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USEFUL FACTS & NUMBERS Page POLICE Contents (non emergency) 101 Useful Facts And Numbers 2 ROADS, PAVEMENTS AND STREET What’s On In & Around Gnosall LIGHTING ISSUES 3 report online at: Regular Meetings This Month www.staffordshire.gov.uk/reportit 3 Village Voice 4 STREETSCENE Healthy Walks (litter and dog mess) 01785 619401 5 Ministry Matters Cover 5 Bikers On GNOSALL SURGERY St Lawrence Church News The Old Railway Line 01785 822220 6 By Bob Colman The Gnosall Parish News GROSVENOR CENTRE 6 Letters & Announcements 01785 822685 7 Community Choir GNOSALL VILLAGE HALL 7 Gnosall Catholic News 01785 823303 (L Malone) 8 Phoenix Club VET - SHIRES VETERINARY PRACTICE 8 01785 823713 Charity Quiz Night Grosvenor Centre or emergency only Eccleshall 850218 9 Gnosall Jambusters WI Food Market First Responders 9 (Page 12) PEST CONTROL - STAFFORD Table Top & Car Boot Sale BOROUGH COUNCIL 9 Gnosall Methodist Church 0845 505 7378 10 Quotation Of The Month STAFFORD RECYCLING CENTRE 10 Gnosall Parish Council 11 St Alban’s Road - Opening Times First Responders Every Day 9am to 5pm 12 (Except over the Christmas Period) M.O.B. Gardening Club Close: Christmas Day, Boxing Day, 13 Royal British Legion New Years Day 14 Newport Music Club VE Day Celebrations (Page 16) EMERGENCY SERVICES 14 Ask The Old Geek 15 • Police: Newport Music Club Telephone 999 in emergency where 16 there is a danger to life or a crime is in Macmillan Cancer Support progress. 16 Housing Shortage Telephone 101 for non - emergencies 17 where police attendance is required, to Towpath Restoration report any other incidents. Call to 101 18 Gnosall Heritage Group have a fixed cost of 15p per call. 19 • Fire & Rescue Service: 0300 330 1000 Gnosall Ladies Running Club Towpath Restoration • Ambulance HQ: 01785 253521 20 (Page 18) • Electricity: 0800 6783105 or 105 Gnosall Library Whats On 20 • Water: 0800 7834444 Gnosall Writers • Gas: 0800 111999 20 Gnossword HOSPITALS 21 Allotments & Gardens Association 21 • County Hospital ( Stafford ): Jambusters WI Report 01785 257731 22 • Cannock Chase: 01543 572757 Index of Advertisements 22 • St George’s: 01785 257888 Local Food Services • University Hospital of North 23/24 GLRC Staffordshire: 01785 715444 Local Trade Services (Page 20) 25/43 Gnosall Photographers 44 2 REGULAR MEETINGS • Gnosall Memorial Village Hall Committee What’s On In & Around Gnosall ? Meeting - 3rd Tuesday of the month. Contact Mags Yeo on 01785 822862 for details. All welcome. DATE March • Newport Chess Club every Thursday at 7.30pm at the Royal British Legion Audley 1 Table Top and Car Boot Sale GMVH 9.00am Road Newport, call Daniel on 01785 82332 • Gnosall Lions 7.30pm, Fire station 1st Monday 1 Healthy walk Norbury Village Hall CP 10.30m in the month • Gnosall Handbell Ringers Grosvenor Centre 3 RBL GMVH 8.00pm Tuesdays 8.00 - 10.00 p.m. Contact 822592 4 Jambusters AGM + show and tell session • Bowling Monday 3pm, at Gnosall Village Hall also Thursday 3pm and 7pm 6 Phoenix Club morning • Bingo Friday 7.30pm at Village Hall • Bridge at the Grosvenor Wednesday 7.20pm 7 Library Family History Seminar 12.30- 5pm contact Pat & John on 824203, • Phoenix at Grosvenor Friday 10am -12noon 7 Quiz night Grosvenor centre 7.30pm • Gnosall Players, 7.45pm Tuesdays at the Youth Club Cabin, Grosvenor Centre. 10 Library Baby Bounce 11am • Healthy Walking Group Wednesday & Sunday 10.30am 11 Healthy walk Allotment Car Park, Gnosall 10.30am • Military Whist, Grosvenor Centre 7.30pm 11 Library Reading cafe 3.15pm Wednesday Starts at 7.45pm Contact Hilda 824984 11 Military Whist 7,30pm Grosvenor Centre • U3A Newport. Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the month at the Royal British 13 Phoenix Talk “My Life in Glass, (decorative glasswork)” Legion Club, Audley Road, Newport. • Gnosall Painting Group Friday afternoon 14 Newport Music Club Beethoven 7.30pm Cosy Hall Newport sessions 1.30pm – 3.30pm at the Methodist Church. contact Carol Perry tel.824917 17 Library Employment Advice 10.15am • Gnosall Toddler group Every Thursday 9.30- 11.30 School Room in the Methodist Church 17 MOB Garden Society Woodland Trust talk 7.30pm Moreton MC Contact 07816 100 068 20 Phoenix Club morning • Church Bell Ringers Practice Friday evenings from 7.30-9pm at St. Lawrence & ring at 21 Charity quiz night Grosvenor centre 7.30pm 9.45am most Sundays. Contact Phil on 07913 757512 23 Scout & Guides HQ meeting 6pm • Gnosall Jambusters WI 1st Wednesday in the month GMVH 7.30pm 24 Healthy walk Seighford 10.30am • Gnosall Grosvenor Youth Club – GG’s Youth Club is open on Wednesday Evenings 24 Library Baby Bounce 11am 6 -7.30pm for Children in School Years 4, 5 & 6 and 7.45 - 9.15pm for Children in School 26 Scout & Guides HQ meeting 6pm Years 7, 8 & 9. The Youth Club Building is 26 Military Whist 7,30pm Grosvenor Centre located behind the Grosvenor Centre, contact Jordan on 07715 392345 for any information. 27 Phoenix Talk “Stafford Morris Dancers” • Royal British Legion Gnosall Memorial Village Hall 1st Tuesday in month 28 Library Board Games 10.5am • Gnosall Art Class, Gnosall Grosvenor Centre, Thursday 7 pm – 9 pm 28 Folk Concert with Winter Wilson Moreton MC • Bradley Mixed Media Art Class, Bradley Village Hall, Mondays 10 am – 12 noon. For further 31 Cuttlestones Antique Road Show St Lawrence Church 7.30pm details contact: Debbie Chatfield, 01785 781075 or 07727216523; April debs@ debbiechatfield.co.uk • Newport Photographic Club every Tuesday at 1 Jambusters Toy Making 7.45pm Baptist Church, Water Lane Newport more information at 4 Jambusters Food & Craft Market GMVH 10am www.newportphotoclub.com • Tea and Toast - a drop in at St Lawrence’s 11 Dandy Duo Moreton MC Church vestry for a cup of tea and toast be tween 8.45 and 9.30am every Tuesday in May term time. • The Friday night youth groups at Gnosall 9 VE Day Celebrations Moreton MC 6.45pm Methodist Church are now enrolling. The junior club is on from 6.15-7.45pm. 9 Line Dance Social GMVH 8pm The senior club is for young people in years 9, 10 and 11 and doors open 8-9.30pm CONTRIBUTIONS • The opening hours of Gnosall Community Contributions for the GPN must be received by the 15th of each month by 5pm for inclusion in the Library are: Monday 4:00 - 6:30 pm Tuesday next edition, please send details to the Editor. 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Wednesday 3:00 - 7:00 pm Thursday 2 - 4pm Saturday 10:00 am EDITOR - Joyce Rowe Tel: 822579 email: [email protected] - 12:30 pm phone No. 01785 895750 DESIGN & PRINT PRODUCTION - Keith Kinsella Tel: 0772 512 6333 • Gnosall Singers Wednesdays 10.30 to 12.30 DISTRIBUTION - Bob Colman, Holly House, The Rank. Tel: 823955. Methodist Hall. ADVERTISEMENTS - Kathleen Ingram, Gnosall. Tel: 822082 email: [email protected] Contact Anne Robotham, Tel: 01785 822423 WEBSITE - Bob Alker - www.gnosallparishnews.com • Gnosall Over 55s Friendship Group 2nd TREASURER & CHAIRMAN - Pat Tweed. Tel: 822523 email: [email protected] Wednesday of the month 2.00 - 3.30pm Community Rooms Impstones. Tel: 0800 111 4554 3 Traffic Lights or Roundabouts ? aybe I am getting a little bit too old with too Mmuch time to think things through but, has anybody else noticed how many sets of traffic lights there are between The Royal Oak Gnosall and the B&Q DIY store in Stafford ? NO ? Well I can tell you that there are – two sets (P) in the village, one near the Royal Oak and one at Bank Top near the School, one set in the village of Haughton (P), one set at Stafford Castle, one set at Highfields, By Keith Kinsella one set at the Shoe Shed (P), one set on the Railway Bridge, one set at Tesco, one set outside Couture night club (P), one set outside the Grapes, three sets on the Island and one set at Smile Style the Dentist. That’s a total of fourteen sets of traffic lights, a potential for stopping and starting my little car a total of fourteen times on the way to B&Q. Just think if we were to replace all these traffic lights with roundabouts what we could potentially be saving : - How much fuel we would save not having to keep stopping and starting. How much we could save on the wear and tear of our cars. How much of our time we would be saving (giving us more thinking time of course). How much electricity we could be saving the council by not having to power all these traffic lights. How much money we would save on the maintenance of all these traffic lights. And how much we would be saving in greenhouse gases that are contributing to the depletion of the Ozone Layer and making our climate change for ever. And just think if we were to replace all the traffic lights with roundabouts how much easier it would be for me and the other entire road users to get to B&Q without having to stop at every lamppost ! Has somebody in the council offices bought shares in a traffic light company ? CONTRIBUTIONS Yours truly, “Contributions to this page are welcome from all members of the community.” Keith Kinsella Please send copy and any photographs to: (P) Pelican crossing lights. the Editor Joyce Rowe, email: [email protected] tel: 01785 822579 4 Think................... we were asked what was the most powerful muscle in our If bodies I doubt that the first one we would think of is our tongue. I read about a woman who had a very serious throat condition. The doctor told her that her vocal cords needed total rest.