th, Bradbourne. For more info call Terry on 01773 835437 or Dave 01773 835275.
MS Society Coffee & Chat
Come along for a FREE coffee, tea or squash and advice and information about MS or simply chat with others experiencing similar issues. There is no need to book or have any specific issues in mind - just turn up on the night. Thursday 5th September, 6-8pm at Firs House, Firs Garden, Alfreton, DE55 7FU. www.mssociety.org.uk/chesterfield.
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Alfreton Singers Summer Concert
Come and join us and have a fantastic evening! Wednesday 11th September at Swanwick Sports College (formerly the Delves). Tickets are £5 and include buffet and drinks.
Swanwick Hall Cricket Club 40th Year Celebration Fun Day
Past v Present 20/20 cricket match... BBQ.. Childrens Fair Ground Rides.. Music... Local Bands...Bar with 4 Real Ales...FUN DOG SHOW which includes lots of unusual categories plus Dog Micro Chipping £10... Nail Clipping £5 and free dental checks. Email swanwick_hallcc@btinternet.com. or pick up a entry form at the Crays Hill Pavilion. Monday 26th August , 12pm until 9pm.
Fun at Pennytown Ponds
Join us for a walk to Pennytown Ponds and take part in nature activities on Friday 30th August, 10am - 11:30pm. Meet at Somercotes Children’s Centre , Nottingham Road, Somercotes, DE55 4LY, 10mins prior to start. For more information call 01773 604843
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South Normanton & Broadmeadows Neighbourhood update
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The summer is now in full swing and many people will be getting on their bikes and making the most of the warmer, drier weather. Unfortunately though, in the last few weeks we have noticed that quite a lot of cycles are being targeted by thieves. This is not just happening in your area, but throughout the Amber Valley and we would like to take this opportunity to remind you how to reduce the risk of your bike being stolen. Here are few things you might want to think about if you are a cyclist, or pass on if you know someone who is: Always lock your bike no matter
where you leave it, as it would only take a matter of seconds to steal an unsecured bike, even in your shed or garage. Lock your bike to an immovable object, something your cycle couldn’t be lifted over, that couldn’t be removed, broken or cut easily. Consider investing in a ground anchor at home for your bike
which could attach it to a concrete wall or floor. Store your bicycles out of view from outside. Use a good quality D-lock for your bicycle, and if you think about the cost to replace your bike you’ll realise how important it is to invest in the best quality lock you can afford. To boost security further, use two locks of different types, for
example a D-lock and a strong chain and padlock. Keep the space between the object and the D-lock as tight as possible. Security mark your bike with a specialist forensic fluid such as SmartWater or Selecta DNA ·Register your bicycle with a national property register, such as www.bikeregister.com or www.immobilise.com.
Don’t forget to report anything you see or hear that you think could be suspicious by calling 101, the non emergency number for Derbyshire police. For more advice on crime prevention or to contact your local Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team you should also call 101.
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8 We are continuing to venture a little beyond the Amber Valley to bring you the best local walks. As usual there will be plenty of chances to let your dog off the lead but take care on roads and around livestock. Again, we would like to thank the fantastic Jill and David Hallam from JH Legal Services for contributing this lovely walk. If you know of a nice walk in the local area that you would like to share, please get in touch. Email us at info@ambervalleyvoice.co.uk or by calling Emily on 01773 604178 or 07891 639638. 4 mile circular walk from Tibshelf Ponds along the Five Pits Trail A relatively easy walk for you and your dog which is fairly flat. The route should take around 2 hours. The terrain is pretty even but it is always worth wearing a good pair of boots especially if it has been wet or icy. 1. From inside the car park go through the gap to the left of the car park entrance and turn left onto a path passing a pond on your left and then a pond on your right. Continue ahead until you arrive at two paths turning left. Ignore the sharp left turn signposted for “Five Pits Trail” and take the other left path heading gently uphill. 2. Continue along this path passing through a metal width restriction gate. Continue straight ahead until you reach a right turn. At this point the path becomes a lane. Continue straight on, signposted for “Saw Pit Lane”. 3. Passing a lane on the left signposted for “Tibshelf” continue straight to cross the motorway. The lane then bears left and runs alongside the motorway for some time. After passing a few buildings on the left you will reach a main road. Turn left along the road to pass back over the motorway. After crossing the motorway turn immediately right in front of the first house to go up a lane. 4. When entering the lane you will see a stile on your right. Ignore this and go straight up the lane keeping houses on your left and trees on your right. At the end of the houses continue straight, der keeping the hedge on your left. At the very end of a e R ffer the hedgerow turn 90 degrees left to cross an O open filed on a thin grass path. (NOTE: there may be a diversion in place at the stile, follow this and it will bring you out at the end of the hedge.) 5. Continue across the field and then pass some tall conifers on your left. Continue straight to pass through a gap in the fence and onto a main road. Cross the road and turn right and after passing house number 69 on the left turn left through a gap in a stone wall. This path will take you between the with every purchase of buildings and on into a field with a fence on your left.. Millers Complete Dog Food 6. Continue straight, keeping the fence and eventually a with this coupon hedge on your left, and into a small dip with a yellow marker post leaving the hedge behind go straight to cross an open field towards a second yellow marker post and a hedgerow. Continue straight for a short distance, keeping the hedge on your right. When you reach a hedgerow directly in front of you turn right through a wooden gate.
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7. Keeping the hedge on your left cross an open field to arrive at two wooden gates. Take the gate on your right and continue straight with the hedge on your left. At the far end of this field go through a wooden gate and onto a lane. 8. Turn left along the lane for a short distance and then fork right off onto the track close to the tall hedgerow on your right and pass through a gap in the corner of the field. 9. Keeping the tall hedge on your right continue straight to pass a marker post on your right and then continue downhill along the edge of a field. At the bottom of the field bear left to follow the edge of the field and eventually through a gap in the fence onto the “Five Pits Trail” 10. Turn left along the trail and after a long distance pass through a gap by a metal gate and go straight on. After a short distance you will reach a cross roads, take the path ahead signposted for “Five Pits Trail”. 11. Eventually you will come to a main road. Cross the road and continue along the trail. After a short distance continue straight to pass the “Canter Track” on your left. After a while you will come to a path that bears left. Ignore this and continue straight, keeping a fence on your right.
12. The trail eventually heads downhill and at the bottom on the left you will find the Tibshelf Ponds car park. This walk is for illustrative purposes only. The Amber Valley Voice takes no responsibility for anyone who chooses to follow this route and encourages all walkers to obey all byelaws and signs and to respect the area they are walking in, ensuring they pick up all dog mess and obey the countryside code at all times.
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Your August accounting questions answered
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It’s getting to that time again, here are a few more FAQ’s from our friendly neighbourhood accountant …...
Q. I am thinking of investing some money in premium bonds. Are there any tax advantages or disadvantages? A. You won't receive interest on the money
held in premium bonds but any prizes you receive from those bonds are tax free. The prize fund is calculated on the basis of a nominal interest rate of 1.3%. Thus if you hold £10,000 in premium bonds for one year, on average you should expect to win £130 as bond prizes over the year. However, that return is not guaranteed and you may win more or less. You could also win the big prize of £1million!
A. Unfortunately Liz has not worked for 26
weeks for her employer before the 15 weeks prior to birth, so statutory maternity pay is not due. There is nothing to stop your company from paying Liz her normal wages while she is on maternity leave, but as those wages do not amount to statutory maternity pay the company can't reclaim that pay from the tax office.
August key tax dates 2nd Last day for car change notifications in the quarter to 5 July - Use P46 Car 19th/22nd PAYE/NIC and CIS deductions due for month to 5/8/2013
The premium bonds will form part of your estate for inheritance tax purposes, so will be subject to inheritance tax on your death if the value of your total estate exceeds the exempt limit of £325,000 (fixed to 2018).
Q. I formed my new company in November 2012 and my wife (Liz) became a director and employee of that company at that time. Liz is now expecting our first child in August 2013. Can our company pay Liz statutory maternity pay? Do you have a tax question that you would like answered? If so e-mail james.boler@smithcraven.co.uk
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Book Review - Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver Bored and confounded by small-town American farmlife, a lunk of a husband and two small children, Dellarobia sets off up the mountain at the back of her home for an assignation with a young man. Instead she finds the breathtaking beauty of a swarm, millions-strong, of Monarch butterflies, driven from the course of their normal migration by changes in the world’s climate. What the God-fearing people of Feathertown come to see as a fortunate miracle turns out to be a possible tragedy – these intensely orange beauties are not meant to hibernate in the wet and cold of the Appalachians. But they bring scientists in their wake and as they head for what may be their species’ final sleep, Dellarobia starts to emerge from the stifling cocoon of her life
and takes up the fight to alert her fellow humans to what they might be doing to the planet. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver, takes on big issues. It’s not just about climate change, for which she draws on her background in biology. It’s also about class and poverty and why we believe the things we do. It’s a warmhearted book, sometimes serious but also often funny and Dellarobia and her best friend Dovey have a fine sense of the ridiculous and a clear sight of their own and others’ weaknesses which makes them very engaging characters. Barbara Kingsolver has a brilliant ability to make you empathise with people and causes you may not recognise in your own life. She cares and she makes you care too.
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Gardeners Calendar - August
Cut back the foliage and stems of plants which have died back, to discourage disease and pests. This is a good time to get plants for free by taking cuttings of tender perennials such as geraniums and pelargoniums. Cuttings should be taken from young non flowering shoots if possible and about 2-4inches long. Cut just below a leaf joint and trim back leaves. Dip in rooting compost and insert in a small pot of compost with plenty of vermiculite. Make sure there is contact between the stem and compost. Leave in green house or light windowsill and ensure they are kept watered but not wet. Some alpines have a tendency to develop patches of die-back as the summer goes on. They can often be encouraged back into life by introducing gritty compost into those patches.
Top Tip
This is a good time to start a compost bin – use plenty of spent plants and grass cuttings to build up a bit of bulk. Try to collect enough material to make layers of at least 30cm or more in the compost bin, but as well as plant matter mix in woody prunings and some cardboard packaging eg. cereal boxes as this helps create air spaces within the heap. It may also help if you put a few woody plant stems or small twigs on the bottom first as this will improve the air circulation and drainage.
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Out and About
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A daily guide to some of the local clubs and groups in your area Monday Baby Massage - The Hub, Shiners Way, South Normanton, DE55 2AA - 2pm - 3pm. Ages birth 4 months. Contact the children’s centre on 01629 533735 for information on the next course. South Normanton Striders (intermediate jogging group) - meet at 6.30pm at Frederick Gent School. Call Rob on 07962 308933 (www.activederbyshire.co.uk/jog/) Young Parent Group - A group for young parents aged 24 and under with their children. Meet at The Hub at 1:30pm until 3pm.
Tuesday Little Ones Group - Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA - 1.30pm - 3pm - Contact - 01629 533066 Baby Clinic - The Hub, Shiners Way, South Normanton, DE55 2AA. 1pm - 3.30pm (1st & 3rd Tuesday of every month) Drop in for health advice and have your baby weighed - Ages birth - 18 months. Contact - 01629 533735 Forest Gump Joggers - (beginners jogging group) - meet at Frederick Gent School at 6.15pm. Contact Heather on 07983 51273. (www.activederbyshire.co.uk/jog/)
Wednesday Alfreton Nursery School and Children’s Centre, Parent & Toddler Drop in Session Alfreton Nursery School, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA - Term time - 9am - 10am - Contact Angela Stanton 01773 520031 Crafty Crew - Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA - 1.30pm - 3pm - Messy and creative play activities. Contact - 01629 533066 In-betweenies - Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA - 1.30 - 3pm. Group for children with mums, dads and carers up to the age of 25. Contact - 01629 533066
AVRUFC Senior Section - training during close season takes place at Amber Valley RUFC, Lower Somercotes (opposite Pye Bridge Ind Est.) starts at 7pm - 8.30. Contact Stuart Artliff 07966 867946 or Gareth Pilkington 07772 366157
Wednesday Stay and Play - The Hub, Shiners Way, SN, DE55 2AA - 10am - 11.30am. Age 12 months and upwards. Contact 01629 533735 Baby Play - Pinxton Nursery School, Kirkstead Road, Pinxton, NG16 6NA - 1pm - 3pm. Contact 01773 863105 for more details. Tiny & Toddlers - Pinxton Village Hall, 3 Kirkstead Road, Pinxton, NG16 6NA. 9.30am 11am. Age 0 - 3 years. Alfreton Singers - Swanwick School & Sports College(formerly The Delves) 7.15- 9pm. Mixed choir of friendly singers. All styles of music. Contact Claire on 01773 835316 for more info.
Thursday Top Tots - Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA. 1.30pm - 3pm. Fun play session with arts, crafts and song time aimed at children ages 1-3 years. Contact 01629 533066 Weighing Clinic - Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA. 1pm 2.30pm. Come and have your baby weighed and see someone from the health team. Contact - 01629 533066 Stay and Play - Pinxton Youth Centre, Kirkstead Road, Pinxton, NG16 6NA. 10am 11.30am. Age 0 - 4 years. Stay and play with your child and meet new parents. Cypress Parent Support Group - The Hub, Shiners Way, South Normanton, DE55 2AA. 10am - 11.30am. (3rd Thursday of every month) A support group for parents and carers of children and young people with additional need and/or disabilities. Contact - 01629 533735. Breastfeeding Group - The Hub, Shiners Way, South Normanton, DE55 2AA. 1.30pm - 3pm. Make new friends, share tips and discuss any issues you may have. Contact - 01629 533735. Alfreton Society of Painters - 7pm- 9pm at Pennytown Court Community Rooms. Visit www.alfretonsocietyofpainters.com for more info.
14 Friday Alfreton Nursery School and Children’s Centre, Parent & Toddler Drop in Session. Meet at Alfreton Nursery School, Grange Street, Alfreton., DE55 7JA - Term time 1.30pm - 2.30pm. Contact Angela Stanton 01773 520031 Childminding Network - Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA. 9.30am - 11.30am. A chance for local childminder’s to meet. Contact - 01629 533066 Tiddlers and Toddlers Group - Alfreton Children’s Centre, Grange Street, Alfreton, DE55 7JA. 12.30pm - 2.30pm. Run by parents and open to all. Contact - 01629 533066 Tiny & Toddlers - Pinxton Village Hall, 3 Kirkstead Road, Pinxton, NG16 6NA. 9.30am 11am. Age 0 - 3 years.
Sunday AVRUFC Junior Section Coaching - Starting 2nd June during the close season takes place at Amber Valley RUFC (opposite Pye bridge Ind Est.) starting at 10am. Contact Stuart Artliff 07966 867946 or Gareth Pilkington 07772 366157 . Ages from 4 upwards welcome.
Other Guiding offers opportunities in the following sections: Rainbows age 5-7yrs Brownies aged 7-10yrs Guides aged 10-14yrs Adult Leaders 18yrs + Senior Section aged 1425yrs
If you or your daughter would like to know more about Joining visit www.girlguiding.org.uk/ IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO INCLUDE YOUR NONinterested or call 0800 1 69 59 01 PROFIT MAKING GROUP IN FUTURE EDITIONS, PLEASE E-MAIL carla@ambervalleyvoice.co.uk Please note that some of the groups listed incur a small charge and we would always recommend that you contact a group prior to attendance.
WEA Alfreton Programme Looking into art: an introduction to art history Starts 26th September 2013 - Thursdays 7pm to 9pm 5 week course tutored by Sarah Skinner at Alfreton Adult Education Centre, Church Street, Alfreton. DE55 7BD. The course will examine how we might analyse a painting and how its meaning may change as time passes and look at how different periods have viewed the value of different kinds of art. There is an optional trip to Sheffield Galleries on a Saturday. To enrol or for more information contact our Branch Secretary, Denise Glover on 0115 938 4025 or www.enrolonline.wea.org/online Course fee £35, free to those on certain means tested benefits WEA registered charity no 1112775 To Advertise please call Emily on 01773 604178 or 07891 639638
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Index of advertisers Your quick guide to everyone and everything in your magazine... Accountant Smith Craven
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Auctioneer Kleeford Coin Auctions 15
Photography Blue Ice
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Cleaning Services Clean Away
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Plastering Complete Plastering
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Drive Cleaning Extreme Drive Clean
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Electrician/Electricals Safeway Electrical
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Events/Community Services Derbyshire Police 7 South Wingfield Social Club 16 WEA 14 Foot Care Foundations Foot Care
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Insurance Broker Binsured
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Pets Supplies/Services Pawz
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Your wedding, Your day, Your memories
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Will Writing JH Legal
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Weddings priced according to what you want, or simpler version weddings from ÂŁ450
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Do you have unwanted coins, banknotes or medals in a box at home? Call me for a free professional and without obligation valuation. Now online at:
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