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Rosemary's Diary

TASTEBUDS

Sauce Tomate de Maison HERITAGE

Fiends, Fires and Murder Most Foul!

YOUNG TRIBUNE

Friends of Chernobyl's Children

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Dear Tribune readers, As I write this, we are thundering towards September – month 6 of lockdown, social distancing and all things Covid19. What a year it has been, certainly unprecedented times for all of us. Please continue to follow the guidelines and let’s hope that we can see real progress in our fight against this awful virus soon.

We are fast-approaching 3,000 members in our Village Tribune Facebook Group. Lots of posts in the past month about dumping litter and household items. I was very impressed to recently discover the work of a fantastic bunch of people – check them out on Facebook - Pride Of Stamford Litter Pickers – will certainly give you some ‘food for thought’. In the meantime, if you want to join the Trib Facebook Group – the web address is detailed below.

We said ‘goodbye’ to our beloved family springer, Stanley at the beginning of August. He had been a member of the Henthorn-clan for over 14 years. I know that Tribland has lots of dog-loving residents

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Members of our Facebook group have let me know how much they enjoy seeing photos (and videos) of our twin grandsons, Arthur and Percy as they progress through life in the villages. Following a couple of suggestions, the next issue of the Tribune will see the start of a new feature ‘Tribland Twins’ – where we will publish photos and updates of the boys as they grow and develop – hope you enjoy!

Cannot believe that the next issue of the Trib’ is our November/ December edition – including all things Christmas! The deadline for sending contributions, advertising copy, diary dates etc is Friday 16th October.

Keep well and stay safe.

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Sept / Oct 2020 REGULARS

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Letter from the Editor

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Advertising / Deadlines

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Safe Local Trades

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Rosemary's Diary

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Spectacular Sunsets

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Are you Happy?

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Did you know that tool theft costs tradespeople £100 million a year? Not only this – but it ruins livelihoods and causes financial heartache for many self-employed people.

However, while this kind of crime is on the increase, technology is fast catching up with the thieves; and there is a now a new smartphone app available which makes stolen tools too hot to handle.

The easy to use app allows tradespeople to record pictures and details of their tools and receipts on a secure cloud server which holds the “ISO27001” certificate.

After tools are reported stolen, they appear on “Dodgy Gear”, a search engine for stolen goods which can be freely accessed by any member of the public or police.

A company in South Oxfordshire is making it tough for thieves to swipe and sell on valuable tools, and Cambridgeshire Constabulary is among a number of police forces in the UK to support the scheme - which empowers tradesmen to securely register their tools and also identify stolen ones.

This list of tools can be downloaded as a PDF and sent to the police and insurance companies. Users can quickly report tools as stolen or lost from the app, which then sends an instant alert to all other local registered users, warning them a theft has just happened.

Before purchasing an item (online or at a market) you can very simply check on dodgy gear to make sure the item you are about to buy is not listed as stolen.

You can search for the tool by serial number, model number, brand, tool type and description.

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@ Nene Park Litter So a plethora of posts on Tribune Facebook page recently re litter & vandalism & fly tipping on our patch. We know this is a nationwide issue, but pictures relates to a location not too far away from us - Nene Park - their pic of their litter looks terrible!

Mandy Yallup

Litter by the river Litter by the river remains an issue. 2 bags full collected first thing including a plastic bag removed from a cow’s mouth! 4 further bags collected by volunteers just now...this is from just one day of sunny weather.

What help can we give the City Council in this respect? Can PCC come up with a plan of action. (or publicise more the plan they already have).

I have to say, whenever fly tipping is reported - matter generally dealt with very speedily.

Education in the schools is a must but we have to deal with the day-to-day too.

The cows were trying to eat the rubbish as volunteers approached them. Rubbish found floating in the river too! Please help by picking any litter you find...with caution of course.

We have regular dialogue with NP trust Mandy regarding this problem and other issues. You're right of course it is a local and national blight on urban and rural landscapes and education is a big part of any reduction in this regard. It will never be eradicated completely so remedial action needs to be swift and effective, which it generally is. I'll request further intended action updates.

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Broken Fence Sometime between 17:00 Thursday and 17:00 Friday this fence to the sandbank near Main Road Etton was vandalised. There were hundreds of water birds on the sand bank Thursday evening but only about half a dozen on Friday. Just hope the birds return again.

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Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans

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Munia Khan

Beautiful Walk Beautiful walk in Market Deeping today! I wasn’t sure if it would rain but no, we escaped again. Three and a half hours to walk three and a half miles - with so much to see, it was slow progress but a joyous experience. Lots of insects, butterflies and snails; a family of swans, trickling water, birdsong; plants and trees bearing fruits, berries and seeds; plus fields of ripening crops. Feeling blessed!

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Foraging A beautiful day for foraging!

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Trash

This is just nasty it’s been dumped by my favourite rock between Ashton and Helpston there is something in there that my dog is afraid of , and what is sad is that the tip was probably closer to them.

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Without as much as a single question, legions of geese lift themselves to autumn's skies, obediently heeding the distant call of southern horizons. And I think that it's less the magnificence of their trek, and more about the humility of their obedience to the trek. For if I was left with a single prayer to utter, it would be to be more like them.

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Geese Walked by this field a few days ago, hundreds of geese in there! Never seen it before. Just thought it was strange!

Sian Covell

Royal Oak and hay waiting Some great summer scenes...The Royal Oak and a great view of hay yet to be cut (Splash Lane) by Mark Smith.

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No matter what yesterday was like, birds always start a new day with a song.

" Kingfisher Apologies for over-sharing, but I was so pleased that the kingfisher finally stayed still just long enough for me to get a couple of photos this morning.

Angela Trotter

Lobelia This plant is Lobelia siphilitica, a perennial native to the eastern United States. It is easily grown in this country, from preference in a damp position, and it makes an attractive plant for either full sun or light shade. The flowers are usually light blue but may be a deeper blue or white. It is easily propagated by division in autumn or spring, or by seed.

Trevor Harvey

NHS stones Just seen this on a COVID group I’m a member of and wondered if villages were going to do the same with the NHS stones?

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Walk to Remember The first photo is from regular contributor Mark Smith...great sunset!

A lovely Misty morning down Water Lane taken by Jayne Mann.

Finally a fab shot of a Heron at Orton Mere taken by Shelley Cash.

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Magical Skies Another beautiful Northborough sunset tonight Love our skies so magical Cathy Hannan

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SPECTACULAR SUNSETS NEWS & FEATURES

Spectacular Sunsets

By Louise Addison

Autumn is the best time of year for beautiful sunsets. Have you ever tried to capture one and been disappointed with the result? Sunsets can be devilishly tricky to capture well, but we have a few tips.

Choose the time and place – If you're serious about sunsets make a note of places where they are particularly good then head there before the sunset to give you time to set your camera up. There are websites which tell you what time the sun will set on a particular day. Try www. timeanddate.com/sun/

and how to capture them

Foreground is important – The best sunset photos tend to have something of interest in the foreground, generally silhouetted. This provides a focal point. Look for an attractive tree, or a wind farm, and even pylons can look impressive in front of a sunset.

So is a tripod! The best shots are often longer exposures, so they will look shaky unless you secure your camera to a tripod.

Patience is also important – Sunset actually goes on for quite a long time. As the sun dips beneath the horizon it can produce some spectacular shots, but afterwards, the colours of the sky can become even more rich and beautiful, so hang around.

Remember reflections - If you are near water take full advantage of doubling the impact of your sunset. In this instance try placing the horizon at exactly halfway or shoot only the reflections. Experiment and have fun.

Ignore ‘the rule of thirds’ – The sunset is the star so place your horizon really low down in the shot. This fills the image with colour.

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NEWS & FEATURES ARE YOU HAPPY?

Are you

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It's an interesting question... with an interesting answer. It turns out that happiness is not a destination; it isn't something to be achieved. Happiness is something that resides inside you. You can be happy wherever you are, right now.

Define happiness for you Happiness isn’t the same as pleasure. It isn't a single emotion.

Happiness requires you to go through the pain and struggles of life and deal with them like everyone else. How you react to pain and struggle defines your happiness. As you deal with and solve your own problems and those of others you actually become happier.

More doesn't mean happier More money, a faster car and a bigger house won't make you happier, because happiness

comes from within. Beyond the financial security we need to provide a place to live, pay for essential services and food to eat, we don't need a whole lot more.

More is nice, but not essential for happiness.

Find your thing - You’re not going to excel at most things in life but all of us have at least one thing we're great at. It could be knitting, playing piano, or making wooden bird houses, but find it, enjoy it, and make it yours. You don't have to be world class, just good enough to give you pleasure.

Find your values - Consciously think about your thoughts and feelings. Don’t stay in a job you hate to buy things you don't need.

Don’t hang out with the group of friends who drag you down when you can spend time with one or two who lift you up, and definitely don't keep saying yes to things you don't want to do.

This isn't a magic formula for happiness, but it's a start.

Happiness, like anything worthwhile takes practice.

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NHS specialist Saqib Farooq writes from his Castor home Since I wrote in the last issue, we have commemorated the VE Day 75. Millions of us took to the ‘virtual’ streets to celebrate the occasion of peace, as they did in real streets in 1945 after years of devastating war.

We also celebrated the 72nd birthday of our NHS. It is 72 years since the NHS and social care system was established and, without a doubt, 2020 has been the most challenging year; providing care to over 100,000 hospitalised COVID-19 patients.

The extraordinary dedication of my NHS colleagues and volunteers has been highlighted throughout the crisis. It’s amazing to see how we all came together during this pandemic. More than a million people put their names forward to volunteer for the NHS and thousands came forward to volunteer through their councils.

Many of us are aware of the great work both our local communities and our Peterborough City Council have been doing in protecting our vulnerable during this pandemic. Hard working council officers and ward councillors, selfless and caring members of the public, parish councillors and residents’ groups and local businesses.

Immediately, the community

hub was established and food packages were dispatched to vulnerable and shielding folk where required. Help was also provided on medicine collection and other day to day support. Additional resources were deployed to overcome the increased demand on adult social care, providing PPE where required. Through Public Health England, the Council has been implementing many different processes to control the virus.

By Track and Trace and by employing additional mobile testing the spread of the virus has been reduced significantly.

Throughout the pandemic, the role and leadership our councillor John Holdich OBE has provided has been exemplary. John’s career has spanned for almost half a century in the council. A tremendous dedication to our community, John will leave a huge void when he retires next year.

That’s why I am delighted and humbled to have been selected

Saqib Farooq NHS Haematology specialist by our North West Cambs constituency association to be their candidate to represent the ward of Glinton and Castor at Peterborough City Council when John retires. If I can make a tiny bit of difference to the lives of our residents in continuing John’s role I will be a very proud person.

As a local Castor & Ailsworth resident, I have had opportunities to work closely with both John and our other long-standing ward councillor Peter Hiller over the last few years who, despite huge financial pressures on local authorities across the UK, have managed to keep our rural communities free from illegal encampments, the blight of unwanted development, antisocial behaviour and fly-tipping.

I also hope this will be a good opportunity to continue to have our views represented by councillors who are local residents themselves, involved in the community and who share a common love of where we live.

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TRIBLAND GARDEN

DAZZLING DAHLIAS

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Dazzling Dahli Either way the vibrant colours, tactile textures and stunning petal formations make the Dahlia queen of the September garden for me.

The dahlia originates from Mexico and there are 30 species and around 20,000 cultivars!

Don't let its exotic past fool you; it hails from high mountain regions so is happy in cool, wet, and windy conditions. It doesn't matter what size your garden is there is a dahlia for you, from dwarf varieties to giants. There 14

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is even one variety (Imperialis) that can reach 6m (20 feet) in the wild in its native South America.

If your garden is on the exposed side, or you live in the north then look for the pompom varieties as the colourful globes are very hardy, standing up to the worst of the British weather.

Dahlia bulbs are comprised of tubers. In order to sprout the tuber must have an ‘eye’. If you live in a very cold area, you can

dig up the tubers at the end of the season and plant them out again the following year.

My garden is quite sheltered, so I simply cut them down and mulch them. I learned the hard way that mulched dahlias survive and thrive much better than unmulched plants. Dahlia tubers are hungry beasts and don't take kindly to being undernourished. The first year I planted them I didn't mulch and the second year the flowers were sparse and undersized.

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Over the past few years, I've fallen in love with dahlias for their ability to provide autumn colour. I think Dahlias are like the glamorous friend who arrives late to the party, fresh and full of life, outshining all the other guests who are a bit tired and past their best...or maybe that's just me being fanciful.

On the advice of a neighbour I fed them, mulched them, and watered them through the hot season, and they returned in full vigour the following year.

Dahlias come in the most amazing array of colours.

'Lubega Power Yellow-Orange' sounds like a toilet cleaner but is in fact a gloriously tropical dwarf bedding dahlia which produces masses of double flowers well into autumn if you deadhead it regularly. At 30cm

By Rachael Leverton you can plant it at the front of the border or in window boxes to brighten the dullest of days.

Dahlia 'Cornel Brons' produces wonderful round coppercoloured architectural flowers.

They are long-lasting and make spectacular cut flowers.

They look good in the middle of a border because they grow to 90cm.

For gardeners who prefer a more subtle or unusual colour palette:

Dahlia 'Cafe aux Lait produces enormous exquisite blooms in a soft apricot-pink colour, which fade to vintage cream.

It's the perfect dahlia for creating a focal point toward the back of the border as it grows to 120cm.

Dahlia 'Creme de Cassis' has stunning two-tone petals on water lily-shaped flowers. It grows to 90cm so is good for the middle of a border and also looks fabulous in a big pot.

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Rosemary’s FARMING Diary

FARM FOCUS

Photo by Grace Morton

Yields and quality of combinable crops have been both variable and down in yield as predicted earlier in the season. Too much wet for far too long and then very hot and dry which baked the soils and the growing crops, resulting in a very early harvest, starting in some parts of the country in June. Around here it was odd fields at end of June and July.

We started on 20 July with the oil seed rape, on 22 July, we moved into the winter barley, and then the oats, following on with the winter wheat on 28 July and continuing until 12 August. There is no more ready to harvest now as this was sown in the spring and will possibly need another week of sunshine before it is ready.

We have baled some straw for winter feed and bedding for the cattle, some has gone to our local pig farm, we have also chopped some straw behind the combine which allows us to start cultivations ready for next years crop. We have ploughed a small acreage and mini tilled the rest. No two seasons or indeed years are the same in farming. We Are obviously trying to avoid unnecessary costs, not only with the preparation with next years crop but taking into account the environment. We are told more needs to be done environmentally regards the way we farm. We shall possibly be planting trees, not cereals, who knows - coupled with the consequences of exiting Brexit. It’s being in a state of the ‘unknown’ as well of course the implications of Covid 19 in our midst. I think this year (the last 12 months) have been the

most challenging that anyone can remember with the lack of windows of opportunity for preparing and sowing seed for harvesting this year were fast disappearing last autumn. Those of us who managed to sow a large percentage of winter cereal must consider ourselves very fortunate and thankful we have been able to harvest (albeit much lower yields generally) but at least we have some grain in store to sell. There have been some fields which have given good to average results but as I speak to people yields and quality have been dramatically affected by the weather. Costs for harvesting have been lower with the dry conditions which has been a welcome plus, also less impact on the soil structure with ground conditions being so dry Today we have had some very welcome rain, which will help the grass to grow and chitting any weeds etc. It will also give the oil seed rape a good start. Hopefully getting it away from pests. We are keeping fingers crossed on this one.

How the daylight hours are drawing in. I hope we shall have most of the combine harvesting finished by the end of August, there may still be the winter

beans left. The combining hours are usually much reduced in September when we get heavy dews each morning.

The small birds have been busy in the garden, owls, kestrels, pheasants and French partridge to name a few. Also, the butterflies and the bees. Our vegetable garden is a bit like the fields – our runner beans are the worst I’ve ever grown and the broad beans were very poor. I find the wildlife very interesting.

On the 12th July I saw the first deer in the distance at 5am in the morning, we haven’t seen any for many weeks. It is early morning when you see most of the wildlife species. In the last month we have had foxes, including two cubs close to the house, rabbits are making a comeback, a pair of hares, French partridges, pheasants and the Canadian geese are back.

The flower gardens have been quite spectacular, with roses, geraniums, hydrangea to name but a few. Which I think helps brighten up the day with so much going on which is beyond our control. I am sure we all live in hope that there isn’t a second spike with Covid 19, allowing some normality to return to the way we live.

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This issue's cover photo of a dragonfly is also by David Radcliffe

Calendulas

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River Welland towards Tallington

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INTRODUCING VILLAGE VIEWS

Welcome to our regular meander through Tribland's beautiful villages, with some stunning photography from David Ratcliffe and Jackie Robinson

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"A young girl is pictured on her horse while walking behind Broadwheel Road, I think she said she came from Bainton.

Keeping the grass nice and short along the Welland Cut, so that we can enjoy the wildlife."

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NORTHBOROUGH It’s easy to take websites for granted and most of us use them every day without thinking about it. But many people struggle to access web pages, either because of a visual impairment, a condition such as dyslexia or just confusion at the vast amount of information on a page.

This is why, from September this year, all public sector organisations have a legal duty to have a website that meets a set standard for accessibility. Northborough Parish Council’s existing website didn’t meet this so councillors have decided to modernise things properly.

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The new website is now ‘live’, at a new address – www.northboroughpc.gov.uk, and with a completely different look - pages that have a clean, modern design and a neat little ‘stickman’ widget in the top right corner. Click on this and you can choose the accessibility setting that’s right for you, whether this is

New website high-contrast, a line to help with reading across the page width, larger text, or an audio screen-reader.

There are one or two new functions to make it easier to keep up with the latest from the parish council – subscribe to updates and you will automatically receive news, meeting agendas and minutes – click on planning applications and you link to Peterborough City Council’s planning portal – need to report flytipping or potholes? Click through to Peterborough’s Report It App. And use the Contact Form to email the Clerk – you’ll receive a copy of your query so you know it was sent.

Remember, the parish council exists A parish council is the most local tier to serve its local community and of government and, in line with other is accountable to you. There are councils Northborough now uses a currently two councillor vacancies ‘-pc.gov.uk’ web address to make and any adult is welcome to attend this status clear. Email addresses for and observe meetings (currently held by video link due to the Covid-19 Councillors and Clerk are changing pandemic). You can find all details on to this format as well but the old the agenda, posted to the website a ones will run in tandem for some few days before each meeting. time (or just use the Contact Form!)

Chair John Dadge

T: 01733 254145 / 07802 702908 E: john.dadge@northborough-pc.gov.uk Portfolio: Finance & Governance, Human Resources, Planning (Green Space, Burial Grounds)

Vice Chair Malcolm Spinks

T: 01778 343585 / 07870 343562 E: malcolm.spinks@northborough-pc.gov.uk Portfolio: Human Resources, Burial Grounds, Amenities & Assets, Speedwatch

Councillor Rob Chiva

T: 01733 252823 E: robert.chiva@northborough-pc.gov.uk Portfolio: Planning, Environment, Green Space, Speedwatch

Councillor Brian Spriggs

T: 01778 342502 Portfolio: Burial Grounds, Green Space, Human Resources

Councillor Elaine Mann

T: 01778 701036 E: elaine.mann@northborough-pc.gov.uk Portfolio: Community & Volunteering, Burial Grounds

Councillor David Aldwinckle

T: 07872 676852 E: david.aldwinckle@northborough-pc.gov.uk Portfolio: Communications, Finance & Governance, Police Liaison

Councillor Stewart Curtis

T: 07894 568472 E: stewart.curtis@northborough-pc.gov.uk Portfolio: Amenities & Assets, Community & Volunteering, Environment

There are two councillor vacancies.

Information about the Parish Council, including meeting agendas and minutes, can be found on the Parish website: northborough-pc.gov.uk, on the parish noticeboards and on the Parish Council Facebook page. Or sign-up on the website to receive information automatically to your Inbox. All general and burial enquiries to the Clerk: Catherine Franks – Village Hall, Cromwell Close, Northborough PE6 9DP, 07748 637555, clerk@northborough-pc.gov.uk

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VILLAGE VIEWS PEAKIRK

COUNCIL CORNER

PEAKIRK The parish council met virtually on 20th July – the (abridged) minutes of that meeting are below. There is no meeting during August – the next meeting will be on 21st September.

Planning: Consideration was given to application 20/00661/FUL – proposed tennis court and lighting, with screening and soft landscaping at 11 Meadow Road. Cllr Fovargue advised that the tennis court is intended to be screened with fruit and apple trees and a hawthorn and blackthorn hedge and would not be seen from the road. The floodlights may be seen by neighbours but were not considered to be a problem.

The council agreed that that there were no objections to the proposal but encourages the applicant to liaise with Cllr Jackson who can help in revising the planting scheme to improve biodiversity.

This would fit with the council’s aim to enhance biodiversity within the village.

Members noted the approval given to application 20/00482 proposed garage extension to existing playroom and erection of timber fence.

Maintenance:The delay to the commencement of works to trees on the Village Green by Willow Tree Services due to nesting birds was noted.

Approval given for work to steps on the Village Monument to be carried out by JB Restoration.

The Tree Officer’s reports for May and June were noted and appreciation recorded for the watering undertaken.

Allotment Update: the Clerk advised that a response was still awaited from the owner who had confirmed that she did not have the title deeds.

Consideration to be given to whether a water supply would be appropriate and costs involved.

Climate Emergency and John Clare Countryside Project (JCCP): Cllr Jackson provided an update and advised that she has now become a member of the committee for the JCCP. The current issues relate to community engagement, governance and a nature recovery plan. The Langdyke Trust are working with Bainton, Castor, Helpston and Peakirk, each area having an allocated advisor. Involvement with the Beautiful Burial Grounds Project will also be included.

Community Engagement is considered vital, with a bottomup approach. A questionnaire

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For all Peakrik news, minutes and agendas visit: www.peakirkvillage.co.uk

Chair: Henry Clark 253203 cllr.h.clark@eclipso.eu 253483 Vice-Chair: Sally-Ann Jackson sajackson186@gmail.com 252200 Emma Crowson peakirk.cllrcrowson@gmail.com 254227 David Fovargue peakirk.cllrfovargue@gmail.com Contact via the clerk Greg Prior Anne Tuley 254114 peakirk.cllrtuley@gmail.com Gary Wright 252268 peakirk.cllrwright@gmail.com 253397 Clerk: Angela Hankins clerk@peakirk-pc.gov.uk 22

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put onto the Peakirk Wildlife Facebook & Tribune Facebooke had very little response. Cllr Jackson advocating a leaflet drop around the village as soon as possible – Cllr Jackson to arrange a meeting with Cllrs Tuley, Crowson and Clerk and David Hankins.

The importance to residents of walks between the neighbouring villages of Glinton and Northborough was noted. Cllr Jackson advised that both Northborough and Glinton parish councils had now appointed representatives to the JCCP. Concern voiced that Parish Council involvement might lead to delays.

Cllr Jackson suggested that certain areas within the village could be maintained less – idea to be discussed further. Other ideas to be sent to Cllr Jackson.

Road safety and Speed Sign Data: Cllr Fovargue reported on data taken from the VAS on St Pegas Road covering the period 05/04 – 08/06. The number of vehicles was 20,000 less due to the lockdown. 30% of the total number were over the limit and the fastest recorded 70mph

DEEPING GATE VILLAGE VIEWS

The Forgotten Army

By Jane Hill

How very sad that the late, great Dame Vera Lynn did not live to commemorate VJ Day 2020.

Dame Vera had been a holder of the Burma Star since 1985 and her “Burma Boys” held a special place in her heart. She appeared regularly at the annual reunions at The Royal Albert Hall, held for holders of the Burma Star and their guests, the last being held in 1995. The Burma Star Association was founded in 1951 but, sadly, due to dwindling numbers of members, disbanded as of 15 August 2020 and its Standards laid up.

The end of the Second World War was commemorated in Deeping Gate on 15 August 2020, the 75th anniversary of VJ day. British and Commonwealth Armed Forces were still fighting in Burma, Singapore and Thailand Overgrown hedgerows and trees An annual request please to think of the people enjoying mainly riverside walks in our village and trim back any vegetation from your gardens overhanging the footpaths.

Vandalism It is disheartening to have to report that within days of being

long after the street parties of VE day. The Far East campaign was the longest of the war with continuous fighting raging for three full years. The British Forces over there, unlike their comrades fighting in Europe, had no leave during which they could go home, even if it was for just a few days.

They were there for the duration; their only hope of seeing England was in victory. Around 300,000 soldiers in the Far East became POWs; the prison camps became infamous for the harsh treatment administered to their in-mates; only 200,000 would survive to see victory over Japan. The enemy finally surrendered on 15 August 1945 – VJ Day – effectively ending World War 2. reinstated after repair, one of our parish notice boards was vandalised, not once but twice.

Parish Council Meetings Deeping Gate Parish Council meetings continue to be held via Zoom, and members of the public are welcome to join. Please look out for the dates and details on our notice boards and website at http://deepinggatepc.org

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VILLAGE VIEWS HELPSTON

Memories are made of this When early in 1997 Helpston villager Peggy Pateman received a surprise invitation to join a group of 15 other Peterborough folk, including the then, newly elected Mayor of Peterborough Yvonne Lowndes, to take part in a very special birthday celebration in Bourges France, to mark the 40th anniversary of the twinning of Peterborough & Bourges in June of that year, she didn’t hesitate to accept.

Peggy was a member of the County’s WI Catering Committee (as well as a long standing member of Helpston WI) and as part of the team who had been responsible for providing the delicious lunches and teas at the East of England Showground for many years, Peggy, the team and their supportive husbands – including Peggy’s husband Gordon (who was apparently something of an expert ‘Tea Boy’

flew from Luton along with the Mayor who admitted to being very nervous as this was her first major engagement since her election to office, and it was Peggy who kept the Mayor entertained on the flight helping her relax in order to enjoy the event.

The trip was not without its challenges…upon arrival the WI Team were shown to their kitchen and following further

marquee, providing mounds of sandwiches, scones, fruit cakes (using the WI’s own special recipe) and of course English Tea, the ladies were treated to a little sightseeing of the area before flying home.

As Peggy looked through her photographs and press clippings from the trip, she recalls that the weather was so hot and sunny, the people they met all friendly and hospitable, and it certainly

As Peggy looked through her photographs and press clippings from the trip, she recalls that the weather was so hot and sunny, the people they met all friendly and hospitable, and it certainly provided a trip to remember. at the Showground) certainly already knew how to provide a typical English Afternoon Tea. The invitation asked the WI ladies to provide Teas at the Bourge Foire Exposition – an event quite similar to the East of England Show, and which attracted around 40,000 people over eight days. The ladies 24

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inspection they found that the Oven had no shelves ...not easy when baking scones, but undeterred the ladies set to, and fashioned makeshift shelves from Tinfoil and sticking tape.

After a hectic round of official duties & evening receptions, as well as hosting the

provided a trip to remember.

It was rounded off some months later when the WI Team were invited to Peterborough Town Hall for a catch up over a cuppa with the Mayor (herself a loyal WI member) in the Mayors Parlour ...and this time the Tea was not made by themselves!

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Helpston Women's Institute Sadly, the current Covid restrictions mean that we are unable to meet together in the Village Hall so the committee has arranged a socially distanced picnic in Burghley Park for the 17 September at 2pm (weather permitting!). We are really looking forward to catching up after all this time but are also planning a surprise for members on our normal meeting day of 3 September.

We have had to change the venue for our lively 'Knit and Natter' group, which will no longer meet in Botolph's Barn. We will be meeting in the Village Hall from 2pm – 4pm on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, starting on the 2nd September. Please bring your own refreshments and wear a mask if you are able to. Fees will be £2 a session, paid monthly even if you are unable to attend.

You do not have to be a member of the WI to join us but will need to register with Barbara Teat (tel.

017333 252969 or email barbara.teat@btinternet. com) as numbers are restricted. It will be lovely to see you again and share all the craft work done since lockdown.

In our 5 Minutes that Matters campaign, the National Federation of Women's Institutes is raising awareness

of Cervical Screening (the 'smear test'). It is estimated that the test currently prevents 70% of cervical cancer deaths. However, this figure could be 83% if all eligible women attended.

Cervical screening is a choice, and we are very concerned that attendance is currently at a 21-year low. WI members have been raising awareness of the importance of this issue and challenging myths surrounding cervical screening and cervical cancer.

Members have shared personal accounts of cervical screening to improve understanding and support others who may be going through similar experiences.

NFWI research on cervical screening aims to explore a wide range of issues, including barriers to cervical screening attendance and personal

attitudes towards strategies designed to improve uptake.

This research is open to all women over the age of 25, regardless of whether they have attended cervical screening recently or at all. You can take part by searching NFWI Cervical Screening Survey – it only takes a few minutes and we need to hear from as many women as possible!

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VILLAGE VIEWS ETTON

Etton Wedding - Covid Style Celebrating the marriage of Kate Johnston to Lewis Barrett.

ETTON VILLAGE VIEWS

Etton News

We had a wonderful turn out for the village clean-up which took place on Sunday 26th July. This year we did not clean in the church but were able to weed and edge the path, re-oil the notice board, clear some graves, mow and strim, paint the top of the telephone box, clear around the village sign and litter pick around the village.

Well done and thank-you to all those who helped make the day a success. Refreshments were provided, including wonderful muffins made by Maggie Warren.

Another great sight on Main Road, is the addition of two lovely pheasants on top of the new thatch at Corner Cottage.

I’m sure Joan Otley would have loved them!

On Saturday 15 August, Kate Johnston married Lewis Barrett at 12noon. It has been quite a roller coaster for the couple as they grapple with the changing requirements due to Covid 19. We wish Kate and Lewis many congratulations and best wishes for their future happiness together as a couple.

You may have noticed that the village defibrillator has finally been installed on the side of the bus shelter. If needed, you should ring 999 and the operator will give you instructions on what to do. Sometime in the future we

will organise some CPR training and a demonstration of the defibrillator. Thanks to Councillor Brooks who helped get this project over the line.

Since the last Tribune St Stephen’s PCC have heard that their bid to obtain a grant for £25,000 from the National Churches Trust has not been successful. There were 79 applicants and 23 grants were awarded but sadly not to us.

We are able to reapply for the next round in November. We estimate that we need £50,000 to complete the roof repairs after the lead theft.

There is some way to go before we have enough funds. Ideally, we wanted to get the south aisle waterproof before the winter.

However, we will need a miracle to achieve this!

Thinking ahead, we hope to hold a village social the weekend of 26/27 September. Further details to follow. Perhaps check out any Sunflowers and display Scarecrows inspired by our experiences of lockdown?

Maybe we could have drinks in our gardens and wander like we did on VE Day. Prize for the best scarecrows. Any suggestions are welcome, but we will organise the event at short notice depending on our Covid restrictions.

By Anne Curwen 01733 253357

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VILLAGE VIEWS BARNACK

Hills & Holes Update

By Steve, Natural England Warden The lockdown has meant unprecedented numbers of visitors at Nature Reserves and Parks across the country. It has been encouraging seeing an increasing number of families with children enjoying the sites, getting out enjoying nature and even taking reference books out to identify flora and fauna, inspiring future generations in conservation and hopefully the next David Attenborough or Chris Packham.

Most people have been respectful of our sites, but unfortunately increasing visitors has also attracted the rise of antisocial episodes like fly tipping, dirt bike riding and vandalism, not least at the Hills & Holes where there has been an increase of litter throughout the site, damage to gates and fences and evidence of trampling which is one of the most damaging elements to the NNR and can destroy plant communities, so please keep to the main paths so 28

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future generations can continue to enjoy the wildflower spectacle we are all very privileged to witness. Disappointingly someone went picking Pasque flowers and orchids! This has been reported to the rural crime team who have been dealing with several incidents on the NNR’s and will continue to do so.

The site at Hills and Holes is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and a Special Area of Conservation (SAC). Thankfully local residents have continued to report this and other antisocial behaviour and where possible action has been taken to protect help protect our reserve.

As the lockdown eases, so hopefully does the pressure on these delicate National Nature Reserves (NNRs). September will see the return of our flock of Herbridean, Shetland and Herdwick sheep. They have been ‘summering’ at Monks Wood NNR, Huntingdonshire.

There they have grazed the two

wild flower meadows within the wood, doing a fantastic job of keeping the willow at bay and grazing down the coarse grasses. Please keep an eye on the Parish news and the Hills & Holes notice boards for updates of their arrival and what compartment they will be situated in. Dogs will still not be permitted in the compartment with the sheep and it is an offence to do so.

The winter 20/21 will also see the ongoing battle to curb the scrub incursion across the site, both staff and contractors will be involved in scrub clearance in all compartments as well as refencing the stretch between the NW & SW compartments. Again please look out for updates on the notice board as some areas will inevitably be closed off for Health & Safety reasons.

Thank you for your continued support at Barnack Hills & Holes and enjoy the hot weather while it lasts.

BARNACK VILLAGE VIEWS

Barnack Neighbourhood Plan

by Ian Burrows

The public consultation on the draft Plan, halted because of COVID-19, is to be resumed. You can read the Plan at www.barnackparishcouncil.org or borrow a paper copy from the Parish Clerk.

Comments on the Plan are very welcome deadline 13 October 2020.

Please email your comments, using the response form available to download on the website or from the Parish Clerk, to clerk@barnack-pc.gov.uk, or post comments on paper at the Barnack Parish Council letter box, Barnack Village Hall, or mail them to Clerk, Barnack Parish Council, Village Hall. School Road, Barnack, Stamford PE9 3DZ. Debbie Lines | Parish Clerk | 07595 377236

Barnack Reflections Tribland appears to be well down on the list of corona infections, so with local lockdowns popping up all over the UK we can count our blessings, but carelessness could easily reverse our good fortune. It seems astonishing that the whole world is still governed by Covid19 and with the easing of lockdown some people seem to think that we have arrived at V.E. Day and flout contact rules with seeming impunity, but the enemy is still there, virulent and indifferently attacks anyone exposed to it however sonorous of name or title. Tribland’s neighbour, Peterborough, is giving a cause for concern so may we all take care with sensible precautions and awareness.

Barnack and Pilsgate, like everyone else, is still dominated

by Covid, our coffee shops are still shut as is the Village Hall, although members are increasingly looking at changing conditions to see if and when these important institutions will

be able to open again. Sadly, the landlords of our lovely pub, The Mill Stone have moved on so our BIG thank you to them for keeping going with take-away meals during lockdown and in delivering them to your door throughout that period. Our very best wishes go to them in their new venture in Colleyweston.

Naturally we all hope that our pub will be in active service again in the very near future. No self-respecting village would be complete without resonating occasionally with wild rumour and the future of our pub has attracted a great deal of that, mostly that it will be shut and built on - heaven forbid!

We all give our thanks to Barnack School who with ingenuity and dedication made such a success of caring for our children and enabling many of them to return to school for the last month of term. It was also heartening to read of the thanks given by the residents of the Acres and Little Northfields to the new residents

of Payne’s Field who looked after them during lockdown by delivering shopping etc., always with social distancing, a smile and a chat. A timely reminder that we are, and should be, a caring community.

For at least some 40 years now it has been a big wish to provide a play/game area for all residenta, and especially for the younger members of the village. Several schemes have been considered but have floundered on being unable to identify/provide an adequate space within the village, or on the necessary money or both!

Currently the village school and Barnack Parish Council are in discussion concerning locating a multi-use games area (MUGA) on the school playing field. Plans will be submitted to Peterborough City Council for permission, hopefully and at last this plan for a games area will be realised, it will be for the use of school pupils and for all the community outside school hours.

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VILLAGE VIEWS GLINTON

COUNCIL CORNER

GLINTON The Parish Council, at its meeting on 11th August, agreed in partnership with the City Council to upgrade 4 of its litter bins to larger bins with lids, and provide two additional bins, one of which will be at Nine Bridges.

It is proposed to provide two new benches; a new one on the Green to commemorate those who served us in World War 2 and another down Welmore Road, which will be dedicated to Dave Wragg, a former Parish Councillor and village activist. Dave’s family were consulted and are delighted.

Our new Village Plan is now out to consultation until the 20th October. It can be found on the City Council’s Website www.peterborough. gov.uk/council/planning-anddevelopment/planning-policies/

Cllr John F W Holdich OBE

neighbourhood-plans. Also on the Parish Council Website, because of the virus, we cannot have a hard copy in the village, but you can see, by appointment, a hard copy at the City Council’s offices at Sandmartin House, Fletton Quays. It is a plan for your village for years to come. Please do make your comments.

biscuits, sweets and long life fruit juice.

The Glinton Good Neighbours scheme is operating well, and on two occasions were asked by the Red Cross to assist in other villages. The village is grateful for those who volunteered and thank you for those who have put food in the box in the shop. Keep it up please, items such as instant mash, rice pudding, custard, tinned spaghetti and tinned fruit, and maybe a few treats such as

It is time to sign up again for your fortnightly collection of your brown bin. You can do this by phoning 01733 747474, or on-line at www.peterborough. gov.uk/brownbins. The annual charge is £45 or you can pay by direct debit three times a year. You can also purchase an additional bin for £20 which is a one-off charge, for which there is no charge to empty the second bin.

During lockdown from April to the end of June, Aragon the City Council’s Company, emptied 28,000 litter and dog bins, cut 190 km of rural grass verges, also 20 million metres of grass verged and open spaces, and removed over 2,200 fly tips. Well done everyone.

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Overhanging Bushes

Cllr JFW Holdich OBE - Chairman Cllr RW Johnson - Vice Chairman Cllr DJ Batty Cllr CB Bysshe (Mrs) Cllr DJ Lane Cllr Gerry Kirt Cllr RW Randall Cllr PD Skinner Cllr E Spendelow Cllr. Jeff Bell Cllr. C J Wilde Mr J Haste - Clerk

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Any chance of getting these branches that hang across this path on elm crescent removed Peter Hillier? We complain about this each year and are promised the path will be cleaned but never happens.

GLINTON VILLAGE VIEWS

Glinton FriendshipClub

Barbara Holdich CURIOUS TIMES

Hi everyone, Hope you are all enjoying the great weather we have been having, and making the most of meeting your friends in your gardens.

several trips to the seaside, Brick Lane for a Christmas show, our own museum and much more.

Some memorable occasions have been celebrating Win Vine’s 100th birthday, Bert and Lilian’s special I have been e-mailing Pam,and wedding anniversary, and who have been reminiscing about the could forget Horace, when Dave good times we have enjoyed in arranged for a warrant officer from the past, lovely things such as RAF Wittering to present him with a our Emily organising the Cresset Bomber Command shield. pantomimes, our Christmas I would love to hear of your Club, when Alan would dress favourite things, over the years, up as Santa and hand out whether it has been knitting the presents, celebrating bottle tops, quizzes, a favourite people’s special birthdays and outing etc.. Please email me on anniversaries, seeing shy new members making new friends. jbholdich@aol.com.

We have had lots of outings too, including Ramsey Rural Museum, Woburn Safari Park,

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I’ve written another poem, hope you like it. Perhaps you could send me yours!

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Thank you PAST would like to thank the residents of Peakirk and Glinton for all the support and positive comments that the ‘Archaeology Boys’ (Greg Prior, Gregg Duggan, David Hankins and David Dearman) have received whilst tending the trees they planted along the Peakirk-Glinton Footway and St Pega’s Road. It has been gruelling work watering and keeping weeds at bay during this exceptionally-hot summer but without it the saplings undoubtedy would have perished. So, it is heartwarming to know that PAST’s efforts have been noticed and appreciated and that the trees are thriving.

Avril Lumley Prior

Don’t know about you, but I’m having a ball!

Can’t hoover or clean in the hall; My hubbie's on-line And he’d surely whine “I can’t hear my meetings at all!”

Cooking meals? I certainly have not!

For one thing, it’s been far too hot.

So it’s salad instead, Perhaps a celery head, And meals out, we’ve had quite a lot.

I don’t know what to put on, My waistline has just been and gone!

What fitted me might Now be too tight And the shops don’t let you try on.

It’s such a poor state of affairs, The interest is nought on my shares.

Whilst there isn’t a Club, I go to the pub And forget all my troubles and cares!

Out early, lovely walk around Etton/Maxey cut ... until we came out near Nine Bridges and started to head back to Glinton.

At first we weren’t going to pick up any litter but then we found a couple of bags amongst the litter which made it easier. In addition to the usual food & drink rubbish, we picked up 5 face masks, a pair of flip flops, a pair of shorts and 2 foil tin disposable BBQs. All this in the short distance between Nine Bridges & Glinton. It was frustrating to see rubbish on the other side of the road which we just had to leave.

We also could not face picking up the 5 (five!) used nappies

en route - nor had enough hands to pick up the broken green camping chair. Litter has always been an issue in the local villages but today’s experience just makes me feel so angry that folk just think it’s ok to be so ignorant and irresponsible.

I have no solutions to this problem. In many respects, society is broken.

Mandy Yallup

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ENVIRONMENT

LANGDYKE COUNTRYSIDE TRUST

By Richard Astle, Chair, Langdyke Countryside Trust

Langdyke Cou Lockdown has reinforced our love of nature, but it hasn’t lessened the pressures on our local wildlife We are lucky in Tribland to have so much and so varied wildlife in and around our villages. But we must never forget how much nature, even here, is in steep decline.

Nightingales have gone from Bainton Heath, lapwings nest in one or two places, not everywhere as they once did; turtle doves have done well again this year at Maxey, but have vanished from the rest of our countryside. Wild-flower meadows are few and very far between and ash trees are dying across our landscape.

This is why the John Clare Countryside project - spearheaded by the Langdyke Countryside Trust

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- is so important as it aims to create a nature recovery area across our area, allowing space for nature to prosper and expand across the countryside.

And these ideas have considerable support.

Peterborough City Council unanimously approved a motion in July to “support Natural Cambridgeshire's aim of doubling the area of land managed for nature across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough by 2050 and in particular supports the John Clare Countryside project, which aims to create, launch and deliver an ambitious and accessible nature

recovery area across the landscape areas to the west of Peterborough” We have been taking these plans forward during lockdown, including the launch by Zoom of our initiative for every parish to create its own Nature Recovery Plan.

Already we have twelve of our local parishes signed up to the idea and starting work on their plans.

Working with our partners at Natural England, the Wildlife Trust and PECT, Langdyke has produced a toolkit full of advice on how to develop a nature recovery plan – this will be on our website soon.

The first step is to create a map

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ENVIRONMENT

untryside Trust If you haven’t read our vision document it is on Langdyke’s website here - https://langdyke.org.uk/2019/09/11/vision-for-clare-country/ of the key wildlife sites in each parish, a baseline of where nature is richest.

From this, each parish can decide its objectives (plant more trees, restore orchards, dig ponds etc.) and then develop a recovery map setting out how and where new habitats can be created and linked up.

Once plans for each of the parishes are complete, we can then work collectively to link up all these ideas and ensure a landscape-

scale approach to nature recovery across John Clare Countryside.

Any proposals in the plans must of course be discussed and agreed with landowners first and we will be working closely with the farming community to ensure that these plans fully reflect their interests and help their approach to the new agricultural subsidy regime.

Initial ideas include corridors of trees stretching between Stamford and Peterborough; or a chain of wildflower meadows linking Nene and Welland.

The parish plans are just one part of the John Clare Countryside project – we are also bidding for substantial funding from Heritage Lottery Fund to allow us to work closely with landowners and to develop ideas for improved public access and community engagement.

The project also includes work to link nature and mental and physical health, forging relationships with the NHS and mental health charities.

If you’d like to be involved in your parish nature recovery plan or any other aspect of the John Clare Countryside project, do let us know and we can put you in touch with the key contacts.

Please email chair@langdyke.org.uk If we are to help nature recover, we need more volunteers!

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Peterborough’s action for the future Cllr Peter Hiller, Glinton and Castor ward

Last year, along with many other councils, Peterborough City Council declared a Climate Emergency for our city. No, it doesn’t mean we’re all likely to keel over tomorrow but, like those other responsible local authorities, we knew we had to lead against proven climatic change by actions not just politically motivated

if it uses fewer resources more efficiently and leaves a smaller carbon footprint. It is not a binary relationship. We don’t choose a tree over a house; instead they must and should work together and this is the message that often fails to reach residents. It’s critical in local government that themes and visions thread across all divisions. The environment

can change long-term behaviour, such as buying and wasting less in the first place or adopting more sustainable forms of travel, such as walking and cycling, where possible and indeed practical; especially for our rural communities where travelling distance is relevant.

I think key is to evidentially encourage our residents to

Once we are back to work fully, I’d like to encourage PCC members and officers to continue with a different office mentality; working from home more often, hot desking and remote meetings ... sound bites and green logos.

Similarly, the ‘we’re all doomed anyway’ scenarios beloved of some pundits held no truck with the council’s administration, led by my fellow rural ward councillor John Holdich and we are determined to question the status quo and make bold changes in how our council functions. To my mind the environment is not just about the trees we see outside – it’s also about jobs, employment, housing, consumption and waste management. So our environmental policies will involve working alongside businesses, not acting as a separate pressure.

Planning policy has a big impact on our environment.

Development can be positive

should not be locked in a silo, so at Peterborough City Council we are embedding environmental considerations within all policy formation and council decisions.

Often though the environment debate is focussed on one aspect – carbon reduction for example – but issues like these should not be considered in isolation as we have to be conscious and concerned with a bigger picture. It would be perverse to solve or tackle one aspect of the environmental conundrum while destroying something else you want the nurture or preserve. We need to move away from talking about just the effects of the more environmentally friendly ways of doing things, such as recycling or driving electric cars.

We need also to look at how we

think about alternative ways of behaviour and the Covid crisis has forced us all to think and act differently. Once we are back to work fully, I’d like to encourage PCC members and officers to continue with a different office mentality; working from home more often, hot desking and remote meetings are now on the agenda, but no matter how small any of us make the changes in our behaviour, any should be celebrated. It’s these small changes that will make a real and lasting difference over our time and for generations to come.

Peter is the city council’s Cabinet member for Strategic Planning, Investment and Commercial Strategy.

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Ah bonjour to all you in the villages of Tribland and I hope you are well always during the strange times we are in. Your home-grown tomatoes are now being ready so I thought for this issue I’d look to my annual crop in the greenhouse of Chez Pierre and share the making of the CP house tomato sauce, the basis of many excellent sauces for our dishes which we serve here.

Sauce Tomate de Maison Tomatoes, or Pommes dè Amour as the great Auguste Escoffier called them, are one of the bestloved fruits in French cooking (yes the tomato is a fruit). There are thousands of recipes where the tomato appears so at CP we tend to feature just a few for our guests’ menu. Tomatoes are also known as the summer's quintessential, overproducing crop which makes them even more versatile in our kitchens and many of the great recipes are from the south of

France where tomatoes are both cheap and very available in our markets.

To create our house sauce: I roughly cut up the large fruits into smallish chunks however many I have picked, maybe a dozen or so large tomatoes, and sauté in a wide pan with some olive oil, a handful of chopped streaky bacon with all its fat, a handful of chopped basil, two chopped onions, a large glass or two of white wine, frequent doses of ground pepper and salt and sugar for seasoning (to taste) three fat chopped garlic cloves and reduce over a low/

medium heat for something like an hour, adding more wine if needed. Season/sugar further to taste and place a large knob of unsalted butter to finish. This will give you the basic Sauce Tomate we use here, but for pan-fried steaks and chicken plates of food I will probably add four of five sliced mushrooms to the ready-made sauce which I have already sautéed in butter and to finish with a swirl of single cream, creating a really quite special experience for our guests.

The rough and ready shape and size of our home-grown tomatoes and actually the vast majority of what is sold in French shops and markets, are not it seems considered particularly ‘acceptable’ in the UK. Our fruits’ shape often resemble the head of your unfortunate Mr Elephant Man, not the pristines clean and perfectly round offerings in Mr

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Tesco’s shop. My picture shows our tomatoes from France being prepared at CP having been sold at a local shop and are also big and smaller, in deep reds and yellows and have flavour in spades, not a watery centre with pale skins of the quickly grown tomatoes.

Next time you go into France buy some tomatoes, enjoy their sun-kissed beauty and then keep some of the seeds to grow them here in your greenhouses.

The basic sauce I make sometimes a lot and then portion into freezer bags and freeze. It can be just taken out anytime and used without any real flavour loss and is of course very convenient for soups and casseroles whenever they demand proper tomatoes, not tinned, and as I have demonstrated above they are the base of many lovely sauces to enhance food and to ensure none of your lovely home harvest is wasted.

To answer the email question from T in Ailsworth: I am recommending lightly grilling your salmon for your upcoming light lunch party, top with pancetta, a thin slice of tomato and grated parmesan and grill for another five minutes. You might also try an unusual sauce too, like a mayonnaise with chopped tarragon or maybe a bercy sauce. I’ve emailed you the easy recipes. A lightly-chilled white wine like a Pouilly-Fumé or a Sancerre would lift the appreciation too.

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Organize that pile of papers The big pile you mean to organise every time you add something to it. Shred the papers you don’t need and file the ones you do. Aim to make the sorting and filing a weekly event so it never becomes too overwhelming when life approaches normality again.

Clean out your computer’s hard drive and emails Get rid of all the stuff you downloaded ages ago and emails from 2016 that you have absolutely no use for. It will feel good and encourage you to keep your email folder empty!

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Only a few months ago we were so busy planning this year’s visit of 30 Chernobyl Children, looking forward to taking these children, who have stolen our hearts, to visit our local attractions.

Friends of Chernobyl’s Children In Belarus the children, who are all health compromised, were busy getting ready to come to Helpston and telling their friends excitedly of their plans and about their English family, and then Covid hit. Sadly both the summer and the Christmas visits were cancelled. However, all is not lost. Many families

have managed to keep some contact with their Chernobyl Child via social media. Social media has also given the charity the opportunity to assist a family who have suffered a terrible house fire and were left with nothing bar what they stood up in. Hopefully we will be able to replace the fridge and

cooker and purchase a washing machine for this family who, last year, took two orphaned little girls into their care. We are already making plans to bring the Chernobyl Children to Tribuneland next summer, when with love and laughter and such joy, we hope to welcome our Chernobyl Children once more.

As ever, we will be looking for hosts and sponsors, so do get in touch with me if you would like to know more. www.focc-helpston.com, email Cecilia Hammond at focc_helpston@msn.com

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ARCHAEOLOGY: VIRTUALLY A THING OF THE PAST

Archaeology:

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by Greg Prior

In this era of ‘virtual’ Parish Council Meetings, church services, choir practices, doctors’ appointments, lessons, keep-fit classes and tea parties, it seems you can do virtually everything online, except perhaps archaeology.

Surface finds from the 3rd to 19th centuries

...it is virtually impossible to socially distance in a metre-square test pit! Alas! David Hankins’ magic trowel is redeployed as a humble gardening tool and Gregg Duggan’s mighty mattock has been furloughed along with our cones until things are virtually back to the ‘old normal’.

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Covid-19 certainly put pay to PAST’s excavation programme in Peakirk this year simply because it is virtually impossible to socially distance in a metre-square test pit! Alas!

David Hankins’ magic trowel is redeployed as a humble gardening tool and Gregg Duggan’s mighty mattock has been furloughed along with our cones until things are back to the ‘old normal’.

Meanwhile, what we all can do is to venture outdoors and look at the archaeology of our historic landscape, which is so much more clean-cut now that the harvest is home. Take for example, the view of the depression made by the now defunct Roman watercourse, Car Dyke, where it crosses Mile End Road between Glinton and Northborough and continues across a field of stubble. Following the 6m (19.5 feet) contour between the fens and the gravel uplands

for 92km [57 miles] from the River Nene at Peterborough to the River Witham near Lincoln, the Dyke was as an enormous an undertaking as Hadrian’s Wall when it was excavated in the first century AD. What an impact it must have had on the indigenous Iron-Age population (especially on the locals who were forced to dig it) and may be compared with the construction of the railways, in the nineteenth century, and our motorway network, in the twentieth!

Then, after the land has been prepared for winter, walk alongside on the adjacent footpaths to see what the plough has turned up. In some parts of Tribland, you may find sherds of pottery dating back to the Iron Age. Castor is particularly famous for its resurgent Romano-British NeneValley ware, since there were numerous kilns near Ermine Street, in Normangate Field, and

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The depression of Car Dyke, near Mile End Road

The crocks lay beneath the soil through war and peace, famine and pandemics including the Great Plague and Spanish ‘Flu, sporadically reemerging after digging or ploughing as insignificantlooking sherds.

there have been occasional surface finds in Peakirk churchyard too.

However, most of the domestic pottery that turns up in fields, gardens and allotments was originally discarded on medieval to early twentieth-century rubbish dumps along with other household waste like vegetable matter and human and animal dung, which was later spread on the land as fertilizer.

The crocks lay beneath the soil through war and peace, famine and pandemics including the Great Plague and Spanish ‘Flu, sporadically re-emerging after digging or ploughing as insignificant-looking sherds. Yet to archaeologists, they are fascinating because they are a window into our past and represent more-

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frugal, pre-Tesco times when the breakage of difficult-to-replace utensils was lamented.

And what will our own welldocumented, throw-away society leave for future generations of archaeologists to ponder over?

Land-fill sites packed with plastic and other non-biodegradable materials, evidence of fly-tipping and the latest litter accessory, disposable face-masks? Will our successors feel dismay and resentment at the way we have treated our countryside and try to make amends?

Or will they follow in some of our footsteps, too locked-down in their ‘virtual’ worlds or engrossed in the latest technology and musthave trending gadgets to notice or care?

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Peterborough Cathedral

Fiends, Fires and Murder Most Foul!

Forging links with Anglo-Saxon Peterborough

by Dr Avril Lumley Prior

Come September, it will be half a century since I arrived in Peterborough to begin my teaching career. On the first weekend, I joined a tour of the Cathedral, where I learnt that a monastery named Medeshamstede, was founded on the site, in 655, by Prince Peada of Mercia and King Oswiu of Northumbria. It was torched by ‘Vikings’, in 870, and restored by Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester, a century later, only to be accidently burnt down again by a blaspheming baker, in 1116. continued overleaf >>

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The Seven Kingdoms Hugh Candidus watching the ‘Nine Days Fire’

Bede (Window, St John’s church)

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When I asked my guide the source of his information, he recommended that I bought a copy of The Peterborough Chronicle of Hugh Candidus, the life’s work of a twelfth-century monk. It was a fascinating read, even though Hugh had compiled it between 1155 and 1175, some 500 years after many of the events supposedly occurred. Still, it left me wanting to find out more.

Unfortunately, it was not until I took early retirement that I had time to delve into Peterborough’s past with conviction, unravelling a saga of desperate times and dark deeds.

But I am jumping ahead of myself here. To put Peterborough’s Anglo-Saxon past in perspective, we must turn to my old friend, Bede, who wrote his History of the English Church and People 200 miles away, at Jarrow, in Northumbria, c.731. He tells us that by the mid-seventh century, our country was divided into seven kingdoms ruled by a handful of aristocratic families, of which Mercia and Northumbria were emerging as two warring superpowers. During a brief detente in 654, the pagan Penda of Mercia (c.628-55) and Christian Oswui of Northumbria (643-70), brokered a marriage alliance between their offspring in an attempt to found dynasties in each other’s territory. It was agreed that Penda’s son and daughter, Peada and Kyneburgha, should marry Oswiu’s daughter and son, Ahlfflæd and Ahlfrith. Oswiu added the codicil that, before any union took place, Peada must first accept Christianity, to which there were no objections. Indeed, Bede reveals that the youth was so smitten by the ‘new’ religion that he promised to be baptised whether he won the princess or not.

For a decade, Kyneburgha remained in Northumbria with Ahlfrith, whose father made him sub-ruler of Deira, a region of Northumbria covering parts of modern County Durham and North Yorkshire. Meanwhile, Penda bestowed upon Peada the clientkingship of the Middle Angles, whose territory is understood to have comprised Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and the old Soke of Peterborough [Greater Peterborough], which includes Tribland.

Peada returned to his province with Ahlfflæd and four Northumbrian-trained priests, perhaps, adopting as his powerbase the abandoned Roman prætorium at Castor, overlooking the Nene Valley. It seems that Penda had no problem with Peada’s campaign to evangelise the area but drew the line at the building of a monastery in Mercia.

Bede relates that both nobles and common folk sallied forth in droves ‘to renounce idolatry and be washed in the fountain of faith’, though, doubtlessly, they were being prodded along by Peada!

This Middle-Anglian Utopia did not last long. Within a year, Penda was up to his old tricks, invading Northumbria at the head of a vast army of 30 tribal leaders and their warriors, both pagan and Christian.

Oswiu and Alhfrith were hopelessly outnumbered and tried to bribe Penda to withdraw but the Mercian ruler turned a deaf ear, leaving the Northumbrians no option but to fight. Oswiu and Ahlfrith prayed fervently and promised to build twelve new monasteries in exchange for victory. This time their entreaties were heard for the Mercians suffered a crashing defeat, Penda was killed and the grateful Oswiu founded twelve new Northumbrian religious houses.

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The murder of Peada by his wife (Jan Jansson, 1646)

Upon Medeshamstede’s completion and the installation of Seaxwulf as abbot, Wulfhere declared it would be dedicated in the honour of St Peter, keeper of the keys to Heaven (hence, its medieval name, St Peter’s Burch, later Peterborough).

Seaxwulf receives Wulfhere’s Charter

Peada, it appears, took no part in the hostilities, and was rewarded by his father-in-law with the clientkingship of Southern Mercia. He was now free to sponsor his own monastery staffed with monks and priests providing pastoral care to prevent his subjects from lapsing into their old pagan ways.

Medeshamstede: The Monastery by the Meadow Until now, (like me) Hugh was relying heavily upon a copy of Bede’s History, a medieval ‘bestseller’ and a must-have for every monastic library, though he was consulting a manuscript rather than the paperback edition! Since Bede only mentions Medeshamstede in passing, revealing that Seaxwulf was its first abbot and that it was situated in the land of the Gyrwe (‘fen-dwellers), Hugh adds his own twist to the tale. He states that Peada and Oswiu colluded to create a high-status religious house, on a rock overlooking the River Nene near a sacred spring called the Mædeswæl [‘meadow-spring’] and named their royal foundation, Medeshamstede.

Hugh describes seventhcentury Medeshamstede as a veritable Paradise. To the west, lay rich meadows, woods and fertile ploughlands. To the east, a deep fen fed by many watercourses rendered the terrain unfit for human habitation except, of course, by the less-fortunate monks of Crowland, Ramsey and Thorney.

However, Hugh was writing in the twelfth century, by which time the abbey lands had been cultivated for over 500 years. The church had been rebuilt in Romanesque [Norman] style after the 1116 ‘Nine Days’ Fire’ and the town had been realigned with its market-

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place outside the abbey gates, a layout recognizable today. Back in 655, climatic changes and lack of maintenance of the Romano-British drainage systems had reduced the area to a mosquito-infested swamp. Hugh may well have perceived that these water margins were abundant with fish and fowl, but the pioneering monks of early Medeshamstede must have found life exceedingly challenging.

Moreover, before Peada’s the complex was completed tragedy struck. At Easter, 656, he was murdered, allegedly by his Northumbrian wife. Bede informs us that Oswiu swiftly seized control of South Mercia, but his direct rule lasted only three years. In 658, Mercian ealdormen rebelled against their Northumbrian overlords, drove them from their kingdom and appointed Peada’s younger brother, Wulfhere, a devout Christian as their ruler.

Hugh adds that Wulfhere’s prime concern was to complete Medeshamstede. With Oswiu off the scene, he sought the advice of his siblings, Æthelræd, Kyneswitha and, crucially, Kyneburgha, now in charge of her own convent in Castor, after Alhfrith mysteriously disappeared (possibly executed by Oswiu following a failed coup.)

Upon Medeshamstede’s completion and the installation of Seaxwulf as abbot, Wulfhere declared it would be dedicated in the honour of St Peter, keeper of the keys to Heaven (hence, its medieval name, St Peter’s Burch, later Peterborough). The king presented it with a spectacular foundation charter, endowing it vast estates stretching from Wansford to the Fens and from the now-drained Whittlesey Mere to the Wash. He also conferred upon the abbey extraordinary privileges.

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Wilfrid, Hexham panel

Agatho issued a dire warning that anyone who tried to diminish the monastery’s status or violate its rights would be condemned to Hell by none other than St Peter himself!

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numerous dependent monasteries, would enjoy supremacy over all other English abbeys, except Canterbury, and her abbot was answerable only to the Archbishop and the Pope.

Next, Hugh describes how Wulfhere sent Wilfrid, an upwardlymobile, young priest (and bishopand saint-in-waiting) to Rome to obtain Pope Agatho’s blessing.

So impressed was his Holiness with Wulfhere’s flagship Mercian monastery that he heaped upon it further honours in his Bull of 664.

He decreed that Medeshamstede should be exempt from all taxation and military services. It was to be a centre of pilgrimage, ‘a second Rome in England’, so that those who could not travel to Rome could visit St Peter at Medeshamstede instead. Finally, Agatho issued a dire warning that anyone who tried to diminish the monastery’s status or violate its rights would be condemned to Hell by none other than St Peter himself!

When Wulfhere died, he was succeeded by his brother, Æthelræd (677-704), who had married another of Oswiu of Northumbria’s daughters, Osthryth.

Copies of authentically-based charters testify that the couple extended Medeshamstede’s sphere of influence by founding a daughter-house at Breedon-on-theHill, Leicestershire, which in turn supported a satellite monastery, at Repton, in Derbyshire, later the mausoleum of Mercian kings.

Yet, despite her good works, Osthryth’s increasing influence caused resentment. Even after 40 years, as a Northumbrian, she still was regarded as the ‘old enemy’, whose father slew the mighty Penda and whose fiendish halfsister had dispatched the saintly Peada. According to Bede, in 697, Osthryth was murdered by Mercian noblemen. One of her assassins is

thought to have been St Pega’s of Peakirk’s brother, Guthlac, which rationalises his seeking sanctuary at Repton and his subsequent ‘exile’ at Crowland and eventual sainthood.

A Second Rome in England Pope Agatho’s vision of Medeshamstede as a ‘second Rome’, conjures images of lofty belfries, shady cloisters and studious monks labouring over illuminated texts in a scriptorium.

Conversely, the earliest monastery was more likely to have been a cluster of timber-framed structures thatched with reed, materials that Hugh tells us were readily locally.

In fact, Bede divulges that, when Benedict Biscop raised his state-ofthe-art monastery at Wearmouth [Sunderland], nearly 20 years later in 674, on land given by Osthryth’s brother, King Ecgfrith, he recruited stone masons and glaziers from Gaul [France] because the skills had been lost after the Roman legions withdrew from Britain, in 410AD. Therefore, it was feasible that Medeshamstede was reconstructed in stone from Barnack quarry not at Peada or Wulfhere’s behest but at Æthelræd’s and Osthryth’s, later in the seventh century.

Although foundations of a stone church were discovered during the underpinning of the Cathedral tower, in 1883, it is impossible to determine how the building may have looked from this fraction of floor-plan. But, by adopting as a model Professor Rosemary Cramp’s reconstruction of St Peter’s, Wearmouth (another ‘second Rome in England’), we may conjecture that Medeshamstede’s late seventhcentury church contained a porch

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‘Hædda Stone’

Castor slab

He explains that Abbot Hædda, sensing impending disaster on the eve of the Danish raid, wrote down the monastery’s history, hitherto preserved as oral tradition. Once finished, he hid it, together with Wulfhere’s charter and Agatho’s Bull behind a loose stone in the church wall and stoically awaited his fate.

or narthex to the west, an aisled nave and a square or apsidal (semicircular), eastern sanctuary, where, the relics of St Peter and Osthryth’s uncle and miracle worker, St Oswald (slain in battle by Penda in 642), were enshrined. Domestic offices probably were limited to a refectory, dormitory, kitchen, necessarium [latrine] and storehouses since cloisters were not introduced until after the Benedictine Reforms of the late-ninth century. Æthelræd abdicated, in 704, and retreated to Rome where he became monk. His nephew, Cenred, Wulfhere’s son, who succeeded him, joined him in the Eternal City in 709, after which Mercia endured nearly four decades of misrule and regicide until Offa brought a measure of stability, in 757. Nevertheless, Hugh assures us that Medeshamstede continued to thrive throughout the abbacies of Cuthbald, Ecgbald, Pusa, Beonna, Coelred and Hædda.

The arts were encouraged and craftsmen set up a stone-carving workshop, producing intricate sculptures to adorn the abbey church and its outliers.

One such masterpiece, In the Cathedral, is the so-called ‘Hædda Stone’, depicting Christ, the Virgin Mary and ten of the disciples.

Once believed to be a memorial to Abbot Hædda and brethren who were reputedly slaughtered by ‘the Danes’, the Victorians carved the date, ‘870’, on the gable as a reminder of their martyrdom!

(Strange that the workshops continued after Medeshamstede had been sacked!) Then, in the 1970s, Professor Cramp calculated that the sculpture preceded the Danish raids by roughly 30 years. It is strikingly similar to a panel thought to be a section of Kyneburgha’s and Kyneswitha’s shrine, at Castor, leading us to speculate that the ‘Hædda Stone’ was intended as a monument for their brother, Peada.

A Fistful of Forgeries At length, Hugh reveals the source of his additional information relating to pre-870 Medeshamstede.

He explains that Abbot Hædda, sensing impending disaster on the eve of the Danish raid, wrote down the monastery’s history, hitherto preserved as oral tradition. Once finished, he hid it, together with Wulfhere’s charter and Agatho’s Bull behind a loose stone in the church wall and stoically awaited his fate. The cache of documents was miraculously discovered by Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester while inspecting the restoration work, in 972. When Æthelwold showed them to his patron, King Eadgar (957-75), he immediately drew up another royal charter, endorsing Wulfhere’s privileges though amending the land-grants to allow for the new monasteries at Crowland, Ramsey and Thorney. All four documents were deemed so significant that copies were embedded in the Peterborough version of the AngloSaxon Chronicle compiled between 1121 and 1154, and in subsequent cartularies or charter books as well as in Hugh’s magnum opus.

EXCEPT that ‘Hædda’s’ house-history, ‘Wulfhere’s’ charter, ‘Agatho’s’ bull – and Eadgar’s’ charter – in their surviving form are all forgeries, composed during the early twelfth-century when the monastery’s fortunes and the brethren’s morale were at their lowest ebb. In 1169, three years after the Conquest, Hereward the fenland freedom-fighter, had breached the abbey walls, looted the treasury and ‘liberated’ its relics, including the undecayed arm of St Oswald, to prevent them (Hereward said) from falling into Norman hands. Then, Abbot continued overleaf >>

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Peterborough Cathedral (1842)

As the written word became more important than an oral tradition, the indigenous brethren of St Peter’s Burch urgently needed hard copies of charters claiming ancient privileges, purportedly granted by AngloSaxon kings.

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Turold de Fécamp (1070-98), the military monk assigned to quell Hereward’s rebellion, had systematically requisitioned the abbey’s portable assets and alienated its estates to support his standing army of 60 knights.

Furthermore, consecutive rulers’ campaigns in Normandy were stretching both the monastery’s and the country’s resources to their limits and the once-proud abbey was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy.

As the written word became more important than an oral tradition, the indigenous brethren of St Peter’s Burch urgently needed hard copies of charters claiming ancient privileges, purportedly granted by AngloSaxon kings. Through these they could attempt to safeguard monastic property and demand exemption from taxation, military service and interference from both bishops and kings but also appear to comply with Norman law.

When Abbot Ernulf, a Frenchman (not a Norman), consummate lawyer and AngloSaxon sympathiser, arrived from Christ Church, Canterbury in 1107, he was the answer to the monks’ prayers. We now know that there had been a spate of

forgeries in favour of Christ Church while Ernulf was prior there and another outbreak at Rochester, after he was elevated to the bishopric, in 1114. Thus, it appears that either Ernulf had the wherewithal to concoct the official ‘paperwork’ or he knew someone who had! It transpires that the Peterborough, Christ Church and Rochester forgeries were so convincing that it took over 800 years for them to be exposed by Professor Wilhelm Levison, in 1943, and until 2005, when I identified Ernulf or his agent as the likely perpetrator.

But ignore the extravagant, totally-spurious privileges tailormade to suit the twelfth-century political climate. Then, carefully read between the lines and you will find clues that the forger had access to genuine but now-lost, materials relating to Medeshamstede’s pre-870 estates. For example, it is still possible to plot Wulfhere’s seventh-century charter bounds using landscape features. And Medeshamstede’s tenth-century domain as defined by ‘King Eadgar’s’ charter neatly corresponds with Greater Peterborough.

So, if Oswui established twelve Northumbrian monasteries to celebrate his victory over Penda, wouldn’t the prospect of cofounding a thirteenth with his archenemy’s son and heir and within his former kingdom be too delectably tempting to resist?

If, perchance, you take a guided tour of the Cathedral, you will be told that that a monastery named Medeshamstede, was founded on the site, in 655, by Peada of Mercia and Oswiu of Northumbria. It was destroyed by ‘Vikings’, in 870, restored by Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester, a century later, and accidently burnt down, in 1116. Half a century (and 25 years of research) later, I am completely convinced that this is exactly what did happen!

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HERITAGE

HELPSTON LOCAL HISTORY GROUP

The Sad Tale of Elizabeth Culpin 1856-1875 of Helpstone On the 30 January 1856 Martin Culpin, a shepherd born in Castor and his wife Jane [Hobbs] born in Ailsworth, were delivered of a baby girl, Elizabeth in Helpston[e].

In 1871 as a 14 year old, Elizabeth is listed on the CENSUS as a shepherd, along with her brother George (16), and father Martin (62). The youngest children, under 12 years of age and still at home are recorded as scholars.

According to the 1861 CENSUS the family were living in Maxey Road, although it is very unlikely that the property still exists and is likely to have been a cottage like the one above.

It was a large family with various birth and baptism places named for the children, probably due to Martin looking for shepherding work.

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Martin is 12 years older than his wife and likely needed the help of his children with his occupation as a shepherd.

It is quite interesting on this 1871 CENSUS to see how many people are paper makers and rail labourers, two occupations that get mentioned a few years later in Elizabeth’s inquest hearing in the Exeter Arms. I’m not sure how much we should believe the information on the 1871 CENSUS as personally I think the enumerator may have passed by the Exeter Arms first as ‘Elisabeth’ is listed as a

son of the head of the family and William is a daughter!

It appears from the inquest report, according to the sworn oath of widow, Sarah Holding, that Elizabeth left a room in her mother’s house in Maxey Road at about 9.45pm Saturday 24th April 1875.

When she didn’t return to the room, a boy was sent to look for her. As he was not able to find her, a search was started around the local area but she was not found. The witness stated that Elizabeth had been in a low desponding way for some time and had suffered debility. She had visited Doctor Paley that day and had been unwell for some 6 weeks.

In the meantime, a driver of a goods train on the down line reported to the clerk in charge of the station at Tallington that he had seen what appeared to be the body of a man on the rails of the up line. On further investigation Horace Clayton found the body of Elizabeth at 11.40 pm and said she appeared to have been dead some little time. She was found about a quarter of a mile from the Lolham Bridges Crossing on the Helpston[e] side. There was no evidence to show whether the death was accidental or suicide.

HELPSTON LOCAL HISTORY GROUP

This is the description of the cause of death on her death certificate: “Run over by a train running on the Great Northern Railway. Single woman employed at the paper mills. Inquest held 26 April 1875”

There was no evidence to show whether the death was accidental or suicide.

She was buried in the churchyard on 27 April 1875 being only 19 years old. Elizabeth was one of at least 13 children born to Martin Culpin and Jane Hobbs, not all survived childhood, and with the

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death of her father in 1872, life must have been quite hard for the remaining family in Helpston 1911 shows one of Elizabeth’s older siblings Mary Ann Bowring (née Culpin), aged 65 and a widow, as a mill hand ‘sorter’ at the paper mill and at her time of death Elizabeth was also working at the paper mill. The newspaper article in the Stamford Mercury on 30 April 1875 reporting Elizabeth’s death.

If you are interested to learn more about the Helpston Local History Group please contact Margaret Courtman at the email address below: margaret.courtman@btinternet.com Jackie Robinson Arborfield Close, Helpston Active Member HLHG

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CHURCH NEWS

St Pega's Treasure David Hankins

'St Pega's church Peakirk has a new treasure thanks to the skill and generosity of resident Barry Cooke (pictured). This impressive Paschal candle holder was made using wood recycled from the church yard. The oak base was the remains of an ancient gate post and the upper section was made partly from a cut back yew.

The combination of it containing a slice of the church's history and Barry's craftsmanship on the lathe will ensure this beautiful candle holder is treasured for generations to come.'

Harvest Praise at Northborough

Sunday 13 September 10.30am at St.Andrew's Church.

St Mary's Church is now open

You are welcome to bring gifts of cans and packets for Peterborough Food Bank: non-perishable items only please.

St Mary's, Tallington Road, Bainton

Social distancing will be observed and masks should be worn.

1st Sunday 6pm Taize Service: words, music and some quiet

We look forward to seeing you all.

Church Addresses:

St John the Baptist Church, Main Street, Barnack PE9 3DN St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Bainton PE9 3AF St Botolph’s Church, Church Street, Helpston PE6 7DT All Saints Church, Church Road, Wittering PE8 6AF St Andrew’s Church, Main Street, Ufford PE9 3BH St Stephen, Main Rd., Etton PE6 7DA St Peter, Main St. Maxey PE6 9HF St Pega, Chestnut Close, Peakirk PE6 7NH | Glinton St Benedict, High St., Glinton PE6 7JN St Andrew Church St., Northborough PE6 9BN

Forthcoming Services:

2nd Sunday 9am Holy Communion.

All welcome.

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Families, including children, can sit together, however, other people attending will be socially distanced or we can provide DVDs of the service.

On our church gate there is also a prayer post box. Please post your prayer requests and we will include them in our services each week. Just a name of someone who needs a helping hand is all that is needed.

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CHURCH NEWS SERVICES

Services

Tribland church Sep

St John the Baptist Barnack

St Stephen Etton

St Peter Maxey

St Benedict Glinton

Sun 6 Sep Epiphanye 9.30am

Parish Communion

with Father Michael Matthews

10am

Parish Praise

Mark Hotchkin

Sun 13 Sep 9.30am

Parish Communion with Canon Keith Denison

No Service

9am

No Service

All age Holy Communion

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

10.30am

Holy Communion

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

Sun 20 Sep 9.30am

Parish Communion with Canon Keith Denison

8am

Holy Communion

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

10am

Family Service Village Hall

M Hotchkin & F Skillman 10.30am

No Service

Sun 27 Sep

9.30am

Morning Praise

with Mike Mills

No Service

9am

Holy Communion BCP

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

9.30am

HARVEST FESTIVAL

Parish Worship

9am

Family Communion Praise

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

Derek Harris 10.30am

St Andrew Northboro'

9am

Holy Communion

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

10.30am

HARVEST Praise Freda Skillman

Holy Communion

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

Rev'd Mark-Aaron and Freda Skillman

St Pega Peakirk

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6pm

Evensong

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

10.30am

Holy Communion

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

11am

Morning Prayer Derek Harris

10.30am

HARVEST Parish Worship Derek Harris

SERVICES

Oct/Nov

St John the Baptist Barnack

St Stephen Etton

St Peter Maxey

Sun 4 Oct

9.30am Parish Communion

Father Michael Matthews

Mark Hotchkin

St Andrew Northboro'

St Pega Peakirk

9am

10.30am

Rev'd MarkAaron

6pm

Evensong

Rev'd MarkAaron

Rev'd MarkAaron

10.30am

Parish Praise

Holy Communion

Holy Communion

No Service

10am 9am 9am All Age Holy Family Service Holy Communion Communion BCP Village Hall Rev'd Mark- M Hotchkin & Rev'd MarkAaron Aaron F Skillman

Holy Communion

Rev'd MarkAaron

Sun 25 Oct

8am

HARVEST Praise No Service

No Service

Sun 18 Oct

9.30am 9.30am Parish Parish 9.30am Morning Communion Communion Praise Canon Keith Canon Keith Mike Mills Denison Denison

10am

10.30am

St Benedict Glinton

Sun 11 Oct

Mark Hotchkin

All Age Praise

Freda Skillman

10.30am

Holy Communion

Rev'd MarkAaron

No Service

9am

Holy Communion

Rev'd MarkAaron

11am

Morning Prayer

Derek Harris

9.30am

Parish Worship Derek Harris

CHURCH NEWS

Sun 1 Nov

No Service

10am

Parish Praise

Mark Hotchkin

No Service

10.30am

Holy Communion

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

10.30am

Family Communion Praise

Rev'd MarkAaron and

9am

Holy Communion

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

Freda Skillman

10.30am

Parish Worship Derek Harris

6pm

Evensong

Rev'd Mark-Aaron

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PLANNING APPLICATIONS

 BAINTON

Raise Sycamore (red) crown to approx 5m at Swallows Rest Ufford Road Bainton Stamford: Awaiting decision Purpose built barn for housing livestock at Land South Of Allotments Helpston Road Bainton Stamford: Awaiting decision Two storey and single storey extension to the rear of existing detached dwelling and external alterations at The Green Helpston Road Bainton Stamford: Permitted

glazed link; two-storey side extension; alterations to fenestration, including new dormer windows and conservation rooflights; side walkway; railings; alternations to existing barn including ancillary staff accommodation; and, garden room outbuilding at Old Mill Lane Castor Peterborough: Awaiting decision Single storey extension to rear of dwelling at 20 Berrystead Castor Peterborough PE5 7DJ: Permitted

 DEEPING

GATE

 BARNACK

Replace, in replica front door to the property at 103 Riverside Deeping Gate Peterborough PE6 9AR: Permitted

Ash tree (A) thin crown by 10-15% at Rock Cottage Stamford Road Barnack Stamford: Awaiting decision

Single storey rear extension including demolition of part of the rear of the existing dwelling at 97 Lincoln Road Deeping Gate Peterborough PE6 9BB: Awaiting decision

Cedar Tree-Fell at 2 Kingsley Close Barnack Stamford PE9 3EF: Awaiting decision

Proposed dwelling at The Bungalow Stamford Road Barnack Stamford: Awaiting decision Hazel (red) coppice at The Old Bake House The Square Barnack Stamford: Awaiting decision Non-material amendment (realignment of the footpath connection between the development site and Uffington Road) of planning permission 18/00377/REM at Land To The West Of Uffington Road Barnack Stamford: Determined Fell Pine/Fir tree (4) at 12 Whitman Close Barnack Stamford PE9 3EL: Awaiting decision Remove Cherry Tree (red) at The Post House Main Street Barnack Stamford: Awaiting decision Proposed vehicular access and dropped kerb at 29 School Road Barnack Stamford PE9 3DZ: Refused

 CASTOR

Construction of four-bed detached dwelling with integral garage at Cobnut Cottage 45 Peterborough Road Castor Peterborough: Awaiting decision Replacement windows to all elevations, new rear patio doors, removal of existing porch, replacement of existing front door with new canopy and installation of rooflights at 2 The Limes Castor Peterborough PE5 7BH: Awaiting decision Judas Tree - Crown reduce by 20%. Silver Birch Remove. Californian Red Wood/Cedar - Remove at The Limes 6 Peterborough Road Castor Peterborough: Awaiting decision Change of use from mixed office and residential use to a single-family dwellinghouse, involving proposed reinstatement, refurbishment, extensions, alterations and landscaping following internal strip out and demolition of previous extensions, including reinstatement of external waterwheel, timber lucum, external steps and dormer positions; single-storey swimming pool extension and 60

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Present 3 garage doors replaced by 2 windows and a door, patio doors inserted into southern elevation and internal conversion to allow for use as living accommodation at Honeysuckle Lodge Suttons Lane Deeping Gate Peterborough: Refused

 ETTON

Remove Spruce (red) at 30 Main Road Etton Peterborough PE6 7DA: Awaiting decision

 GLINTON

Single storey side extension to form new proposed double garage, erection of first floor extension and single storey rear extension with conversion of existing garage at 1 Rectory Lane Glinton Peterborough PE6 7LR: Awaiting decision Demolition of existing garage, replacement side extension on like for like footprint at 19 Elm Crescent Glinton Peterborough PE6 7LE: Permitted New cladding and render to rear and side elevations, new PVCU fenestration with grey frames, amendments to fenestration generally to suit change of use, new railings to the front and flat roof dormer window to the rear at 9A High Street Glinton Peterborough PE6 7JP: Awaiting decision Single storey extension to create entrance lobby at Arthur Mellows Village College Helpston Road Glinton Peterborough: Awaiting decision Variation of C2 (revised plans-brickwork plinth and chimney omitted, French doors and Velux window added, bi-fold door reduced in size and external facing materials noted) and removal of C3 (approved plan) to planning permission 18/01252/FUL at 5 Helpston Road Glinton Peterborough PE6 7JT: Awaiting decision Replacement of timber decking at rear of the property (retrospective) at 10 The Willows Glinton Peterborough

APPLICATIONS

PE6 7NE: Awaiting decision Proposed two-year temporary continuation of use of land and siting of mobile home in connection with, and use of, land, kennels and associated fencing as licenced establishment for breeding dogs at Buffingham Kennels Waterworks Lane Glinton Peterborough: Refused Variation of condition C2 (approved drawings) of planning permission 16/02087/HHFUL at Forge Cottage 10 The Green Glinton Peterborough: Permitted Change of use from office to residential use at 9A High Street Glinton Peterborough PE6 7J: Awaiting decision

 HELPSTON

Proposed replacement dwelling with integral garage at 12 Heath Road Helpston Peterborough PE6 7EG: Awaiting decision Demolition of existing glasshouse and proposed erection of additional B1 Storage / workshop building at The Nursery 5 Heath Road Helpston Peterborough: Awaiting decision Ground floor rear extension and first floor extension at 47 Glinton Road Helpston Peterborough PE6 7DG: Awaiting decision Proposed side extension and loft conversion at 48 Broad Wheel Road Helpston Peterborough PE6 7EE: Awaiting decision Re-roofing and modification to doors of outbuilding at Vine Cottage 14 Maxey Road Helpston Peterborough: Permitted Construction of one dwelling house with associated parking and landscaping works at Land To Rear Of 3A And 5A West Street Helpston Peterborough PE6 7DU: Permitted Single storey rear extension, alterations to boundary wall, erection of entrance canopy and demolition of existing outbuilding at 5 Church Lane Helpston Peterborough PE6 7DT: Awaiting decision Single storey rear extension. Distance from original rear wall: 4m. Maximum height: 2.91m (height to eaves: 2.85m) at 71 Glinton Road Helpston Peterborough PE6 7DG: Awaiting decision

 MAXEY

Replacement of two ground floor windows to front elevation at 30 High Street Maxey Peterborough PE6 9EE: Awaiting decision

PLANNING

Conversion of car port and store to home gym; 3no.

Conservation roof lights; new folding sliding doors; replacement timber doors on a like for like basis serving the store; and installation of AC unit located within the external oil tank store at 28 High Street Maxey Peterborough PE6 9EE: Permitted

 NORTHBOROUGH Single storey rear extension, Distance from original rear wall: 6.5m. Maximum height: 2.7m (2.5m to eaves) at 23 Castle Drive Northborough Peterborough PE6 9DG: Awaiting decision Single storey extension and partial demolition of existing dwelling at 12 Clare Road Northborough Peterborough PE6 9DN: Awaiting decision Erection of single storey side and rear extension at 64 Lincoln Road Northborough Peterborough PE6 9BH: Permitted

 PILSGATE Minor alterations to the existing range of outbuildings to the rear of Pilsgate House at Pilsgate House Stamford Road Pilsgate Stamford: Awaiting decision

 PEAKIRK Demolition of existing dwelling and erection of two twostorey dwellings and and rebuild of existing outbuilding at Ivy House Bull Lane Peakirk Peterborough: Awaiting decision Proposed tennis court and lighting, with screening and soft landscaping at 11 Meadow Road Peakirk Peterborough PE6 7NX: Withdrawn by applicant

 SOUTHORPE Removal and replacement of windows at Hall Farm House Main Street Southorpe Stamford: Awaiting decision Installation of window to second floor of dwelling at Brooke House Main Street Southorpe Stamford: Awaiting decision Barn conversion creating an annexe at The Old Woodyard Main Street Southorpe Stamford: Awaiting decision

 UFFORD

Re-roofing and modification to doors of outbuilding at Vine Cottage 14 Maxey Road Helpston Peterborough: Permitted

Replacement of 3 first floor windows to front elevation and two to rear, 1 x ground floor window to rear, and front door with hardwood equivalents at Woodlands Cottage Main Street Ufford Stamford: Awaiting decision

Retention of mobile home at Stepping Stones Mill Road Maxey Peterborough: Permitted

Alterations to boundary wall and relocation of fencing at Old Rectory Main Street Ufford Stamford: Permitted

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TRIBUNE DIRECTORY

 Bainton Church

Michael Perkins ..................................................... 01780 740720 John Wreford, Churchwarden............................... 01780 740362 Mary Gowers, Lay Pastoral Minister .................... 01780 740097 Elizabeth Snowball, Organist .............................. 07821 460505

 Bainton & Ashton Parish Council

Chairman: Susie Lucas .......................................... 01780 740159 Councillor: Anita Phillips ....................................... 01780 749128 Councillor: Cliff Stanton......................................... 01780 749123 Councillor: Pete Charlton ..................................... 07850 657200 Councillor: Chris Womack .................................... 01780 740925 Clerk Jenny Rice bainton.ashton.clerk@live.co.uk

 Barnack Bowls Club

Phil Collins ............................................................. 01780 740124

 Barnack Church

John Ward, Churchwarden .................................. 01780 740016 David Laycock, Churchwarden ............................ 01780 740267 Elizabeth Snowball, Organist .............................. 07821 460505

 Barnack Coffee Stop

Carol Pickering ...................................................... 01780 740438

 Barnack Community Association

Sally Hullock........................................................... 07795 565658

 Barnack Cricket Club

William Armitage, Chairman................................. 01780 740749

 Barnack Home from Home Club

Niamh Holman.........................................hfhbarnack@gmail.com

 Barnack Men’s Breakfast

 Citizens Advice

Citizens Advice ...................................................... 0870 1264024

 Cubs, Brownies, Scouts & Rainbows

Helpston Explorer Scouts, Nick Drewett...................................... ....................................................01778 348107 / 07900 585072 Helpston Scouts, Mark Crookes........................... 07808 633018 Helpston Cub Scouts, Paula Metharam............... 07896 163598 Helpston Rainbow Guides, Julia Mason.............. 07780 688542 Helpston Brownie Guides, Morag Sweeney....... 07801 357701 Helpston Guides, Nicola Kerr............................... 07739 098113 Helpston Beaver Scouts, Alison Cook.................. 07437 909735 Glinton Brownies.................................................... 01778 346668 1st Glinton Rainbow Leader, Sally Nash.............. 01733 254174 Northborough Guides, Jane Knott, ................... 01778 345101 Barnack Little Lambs Group, Julie Stanton.......... 01780 749123

 Deeping Gate Parish Council

Jane Hill, (Chair) .................................................... 01778 343066 Phil Thompson, Vice Chairman............................ 01778 346619 Geoff Purllant......................................................... 01778 344288 Janet Lill.................................................................. 01778 342647 Nicola Kerr.............................................................. 07739 098113 Sandra Hudspeth................................................... 01778 343735 Diane Templeton, Clerk: E: clerk@deepinggate-pc.gov.uk ................................................................................ 07879 043785

 Doctors and hospitals

Peterborough City Hospital ................................. 01733 678000 Deeping Practice (Main line) ................................ 01778 579000 (Appointments only).............................................. 01778 579001 Glinton Surgery ..................................................... 01733 252246

 Etton Church (St Stephen’s)

Mike Mills................................................................ 01780 740285 David Laycock ....................................................... 01780 740267

Rector: Mark-Aaron Tisdale................................... 01733 252359 Anne Curwen, Churchwarden .............................. 01733 253357

Julie Stanton ........................................................ 01780 749123

Fred Morton, Chair ............................................... 01733 252912 Emma Tajar, Clerk ................................................. 01733 234542

 Barnack Messy Church

 Barnack Parish Council

Barnack Parish Council e-mail..............clerk@barnack-pc.gov.uk Chairman, Harry Brassey .................................. 01780 740115 Vice Chair, Margaret Palmer ............................ 01780 740988 Phil Broughton .................................................. 01780 740379 David Laycock ................................................... 01780 740267 Martin Bloom .................................................... 01780 740966 Clerk, Susie Caney ............................................ 07595 377236 Councillor Vacancy ............................................ ........................

 Benefice Administrators/ Lay Readers

Dick Talbot ......................................................... 01778 342581 Licensed Readers, Derek Harris........................ 01733 574311 Freda Skillman ................................................... 01778 380903 Mark Hotchkin.................................................... 01778 347847 Mike Mills............................................................ 01780 740285

 Botolph’s Barn

Kate Hinchliff ......................................................... 07745 116621

 British Legion

Max Sawyer ........................................................... 01780 765507

 Bus & Train Services

Delaine Bus Services ............................................ 01778 422866 Stagecoach ............................................................ 01733 207860 Train Services ......................................................... 0845 7484950

 Castor Parish Council

John Haste, Clerk E:clerk@castor-pc.gov.uk........ 01733 252833 62

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 Etton Parish Council

 Friendship / Welcome Clubs

Glinton Friendship Club, Pam Kounougakis........ 01733 252018 Maxey Welcome Club, Robert Ford, ................. 01778 346288

 Friends of Chernobyl Children (FOCC)

Cecilia Hammond ................................................. 07779 264591

 Glinton Church (St Benedict’s)

Rector, Rev Mark-Aaron B. Tisdale ...................... 01733 252359 Churchwarden, Veronica Smith, ......................... 01733 252019 PCC Treasurer, Simon Richards, .......................... 01778 341686 Bell Ringers, Mike Goodall.................................... 01733 253469

 Glinton Parish Council

Chair, John Holdich OBE, ................................... 01733 253078 Clerk, Mr John Haste, ........................................... 01733 252833

 Helpston Church (St Botolph’s)

Church Warden, Clive Pearce, ............................ 01733 253494

 Helpston Helcats

E: Helpstoncommunityactivityteam@gmail.com Facebook: @Helpstoncommunity Phil Roberts............................................................ 07925 720195 Emma Long............................................................ 07827 297053

TRIBUNE DIRECTORY

 Helpston Lawn Tennis Club

David Packer ......................................................... 07766 600694

 Helpston Parish Council

Joe Dobson (Chair) ............................................... 01733 252192 Sydney Smith Clerk .............................................. 01733 252903 Rosemary Morton Vice ......................................... 01733 252243

 Horticultural Societies

John Best - Glinton................................................ 01778 342115 Debbie Martin - Barnack Show............................. 01780 740048 Kirsty Scott - Peakirk ............................................. 01733 253952

 Langdyke Countryside Trust

Richard Astle ......................................................... 01733 252376

 Maxey Church (St Peter’s)

Rector, Rev Mark-Aaron B. Tisdale ...................... 01733 252 359 Mandy Loveder Bell Tower Captain .................... 01778 343100 Michael Loveder Churchwarden .......................... 01778 343100 Tina Lapinskis, Maxey Sunday School ................. 01778 347280

 Maxey Parish Council

Lynne Yarham, Chair ............................................. 01778 343077 Anglea Hankins, Clerk .......................................... 01733 253397

 Neighbourhood Watch

Dick Wilkins, Maxey .............................................. 01778 348368

 Northborough Church (St Andrew’s)

Rector: Mark- Aaron Tisdale................................. 01733 252359 Polly Beasley, Churchwarden ............................... 01778 380849 Jane Knott, Churchwarden .................................. 01778 345101 Freda Skillman, Licensed Reader ......................... 01778 380903 Carole Spinks, PCC Treasurer .................. ........... 01778 343585

 Northborough Parish Council

John Dadge, Chair ............................................... 01733 254145 Catherine Franks, Clerk .................clerk@northboroughpc.co.uk ................................................................................ 07748 637555

 Peakirk Church (St Pegas)

Rector: Mark- Aaron Tisdale................................. 01733 252359 Trish Roberts, Churchwarden ............................... 01733 253111 Sheila Lever, Churchwarden ................................. 01733 252416 Christine Dearman, PCC Secretary ..................... 01733 252404 Pauline Cooke, PCC Treasurer & Social Events ..................................................... 01733 253116

 Peakirk Parish Council

Angela Hankins, Clerk .......................................... 01733 253397 Henry Clark, Chair ................................................. 01733 253203

 Pre and After School Clubs (cont.)

Julie Stanton, Little Lambs ................................... 01780 749123 Kirsty Wislawski. Manager, Sunflower Seed Pre-School, Church Street, Northborough .............................. 01733 253685

 Rotary Club

Al Good Rotary Club ............................................ 01733 252064

 Schools and Education

Mike Sandeman, AMVC Head ............................ 01733 252235 Mrs S Nicolson, John Clare Primary Head ........................................................ 01733 252332 Neil Fowkes, Barnack C of E Primary .................. 01780 740265 Craig Kendall, Peakirk-cum-Glinton Primary School Head ............................................ 01733 252361 Mr S Mallott, Northborough Primary Head ........................................................ 01733 252204 Maureen Meade, Peterborough Adult Learning ...................................................... 01733 761361

 Ufford Church Enquiries Peter and Sally Hudson ........................................ 01780 740475

 Ufford Parish Council

Keith Lievesley (Chairman) ................................... 01780 740679 ......................................................keith.lievesley@btinternet.com David Chadwick..................................................... 01780 740893 ..............................................................david@chadsonline.co.uk Frieda Gosling........................................................ 01780 740343 ............................................................friedagosling@yahoo.co.uk Paul Wilde.............................................................. 07960 018148 ...................................................................paul@worldofskills.com Margaret Sargent .................................................. 01780 749482 ........................................................................m55arg@gmail.com Susie Caney (Clerk)................................................ 07747 033990 ...................................................................clerk@ufford-pc.gov.uk

 Village Halls Barnack Village Hall Bookings, Sally Hullock...... 07795 565658 email: bookings.barnackca@gmail.com Glinton, Bowls, Roy Pettitt.................................... 01733 252049 Glinton Village Hall Bookings, Sue Lane.............. 07923 475966 Glinton, Whist, Joyce Heathcote.......................... 01733 253790 Glinton, Whist, Peter Lake ................................... 01778 346749 Helpston Village Hall, Caryn Thompson ............. 01733 252232 Les Cunnington carpet bowls, Helpston ............ 01733 253832 Maxey Village Hall, Jacqui Barnard, .................... 07710 150587 Northborough Village Hall, Karen Cooper, ........ 01778 347464 Peakirk Village Hall bookings ............................... 07938 386226 Ufford Village Hall bookings, Mr Peter Grist....... 07887 634300

 Village Tribune

 Peterborough City Council

Editor, Tony Henthorn .......................................... 07590 750128 Design Team, Dimension 6000............................. 01733 772095

 Police and Emergencies

Barnack David Over ............................................. 07920 160053 Glinton & Castor Peter Hiller & John Holdich ..................................................... 07920 160487

John Holdich OBE Peterborough ....................... 01733 253078 Peterborough City Council .................................. 01733 747474 Police - emergency calls ....................................... 999 Less urgent crimes ................................................ 101 Power Failure ......................................................... 0800 7838838 Samaritans .....................................................Freephone 116 123

 Pre and After School Clubs

Lucy Garwood, Helpston Playhouse pre-school ........................................... 01733 253243 Roz Sowinski, Helpston Before and After School Club............................... 01733 253243 Jennifer Rice, Peakirk Tots Toddler Group ............................................... 07515 364909

 Ward Councillors

 Women’s Institute (WI)

Janel Pike (Helpston WI) President....................... 01733 253834 Conney Varley (Helpston WI Secretary) .............. 01733 260558 Margaret Stafford (Glinton WI).............................. 01733 701268 Jenny Dunk (Glinton WI Secetary) ....................... 01775 630163 Sarah Thurlow (Glinton WI President).................. 01780 740342

 Youth Clubs

Kerrie Garner, Barnack Youth Club ...................... 01780 740118 Tina Lapinskis, Maxey Youth Club ....................... 01778 347280

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