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The aim of the monthly Life in Brackley Magazine is to support businesses in order that the local community can flourish. Now there’s a little light at the end of the tunnel, we’re raring to go with the brilliant local businesses who are now able to reopen their doors. All those jobs you’ve been putting off getting done, if they’re achievable with social distancing in place, can now get started – so with garden centres reopening and tradespeople allowed to return to work, we can start to make our homes and gardens look spick and span and summery! As we start the climb back to a new normal – whatever that may look like – your support means everything to us, and we in turn will continue to be there for you; with offers, light-hearted and informative features and competitions, to make your favourite coffee-break read that little bit of escapism that’s so vital at the moment.
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BRACKLEY & DISTRICT U3A We are still here, with activity, albeit in a socially distanced manner. Nationally, the U3A was founded in 1982, growing steadily since then. There are now over 1,000 U3As across the UK with more than 400,000 members. U3A is an Organisation encouraging mature people, no longer in full-time employment, to engage in learning, laughing, and living with educational and cultural activities. www.u3a.org.uk Brackley & District U3A was inaugurated on the 15 October 2015 and now has a membership of 333. Membership Secretary (07444 363494).
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u3asites.org.uk/Brackley In “normal” times we hold:Monthly speaker meeting on the 3rd Thursday of each month starting at 10:00 am (doors open around 09:30 am) in the Brackley Methodist Church, High Street, Brackley. Each meeting commences with a welcome, brief notices are given, before the presentation by a speaker, (usually around one hour including questions). We hope to provide an eclectic mix of speakers and topics which we trust will be of interest to most people. Refreshments and a chance to socialise complete the morning. Plus Interest Groups: Art / Afternoon Tea & Chat / Book Club / Bridge Intermediate /
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GA R D E N I N G T H I S M O N T H Article written by Michelle Hiscutt
July in the Garden It has certainly
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National League North Brackley Town played its last football on 14 March in a 4-2 win at Alfreton Town. That win took Saints to 3rd in the league and comfortably in the play-off spots for a place in National League. That was the last action of the season with no further matches to be played due to Covid-19. But that has not been an end to the arguments and debate over how the final placings are to be decided and whether relegation and promotion will apply or whether the season 24
will be declared null and void. Finally we now know that play-offs will not take place and a points per game solution has sorted out the final placings. So no playoff excitement for Kevin Wilkin’s side this season after successive 3rd place finishes and failed play-off attempts to jump up into National League. So attention turned to the new season whenever that starts. At least clarity allowed some sense of closure on the previous, suspended campaign and preparations to begin. So
players have signed up and plans set in motion for whenever football can again be played. Meanwhile, more than a year since the clubhouse was destroyed by fire, its demolition has been completed and works begun to re-build. It has been a frustrating time for supporters but now hopes are high that a new clubhouse alongside further improvements at the neat St James Park ground will herald a fresh dawn and eventually even some football.
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