rothley post (107) july 2014

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THE ROTHLEY POSTY O U R F R E E C O M M U N I T Y N E W S P A P E R

HUNDREDS OF visi-tors enjoyed a funafternoon at Roth-ley school’s sum-mer fete in June.

It was the last to be heldat the site, as the new Roth-ley school off HallfieldsLane will open in early2015.

The event raised £3300for the school.Pic: (right) Ashley Cooperand Simon Beals on the bar-beque & (below) the schoolchoir entertained the crowds

A PROLIFIC burglar whostole from homes in Rothleyand Mountsorrel has beenjailed.

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Clive Wallace (40) of WoodboyStreet, Belgrave, Leicester was caughtafter Police matched footprints found atnine scenes of crime with shoes found athis home.

At Leicester Crown Court Wallaceadmitted to eight burglaries and oneattempted burglary. He also admitted toburgling 46 other homes in the past.

Items stolen included televisions,games systems, perfume, jewellery,watches and mobile phones.

The court was told Wallace sufferedfrom cocaine addiction. He was jailedfor four years.

CLIMBING MOUNT Snowdonin June will help prepareseven local women for aclimb up Africa’s secondhighest mountain this Au-gust.

Wendy Ferguson, Kate Hissett, KatieWoodward, Ros Taylor, Kathryn Garnett,Sarah Gladstone and Di Milner will bemaking the trip on behalf of RothleyParish Church.

Kate Hissett said: “The Church islinked to the charity Tearfund’s projectsin an area around Mount Kenya, whereassistance isgiven to someof theworld’s poor-est people.Theseprojects areground-breaking, asthey use agrass rootsapproach tohelping oth-ers by en-couragingcommunitiesto identifytheir ownneeds andchallenges and the resources they needto mobilise, in order to tackle them.”Projects developed through the pro-gramme include water access, betternutrition, increased food security, im-proved healthcare and education, jobcreation, orphan welfare and care of theenvironment.

“The visit aims to strengthen the tiesbetween the Church family in Rothleyand Christians in Kenya and to raiseawareness in Rothley of the need tosupport these life changing projects”added Kate.

Six members of the group will trekup Mount Kenya whist the seventh willbe volunteering in Mt Kenya East Hospi-tal. They will then be visiting some ofthe communities in the region which arebenefiting from Tearfund’s work.

Mount Kenya is the second highestmountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro. At4.985m Point Lenana is the third highestpeak of Mount Kenya and the only peakaccessible by trekking alone. “It’s goingto be physically challenging so we havebeen training individually and as agroup, including trekking up Snowdonin June” said Kate.

Since October the women have raised

over £2200 forTearfund’s work inMt Kenya East byholding variousfundraising events:a handbag sale, apamper night atRagdale Hall, asing-a-long Abbanight and theirbiggest event, aBarn Dance.

“If you are inspired by our trek chal-lenge and visit to Kenya please visit ourVirgin giving page to donate and to findout more” said Kate.

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AGE UK Leicester Shire & Rut-land is calling for all knittersto join in The Big Knit thisyear to raise much-neededfunds to help keep local olderpeople warm and healthy thiscoming winter.

Peter Ralphs, on behalf of thiswell-known charity, said: “We are sograteful to those who are alreadyclicking away, though our 2014 drivehas started rather slowly. Last year wereceived an incredible 42,000 littlehats by September. Obviously we needlots of help to match this challengingtotal which will assist our WinterWarmth Campaign 2014. Innocentdrinks will donate 25p for each littlehat which will adorn the smoothiebottles sold in Sainsbury stores inNovember.”

Knitters can get the simple knittingpatterns online atwww.ageuk.org.uk/leics or by callingthe Business Development Manager on0116 2237344.

Please arrange for your knittedhats to be at Age UK Leicester Shire &Rutland (Ref: BDM), LansdowneHouse, 113 Princess Road East,Leicester LE1 7LA by the end of Sep-tember.

Pic (top): the team pictured with two ladies whohave helped with the fundraising (l-r) from thefirst row:Katie Woodward, Jill Callaway, WendyFerguson, Kate Hissett; Ros Taylor , Helen Whit-taker, Sarah Gladstone; Di Milner, Kathryn Garnett(left & below) on Mount Snowdon

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Mountsorrel Revival promises summerfun for the village

“The great thing is the backing andsupport from almost everyone I’ve spo-ken to – it’s been fantastic. I’m lookingforward to it so much!” said organiserIan Shonk.

The event, onSunday August 10from 10am to4pm, promises tobe a traditionalfete with a moderntwist.

The MemorialHall is already com-pletely booked withstalls ranging fromhand made ceramicsto vintage lingerie.The main hall willbe serving afternoontea with dance music

while the side room will host burlesqueworkshop sessions.

The Sorrel Youth Café will be trans-formed into a 1950’s ice cream

parlour, Castle Parkwill be invaded by theAmerican Civil WarSociety and there willbe boat hire and rivertrips along the river.

Competitors in thesoap box racing eventare preparing theirmachines and Lafargeare allowing the useof their grounds forthe racing. “ThePolice are bringingtheir radar speedguns to clock theracers’ speeds –

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The fitness craze mixes Ballroom withLatin dancing and was designed by thestars of Strictly Come Dancing NatalieLowe, Ian Waite and Britain’s most suc-cessful swimmer, Mark Foster.

Great Britain swimmer Mark Foster,who was converted to dance fitness said:“You’ve got a double whammy. You’removing around and getting fit andhealthy, having fun but also you’re learn-ing proper steps from Strictly.”

Local Instructor Lisa Cluer has beenprofessionally trained by Natalie and Ian.The stars were determined to keep thequality of FitSteps high.

Strictly Come Dancing professionalIan Waite said: “We wanted to makesure that all our coaches are at a certainlevel, and that they deliver the steps inthe correct way. For people who havewatched Strictly, when they dance Fit-Steps there will be steps when they sayto each other ‘Yes, I’ve seen that stepbefore on the show’.”

Ian added that several people havecome to him saying that the class “hadchanged their life” and it preventedthem enduring the dreariness of exer-cise.

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probably the only time you will bepleased to see a speed gun pointed atyou” said Ian.

Other attractions include hot rodsand custom cars, vintage vehicles, livemusic, real ales, local food, face paint-ing, children’s activities and a HawaiianLimbo competition.

Ian said: “Many thanks to the Duffinfamily at Stonehurst Farm for allowingus to use their fields across the river forthe festival and also for the loan of lotsof straw bales for the soap box racing.

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Donations sought forheritage centre

The MRP have been busy fundraising– they need to raise £56,000 to releasea grant of £540,000 from Lafarge Tar-mac’s Landfill Communities Fund.

Project leader Steve Cramp said: “Theresponse from the public has been tre-mendous. We are now within £16,000of the target we need to get work start-

ed. It is, however , vital that we achieve this sooner rather than later. The wholeproject, as a condition of the major grant, must be completed by July next year butwe have two old granite buildings to dismantle and reconstruct stone by stone aspart of the heritage centre. This will be a tough ask but is very much doable if wecan start early enough.

“To help raise this figure a ‘Brick Appeal’ has been launched where you cansponsor the bricks that will be used to combine, into one unified building, the differ-ent structures that form the core of the Heritage Centre. The names of sponsors willappear on a large commemorative plaque that will feature in the tearoom at theCentre. The price of sponsoring an individual brick has been set at £50. We will, ofcourse, be grateful for donations of any size!”

The latest large contributions have been £5000 from the Rothley based Harry

THE CONSTRUCTION of a heritage centre, museum and tearoom on Swithland Lane by the Mountsorrel RailwayProject (MRP) could start this summer.

Hames Cottage charity, which is adminis-tered by Rothley Parish Council, and£2000 from Rothley History Society.

The MRP will shortly be submitting aplanning application for the project. Aspart of a consultation process therewere two open days at the site whichwere attended by over 350 people.

Steve Cramp said: “There was univer-sal praise for what has already beenachieved with the Mountsorrel Railway,the Nunckley Nature Trail and what isplanned with the Heritage Centre.”

To find out more about the projectand how you can donate go towww.mountsorrelrailway.org.uk

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HELEN TELFORD and JayneButler, proprietors of Cas-tle View Nursery are nowowners of Caterpillars Pre-school Mountsorrel.

Caterpillars, established at theMethodist Church Hall for 11 years,has an excellent reputation which isdemonstrated by the swift take up ofplaces every September, says Helen.

She added: “Caterpillars is easilyaccessible and has forged strongbonds with St Peters Primary schoolover the years which is crucial fordeveloping ‘school readiness’ for chil-dren attending the setting. It is a set-ting rich in resources run by a teamof experienced and committed practi-tioners and is very well supported bythe families who attend. Testimony tothis is the sponsored swim parentsrecently organised to raise funds forequipment.”

Jayne said: “Getting to know thechildren and families is our mainfocus. Pre schools are an integral partof village life and serve a differentpurpose to nurseries and childmind-ers. It’s important that such provisioncontinues to meet the needs of localchildren.”

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A FULL meeting of RothleyParish Council was held onMay 19.

Cllr Percy Hartshorn was elected aschairman of the Parish Council and CllrBrian Popple vice chairman.

Three councillors have attended alibrary workshop meeting organised bythe County Council to consider howRothley library could be run by the com-munity.

New play equipment has been orderedfor the Mountsorrel Lane playing fieldand delivery is expected in around eightweeks.

A full meeting of Rothley Parish Coun-cil was held on June 16.

County Cllr Peter Osborne reportedthat it was likely an outline planningapplication for 2000 houses at ‘NorthBirstall’ would be submitted in the next12 months and that the application for120 houses at West Cross Lane should bedecided in the next two months.

Cllr Osborne said that Shepshed areusing an accumulated impact assessmentargument against further building in theirarea and if this is successful it may beused by Rothley.

A member of the public requestedthat Rothley war memorial be examinedby specialist contractors and any repairsneeded be made. It was agreed to con-tact the County Council’s war memorialofficer.

Rothley Ivanhoe Tennis club are look-ing for £28,000 of funding to installlighting and replace security fencing.They are requesting the funding be madefrom Section 106 developer contributionsfor Rothley. Rothley Parish Council arealso looking to utilise these funds for aMulti Use Games Area (MUGA). TheCouncil will make a decision followingits August meeting.

The Council has received three lettersfrom residents complaining about noisefrom the playgroup at the Village Hall.

Richard said: “I met so many wonderfulpeople who joined Birch on his run such asDavid Neilson, aka Roy Cropper, boxer Ren-dall Munroe, singer Jersey Budd and X Factorwinner Sam Bailey.”

A FULL meeting of Thurcas-ton & Cropston Parish Coun-cil was held on March 20.

Beacon Officer PC Leye Price said ifresidents had problems with dog foulingor other issues they could contact her byemail via the Leicestershire Police Com-munity website.

Cllr Janusz Jankowski resigned fromthe council. Chairman Richard Youniethanked him for the hard work he hasput in during his three years on thecouncil.

Mr Jankowski is leading the Cultureand Recreation Working party which islooking at ways of commemorating the

100th anniversary of World War I.James Clooney was co-opted as Par-

ish Councillor for the Cropston ward.It was reported that HGVs are using

Leicester Road, Thurcaston. It was re-ported that a call for a reduction in thespeed limit from 50mph to either 40 or30mph at Hallgates has been rejected bythe County Council.

A full meeting of Thurcaston & Crop-ston Parish Council was held on April17.

Richard Weston was co-opted asParish Councillor for the Cropston ward.

It was agreed to contact the CountyCouncil regarding the removal of a stilefrom footpath J54 off Mill Road.

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ROTHLEY FOOTBALL coach Richard Gunn completed 50 laps ofthe Leicester City Football club’s pitch, raising funds for theLCFC Foxes foundation’s five chosen charities.

A WOMAN from Cropston has been awarded the BritishEmpire Medal in the Queen’s birthday honours list.

Katherine Hull (68) has been recognised for going ‘far be-yond’ her duties as secretary for the Leicestershire and RutlandSSAFA, a charity which provides financial and emotional supportfor those who have served in the armed forces and their families.

In the past four years she has helped collect £1,000,000 forthe organisation.

She told the Leicester Mercury “It’s all about helping theclients and giving them quality of life, without the other caseworkers it wouldn’t all happen, though.”

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Although an ancient law, ChancelRepair Liability still has relevance todayand it has been in the media recently.CRL is the right of the church to seekmoney for repairs from the owners ofsome local properties. People frequentlyhave to decide whether they need toinsure against it when buying a newhome. Therefore the PCC of RothleyParish Church want to make public ourrecent research and decision to notretain this financial interest in propertiesin Rothley.

Chancel Repair Liability dates fromRothley’s Act of Enclosure in 1782 andestablished a responsibility for thosehaving received ownership of the landsknown as the Great Tithe, and theirsuccessors, for the upkeep of the churchchancel. Recent legislation has meantthat PCCs have to identify to which prop-erties Cancel Repair Liability applies and

We all know the cuts are coming, butin Leicestershire it would appear that thescale of the cuts are hidden in plainsight. Few people are aware about thedevastation these cuts will bring to manyservices. These are services we current-ly take for granted.

In your last edition I noticed youmentioned the risk to our local librariesand I am writing to raise awarenessabout more consultations about cuts toservices which are there to protect themost vulnerable in our community.

The scale of the proposed cuts isunprecedented: the budget for support-ing independence for older people is setto be cut by 76% and the budget forHomelessness support is set to be cut by78%.

This reduction in preventative servic-es will cause hardship for many in ourcommunity and will cost more in thelong run as it leaves other, more expen-sive, services to pick up the pieces.

The consultation about these cuts canbe found at:

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There are many other consultationsbeing carried out by LeicestershireCounty Council, please be aware andmake your voice heard.

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Car Boot / TableTop SaleTo include a Cake Sale, Teas, &RaffleIn aid of St Theresa’s ChurchFundsSat September 13Open to buyers 9am-2pmIn Church car park, Front Street,BirstallLimited number of pitches/tablesTo book a table £10 Tel: Daphne0116 2675721To book a car pitch £5 Tel Jenny0116 2677323(payment at time of bookingplease)

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The Rothley Post welcomes yourviews and opinions on any subject. Let-ters, which must include your name andaddress, (though not necessarily forpublication) can be posted to: The Bir-stall Post, Longslade College, WanlipLane, Birstall, Leicester LE4 4GH, orhanded in at Rothley library, RothleyPost Office, Woodgate or email:[email protected]

YOUR SAY... register their intention to retain ChancelRepair Liability with the Land Registry sothat owners can be informed by themand it can appear on property searches.If the PCC does not register this interestthen Chancel Repair Liability will ceaseto apply when the property next changeshands through purchase.

Our church historian, Terry Sheppardhas reviewed archive documents and hasconcluded that Chancel Repair Liabilityapplies to the owners of the land ofSouthfields Farm and the Golf Club andnot to other properties in Rothley.

The PCC decision on 20th May 2013was to not register such an interest inthese two properties and have informedthe current owners. We feel to use legalmeasures to compel those not necessari-ly members of our fellowship to main-tain the fabric of the local churchchancel would risk losing the goodwilland support of the local communitywhich is essential to our work andwould hinder our core mission as achurch which is to share the good newsof God’s love shown through Christ.

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Open ChurchFor tea and cakes at St Leonard’sChurch, Swithland on SaturdayJuly 12 and Sunday July 13 from2-4pmDonations in aid of church fundsAll welcome

Birstall & DistrictArt SocietyTuesday July 15 at 7pmYou are invited to join us at thePalmer Tompkinson Centre atLongslade College to watch re-nowned professional artist Rich-ard Holland giving masterclassdemonstration on ‘Painting Wa-

terfalls and Landscapes in Oils’Refreshments available at the in-tervalDemonstration to end at 9pmMembers £1, guests £3Free raffleAmple parking and wheelchairaccess

Coffee ShopRothley Methodist, Howe LaneEvery Tuesday morning, 10-11.30amCome rain or shineNow open : Book exchangeEveryone welcomeTea, coffee, biscuits, toasted teacakeProceeds for the Methodist Church

World War OneCommemorationServiceAugust 4 at 7pmA 30 minute service of commemo-ration of the commencement ofthe First World War will be held atthe Rothley War Memorial, CrossGreen, RothleyThe service will be attended by‘Churches Together’ which in-cludes the Anglican, Baptist,Methodist and Catholic churchesMembers of the Rothley & DistrictRoyal British Legion will also be‘On Parade’All are welcome

Choral EventAt the Rothley Centre,Mountsorrel Lane, Rothley7pm for a 7.30pm startCoalville Male Voice Choirwill entertain the audience with aselection of choral pieces andsongs from the showsThe event, in aid of the PoppyAppeal, will be presented by theRothley & District Royal BritishLegionEntrance charge £8.50 will includerefreshments and to assist withnumbers you should book by call-ing John Leake on 0116 230 3858

A NEW service is urging cus-tomers to ‘save time and goonline’ to manage theirbills and benefits in Charn-wood.

Charnwood Borough Council’s newConnect service aims to make it quickerand easier for customers to find infor-mation, make council tax payments andmanage their benefits. It is secure andeasy to use and means customers canaccess information about council tax orhousing benefit and get in touch withthe Council 24 hours a day, seven days aweek, at a time and place that suitsthem.

Councillor Jenny Bokor, the council’sCabinet Member for Revenues, Benefitsand Customer Services, said: “It meanspeople won’t have to queue up at thecouncil to see someone about theirbenefits, benefit applications and pay-ments will be processed quicker andcustomers will be able to update anychanges in circumstances at the touch ofa button.”

Customers can already apply onlinefor benefits and the new Connect serviceis part of the council’s ongoing effort toprovide more services for customersonline to make it quicker, easier andmore convenient for people to requestservices, report issues and quickly findinformation they need.

In February, the council launched itsnew, customer-focused website theninstalled high-tech self-service terminalsand ‘floorwalking’ staff in its receptionarea to reduce customer waiting times.

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A MEMORIAL sculpture hasbeen erected in Rothleycemetery to remember thelives of the paupers who areburied there.

Rothley's Heritage Warden MarionVincent was looking through the buriallists while researching the cemeterychapel. She said: “I was shocked to seethat the first burials of the paupers wasright at the bottom of the cemetery, wellaway from the other burials.

“It really upset me that they could beconsidered of unfit status to be buriednear to those who could pay and havetheir graves marked with a stone.”

The burials were of paupers from thenearby Barrow-upon-Soar workhouse,built in 1840 to accommodate 300 in-mates.

Marion said: “I wantedto provide a memorial tothose men, women andchildren who died in theBarrow workhouse so thattheir graves will be re-membered into the fu-ture. The workhouse wasa very real threat and asa young child I remem-ber it being talked about.Like the two world wars,we must never forget.”

After contacting an organisation thathelps commission memorials, Marionfound a sculptor, Geoffrey Aldred, whoagreed to produce a design. It features aworkhouse couple with their child in thecentre, linked by their arms keeping thefamily together.

The finished sculpture, carved fromHopton Wood stone quarried in Derby-shire, was erected on June 4 beside thepaupers’ graves.

The local Harry Hames charity pro-vided the full amount of £4000 for theproject to go ahead.

A GROUP of local people arelooking at ways Rothleylibrary could be run by thecommunity.

The library is threatened with closureafter Leicestershire County Council an-nounced cuts to the library service – itsays it will continue to fund 16 of themost used libraries but that 36 faceclosure if community groups are notformed to run them.

Rothley Parish Council has formed aworking party to explore how a commu-nity library might operate if the CountyCouncil goes ahead with its plans.

Parish Councillor Olwen Jones said:“Rothley Parish Council believes thevillage library service has a valuable roleto play in the community and is pleasedto support the formation of a workingparty to explore how it might be run bya community group in the future.”

The group is gathering informationfrom existing library users about howthey use the library and a questionnairehas been placed at the Post Office, Brad-ley’s, the Mercury News shop and theCo-op.

Views can also be sent [email protected] to the Parish Office, in the RothleyCentre, Mountsorrel Lane.

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anyone keen to be involved in theseexploratory stages, or anyone interestedin becoming a volunteer if a communitylibrary is formed eventually” said Olwen.

The County Council is carrying out apublic consultation on its plans and saysthat 2500 people have participated sofar, with more than 500 people attend-ing public meetings.

The County is looking to save£800,000 a year from its current£5.6million libraries budget.

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The funding takes theform of a voucher. Itallows homeowners toreclaim up to £6000for installing solid wallinsulation and an extra£1000 to cover twoadditional measures,such as floor insulationor heat recovery sys-tems.

The first step is forhomeowners to request a freesurvey.

Loughborough based SustainableEnergy Services is a building contractorwho have organised an open evening inMountsorrel when you can find outmore. It will be held in Mountsorrellibrary on Saturday July 12 from 10-1pm.

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The college has begun a con-sultation about the possible re-dundancies which would see theschool’s support staff cut by 55per cent.

There are currently 113 peo-ple employed as support staff –these include posts such as tech-nicians, premises officers, clean-ers, admin assistants,receptionists and catering staff.

The potential job losses aredue to a reduction in studentnumbers. In September 2013Anstey Martin High Schoolchanged to an 11-16 schoolresulting in a reduction of theirstudents coming to Longslade.

The college says betweenSeptember 2012 and September2016 this will amount to a re-duction of 53 per cent in studentnumbers overall. As fundingdepends on student numbers,Longslade anticipates a signifi-cant reduction in its funding of£2.36million between 2012/13and 2016/17.

Any redundancies, which ifthey go ahead will not happenuntil January, will only affect theschool’s support staff. Thenumber of teachers has beenreduced by not replacing thosewho have left and through short-er contracts.

Stonehill and Longslade areexpected to merge into a single11-18 year through school andbecome part of a multi-academytrust led by Beauchamp College,Oadby.

GOVERNMENT GRANTS of up to £6000 for solid wall insula-tion have now become available as part of the Green Dealinitiative.

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MORE THAN 40 jobs at Longslade College are at risk.

SUPERFAST FIBRE broadbandwill be extended within Rothleyas part of an £18.6millionproject to extend high speedinternet access to rural Leices-tershire.

The project is being led by the CountyCouncil – it is investing £4million, the Bor-ough Council £1.1million, £3.3million fromgovernment and £1.2million from the Europe-an Union.

BT Openreach is delivering the infrastruc-ture and will be contributing £8.9million.

Pam Posnett, the County Council cabinetmember for rural broadband, said: “Extendinghigh-speed fibre into more rural areas willenable households to better access of onlinemovies and TV, communicate with family andfriends and work more effectively from home.”

Cossington and parts of Burton on theWolds, Woodhouse, Woodhouse Eaves andWymeswold and Church Lang ton, Foxton,Smeeton Westerby, South Kilworth and parts ofKibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourtwill benefit. So will Fenny Drayton, Ab Kettleby,Old Dalby Village and parts of Asfordby and

Long Whatton. Coverage will also beextended in Barrow upon Soar,Loughborough, Rothley and Sileby,Market Harborough and MeltonMowbray.

The complete scheme will seefibre broadband extended to morethan 62,000 homes and businesses.

Kassam Hussain, BT’s projectmanager for Superfast Leicester-shire, said: “After months of plan-ning and survey work we’redelighted to be able to reveal thefirst locations we expect to benefit.Our engineers will hit the streets tolay the new fibre infrastructure toextend faster broadband far andwide across Leicestershire.”

FUNDRAISING BY the Ladies Circle,Rothley has seen cheques presentedto two local good causes.

£450 was presented to the Carpenter’sArms charity and £400 to Rothley Method-ist church. Next year’s chosen charity isMake A Wish.

A spokeswoman for the Ladies Circlesaid: “We will be opening on Tuesday,September 9, everyone is welcome, pleasecome along and enjoy an afternoon with afriendly group of ladies.” Please contactPam Floyd for any information 01162374111.



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Diane Morris, Fundraising Managerfor LOROS said: “I am so grateful toall the players for participating andfor their generosity in raising anamazing £13,000 profit to help undcare for our terminally-ill patients andprovide support for their families. Thiscould pay for all LOROS in-patientmeals and drinks for two months, orover 2,000 patients to be broughtfrom home to receive day therapy.”

LCM Wealth Management spon-sored the event; Spire Leicester Hospi-tal the Lunch; and Mosdorfer CCL theHospitality, with Pork Farms contribut-ing savouriesfor all theplayers. Nextprovided theteam prizesand someauction lotsand SamSpillane, ofSJ Events &Danny Spill-ane of GolfRetails Ltdthe individualprizes. KP-MG, BannerBatteries,

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The winning team was Spire Leices-ter Hospital; second place went toThrogmorton Associates and McNicho-las Construction came third. The La-dies’ ‘Nearest the Pin’ was won byRoisin Mason, Men’s by Rob Rees, theLadies’ Longest Drive’ was also wonby Roisin Mason and the Men’s byLorne Smith.Pic: The winning team: Spire LeicesterHospital

Over 100 golfers competed, with thetop three players qualifying to enter aPro-Am team with Matt. Matt, the club’sPGA Assistant Professional, has qualifiedto play in three PGA European tourevents this year including the prestigiousBMW PGA Championship at Wentworthin May.

Ian Agar, Rothley Park Golf ClubMen’s Captain said: “The day was a

great success and over £900 was raisedon the day for my Captain’s charity,Parkinson’s UK. I am sure the threewinners will have a great day’s golf withMatt.”

Golf balls were sponsored by ThreePoint Design of RothleyPic: Matt Cort (left) with Men’s Cap-tain Ian Agar

ROTHLEY PARK Golf Club recently held the Matt Cort Chal-lenge Golf Day.

ROTHLEY PARK golf club hosted the annual LOROS golf day inMay, and 23 teams participated.

IN MAY members set forth from Cropston and Rothley via coach,to spend a very pleasant few hours at Carsington Water.

First call was the restaurant to enjoy arestorative cup of coffee before walkinground the exhibition area designed partic-ularly for the education of children andinterested adults, on the collection andpurification of water for recycling for do-mestic use and industry.

In addition was a museum outlining thehistory of the creation of the machinesinvented and produced by Richard Ark-wright. It was a very happy and successfulouting.

At the June meeting it felt more likesummer had arrived. It certainly felt thatway within the membership which wasbuzzing with news of recently taken holi-days and those to come, not to mentionthe eagerly awaited next month’s Strawber-ry Cream Tea at the “Blue Bell Inn”, inRothley

Continuing on after the club’s “Busi-ness” we experienced a very special mo-ment – a presentation to Mrs DianaWhatton in gratitude for eleven years offaithful service running the “Bring andBuy” table and supplying for every con-ceivable occasion, quantities of beautifullymade cakes and especially, cream me-ringues! I think the inserted photographsays it all, taken by fellow member Mrs.Gill Jefferson, our resident photographer.

Our entertainment then followed, pro-vided by four members of the Leicester-shire Speakers club. Three ladies and onebrave gentleman told a total of eight sto-ries on which the membership had todecide whether they were “true or false”.We all had cards on which, after eachstory, we had to mark our conclusion,which took a great deal of concentration.The end result was given by each speakerand prizes were presented not only to thehighest points, but down throughout. Veryworthwhile prizes were gratefully received.

After all this pleasurable hard work, themembership then tucked into a multitudeof cakes to consume with refreshing cupsof tea.

Any enquires concerning informationregarding the activities of this club, pleasecontact me on 0116 2363467.

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LOUGHBOROUGH’S CARILLONis not only the town’s prin-cipal landmark: it is also awar memorial and home tothe War Memorial Museum.

In June the Museum’s Mel Gouldgave a tour to a group of members andguests of our Society, as well as enlight-ening and entertaining us.

A carillon was selected to be the warmemorial by a controversial public bal-lot, which was based on the amount ofmoney pledged ratherthan a simple count ofthe votes cast. Thecarillon favoured by thetown traders thus pre-vailed over the morepopular choice of amedical facility. Thearchitect’s first designproved too expensive sothe design actually builtwas an alternative close-ly modelled on a clocktower in Moulins,France. Taylor’s BellFoundry cast all 47 bells and contribut-ed substantially to the cost of theproject. The opening ceremony tookplace in 1923 with music written for theoccasion by Edward Elgar.

Many years later, it was thought inap-propriate that the war memorial buildingwas being used by the council to storegardening machinery and a campaignbegan to turn it into a museum. Nowthree floors are packed with exhibitsfrom both World Wars and representingall the armed services.

Mel told us about a zeppelin raid onLoughborough in 1916, in which tencivilians in the Rushes area were killed.The intended target was probably Liver-pool but zeppelins flew so high thatnavigation was difficult. The reason that

Loughborough was bombed insteadmight have been because, unlike thelarger industrial cities, it was notblacked out.

The first floor is dedicated to theLeicestershire Yeomanry, first founded in1794 and later given the title “PrinceAlbert’s Own”. The room is dominatedby life-sized models of a horse and cav-alry officer. It contains memorabilia of“Songster”, which was one of the fewwar-horses to return after the FirstWorld War and became a kind of mas-cot for the regiment. The second floor

contains displays of armaments and acabinet dedicated to the U.S. AirborneDivision that was stationed locally duringthe Second World War.

We saw the “clavier” keyboard fromwhich the carillonneur plays the instru-ment by pressing wooden pegs with herhands and feet. Finally, more steps ledus through the bell chamber and outonto the balcony, providing fine viewsover Loughborough and the countrysidebeyond.

The next of our summer outings willbe a guided walk around historic Whit-wick on the evening of July 15. Visitorsare welcome: call 236 7365 for details.

From Peter Smith, Thurcaston & CropstonLocal History Society

History society news

The Rotary Cub of Leicester and theBradgate Park Trust are leading theappeal which will see the existing visitorcentre in the middle of the park extend-ed into a deer barn. New displays willgive information on the area’s geologyand wildlife.

The centre is expected to open in2016, to mark the centenary of the Rota-ry Club of Leicester – Sir Davids fatherwas a former president of the club.

Sir David frequently visited BradgatePark as a child. He said: “It was a visionof what the English countryside could belike which has stayed with me for ever.”

Appeal launched fornew visitor centreSIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH visited Bradgate Park in May tohelp launch an appeal for £150,000 to extend BradgatePark’s visitor centre.

AT OUR meeting held onThursday May 8 “Resolutions”were discussed.

There was only one “Resolution” toput forward for discussion, this being“Organ Donation” and the need toencourage people upon death to ei-ther donate their organs, carry a cardregistering their willingness to donatetheir organs or finally let their familiesknow their wish.

It was noted that three people dieevery day waiting for a transplant and7,000 people are on lists awaitingorgan transplants.

The matter was discussed and the“Resolution” passed unanimously.

Re the SOS Fashion Show held inApril. The committee would like tothank our members for their help andsupport. Also, a big “Thank You” tothe local community who supportedthis event and help make it such asuccess.

At our meeting held on ThursdayJune 5 we celebrated our “BirthdayParty”.

As usual the members provided anexcellent buffet. To round off thecelebrations “Brandywine Bridge”entertained us with a medley of tradi-tional Folk Songs.

Our next meeting will be held onThursday July 3 at the Memorial Hall,Anstey Lane, Thurcaston at 7.30pmwhen Ernest Miller from “The Nation-al Trust” will talk about “StoneywellCottage – Gimson House”

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GCR’s war weekendHUNDREDS OF re-enactors inperiod clothes from the1940s helped to set thescene for the Great CentralRailway’s Wartime Weekendevent in June.

The annual event gave thousands ofvisitors the chance to experience thesights and sounds of life in wartimeBritain, with military skirmishes at Bir-stall and Rothley’s stations, a vintageflypast, displays of military vehicles andthe appearance of visiting dignitariesalong the line, including WinstonChurchill.


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P/14/1230/2: Rothley Baptist Church, 3Woodgate, Rothley – erection of two storeyextension to front of building with new roofover entrance and also to include new addi-tional access on to Woodgate. The existingtoilet facilities in the entrance foyer will berelocated in the extension downstairs. Theupstairs will be accessed by existing stairsP/14/1065/2: 71 Swithland Lane, Rothley –erection of two storey extension to side,single storey extension to rear and erectionof detached building for storageP/14/1127/2: 81 Town Green Street, Roth-ley – replacement windows, change of sidedoor to window and insertion of window torear and replacement front door to dwelling(Listed Building consent)P/14/0955/2: Rivendell, 113A SwithlandLane, Rothley – erection of first floor exten-sions to front and side, single storey exten-sions and detached carport to front anddetached outbuilding to rear of dwellingP/14/0886/2: Priest’s Meadow, 6 HallfieldsLane, Rothley – erection of conservatoryand conversion of car port to form gardenroom to rear of dwellingP/14/1056/2: 12 All Saints Rd, Thurcaston– erection of garage extension, single sto-rey extension to side of dwelling and alter-ations to accessP/14/0969/2: 169 Leicester Rd, Thurcaston– erection of two storey extension to sideand rear of dwelling

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POLICE HAVE released animage of a man they wouldlike to talk to in connectionwith a theft from a store inMountsorrel.

The incident took place on TuesdayJune 3, 2014 at approximately 5pm froma store in Rothley Road, Mountsorrel.

The suspect entered the store andtook meat items without offering pay-ment. When the individual was ap-proached by security the man ran off inthe direction of Boundary Road.

PC 0009 Dean Munsey, who is inves-tigating this incident said: “We wouldlike to ask the public to look at thephoto and if you recognise the man toplease contact us.

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PLANS FOR providing pri-mary school teaching atthe Stonehill/Longsladesite have emerged.

All Birstall’s schools are nowpart of the Lionheart Multi-Acade-my Trust, except Longslade whichit is planned will join shortly. Thetrust is led by Beauchamp Col-lege. Its principal Hugh Howesaid: “When we were invited tosupport Birstall’s schools, provid-ing education through from 4 to

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