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Hello Well I have to admit I have had a real struggle to include everything I wanted into this edition. What with Halloween, Fireworks Night, Remembrance Day and so many local events it has been a bit of a squeeze even with more pages. With this in mind please accept my Bee Local Magazine is your apologies when I miss the occasional page number to squeeze in some local magazine for Leighton extra text or if I can’t include all the detail of events, I really am trying to fit in as much as possible particularly for the charities. I know this Buzzard and the sometimes causes frustration but I am always happy to receive a call to surrounding villages. provide more details if I can. Congratulations to Tracey who won the tickets to One Night of Rock in the Back to School edition. This edition we have not one, not two but three ticket competitions and you really do have much better odds of winning than the lottery! The competition has an email address on it but if you would like to send postal entries please post to Bee Local Magazine, 16 Slicketts Lane, Edlesborough, LU6 2JD making sure it arrives before the closing date. Editor: Andrena Carden-White Advertising: buzz@beelocalmagazine.co.uk

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NEWS FROM KIDSOUT Quiz Night Raises £600 for KidsOut and Breast Cancer Now.

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A quiz night organized by a Leighton Buzzard mum raised more than £600 for KidsOut and Breast Cancer Now. More than 50 people took part in the fundraising event, which was planned by Alison Johnson and hosted at Leighton Buzzard Football Club on 2nd September 2016. The evening included a challenging quiz, raffle and reverse bingo, with competitors splashing their cash for the two causes. Leighton Buzzardbased KidsOut provides fun and positive experiences for disadvantaged children, while Breast Cancer Now is the UK’s largest breast cancer charity. Alison, who is a Weight Watchers leader in the town, said: “I’ve been overwhelmed by the support we received. “I’m so thankful to the many

local business who provided prizes, including Room Number 9, To Have And To Hold, Poppy and Zach, Perfect Parties, Morrissons, Jules, Marisa Helene, Reasons To Be Cheerful, Harmars, Amy’s Nails and Metalyka. “Our quiz master, Jeff Hewitt, wrote the questions and gave his time free of charge, and everyone who came dug deep to ensure we raised an amazing total on the night – we beat our target by more than £100. Huge thanks also to Debbie Dunstan from the Football Club for hire of the venue.” KidsOut would like to thank Alison for all her hard work and congratulate her on a fantastic quiz night. Their share of the money will be spent on children in need of fun and happiness in the local area.

Mini ‘Question of Trivia’ Raises £1,000

KidsOut brought their Question of Trivia quiz to Leighton Buzzard for the third year in a row. Taking place on 16th September 2016, the scaled-down version of KidsOut’s larger corporate fundraising events was a success with over 80 people filling the town’s Rugby Football Club to take part. 15 teams took part in the general knowledge quiz, which tested subjects including geography, music, sport and history across 3 rounds, as well as a ‘fiendishly difficult’ round devised by the CEO. The evening included a main auction for a Drayton Manor Stay & Play pack and Monty Python signed print. The Rugby Club made a delicious lasagne supper which was

enjoyed by all. Local businesses kindly donated raffle prizes, including a meal for two at The Lancer, a Wildwood men’s clothing voucher, a ceramic pottery voucher at Reasons to be Cheerful, £25 One Delivery voucher, a photography session at SF Digital Studios and more. Local shops and business also advertised in the evening’s brochure. Overall, just over £1,000 was raised for disadvantaged children in the local area. KidsOut would like to especially thank Dave and Ruth at the Rugby Club for all their support and for helping to make the night the success it was. Special thanks also to Mary Hardy for being a fantastic quiz master, Alan Brandham for all his tireless hard work, and all who donated and/or attended.

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In March, local web and graphic design agency, Aubergine, committed to competing in the 12-mile, 28 obstacle Tough Mudder assault course to raise funds for our local kids’ charity, KidsOut. They’’ve trained hard every week, running miles, doing intensive CV exercises and preparing themselves for what is described as ‘The world’s most intense and insane physically challenging assault courses’.

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On Sunday 25th September, Mark Tomkins, Steph Henman, Matthew Craft and James Thiel stood on the starting line, nervous, excited but keen to do their best and complete this feat - all in aid of raising funds for KidsOut who provide amazing support for those kids that have a tough break in life and just need a little normality of some toys or a day trip somewhere. Aubergine’s target was £500 but through the sheer generosity of friends, family and people they don’t even know have achieved a total of over £900 an incredible achievement and will go a long way to help some very disadvantaged kids. You will be able to see photos and video of them tackling this incredible feat on their website: www. aubergine262.com/blog, loving produced by their coach, Mark Nesbitt. Well done, Team Aubergine! #GoTeamAubergine

Community News From Morrisons The staff in Morrisons Leighton Buzzard would like to thank all their customers for their patience during the refit - we relaunched our new look store on 2nd September with two of the supermarkets longest serving colleagues Jill Richards and Brenda Daly. We hope you will agree it has created a more pleasurable shopping experience

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With Autumn now here, we have to put summer behind us and, if you haven’t already done so, pull up summer bedding. Although some may still be in flower, you need to get the autumn and spring plants in while the soil is moist, so that they can grow and establish before the soil gets too cold.

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It’s the Law

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With Bonfire Night just around the corner there will be plenty of pops, bangs and explosions to be heard but none so great as that in November 72 years ago at RAF Fauld in Staffordshire

Debris and damage occurred to all property within a circle extending for 1300m. A nearby reservoir containing 450,000 cubic metres of water was obliterated in the incident. Upper Castle Hayes Farm completely disappeared and Messrs Fordesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lime and gypsum works to the north of the village and Purse cottages were completely demolished. The lime works was destroyed by the destruction of the reservoir dam and the subsequent release of water into the works. Hanbury Fields Farm, Hare Holes Farm and also Croft Farm with adjacent cottages were all extensively damaged. Debris also damaged Hanbury village. Approximately one third of the RAF dump exploded, an area of 65,000 square yards, Damage from earth shock extended as far as Burton upon Trent.

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for foraging, particularly straight after not all taste good); some of which a rainy patch. are poisonous.

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Cheesy Onion Soup

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Some such as, Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thomas, Charles Sorley and Wilfred Owen died in action, whilst Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves survived but went on to express their emotional distress through poetry. Wilfred Owen is generally accepted as the greatest war poet to have written in the English Language. After being blown up, suffering concussion and being shell-shocked, Owen was sent to a psychiatric hospital in Edinburgh were he met Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon who inspired him to develop his poetry further.

By Susan Brookes-Morris As we head towards Armistice Day, it’s a pertinent time to reflect on the work of the ‘War Poets.’ The phrase is generally taken to refer to the 16 men who wrote about their first-hand experiences of the First World War and who are commemorated in a slate memorial at Poets Corner.

Owen was awarded a George Cross in October 1918 having seized a machine gun and shot and captured several Germans, but just a few weeks later, he was killed at Orps. His most famous poem is ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ meaning ‘it is sweet and right’ with the last line going on to mean ‘to die for your country.’ In his poem The Sentry he talks about how one of his sentries was blinded. He said ‘All a poet can do is warn. That is why the true poet must be truthful.’

The 16 are; Richard Aldington, Laurence Binyon, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Robert Graves, Julian Grenfell, Ivor Gurney, David Jones, Robert Nichols, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Charles Sorley and Edward Thomas.

Anthologies celebrating the best of the genre often include: Charles Sorley’s ‘When you see millions of the mouthless dead’, Isaac Rosenberg’s ‘Break of Day in the Trenches’, ‘Lights Out’ by Edward Thomas, ‘To his love’ by Ivor Gurney and ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke.

Now often studied as part of the English curriculum, the work of these poets is particularly notable for being violent and realistic and challenging earlier poetry which had a pro-war message. Their work expresses extreme emotions of fear, anger and love.

Whilst not written by one of the commemorated 16, the most quoted poem of this era remains ‘In Flanders Fields’ which was written by former doctor John McCrae during the second battle of Ypres.

The War Poets Association says; ‘the young soldier poets of the First World War established war poetry as a literary genre. Their combined voice has become one of the defining texts of Twentieth Century Europe.’

Many widely renowned British poets also have war poems covering a wide range of conflicts within their collections, including Kipling, Tennyson, Hughes, Larkin and Hardy.

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OCTOBER Sunday 9th October Florence Nightingale Hospce Colour Rush 11am & 2pm Green Park Activity Centre, Stablebridge Rd, Aston Clinton, HP22 5NE Join in at the Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity for another annual Colour Rush event! Sunday 9th October Pitstone Heritage Park Open Day. Last open day of 2016. Opens 10.30am5pm Adults £6 Children £2 Dogs on leads welcome. Plenty of free parking, most but not all areas wheelchair accessible. Pitstone Green Farm, Vicarage Rd. Pitstone, Nr. Tring, LU7 9EY. Tel 01525 221583 www.pitstonemuseum.co.uk Friday 14 October Cheddington Food and Drink FayreCome and join us in a celebration of eating and drinking!! Now in it’s eighth year. Many stalls displaying and selling locally produced food and drink.7-10pm, £1 entry Cheddington Village Hall, Church Lane, Cheddington, LU7 0RU Sunday 16 October Crafts, Cake and a Cuppa Come along to this wellestablished craft fair all day. FREE ADMISSION

and FREE PARKING in the large car park outside the hall. This event coincides with the popular monthly Farmers’ Market at Woburn.10am to 4pm, Woburn Village Hall, Crawley Road Woburn, Bedfordshire MK17 9QD Saturday 22nd October Leighton Buzzard Craft Market, Town Centre. 9am-4pm 23rd October Tea & Homemade cakes Potash Nursery see page 31 Sunday 23rd October Feed The Birds see page 39 24th - 28th October Living History Week. Various events in Leighton Buzzard contact Leighton Buzzard Town Council for details. NOVEMBER Tuesday 1st November Knit and Natter First Tuesday of the Month 10am- 12pm All welcome, whatever your skill level. Come and share knitting ideas and patterns or just join us to knit, chat and watch the birds in this beautiful setting. Buy a coffee and cake to sweeten the day. Please bring along your own wool and needles. Free entry (£2 car parking fee applies). For more information call 01525

234260 or call into the Visitor Centre.Herons View Visitor Centre Rushmere Country Park Linslade Road Heath and Reach LU7 0EB www.greensandtrust.org/ Rushmere.html Saturday 5th November Pop Up Market Leighton Buzzard Town Centre 12th November Town Mayor’s Charity Coffee Morning 10am12noon. Pizza Express, Market Square, Leighton Buzzard. Tickets £3. Pay on entrance or tickets from Leighton Linslade TC Tel 01525 631921 Saturday 12th November Poppy Prom 7.30pm A concert celebrating the best music from The Festival of Remembrance and The Last Night of the Proms. Featuring South Beds Concert Band, St Mary’s Choir and the Dagnall Community Choir. Licensed bar. Box Office 01525 222283. Tickets £10 & £12.50 St Mary’s Church, Eaton Bray LU6 2DJ 13th November 9am11:30am Remembrance Parade In partnership with Royal British Legion. Parade marchers meet at Bletchley Park to commence their walk to the Cenotaph to lay the Poppy Wreaths.

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a meal included in the Things that and entrance fee. You’ll also find a display taking place go bump in fireworks that evening at the theme park. Visit www.gulliversfun. the night co.uk for more.

Where To Take Little Monsters Mead Open Farm has six ghoulish family attractions, including the new Shed of Dread for children of all ages to enjoy from 22nd-31st October. Toddlers can explore the Creepy Cottage, daily ghost stories and puppet shows, whereas older children can hunt through the Haunted Hotel or try out Topper’s Twister. There will also be fancy dress competitions and the chance to carve a pumpkin. Find out more at www.meadopenfarm.co.uk. Take part in trick and treat week at Gulliver’s Land by joining the official trick and treat trail, with lots of sweet goodies. Take a trip to Leonard’s Scare School or take part in a costume party during the week of 22nd October, and Saturday 29th is Happy Hauntings day with extra special entertainment

Waddeson Manor is open every day in half term (22nd-30th October). Illuminated Ugly Bug Ball trail, horrible Halloween games, pumpkin carving and more. Special late opening until 6pm on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th October. www.waddesdon.org.uk Market Square Aylesbury have a Halloween Fun Day on 27th October 2016 between 3 -6pm Including the very popular Pantoween. There is an opportunity to get up close with a variety of spiders, bats and snakes, with a reptile roadshow from Impeyan Productions. The Spotlight Musical Theatre group will be teaching and performing the Michael Jackson, Thriller routine. There will also be Halloween themed crafts to create, games and an amazing face painter to inspire your creations for the witching hour all for free. Prizes for the best Halloween fancy dress costume and carved pumpkin, to be judged by the Mayor of Aylesbury at 5pm. Ashridge Estate have Halloween Crafts and a Halloween Trail 10am-4pm, Mon 24th-Fri 28th October Booking Not Needed. Dogs on leads welcome. Tel 01442 851227 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/events

Rushemere Halloween Disco see overleaf.

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Tulleys The Howl in Leighton Buzzard is back for its second year featuring five huge haunted attractions full of live, terrifying creatures. The park is open various evenings from 8th November until Halloween you can find full details at www.halloweenattractionsco.uk. Further afield Big Night Out Pub Crawl are putting on a Zombie Halloween special, so join London’s expert bar crawl guides and let them take you on an evening of fun and spooky frolics. Tickets cost £20 and get you free entry into 5 bars, 4 free shots & great drinks deals across all the venues, PLUS some other great bonuses like a free crawl t-shirt, free zombie makeovers (if you’re not in fancy dress already prizes for the best fancy dress and free glow sticks. details are on eventbrite

Fireworks Saturday 5th November Brooklands School, Leighton Buzzard 7pm. Saturday 5th November Axe and Compass, Heath & Reach 7pm MK fireworks display Campbell Park, MK on Sunday 6th November at 7.30pm free entry The Pitstone & Ivinghoe Annual Fireworks Event, Saturday 5th November, Pitstone Pavilion on Marsworth Road.

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Fun kids’ event in the Tree Tops Café suitable for ages 5-12 - experience the park after dark! Ticket includes hot dog, juice, fancy dress competition, games and dancing. Bar open and food available for adults Tickets £12 per child Limited spaces available, please book via www.eventbrite.co.uk.

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Grove Park, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, LU5 4GP Tickets: £25.00 - £23.00 Box Office: 01582 60 20 80 www.grovetheatre.co.uk www.easytheatres.com

Join the party as this scintillating show celebrates its 10th birthday! The unstoppable Magic of Motown thrills its millionth music fan this year, embarking on a super-sensational nationwide tour that also honours the 50th anniversary of chart-topping single Reach Out I’ll Be There. Revel in hit after hit as the incredible, all-new for 2016, theatrical treat with a huge cast marks 50 years of Reach Out and a decade of continuing the legend of solid-gold artistes the Supremes, Temptations, Jackson 5, Isley Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie and more.

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