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Diary dates The Villager December 4 St Mary’s Mapledurwell, Holy Dusters, 10am December 2018/January 2019 Volume 47 No 11 6 Greywell Cafe, Village Hall, The community newsletter for Mapledurwell, 3-4pm 14 Up Nately Coffee Morning, Up Nately, Newnham, Nately Scures & Greywell 10-12 noon, 2 Canalside 18 Newnham Carol Singing, Rowan The Villager would like to thank all contributors and Lodge, 6pm distributors and wish you all a happy festive season 21 Maple Carols at the pond, 6pm 21 Christmas Holiday Messy Church, Greywell Village Hall, 3-5pm January 11 Up Nately Coffee Morning, 10- 12 noon, Eastrop Cottage 12 Greywell Village Quiz Night, 7pm, Village Hall CHRISTMAS SERVICES IN THE FIVE VILLLAGES 16 Maple & Up Nately Parish Please join us for any of these special Christmas services Council Meeting, 8pm 25 Greywell Cafe, Village Hall, Saturday December 22nd 11am-12noon 5.30pm Carol Service Newnham 30 Newnham Parish Council 5.30pm Carol Service Up Nately Meeting, 7.40pm, Clubroom Sunday December 23rd Christmas Holiday Messy 4.30pm Carol Service Mapledurwell Church 5.00pm Carol Service Greywell The Unexpected Christmas Friday 21st December 3-5pm Christmas Eve Greywell Village Hall 4.30pm Crib Service Up Nately 11.30pm Midnight Communion Up Nately Christmas Day 9.30am Family Service Up Nately 9.30am Family Communion Service Mapledurwell 10.45am Holy Communion (CW) Newnham 10.45am Family Service Greywell All children of (or linked with our United Parish are most Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas welcome to join us for fun, and a peaceful New Year food and Christmas crafts.. There is no charge. For more details or to book a place, please email Rev Helen at [email protected] or speak to Rev Linda. Mapledurwell MAPLEDURWELL & UP NATELY VILLAGE HALL HIRE THE VILLAGE HALL & Up Nately Contact Caretaker Jayne Norman on 474432 Up Nately Coffee or check out the website at Mornings www.mapledurwellvillagehall.com 14th December coffee morning 10-12, will be at 2 Canalside, Mapledurwell & Up Nately Parish Council call Adele on 07967 465784 for Housing needs survey directions and information. A Report on the Housing Needs Survey for Mapledurwell & Up Nately has been 11th January coffee at Eastrop made available by Radian Housing. The survey was commissioned by Radian Cottage, call Liz on 762059 earlier in the year and received a response rate of 33% (8 online, 81 by post). We love to see everyone including Please contact [email protected] if you would new faces and children! like a copy of the Report. An emailed file can be supplied free of charge, there will be a charge to cover printing and postage for a paper copy. Congratulations! Bonfires How lovely to have a new Please show courtesy to your neighbours and care for wildlife if considering a tiny resident in our village, bonfire. congratulations to Sean and Charlotte Stephenson of St Stephens Next Parish Council meeting Close, on the birth of Rosemary! Wednesday 16th January, 8pm, Village Hall meeting room. Everyone is most welcome to attend. Mapledurwell & Up Nately Parish Planning Applications 18/02595/HSE (granted 25th October) 1 Blaegrove Cottages, Blaegrove Lane, Up Nately. Demolition of existing attached outhouses and construction Our Christingle Service will be held on of two storey side extension and single storey rear extension. Sunday, 9th December, at 4.30pm, 18/02435/FUL (pending, registered 22 August) Church Field, Land At OS and we look forward to welcoming Ref 468719 150901, St Marys Church Road, Mapledurwell. Change of use our families to this service. of land from agricultural to a dog exercise area, with associated parking and On Friday, 21st December, you are erection of a 1.8m high fence. Agreed expiry date (at time of going to press) invited to join us for Carols at the Pond at 6pm, enjoying friendship Wed 12th December. together with home made mulled Greywell application wine and mince pies, along with 18/00765/FUL (pending, registered 30 April) Dairy Complex, White Lane, a brazier to keep out the cold, Greywell RG29 1TL. Partial demolition and conversion of existing agricultural accompanied by John Maclean buildings to provide a day health spa facility. Creation of secondary access on the accordian. There will be a road, provision of car parking, landscaping and planting. To be decided by collection for the Children’s Society. Hart Planning Committee of Wednesday 12th December. Our Carol Service will be at 4.30pm Old Basing application – Moto Motorway Service Area M3 J6 on Sunday, 23rd December, and our Christmas Day Family Communion 17/03487/FUL (pending, registered 2nd November 2017) Land Adjacent To will be at 9.30am. Junction 6 M3. Construction of a new Motorway Service Area. Agreed expiry You are all very welcome to these date, at time of going to press, Thursday 31st January. If the case officer is minded to approve, the application will be decided by Development Control Christmas services. Committee. St Mary’s Holy Dusters Cleaning for this month will be on Tuesday 4th December @ 10am All are welcome Refreshments and pastries will be provided. Thank you in advance for your support – Suzie 0750 448 2838. Mapledurwell and Up Nately Quiz Night POLICE UPDATE Dear Residents Dabble in the Decades I start this month with an information appeal, at 11:48 pm on Wednesday November 21st three men broke into the grounds of a 1929 - 2019 house in Newnham Lane near the new house. At 11:50 pm that evening a car past the premises travelling nd towards Old Basing from the village. I ask if anyone Saturday 2 February 7.30pm can assist me with the car and if they know who was in it at the time. If you can help please give me a call Come and join us at direct. The men left and returned back forty minutes later where they stole a red Honda quad bike pushing it Mapledurwell and Up Nately Village Hall through the hedge onto the road. I also wish to make residents aware of two house for a fun evening of quizzing burglaries in Oakley and another near Preston Candovers, all were broken into with the intention of Bar stealing car keys and consequently two car were stolen. In another the burglar(s) have placed an article through the letter box and pulled the door handle which opened Raffle the door! this type of entry is preventable, simply inside your house place a cover over the letter box, lock the Bring your own nibbles door so even with the handle it will not open or just take the handle off and turn it around to opposite the normal way of opening, hence turn it another way to open. On many plastic external doors the letter box is in line Prize for best dressed ‘Decade’ themed table or not far from the lock and handle so please be aware that some burglars will actually place their arm through Tables of 8 preferred but smaller groups can be combined a letter box to open the door, other things I have known used include a fishing rod used to ‘catch’ keys left on the unit etc. in the hall way where people often place their Tickets £5 a head keys when they come in so they know where they are. Some burglars have actually devised a tool for opening For further information and tickets, please contact: doors from the outside using the handle on the inside by putting it through a letter box. I urge all residents to Julie Viney - Tel:476876 - [email protected] please remove keys from view and possibly take them Heather Ramsdale - Tel: 351363 - upstairs or place in a cupboard. As Christmas is approaching at an alarming speed I [email protected] wish to remind all residents to please take extra care on the security of your homes and property. In Herriard two cars were broken into during the night of Sunday Remembrance Day at Mapledurwell November 11th when the thieves used an electronic device to open secure cars and steal property from Thanks to the huge efforts by John McLean, our energetic within, please take all valuables out, we had a similar tree warden, Rememberance Day on the 11th took on crime in Brown Candover recently. an extra meaning with the planting of seeds and saplings In the February edition of this magazine I will provide a breakdown of the crime of 2018 within your parish, down by the allotments. These will be transplanted to a at the time of writing in November crime across the designated site in due course for a Rememberance copse. whole area is slightly down, that of course may be due There was a good turnout for the task and the singing from to a more increased awareness that whilst we do live Monkey House Nursery School and the sticky mud added to in a wonderful area we are very susceptible to being a the occasion. victim of crime due to our close proximity to large urban expanse and a good motorway network. We hope that the children present will one day be able to I wish you and your families a very happy and peaceful Christmas, please also don’t drink and reflect on the meaning of the project as they stand beneath drive and remember you may still be over the the canopies of the trees planted on this day. legal limit in the morning from the night before. The Police annual drink drive campaign will be starting soon and morning after drivers will also be targeted. Happy Christmas and thank you as always for your support Andy Andrew Reid, Local Constable 01256 389 050 Mob 07768 776 844 [email protected] Newnham & Nately Scures CHristmas at st niCHoLas’ Please come and join us as we celebrate Christmas in Newnham Christingle Service sunday 9th December 4.30pm Everything your family needs to make a Christingle will be available in the church before the service begins – do arrive a few minutes early to join in the fun! ‘The Story of Christmas’ Carol Service saturday 22nd December 5.30pm.