MOUNTSORREL POST Gifts YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER Delivered
to Mountsorrel, four times a year
MARCH 2011
ISSUE No. 34
for troops TWO LOCAL stores have helped provide provisions for our forces serving in Afghanistan. Customers at Budgens in Mountsorrel pledged either £5 of £10 which the store used to buy and supply at cost small items for servicemen and women to take out with them on patrol. 63 tuck boxes were assembled and sent out by the Rothley and District Branch of the Royal British Legion to named recipients who are from the district. Following the success of the tuck box scheme, the troops were requesting hot water bottles. Corts of Rothley were able to offer them at less than cost price and as a result, 40 bottles are now on their way to Afghanistan. Norman Pratt, one of the scheme organisers along with Diane Allen from Mountsorrel, said: “This action, following the hundreds of Continued on page 2
Tesco Express store AN EMPTY Mountsorrel pub is being converted into a Tesco Express. Work started on the conversion of the Stag & Pheasant, 109 Leicester Road, in February. Public houses can be converted into shops without requiring planning permission.
Pic: The Tesco Express in the Conservation Area in Olney
Because the building is within the Mountsorrel Conservation Area, Tesco will have to seek planning permission to make any changContinued on page 2 Mountsorrel Post MARCH 2011 (34), page 1