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January 2010 Vol. 41 No. 1 40p FOCUS MAGAZINE INFORMATION Chairman John Carter, Rewe. Tel. (01392) 841237 Vice Chairman Beryl Grace, Moss Bank, School Lane, Thorverton. Secretary Jane Lane, Stable House, 2 The Glebe, Thorverton. Tel. (01392) 861062 Treasurer Barbara Uglow, 14 Cleaves Close, Thorverton. Tel. (01392) 860614 Editor Neville Lane, Stable House, 2 The Glebe, Thorverton. Tel. (01392) 861062 Email: [email protected] Back issues: http://www.campion.f2s.com/focus-downloads.html Assistant editors Rob Purvis, Eileen Mason & Ward Crawford Printers Barrie Phillips & Peter Mason Focus deliveries John Carter, Rewe. Tel. (01392) 841237 Committee members Nominated by local organisations. At the present time Focus is produced each month except one (August) and is assembled by volunteers on the last working day of the month. The Editor welcomes interesting news items, reports etc. for publication. 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Text for advertisements should be prepared as near as possible to how it is intended to appear. Pictures must be supplied as required on the advertisement. COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENTS Maximum dimensions COST per ENTRY FULL YEAR (11 entries) Half page 18.2 cm x 12.2 cm £4.00 £40.00 Quarter page 8.5 cm x 12.2 cm £2.00 £20.00 One-eighth page 8.5 cm x 5.8 cm £1.00 £10.00 LOCAL ORGANISATION and CHARITIES ADVERTISEMENTS COST per ENTRY Half page £3.00 Quarter or one-eighth page free of charge (It may be possible to reduce A4 size adverts to 1/4 or 1/8 page depending on the size of text.) Front cover: Snow at Raddon Top, February 2009 The opinions and views expressed by contributors within the magazine are not necessarily those of Focus producers and the Focus Committee. Focus on Thorverton 1 Vol. 41 No. 1 - January 2010 Editorial I can’t offer you quite the usual mix of articles in this people are doing in Thorverton – either individually month’s Focus . I am sorry that we are missing or collectively – to help in however small way that reports from some of our regular contributors, might be. If you have any practical ideas to share, nevertheless, I hope that you will find of interest please send them in. some of the articles that we have managed to gather. Be thankful, too, that I resisted the temptation to As we complete our 40 th year of Focus production, I include a quiz of the decade or a look back at the best would like to say a special thank you to those who village events of the past decade (the sort of things to put Focus together and get it to your doors. This have filled up our newspapers recently), although as team meets on the last working day of each month, I write this I am coming round to the idea that maybe and is utterly reliable. Some of them have been it wouldn’t have been such a bad idea after all. I engaged in these duties for a good few years now, wonder... and would appreciate some help, so if you are able to offer help please contact John Carter (see details The recent Copenhagen Conference on tackling inside front cover). climate change, perhaps not so surprisingly, reached a disappointing conclusion. It seems that our leaders I wish you all a very good 2010. May all of your need to be led. There are very many things going on resolutions be kept and your dreams come true! at a low level and the time has probably come to make far more of these to emphasise to world leaders that people do care and want to make a difference. I Neville Lane, Editor would be happy to give some space in Focus to what In this Focus Editorial .................................................................... 1 Letters ....................................................................... 2 Thorverton Parish Council........................................ 4 Thorverton Memorial Hall News.............................. 5 Notice Board............................................................. 5 Parish Church Services and News ............................ 8 Thorverton Football................................................ 10 Legal Eagle ............................................................. 12 I Don't Believe It!.................................................... 13 Recycling Christmas cards and trees ...................... 13 Thorverton PTFA.................................................... 14 The Dolphin group at the Thorverton Arms ........... 14 Thorverton Art Group............................................. 15 Nature Notes ........................................................... 15 Tree O'Clock World Record Tree Planting Attempt ................................................................................ 17 Tales of Old Thorverton ......................................... 18 Thorverton and District History Society................. 19 Census Time Again................................................. 20 The Exe Descent ..................................................... 21 Christmas Lights in Thorverton.............................. 22 Thorverton Parish Information ............................... 23 Thorverton Organisations ....................................... 24 Doctor's Surgeries................................................... 25 Waste Collection Dates for 2010............................ 26 Bus services ............................................................ 26 Diary 2010 .............................................................. 27 Focus on Thorverton 2 Vol. 41 No. 1 - January 2010 Letters Mr Reed built Peamore Garage at Alphington (now Frank Tucker Haulage) who sold it to Mr Spurway (who was if I remember correctly a Director of From Heather Kershaw on behalf of TCT Ltd Exeter Speedway). He set up a track at the back of and all of you.......... Peamore Garage (it was there in 1950) A very well-deserved thank-you to all those who help Mr Spurway then built Speedway Garage in Rewe. I to keep our newspaper and stationery shop running also think he had the Speedway Garage, Cowick which in turn enables us to keep a post office Street, Exeter built. This has now been demolished. operating here in the village. Dingo Davey (Exeter Falcons) had a garage nearly opposite the Speedway in Exeter, this also has now Our TCT staff and PO staff work in less than been demolished. pleasant conditions as you will know, for either not a lot of money or no money at all, often at hours when some of us are still tucked up in bed or enjoying our Sunday brunch/lunch. From Alan Hannaford A very special thank you to Jill Blewett our Business Alan has often been inspired to write in, Manager who works 364 days of the year. What following articles by the Commentator. His would we do without you? latest letter is particularly topical given the It's so easy to take this service for granted, forgetting recent Copenhagen conference of world leaders. that we did not always have it and that the post office I print it without editing. was closed for some considerable time and only reopened thanks to the determination and I feel there needs to be some measure of balance with perseverance of dedicated local people. regard to Climate Change. This is crucial for any informed debate about this issue, not that there has You are a great team. Thank you from us all. ever been an informed public debate about it, despite what our political masters would have us believe, so that such debate cannot possibly be “over”. Copenhagen, whatever the result, will be long over From Lisa Browning by the time this is published, so it couldn’t possibly have any effect upon the outcome. Yesterday our much loved family cat was hit & killed on Silver Street, leaving us all very upset. Not Lenin said, “if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes a great start to Christmas. At least, we think it was the truth”, and Hitler said, “the mass of the people our cat by the colour and markings, as his head was are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one”! unrecognisable. I can only assume he was hit at some I would suggest the Commentator worry less about speed. Milo is the second cat to be killed on this road Global Warming than he does at present. As a long- in less than two weeks. Please remember that Silver term sceptic about such a phenomenon, having read Street is still within the 30 mph speed limit, and slow the technical summaries for all four IPCC reports, down, before it's a child we are writing about. along with the at times laughable Summaries for Policy Makers, and having read many papers both promoting and questioning manmade global warming, I concluded some time ago that it is a false From Mr & Mrs Courtney, Uffculme hypothesis. It defies the laws of thermodynamics for a start. The Government