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VILLAGER and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS The Issue 84 - April 2016 VILLAGER and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS Inside this issue Win tickets to The Battle Proms The Lace Makers Win £25 in our Prize Crossword Bringing Local Business to Local People 20,000 copies delivered to Buckden, Brampton, Cambourne, Godmanchester, The Hemingfords, Eaton Socon, Bourn, Grantchester and all surrounding villages every month Your FREEcopy Before After For all your window, door and guardian roof requirements call Tim or Karl 01480 216677 Tim Karl [email protected] www.eastanglian-group.com 2 Please mention The Villager and Town Life when responding to adverts EARL conservatory advert.indd 1 21/09/2015 15:50 e Issue 84 - April 2016 VILLAGER and Town Life LOCAL NEWS • LOCAL PEOPLE • LOCAL SERVICES • LOCAL CHARITIES • LOCAL PRODUCTS Inside this issue Win tickets to The Battle Proms The Lace Makers Win £25 in our Prize Crossword Bringing Local Business to Local People 20,000 copies delivered to Buckden, Brampton, Cambourne, Godmanchester, The Hemingfords, Eaton Socon, Bourn, Grantchester and all surrounding villages every month Your Contents FREEcopy You Choose Your Future ....................................................................... 41 Hinchingbrooke Country Park Go On, Grow Your Own! ....................................................................... 42 Bees in the Park................................................................................... 44 Fun Quiz .............................................................................................. 47 Migration Day - Paxton Pits ................................................................. 48 44 Animal Queries .................................................................................... 51 Could You Be a Life Saver? ................................................................... 52 Children’s Page .................................................................................... 55 Range Rover on Test ............................................................................ 57 Pear and Ginger Tiramisu Trifle ............................................................ 58 Puzzle Page ......................................................................................... 60 What’s On ............................................................................................ 62 CADAR ................................................................................................. 65 Citizens Advice Peterborough - Volunteering Opportunities ................ 67 The Ghostly Monks of St Neots .............................................................. 4 Bedford Race for Life ........................................................................... 68 The Lace Makers .................................................................................... 6 Prize Crossword ................................................................................... 74 Masquerade Ball at Wyboston Lakes ................................................... 10 Book Review ....................................................................................... 78 Win Tickets to the Battle Proms ........................................................... 12 Bedfordshire Young Farmers................................................................ 15 The London Marathon ......................................................................... 17 Could you be Special? .......................................................................... 18 Paxton Pits 48 It’s Time to Rethink Your Drinking Habits ............................................. 21 Schönbrunn Palace - Vienna ................................................................ 22 Spring Break........................................................................................ 24 Spring is in the Air ............................................................................... 27 Sugar: Not so Sweet and Innocent....................................................... 29 Sleep Right, Sleep Tight ...................................................................... 30 Don’t be taken in by the Pension Scammers ........................................ 32 Divorce Q&A ........................................................................................ 35 Wills for Unmarried Couples ................................................................ 37 Employment Matters .......................................................................... 38 Cheap Divorce? .................................................................................... 40 20,000 copies delivered free of charge in the following areas: Hinchingbrooke, Hinchingbrooke Park, Brampton, Buckden, Offord Cluny, Offord D’arcy, Godmanchester, Hemingford Abbots and Hemingford Grey, Cambourne, Chawston, Croxton, Duloe, Graveley, Great Paxton, Hail Weston, Honeydon, Little Barford, Little Paxton, Eaton Socon, Bourn, Grantchester, Roxton, Southoe, Staploe, Tempsford, Toseland, Upper Staploe, Wintringham, Wyboston, Yelling. (Further bulk drops are made to local shops and busineses in Huntingdon, St Neots, Eaton Ford, Eaton Socon and Eynesbury) Editorial - Peter Ibbett, Catherine Rose, Debbie Singh-Bhatti, Publishers Kate McLelland, Solange Hando, Kate Duggan, Alison Runham, Villager Publications Ltd Centre for Complementary Health, Leeds Day Solicitors, 24 Market Square, Potton, Bedfordshire SG19 2NP Fiona McLeman, Carol H Scott, Hannah Byatt, Tony Larkins, Tel: 01767 261122 Pippa Greenwood, RSPCA, Iain Betson, Nick Coffer and [email protected] Bruce Edwards www.villagermag.com Advertising Sales/Local Editorial Scott - 01767 261122 [email protected] Disclaimer - All adverts and editorial are printed in good faith, however, Villager Publications Ltd can not take any responsibility for the Photography - Miles Davies & Darren Harbar Photography content of the adverts, the services provided by the advertisers or any statements given in the editorial. No part of this publication may be Design and Artwork - Design 9 Tel 07762 969460 reproduced or stored without the express permission of the publisher. To advertise in The Villager and Townlife please call 01767 261122 History By Peter Ibbett The Ghostly Monks St. Neots is becoming well known for its family restaurants, award winning museum and ghosts. If you should have checked out too many of of St Neots the local alcoholic beverages one evening you may bump into one of the small wooden footbridges. The Market Square Monks placed on excavator’s work showed that the the Square during a mid-1990’s original turf line of the riverside refurbishment. Whilst recovering meadow was from two and a from your over indulgence the half feet to four feet below our ghosts of the local medieval present surface. From the 14th monks may reflect that they to 17th Centuries the level was too, on occasion, overdid their artificially raised with domestic home brewing and pass you by rubbish, waste soil and gravel sympathetically! As one of the with a final levelling in the early 1960’s excavators of the Priory Site 17th Century coinciding with an (Under the Library and Waitrose car expansion of the market due to parks) Mr C. F. Tebbutt discovered the improvement in navigation evidence for the Market Square locks on the Great Ouse. developing from the site of the You can find out more about original market at the Cross the Priory and its now ghostly (Opposite Beale’s Department occupants, who held sway over store) due to the desire of the this Ouse Valley community for Monks to increase their cash-flow. half a millennium before Henry VIII The Monks would have known a swept them away, at the museum very different town to our present with its regular family activities. day one when they received their You can also admire the modern market charter in the 12th century. graphic at the back of the Cross In order to get to the ‘Shop Row’ Keys yard, featuring the casket (Lloyds Bank side) you would which once held the bones of St. have to cross over a ditch via Neot (now sadly lost). 4 Please mention The Villager and Town Life when responding to adverts THEVILLAGERMAG MASQ 11032016.pdf 1 11/03/2016 14:24:58 You are invited to our Masquerade Ball at Wyboston Lakes • Saturday 11th June @ 7pm • Canapés on arrival • 3 course dinner • Live music from Vision C • Beautifully themed venue M • Dress Code: Black Tie Y Sc�� �� CM MY Inclusive overnight package CY priced at £86.95 per person CMY (based on 2 sharing) K £46.95 per person Secure your tickets today ... 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