Northamptonshire Special Constabulary Passes 500 Mark
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29th August 15 www.nenevalleynews.co.uk facebook.com/NeneValleyNews @NeneValleyNews Tel: 01522 513515/ 01832 272299 We want to hear from you, so please submit your NeneYour local independent community Valley news story or event at newspaper for East Northamptonshire news www.nenevalleynews.co.uk Chris takes Exam success In Brief the helm at in East Enjoy Yoga to marina Northants recommence njoy Yoga sessions Page 3 Pages 8 & 9 will recommence Inside... Eon Tuesday 8th Northamptonshire Police September and Thursday for passing this landmark 10th September from 7pm of 500 Special Constables, to 8.30pm at Whitefriars and a huge thank you to Infant School Boughton the 502 Special Constables Drive, Rushden NN10 9HX. who give their time up for This is the fifteenth year free for the benefit of their of Enjoy Yoga teaching and communities. sharing at this pleasant, “When I began my peaceful venue. Help term as Police and Crime yourself to relax, feel Commissioner for the stronger and fitter and county, I set the ambitious enjoy your body and life to target of recruiting and the optimum. training 900 special Age and fitness levels constables in order to help are no barrier for enjoying make Northamptonshire the this time out to focus on safest place in England, and yourself with awareness. passing the 500 mark is a significant milestone in our Explore East journey towards that goal. “I am committed to Northants Northamptonshire Special helping Chief Constable ocal Focus Simon Edens and Explorations is an Northamptonshire Police Linformal friendly group Constabulary passes 500 mark create a workforce that can for all ages and abilites. deliver to the expectations The group meets to of our residents, and explore some of the more Northamptonshire Police is celebrating after reaching a landmark 500 Special having over 500 Special unusual local areas with Constables, having added over 150 new officers in the past year. Constables on board is unique photo-maps, on helping us considerably to various days in the week. achieve that.” The multi-use maps are he total means is now made up of 1,731 110,000 hours of duty various different police “We are here to protect used for walking, cycling, Northamptonshire officers, of which nearly in 2014 – equivalent to departments. And with communities and keep car, and bus trips, and TPolice has the largest one third are volunteer 60 full-time officers – hundreds of applications people safe and I therefore there are seasonal themes, ratio of Special Constables Special Constables who Special Constables are being received every month pay tribute to those Special including rubus friuticosus to regular officers anywhere have the same powers expected to give 125,000 from people looking to join constables who have walks! Membership is free, in England and Wales, as their paid equivalents. hours in 2015 to helping the ranks, the constabulary volunteered to protect and with maps and booklets and the fifth highest Northamptonshire Police’s Northamptonshire become is expected to continue to serve their communities from £3 each. If you can’t total number of Special Special Constabulary the safest place in England. grow at pace. in this way. As Chief make the group events, Constables of any police consists of 502 uniformed The volunteer force has Adam Simmonds, Constable, I will do my some maps are available force, adding huge capacity officers, who contribute an made over 500 arrests Northamptonshire Police very best to make them an from Raunds Post Office. For to their regular, full-time average of 24 hours per and recorded nearly and Crime Commissioner, integrated part of how we more details: 01933 461480 officers. month each. 1,000 crimes so far this said: “I’d like to say a police Northamptonshire in or email susanthewalker@ The county’s police force Having completed year, working across huge congratulations to the future.” hotmail.com Give your child the perfect start in a Visit us in our school where small class sizes mean Open Week individual attention. beginning 12th October 2015 AN INDEPENDENT DAY SCHOOL IN KETTERING For more information contact: 01536 512 066 [email protected] www.st-peters.org.uk 02 To submit your news story or event visit www.nenevalleynews.co.uk or call 01522 513515 29/08/15 Fond farewell to postman Roy Roy Hadley, Harringworth’s go unnoticed and Roy certainly went the Roy also delivered to part of Gretton treat before heading back – resulting in extra mile whilst delivering in the village. village and it was from there he would the driver of his van on a Saturday having postman for the last 30 years During the address by Chairman of the buy his daily paper and after completing to put up with the stale fishy smell. was honoured by the villagers Parish Council, Simon McLean everyone his round in Harringworth he would A collection had been made in the with a presentation in the village learnt some interesting facts about Roy. take a break to read it sitting in his van village for Roy’s fond farewell and Simon One Christmas with a van full of parcels overlooking the valley at the top of Green McLean on behalf of Harringworth hall on Saturday 8th August. he couldn’t find anyone at home and it Lane. Apparently, Roy was rather partial presented him with a cheque for £650 was suggested that many people were in to fish and chips and at the end of his and a bouquet of flowers for his partner the church decorating it for the season, working day on a Friday it was his special Margarita. oy certainly made an impression so he popped down in his van managing on the village, clear by the turnout to find most of the recipients for his R to bid him a fond farewell. Over bundle of parcels. 60 people joined him for coffee and a Known for going out of his way there Letters to the editor super spread of homemade cakes. He were several examples of him running his had established many friendships in the own redirection service when someone If you would like to submit a letter to excessive use of the brakes leads to village during his 30 years’ service – one had moved house within the village and it the editor please send it to news@ premature wear and, ultimately, costly couple had come up from Kent for the was only when he was on holiday that the nenevalleynews.co.uk for consideration. replacement of pads, discs and maybe occasion and another former villager, odd letter went astray. He even collected The maximum word count is 200 words. tyres. now living in Bulwick, popped over outgoing letters from one house, even Surely, finessed driving entails too. though the letterbox was just down the Dear Editor, looking well ahead, identifying the His smile and pleasant attitude did not road. SHEDDING SPEED approaching bend, crossroads, Your correspondent (18 July 2015 issue T-junction or roundabout and slowing – Your ABC Guide to Driving Safely) smoothly (through the gears as avers that a vehicle should be slowed necessary) to the appropriate speed – Genealogy jottings by using only its brakes: not, therefore using brakes only when finally required. by “lifting off” and/or “changing down”. Crucially, with winter approaching, such o, there you are, gathering lots By Jan Pearson They aver that “Using your engine/gears a practised technique is essential when of lovely information about your Genealogy Specialists, Tracing Our Past, to slow down places extreme stress on slowing on sheet-ice or, slickest of all, S ancestors and your desk/dining Discovering Our Genes (TOP DOG) your engine”. hard packed slush just beginning to room table/sofa is covered in bits of www.genealogy-specialists.com Twaddle! thaw. The very last thing one should paper on which you have made notes. Compared to the stresses of touch – then as gently as necessary – is Time to get organised – before it is too acceleration, those exerted by the the brake pedal. late! And the date? Was it a prison record? If reversed torque of deceleration are When I started to record details, I so, where? Was it an inquest report? relatively minor. Coping with them is Yours faithfully had one of those cheap and cheerful Once you have all of these lovely well within the capabilities of the typical Brian Scott reporter’s notebooks for each of my details, you then need to decide as to engine and gearbox, assuming proper Hon. Sec. The Institute of (Safely) grandparents’ surnames. That way, I how you will be recording it all. It is lubrication. On the other hand, Retarded Motorists was able to keep most of it together in all very well and good having loads of the right place. I say ‘most of it’ as even notebooks, but it is much better to have now, I find the odd Post-it note that I had the families in an ordered manner so 46 Cartrill Street, Raunds, NN9 6ER squirreled away! that you can link the information that you One thing that I was very bad about find with the individual concerned. I have was recording sources. If you find your genealogy software on my computer great-grandfather living in Rugby in the and record it all there. It also enables 1901 census when you thought that he me to print trees and charts with the Rushden Golf Club people already on them and to upload Free 15 hours or should be living in Raunds, then please Looking for somewhere new to play? make a note of the census reference – or the information to my family tree website.