MOUNTSORREL POST YOUR FREE COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
DECEMBER 2018
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No. 65
Village remembers armistice YOUNG AND old from across the village came together to commemorate the centenary of the 1918 Armistice Day and remember the sacrifice of those who lost their lives in conflict in the service of their country.
Parish sets precept THERE WILL be no increase in the parish council part of your council tax for 2019/20, Mountsorrel Parish Council has agreed. It considered its budget for the next financial year at a parish council meeting on November 12 and agreed a precept of £543,865. In 2018/19 it was £543,970. The parish precept is the amount collected from parishioners and is a component of the council tax. In 2018/19 the precept was increased by 163 percent, which for a band D property meant the Parish Council component of the council tax rose from £75.99 to £199.85 The council said the increase was
On Friday November 9, year six from Christ Church & St Peter’s Primary School held their Remembrance Service at St Peter’s. All those attending were moved by the prayers, poetry reading and in particular, the quality of the pupils’ singing. After their service they visited the Peace Garden for the Act of Hom-
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Pics: Mountsorrel’s MPs Edward Argar and Nicky Morgan with children from Mountsorrel school planting a tree in the Peace Garden; (left) children looking at the casualty markers
age marked by a bugler and supported by the British Legion’s Mountsorrel Standard Bearer. Children helped our two MPs, Nicky Morgan and Edward Argar, plant Rowan and Silver Birch trees to commemorate the Armistice Cente-
nary and then viewed the individual casualty markers which generated many comments and questions. These had been put in place by members of the Legion, the Mountsorrel Heritage Group and other villagers. They laid out the Peace Garden in the form of Continued on page 2
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