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June 2012 VOLUME NO: 05 ISSUE: 06 ------------------- COMPLIMENTARY Value £1.30 FREE indoor entertainment section 5th Birthday Issue Sponsored by: MB SERVICE CENTRE We are celebrating Our 5th Birthday. See our timeline journey from Rainworth Reporter, Blidworth focus, Mansfield Village Voices to the Sherwood Community Newsletter Independent Mercedes-Benz delivered to homes and businesses across the area. LOCAL SERVICE & See page 22 ….. REPAIR CENTRE Specialised MB Technicians Blidworth Under 10’s FC, can they do the Over 30 Years MB Experience triple? Surely not........................ Genuine Mercedes-Benz Parts Free Collection & Delivery So Blidworth Air Conditioning (our service centre is Welfare Under 10’s fully EC F gas certified) managed to defeat some of the best Tel: 01623 teams in 792948 Nottinghamshire on their journey to the mbservicecentremansfield.co.uk final of the Notts Leach Way, Burma Road, Blidworth. Shield FA Knock Out Competition. Vernon Park was undefeated for over CARPET Bargain Centre a season and so our boys arrived for the match, away from home, with some trepidation…….. Read the full story of our how one of our local football teams fought the odds to make it through and win See page 9 for the story behind the: winners of the Nott’s FA Shield & the “Best Team in Nottinghamshire”. Distribution to 50,000 Sherwood Residents in Blidworth, Ravenshead, Rainworth, Farnsfield, Edingley, Halam, Bilsthorpe, Edwinstowe. Information site online at: www.sherwoodcommunitynewsletter.wordpress.com The Editor. Tel: 01623 795623/07916 245 367 Email: [email protected] 2 Hello from The Sherwood Inside this issue: Newsletter Editor: Diane Carter and Introductions & Invitation to Get Involved 2 Sub Editor: Andy Jones both local residents with local businesses! News and Information 4-6 Our Young and Our Future 8-9 HI and Welcome to the June edition of The Sherwood - YOUR local community newsletter here to offer you up to date news, Looking Good & Feeling Great in 2012 10 - 12 information and events in your area. What’s on in the Sherwood Area 10-16 By the time you probably receive this you will be enjoying your Diamond Jubilee Weekend and please send us your village/street Countdown to the Olympics 17 - 18 party photos for printing in the next edition. Also not long now until FREE Indoor entertainment section 19 - 22 the Olympics and see our Torch Relay Route on page 16 I am very excited as I have 2 tickets for the Olympics semi final House and Home 24 - 25 athletics so I will be hitting London soon. I won't be staying Marathon Media; Building Local 26 - 29 overnight - I think most hotels may have tripled their prices so be Businesses hopping on the train. The sun is at last shining so I hope you get the chance to get out your sunbed, rub on the protective cream and sit outside to read The Rainworth Reporter 30 - 31 this edition of the Sherwood Community Newsletter our 5th The Blidworth Focus 32 - 35 Anniversary Celebratory edition. Still a long way to match the Ravenshead News 36 Queen with 60 years but never one to hide from a challenge. The Village Voices 37 Have a lovely June and see you in July. Strengthening Communities 38 Enjoy! Diane Carter, Editor Sports, Last minute news & Emergency 39 No.s Advertise with The Sherwood from only £35! GREAT VALUE AND IT WORKS! DELICIOUS MENUS FROM £2.75 After all we have been here for 5 Years Special Event in 2012/2013? supported by many advertisers right from the start! That is evidence it works! Function Rooms FREE Hire Don't take risks with your marketing budget -use an advertising outlet that has proven results! 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Tel: 01623 797975 Edited, Produced and Distributed by MARATHON MEDIA 3 Competition Win tickets for the Southwell Racecourse Family Fun day on Sunday July 15th There are 2 adults tickets which will admit a family (as children under 18 are free) Family Fun Day at Southwell Racecourse is a cracking day out for the whole family. With Rastamouse and free entertainment including a large bouncy castle, soft play area with inflatable surround and more for the Kids, and exhilarating Horse Racing and Girls Alouder and the Saturdayz tribute acts for the big kids. This event is sure to be a great day for all ages. It may look harmless, Phylloppertha Horticola, or the Garden Best of all, Kids under 18 Go FREE! Chafer, is capable of causing enormous harm to your lawn’s health The Beetles mate in May and June, laying their eggs within a couple of weeks. The resulting Chafer Grubs feast on the roots Question: Which famous children’s character is of your grass, killing the lawn from within, and also attract foraging predators such as birds, hedgehogs and foxes, who dig to feed on the grubs, causing further damage. coming to Southwell Family Fun Day? Four Seasons Lawn Care are experts in lawn care and pest control. We will apply a special professional treatment to your grass at the appropriate time, attacking the Chafer pest when it Answers by email to: [email protected] is at its most vulnerable stage. The treatment will also safely inoculate your lawn against the Chafer threat for up to 12 months. Act now to protect your lawn’s health and or text 07916 245 367 appearance for the summer... Closing date is nd Friday 22 June 2012 Credit & Debit Cards Now Accepted 4 Sherwood News and Information Mark Spencer MP Sherwood Update The Government launched a campaign to highlight the risks of undiagnosed lung cancer, urging people to go and see their GP if they have had a cough for more than three weeks. It is one of the horrors of modern life that cancer touches so many of our lives, whether directly or by affecting our loved ones. This summer I will be riding (I want to say attempting but let’s stay positive) 170 miles for Breast Cancer Research. If you would like to increase the pressure by upping the sponsorship, you can send a cheque made payable to “The Strawberry Ball” to my office: Under One Roof, 3a Vine Terrace, Hucknall, Notts, NG15 7HN which would be received with grateful thanks. I want to support this charity because research and early diagnosis are so important, something which was really brought home to me recently when I was contacted by a constituent, whose best friend was told by her GP that she could not have a smear test because she was only 22. She had to go to a private clinic for the test and has since been diagnosed with cervical cancer, has undergone a hysterectomy and is enduring a course of intense chemotherapy and radiotherapy. While incidences of cervical cancer among young women under 25 are rarer than for those in their late twenties, they are by no means freak occurrences, and my constituent put me in touch with the Mercedes Curnow Foundation, a charity calling for a reduction in the age of smear tests in England from 25 to 20 in line with the rest of the UK, following the death of Mercedes at 23 from cervical cancer. I was delighted to join them recently to hand in their petition of over 120,000 signatures to Downing Street (see photo). I have also written to the Rt Hon Andrew Lansley MP, Minister for Health, highlighting the refusal of some GPs to perform smear tests on women below the age of 25, and to encourage a positive ‘opt-in’ policy for women aged between 20 and 25. I completely understand that the need for universal testing for those aged between 20 and 25 may not be borne out by statistics, but what has horrified me not just as a politician but as a husband and a father, is that a young woman who was taking an active interest in her health, was refused a simple test by her GP which might have saved her the trauma and anguish of having to undergo a hysterectomy at 22. I am not persuaded by arguments that the procedure or possible ‘false positives’ are so traumatic that women in their early twenties should be denied the opportunity to allay their fears, and I do feel that the Government must be clear as to why the test is available to women in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland at 20 but their English neighbours must wait another five years. Broad-brush politics is rarely positive and I am not proposing universal testing for under 25 year olds, but I do feel that the ramifications of cervical cancer, particularly when diagnosed late, are sufficiently devastating that those displaying symptoms early should not be turned away for doing the right thing. As women of this generation are so aware of the symptoms of breast cancer, I would ask you to educate yourself as to the symptoms of cervical cancer and do not assume it’s an old woman’s disease: it really could save your life.