17. Photos of the month

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PHOTO GALLERY—Your photos

This is becoming a favourite feature. This month we feature some wonderful photos of local wildlife. Please share your photos by emailing them to me June@northwealdvillagelife.co.uk

These photos were kindly sent in by Keith Jones. Keith shares many clips especially of the hedgehogs who frequent his garden in the North Weald Village Life Facebook group, he regularly has families of hedgehogs visiting him. He does make it very enticing for them too. I hope he will send us

Badger Photos—These have been taken by Lisa Hyams-Price who is lucky to have these badgers visiting her garden regularly. Again she takes videos and photos and shares these in the North Weald Village Life Facebook group.

The two photos above featuring the sunflower and woodpecker were sent in by Ken Care.

Please send your photos into me— June@northwealdvillagelife. co.uk so I can share with readers.

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During August, Epping Forest District Council experienced a high number of calls to their customer contact centre regarding the flooding.

If you are experiencing any issues regarding flooding, please use the following guidance to get you to the right area for help as quickly as possible.

If the flooding is from a raised manhole cover please contact Thames Water on 0800 3169800 If the flooding is from a road gulley drain or storm drain please contact Essex County Council on 0345 6037631 If your house is flooding please call their customer contact centre on 01992 564000 and an operator will respond to your call as quickly as possible, please accept our apologies for any delay in answering your call due to very high call volumes

Field Fire

Firefighters were called to a field fire in Ongar in the morning of 31 st July.

On arrival just before 10am, crews confirmed that 30 acres of stubble, left over from harvesting a 63 acre field, was on fire.

Crews worked with a farmer to create a fire break, where the farmer turned over soil to stop the fire spreading to a neighbouring field of crops and were able to extinguish the fire by 11am.

The cause of the fire is unknown but crews believe the fire had spread from a nearby road.

Watch Manager Steve Harrison from Harlow Fire Station said: “The farmer turned up at the same time that we did and offered to make a fire break, it was a really big help and it would have been much harder for us to extinguish the fire without his help.

“Please ensure all cigarettes are properly extinguished and do not leave glass bottles in direct sunlight in this heat. We believe this fire started from the road and it spread very quickly in this hot and windy day.”

Source: Essex County Fire and Rescue Service

Based in North Weald

IMPORTANT Defibrillators

Recently I understand defibrillators from both Thornwood and North Weald have been needed to help people who have become unwell whilst awaiting emergency services. So to ensure all residents are aware of the location of our defibrillators, here are the details. Once you ring emergency services to inform them of someone needing emergency assistance, they will give you the code required to access the defibrillator looked in coded cabinets. North Weald:-

Outside the Methodist Church Hall. Thornwood—Outside the Parish Hall.

Stay safe, stay alert and speak up

As other parts of the country face renewed local lockdowns, Epping Forest District Council is encouraging local residents to stay safe and speak up when they see Covid safety guidelines broken. Council Leader, Councillor Chris Whitbread said: “We have seen a tremendous community effort to fight Covid after the last few months. The war has moved from our homes to our high streets. As infection rates fall, we’ve been able to reopen many of our businesses and return to something more like normality.” It’s great to see our high streets adapting and coming back to life. We all want to build on that recovery.” “We are seeing face coverings, frequent hand-washing and good social distancing. However, the challenge now is to make sure that we don’t slip into old habits.” “We’ve seen what can happen when the rules are not followed in other parts of England and Scotland. Coronavirus is still here. It remains highly infectious and dangerous. It is vital we don’t throw away our hard-won gains. We must all stick to the guidelines to keep our local economy alive.” Councillor Whitbread added: “Everyone has a role to play. We all have a responsibility to ourselves and those around us to STAY ALERT to STAY SAFE.. If you go to a shop, pub or restaurant where you see the safety guidelines are not being followed, speak up. Talk to the manager. Explain what you think is going wrong and ask them to put it right. If they won’t listen, walk out. Don’t put yourself, your family and friends at risk.”