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Gavin Taylor owner of Gavin Taylor Hair of Rothley and their Senior Stylist Marie Atterbury from Anstey, have stormed their way through to one of the industry’s most prestigious grand finals. The Loreal Colour Trophy is one of the biggest hairdressing competitions in the UK and after securing a place winning the East of England’s Best in the Region trophy for the Mens Image Award. Senior Stylist, Marie Atterbury will now compete at the L’OrÊal Colour Trophy 2018 Grand Final to be held on 4th June 2018 in London.

VISITORS are to be welcomed to the Canine Partners Midlands Training Centre to learn more about how the charity’s amazing dogs can transform the lives of people with disabilities.

Keeping things local, their model, Jack Bridges, is a local resident of Rothley and also a school pupil at Rawlins College in Quorn and their make-up artist is Kaye Salmon Makeup of Quorn.

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The teams had only 30 minutes to create their fashion inspired, flawless winning look to impress the elite group of judges.

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‘Daily Boost’ Launch – getting our children and young people active, healthy and happy LEICESTER-SHIRE & Rutland Sport, alongside initial funders Leicestershire County Council are launching the Daily Boost, a programme designed to support children and young people in schools and early years settings to become more active.

The Daily Boost aims to encourage children and young people to do 15 minutes of organised activity at school every day. This could be before school, at lunchtime, after school, or during the school day in an ‘active lesson’. Children and young people could walk, run, skip, hop or jump around a set lap or loop at school. Or simply do their favourite sport or activity that gets them active – dancing, cycling, scooting, anything!

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Inspiring women are to be honoured at the inaugural English Women’s Awards 2018 Creative Oceanic are proud to announce the first ever English Women’s Awards 2018, after the enormous success and the positive feedback we have had from the public at the Scottish Women’s Awards 2017.

The number of nominations received from the English public over the past months was overwhelming and the full list with finalists has now been compiled.

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The black tie event will be held at Athena in Leicester, on Thursday the 26th of June.

Rothley Wine Ltd, which sells wine grown at Rothley Wine Estate, is one of the finalists in the Business with under 50 staff category. Liz Robson, director of Rothley Wine Ltd, will find out if this small company managed to win the competition and grab an accolade at the elegant ceremony being held in June.

Liz said, “I was both pleased and astonished to find I had been nominated, and I still have no idea who was so kind to have nominated my company which makes wine on an artisan basis. This is a one-woman operation, with sterling help from volunteers, so I never expected to be included in a regional business award. The grapes are grown on the small vineyard and the still wine made on site in the boutique winery.

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The Mountsorrel Community Team is pleased to announce that preparations for REVIVAL 2018 are well underway. Put the 12th August in your diary.

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With the fond memories of last year’s Mountsorrel REVIVAL still vivid in our minds, preparations for the 2018 event is well underway. This year’s event promises to be bigger and better with a range of new attractions and activities being explored. The Mountsorrel Community Team, who organise the event, have promised to keep residents updated as the time flies by. Debbie MacRae, the Chair of MCT, told us: “We are all so excited to be putting on our fifth REVIVAL. It is always a great day and is the one day in the year when the whole community comes together. This year we will have the new Memorial Centre available to us and we have already many new and established attractions booked in�.

Of course, the day itself is at the end of a very long process and the work behind the scenes carries on from one event to the next. One of the Teams concerns is always public safety and as the event gets bigger changes are needed to ensure that everyone who visits the village has a safe and happy time. For this reason, the Team has expanded the road closures this year to include the Green and Watling Street, giving greater freedom for people to move around safely.

Specifically, the following Mountsorrel Roads will be closed for the REVIVAL 12th August 2018 from 10:30 to 17:00: • Sileby Road: will be closed from its junction with the Market Place to the bypass junction for the REVIVAL. Access to affected properties will still be possible. A Diversion will be signposted. •

Watling Street: From its junction with the Market Place for about 35 metres.

Access to and from affected properties will be possible via the Navins and Crown Lane.

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ANSTEY CHESS CLUB ANNUAL SUMMER FETE

The PSFA of Christ Church and St. Peter’s Primary on

School will be holding its annual Summer Fete Saturday 30th June, in the school grounds on Rothley Road, Mountsorrel from 11am to 2pm. This promises to be a fun filled family day, with lots of exciting stalls and activities.

Anstey Chess Club meet on Thursday evenings at the Stadon Sports and Social Club in Anstey from 7:30pm. We also have training sessions for beginners/improving players on Saturday mornings at Anstey Community Library from 10am-1pm.

New members more than welcome - Grandmasters or just learning.

On Thursday 10th May, the Anstey Chess Club played our very first

competitive match. The club has derived from the attendees to the

Saturday morning sessions and some members felt that they'd like to

give competitive chess a go to help them improve. Our team was Mick

Sandham, myself, Mick Squire and John Whitmore.

We made our way to Ashby De La Zouch - thanks to the 'luck of the draw' - to play the match. I thought I was owed a favour knowing the draw master but this is clearly not the case!

The format of Summer's 'Harrod Cup' is a 'rapidplay' tournament where one plays the

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same opponent with both colours, white and black with a specific

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exception.

All funds raised will go back into the school to

purchase extra classroom equipment to enhance I, as the match captain for Anstey, tossed a coin for colours and we played with black and vary the children’s learning experiences and pieces first game. John Whitmore lost his game first on bottom board against an also supply exciting outdoor play equipment to

opponent

stronger than him on paper. Next was a loss for Mick Squire on 3rd board after encourage healthy, active play and to stretch the I'd heard Mick ask his opponent what he'd like when Queening a pawn. By far the most children’s imaginations.

board was Mick Sandham on board 1. After 20 or so years out of the game, interesting We have had fantastic local and national support lad with huge potential

and just after I had check-mated my Mick was facing a young for our grand raffle and a long list of fabulous prizes

with very little time on my clock, I had a look at Mick's game, just as he checkopponent including passes for SnowDome, Play 360, Barney’s

mated his opponent.

After the first round of games, we were level pegging at 2-2.

Play Barn, Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Climbing Club,

We swapped the colours and this time we had the white pieces. The first match to finish plus gorgeous treats from Nelly Belly Gifts, Emma’s Nail was John again and unfortunately, he came second out of two in his game. Mick Lounge, Mind Body & Soulfullness, New Dimensions,

Sandham and myself finished at roughly the same time again. I had forced a resignation The Hair Gallery, Colours Hair and Nails and Studio 28. from my opponent during the middlegame and Mick had lost to his young opponent We also have lots more great prizes yet to be

which meant we were 4-3 down with just Mick Squire to finish playing. Mick's opponent revealed!

had a perpetual check on offer and once he was (illegally) made aware of the match There will be something for everyone on the day, situation, he repeated the moves to force a draw. including, bouncy castle fun, face painting, village We green games for the children (and any game

lost the game 4.5-3.5 and personally, I was extremely pleased with the team's performance. Mick Squire earned a draw in his first ever competitive adults!!),

game and we

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that we are not there to make up the numbers.

out our opponents in the next round. very generously supplied again by M.E. Roberts family butcher of Mountsorrel. There will also be June Club Nights - At time of going to print, we intend to be at the Stadon Sports and performances by the staff

Social Club on Thursdays 7th, 14th and 21st June from 7:30pm. If you want to come along

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The 23rd Charnwood Marathon 2018 Hundreds of walkers and runners from Leicestershire and further afield took part in a dull Saturday morning from Quorn and although the weather was not perfect everyone agreed that it was a `most refreshing` and pleasant day out. The event was hosted by The Rotary Club of Blaby Meridian who were supporting MIND (mental health charity), CHILDRENS`AIR AMBULANCE and other charities also supported by Rotary.

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Also suitable for wheelchair users and people with limited mobility.

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