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THE CHEQUERS PUB, WIMBOTSHAM

Come and enjoy a Lunch in a friendly cosy welcoming Nor- folk village pub. Give yourself the chance to socialise and enjoy a freshly cooked meal in a relaxed atmosphere.

Lunchtime Monday to Saturday £6.95 2 Course Specials Food served Monday and Tuesday evening 5.30-7.30 Steak Night Wednesday £8.95 8oz Rump/Gammon Friday Night — Fish & Chip take away Thursday— Quiz night Sunday Roast

The Chequers, 7 Church Road, Wimbotsham, PE34 3QG 01366 386768 [email protected]

www.thechequerswimbotsham.co.uk

2 your Wimbotsham May 2018 Parish Council Contacting the Parish Council The best way to contact the council is via the Parish Clerk. Please remember to provide your name, address and telephone number. Clerk to Wimbotsham Parish Council: Pippa Winson 37 Ullswater Avenue, South Wooon, King ’s Lynn,PE30 3NJ [email protected] 01553 674382

Parish Council Meetings Meetings are held in the Village Hall Bar Room Starting at 7pm Everyone is welcome to attend If you would like to address the council there is an opportunity to speak Agendas & Minutes are published on the village notice boards & on the website: Wimbotsham.com Parish Council Meeting Dates 2018: 29th May (Annual Parish meeng) 17th July 11th September 30th October 11th December

Your councillors are: Bates, Simon The Beeches, 2 West Way 01366 386607 Cable, Ian (Vice -Chair) 37 Church Road 01366 386704 Chilvers, Dean 45 West Way 01366 386211 Fendley, David 12 Millers Lane 01366 383436 Frost, Dana 21 Tinkers Lane 01366 387211 Squires, Jackie (Chair) 88 West Way 01366 386370 Smith, Anne 30 Church Road 01366 389729

3 your Wimbotsham May 2018 Parish Council Welcome to the second Please send arcles, contribuons, newsleer of 2018. A lile later this praise, moans, groans, ideas for the next month as its been a hecc spring, as you newsleer (photos too). will see form all the happenings. Ian Cable—Parish Council Vice Chairman Hopefully you may have made and kept a Wimbotsham’s New Trod new years resoluon to take part in one The recently opened trod at the boom of the village events or get involved with of Westway is being very well used. one of the groups. If not there is sll Walkers can now walk safely around the me! 90 degree corner without having to And, if you have a lile extra energy and venture onto the road. Thanks to 50% enthusiasm, there is a vacancy for a funding from County Council Parish Councillor. See website or noce Highways Department and 50% coming boards for full details. Before pung from the Parish Council budget, the path yourself forward it’s a good idea to find is serving its purpose. out about the Parish Council, by aending a few meengs to get a feel for the business and personalies of the council, so why Many not come hands along to make a light work! meeng as a member of public and observe. Meengs start at 7pm, so just a arrive a few minutes before and grab a seat just inside the door. We will be pleased to see you, no formalies required! And if you think it might be something you can contribute to please chat to one of the councillors aerwards. To find out more about becoming a parish councillor you can telephone the clerk or any councillor for a chat—no obligaon. Thank you to everyone who has contributed this me, and to those who meant to but didn't get round to it, put the next deadline of 22nd July in your diary. And you don’t have to wait unl then, you can send in arcles anyme. 4 your Wimbotsham May 2018 The idea of safe walking and cycling routes to neighbouring villages was Wimbotsham inially proposed in the Parish Plan wrien in 2010. We now have two trods New Village Hall in the village helping to keep our residents and visitors safe. Working Group But there is a downside to these routes On Tuesday 20th March the Village Hall and that is the problem of dog fouling. I hosted the 2nd meeng of Wimbotsham daily walk along the new trod and since New Village Hall Working Group. its opening have seen the increase in the number of piles of poo le on the grassy The Group are making steady progress edge of the trod. So once again we ask and we are working on construcng a dog walkers to please pick up aer their survey which will be sent out to all dog. Ensure you can see where your dog villagers over the next few fouls if it is off the lead. In me grassy months. Surveys are extremely edges to the trods will need to be important to us as they give villagers a strimmed and it is not acceptable that way to make their wishes known and workmen using strimmers should be also our Group data to use in funding splaered with dog poo, as this is what applicaons. happens. We would welcome anyone who would Jacqueline Squires like to come and join us our meeng is scheduled as follows all held in the Village Hall and start at 7pm. Footpaths Nicely cut but the footpaths officer 5th June says: I don’t know what we have to do to 24th July get people to pick up their dogs poo? 28th August The paths are terrible at the moment and 18th September with some accuracy, they seem to be 6th November geng it nearly perfectly in the middle of 18th December the path! Please come along, you can give as much Any suggesons? or as lile me as you wish. We are a friendly Group of people working for the beerment of our village. Contact: [email protected] 01553 674382

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The 2017 Fenman Classic bike show was our biggest show ever and over its twenty nine years of taking place in the village of Wimbotsham it has raised a fantasc £125,000 all for local charies. This year we are donang a total of £10,000 to local charies and we are very pleased that we are able donate £1000 to the East Anglia Air Ambulance. The Fenman classic bike show commiee work hard throughout the year to organize this one day event which is held in Wimbotsham on the August bank holiday Monday each year. The connued support and cooperaon from the people from the village has contributed to this very successful annual event and the £125,000 raised for the local charies over the last twenty nine years. This year 2018 will be our thireth year which is quite a milestone to reach from it's humble beginnings.

To us the Fenman commiee the local charies and the EAAA are all vital to the wellbeing of the community we all live in and we look forward to this year being another successful show and being able to connue making much needed donaons to the charies we support.

In the picture standing on the right is the chairman Jonathan Soames Waring. Centre is Mary Dunn EAAA fund raiser and on the le is Grant Coerell (Fenman commiee) . 7 your Wimbotsham May 2018 Droning On! One Thursday in January …

Enjoying the rare moments of sunshine in the garden with the family at the weekend and we had an uninvited guest.

A drone appeared and hovered, just above our garden, maybe 40 or so. There it sat buzzing away for 20 minutes!! The machine had a camera on it and it made me wonder a lile. Instead of geng upset with it and having my rant at a piece of plasc posted on social media, who was flying this? Was it a child’s new toy and just being nosey? Was it a nosey neighbour? A peeping tom? A paedophile? From maybe an innocent fly past, I started thinking the worst and was quite sure what I would do if I found them. 20 minutes is a long me to be in one place…. Hovering. There are laws in place to deal with people who obviously have no social awareness or common courtesy.

Maybe we could ask for people to have some consideraon? See opposite:

Wimbotsham Methodist Church 18 Chapel Lane PE34 3QH

A Warm Welcome to all who wish to join us for Worship in Chapel Lane. Services 11am each Sunday Bible Study: every 2nd Tuesday 10.30 —12noon All welcome For details contact Don Gates: 01366 383031

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Wimbotsham Methodist Church 144th Anniversary Service June 3rd 2018 11am —12noon Our little chapel was opened in 1894 with additions being made in 1896 in the form of a Sunday School. We have served Wimbotsham village community for over 100 years and in need of your support to help keep our church alive

9 your Wimbotsham May 2018 Wimbotsham hosts lunch for: Easter Sunday East Anglian Road Run

st On Sunday 1 April 2018 the NVTEC–EA Group held their annual vintage tractor road run. We set off from Bryan and Julie Beba’s at , so we must thank them for the kind use of their superb facilies. This year David Askew and Peter Thorpe had organised the route so a big thank you to them both. It was a great ride round and there was even a couple of roads I had never been down, and I have lived around here for over 37 years so well done. My good friends Richard and Anola along with Peter Thorpe and myself were the stewards. Stephen Watson from the Vaporizing magazine came along for the first me to photograph the day but unfortunately Peter Love could not make it in the end as he had to cover the Naonal road run. I must say a massive thank you to all involved for turning out as luckily by the me we had a cup of tea and coffee it had just about stopped raining and hardly rained anymore. However, it had certainly been a wet trip for everybody to get to us and rather cold to say the least, so thank you all. We set off as always at 10.30am travelling through , , Tilney Cum Islington, St Germans, Magdalen, Watlington, Saddlebow and then stopping off at the Chequers

10 your Wimbotsham May 2018 Pub at Wimbotsham near for a great Sunday lunch. We must thank them for having us; They were great and so was the food and service so thank you. Aer a nice relaxed lunch, we set back off through Stow Bridge, across to , Hungate and back to new village hall where we stopped for aernoon tea and again were all accepted and looked aer. Leaving the hall just before 4.00pm we headed back up Trinity Road back to Walpole Highway and then back down Lynn Road to Bryan’s, arriving back about 4.30pm. Peter Thorpe thanked everybody for coming and then presented Ken Baily with the trophy for the most money raised, £185.00, beang Malcolm Bush by just £4.00 so very well done to you both. You could also say that Ken also deserved a trophy for travelling two and half hours from Essex just to aend but either way just amazing.

Tractors Raise £1,703.00

Everybody managed to get loaded up and away safely by 5.30pm at the end of a very enjoyable day, raising money for the East Anglian Air Ambulance and we raised a massive £1,703.00 so Thank you all. Gordon Carson NVTEC-EA

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13 your Wimbotsham May 2018 Another Norfolk Hero Remembered By Bernard Mullin Commemorating the 90 th . Anniversary of the death of PC George William Gutteridge Born in Wimbotsham1889 – Murdered in Stapleford Abbotts , Essex 1927 George William Gueridge was a true Norfolk man and born in Wimbotsham near Downham Market in 1889. Without a father, he started work very young to support his mother, working for a variety of employers in the area including John “Johnny” Vince Long. A patrioc man, he was also a reservist with the local detachment of the Norfolk Regiment in tandem with his occupaonal dues. When he came of age, a new career began with the Essex County Constabulary only interrupted by compleng his Naonal Service as an instructor at a military training camp in the north of unl the end of World War One when he resumed his police dues unl his needless and early death at the age of 38. He is buried at Lorne Road Cemetery in Warley, Brentwood, Essex and a roadside memorial was erected in 1990 near to where he was murdered. He was a brave and tenacious Policeman reflecng his Norfolk roots; his sacrifice being further commemorated last year by the raising of a Bronze Memorial Plaque within St. Mary the Virgin, the Parish Church of Stapleford Abbos during which Norfolk and Essex Constabularies joined to remember a brave colleague. The Ultimate Price of Bravery. PC George William `Bill` Gueridge was on his way home in the early hours of Tuesday 27 th . September 1927 aer meeng his colleague PC Sydney Taylor at their conference point to discuss anything which may be of mutual interest in their Police dues. On that lonely and misty village road in Stapleford Abbos Essex, cars were a rarity and it was certainly unusual to see one travelling at night, but through the heavy mist PC Gueridge saw car headlamps approaching. Raising his hand stop the car, his suspicions were raised as the car went right past him. PC Gueridge blew his whistle and the car came to a halt. As he approached the car he saw two men sing in the front who, unknown to him were known London criminals who had just stolen the car, a Blue Morris Cowley belonging to a local doctor from Billericay. Aer he had had briefly quesoned them using the light of his electric torch which he put back in his pocket, he bent forward and was in the process of taking down some details using the offside headlamp beam of the car to illuminate his pocket book when two shots in quick succession broke the sll of the night. One of the men in the car had produced a heavy calibre (45.5) 14 Webley service revolver of the type used in the great war and shot PC Gueridge twice in the le side of his face at almost point - blank range. As the policeman lay bleeding heavily and dying, the men went over to him and shot him twice again with one bullet in each eye at point-blank range killing him instantly in the misguided and unproved belief that the eyes held the last vision before death. It was over four hours before the lifeless body of PC Gueridge was found by the mail bag delivery driver, Alec Ward. His murder caused naonal and internaonal outrage because of the brutality of the act, iniang a huge manhunt which, by the following May saw the killers, Leo Browne and William Kennedy go to the gallows resulng from ballisc evidence in the form of a cartridge case found in the stolen car and at the scene of the murder, where two bullets were dug out of the road by a very observant policeman with a third being retrieved during the subsequent post-mortem ; a first in Brish judicial history where this kind of evidence conclusively linked the killers to the crime and convicted them. The lack of communicaons in rural areas and the difficules Alec Ward experienced in placing a call to the emergency services immediately aer the murder came under the spotlight of the coroner and the authories who acted, soon aer this terrible murder to ensure that all emergency calls would be put through without queson or payment and so, the 999 Emergency call system was now in it`s infancy, resulng from the murder of PC Gueridge but sadly not brought into full use unl 1937 aer five women died in a fire in Wimpole Street in London. A commemoraon of the 90 th . anniversary of the death of PC George William Gueridge took place at St. Mary the Virgin, Parish Church of Stapleford Abbos, Essex on Saturday the 23 rd . September at 11am. during Harvest Fesval Celebraons. This commemoraon was very well aended including senior police officers and representaves from the Police Memorial Trust with a wreath being laid by a representave of NARPO The Naonal Associaon of rered Police Officers with all present remembering a true Norfolk man. Copyright, Bernard Mullin,

15 your Wimbotsham May 2018 Recreation Ground The midsummer Fayre you could dash Recreaon Ground Tree To help support us raising cash So come along support us please So we can sort our poor old tree!

Steve

Photography Compeon The sun is out! What beer me to get your camera or smart 'phone out take some pictures and win some money! We have extended the "Wimbotsham in Spring" photography compeon to May 31st in order to give you the opportunity to make the most of this lovely season. The idea is to take some pictures that show Wimbotsham at its best in Springme. The possibilies are on Sunday morn we came to see Our endless...the sky, flowers that are just friend bob to climb our tree It needs a coming into bloom, insects that are now trim, he said quite plain It’s shade is showing off aer the cold winter, the causing the school some pain. blossom on the trees...whatever you think reflects Spring. So up he went his saw in hand And cut There are three age groups. Under 8, off branches soon did land Upon the under 16 and 16 plus. First prize will be ground and quite close too Where we awarded £35.00, second prize is £15.00 watched just going ooh! and third prize will be £5.00 in each age category. The winner of each category Then bob said in voice quite so Your will also be given a framed photograph trees a mess the wood is off The tree is and the images will be displayed in Mr bad the wood quite roen It reaches all Bees window in Downham Market. the way down to the boom Please send your images to :- So now the tree has got to go To make it [email protected] safe costs cash we know So now we hope Don't forget to include you name, age to raise the funds it must be cut down to and a telephone number we can the grounds contact you on. Good Luck and get snapping!

16 your Wimbotsham May 2018 On Sunday morning the car park had the Playground Maintenance big holes filled by local residents and helper Dave and Dean who donated 2 tons of gravel and their me to help out the recreaon grounds needs.

Geng stuck in to some hard gra

With the clocks going forward and the sun coming out, this month saw commiee members making a start on playground maintenance. First job was to replace the seats on the see saw followed by a safety check.

Big thanks to them!

But its not all work and no play!

Next on the list was to clear up the rubbish that had been le, followed by the making safe of the goalpost net Keep an eye on our facebook page hooks. Ongoing works will include barrier Steve Mingay: Chairman installaon in the car park and general 01366 384063 maintenance. [email protected]

17 18 your Wimbotsham May 2018 Midsummer Fayre Saturday 23rd June Midday to Early Evening

Calling all UNICORN lovers! Always be yourself unless you can be a Unicorn then always be a sparkling, gliering magical Unicorn. We are so happy to tell you that at this years Midsummer Fayre there will be that most magical of creatures for you to see...our very own Unicorn. How wonderful is that? Don't miss out on the chance to see for yourself. Who hasn't wanted to see a Unicorn just once in their life? Exactly! So, make your day, and ours, special by coming along to The Midsummer Fayre and seeing for yourself. You know it will be a magical moment! Keep a look out nearer the date you will see our Unicorn posters around the village giving you even more Volunteers Needed For The Day informaon. We could always do with a few extra pairs of hands on the day. It takes quite As well as our wonderful Unicorn event a bit of work to get everything set up we will have some great bands and solo and the stalls manned during the day. If arsts for you to listen to and dance you have a couple of hours to spare that along with, an excellent variety of stalls would be great .If you can help with the to browse and buy their unique gis, set-up be there for 9am and if you can some fab acvies for the younger ones, help during The Fayre itself please be a raffle with some super prizes, beer there for 11.30. It might be giving us a cider and other thirst quenching drinks hand with the BBQ, helping out in he and food to keep you going through the beer tent or the tea tent. Something day. along those lines. Thank you and we It is a fun day out for family and friends. hope to see you there on the day. Please do come along and enjoy a brilliant day the Wimbo way!

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20 your Wimbotsham May 2018 Home-Start Norfolk ‘Helping Children, Changing Lives’

Home-Start Norfolk offers, support, friendship and praccal help to parents with young children across Norfolk

Time to spare? Perhaps you could become a Volunteer. Volunteers come from all walks of life. They are recruited for their friendli- ness, praccal approach and understanding, and are matched with families aer compleng an accredited preparaon course. Is this you?

To find out more about a course running in your locality: Call: 01603 977040 or Email [email protected]

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22 your Wimbotsham May 2018 CPRE Norfolk Alliance

CPRE Norfolk is our county branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. With so much countryside in Norfolk there is always plenty to do in trying to ensure development is appropriate to its proposed locaon, as well as other aspects such as protecng our dark skies and tranquillity. Having said this, CPRE Norfolk is not against development per se , as we appreciate the need for more housing in parcular, especially when it’s meeng real need, such as that for affordable homes in villages, enabling local people to live near their families and employment, or for example for rered residents wanng to downsize.

Across Norfolk our Local Authories have Local Plans in place which have already allocated sites for sufficient new housing, given current and historic build rates, to last for over 20 more years of construcon, and yet many more sites are being added into new and emerging plans. CPRE Norfolk’s calling for a common sense approach to be used for these new sites, which is for these only to be built-out once the vast majority of sites in exisng plans are completed. This will mean that the most appropriate sites will be built first, providing homes where they are more needed, rather than allowing more of our precious countryside’s greenfield sites to be lost to unnecessary development. This is more likely to happen as developers understandably prefer to build on sites which will give them the highest returns, which oen means aracve rural sites. Instead, we urge Councils to adopt policies which ensure that exisng sites are built out first, thus denying the opportunity to cherry-pick the most profitable sites, which are not likely to provide the homes which are most needed in the most suitable locaons.

This approach has already gained the support of 142 Parish and Town Councils across Norfolk, as they have signed a pledge to this effect. With threats of unplanned development increasing, parcularly when Councils are unable to demonstrate a 5 year supply of land for housing, as well as those new sites coming on stream in the emerging Local Plans, we hope that more Parish and Town Councils will sign our pledge. A full list of the signatories to date is available on our website at: hp://www.cprenorfolk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/ Alliance-Pledge-Signatures.pdf along with further details of our organisaon, which is a registered charity, and our other work and campaigns at: hp:// www.cprenorfolk.org.uk/ If your village or town has not signed yet, please consider asking your Council to do so. I can be contacted at the email address below and can also provide advice on other planning issues.

Michael Rayner, CPRE Norfolk Planning Campaigns Consultant, [email protected]

23 your Wimbotsham May 2018 Whatever the weather , fun is in the air at the Magpie Centre, home of West Norfolk Riding for the Disabled Associaon, as we prepare for an acon-packed programme in the coming months.

Come and join us on Sunday June 10, for a sponsored Fun Run and Walk in the lovely grounds of Wallington Hall, South Runcton PE33 0EP. (On the A10, three miles north of Downham Market).

This event is organised by King’s Lynn Rotary Club, and proceeds will be divided between West Norfolk RDA and Norfolk Accident Rescue Service (NARS). Parcipants, £10 each, under-10’s FREE, but must be accompanied by an adult, need to register by June 1. For registraon and sponsorship forms, visit www.trinityrotarykingslynn.co.uk or email [email protected] . Refreshments, including a BBQ, will be available throughout the event.

And make a note in your diary to visit the Magpie Centre Open Day, scheduled for Sunday June 24, 11 am – 2 pm, also at Wallington Hall. This is your chance to meet our horses and ponies,Many enjoy hands riding and make carriage lightdriving work!displays, and to enjoy pony rides and a variety of games. Admission is free, there’s plenty of parking, and again our famous BBQ, featuring locally-sourced produce, will be in aendance. No dogs except service dogs allowed.

Horse owners have a chance to strut their stuff at the Magpie Centre Open Horse show on Sunday July 1. Acvies include: Dressage; In Hand and Ridden Showing, including Equifest qualifiers; Show Jumping and Handy Pony Games. Schedules are available from tack and feed shops, and from the Magpie Centre, or you can download a schedule from www.horsedates.co.uk

Finally, we come to our star aracon, the Cra and Country Fair, to be held at Wallington Hall on Sunday August 19, 10 am to 5 pm by kind permission of Mr and Mrs J Plaxton. This really does offer something to interest everyone, with a massive indoor Art and Cra Fair, plus vintage vehicle parades, carriage driving displays, birds of prey, trade stands, pony rides, food outlets and a licensed bar, plus a flypast by one of the few remaining Lancaster bombers. Admission, which includes parking, is £5.00 per person (under 5’s free) or save money with a family cket. No dogs allowed, except service dogs. For exhibitor, catering unit and trade stand details, call 01553 672756.

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“WEST NORFOLK WINS”

Big news from the Magpie Centre, home of West Norfolk Riding for the Disabled, is that we have signed up as one of the first beneficiaries of the newly-launched West Norfolk Wins loery.

West Norfolk Wins (WNW), is the Borough Council of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk’s way of benefing all West Norfolk charies. A launch presentaon took place at King’s Lynn Town Hall on March 20, at which Elizabeth Nockolds, Deputy Leader of BCKLWN introduced the scheme to representaves of more than 40 charies, including West Norfolk RDA.

The loery will benefit good causes based in West Norfolk, with 60p from every £1 cket sold going to charies, voluntary organisaons and other good causes, as compared with 28p for the Naonal Loery Players of WNW can win £25,000 per month, plus smaller prizes. At the me of wring, ckets were scheduled to go on sale from April 17, with the first draw planned for May 26.

To play, just go online and visit: www.westnorfolkwins.co.uk or call 01553 341414, which is the Council’s WNW department. Then choose your beneficiary: we suggest West Norfolk Riding for the Disabled. Well, we would, wouldn’t we? Payment can be by Direct Debit or card payment for one, three or six months at a me. For your security, Gatherwell, which runs the loery, does not store bank details. All payments are securely audited, using SafePay. No paper ckets are issued, but players receive an email, confirming their numbers, or a leer, if they are not online.

Once the loery is up and running, WNRDA will have a page, whose dashboard will keep supporters updated with how their cash is supporng us. Make no mistake, the more supporters WNRDA can rely on, the beer we can project our income, and so plan for a really bright future.

And, making the jump from the digital to the terrestrial, the Magpie Centre is in urgent need of paddock maintenance volunteers, especially on Mondays. Therefore, if you fancy whizzing around the paddocks in a buggy, with a friend, geng lots of exercise and fresh air, plus helping a very worthwhile cause, just call the Magpie Centre on 01553 810202.

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Village Hall What’s On

Monday: 8:00pm – 9:30pm Ouse Washes Molly Dancers (Phil on 07878000175/01328701254) Tuesday: 5.30pm & 7.30pm Slimming World (Cat 07848834567)

Wednesday: 10.00am—12pm Tai Chi (Rob James 01366 384641)

5.30pm – 8:30pm Jazzercise (Hilary on 07909 282165) Thursday: Aucon—last Thursday of the month. Marie Thompson on 07796 992518)

Friday: 2:00pm – 4:00pm Short mat bowls (Mrs Pat Griggs on 384534) Saturday: 8.30am – 10:30am Jazzercise Sunday: 10.30am The Branch Church

Village Hall Hire Fees The current hiring fees for the hall are as follows:

General Hire £8 per hour Parishioners £6 per hour Children & adult party prices on request

A refundable damages deposit of £50 is required for all adult pares.

Contact: Jillian Clark, 01366 382846. [email protected]

Ryston runs through Wimbotsham

On Thursday 5 July you might noce a sudden increase in the number of runners in the village. This is because members of Runners will be taking part in their annual Hancock 5 mile club event. It is staged in honour of one of the club’s founder members, Bob Hancock, the mul-terrain course starts and finishes at the Federaon Sports Club in Lynn Road, Downham Market, and takes in roads and lanes around Wimbotsham. So, if you see the runners don’t be afraid to give them a cheer!

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Your local Taxi Service Phone: 01366 510810 www.gandmtaxis.com

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