THE ROTHLEY POST YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER Delivered FREE to Rothley, Thurcaston & Cropston
MAY/JUN 2009
ISSUE No. 76
Shops’ plea for help “WE NEED help and we need it quickly if the shops are to survive.”
Paris dancers A LOCAL dance teacher is taking a group of her pupils on the trip of a lifetime to perform at Disneyland Paris. Bianca Zarcone of Bianca’s Dance Academy will be taking 35 students to Paris where they will perform a 20 minute routine. Bianca (22) said: “It’s a magical place and the kids can’t wait to perform in front of people from all over Europe – they are so excited!” The 34 girls and one boy will do a parade through the park on August 19 to promote the show, a mixture of street, cheer and modern dance which takes place the next day. Bianca started her dance school in Rothley Village Hall five years ago with seven pupils – she now teaches almost every day of the week in Rothley, Quorn, Mountsorrel and Sileby. To sponsor the trip you can contact Bianca on 07984 170873. Pic: students of the Bianca Zarcone Dance Academy & (inset) Bianca Zarcone
Rothley Post MAY/JUN 2009 (76), page 1
That was the message from a delegation of Rothley shopkeepers who met with local councillors Peter Osborne and Diane Wise in April. Deborah Doyle, who has been trading from her shop Zebra on Woodgate for the last 13 years, said: “Morale is very low so I arranged this meeting so we could discuss what could be done, because something has to be done or there’ll be no village shops.” Ideas put forward by the shopkeepers included: • better signage directing shoppers to the car park at the Rothley Centre • pavements on Woodgate made narrower to create more parking spaces • land opposite Bradleys converted into parking spaces • reduce size of Cross Green War Memorial where the seats are to create additional parkContinued on page 2