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Dear Reader Not many of us venture to ‘Winter returns!’ the fifth TV channel, unless Noooo... not more snow, I you’re watching weird reality was hoping this recent snow show stuff that would bore would be it. Snow in April...? me to sleep. Daytime telly is I’ve heard from some locals filled with awful Aussie soaps that they’ve seen snow (just my opinion). lingering till June. HOWEVER, if you like a Let’s hope not. good wildlife documentary Anyway, in this month’s ON THE COVER and are happy to watch issue we have a good BAKING FOR MUM the on demand offering number of updates from our International Women’s Day 8th March from their website, Channel community groups, including Mothering Sunday 5 have a fascinating four the Black Dyke Mills Heritage 11th March season wildlife documentary Venue, Queensbury Tunnel The Queensbury Directory is a sister of animals found in our and Queensbury Performing publication of the Thornton Directory. county of Yorkshire. Arts. We also have a shout This publication is dedicated to the sharing of local community news and I stumbled across a year old out for new members for businesses for Queensbury’s residents. series, available to watch the local junior rugby club in We are only able to do this with online, called ‘Yorkshire, A our Sports Pages. the support of local businesses who Year in the Wild’ and it’s a Any community group advertise with us. Please mention good watch. Ok... its not wanting to add their the Queensbury Directory when responding to adverts. Blue Planet or Planet Earth updates, I’d love to hear documentary standards, but from you. Editorial space If you would like to advertise with us, please go to page 30 for our it is still great to see. You for community groups is advertising rates. can watch the whole series completely FREE. We’ll help online, four episodes entitled, spread the word of your Editor: Neil Bird Spring, Summer, Autumn and good work to our thousands Tel: 01274 447315 Email: [email protected] Winter. of readers. So please do get Web: www.queensburydirectory.co.uk I never knew we had such in touch. fascinating wildlife across For now, no more snow the moors and dales of the please and bring on the Your Queensbury Directory is proudly county we live in. When sunshine. printed using vegetable based inks on flakes of snow fell in April Till next time, paper sourced from sustainable certified sources. narrator Sean Bean said, Enjoy. We are eco-friendly, you can be too, don’t just throw me in the bin, pass me on to a friend. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole Contents or in parts without permission is strictly prohibited. Our Inbox 4 All information is correct at time of going to print. The views and opinions by Local News 6 contributors in this publication may not Local History represent the views of the publishers. 10 All advertising is subject to the editor’s In Your Community discretion, nor does any advertisement 12 constitute a recommendation. The What’s On Queensbury Directory also takes no 25 responsibility for claims made by any Sports Desk advertisements in the publication. 28 ©2018 Queensbry Directory 3 Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter 01274 447 315 Dear readers, Dear readers, I’m one of the volunteer Cub Leaders at As your local Councillor it is important that I am Queensbury Scout Group at Albert Crescent. made aware of any local problems or concerns I’m organising a fundraising event to raise funds you may have in the area, if you would like to to send our young people to an International speak to me regarding any issues you may have camp in Switzerland. It’s a great opportunity for please come to the following, where I will be them and I know it can sometimes be difficult more than happy to help. for parents/guardians to be able to afford a St Theresa’s Catholic Church trip like this - hence starting the fundraising Sat 10th March | 9.30am to 11am. with a Swiss Ball on Saturday 21st April 2018 Cllr Andrew Senior 7pm till late at the Brighouse Cricket Club, Russell Way, Brighouse. Hello Neil, Tickets are £30, which includes entry three course meal and raffle ticket. How many grammatical and spelling errors have you spotted in the window of the new Dress code: Black tie or smart attire. professional personal tutor company near the It will be a fabulous evening, three course meal traffic lights in Queensbury? and supported by a wonderful local band. Mr Stevens | High Street, Queensbury. Anyone wanting tickets, please contact me via email: [email protected] Vicky Carr | 18th Bradford Queensbury Scout Group Editor: Takes me back to my scout days. :-) Holiday camps are a great opportunity for any young person. Skills and experiences learned will stick with them for life. Let us know about your other fundraising efforts too, sounds like it will be a great evening. Editor: Oh dear what a shame, not a great advert at all. If it was my business, I’d be pulling that from the window and getting it reprinted. May be our design, print and proof checking could help. 4 To advertise in the Queensbury Directory or for flyer distribution call Neil on: 01274 447315 Please mention the Queensbury Directory when responding to adverts 5 Pollice Operation Kiki Dee - Home Town Show Secures 33 Arrests Black Dyke Mills Heritage Venue are delighted Police arrested 33 people in an operation to announce that Kiki Dee will be playing her designed to drive down burglaries across the first Bradford show for a number of years Bradford District. when she appears at the Mill on Saturday 10th November 2018. Operation Shrilldale, which ran throughout January, was designed to target residential For almost two decades, Kiki has been working burglaries across the district as part of West with her musical partner Carmelo Luggeri and Yorkshire Police’s ‘Darker Nights’ campaign. have been touring their spellbinding acoustic live show across the UK and Europe. Performing The scheme also targeted raids of garages, in this stripped back fashion allows each of their sheds and outbuildings, which under new exceptional talents to shine through and create crime recording processes are now classed a wonderful and warm sense of intimacy for the as residential burglaries. The operation saw audience. officers use a range of policing methods, both overt and covert, to target those suspected of being involved in these offences. The arrests, 30 of which were for acquisitive crime, resulted in 14 charges to date and officers are continuing enquiries. Chief Inspector Michael Rutter, who led the Black Dyke Mills Heritage Venue has already operation, said “This time of year traditionally gained an excellent reputation as a live music sees a rise in residential burglaries, so we venue in a short time. Many will remember Kiki wanted to create an operation to target this Dee for her ‘don’t go breaking my heart’ duet type of crime. Some of those individuals we with Elton John, so this is a great opportunity to have targeted are likely to be involved in other hear what other fantastic songs she has in her areas of crime, and some may even have links repertoire. to organised crime groups, so it is important that we use our resources to take action Tickets are on sale at an advance price of against these people. We hope this activity will £21.00 from: blackdykemills.org reassure the people of Bradford District that we do take burglary seriously and we will continue to run operations of this nature to make our communities safer.” More information about current Police campaigns or latest news can be found on their new, easy to use website: www.westyorkshire.police.uk 6 To advertise in the Queensbury Directory or for flyer distribution call Neil on: 01274 447315 Please mention the Queensbury Directory when responding to adverts 7 Council Tax Due to Rise Following the recent Full Council meeting, councillors set its budget for 2018-19 and agreed budget plans for 2019-20. Councillors agreed the proposals for a 5.99% hike in council What is interesting to note here is, looking taxes, which will come to most residents as a through the documents that formed the budget complete shock, twice the rate of inflation. proposals, the real benefit of public consultation The largest to be hit in this budget proposal is questionable. Whilst it gave the public the was Adult Social Care services with a staggering opportunity to air their views, it appears it had cut of £8 million. Rising council tax will increase no real influence on the proposals made in the revenue slightly, but it will never recoup the total Report by the Assistant Director of Finance losses by the cuts from central government to who propsed the budget. the council. Consultation processes are vastly popular with public bodies, particularly when they want to prove they have the public’s view at the centre of everything they do. We have had public consultations about everything lately, swimming pools, libraries, community buildings, children’s services, yet while consultations enable the public to have their say, often the unpopular proposals just get pushed through. With a consultation process having little impact to reverse proposals, maybe it is no wonder only 1129 responses were received. The public’s voice is not being truly listened to. paying lip While the public continue to complain about service to the process simply because that lack of services, it seems very few took part makes good politics.