The Lutterworth & District Journal The FREE paper for the community, about the community May 2010 - Issue No. 162 For Advertisements or Editorial please call or fax (0116) 275 1037 • Email: [email protected]

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THIS MONTH’S CONTENTS: The Redcoats are Coming Huncote Vipers Model Car Club Celebrates TLC in the Park 2010 . . . . . Page 2 to Willey on 5th June! ...... Page 13 20th Birthday ...... Page 16 Have You Got Talent? . . . Page 3 Help for Heroes at Kibworth Welcome to Wordsearch and Colouring Shooting Ground ...... Page 13 Lutterworth ...... Page 17 Competition Winners . . . . Page 5 PLANT FEST at Charity Dinner Ullesthorpe Windmill Whetstone Farm ...... Page 14 and Auction ...... Page 17 Project ...... Page 8 Summer Schools For Birthday Enderby Youth Brass Band Celebration Your Children ...... Page 15 Celebrates Successful ...... Page 17 French Tour ...... Page 10 CAB ...... Page 15 Bits ‘N’ Bobs ...... Page 18 Fleas, Your Pet and You! Music In The Park - The Facts! ...... Page 12 Lutterworth Caribbean Saturday 5th June ...... Page 16 Carnival Update ...... Page 19 GILMORTON GARAGE

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2 - The Lutterworth & District Journal Tel/Fax: 0116 275 1037 Have You Got Talent? FORDS DISCOUNT STORE The final 16 acts are all ready to perform Your local Aladdins cave! at the grand final on Saturday 22nd May at Lutterworth College. 1 Market St, Lutterworth T: 01455 553624 David Knight (pictured) is the V Hairpieces & Wigs only comedian H Specialist in Hair Loss we have and at H only 8 years old Private studio or home visits he is one we will Our reputation comes from our have to look out recommendations, testimonials at: for in the future! www.wigsandhairloss.co.uk But you can Virginia Hunt: 01455 559101 see this for or 07932 620344 yourselves if you come to the show, you decide who wins the £200 cash prize. Tickets are available from the Sherrier School Office, Wishbone, Snippers and J Wells & Son in Lutterworth. If you have Man With A Van any queries, please contact us on [email protected] Loads Cheaper! u NEW TOYOTA VAN u FULLY INSURED u 7 DAYS u EFFICIENT u FRIENDLY Gary Neal u SAME DAY DELIVERY Professional Decorator Preferential Budget Rates Interior & Exterior If you load-up yourself Quality Tradesman No Job Too Small Traditional & Contemporary 0116 284 8793 07971 576 922 Ring David on 0116 289 5395 1 Squirrel Close, Narborough, Leicester, LE19 3WF or mobile 07910 639584

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Email: [email protected] The Lutterworth & District Journal - 3 Are You Good BONES & FEET Enough? Do you suffer from a lack of confidence; GROANS Onychauxis and worry about your appearance; fret that you’ll make a mess of things – that you’re Balance and Onychogryphosis just not good enough? Proprioception In onychauxis and onychogryphosis, nail Well, believe it or not, you’re in very good growth goes awry. Onychauxis is thickening of company – because most of us do at some Proprioception is the mechanism by which your body a toenail. Onychogryphosis is thickening of a time or another in our lives and it seems the recognises movement and position - you should know toenail to the point where the nail curves problem gets worse as the pace of life gets where your body parts are in relation to each other without ever faster, resulting in a wide range of giving it a clawlike appearance. Affected nails illnesses including anxiety, panic attacks, having to look! This is vital for hand-eye coordination and tend to grow very long because the thickening depression and irritable bowel syndrome. essential for any sport. Messages are conveyed from and curving make cutting or trimming very I was surprised to read recently that special receptors in the joints, tendons, ligaments and difficult. Affected nails may also become Demi Moore had told Elle magazine that muscles to the brain. infected by fungi. Ill-fitting shoes, injury, poor she “had an extreme obsession with my This is particularly important in the knee and ankle as it blood flow to the feet, diabetes or a nutritional body”. “I made it a measure of my own value. I tried to dominate it, which I did enables you to subtly adjust your body weight to walk on deficiency may cause either onychauxis or and changed it multiple times over. But it slopes and uneven surfaces. If you have sprained your onychogryphosis. At any point in time, one or more nails on a foot may be affected by either never lasted and ultimately it didn’t bring ankle in the past the ligaments and their proprioceptors me anything but temporary happiness”. onychauxis or onychogryphosis. will have been over-stretched and you are at a greater risk I wonder how many changes you’ve made of re- injury. If it is dark for example and you do not have Symptoms in your life, only to discover as Demi did, your vision to compensate you are at increased risk of Discomfort can result when footwear or even that you only secured temporary happiness and your life still feels blighted by feelings stumbling and even falling. This is also likely after a knee bed sheets press on thickened nails, because ligament injury, especially if your cruciate ligaments have of not being good enough and the resulting the surface beneath the nails (the nail plate) is illness those feelings generate (it’s widely been damaged. If you twist or swivel eg on changing also thickened and tender. Therefore, whatever recognised that 70% of illness is direction, your knee may give way. It is therefore vital to presses on the nail indirectly presses on the psychosomatic i.e. what’s going on in your be assessed and advised by a Chartered Physiotherapist nail plate. Nails can become so long and head is impacting upon your mind and however long ago the original injury was. The same applies deformed that they impair walking. Long body). after a whiplash injury, you may inadvertently be holding curved nails can also penetrate adjacent toes, I can’t claim to have treated Demi Moore, your head tilted to one side and not realise. resulting in pain and infection of the skin. but I have successfully helped many clients suffering from the many versions of illness Test your own proprioception: Stand on one leg - then Treatment involves frequent nail cutting or trimming. This cutting and trimming requires that are generated from their feelings of not close your eyes. Do you feel unstable and wobble? Is one being good enough and stuck in the leg better than the other? Is your balance generally poor? the expertise of a podiatrist and the use of negative cycle that means they were unable Are you prone to falls? Do you ever feel dizzy? special clippers or other tools. Occasionally, if to enjoy life or fulfil their potential. conditions that are causing or contributing to If the answer to any of these questions is "yes", a Hypnotherapy (which has been the abnormal nail growth can be remedied or Physiotherapist can teach you some very simple exercises recognised by the British Medical treated more effectively, nail care may become Association since 1958) can be utilised to to improve this. It is important to address these issues more routine, without the need for special help individuals release more of their own before you hurt yourself. expertise or equipment. Summer’s here, the inner potential and activate the innate healing power of their own mind and body, JO TAIT Grad Dip Phys MCSP Registered with the Health Professions Council sandals are out but if you have whelks for nails, ladies can try and hide them with two thereby utilising their own natural resources to effect the beneficial changes Broughton Astley Physiotherapy Clinic, Priory House, coats of post office red. Men can sit by the pool 46 Station Road, Broughton Astley (opposite Thomas Estley they desire. in their socks or you can do something now. College). Tel/Fax 01455 285949 I believe you’re good enough - you only Appointments available Mon-Fri daytime & evenings One treatment can instantly change your nails have to believe it’s worth looking into. & Saturday mornings and your self esteem. 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Suppliers Suppliers Undertaken 7 Leicester Road, BLABY Tel: 01455 616355 Tel: 0116 277 4618 Unit 2, Newton Road, Harrowbrook Ind Est, www.malesmenswear.co.uk Hinckley, Leics, LE10 3DS Tel/Fax: 01455 283830 email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] OPEN: MON-FRI 9AM-5PM SAT 10AM-5PM Email: [email protected] The Lutterworth & District Journal - 7 Ullesthorpe Windmill Project is delighted to announce that the Ullesthorpe Languedoc Wines at the Preservation Trust has been awarded a Stage 1 Heritage Lottery Fund Grant, to help pursue its aims to repair and restore the windmill and all its outbuildings for the community. Lutterworth Wine Circle The grant will enable us to fund an architect and millwright, educationalist and museum and April’s meeting and tasting was from an invited interpretation consultants to work on this first development phase to determine exactly what needs to guest speaker, Ian Webb from the newly formed be done and how we will proceed. We are also working on the proposed museum to be installed in the Aldeby Wines in Leicester. first floor granary and a new building (between the stable and pigsties) to become the new study centre. Ian explained that after many years in the We hope to have a full educational programme based on what schools need and much else for all ages aerospace industry, he decided on a complete change and abilities (and interests!). Thank you everybody who has helped us so far, we could not do this and enrolled in the wine degree course in Coventry. His without you. Please continue helping to keep this unique heritage asset alive and kicking! last year of the course was spent working in the The cap of the mill will be taken off for restoration: how? you may ask. As the tower is over 60 feet vineyards of the Languedoc region of the south of high then the answer is: a very large crane! Because of the height of the mill and the length of the France. On his return, he set up Aldeby Wines to cantilevered arm (the jib) of the crane, there will have to be several tonnes of ballast to help keep the become the sole importer of wines from the Languedoc crane on the ground. region. In fact, it is just a year since Ian sold his first If you are wondering whether the sails will ever appear and if so, when? The answer is yes, there will bottle of wine. be sails, but these will have to wait until last. Separate funds will need to be raised for these as the HLF Ian brought along a white and four red wines for does not give grants for sails. Otherwise, the reefing stage (the balcony from which the miller ‘reefs’ the the group to taste. His intention was to show us some sails, literally – as two are covered with canvas which need adjusting according to wind) will be part of wines typical of the region. In addition to just the early phase of construction. We hope to describing the wines themselves, he gave us many st mount the fantail staging, if not the fantail itself stories and anecdotes from his year working in the 21 – the opposite side from the sails – at the same region. This included the attention to detail of the wine time. makers and how they differed amongst themselves, Visit the mill and hear more about the even to the extent of doing some important task only restoration and see plans as they are being on ‘flower days’ – don’t ask. The white wine was 5th 6th 7th 8th August 2010 drawn up. Open Days: Sat 8th & Sun 9th different from the normal ‘supermarket’ whites being May 12 – 4pm. particularly smooth. The four reds which were all Charity LOROS ~ Weekend camping must book Entrance fee and guided tour up the mill: similar but different, were also typical of the region. As Enquiries Roy on 07905 182535 Adults £2.50; concessions £2; Friends of the Mill we went from one to the next the general feeling from www.royscmf.co.uk and children under 12: free. Exhibition of the group was that they got better. In fact the last wine superb mill models by David Goldsmith and was from two bottles of only 3,000 produced each exhibition of ancient hand mills and querns. year. Ian’s descriptions of each wine got many Find out just how long it takes to make sufficient comments and questions from the group. Croft Lodge flour for one loaf of bread!! All in all, a most enjoyable and informative evening Boarding Refreshments available, cctv camera views of that introduced new wines to the group. the upper mill floors available on screen on the The next meeting in May will be on sparkling Kennels ground floor in the bakehouse; booklet, wines. The Lutterworth Wine Circle meets every month postcards, newsletters, drawings, free children’s and has a varied programme of events throughout the & Cattery activities, second hand books and more. year. Most are wine related but there are some social For private tours, visits and lectures or • Licensed & fully insured events. If you are interested in coming along, please further information about Open Days, please contact the chairman Bob Howes on 01455 550027. • All heated accommodation ring 01455 209608. • All dogs exercised daily • Special diets & needs Bruntingthorpe Open Gardens catered for Residents in Bruntingthorpe will once again be opening their beautiful gardens to the public over the • Emergency 24hr veterinary weekend of 15th & 16th May from 11am to 5pm to raise money towards the renovation of their Village service Hall. This popular event will have over 10 gardens for visitors to admire - of all shapes & sizes - as well as a plant stall, competition trail for children, art exhibition & sale, plus light lunches & cream teas available • All pens are fully heated in the Village Hall itself. Admission is £3 for adults and free for children - car parking is also free. & insulated This event, organised by Bruntingthorpe Village Hall Committee, attracts hundreds of visitors over both • All animals must be days each year and is usually the first Open Gardens of the season in the area. Funds raised will provide innoculated much needed resources to continue with the update of the Village Hall which is central to Village life • Collection & delivery service throughout the year. available (restrictions apply) For further information please contact Steve Stratton on 0116 279 9164. • Inspection welcome during opening hours CARPET AND UPHOLSTERY CLEANING NOW BOOKING FOR SUMMER Domestic and industrial Oriental carpets and rugs HOLIDAYS • • on site carpet cleaning • Specialists in SCOTCHGARD • All types of upholstery •On-site curtain cleaning • Leather suites

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NGS GARDENS Wednesday 26th May (10 - 4:30) Thorpe Lubenham Hall COSBY OPEN FOR CHARITY Sunday 30th May (11 - 5) Discover a garden near you and Burbage Gardens TREECARE help to raise £millions for charity. Sunday 13th June (11 - 5) STUMP GRINDING TREE PLANTING The Old Stables, Bruntingthorpe FELLING PRUNING Every year over 3600 gardens across England Sunday 20th June (11 - 6) & Wednesday and Wales open on behalf of the National 23rd June (2 - 8) Gilmorton Gardens and Gardens Scheme, generating over £2.5million Oak Tree House, South Kilworth each year for nursing, caring and gardening charities, including Macmillan, Marie Curie, Refreshments are available at each of the openings, so relax and enjoy time in delightful Help the Hospices and Crossroads Care. Sales of Logs & Bark/Mulch surroundings, whilst helping the worthwhile All work fully insured There are a number of gardens opening this charities supported by the NGS.If you would FOR COMPREHENSIVE FREE QUOTES RING year for the NGS in the Lutterworth area. Full like a free copy of the County Booklet which details can be found in the “Yellow Book”, shows all NGS garden openings in 0116 286 4227 - 07711 430472 Foxlands Farm, Croft Road, Cosby, Leicestershire County Booklet or on-line at www.ngs.org.uk Leicestershire & Rutland, please contact Colin In the next few weeks these include: Olle 01858 575791. New Proprietor for Hadley Mens Hirewear AstleyAstley CarpetsCarpets Jane Barnes, formerly of Hadley Menswear in the Shambles Court is the new proprietor of Great Value... Great Service Hadley Mens Hirewear in Lutterworth. Jane worked for Hadley Menswear for 15 years and is looking forward to arranging Hirewear Remnants up to 50% OFF! for existing and new customers. The Hirewear selection ranges from evening suits, morning suits, Axminsters lounge suits and Highlandwear. carpet tiles Shop at So if you are getting married, going to the school prom or just need a lounge suit for that formal home service occasion pop in and let Jane arrange it. Dinner suits are in stock so same day ordering and laminates collection is available. sisals • vinyls expert fitting For all other requirements please collect a brochure and make an appointment for a fitting. solid wood flooring guaranteed The new location is Suite 12, Weston House, 18-22 Church St. (red door to the right of Tel: 01455 285214 Flackies). 75 Main Street, Broughton Astley Some people may remember Jane from when she was the proprietor of Pretty Lady Lingerie (opposite main chemist) Shop originally in Kimpton Smith, then in the Shambles Courtyard, going back 20 years. Free parking for an hour is available at the rear of the premises and if the opening hours do not fit in with your availability, please let Jane know and she will endeavour to arrange a time that will fit in with you. See advert below for more details. SHEILAR’S CRAFT Hadley Mens Hirewear CORNER Jane Barnes, formerly of Hadley Menswear, A Crafting Shop here in Lutterworth is the new Proprietor of Hadley Mens Hirewear with most of your art/crafting needs and is now open for all your requirements. If we don’t have it we will try our best to get it! • Evening Suits • Morning Suits SPECIAL OFFER • Lounge Suits • Highland Wear DURING MAY • Accessories Have-A-Go Workshops Book a place and Bring a Friend Opening hours: along FREE with this voucher Mon . . . . 9.30am - 3.00pm Wed . . . . 9.30am - 12.30pm PRIMARY CHILDREN’S ART CLUB Every Tuesday 4 - 6pm ONLY £6.95 Fri . . . . . 9.30am - 3.00pm Sat . . . . . 10.00am - 3.00pm GAMES WORKSHOP TUTORIAL Every Friday 6 - 8pm Learn Model Making or by appointment & Terrain Building 31a Church Street, Lutterworth Suite 12, Weston House, (opposite The Unicorn Pub) 18 - 22 Church Street, Lutterworth Book Now Tel: 01455 552543 Mob: 07755 442 5053 Tel: 01455 556867 or 07903 577587

Email: [email protected] The Lutterworth & District Journal - 9 CLAYBROOKE ANIMAL FEEDS MAGNIFIQUE! - Enderby Youth Brass Band Celebrates Successful French Tour Main Agents & Stockists for: Range of Complete Dog Foods • Allen & Page • BOCM • Baileys from: Autarky • Beta • Berties • Bakers • Chudleys • Gilpa • Eukanuba • Skinners • Dengie • Dodson & Horrell and also Tinned Cat & Dog Food • Spillers • Blue Chip • Topspec • NAF Ltd • Equine America Grange Farm, Frolesworth Lane, Claybrooke Magna, Nr Lutterworth Horse, Cat & Dog Wormers The Enderby Youth Band acknowledge the applause Tel: 01455 202757 of the crowd after their concert at Remiremont Woodpecker & Supabed Shavings Fax: 01455 202961 (Photo by Brian Screaton) Wild Bird & Caged Bird Seeds OPEN: 8am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday The Enderby Youth Brass Band has recently returned from Poultry & Farm Feeds 8am - 12.30pm Saturday a whistle-stop tour of the Vosges region of Eastern France, playing three highly acclaimed concerts in the towns of Rambervillers, Vittel and Remiremont. They were invited Pre-heat your hooded BBQ to 220°C (428°F) and by their good friend Pierre Marie Budelot, who is Musical Neil Green Catering when it reaches temperature, put the bird on a baking Director of the Brass Band de Remiremont. With the sunny weather back with us rack in an oven tray, breast down & put it in the BBQ. Brass bands are something of a rarity in France, so the hopefully to stay it is time to get out the shorts After 20 minutes check that the bird is cooking evenly audiences were delighted to have the opportunity to see and clean down the bbqs. and adjust its position if required. Add the 6 tablsp of and hear an English Brass Band – they were billed as “Le stock or water to the tray. You also need to lower the Brass Band Anglais” – and Enderby Youth certainly did not Here is a good menu to start with, it will feed BBQ temperature to 180°C (356°F) (adding the stock will cool the bbq down & help with steaming the duck). disappoint them, playing varied selections from their approx 8 people and is easy to do, it takes recent award-winning contest performances, as well as old 1 After another 60 minutes, check that the bird is about 1 /2 hours to cook (worth the wait) so cooking evenly and adjust if required. Put in another favourites. get a few nibbles and drinks in while you wait. 3 tablsp of stock or water. Close the BBQ hood.Now The Band played a total of seven encores over the three Crispy Duck Cooked on the BBQ from here, the cooking time is going to depend upon concerts and received several standing ovations. the size of your bird. It will range from another 10 “Magnifique!” declared the audiences as they departed, 1 whole farmed duck minutes (small bird) to 20 minutes (v. large bird). after cheering the Band to the final echo. The evident 6 cloves garlic, Whatever the size, keep checking it every 10 minutes enjoyment with which the Band played was thoroughly to make sure it is cooking evenly. If the level of fat in crushed appreciated by all the French audiences. 50 g butter the bottom of the tray is getting high, remove some using a bulb-baster (turkey-baster) or a spoon. The Youth Band has also recently competed in the 2 teasp Chinese five Don’t throw it away, keep for cooking with later. National Youth Brass Championships in Manchester, where spice powder The target temperature in the thickest part of the they received a Silver Award for what the judges described 1 large orange, breast is 80°C (176°F) - check it using a thermometer as a ‘very polished performance’ . quartered (optional) probe (these are fairly cheap now and well worth On Saturday 12th June at 7.30pm there will be a joint 2 tablesp olive oil buying one). Put the probe in approximately 3/4 of the concert by all five Bands from the Enderby Band salt & pepper for seasoning way into the breast meat, making sure you don't go too far and hit bone. Once the internal temperature is Organisation. This will be at Brockington College, Enderby Make sure the duck and the butter are at room achieved, turn off the BBQ but leave the hood closed. and tickets, price £7 and £5 are available from Enderby or temperature. If you've just taken the bird out of the Leave the bird there for 15 minutes to allow the Narborough Post Offices. In case of difficulty, please call fridge, you'll need to extend the cooking times proteins to relax a little (i.e. the meat loosens up). significantly to compensate. Elaine on 0116 277 4422. Further details are on It's important to note here that salmonella bacteria die Put the garlic in the gut cavity, sprinkle some salt and www.enderbybands.co.uk at 74°C (165°F)so do not turn off the heat if the bird's pepper into the cavity and then push in the orange internal temperature is much less than 80°C (176°F). quarters (optional). Drizzle in the olive oil as well. Use a small skewer to hold the opening of the stomach You've now cooked the perfect BBQ roast duck. Lutterworth cavity closed. Tear the meat off the bone and serve this in some Townswomens’ Guild Rub some olive oil all over the duck and then rub the small pitta breads warmed on the bbq, shredded five spice powder all over the duck lettuce and some hoi sin sauce, these are delicious far The AGM took place at the April meeting; better than any chinese takeaway. Now, grab some of the duck skin between your thumb Chairman Kath Rumjamcevs thanked committee and fore-finger and lift it from the meat and, using a NEIL GREEN CATERING IN LUTTERWORTH, members for their hard work over the last year. skewer or something similar, pierce the skin right SPECIALISTS IN BARBECUES, HOG, LAMB Secretary Janet Faill recalled the year’s speakers and through. Do this in 10-12 spots all over the bird as this AND OX ROASTS. many outings that had taken place. will allow much of the fat to drain down into the pan. ALL PRIVATE AND CORPERATE FUNCTIONS Speaker Eileen Derrick showed members an Aqua Box Remember, do not throw this away. CATERED FROM 50 - 2,000 COVERS Use your hands to rub the butter into the skin of the which the Rotary Club fill with everyday essential items bird, making sure to get it all over. Then liberally ALSO CATERERS FOR FULL and send out all over the world, to places like Haiti where sprinkle salt all over the bird and rub that in as well. 5 COURSE MEALS TO SMALL FINGER BUFFETS people have lost their homes to earthquakes etc. The Wash your hands. (call for menu and price) actual box is supplied with taps & filters & chemical tablets to store and purify water, essential to keep people alive and to ward off typhoid and other diseases. A lovely ploughman’s supper had been prepared by the committee which members really enjoyed. Later this month members will enjoy the Guild’s Birthday Dinner at the Greyhound. The next meeting will take place at Ashby Parva Garden Centre, where members will learn about plants and hanging baskets. The programme of speakers for the coming year was given out to members who all agreed that they have another interesting year, with many more outings and events to look forward to. Anyone wishing to join our Guild is very welcome and can telephone 01455 553585 for more details.

10 - The Lutterworth & District Journal Tel/Fax: 0116 275 1037 Up with the larks for dawn Mortgages Spring into Action! chorus walk Now that we are coming out of the cold into the warmth of the spring months we are seeing positive Park Rangers at Watermead Country Park are inviting nature lovers to join them on a walk to witness one of changes occurring. There are new mortgage deals springtime’s wonders – the dawn chorus. available and whatever your situation it is essential to The Dawn Chorus Walk will be held on Sunday, May 16 and check if savings can be made. a hearty cooked breakfast is included in the price. If your mortgage deal is coming to an end soon it Rangers will point out bird species and their different songs is essential that you take steps to research the market during this spectacular event. Participants will also learn to seek a new agreement and consider switching to a about why birds sing and why there is a dawn chorus. new deal with a better rate, should one be available Places cost £10 for adults and £9 for concessions – pre for you. You may be pleasantly surprised. booking is essential by calling 0116 305 5434. Lesley Pendleton, Cabinet Member for Environment and Chris Grimes of Ashwood Law offers a FREE Transport, said, “While dawn may be too early for most of MORTGAGE HEALTH CHECK. us to have a sing song – this doesn’t stop our feathered To take advantage of this offer please contact friends! The dawn chorus is something we take for granted Chris Grimes on 07894 535590 or 01455 885832 – but it really is nature’s daily miracle. Watermead Country Park is an excellent setting to learn more as the park is well Email Chris on [email protected] known for it’s many species of birds". Main Office 0845 073 0874 Find out more about visiting Watermead at Ashwood Law is a trading style of Ashwood Law LLP www.leics.gov.uk/watermead The park has recently been shortlisted for Warburtons’ ‘Picnic Site of the Year’ award. Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep Vote for Watermead at www.welovebread.co.uk up repayments on a mortgage or any other debt secured on it. There may be a fee for mortgage advice. The precise amount of the fee will depend on The Old School your circumstances. See advert right. Blaby Road Home Grown Enderby OPEN FARM SUNDAY Asparagus is ready LE19 4AR and lots of fresh, local produce too Unique opportunity to lease self contained COMING SOON! Manor Farm will be hosting another Open refurbished premises c.120 sq. m. presently Farm Sunday event this year on Sunday 13th Visit our new ex-battery hens. used as Design Studios. Available June 2010. June. We’ve got ducks, horses Call Paul Diamond 0116 286 3884 There will be lots of animals to see, old and & quails to see too new farm machinery on show, local produce, farm tours, arts and crafts, competitions and Join us on Facebook for News lots more. See our website for more details: & Competitions GRESLEY PROPERTY www.manorfarmcatthorpe.co.uk and watch out for our advert in The Lutterworth & District MANOR FARM SHOP MAINTENANCE Journal next month! We have also rescued some ex battery hens & TEAROOM Plastering • Painting and have built them a lovely new home where CATTHORPE, LE17 6DB we hope they will be very happy! Do come Decorating • Patios along and welcome them to Manor Farm! 01788 869 002 Decking • Fencing See advert right. www.manorfarmcatthorpe.co.uk All work undertaken to a high standard. For a free no obligation quote call Nigel on 07956 627927 or THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE 01455 840422 Vacancy for a Senior Lead Nurse Due to retirement we are seeking a full Notice for Patients registered with time Senior Lead Nurse to continue to • Traditional property The Limes Medical Centre, Narborough lead and develop our nursing team and & building restoration services across our Narborough and Leicester Practices. • Listed buildings During May we will be installing You will be an experienced Nurse with & barn conversions a new computer system in line expertise and enthusiasm in developing • Alterations with NHS information and delivering nursing strategies within a technology plans frequently changing environment. • Extensions . The post will begin September 2010. There will be some unavoidable • New build disruption to our services but this For more information please telephone will be kept to a minimum and 0116 284 7990 for a job description • Small works & home we ask for your patience and and person specification. Closing date improvements consideration during this time. 1st June 2010. The Limes Medical Centre From all at 65 Leicester Road, Narborough Tel: 01827 721756 The Limes Medical Centre Leicester, LE19 2DU Mob: 07973 520367 Petworth Drive Surgery 5 Petworth Drive, Leicester, LE3 9RF www.woodbank-developments.co.uk

Email: [email protected] The Lutterworth & District Journal - 11 BROUGHTON ASTLEY W.I. turn ensures that the environment, wildlife Role of the Forensic Science Service’. and landscape are preserved for all to enjoy. Many events have been planned by our Our latest talk was by farmer’s wife, Jane It made us realise the work that goes in to members, including guided walks of Leicester Barnes, entitled ‘From Cows to Cheese’. producing the quality product that milk is and Stamford, trips to Twycross Zoo and Their herd of 140 cows produce milk which is and for which we pay so little. Wistow Maze, a visit behind the scenes at a sent to the dairy at Long Clawson, where it is Our next two monthly meetings are on May supermarket and an open gardens visit. turned into a wonderful stilton cheese, which 11th, when we will be discussing the W.I. We have many good speakers in the coming we all had the chance to taste. They are resolution for 2010, which is ‘the mandatory months and as you can see lots to get involved participants in the countryside stewardship clear labelling of food with true country of with. Our meetings are held on the second scheme, which subsidises the farmer, who in origin’ and on June 8th, when the talk is ‘The Tuesday of each month at 7.30pm in the Village Hall in Broughton Astley. If you are looking for Fleas, Your Pet and You! Some animals are not overly bothered by new interests then come along and join us, you biting fleas, but this is not to say they don’t are ensured of a warm welcome. Sandy THE FACTS! need to be treated! As you can see with each Dogs and Cats as we all know can become flea laying so many eggs – a couple of fleas on infested with fleas. These irritating little your pet can equal a big problem in your Age Concern Lutterworth creatures have a fascinating life cycle, which house! can mean an infestation on your pet turns Charity No: 247288 Fleas can and do bite humans, although they & District into a huge problem in your home. There are tend not to live aboard us as we are not usually many different species of flea but the most hairy enough! Reasons to be Cheerful common are the dog flea and the cat flea. Are you a baby boomer? Someone who was Some animals can develop a serious allergy Cat fleas are the most common and will born in the late 40’s just after the end of the infest both cats AND dogs. to flea saliva, called FAD (or Flea Allergic Dermatitis). These pets will lick and scratch Second World War, or even someone who is Each female flea will mate after taking a themselves so much in response to even one older and retired or about to retire, then this blood meal from your pet and within 24-48 flea bite – so as to cause hair loss, sores and should interest you! hours will start to lay eggs which can number even bleeding. This is of course part of the ‘Care Tsunami’ that around 200! These eggs do not stay in the pet’s is facing the country over the next two or three hair but fall straight off into your home. The ALL pets need protection against fleas and your Vet is the best person to advise you on decades, the numbers with care needs will double eggs hatch into larvae and these will burrow in the next 20 years and the costs are expected to deep into carpets, soft furniture and beds. 7-18 which products and protocols are the ones treble, but can it be avoided? days later these larvae pupate – this means that most suited to your individual animal. they spin a protective cocoon around The ideal flea treatment works by protecting So what is the answer? We all face the themselves inside which they will develop into your pet from nasty bites, whilst ALSO inevitable and it has to be said the later the better, adult fleas. This development takes around 5- preventing him from becoming the host for a some people say “Party until you drop off your 14 days BUT pupae can remain in the home flea population explosion in your home!! perch” enjoy life and make the best of the years you have in retirement. It’s a matter of attitude, for up to 9 months before they hatch out!! See your Vet for advice today! Once hatched the adult flea detects having a positive outlook can prolong life by an Natalie Gilbert MRCVS, movement of a red bloodied animal nearby estimate of 7.5years (Journal of Personal & Social and leaps onto it, thus starting the cycle all The Park Veterinary Group Psychology 2002). over again! See advert below. But where is there any help for retired people? We at Age Concern Lutterworth & District are there for the benefit of all of the older people of Lutterworth and 27 surrounding villages. We • Specialists within the practice provide services that are all about “Social Inclusion” our aims are “Your local Age Concern • Consultation times to suit you working for all those people in later life, of • Parking at all surgeries Lutterworth and the surrounding villages, to make • Open overnight and weekends it a fulfilling and enjoyable experience. A Lutterworth charity working for Lutterworth for emergencies people”. Local across Leicestershire This is about keeping you cheerful, helping you face life with an optimistic view and to keep 519 Saffron Lane, Leicester 0116 283 1314 162 Dominion Road, Glenfield 0116 231 1635 healthy and avoid that ‘Care Tsunami’. So now that the good weather is approaching 82-84 High Street, Whetstone 0116 284 9944 106 Edward Avenue, Braunstone 0116 289 5511 come and join us, make some new friends or bring Dedicated Farm Office: along your old friends. 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• OVERLAP • PALING • FEATHER EDGE • FENCING RCC Diary of Events and • MORTICED POSTS • TRELLIS • STAKES Guided walks Specialist • CLOSE BOARD PANELS The 2010 edition is now available. Packed manufacturermanufacturer ofof • POST & RAIL FENCING full of locally organised events such as fencingfencing && timbertimber • PLANTERS • ARCHES country fairs and festivals, farmers markets, concerts, fêtes, carnivals, car boot products. • DECKING sales and guided walks around the county. Tel: 01455 202128 Buy direct from your local sawmill To obtain a copy, visit your local library or museum or send a SAE (size C5 stamped Holt House Farm with 25p) to D. Cook, 133 Loughborough Lutterworth Road, Cosby. Follow A426 1 mile from Dunton Bassett crossroads Road, Leicester, LE4 5LQ or download below. For further information please contact ASTLEY FENCING SAWMILLS [email protected] or 0116 268 9706. 12 - The Lutterworth & District Journal Tel/Fax: 0116 275 1037 Lutterworth Evening W.I. Kibworth Shooters Raise £4299.76 Following their normal business meeting and discussions on for the Help for Heroes Charity future outings and events, one lucky lady was the envy of her fellow members of Lutterworth Evening W.I. when she was treated to a complete makeover. Whilst her friends eagerly picked up tips and advice on skin care and hair treatments, she received a facial and hair style following which members admired the outfit which was specially designed and made for her. At the May meeting members will vote on this year’s resolution which will be followed by a Fish and Chip Supper.

The Redcoats are Coming to Willey on 5th June! Photo courtesy of Andrew Carpenter It is May 1746 and we have received news from Scotland that the Duke of Cumberland, Prince William Augustus, third son of our King George II, has quelled the Jacobite uprising Over 300 shooting enthusiasts gathered at Kibworth Shooting at a mighty battle on Culloden Moor. Bonnie Prince Charlie (as he is popularly known Ground on Sunday 25th April to raise money for the ‘Help For north of the border) has been forced into hiding in the western isles with a £30,000 Heroes’ Charity day. ransom on his head. After celebrating his 25th birthday on the eve of 15th April by There was have a go archery, air rifles, clay shooting and also sending all his regiments two barrels of brandy each, the Duke led his well-trained men military rifles from across the ages for people to take their hand to. some 8,000 strong into battle at around one o’clock the very next day. Along with the open day, the Shooting Ground ran clay shooting competitions and also an air rifle competition. After much fierce fighting it was clear that the Highlanders were no match for the Royalists and Prince Charles rode away and the clan regiments left the field. News has Mickey Rouse, a professional trick shooter, wowed the crowd with reached us that not one soldier from the 13th Foot Regiment has been killed or injured. a spectacular demonstration of flying eggs, fruit and vegetables, After resting up, they have now begun their march back south and are due in Willey at impressing aspiring shooters of the future. the beginning of June. Several big names in shooting were present to lend their support, On Saturday 5th June they will be making camp and taking refreshments during the including multiple World Champion Ben Husthwaite. annual Street Fayre in the Village. Come along and take part in a period re-enactment, Jim Sharman, the Leicestershire CPSA organiser said, “The day was watching musket drill and firing demonstrations. Dig out your long skirts, mob caps, a huge success, we are still waiting to calculate the final figure, but the waistcoats and breeches and get into the spirit of 1746! Many stalls, including plants and running total currently stands at £4299.76. I would like to thank all bric-a-brac, tombola, children’s games, donkey rides and pork roast, teas, coffees, cakes the sponsors and also Rose and the team at the Shooting Ground who and ice cream served in the Village Hall. With Anker Morris Men, Colin the Busker and put a lot of hard work into making the day a success”. Band Phoenix, you will be assured of a fun afternoon for all the family! The Shooting Ground will be continuing its support for the charity Come and join in the fun and get into the spirit of 1746! All proceeds are for with another event already being planned for next year. If you would St Leonard’s Church and Hall Funds. like any information on the charity, you can visit their website at www.helpforheroes.org.uk See advert below. The Sarah Mansfield will be open all day - see advert below.

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Email: [email protected] The Lutterworth & District Journal - 13 Bitteswell W.I. At our April meeting Mr George Hook came to talk to us about Mother of Pearl. His family has been producing mother of We provide buffet lunches, breakfast pearl products at his factory in meetings & evening buffets to Birmingham since 1824. Mr Hook is the businesses & individuals. Conditions apply. last member of his family to carry on this We have set menus or can cater to special tradition. requirements or a customer’s budget. He brought many beautiful shells to show us the raw product that he starts with. He also FREE DELIVERY on all buffets booked until showed us some of the buttons, cutlery June 1st using the ref code: CC123 handles and jewellery etc. that he and his Tel: 07521 106132 family have made over the years. www.cranberry-catering.co.uk Members were told many amusing stories of his experiences of selling his products and some of the celebrities who have bought Cranberry Catering Ltd is a young company with plenty of fresh ideas who love buttons etc. from him over the years. food! We pride ourselves in providing freshly prepared food made from quality ingredients. Our members were then able to buy some We have a range of services including a sandwich round, a fruit pot delivery service, provide of the mother of pearl jewellery and spoons buffets for breakfast, lunch or evening meetings as well as special events with our range of fruit that he makes. We were also invited to his islands and melon carvings. factory at a future date to watch him at work. We recently provided a buffet lunch for Nike and supplied a melon carved with their name and Bitteswell W.I. meets on the second logo (see picture on advert above). They were really impressed and it made a great talking point Tuesday of the month at 7.30pm in Bitteswell and ice breaker for the company hosting the meeting. Village Hall. We are a friendly group and For those of you looking for a gift for someone special - particularly recovering from illness, a visitors and new members are always fruit basket is a fantastic way of providing encouragement to eat and is a healthy alternative to welcome. chocolates - its great for those hospital wards who discourage flowers too! We deliver free to hospitals in Leicester a melon or pineapple basket ready to eat with a selection of prepared fruit. The basket is complete with a chiller pack, fork and ribbon of your colour choice, Wycliffe U3A April meeting wrapped in cellophane holding a card with your message - a really thoughtful and healthy gift. After the notices from the Chairman, Mick See advert above for contact details. Curtis introduced Bob Howes as the new treasurer and group coordinator. After Bob had made a few comments on the two aspects All Saints Church Dunton Bassett for which he is responsible, Mick Curtis A Flower Festival held over the Easter weekend at All Saints Church Dunton Bassett raised introduced this month’s speaker, Ann de Voil over £600 for Church funds. from Guide Dogs for the Blind. The speaker A steady stream of visitors admired the flower arrangements and enjoyed refreshments on had a passive assistant, Alfie, who is a retired Easter Sunday and Monday, a cake and preserves stall helped to add to the total raised. An Easter guide dog and who spent most of the time Songs of Praise was held on Sunday evening to mark the start of celebrations of 800 years of Ministry at All Saints. A Scarecrow Festival is planned for 20th June in conjunction with the lying on the floor! Village Primary School and a family fun day will take place on 30th August. The celebrations will She gave a brief history of the how the Guide close with a special service for All Saints Day on 31st October. Dogs for the Blind developed with the first class being held in this country in Cheshire in 1931. The first training centre was opened in PLANT FEST starts the season for Whetstone Farm Leamington Spa in 1941 with 4 dogs. Since Preparations are well underway for this summer’s fruit picking at Whetstone Pastures Pick then it has grown to 7/8000 dogs today with Your Own. The new strawberry plants and new rows of raspberry canes have survived the over a thousand puppies each year starting wintry weather and are looking good. their ‘puppy walking’ training. Ann said that Our children’s play activities have expanded to include a “gem panning attraction” and a not all puppies turn out to be suitable for wheelchair friendly farm trailer for farm tours. We can now offer children’s parties and talks and further training as for example, they could be visits for groups, with grants on offer to cover expenses. But we get underway with a PLANT ‘too laid back’. The puppy’s first word of FEST on SUNDAY MAY 23rd 10 – 5pm. This brings together local growers offering their own command they are taught, with varying expertise along with their own array of plants. With lunches and cream teas in the attractive degrees of success in ‘no’. After about 12 to 14 rustic courtyard, crafts for children, farm walks and a chance to find out more about our exciting months of this training, the suitable puppies go new Community supported Agriculture scheme there’s lots for all the family. We are supporting on to one of the 5 to 6 training centres around RAINBOWS who will also be present as well as Creative Cakes from Lutterworth. The farm is just the country. It is from these that the real 2 miles South of Blaby on A426. A warm welcome awaits you! training takes place with dogs and people Call Sandra for more information 07971 403 823 www.whetstonepasturesfarm.com eventually blended together. One of the hard lessons for the new dog owner is never to argue with the guide dog. One unfortunate person Feeling fruity? decided to ignore the dog that would not turn right and fell down a hole. Our Pick-Your-Own Farm will be Ann answered several questions from the opening early June for luscious most appreciative audience. She also said that strawberries. With raspberries, puppies that were not suitable to go on to gooseberries, blackcurrants and blackberries to follow. Relax in our Strawberry Cottage become guide dogs and retiring guide dogs Tea Room, enjoy a Cream Tea with Sandra’s Jam and local cream. Children’s Play Barn, were used to satisfy a waiting list. and gem stone panning, all set in rustic farm courtyard. First event PLANT FEST Sunday Details and the group schedules of U3A are MAY 23rd, 10-5, in aid of Rainbows. Local plants with growers on hand to advise. in the monthly newsletter that can be found in Easy access, 2 miles South of Blaby on A426. Ring Sandra the Lutterworth and Broughton Astley 0116 277 4627 www.whetstonepasturesfarm.com libraries. If you are interested in joining or would like Enjoy the taste ~ Enjoy the experience! some more information please contact Mick Curtis, the chairman on 01455 554504. 14 - The Lutterworth & District Journal Tel/Fax: 0116 275 1037 Summer Schools For Your Children FORDS DISCOUNT STORE NEEDLESANDPINS This year you can start planning early to keep Your local Aladdins cave! For all your Sewing & Knitting needs your children occupied through the long summer holiday. 1 Market St, Lutterworth T: 01455 553624 Sirdar yarns, King Cole, Stylecraft, Haberdashery, DMC Stockist Dry Cleaning Agent Bradley Woodward, Principal of Lutterworth Mon to Fri: 9.30~5pm Sat: 9.00~4pm Performing Arts Centre said, "We are delighted Q: I got a letter telling me I was to offer six action packed weeks of activities in Unit 6, 74-76 Main Street, overpaid tax credits dating back to the Broughton Astley, Leics, LE9 6RD the Performing Arts this summer. It is an time I separated from my husband. This Tel: 01455 285800 or 07800 884970 opportunity for students to improve their skills came as a total shock. I don’t have the www.needles-pins.co.uk and build confidence in a very safe amount of money they want me to pay environment. Our summer programme was back. I don’t know what to do – please can you help? very popular last year and because parents can leave their children with us from 7.30am until A: You may be affected by recent changes to the way some Remedial Massage 6pm our workshops are ideal for busy working overpayments of tax credits are calculated. Qualified Masseuse offers massage treatment mums and dads". (For more information please If you have been overpaid because you separated from your for back, neck and shoulder pain. see the advert below). partner or started living with a new partner and reported this Upper and lower limb conditions. Muscle and Joint problems The Centre which is less than a mile from change late, your overpayment may be reduced or even written Lutterworth Town Centre has one of the largest off. Reflexology dance studios in the County as well as three This is because under the new rules, HM Revenue and Healing for the Body and Mind other large rehearsal rooms. LPAC is the home Customs will work out what you would have been paid if you Telephone: 01455 553103 to the following Organisations. had reported the change and made a new claim on time. They Visiting service in Lutterworth available * Enchanted Dancewear - the Dancewear will offset the overpayment against this amount. HMRC calls Shop in Lutterworth providing all of your this ‘notional offsetting’ . clothing and footwear for any dance styles. Ask the Tax Credits Helpline on 0845 300 3900 for more * The Warrington School of Dance - offering information or write to the Tax Credit Office requesting that classes in modern, ballet, tap and disco. they look again at the amount of your overpayment. Country Ceramics * Lutterworth Youth Theatre Academy - If you have been asked to pay back tax credits and you offering classes in acting (for all ages), singing don’t understand why or you think you don’t owe the money, & Bathrooms and musical theatre, streetdance and six weeks you should ask the Helpline for an explanation of how the Quality Installations of Bathrooms of summer schools. overpayment occurred. & Tiles - Wet Room Specialists * Future Faces Saturday Musical Theatre If you don’t agree with the Helpline's explanation of the School - giving students tuition in singing, We offer a full design service with reason for the overpayment, you can ask HMRC to look at their acting and dance and the opportunity to appear FREE quotations decision again. This is called disputing an overpayment. You in two major productions each year. can do this in writing or by filling in form TC846 which you can Huge range of bathroom suites available Throughout the week there are a variety of get by calling HMRC on 0845 300 3900. with amazing discounts - including tiles! activities for adults to try: tap dancing, streetdance, pilates, salsa, chair aerobics, bums For more information or help with sorting out a tax We also offer a full fitting service & tums. credit problem, go to the Citizens Advice website www.adviceguide.org.uk Open: Mon - Fri 9am-5pm Sat 10am-2pm For more information visit www.lyta.co.uk or phone 01455 553878. South Leics CAB offices are open as follows: Lutterworth: at Elizabethan House, Leicester Road, the One Stop Shop, Gilmorton Road is open 10am to 3pm Lutterworth. Tel: 01455 556155 Mondays and Thursdays. Blaby: at Joint Service Shop, Forge Lutterworth Corner is open 10am to 2pm on Tuesdays. 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The club still meets there from any money on purchasing a car. 7 - 10pm on Tuesdays during term times. The club’s stand will be at the Snibston The club runs 1/10th and 1/12th scale electric Discovery Museum Transport Festival on Sunday cars on a carpet based track in the school & 16th May, Ashby Magna Midsummer Vintage community centre halls. Festival Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th May and the The main aims of the club are to promote the Lutterworth Carnival on Saturday 14th August. Music in The Park sport of radio control model car racing, provide a To book a car or for further information th safe environment for youngsters to use their cars contact John Richardson on 07768 725517 or Saturday 5 June and a place for then to learn how to tune and checkout the club’s web site at www.vipersrc.co.uk Bring your own picnic and enjoy an evening of music and fireworks for all the family, in the beautiful grounds of Wistow Hall. Testing Times THE LEICESTERSHIRE SPEAKERS - APRIL 2010 Music by ‘Junction 21’ (an 18 piece swing Lutterworth MOT Centre is now Need a policeman’s helmet? band) and culminating with 'The Last Night proud to introduce Class I and II of the Proms' by the acclaimed ‘Kettering Former member Rosemary Glover returned and testing to its repertoire. This means Citadell Brass Band’ and followed by a demonstrated she has not lost her touch with a that in time for the spring and fabulous firework display set to the 1812 hugely entertaining speech on forgotten laws. Did Overture in front of Wistow Hall. summer weather we can now test you know that a pregnant woman is within her legal your motorbike or scooter, (including, All the money raised is going to the charity rights when demanding the use of a police officer’s motorbike and side car combination). LOROS (Hospice Care for Leicestershire & helmet in a moment of need? These and many more Rutland). So come and enjoy a great night out This has been a long time coming for legal anomalies poured out in Rosemary’s beautifully whatever your age. It will certainly be a night James and Michael, but it has finally arrived. constructed talk. to remember. “We were hoping to have been up and Bev Kauss greatly improved on a her earlier Gates open 5.30pm Music starts 7.30pm running sooner, but now we are, we hope to ‘maiden speech’ with a heart warming description of Finale & Grand Fireworks Display at provide this new service to the area in time how she overcame her teacher’s forecast of being a 10pm. Advanced tickets £12.50; on the for the good weather”, said Michael. ‘Mrs Nobody’ to become a ‘Mrs Somebody’ when night £15; 12-16yr £5; under 12's FREE. This now means that Lutterworth MOT she ran her own business. So there! FREE PARKING. Centre can MOT your motor bike, car, light Unusually, Anne Jones set up her speech ‘It’s in the More information, directions and how to commercial, motor home and of course Bag’ (all about bags) as an Aunt Sally, with each obtain tickets on www.wistow.com or ring classic car. “This is an exciting time for us, member of her audience invited to make a single 0116 278 6374. with this new addition we feel we can now comment, positive or critical. Very brave! offer a complete MOT facility in the Lutterworth and District area”. Josie Bicker organised an excellent set of subjects for the instant three-minute speeches. Margaret If you would like to book your motor bike, Barrett was hilarious with her treatment of wise Your Local FARMERS MARKETS car or light commercial in, give James or sayings that attempt to forecast the weather. Michael a call on 01455 557001 or pop in to Enjoy fresh, local food, reduce your food miles Lutterworth MOT Centre today! The Leicestershire Speakers welcome anyone who & experience a real market in your local town! would like to learn the art of speaking in public. See advert below. Buy your food direct from the producers: free range, organic Our meetings are supportive, informative and & rare breed meats, eggs, cheese, locally milled flour, honey, entertaining. We offer enthusiasm and jams, fruit & veg, bread, cakes, soaps, plants & more...

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Legion Veterans’ Evening Opening hours during the summer: Mon, Thu, Fri was held on Thursday 25th March. A number 10am - 4pm, Sat 10am - 1pm (excl Bank Holidays). 1 Market Street, Lutterworth of Veterans were invited to an evening of music Tel: 01455 553624 Other days & times for groups or individuals by and refreshments at the club premises in special arrangement, contact Wendy on Market Street and those who were unable to 01858 575800 or email [email protected] make their own way there were collected by Charity Dinner & Auction FREE parking & FREE entry Branch members. Mayor Elect, Lutterworth Town Councillor, Songs from the Musicals and the War years Ray Perkins is planning an eventful year of together with comedy sketches were provided by charity fundraising when he is elected as Birthday Celebration "The Entertainers" directed by Norma Harratt. Mayor on the 18th May 2010. A celebration to mark the twenty-third Everyone concerned had a thoroughly enjoyable evening with one veteran commenting that it was His first event will be a Charity Dinner and birthday of The Rotary Club of Lutterworth the best night out he'd had in months. Auction at the Indian Vojon in Bank Street, Wycliffe saw members dust off their DJs Lutterworth on Wednesday 26th May at and glam gowns to enjoy a meal and good We are hoping to plan another evening with a Christmas theme. 7.30pm. It will be an “Eat All You Can” buffet fellowship at Lutterworth Soccer Centre, priced at £14.95 per person. Bitteswell. If you would like any tickets please contact Ray on 07977 926689 or Gill on 07751 957188 or alternatively they are available from Lutterworth Sound & Vision. Several other events are planned throughout his year, details of which will be announced at a later date. Ray’s chosen charities will be announced on Photo courtesy of Andrew Carpenter the 18th May 2010. Annual Plant Sale Lutterworth Railway Society All meetings Thursday evening at The United and Spring Fayre Peter Boulton (right) being presented with a Reformed Church, George St, Lutterworth, Leics. Paul Harris Fellowship by Dick Parsley, LE17 4EF from 1930 hrs unless stated otherwise. at Lutterworth United Reformed Church, Rotary District Governor Visitors welcome to meetings. Information George St. on Sunday 8th May from During the evening a surprised Peter Dave Hanger 01455 203307 9.30am - 1.30pm. Boulton, a founder member of the Club was May 20 Ashover Light Railway Richard Booth Illustrated Talk There will be very good quality bedding presented with a Paul Harris Fellowship for The history of the line & proposals to providing exceptional services to the Rotary plants, shrubs and hanging baskets and resurrect the site for preservation organisation and for his part in managing also homemade cakes, books, games, Saturday Annual Model Railway Exhibition at and securing funds for charitable purposes. tombola, raffle and bric-a-brac. During May 22 Wycliffe Rooms + United Reformed The evening was rounded off with a highly Church Room, George St., Lutterworth, the morning refreshments are provided entertaining talk by Rotarian Ted Goold of 10am - 5pm. Adm. £4, Ch. £1.50 and from 12pm light lunches are served Market Bosworth. Fam. £8 – layouts, traders, hot food

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Tel: 0116 278 0488 ‘Love Never Dies’ - a local theatre No responsibility is accepted for loss or damage to copy, or error in the group has a few seats left for a matinée printing. It is the responsibility of the advertiser to conformity with the Trade Office desk for sale, sturdy hardwood desk with four performance on Wednesday 13th October 2010 Descriptions Act 1968. Sex Discriminations Act 1975 and Business drawers, measures 183cm by 91cm, height 71cm. £50. at The Adelphi Theatre Advertisements Disclosure Act 1977. All advertisements are accepted in good Tel: 01455 284384 (it tells the story of what happens after ‘The Phantom of the faith. Placing an order with THE LUTTERWORTH & DISTRICT JOURNAL will signify acceptance of the above conditions. Artwork forming part or whole of any Pine double bed, spindle headboard, exc. cond. no Opera’ show ends!). 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Tel: 0116 275 3101 18 - The Lutterworth & District Journal Email: [email protected] Lutterworth Town Council held extended UTOPIA BEAUTY SALON opening hours at its new offices on Thursday 1st April MAY OFFER until 7.30pm allowing those who work the opportunity to A place of ideal perfection visit the Council Offices outside the Council’s Photo courtesy of Andrew Carpenter Look Great this Spring normal hours of operation. with a Spray Tan Displays were put together by Lutterworth Police, Lutterworth Fairtrade, Lutterworth Twinning and Lutterworth Museum and there was a constant stream of visitors throughout the day. The Town Council’s new offices on Coventry Road opened on Monday 22nd March and marked the start of a new era for the Town Council and a more visible presence within the Town. The new location allows the Town Council to be more accessible for residents, businesses and visitors to the Town and a large number of visits have already taken place. Special Offer £15 normally £25 The new offices are open to the public from 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and to 4.30pm on Friday. Throughout May & June ‘Spa Day’ entry Members of the public are welcome to attend Lutterworth Town Council meetings which are held on the second Tuesday of every month 7.30pm in the new offices, with the exception Only of no meeting held in August. Lutterworth Town Council can be contacted on 01455 550225. £6.95 per person includes full use of the leisure club with pool, sauna, steam room & will be held gym. Available Mon-Fri. Must be onLutterworth Saturday 14th August Caribbean on the Coventry CarnivalRd Recreation Ground and booked in advance will be packed with fun and activities for all the family, with pony rides, bungee trampoline, face painting and much more. 20% OFF Beauty The day will start with the Procession which will follow the same route as Treatments when booked on last year starting from Leicester Road. The King and Queen will be selected this ‘Spa Day’. Treatments must be booked in advance from Lutterworth High School’s Prom held on 8th July. The Flower attendant competitions will take place on Saturday 19th June at the John Subject to availability. This offer can not be used in conjunction with any other offer Wycliffe Primary School where one girl and one boy will be selected. Sherrier Primary School will hold their summer fête on Saturday 26th June TO BOOK NOW CALL 01455 201734 where another girl and boy will be selected. If you have a child at the one of ULLESTHORPE COURT HOTEL & GOLF CLUB the Schools who is in year 3 or above please ask for an entry form at your School’s reception. This year’s Feast Week is packed with events for everyone to enjoy, with a number of competitions running during the week, including the annual Feast Week quiz at the Cricket Club, wii competition at the Council Offices and for the first time, ‘Lutterworth’s Got Talent Competition’. Visit www.lutterworth.org.uk for more information and if you would like to be involved in the Carnival please contact Katy on 01455 550225. More next month!

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