THE ROTHLEY POST YOUR FREE COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
JUL/AUG 2016
www.birstallpost.co.uk
No. 119
Couple celebrate diamond wedding A ROTHLEY couple who met at the Rock cinema in Mountsorrel have celebrated their Diamond Wedding anniversary.
Claimant’s false statement A WOMAN has been given a conditional discharge after failing to inform a council that she co-owned a £200,000 house w hen applying for homelessness support. Aimee Hurst, 43, was found guilty at Loughborough Magistrates’ Court following the prosecution by Charnwood Borough Council. The court was told Hurst had bought a house in The Rise, Rothley in 2001 with her partner. When they moved out six years later the property was rented out. Hurst, of Woodfield Road, Rothley, later separated from her partner and in
“We were sat beside one another and just started talking and that was it, we just got on” said Ernie Wain, who after that first meeting asked wife-to-be Sheila on a date, a trip to the pictures in Loughborough.
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New primary school A NEW primary school with spaces for 420 pupils is planned for the Broadnook Garden Suburb, between Birstall and Rothley.
Pics: (top) Diamond couple Ernie & Sheila Wain and (inset) on their wedding day
Three years later, in 1956, they were married in Rothley parish church and soon afterwards bought their bungalow on Mountsorrel Lane where they have lived ever since. The couple, both 82, have two daughters, three grandchildren and four great grandchildren. They celebrated their anniversary with a family get together at the Quorn Grange hotel. “It was really lovely to see them all” said Sheila.
It will be a state funded Church of England school for children aged 4-11, operated by the Templar multi-academy trust and led by Rothley CofE primary school. It will also include a nursery class for 3 year olds. A trust spokesman said: “An open admissions policy with no faith-based oversubscription criteria means the school will serve the diverse communities and cultures of the area and give families more choice for their children’s primary education. The new school will be at the heart of the community, and the new community at the heart of the school.
Speaking at one of two public consultation events in June, headteacher of Rothley School Fiona Parr said: “Moving from our old school to a new school Continued on page 2
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