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FREE Issue 30 July 2020 Burton Joyce Scarecrow Preparing wills for over 15 years in this area Competition a huge success Members of the Institute of Professional Will Writers ee Morby DRIVING SCHOOL • Your local Bill Plant Instructor • Pass Plus registered Photo competition • Refresher & motorway lessons 8-year-old runs 65km • Discount for block bookings raising over £1200 for charity • Introductory offers for Coronavirus memorial 1st timers garden planned for Gedling • Friendly patient instructor Crematorium • Established over 15yrs The Scarecrow Competition was a huge success as Burton Joyce What’s on TV neighbours produced over 50 creative Scarecrows to be judged by councillors, raising funds for local organisations. Read more on page 4. 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CONTENTS Monthly Fact One of the most remarkable physicists of the 19th century was miller and self-taught mathematician Photo Competition 3 George Green (1793 – 1841) of Sneinton, whose 1827 essay on electricity and magnetism has 8-year-old runs 65km raising Coronavirus memorial garden Your Local News 4 been described as the beginning of over £1200 for charity planned for Gedling Crematorium mathematical physics in England. On his historic visit to Nottingham Page 6 Page 7 in 1930, Einstein paid him homage. What’s On TV 11 Green’s mathematical techniques are still regularly employed in nuclear and solid-state physics Pets 12 today. He’s buried in St. Stephen’s Churchyard, Sneinton. Business Focus 13 Monthly ha-ha Coronavirus: Everything you need What’s On TV Q. Why do seagulls fly over the to know about face masks Gardening 14 ocean? Page 9 Page 11 A. Because they can't fly under it. 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The image is titled “Another Important Train Passes Through Burton Joyce Without Stopping.” Thank you for everyone’s great submissions so far. If you would like to see your own photo published in next month’s issue then why not enter our photo competition! The photo can either be of somewhere in Calverton, Burton Joyce or the surrounding areas, or be taken anywhere by a resident of those areas. To enter email your photo/s to [email protected] and title the email ‘Calverton & Burton Joyce Photo Comp’. Please include a caption and what area you are from. 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Café also made themed cupcakes scarecrow by Karen Steven. around Burton Joyce in June... and kids goodie bags were made Over 50 Scarecrows were displayed up and sold from 70 Main Street Pictured below. Winning pirate Well don’t worry, it wasn’t a cult... around the village by 12noon and throughout the day. scarecrow by the Crawford family. It was the Burton Joyce Scarecrow judged by Trent Valley Councillors Competition! Michael Adams and Sam Smith. Crochet master Sally Fletcher- Pictured bottom: Judging commences Titterton from Burton Joyce, whose The event was organised by They said, “We were delighted to scarecrow is pictured bottom far Girlguiding leaders Emily Jephson judge the competition. It was great left, said “The scarecrow festival and her mother Jane Jephson along to see our village community come was an amazing day with a really with some other members, plus help together, whilst abiding by social nice buzz in the village, a real from the Brownies and Rainbows, distancing, and get involved with community event helping to raise in order to raise money for the the creations. much needed funds for the local Girlguiding Units in the village. “The winner was the Crawford groups. Well done to the people In early June, locals began family on Padleys Lane for the who organised it, here’s to next planning and designing their own pirate scarecrow and scene. Not year!” Scarecrows – the more bizarre the only did they make a scarecrow, Congratulations to the Crawford better! they decorated a scene with a sail, family for winning the competition flag and treasure chest!” Saturday 13th June soon came, overall and all the great runners up. and the Scarecrows were up. A There was even and ice cream Let’s hope it happens again next year! RUSHCLIFFE REMOVALS For Professional Moves • Prompt