October 2016 herald online by Michael Wilkinson

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Mid-October 2016

Over 20,000 reasons to be proud of Bagworth

THE SMALL team, Ken, Glenda, Josie and Anne, organised another successful charity dance at The Club in Bagworth on Friday 23rd September. The impressive sum of £400 was raised and was passed on to Maria to add to the funds which she is raising in order to purchase a defibrillator for Bagworth. The team has now raised over £20.000 for various charities, including Wishes 4 Kids, Leicestershire Air Ambulance, Glenfield Hospital, ProstAid, Cancer Research and many other worthy causes. Although the money was raised over 10 years, for the first four years there was only one dance per year. I am sure that most people

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Ken presenting the £400 cheque to Maria, for the defibrillator. The photo also shows (l to r) Glenda, Josie and Anne. will agree that this is a phenomenal success story and the four people deserve hearty congratulations. In addition to Charity Dances, they organise monthly Social Dances on a Saturday at 8 pm. The next one is on 22nd October. Admission is £2. They also hold tea dances on a Wednesday afternoon from 2-4 pm. Admission is £1. The next charity dance is on Friday 25th November at 8 pm and is supporting Wishes 4 Kids, a very worthwhile charity that helps children in Leicestershire. Admission is £2.50. This will help to take them towards the next £10,000!

Christmas is coming to Stanton! • DON’T MISS the Stanton Christmas Fayre on Saturday 26th November. To be held in the St Mary’s Church, Stanton Under Bardon, 2 - 4 p.m. There will be several stalls, Cakes, Bric a brac, Raffle and Tombola. Coffee and tea will be available.

• THERE WILL also be a Charity Christmas Concert on Friday 16th December in aid of the Alzheimers Society, with Stanton Under Bardon Singers and Musicians. To be held in St Mary & All Saints Church at 7.30pm. Tickets on the door £5.00.

GETTING over 600 pupils from South Charnwood High School to Bradgate Park is an enormous undertaking, but staff and parents of pupils at South Charnwood High School did just that on Friday 30th September. Luckily, the weather was fine and the 13 mile trip (the pupils do a circuit of the park once they are there) was completed in good time and with no casualties. Traditionally, the sponsored walk raises over £6,000 for the school and this year will be spent on refurbishing the school library with a percentage of the funds raised being donated to charities chosen by the Pupil Voice Team. Can we take this opportunity to thank all those parents, grandparents and friends of the school for all their help in this event which is a traditional highlight of the South Charnwood calendar Our picture shows Heather McDowall, looking tired (tyred), but happy on the South Charnwood Sponsored Walk.

Can you solve the MURDER at The Bricklayer’s Arms? FANCY A ghoulish night filled with fun and murder? Get your detective cap on and come down to the Bricklayer’s Arms and solve the mystery. Someone will be murdered in the Bricklayer’s Arms and it is your job to work out whodunnit! It all takes place on Saturday 29th October 2016, starting at 7pm. Twelve teams of four are needed, and entry fees are £25 per team, with food included. All will be revealed in your character pack. Fancy dress is encouraged to set the mood, and the Bricklayer’s will be decorated. This is a fundraising event with proceeds going towards the provision of a defibrillator for Thornton village. For tickets please see the Bricklayer’s Arms or Elaine Statham.

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VILLAGER Daisy Sharpe (nee Wilson) celebrated her 90th Birthday at the Centre on Saturday 10th September along with family and friends. Now a resident of Mayflower Court Daisy was born on the 19th September 1926 in London. She originally lived in Fulham before being evacuated from the capital first to Guildford and then to Devon during the 2nd World War. She met her husband Roy Sharpe in 1944 in Wigston. Roy was a chorister at Mary De Castro Church in Leicester and by all accounts he had a wonderful voice. Daisy has had many jobs including making fluorescent light bulbs at BHT (The old Thorn Lighting), Frears and Blacks Bakery before retiring from her job at the old Woolworths store in Leicester. She puts her longevity down to working hard, looking after herself and her family. Daisy’s three children John, Julia and Jill attended the party along with along with their families. Daisy has 8 grandchildren and a further 8 great grandchildren. Daisy has been a stalwart attendee at the Centre joining in with the Friendship and Mayflower Clubs. Many congratulations on your 90th Birthday Daisy from all at the Centre and we are looking forward to your centenary.

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Thank You for your support! GILL & FRIENDS would like to say a big Thank You to all who came and supported our MacMillan Cancer Support Coffee Morning. Your generosity helped to raise £480.25. Well done and thanks again!

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To people of a certain age in Bagworth THE BAGWORTH Historical Group have again booked the entertaining and informative speaker, David Bell, to talk to the group at 7.30 pm on Tuesday 8th November at The Club, Bagworth. He is talking about growing up in the 1940s and 50s. This is bound to trigger lots of memories if you are of that certain age. If you are younger, come along and find out what people did before phones, computers and even televisions. You will be amazed. The meeting is open to non-members who will be charged £1 admission. (No doubt many of you can remember when a £1 was worth a great deal! In my teens, I worked all day on a Saturday in a Fruit and Vegetable Shop for the magnificent wages of £1.)

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19th Oct : Ali Groschl The Art of Fused Glass 16th Nov: Julie Ede Wonderful, Wicked, Wily Wallis 21st Dec: Ian Rogerson Turkey Talk

Donations invited KIRBY GRANGE Residential Care Home, at Markfield Lane, Botcheston are looking for bric-a-brac and donations of items for their table top sales and raffles. If you can help, contact Lisa or Pauline at Kirby Grange on 01530 230730.

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County Councillor’s Report from David Sprason

The consequences of the County Council picking the wrong priorities WITH CENTRAL government continuing with its austerity agenda it looks to local government to make the greatest savings, these cuts in local government grant continues and presents huge challenges in balancing the books. The County Council this year has increased, well above inflation, its share of council tax up by 4% while Hinckley Borough Council increased theirs by 4.5%, it looks like these levels of hikes will continue. This is being done by local government in an attempt to meet the shortfall. In fact, in reality, this is shifting central taxation on to a local property taxation. “That’s fine,” you say, “as long as our services are protected and continue to be delivered”. So now comes the hub of the problem they can be as long as priorities are set by those in power to keep front line services in place and you radically change your structures. I am afraid as we have seen recently with the rural grass cutting and white lining, that is not the case. I believe that your first impression as you enter an area gives you a good indication of how well a local authority is doing. This is why the delivery of highway services matters enormously. The quality of our grass verges and hedges, public footpaths and waste collection are important, probably the most important. We see at County Hall, however, the structures and executive positions unchanged - they have remained the same for decades. Surely if you want to protect front line services then you need a leaner senior executive team and

a reduction in directorates thus freeing up much needed resources. I have no problem with prioritising Health & Social Care but join them up not just keep talking about it, why have a separate Child & Adult service directorate. A family Health & Care department bringing three departments into one should have happened years ago. Why have a County waste disposal authority and seven collection authorities all doing different things? The seven collection authorities have introduced a bin tax over recent years, why? Agree a single waste service and stop wasting money on unnecessary departments. Tax payers are not interested in funding council empires. It is now forecast that the County Council will need to take out a quarter of a billion pounds from its budget by 2020. OK if we know that what are we doing to deliver that level of saving? Is it beyond the pale of the administration at County Hall to see through the fog of cronyism and deliver real radical changes? The way services are managed centrally needs to be at the top of the agenda if radical changes are going to take place. That is of course if we care about our communities wellbeing and believe our front line services should be saved.

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measures to get rid of the gaps in the central reservation as this will improve safety on this stretch of road.

• THE A50 SLIP ROAD car sales have been reported again to the relevant agencies. The advice to those thinking of buying from this type of dealer by trading standards is to be warned of the associated risks. It is important to understand that a purchaser has no legal protection or comeback on acquiring a vehicle from this outlet. In other words if the vehicle you purchase is not legitimate you are stuck with it. Trading Standards advice is anyone wanting to purchase a vehicle should do so through a registered business and not from road side vendors.

• THE COUNTY COUNCIL cabinet have agreed the scheme to reduce the speed limit on the A50 to 40mph. Also included within the scheme is to fill in the gaps in the central reservation. In the report it was made clear that no enforcement measures would be included and the police responded by saying that they would not be able to enforce this new limit. I had requested that average speed cameras should be included in the scheme otherwise it would be a waste of money, as this was ignored I could not support the scheme. I do however support the

Letter: Keeping dogs under control AS A DOG owner, it is with regret that I pen this article on behalf of Markfield PC, but sadly recent events involving out of control dogs, at the Mayflower Close recreation ground necessitate it.

The parish council owns and manages over 14 acres of publicly accessible open space, the most heavily used of which is the Mayflower Close site. It’s probably the most important open space within Markfield and it caters for a wide range of activities. Over the next few years the PC will be seeking to invest further in its enhancement. It’s very satisfying to see the site so well used, but the parish council is concerned that, should the control of dogs there not improve, personal injuries could happen, the usage of the site may reduce as people are put-off from using it and the village as a whole will lose-out. Legislation on the control of dogs is very clear. It says: It is against the law to let a dog be dangerously out of control anywhere such as: a public place; in a private place (e.g. a neighbour’s house or garden) or in the owner’s home. The law applies to all dogs. Within that context, it then goes on to define “dangerously out of control” as meaning: if it injures someone, or makes someone worried that it might injure them. The parish council will soon be installing new signs at the Mayflower Close site to remind owners about controlling their dogs. We hope they, plus the common sense shown by most dog owners will prevent the recently experienced problems reoccurring.

Tony Lockley - (Chair Markfield Parish Council)

• WHITE LINING and repairs to the pedestrian crossing on Chitterman Way Markfield. Although it has taken some twelve months to get these issues resolved I am pleased to see that they have now been completed to everybody’s satisfaction. We have also had the white lines across the area refreshed making many junctions visible again.

• SPEEDING TRAFFIC continues to be a problem in the area and previous speed watch schemes have identified local residents as the main culprits so I would request that you please respect and stick to the set speed limits. The Police are informed and when resources allow will carry out speed checks, persistent offenders will eventually be caught so be warned.

• THE OFFICIAL HGV routes continue to be monitored. Those who are identified and not adhering to the official routes will face the consequences.

Friendship lowers the pain NEVER underestimate the power of friendship – now it seems that friendships can even help keep pain at bay. A recent study has found that an active social life can actually lead to you having a higher tolerance for physical pain. The study, which appeared in the journal Scientific Reports, investigated the effect of endorphins. As one medical expert explained: “Endorphins are part of our pain and pleasure circuitry. They’re our bodies’ natural painkillers, and also give us feelings of pleasure… One theory suggests that social interactions trigger positive emotions when endorphin binds to opiod centres in the brain. This gives us that ‘feelgood’ factor that we get from seeing our friends.”

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Greggs Foundation’s Local Community Projects Fund Invites GB Applications THE GREGGS Foundation offers grants to not-for-profit organisations based in local communities in England, Scotland and Wales to deliver projects or provide equipment to people in need at the heart of their local communities.

in new approaches and innovative ideas as well as sustainable approaches to supporting the community of interest. Eligible projects should also be able to demonstrate that they have achieved at least one of the following Key Performance Targets for their beneficiaries: • Decreased social isolation. • Improved health and wellbeing. • Improved resilience/coping mechanisms. • Improved life skills. • Improved opportunities. The Local Community Projects Fund is administered by seven charity committees throughout Great Britain. The deadline for applications is 3 March 2017. For more information and to apply visit https://www. greggsfoundation.org.uk/grants/ local-community-projects-fund

The Greggs Foundation’s Community Projects Fund provides grants of up to £2,000 to not-forprofit organisations in England, Scotland and Wales for projects or for providing equipment for people in need at the heart of local communities. These include people who are: • Disabled or suffering chronic illness. • Living in poverty. • Voluntary carers. • Homeless. • Isolated older people. • Living with other demonstrable significant needs. Eligible projects should improve resilience within a community of interest and can include sessional activities/respite support, equipment for sessional activities, trips and residential breaks. The Foundation is also interested

Coming up at The Coach & Horses in Markfield • General Knowledge Quiz: Every Thursday and Sunday 9pm start. • Open Mic Night: Every Tuesday. • Karaoke: Fortnightly on Saturday 22nd October and 5th & 19th November • Saturday 15th October: Rachel Paul singing Soul, Motown & Disco • Saturday 29th October 5pm - 7pm Children’s Halloween Workshop with pumpkin carving etc. • Saturday 12th November from 8pm: Bedazzled Tribute Band.

Have your say on the clean neighbourhoods policy

PEOPLE in Hinckley & Bosworth are being invited to have their say on a suggested update to the Borough Council’s environmental and enforcement policy and procedures. The council wants to hear people’s views on what is being done to keep neighbourhoods clean in the light of recent changes to legislation. For example, the policy now includes a reference to Public Space Protection Orders (PSPO), which are a new measure to deal with activities carried out in a public space that have a detrimental effect on the local community’s quality of life. A breach of a PSPO is a criminal offence and can result in a £100 fixed penalty fine. Councillor Mark Nickerson, the council’s Executive Member for Neighbourhood Services, said: “Anti-social behaviour affects everyone and these tough new regulations will help us create a better environment for us all, and are a welcome tool in our armoury against this sickening behaviour.” The consultation is open until Wednesday 26 October 2016. There is more information available, and a chance to take part in the consultation, via the council’s website at: www.hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk/cleanneighbourhoods

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Talk about Stanton Village traffic stoppers! Hall News CREATIVE artists have decorated European truck trailers to look like the sides are missing, and the products they are hauling are painted on the sides and back. Thanks to Brenda Featherstone for emailing the details.

If you have visited the hall in the past, then you will know that the acoustics were not good. Now they are brilliant and every word of the film came over crystal clear. Our next showing is the musical version of Phantom of the Opera on 19th November. Please come along. Now that autumn is here, the Entertainments Committee has turned its attention to organising a children’s Halloween Party. This will be on 29th October. Keep an eye out on our Facebook page and posters for full details. Also in the pipeline is a Christmas Fayre on 11th December – ideal for all your Christmas treats. The word Treats leads me on to our Coffee Morning. I mentioned

• The first one (above) is of a bottle of beer and looks so real, like it is coming out the side of the trailer. • The one on the right is of Pepsi cases and they are all stacked on the ceiling, and the bottom of the trailer is empty.

in last month’s Herald that the idea of a Soup and Cob during the winter months had been mooted. This idea turned out to be popular, so in order to accommodate this and the revised times of the Mobile Library (11.15 to 12 noon at the school), Coffee Morning will now start at 11.30 and finish at 1.00pm, with soup available from 12 noon. We will be starting this on 18th October. MARK STEPHENS Chairman Stanton under Bardon Village Hall Trust

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• The third example is of another truck with the windshield facing the back and there has been a driver painted in the driver’s seat looking back over his shoulder to appear like he is driving backwards. (Now this one is just plain scary, even when the German reads ‘On the wrong way?’)

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SEPTEMBER saw the showing of the film Dad’s Army in the hall and, wow, what a difference the new acoustic panels made.

Markfield Parish Council is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified contractors, for its forthcoming 2017-2020 grounds maintenance contract. The contract will go out to tender later this year and will commence Spring 2017. It will cover grass, shrub, hedge maintenance on parish council owned land, including the cemetery, which in total cover approximately 14 acres. For more information about this contract please contact Dawn Murby, Parish Clerk on 07989 169044 or email: dmurby@hotmail.co.uk All expressions of interest must be submitted by 22nd November.

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Markfield Medical Centre Patient Participation Group (PPG) AT OUR MEETING in September the group were presented with the contents of the North West Leicestershire GP Limited Annual Report. Markfield Medical Centre is one of the practices within the North West Leicestershire GP Federation. Other practices who are part of the Federation are Whitwick Road Surgery, Broom Leys Surgery, Castle Donington Surgery, Castle Medical Group, Manor House Surgery, Long Lane Surgery, Hugglescote Surgery, Ibstock House Surgery, Measham Medical Unit, The Family Practice, The Surgery, Ashby, and Whitwick Health Centre 1 and 2. Each practice has a Director who represents their practice on the federation. During the formation of the NWL federation in the early months it was a priority for the GP Directors that the Federation should provide the opportunity for innovation and a new way of working across the NWL practices and the wider health community. Several objectives were agreed for the first year which included:Encouraging all practices to move to a single clinical computer system. This would support the federation in developing services where patients could be treated at another practice rather than go

to Hospital. Practices would then with the patients consent be able to access medical records of patients who are not registered at their practice. For practices migrating to a new clinical system is a major step and involves retraining of all Doctors and staff on the new system. Markfield Medical Centre faced this challenge in April this year and the Doctors and staff are pleased that they are now in a strong position to support the Federation with the development of new services for patients. The provision of a weekend access service was another priority, and this has been working successfully since roll out in December 2015. The practice were asked to identify patients who were at risk of emergency admission and who had an up to date care plan in place. These patients were then issued with a patient passport which provided them with details of a GP to call at the weekend if they needed care. The GP was then able to treat and reassure the patient over the telephone or alternatively if a visit was needed the Out of Hours service would be contacted. The federation has also been able to develop a more streamlined approach to delivering community based services which have included the federation wide provision of

The Churches Together in Markfield Holiday Club On Monday 25th to Wednesday 27th July, at Markfield Methodist Church, Churches Together in Markfield (CTiM) held another very successful Holiday club. Last year we ‘went Bananas’, but this year we were Pirates! OOoo Arrr! The focus was on Paul, and his life, including the story of his shipwreck. We were thrilled that we had more children come along this year, and they had great fun right from the start with a mix of craft activities from making their own pirate hats to balancing parrots (cardboard ones!). The younger children enjoyed working out which boats floated best using paper, silver foil and plasticene for their experiments. We all participated in singing songs and encouraging those children brave enough to undertake the ‘Walking the plank’ challenge – this did not actually involve walking the plank, but the challenges were quite messy at times! Some of the adults had their own challenge when they acted in the pirates play, but the children entered into the spirit of the drama and shouted out their encouragement and advice. Games helped the children to work together and support each other. It was fantastic to see the way that the children grew in their confidence and care for others. The opportunity to share the Good News of Jesus was the worthwhile focus of all that we shared together. On the following Sunday morning the final session took the form of the CTiM service, when everyone got an opportunity to join in the fun! Thanks to all those who helped in any way, especially those who prayed for this venture, to Revd Joy Langford for her initiative and enthusiasm and to Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council for their contribution to the finances. It was a great team effort and well worthwhile. Thank you.

NEQAS registration (the quality monitoring service for patients on warfarin), INR star subscriptions, and procurement of testing strips. This is some of the background and work that the federation has achieved to improve patient services and there is now a 4 year strategic plan which will see further development and provide more examples of practices working together. The Federation is a way for all these practices to work much more closely together and share their expertise and facilities to provide care to each others patients that might otherwise require the patient having to go to the hospital.

The power of fruit PLEASE EAT more fruit. Eating a piece each day significantly lowers your risk of having a heart attack or stroke. In fact, a recent Oxford University study has concluded that a piece of fruit each day can even have similar effects to taking a statin. Although Oxford researchers do NOT recommend swapping statins for fruit, they do say that increasing fruit in your diet may provide an extra boost if you are at risk of heart problems. About 17.5 million people are currently eligible for statins in Britain, which means that most men over 60 and most women over 65 are offered the drug. But many stop taking the pills within a year because of muscle pain, weakness and fatigue. The research was published in Science Translational Medicine.

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Affordable homes by Bad luck turns to good landowners can help for a local Buzzard! solve rural housing crisis “LANDOWNERS should be encouraged to build and manage their own affordable housing in the countryside to help solve the housing crisis.” That is the message CLA President Ross Murray delivered at the National Housing Federation conference. Ahead of the debate with other professionals in the housing industry about the barriers to building affordable homes in the countryside, Mr Murray said landowners were keen to build and manage their own affordable housing and were best placed to deliver this because of their economic role within the community. However, he said there are not enough incentives to encourage more landowners to bring sites forward and manage them. He said: “Landowners have strong multi-generational ties to their communities and are often local employers, they wish to sustain that community for future generations, and long-term investment in affordable housing is an excellent way of doing this. “However, it is important to recognise that developing market houses for sale is a more profitable enterprise than providing affordable housing to rent so there needs to be a range of incentives to encourage landowners to invest for the longer term.” Other motivators the CLA advocates for encouraging more landowners to bring sites forward for affordable homes are: • allowing landowners nomination rights for who lives in an affordable property they have built, for example, a retired agricultural worker, • adding affordable rental housing to the asset classes eligible for conditional exemption from inheritance tax upon death and, • extending capital gains rollover relief on sale proceeds when a landowner sells land as a rural exception site development. This should also apply for 100% affordable housing or for Section106 mixed market and affordable housing sites where the affordable housing contribution is 20% above the requirement set in the local plan.

THE MORNING of Tuesday 13th September staff at Redgate Farm Animal Sanctuary received an unusual call from workers at the local quarry.

Could they possibly take urgent delivery of an injured buzzard who was in shock after flying into a wire fence and then falling in to a water tank. Rescue centres are used to this type of query and luckily we have a very good contact, Jeff, whose life is dedicated to working with rescued birds of prey and owls. The shocked and confused bird was duly delivered to the Markfield sanctuary and put into a large dog crate in a quiet, darkened room. Luckily Jeff arrived within half an hour and took his new patient - now named ‘Bardon Buzzard’ – back to his own sanctuary just up the A50. After a check-up and eleven days of peace and good food, ‘Bardon’ was released back over Bardon Hill in the early morning of Saturday 24th September, (a warm and sunny day), and is now circling happily in the thermals, concentrating on not repeating his recent experience!

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Enjoy a great night out in Bagworth! YOU NEED your diary, calendar or wherever you put important dates. The date not to be missed is 7 for 7.30 pm Friday 28th October at Bagworth Community Centre. We have been lucky enough to book Howden-Jones. Kate Howden and Paul Jones are singer-songwriters, based in The North West of England, who have that special magic that captivates the audience in a unique, intimate atmosphere. Stripped back, gritty, often poignant, sometimes humorous, observations that reflect life’s ups and downs, their show is a family friendly mixture of songs, tunes and stories that has the audience joining in, singing along, and laughing as they share their travelling experiences through their music and northern-tinged banter. Specialising in playing at Village Halls and Community Venues, they celebrate England in all its guises good and bad, particularly rural village life, including nature and the seasons. With powerful harmony, skilled musicianship and beautiful arrangements, they write all their own material and between them play, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo and bodhran. Kate and Paul continue travelling all over the country playing at Village Halls, Churches and Community Venues. In the past 5 years they created their ‘beautiful music in beautiful places’ Tour, and have been sharing their music and stories, often meeting friendly and fascinating people and visiting some wonderful, unusual venues in sometimes remote and always beautiful areas along the way. The 2016 Tour is called ‘No Halls Barred’. As contemporary musicians they enjoy exploring the acoustic sound of each unique venue and use no effects. Their show has been described as, ‘relaxed and enchanting’ and ‘an absolute delight’, ‘their joy, talent and good humour were infectious’, ‘music for all ages’. “Wonderful songs, gentle anecdotes and delicious leg-pulling ... a gem of an evening.” Quarndon Village Hall, Derbyshire. “Heartfelt songs rooted in a love for people, places and nature.” Staveley Roundhouse Theatre, Cumbria. You can find out more information and hear examples of their music by visiting, www.howdenjones.co.uk Admission is £8. The bar will be open and there will be a raffle. This is too good an evening to miss and you would have to pay far more for this quality of entertainment at other venues. For tickets call 01530 230429. Book early to avoid disappointment. The other event this month is the Pre-Hallowe’en Disco on Saturday 22nd October from 7 pm. Admission is a £1 donation for each adult. There will be prizes for Fancy Dress and other competitions will take place throughout the evening.

How joining a choir can actually keep cancer at bay THIS SOUNDS unlikely, but it seems that singing in a choir can help many cancer patients stay in remission. The collaborative research carried out by Tenovus Cancer Care and the Royal College of Music has discovered that choral singing can help to increase levels of your immune proteins, reduce your stress and improve your mood – all factors which help prevent cancer from returning. Dr Ian Lewis, director of Tenovus, explains: “We’ve long heard anecdotal evidence that singing in a choir makes people feel good, but this is the first time it’s been demonstrated that the immune system can be affected by singing. It’s really exciting and could enhance the way we support people with cancer in the future.” The study was published in ecancermedicalscience.

I’m very English really. I even ordered a book on the internet called ‘How to Have Absolutely Nothing to do with Your Neighbours.’ Unfortunately, I was out when it was delivered. Told my wife I wanted our kids every other weekend and she reminded me that we’re married and live together so I’d have to see them every day.

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Communities need to press on with neighbourhood plans Borough Councillor Matthew Lay writes in the Herald

E HAD some positive news on the planning front this month, which was a little unexpected but nevertheless pleasing. The application to build 140 houses at the top of Ratby Lane, which had already been turned down by the Borough Council last February, left many including myself expecting the formality of the developers appealing against this decision to the Secretary of State. The developers have up to 6 months to register an appeal and in this instance they have not done so, meaning the decision of the Borough Council stands. I had thought this news would have been come earlier, but the date by which the clocks starts ticking on this is actually when the Borough Council formally notify the developers of the decision and the reasons for this. This apparently took four weeks to do, so it is only in the past week that the 6 month window closed. The application was controversial at the time of its submission because the site in question was not in the Borough Council’s site allocations document and Markfield already had enough housing being developed to meets its forward-looking housing needs. More concerning was the potential impact on local key services like the local schools and GP practice. Both the schools have increasing rolls and space is at a premium. Without the likely investment required it could have led to both schools having to turn down pupils which would have been wrong. It would also have increased yet again the amount of traffic feeding on to the A50/A511 and put further pressure on the Field Head roundabout. It is unclear why the developers have not proceeded with an appeal, one can only speculate and I have heard of a couple of reasons for this but whatever it is, it should be welcomed, even if it only gives us temporary respite from more challenges to come. It will certainly save the Parish Councils of Markfield and Groby precious resources as they were going to secure additional legal assistance to represent them at any formal appeal to ensure local concerns were fully taken on board. The next steps for all local communities in our Borough is to press on with the development of neighbourhood plans and to ensure these get ratified. These plans

Matthew Lay

The new Amazon distribution centre at Ellistown is likely to increase the traffic on the already congested A50/A511 should strengthen the ability of local communities to determine where any development should take place according to housing need and the priorities of local people. The issue will be what is the housing need and who determines this. I think allowing for some moderate housing growth is sensible over a period of time but suddenly forcing communities to absorb hundreds of houses over a short time span can cause harm to established communities, especially if resources to support local infrastructure does not follow to compensate for the additional demand. I have been pushing the Borough Council to put more resources into neighbourhood planning and to support local communities to better self determine the direction of travel when it comes to new development. I am pleased to say that the Council have now agreed to do this if demand from communities is clear. All Parish Councils should have the opportunity to develop a neighbourhood plan over the next few years and get additional support to do this.

A50/A511 WHAT A neighbourhood plan will not help with, is the growing issues surrounding the A50/A511. The A50/A511 is heading towards being the busiest road in Leicestershire if you discount the motorways. The further addition of the huge Amazon distribution centre on the road to Ellistown alongside other substantial warehousing developments and huge proposed housing developments to the east of Coalville, all of which will feed onto the A50/A511, causes me and many others genuine concerns. Already the traffic at the Flying Horse and the Field Head roundabouts is

getting ridiculous at rush hour. Roads that were designed 40 years ago were not built to withstand this volume of traffic and they have not been substantially improved since. Its simply that the volume is too great and yet this makes almost no difference to those who drive these plans forward. The powers that be like to call it progress and then wonder why people perceive their quality of life to be going in the wrong direction. If they want to expand industrial units and housing to the levels currently anticipated, other avenues need

exploring. The reopening of the Burton/Leicester railway line is an absolute necessity if nothing else it could shift the huge increase in planned freight off the roads. Why I ask, was the Amazon site not built with a connection to the nearby rail line and made a condition of the application. The A50/A511 will in time exert a very negative influence on our communities possibly made worse by the recent decision to introduce a new 40mph speed limit for the A50 up to County Hall. The new speed limit is unlikely to do anything to make the road safer and already the police have gone on the record to say they will not enforce it. Still, if the traffic builds up at the rate predicted the speed limit might as well be put at 30mph as people get stuck in ever growing queues for longer and longer periods of the day.

Matthew

New Community Choir launched REGISTERED charity Shuttlewood Clarke Foundation are pleased to announce the formation of a new community choir. Helen Baxter, Activities Coordinator at the Foundation, said “We are delighted to be launching a new Community Choir here at the Foundation. We welcome all ages and abilities and encourage you to come along to our taster workshop to have go.” She added “The choir will continue weekly in term time, with the opportunity to become involved in workshops and informal events. It’s a fantastic way to make new friends and have fun!” The free choir taster session will take place on Tuesday 22nd November at 1.00pm at the fabulous new Ulverscroft Activity Centre, Priory Lane, Ulverscroft, Leicestershire, LE67 9PH Choir leader Steve Johnson said “At the session you will learn a little more about the real essentials for singing, which are, how to relax your body, how to breathe and how to listen. “The choir will be part of a network of community choirs that run across the country led by members of the Natural Voice Practitioners Network (NVPN). We look forward to seeing you there!” If you require further details or wish to attend the session please call Helen Baxter on 01530 244914 or email helen@shuttlewood-clarke.org

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Markfield Community and Sports Centre News MAYFLOWER CLUB UPDATE Visit to Abbey Pumping Station

She explained how by doing moderate exercise over 150 minutes per week (only 21 minutes a day) can build up muscular strength, improve mental health, keep the brain active, limit the time spent being sedentary and make you feel better in yourself. The session concluded with a taster session of Tai Chi. We have many clubs and sessions at the Centre where you can join in with moderate exercise so, if you would like to improve your well being just pop in and see what takes your fancy. The below is a list of activities coming up at the Mayflower Club over the coming months.

• • • • • • • • • ON WEDNESDAY 21st September members of the club visited the Abbey Pumping Station in Leicester. What an amazing place it is and it just shows how ingenious and impressive Victorian planners and builders were. We started off with a guided walk down in the bowels of the pumping station seeing how the boilers were fed and burnt. Not a place for the fainthearted, very spooky, dark and damp. We then climbed the three stories to view and learn all about the beam engines, condensers and pistons. We then had a special treat by being taken outside to a very large store where there was an amazing collection of old Leicester City Buses, bicycles, fire engines, steam rollers, steam engines and even a vintage ELECTRIC powered 1960’s mini car. My favourite was a 1930’s pristine coal fired fish and chip van. All of these vehicles are maintained and restored by a team of dedicated volunteers. We still had time to wander around the Pumping Station’s museum which contained numerous artifacts including old toilet systems, days gone by household laundry and washing equipment and implements, a replica bicycle shop and much more. It brought back many memories of what our parents and even grand parents used to toil with to keep the house and washing clean. Thank goodness for modern equipment. If you have never been, the Pumping Station is well worth a visit. It is free to enter and you can book a guided tour for only £2. PHOTOGRAPH

Feel Alive From 65 DURING THE Feel Alive from 65 Week, Kate Webb from AGE UK came along to one of our sessions to promote the importance of keeping active.

19th October: Conkers Championship 26th October: Halloween Party 2nd November: Day at the Races 9th November: A Life Story 16th November: Soup and Sing 23rd November: Prize Bingo and Play Your Cards Right 30th November: Fire Safety in the Home 7th December: Christmas Table Decorations 14th December: Christmas Party

If you would like to join in DON’T BE SHY just turn up at the Centre on Wednesday afternoons 2pm to 4pm. You will meet some lovely people and have some fun as well as getting good information on things that affect your life and wellbeing. It only costs £1 per session and you get a “cuppa” and biscuits included and all new members will be most welcome

MARKFIELD COMMUNITY RUNNERS BY POPULAR request we have been asked to start a new Running Club at the Centre. This new club will be for people of all ages and ability who either wish to improve their health by gently building up running as an exercise to those who want to achieve longer and more taxing running. We aim to provide safe running routes, running partners as well as courses for potential run leaders. We are submitting a bid to the Leicestershire Voluntary Service to raise funds for running kit and training so, if you are interested we would really like to hear from you.

BOOK THE CENTRE FOR BOOKINGS and enquiries please contact Markfield Centre and Sports, Mayflower Close, Markfield LE67 9ST on 01530 242240. Or email: markfieldcomunitycentre@hotmail.co.uk or you can visit our website www.markfield communitycentre.com to view our facilities, latest news, photo gallery and information about the Centre. A modest charge of £10 per room will be made for room hire. This fee is very competitive to other venues in the area and will continue to save you money.

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Now the Royal Society for Public Health is suggesting that food packaging should tell you just that sort of information. It seems that many health experts feel that the current calorie counts and ‘traffic lights’ systems are just too confusing. Instead, suppose for example a can of fizzy drink made clear it would take you 26 minutes to burn off the calories. It might indeed make you think twice. Such ‘activity equivalent’ labelling may well prompt people to be more mindful of the energy they consume, and how these calories relate to actual activities in their daily lives. Meanwhile, a study recently published by Imperial College has shown that nearly four in 10 Britons will be obese by 2025, driven by a lack of exercise and over-consumption of processed foods. Health problems linked to obesity include ten types of cancer, Type 2 diabetes, and heart disease.

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How a Messy Bedroom Can Affect Your Weight YOUR MOTHER may have told you to tidy your room, and she was right. Sleep guru Alison Francis (pictured right), who is better known by her guru name, Anandi confirms the reasoning behind keeping the bedroom free from clutter. A lack of sleep can come down to a number of contributing factors such as stress and an unbalanced diet. The bedroom should be a place for sleep and relaxation, however a cluttered or dusty setting will not lead to a good night’s slumber. The feeling of being soothed and refreshed when entering a tidy beautiful space allows the build-up of the day’s stresses to diminish. Anandi said, “Your bedroom is a sacred space. As soon as you walk across the threshold you should feel the tension melt away. Having scented candles, flowers and something that represents the spirit - such as a small altar with perhaps a crystal, or an image of a great spiritual teacher - can help you relax and sleep better. “Curing sleep issues is a question of balance and absolutely holistic. One thing on its own is unlikely to work, but addressing all areas in your life will bring your body and mind back into equilibrium. “Sleep deprivation can affect your weight, in that your metabolism can become out of balance. Two hormones in particular can cause this this to happen – Ghrelin and Leptin. Ghrelin, sends messages that tell you to go and eat and tends to be more present when you are sleep deprived. When there are higher levels of Ghrelin within the body, you will crave more food and in particular, sugar. The hormone Leptin sends messages that tell you to stop eating which is less present when sleep deprived.”

David Winter looks back on the start of a world-wide phenomenon

THE WAY I SEE IT: 80 years of BBC television SOME THINGS seem to have been around forever, and among them, I suppose, is television. Most people alive today can’t remember a time when the TV set didn’t stand in the living room. So it is worth noting that 80 years ago this month BBC television went on the air for the first time. I remember working in a studio at the front of Broadcasting House, and reading the plaque on the wall recording that the world’s first television transmission was made from there in 1932. It was not technically a ‘broadcast’, because in fact it was simply a successful experiment. Four years later regular evening programmes went on air from the BBC television studios at Alexandra Palace, north London. And look at it now! Some people would say that we are now in the ‘post-television’ age. On the whole young adults don’t watch television, in the normal sense, but stream or download the content when it suits them, on various ‘platforms’. World-wide, however, television is still the universal medium of mass communication. Elections are won or lost on it, reputations built and shattered, genius recognised and incompetence or error instantly ridiculed on social media. It is an unforgiving medium, yet most of us, I suspect, would miss it enormously. I like to think of television as simply rather sophisticated gossip. Most of it is the sort of thing my parents talked about with neighbours over the garden fence. Only instead of ‘that Mrs Jones at No.72’ it’s ‘that woman with glasses on Bake Off ’. We feel as though we know – and like or dislike - all these important, dazzling and gifted people personally. Indeed, TV personalities often remark how people on a train or even in the street will assume they know them and start up a conversation. And why not? It’s important, surely, that we treat television as an accessory of life, not its substance. Neither we, nor the people who make it, should take television too seriously.

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News from Bardon Park Chapel www.bardonchapel.co.uk

‘Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.’ Proverbs 3:5-6 FAMILY WORSHIP SERVICE: Every Sunday morning at 10.30am. THURSDAY ART CLASS: Between 7pm and 9.00pm. The class tutor is a retired art teacher. THE MONTHLY PRAISE MEETING: 1st Saturday in each month at 3.00pm. Enjoy a lively time of singing, encouragement, fellowship, testimonies and uplifting messages. CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE: Sunday, 11th December at 6.00pm. Bardon Park Chapel, Shaw Lane, Bardon, Coalville LE67 1TD There is a large car park at the back. For more details on any of the above please contact: Richard Norburn on Tel: 01530 242526

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Markfield Local History Group news AT THE SEPTEMBER meeting of the Markfield Local History Group, Michael Ball gave a talk entitled ‘A timeline of ecclesiastical history and the rise of Nonconformity in Markfield (Mercenfeld) and its neighbouring parishes AD 1200 to 1900’. He used information from a range of historical documents to give an insight into the life of the church over the centuries. Apparently, one vicar of Markfield in the medieval period had to go to court for chasing wild animals! There were links between Markfield village and Ulverscroft Priory, before the Dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century. In 1503 the priory gave bread to Markfield at a time when the villagers were suffering from plague. At the Reformation, during the reign of Henry VIII, we learnt that the vicar of Markfield, Thomas Whalley, earned £4:00 per annum, which was considerably less than the clergy in other parts of Leicestershire. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth I any person who did not take Holy Communion would be fined – initially one old shilling but this quickly increased to a £20 fine which only the very rich could pay! In 1645, during the siege of Leicester which formed part of the English Civil War, Captain Robert Sykes of Markfield led his men into Leicester having broken through Rupert’s Gateway. It was fascinating to learn that John Bunyan, the author of ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’, was one of the Roundhead soldiers who occupied Leicester and was due to be on sentry duty at Rupert’s Gateway. However, another soldier took his place and was killed. Had Bunyan not survived, then his famous work would not have been written. We learnt that Rupert’s Gateway, in Leicester, where John William Purefoy, rector of Markfield, was removed from his Bunyan was due to be on sentry duty living in 1643 but was restored in 1662 when Charles II was King. By 1646, non conformists were appearing in Leicestershire, for example there were both Quakers and Baptists in Glenfield . Gradually, non-conformists were allowed to worship in their own ways. Bardon Chapel, near Markfield, is approximately 300 years old and a good example of a very early non-conformist place of worship. Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, was a non-conformist who met John Wesley and introduced him to the Reverend William Ellis of Markfield. In 1741 Wesley was invited by Selina to stay in Markfield and over time he preached 13 sermons here. There is a plaque near St. Michael’s church Gate which tells of his visits. The 19th century saw the building of a number of Methodist Churches in the Bardon Chapel village and also a Congregational church. The talk finished with a lively discussion regarding the chronology and denominations of the various Church buildings in the village in the 19th Century and how this may have changed. The oldest Methodist chapel in the village is near St.Michael’s Church and has now been transformed into two dwellings. The next meeting of the group is on Tuesday 15th November when Laurence Lock will present a talk entitled ‘’A virtual pub crawl through Victorian Leicester’. Visitors are most welcome. Watch out for adverts nearer the time!

For more information about the Markfield Local History Group, visit the website at www.markfieldhistory.btck.co.uk

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Clarification of item in draft minutes FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLARIFICATION, Markfield Parish Council have asked us to point out that the company, Keller & Keller construction, mentioned in the draft minutes of the July 2016 Markfield Parish Council minutes, which we published last month, is in no way related to the local electrical contractors Kneller & Kneller.

• Incidents of anti-social behavior Community Centre and Mayflower Close: In August Mrs M Bowler had attended a meeting at the Community Centre to discuss the anti-social behaviour caused by youths. About 20 residents attended the meeting which included PCSO R Heath and the IMPACT Team. The residents had said that this had been going on for about 4 years now, with youths in cars, urinating in the street, littering and knocking on windows etc. The clerk should write to the area sergeant to confirm the Parish Council’s offer of £500 to the police to help cover part of the cost of a CCTV camera. • Casual vacancy: - The clerk had advertised the vacancy for 1 month and no applications had been received at this time. • Leicestershire County Council – Urban Grass Cutting: Guidance was awaited from the Director as to the approach for next year’s (2017) grass cutting. The clerk was contacted by an officer from Leics County Council and was promised the SLA and grass cutting schedule by the end of July both an email copy and a paper copy – neither had been received. She had tried to ring back via customer services on many occasions but without success. Mr D Sprason added that this was because the staffing levels at Leics County Council had radically being reduced over the last few years. • Markfield Parish Council website: The clerk stated that the new Parish Council website had now been built by Parish Council Webites and that she had just received the log in details and

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Parish Council email addresses which she would forward on shortly. • BTE Plant Hire expansion: Mr D Sprason, Mr T Lockley, Mr M Lay and some residents had met up with Mr B Elliott to discuss the development. Mr D Sprason stated BTE were planning to turn the most of the buildings into mainly new office space. Mr M Lay added that there were no plans to expand operations. • Road side car sales adjacent to the Field Head Roundabout: Mr D Sprason stated that the continued cars sales had been reported to Trading Standards, who had produced a leaflet to deter potential buyers. • Rural grass and hedge cutting: Mr D Sprason stated that verges were still being missed and had repeatedly complained about this especially around South Charnwood, Little Shaw Lane and Stanton Under Bardon. • White Lining: Mr D Sprason stated that the pedestrian crossing on Chitterman Way was barely visible now and many of the junctions around the village needed the white lines renewing. He had repeated reported this to Leics Highways over the last 12 months and had many acknowledgements that the work to the pedestrian crossing would be done shortly. • 120 bus service: Mr D Sprason stated that the service still had 18 months to run on the contract, so the service would not be affected in the short term. Before Leics County Council could make any changes, a public consultation would need to be undertaken. • Public footpath running over farmland – Ratby Lane

(Taylor Wimpey): The landowner had talked to Mr T. Lockley about installing some kissing gates along this footpath, to help control his cows when moving them between fields. Mr Lockley advised him to talk to Andrew Poole (Rights of Way officer) at the LCC. He also agreed that a kissing gate at the Ratby Lane end of the path could bring safety benefits. • Footpath underpass under A50: Mr B Gannon reported the underpass was overgrown, full of litter and debris. • Request for “Pelican crossing” Ratby Lane: Mr D Sprason and the clerk had been copied into a letter to LCC Highways from Mr B Mingay, Chairman of Markfield Retirement Village Residents Assoc, regarding a request for a “pelican” type crossing over Ratby Lane. • Bardon Hill Quarry – Public Path (Temporary) Creation and Stopping Up Order: No formal objections were received to the making of the Order and the alternative routes have now been constructed to the satisfaction of the Director of Environment and Transport. The Order was confirmed on 5th August as an unopposed Order. • Miners’ Welfare Institute: - Mr T Lockley stated that the

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Congregational Church Hall - 6-7pm Thursdays 27th Oct, 24th Nov Come for as long as you wish and leave when you want. Refreshments available. All are welcome. There will be no ‘Reflection’ in August or September

NEIGHBOURHOOD overgrown vegetation, fallen down • Strategic Housing and PLANNING REPORT: - Mr gates and the poor condition of Economic Land Availability T Lockley had contacted the building was affecting the Assessment (SHELAA): Resolved, Newtown Linford, Groby and visual appearance of the area the parish council would propose stalls,Site raffle, refreshments etcland adjacent to Ratby Parish Councils about the in contravention of Untidy to include the draft Neighbourhood Plan area Legislation and should be reported the Community car park, Saturday 3rd September - 9am toCentre 12.00noon approved at the previous meeting to the Borough Copt Council. was also Hall offField Mayflower OakItMemorial – LE67Close, 9QB for future and offered to meet with their agreed that 132 Main Street should next to Copt development. Oak Pub respective chairs to discuss this also be reported, as the • All The Community Library ~ Stalls set updebris 8am ~and Cars £5 ~ other vehicles £8 ~ matter further. over grown vegetation was having ~ Public admission 9am ~ Entrance 50p ~ children free ~hours report: Extended opening a detrimental visualBooking impact advisable on the No definitive response had been numerous activities provided @and 0116 267 4746 street scene within a conservation Ample free parking received from Newtown Linford at the library during the school area. PC. Ratby PC didn’t want that part Proceeds for St summer Peter’s holiday Church, Copt to Oak appear have of their parish shown on the draft • Environmental been very successful. It should plan including in the Markfield Improvement Scheme be noted that this would not Neighbourhood Plan. Groby PC 2016/2017: A further proposal have been possible without our replied that they’d like to explore was put forward; the installation of volunteers who have covered working on a joint plan for their another two planters along Main Are youthe extra times and Beverley in control of your money... or Bell do your finances control Can you save parish along with Ratby and Street junction with Uplands Drive; and her teamyou? who have planned up to pay for the things you need... or do Markfield. It was agreed that MR this would be 120cm x 120cm and organized activity days. you payand for them all ‘later’ - with interest? T Lockley would arrange to meet made of recyclable plastic at a cost Most will be aware of the Come on the people CAP money course (3 weekly Groby and Ratby PCs to discuss this of £2100.00 exc. Vat. activities place due to the sessions) for helpthat withtook building a budget and saving for the It is us suitable for in option. It was however noted that Herald whofuture. supports so much Resolved, proposal was Contact the details: anyone and everyone whatever their the advice from planning officers advertising them. accepted. Mr T Lockley was financial situation–good or bad–and is Steph Beeston-Clarke completely confidential. was for individual parishes to checking withMoney LCC Highways. • BTE: Mr Ben Elliot of BTE very Lead CAP Coach develop their own plans. will be starting in current the Autumn. kindly showed us the plans • stephbc@hotmail.co.uk Taylor Wimpey housing Next course • Jubilee Playing Fields: The he has for empty property, which 01530 243606 development on land south Contact Steph to find out 07572 852684 to and bookayour place. fencing, which was erected in business partner own. of Jacqueline Road: Mr M Laymore orhe Come on your own, late July to prevent motorbikes Although https://capuk.org/i-wantstated that as the Borough Council with a friend or in nothing a group.is yet confirmed it help/cap-money-course/ accessing the JPF from the appears the aim is to revamp most had delayed issuing the notice of course adjoining derelict site, appears to of the buildings to form new offices appeal for a month it would be be achieving that goal. and to improve the building’s later this month for the 6 month frontage too. period from when the decision to refuse was determined. (See Matthew Lay’s article on page 13 for latest news). • Jelson development – 106 monies – An offer of £37,390.06 from Jelson Homes in reference to the POS for the London Road application to transfer the contribution form on site to the Mayflower recreation ground. Resolved, the offer was accepted and this money would be RAISING FUNDS FOR A DEFIBRILLATOR FOR THE VILLAGE! earmarked for expenditure on Maylower Recreation Ground. THURSDAY 27TH OCTOBER 2016 Mr M Lay stated that the Borough BAGWORTH COMMUNITY CENTRE Council was going to enhance the Developing Communities Fund 7-9PM for large projects and the Parish Council would need to contribute FANTASTIC VARIETY OF STALLS TO 25%. The clerk should express FIND THAT INDIVIDUAL GIFT an interest before the deadline of December 2016. DELICIOUS TREATS TO TAKE AWAY OR ORDER IN • Neighbourhood Plans: Mr M TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Lay had been discussing this matter with the Borough Council and they REFRESHMENTS AND RAFFLE had agreed to delegate an officer to help Parish Councils in drawing up PLEASE SUPPORT THIS AMAZING CAUSE WHILE Neighbourhood Plans. He had also GETTING AHEAD WITH YOUR CHRISTMAS been advised to draw up a plan for SHOPPING! Markfield Parish only. Resolved, the Parish Council had FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONTACT JOOLS ON 07805 958393 already expressed an interest.

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Extracts from the Unapproved Minutes of the Stanton under Bardon Parish Meeting held on Tuesday 6th September 2016 at 7.00pm at the Village Hall, Stanton under Bardon. (May be subject to alteration or correction.)

Matters arising from previous minutes

Planning Applications/ Permissions/Refusals

• A Representative from MQP informed the Parish Council that the cherry tree will be pruned after the nesting season has finished. • Inspection report on play equipment. A Separate quote to be obtained to get gates repaired. Agreed that Mr Ian Briggs & Mrs Mary Briggs would obtain a quote, as they were also trying to get a quote for a slide for the under 5’s

County Councillor’s Report • Correction: David Sprason informed the Parish Council that there was an error in 32/16 minutes. The minutes said the council are currently investigating, where as they should state the council had previously investigated the Ivanhoe line and tramway. • Highways: there are issues with grass cutting. David Sprason has spoken to the Assistant Director, amongst others. Stanton Under Bardon is a rural area and had been missed when the verges were cut. Some verges had been done but some were still outstanding. • Budget: The council are in consultation in respect of the budget overspend. Current spend on highways is £27M, further cuts of £10M will be made, leaving £17M. The service will get worse. Repairs to major roads will be a priority and therefore rural areas are likely to suffer. There are non essential areas which will not be maintained, e.g. lay byes. David Sprason will keep an eye on this and asked for support from the Parish Council. • Bus Service with Roberts: There are subsidies on the 120 Service, however the contract has 18 months left to run. The contract is worth £100K, so the County Council will start to look at this next year. David Sprason suggested the Council may want to replace the service with a responsive service. • Council Departments: David Sprason said there were still 6 departments at County Hall, which he believes are not needed. He said there were high paid Executive Posts still being kept, and there should be savings by reducing these posts rather than on front line services.

Parish Properties Recreation Ground – the field is not being mowed as often as it should be. Clerk to contact Brian Mee. Behind the house needs to be strimmed. Brian Mee aware the

fencing at the gateway needs to be repaired and this is being dealt with by the manager, Wayne. All of the play equipment is in good condition. All works have been carried out on the play equipment. Bottom and top allotments inspection, One plot is overgrown and has been for years. The plot holder is to be asked whether he would like to make a decision to terminate his contract, as little bits have been done. Parish Councillors agreed if there had been no previous letter the plot holder is to be asked to tidy his plot, with a review in a month’s time. If there had been a previous letter he is to be given 7 days notice to remove his belongings. Re allocation of plot – another plot was overgrown and had been reallocated to someone else who had cleared the allotment. Notification had been send and no response to either letter had been received, therefore the allotment was reallocated. • Bottom allotment security – Mrs Yeoman’s has had some produce stolen. Some people are also using the allotments to walk their dogs. A new fence will deter this. RESOLVED: Parish Council to get a sign, “Allotment Holders only – No Dogs”. Parish Council to get a lock and chain on the gate. • Allotment shed – Parish Council had agreed to sell shed for £70 in March. Payment has just been received; however the shed has now been re-let. Mr Stuart Bridges has offered the money back. There is a shed on the top allotment from someone who has retired. Parish Council could sell to Ms Cox on behalf of retiree. Parish Council is currently spending a lot of time on discussing allotments, which is not efficient. Parish Council to investigate handing day to day running to an allotment society, or a subcommittee.

a) Erection and operation of emergency S U B station – Mrs Mary Briggs has read the plans. She expressed her concern that the station will be serviced by large 10 wheeler tankers with anticipated 2 – 4 deliveries per week, and whilst the planning application is silent on the route for the vehicles, it was presumed to be Stanton Lane. RESOLVED – Parish Council to object on the grounds there are alternative sites, the site is adjacent to a water course, the vehicle management plan is not acceptable and there will be no jobs which could lead to economic growth. Objections to be registered on Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council planning site.

Correspondence received Mr Wainwright - Gas box outside property. Mr Wainwright has concerns over safety of gas box, especially if someone misses the corner. There are no barriers around the box. Mr & Mrs Wainwright are writing to National Grid. Parish Council do not have jurisdiction but Mr Ian Briggs will write a letter on behalf of the Parish Council supporting and endorsing Mr & Mrs Wrights concerns. Land at the rear of 41, 43, 45 & 47 St John Cole Crescent Land has still not transferred from Persimmon. Moss’s Solicitors are trying to acquire a new map to show the areas. Until this is done there is little the Parish Council can do. Carried forward to next meeting.

Check out the county council accounts online LEICESTERSHIRE County Council has published its 2015/16 financial accounts, which have been audited and finalised. The statements detail the authority’s assets (what it owns), liabilities (what it owes) and the cost of providing services for the last financial year. You can see them at: www.leicestershire.gov.uk/ about-the-council/councilspending/accounts-andpayments

We are not meant to be alone

LONELINESS is bad for your health. Social isolation is known to activate the ‘fight or flight’ stress signal that increases levels of protein fibrinogen, in anticipation of injury and blood loss. But too much of the stuff for too long can lead to raised blood pressure and cause the build-up of fatty deposits in the arteries. Now Harvard researchers have measured protein levels against the numbers of a person’s social network, and found a remarkable correlation. As the number of social connections fall, the level of fibrinogen rises. The loss of ten to 12 friends has the same impact on your health as taking up smoking. The study was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal.

Newbold Verdon Jazz Club News A CAPACITY audience enjoyed a great evening of jazz at Newbold Verdon on Friday October 7th. Doc Houlind’s Revival Allstars treated us to a varied programme of traditional jazz. They are a Danish band and have a style of their own that is very entertaining. Doc Houlind leads the band on drums, and is supported by six other very talented musicians who all played their hearts out for the whole two hours. Judging by the calls for more at the end, I am sure we will all look forward to seeing a return of this band in the future. The next concert is on November 4th when we welcome The Phoenix Jazzmen with Sheila Fawkes. Do come along to Newbold Verdon Social Club and join us. Doors open at 7.00pm and music is from 8.00 – 10.30pm. Admission £9 and drinks at club prices. For more information call Kelvin on 01455 822824 or Pauline on 0116 2865496.

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Markfield Congregational Church 01530 242142 Sunday 16th October 10.00am United Churches Together Service at St Wilfrid’s Roman Catholic Church, Coalville Sunday 23rd October 10.15am Morning Worship

Sunday 6th November 10.30am Morning Service 6.00pm Evening Taizé Service Thursday 10th November 2.00pm - 4.00pm Music Café Sunday 13th November - Remembrance Sunday 10.00am Morning Service 4.00pm Afternoon Café Style Service

Sunday 11th September 10.30 am Holy Communion Sunday 18th September 10.30 am Morning Service

Sunday 25th September 10.30 am “Something Different” Service Sunday 2nd October 10.30 am Holy Communion celebrating Revd Peter Evans 40 years as a priest

Sunday 30th October 10.15am Morning Worship with Sunday Club in Church Hall (To be confirmed).

Sunday 20th November 10.30am Morning Service 6.00pm Evening Communion Service

Sunday 6th November 10.15am Morning Worship followed by Communion

Thursday 24th November 2.00pm - 4.00pm Music Café

Sunday 16th October 10.30 am Morning Service

Sunday 27th November 10.30am United Churches Together Service at Congregational Church 6.00pm No Evening Service.

Sunday 23rd October 10.30 am “Something Different” Service

Sunday 13th November REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY Short Service in our Church starting at 10.00am followed at 10.55am with a United Service at the War Memorial

Cross Hills Baptist Church, between Bagworth & Thornton

St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Markfield

Sunday 9th October 10.30 am Holy Communion

Sunday 30th October 10.30am Single Communion Service at St Peter’s, Thornton

Sunday 20th November 10.30 am Morning Service

Sunday 30th October 10.30am Morning Service

Sunday 16th October 10.00 am Churches Together in Markfield Service at St Wilfred’s RC Church, Coalville 6.00 pm Evening Prayer

Sunday 6th November 10.30am Morning Service

Friday 21st October 8.00 pm “Still Friday”

Sunday 13th November - Remembrance Service 10.45am Morning Service with The Lord’s Supper Please note the later start time

Sunday 23rd October 8.00 am Holy Communion 6.00 pm Evening Service Sunday 30th October 6.00 pm Joint Evening Service

Sunday 23rd October 10.30 am All Age Service

Sunday 20th November 10.30am Morning Service

Sunday 6th November 10.30 am Holy Communion

There is a Sunday Club in our hall for children & young people during the Morning Service. For further details, our contact list is in the Cross Hills News section in this magazine.

Sunday 13th November 10.00 am All Age Remembrance Service 10.50am Churches Together in Markfield Act of Remembrance at the War Memorial 6.00 pm Holy Communion

Wednesday 26th October 10.00 am Midweek Communion and Coffee

Trinity Methodist Church, Markfield Sunday 16th October: 10.00am United Churches Together Service at Roman Catholic Church, Coalville 6.00pm Evening Service Sunday 23rd October 10.30am Morning Service 6.00pm No Evening Service Thursday 27th October 2.00pm - 4.00pm Music Café Sunday 30th October 10.30am Morning Service 6.00pm No Evening Service

Sunday 13th November 10.30 am Remembrance Service

Sunday 27th November 10.30 am “Something Different” Service

St Peter’s Church, Thornton Sunday 16th October 10.30 am Holy Communion

Sunday 30th October 10.30am Single Communion Service Sunday 6th November 3.00 pm Bereavement Memorial Service Sunday 13th November 10.30 am Remembrance Service

Sunday 20th November 10.30 am Open Church 6.00 pm Evening Prayer

Sunday 20th November 10.30 am Holy Communion

St Mary and All Saints’ Church, Stanton under Bardon

Sunday 23rd October 6.00 pm Evening Prayer Sunday 30th October 6.00pm Joint Evening Service at St Michael’s Markfield

Sunday 20th November 9.15 am Holy Communion (said service) Sunday 27th November 6.00 pm Evening Prayer

Friday 18th November 8.00 pm “Still Friday”

Sunday 27th November 8.00 am Holy Communion 10.30am Advent Service at the Congregational Church 6.00 pm Evening Service

Sunday 16th October 9.15 am Holy Communion (said service)

Sunday 13th November 6.00 pm Remembrance Service

Sunday 6th November 10.30 am Morning Service

Sunday 23rd October 10.30am Morning Service

St Peter’s Church, Copt Oak

Sunday 6th November 6.00 pm Holy Communion

10:15-11.30am Sunday Club for Children in the Congregational Hall on the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Sundays, term time. All Age Service in Church on the 2nd Sunday each month.

Sunday 16th October 10.30am Morning Service

Sunday 13th November 10.45 am Act of Remembrance at Bagworth War Memorial

Catholic Church of St Wilfrid of York 53 London Road, Coalville, LE67 3JB Sunday Mass Saturday Vigil: 6 pm Sunday: 10 am See Newsletter on the website for details of weekday Mass times, Benediction & Confessions. Parish Priest: Fr Tom Breslin – 01530 832098, www.stwilfspriest@gmail.com Parish Website: www.stwilfscoalville. blogspot.co.uk St Clare’s R C Primary School, Coalville: 01530 837747, www.st-clares.leics. sch.uk De Lisle RC College, Loughborough: 01509 268739, www.delisle./leics.sch. uk Markfield Masses in the Congregational Church Hall, Main St, beside the Chinese Takeaway: The next Markfield Mass is due to take place on Wednesday 16 November at 7 pm in the Congregational Church Hall. We look forward to seeing everyone then.

Sunday 27th November 10.30 am All Age Service

Holy Rood Church, Bagworth Please note: Services will be at Bagworth Community Centre Sunday 6th November am Holy Communion

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Calling all churches

Give away HOPE this Christmas HOW CAN you bring hope to your community this Christmas? HOPE for Christmas is a 28-page glossy give-away magazine. There are topical features focusing on Christians in the news like Bake Off celebrity Mary Berry and TV adventurer and explorer Bear Grylls. There’s a cartoon re-telling of the nativity story that’s relevant for all ages, plus a behind-the-scenes look at one of Britain’s top football teams from the perspective of the team chaplain. And, 200 years after the carol Silent Night was first written, there’s a feature on the carol plus a quiz on Britain’s top ten carols. Like any popular magazine, there are prizes, puzzles and a challenge: bake a cake or mince pies to give away to a neighbour this Christmas. The aim of HOPE for Christmas is to give churches a top-quality give-away to use door-to-door in your neighbourhood. You can deliver the publication together with your parish magazine; you can insert your own invitation to Christmas events at your church, or add a letter from the vicar or church leader, to make the magazine more personal for your community. HOPE for Christmas is a pilot magazine designed by CPO in the same format as CPO’s Inspire magazine. Churches can receive copies free if you agree to take part in a simple evaluation of the project in January. You simply pay p&p and agree to deliver the magazines door-to-door in December 2016 – ideally stopping for a conversation on the doorstep to connect with people in your community. Contact Catherine Butcher at the HOPE office for more details – cath.butcher@hopetogether.org.uk

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LFE Film Evenings will be showing on Thursday 3rd November 2016 “Dad’s Army”. It is 1944 and World War II is reaching its climax. The Allies are poised to invade France and finally defeat the German army. But in Walmington-onSea morale amongst the Home Guard is low. Their new mission then - to patrol the Dover army base - is a great chance to revive spirits and reputation, that is until glamorous journalist Rose Winters arrives to write about their exploits, setting the pulses racing and putting the local women on red alert. MI5 then discover a radio signal sent direct to Berlin from Walmingtonon-Sea. There’s a spy on the loose! The outcome of the war is suddenly at stake, and it falls to our unlikely heroes to stand up and be counted. Cast: Toby Jones, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sarah Lancashire, Daniel Mays, Michael Gambon, Bill Nighy • Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes. Venue: the Parish Hall, Kings Drive, LFE. Cost: £5. Doors open at 7.00pm when complimentary hot drinks with biscuits will be provided. The show starts at 7.30pm prompt.

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Cats looking for new, forever homes

IS THERE a Herald reader out there who could re-home one of our ‘new’ cats, now out for re-homing, at Redgate Farm Animal Sanctuary, Markfield? Here are just some of the lovely felines looking for new forever homes. They are all neutered and vaccinated, and have been recently examined by a vet. If there is room in your house (and garden) for a new companion, do come and visit our Redgate cats to find your ideal match. The sanctuary is open to the public from 10.30am until 3.30pm every day of the week. Please telephone 01530 243 925 or email: redgate@mail.org

News from Cross Hills Baptist Church Serving the villages of Thornton & Bagworth plus the surrounding area Harvest Service, Sunday 25th September PASTOR GARRY KELLY led this year’s special Harvest service last month, when we were pleased to welcome the Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council Mayor, Richard Allen, and his wife Claire and David Steer, Chairman of the Hinckley Homeless Project. The donations of food and groceries were as usual displayed at the front of the church, reminding us of God’s wonderful provision for us. Continuing with our Harvest tradition, at the beginning of the service our Sunday Club children brought small food baskets and boxes to the front to be put on the Harvest table. During the service David Steer told us about the work that the Project does in Hinckley with homeless young people aged 16 to 25, including some good news stories about those who had been helped to go to college, or some even to University, and to take a positive role in society again. Many of the former residents of Lawrence House, the Project hostel in Hinckley, stay in touch and return to tell of their new lives following the help they have received. The regular funding that the Project used to have, in these times of austerity, has unfortunately come to an end making it even more vital to find funds from other sources to be able to keep the hostel open, so David expressed his sincere thanks to everyone at Cross Hills for their regular ongoing support and particularly for all the Harvest groceries and produce which he took to Lawrence House after the service. A special collection was also made which raised £50 and which has been sent on to the Project. Pastor Garry also reminded us during the service of the many places in the world where there is no harvest, only bombs and bullets and parched ground. A short quiz about Syria in particular made us aware of how little we actually know about that country and the people constantly being displaced by the civil war, even though we regularly see such terrible and heart-breaking news reports on our TV’s. There was much food for thought during this service for those of us who are so fortunate to live in a land of plenty.

Operation Christmas Child 2016 Shoebox Appeal DETAILS of what you will need to join in with this year’s appeal were in the September issue of the Herald.

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You can get the leaflets you need to take part at Thornton Corner Shop or Stanton Post Office or from Glynis and David Straw at 110 Main Street, Thornton (or ring them on 01530 230272). The new ‘Go’ boxes are available from us too (to use instead of finding and wrapping a shoebox) – these are 50p each and are flat-pack, already decorated and fold into a box ready to fill. Don’t forget that the leaflet includes a label for the outside of the box and an envelope (to be put inside the box) for the £3 donation to cover transportation costs, to make sure that the boxes reach the children they are intended for. If you prefer, your donation can be made online - the leaflet tells you how to do this – and you will then be told which country your box was sent to. DEADLINES FOR DROPPING YOUR BOX OFF Boxes can be brought to any of the Cross Hills church Sunday morning services at 10.30am between 16th October and 13th November. Boxes can be brought up to 14th November to 110 Main Street, Thornton (or to 108 or 106 Main St) ALL BOXES MUST BE COMPLETED BY THE LATEST 14TH NOVEMBER PLEASE You can watch stories about the shoeboxes at www. operationchristmaschild.org.uk Details of our Services are in the Church Service Information section in this magazine. We serve tea and coffee after our services and offer friendship to anyone visiting for the first time. Contact Numbers Pastor - Garry Kelly: 01455 457802/07816 616189 Secretary - Lynda Kelly: 01455 457802/07910 440243 Treasurer - Glynis Straw: 01530 230272 Parish Nurse - Vera Harding: 01530 230557

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Treasurer - on behalf of the Cross Hills Church family

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Markfield Library’s Anniversary Do

WOW - IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE but it’s a year since we became a Community Managed Library. We’ve had a fantastic year and to celebrate we held an Anniversary ‘do’ in the library. The library is run entirely by volunteers including our Trustees and Management Committee and we are going from strength to strength. Over the last year we have recruited new members into the library and have started many new clubs, groups and fun evenings as well as holding one-off special events such as our Harry Potter themed evening back in February. It hasn’t always been easy but as fervent library users we were determined to keep the library open after it’s threatened closure last year by the County Council. Most of our volunteers joined us to celebrate as well as those who belong to some of our clubs and groups. We were also joined by many of those who have supported us, both physically and financially, during the last 18 months including representatives from Markfield Parish Council as well as Borough Councillor, Matthew Lay and County Councillor, David Sprason and we thank them all for the help, encouragement and support they have given us. Both Councillors gave lovely speeches and praised the hard work and commitment given by our volunteers in keeping the library open for our villagers. So thank you to everyone involved - we are all very proud.

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redefine reading through their involvement with Reading Hack. So keen was our teen book club to continue after the school summer holidays that we were approached by the libraries division at Leicestershire County Council to participate in a pilot project run by the Reading Agency www.readinghack.org.uk Through the Reading Agency, they have styled themselves the Markfield Hackers and have some ideas of how to encourage other young teens to love reading as much as they do. Already they have completed one objective to encourage friends who do not read as much as them to join the group by lending them their favourite book. They are looking now to further participate by recreating the plot of their favourite book in six words, emojis or drawings. For those who did not know what an emoji is - it is like the smiley/grumpy faces you add to your texts! They will tweet the results on the website along with all other participants from all over the country. They would also like to be involved in the future planning of activities in the library for their age group and have some ideas of reading to younger children and a pop up library around Markfield. They are learning new skills - several of them have just moved up to secondary school and they are already working in a team, learning communication skills, marketing and publicity skills and are highly creative. Aged from 11 to 15 presently but we can go older. If you a a parent reading this and would like your son or daughter to be involved - please get in touch via the Library. The Markfield Hackers meet on Thursday evenings between 6.00pm and 7.00pm. We have hot chocolate and cookies too!

Quiz Nights are proving popular OUR QUIZ nights are proving really popular and just a reminder that our next one is on Thursday October 27th at 7.30pm. The cost is £1 per person and although refreshments are available please bring a bottle if you wish. Don’t worry about coming along on your own, as we will make up the teams on the night.

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal

Volunteers - we always need more ALTHOUGH we have a lovely bunch of volunteers we are always on the lookout for more, so if you would like to become part of our team please get in touch with the library or email us. We need people to help as librarians as well as with some of our activities, so if you can spare 1 hour a week or more that would be wonderful, but you don’t have to make a weekly commitment, we will fit in with you. Don’t worry if you have no experience, we don’t expect you to have any, because we will give you all the training you need, all we ask is for your time and enthusiasm!

Markfield Hackers A HACK is “a clever solution to a tricky problem. To hack is to modify or change something in an extraordinary way” [Urban Dictionary definition, 2009]. It takes something established and remakes it or redefines it. Young people

OUR OPERATION Christmas Child shoe box appeal, in collaboration with Cross Hills Baptist Church, is taking place during the October half term. We are asking for donations for the shoe boxes to be dropped off any time from now until Friday October 21st when we will have a big ‘Box-Up’ and invite everyone to come along between 1.00pm and 3.00pm to help fill the shoe boxes. Your donations can include anything from pencils, crayons, notepads, soft toys, stickers through to toiletries including soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste and of course sweets ! If you can’t bring a shoe box with you we will be able to supply you with one. Operation Christmas Child UK hopes to send a million shoeboxes to needy children throughout the world this year and we hope to play a small part.

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Are you a Board Game fan? IF YOU fancy a change during October half term, 17th to 21st October, and would like to join other children or adults in playing board games, then come along to the library between 1.00pm and 3.00pm every day - apart from Wednesday_ and play anything from Scrabble through to Cluedo, we also have jigsaw puzzles for young and old. If you wish you can bring your own game to share and enjoy a fun couple of hours.

The Man Booker Prize Shortlist THE SHORTLIST has been announced for this year’s Man Booker Prize which include • • • • • •

Paul Beatty (US) The Sellout (Oneworld) Deborah Levy (UK) Hot Milk (Hamish Hamilton) Graeme Macrae Burnet (UK) His Bloody Project (Contraband) Ottessa Moshfegh (US) Eileen (Jonathan Cape) David Szalay (Canada-UK) All That Man Is (Jonathan Cape) Madeleine Thien (Canada) Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Granta Books) All the books look really interesting and the winner will be announced on October 25th. In the meantime you will be able to loan or reserve any of the books from this years list, just pop into the library with your library card.

Halloween Books - if you dare ...

WE ALSO have a selection of Horror for Halloween books. So if you Dare to Read them just call into the library and pick up or reserve a copy. Don’t for-get your library card - but if you are not yet a member we will join you on the spot!

New Logo WE NOW have our new Logo and we hope you like it. This was the winning entry from the Design our Logo Competition we held earlier in the year, won by Georgina Hargreaves. We think the words education, information and recreation reflect and encompass everything the library is about. For more information about any of our events please visit our website markfieldcommunitylibrary.co.uk or email markfieldcommunitylibraryevents@mail.com

Our opening hours are: Monday 9.00am to 10.00am Tuesday 9.00am to 10.00am Wednesday 9.00am to 10.00am Thursday 9.00am to 10.00am Friday 9.00am to 10.00am Saturday 10.00am to 12 noon Sunday Closed

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Brilliant songwriter Rod Temperton dies

Letter from Uncle Eustace

On working with young people The Rectory

ROD TEMPERTON, who has died of cancer aged 66, was the British songwriter behind some of Michael Jackson’s best known hits. Publicity-shy Temperton, who was born in Cleethorpes and worked in a fish processing factory in Grimsby, was the keyboard player and songwriter with the funk band Heatwave in the 1970s. He is often referred to as the “invisible man” behind the 1982 Thriller album, which became – and remains – the best-selling studio album of all time. Temperton had already been working with Michael Jackson for several years, having been recruited to help write songs for the singer by the producer Quincy Jones. He learnt to play drums while playing truant from school and also taught himself to play keyboards. Temperton answered an advertisement in Melody Maker for a keyboardist with Heatwave and went to join the band in Hamburg. But it was composing to which he was best suited, and after Boogie Nights was a major hit for the band, he stepped back from performing and became their songwriter, penning a number of other tracks including the love song Always & Forever. In 1979 Quincy Jones brought in Temperton as part of the songwriting team for Off the Wall, which was Michael Jackson’s first album after he left Motown. Temperton also wrote for numerous stars of soul, funk and disco: there were more collaborations with Jones, as well as with Donna Summer, George Benson, Aretha Franklin, Rufus and Chaka Khan, and Mica Paris. He is survived by his wife Kathy. Rod Temperton, born 9th October 1949, death announced 5th October 2016.

St. James the Least of All My dear Nephew Darren

IT IS QUITE natural for you curates to enjoy working with young people in your parishes; church youth clubs were created in order to keep the newly ordained off the streets in the evenings. But be assured you will grow out of it. I consent to baptise babies and prepare teenagers for confirmation, but beyond that my contact with this alien life form is kept to an absolute minimum. Dear Miss Thrush runs our weekly Pram Service - whose sole purpose seems to be to give young mothers an opportunity to discuss the ever-changing liaisons within the village, while their offspring shred hymn books and destroy the flower arrangements. I drop in from time to time in order to check that the more mobile haven’t found where we hide the matches. An infant equipped with that knowledge can so easily become a teenage pyromaniac. I can give you little advice on your youth group. When I was a curate, the major activity seemed to be to teach them how to wear gas masks, although today I imagine there is more concern about protecting them from other sorts of exotic chemicals. Also, I suspect you are kept busy keeping the young out of the darker corners of the churchyard as they develop their anatomical knowledge – a pasttime still enthusiastically pursued by each new generation. You clearly find your monthly Youth Service a deeply enriching experience. As far as I am concerned, if such a liturgy had been necessary, then Cranmer would have provided us with one. Endlessly repeated choruses accompanied by a guitar would make me warm to the Quakers. I am sure St. Paul’s services would have been much enriched with Hymns Ancient and Modern. The disciples in hiding in Jerusalem were not even able to sing accompanied by an organ, which must have greatly dispirited them. I also feel that our Verger would be unable to cope with organising the strobe lighting and dry ice effects. It takes him all his time to remember to light the candles on the altar. On this matter we must differ. You must worship God in your way, and I in his. Your loving uncle,

Concert by Charnwood Voices CHARNWOOD VOICES (formerly Shepshed Singers) accompanied by Orchestra da Camera will be performing on Saturday 22nd October 2016, at 7.30pm at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough. The concert will feature: • MOZART: MASS IN C MINOR • VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: TOWARD THE UNKNOWN REGION and • FIVE MYSTICAL SONGS conducted by Nicholas Scott-Burt. The soloists are Judit Felszeghy – soprano Maureen Brathwaite - soprano David Morris – tenor Tom Bullard – bass Tickets cost £15 with Under 16s free. This includes a glass of wine or soft drink in the interval Tickets are available from choir members, by e-mail or on the door www.charnwoodvoices.org.uk tickets@charnwoodvoices.org.uk The Shepshed Singers became Charnwood Voices on September 1st this year. It was felt a change was needed to reflect the wider geographical area represented by singers and their regular performance venues. Do come along and enjoy their inaugural concert.

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Thine A Yorkshireman wanted an inscription on his wife’s grave to read: ‘She was Thine’. The engraver mistakenly put ‘She was Thin’. The man wrote to explain that they had left off the ‘e’. The next attempt read: ‘E’, She was Thin.’

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Leicestershire County Council is encouraging parents and carers to submit their form on time to ensure their child does not miss out on a place in 2017. Moving to secondary school is not an automatic process, and parents need to ensure they have applied for a place before the closing date. L ast year, 95.5% of Leicestershire pupils attained their first preference for secondary school, compared to 94.2% in the previous year. Cllr Ivan Ould, Leicestershire County Council cabinet member for children and families, said: We want as many children as possible to go to their first place of school, and the council has worked really hard to help achieve this. By completing the admissions form on time, parents can help ensure that this can continue. The transfer process is the same for all secondary schools, whether they are community, voluntary controlled, voluntary aided, academy, trust, faith, free or studio schools. Parents can apply online at www.leics.gov.uk/admissions or call 0116 305 6684 for general enquiries about the admissions process.

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The National Arboretum A talk by Roger Hailwood Monday October 24, 2016 Woodhouse Eaves Village Hall at 7.30 p.m. THE FRIENDS of Charnwood Forest are pleased to announce an illustrated talk by Roger Hailwood. Roger Hailwood is a guide for the National Arboretum. He is part of their promotional team as a speaker at venues throughout the UK. At Alrewas, where he lives, he is regarded as the village historian and he has published several books. In Alrewas he has been a youth leader, a church chorister and a Parish Councillor. Roger’s talk about the National Arboretum will be illustrated by slides and will cover its foundation and development, and will give a snapshot of the over three hundred memorials on the site. Further Information Peter Bertram 01162 100 572

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Calke Abbey and its gardens There was a large audience of members and guests on Monday September 19th to hear a copiously illustrated talk by Celia Sanger, who is a volunteer at Calke. Calke Abbey was the home of the Harper-Crewe family for several hundred years. In 1985 the burden of such a great estate became too much and it was acquired by the National Trust. The repairs and maintenance of such a property had proved too great for the owners and the National Trust was faced with neglect on a grand scale. Nothing had ever been thrown away which was both a problem and an enormous resource. Celia’s illustrations showed us the good times, the bad times and how the National Trust had brought house and gardens back to life. The old formal gardens, requiring enormous maintenance and many gardeners , are gone forever but in their place is a beautiful estate which we can all enjoy. The deer park, with many red deer, flourishes and the lime avenue, planted in 1846, is as fine as ever.

Tomorrow I am going to open the time capsule I buried as a kid. I can’t wait to see how big my puppy got.

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New Leicester Charity Christmas Card Shop THE FESTIVE season gets under way in Leicester when the Cards for Good Causes charity Christmas card shop opens in St Martin’s Square on Monday 17 October. Perfect for those who want to get ahead in their Christmas preparations while supporting a range of national and local charities, the shop will offer a fantastic range of cards and Christmas goods. Staffed by a team of local volunteers, the Leicester pop-up shop is part of a network of 300 temporary shops run Cards for Good Causes, the UK’s largest multi-charity Christmas card organisation. In addition to the larger national charities we are proud to sell cards from local charities including Coping with Cancer, Leicester Cathedral, Leicester and Leicestershire Animal Aid, Rainbows Children’s Hospice, The Laura Centre and Vista. Shoppers will be able to choose from hundreds of different Christmas card designs, as well as traditional advent calendars and candles, wrapping paper, gift tags, napkins and stocking fillers. Rosemarie Nash-Smith, Leicester Shop Manager says: “Buying charity Christmas cards is one of the simplest ways to support good causes this festive season. I am delighted that this year we have a card of Old John in Bradgate Park with just a sprinkling of snow which has been specially commissioned for us from a photograph donated by a local man. Sales of the cards not only generate funds with which the charities can make a real difference, but also purchasing and sending them helps raise awareness of the vital work these charities do. Come along and find us in St Martin’s Square by looking out for our distinctive triangular red Santa sign. We are open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm” In the past ten years, charities have received more than £40 million from Cards for Good Causes, representing at least 70p in every pound, out of which charities have had to pay for the production and distribution of their Christmas cards and any VAT.

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