Nature
Wild Trout Hero 2016
Maureen Brierley, member of the River Mel Restoration Group tells us that South Cambs. Ecology Officer, Rob Mungovan has recently won an award from the Wild Trout Trust. Rob has been an advisor to the Group since it was formed, which has done so much to improve the Mel and restore it to a proper chalk stream. This is from their website. Rob Mungovan, Wild Trout Hero 2016
Rob’s day job is as an ecologist with South Cambridgeshire District Council but, for wild trout, he comes into his own working on the rivers across eastern central England. Rob is a truly passionate wild trout fisher and an equally passionate advocate for the conservation and improvement of our rivers, a very worthy Wild Trout Hero. Congratulations Rob!
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Profile Lizzie Shipp You have already had a brief introduction to the new Priest in Charge at All Saints’ Church but I thought it would be nice to find a little more about the kind of person she is. Born in Castle Rising, Norfolk in 1981 into a farming family, Lizzie has an older brother who works in London as an IT specialist for Barnardos. The farm was mostly arable, with a PYO sign in the summer catering for the visitors to Castle Rising, who would buy strawberries and other fruit for their picnics. The family attended the church on the Royal Estate and she enjoyed a happy rural childhood. At the age of 15 she had a ‘Road to Damascus’ experience and knew that she wanted to devote her life to the Church. She was confirmed when she was 18 by the Bishop of Lynn (now the Dean of Windsor). On leaving school in 1999, she went to Leicester University to read business economics, but found she had no desire to follow her fellow graduates into the city to pursue a life in commerce. She returned to Norfolk and started training to be a social worker. During this time, she felt even more strongly called to serve God and went into retreat in a Benedictine Monastery to contemplate her future. With a naughty grin, she admitted that they served a wicked chocolate dessert! At the time she had her doubts about the ordination of women and resisted any suggestions that she should go into the ministry, but after a great deal of soul-searching she eventually realised that was her vocation and so allowed her name to be put forward. During the selection period (things move somewhat slowly in church circles) she left social work and for 18 months trained as a chartered accountant in King’s Lynn until she was accepted into Cuddesdon Theological
