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Welcome to our ‘New Year' edition Happy New Year everybody!

The years always fly by but thanks to pandemics and lockdowns I think 2020 was probably the quickest yet.

Although I doubt any of us celebrated the New Year in the normal manner I hope that you have all had a good start to 2021.

We’re delighted this month to include four photos from four very talented local people on our front covers. We had an amazing response to our request of photos of the local area in the Winter.

It was difficult but we did eventually pick our four favourites (it only took a month!) We’d love to keep including local photos by local people though so if you have some snaps you are particularly proud of please send it in by email or social media. Think Spring and Summer, they’ll be here before you know it.

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Who Stole the Ginger Cookie?

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