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26th August 2017 www.nenevalleynews.co.uk facebook.com/NeneValleyNews @NeneValleyNews Telephone: 01522 513515 We want to hear from you, so please submit your news story or event at NeneYour local independent community Valley www.nenevalleynews.co.uk newspaper for East Northamptonshire news New Indian restaurant now open in Thrapston Delivery & collection service available (Deliveries max 3 mile radius) Call to book 01832 732320 - Menu online Open: Monday to Saturday, 5:30-10pm • The Bridge Hotel, Thrapston • www.tasteofnepal.restaurant Spotlight Continued success In Brief on outdoor for the East ix-year-old activities Northamptonshire Mackenzie McCall S(pictured with College his mother Lucy and grandfather Alex) was Inside... Page 4 Page 9 presented with his new hearing microphone, costing £370, from the Unmarked HGV joins fight against Swivel Club committee. The Swivel Club registered charity dangerous driving in Northamptonshire raises funds by holding entertainment events at Drivers breaking the law on Northamptonshire’s he unmarked DAF is the The vehicle is on loan from Rushden Town Bowls country’s biggest undercover Highways England and is roads are being identified thanks to an unusual Club. To date they have Tpolice vehicle and is currently made available to police forces donated over £100,000 to police vehicle – a lorry. in action with Northamptonshire nationwide through the National local individuals and good Police’s Safer Roads Team. Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC). causes. To learn more Its elevated position enables Although magnetic placards about the Club and see officers to easily spot, record and allow it to be badged up when more pictures visit their photograph motorists breaking required, when in covert use it website www.swivelclub. road traffic laws. Drivers are then simply looks like any other heavy org.uk. pulled over to be dealt with. goods vehicle. Picture curtesy of PC David Lee, of the Safer PC Lee said: “Although this is an Steven Prouse KBO Roads Team, said: “Drivers may unmarked vehicle, we want people Photography. be tempted to look at their phone to know we are out there looking when it pings, or distracted by for dangerous and illegal driving. other things inside their vehicle, We’re being upfront about our use but when you’re driving your of it in the hope people read about attention should only be on the it and change their behaviour road. behind the wheel. “Using this lorry gives us an “We work to keep people safer ideal vantage point to see just on our roads and this lorry is a what drivers are up to behind the great way to support that aim.” wheel, and helps us take action to The penalty for using a handheld address dangerous driving on our mobile phone while driving is now county’s roads and motorways.” a £200 fine and six penalty points. 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East Northamptonshire them using the Nene Valley News to thank had flowers growing in planters, all set up by Dear Editor, Council (ENC) is sending a letter, known as local authorities for their efforts to improve Charlotte Croser, a local shopkeeper, and As a Rushden resident, I would like to a Household Enquiry Form (HEF), to every our towns. The subject of litter, which is watered by volunteers. congratulate our town council on the state of home in the district. The letter will contain mentioned by one of our correspondents, I regularly water three of these planters, one our High Street. the details of all those in the household has become a bigger nuisance and a more by the town sign and two others across the The floral arrangements, hanging baskets who are registered to vote. Residents are expensive problem for our Councils over road at the start of the Nine Arches bridge. and planters are a credit to them and their being asked to confirm that these details are the past several years with the advent of I have been most heartened (and amused) staff. Also the effort put into cleaning up the correct, either online or by text, telephone or the takeaway food culture and the general by comments made to me by passersby on litter from our streets. post. If the details on the form are incorrect, acceptance of eating in the street. For those foot or in cars: “ Good girl!”; “The flowers are Why but why do people find the need still you need to let ENC know. The quickest of us of a certain age, eating in public is beautiful!”; “You’re doing a good job!”; and to drop litter when there are ample litter bins and cheapest way to reply is online. Pre- fine as long as you are sitting where food “Keep it up!” available? paid envelopes will not be included with the is served or perhaps where a picnic can The most touching episode was when an I would like to see the fines for littering forms. be spread out, maybe even a park bench; unknown young man shouted out of his car increased, with notices displayed to this The HEF is vital for local authorities, eating on the move, in the street, does not fit window, “Lovely flowers! Get a high-vis - I’m effect. How about traffic wardens being enabling them to keep their electoral within those categories. This was a standard worried about you!” After which I followed his empowered to enforce littering fines? registers up to date. Not being registered can set for us at an early age; too often it seems instructions, and did in fact feel safer as the Philip Loakes, Rushden. affect your applications for loans, mortgages those standards have not been adopted by cars sped past close by. His parents could Disclaimer: The views and comments and even mobile phone contracts. You today’s parents and many are only too happy be proud of their son’s concern for an elderly expressed are those of the writer and not will also lose the right to have your say at to drop their litter in the street. woman watering plants by the roadside. necessarily those of the Nene Valley News. the ballot box. Steven North, Leader of There should be cause for a small Our thanks go to the Thrapston Town East Northamptonshire Council said: “The celebration this weekend as the A605 annual canvass is an essential part of local between Barnwell and Elton is unveiled in its democracy and we urge residents not to pristine resurfaced state. Thanks go to the Genealogy jottings ignore the letter when it comes through their Northants County Council Highways team door. Anyone in the household can respond for managing the repairs with what seems to hat’s in a name? Well, quite a lot if By Jan Pearson and it’s easier than ever to do so.” have been the least possible disruption. It will you are looking for a certain person Genealogy Specialists, Tracing Our Past, The requested information is required by be interesting to see how long it is before the Wand cannot find them. Then you Discovering Our Genes (TOP DOG) law and not responding or providing false heavy traffic on the road, both in the sense discover that they are using a different name www.genealogy-specialists.com information on the form can result in a £1,000 of weight and volume, chews up the new entirely! fine. For more information about the electoral surface. Perhaps it’s time for some serious One of my great aunts was always known as register visit www.gov.uk/electoral-register/ consideration of a weight restriction on this Nell. This is how she appears on the various Quite often, the eldest son was named after overview. stretch of road. censuses, in birthday books and was what his father and so you might get John junior I called her when I was a small child. Could and John senior. However, if John junior was I find her birth registration? Nope! Hardly given a second name, he may well have been 46 Cartrill Street, Raunds, NN9 6ER surprising really. When I eventually found her, known by that so as to differentiate between The Foot Clinic I discovered that her real name was Florence the two. My Grandfather was Frederick as at Mary Helen. One of her sisters I always knew well, which is why my father has always been as Ada – but this was her middle name, her known as Gerald.