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OUR CHAMPION BAND clear,” he told them. “So that’s your slogan - ‘Cleobury Crisp and Clear.’” When you hear them in full flow, you can understand why that phrase was used. The next competition is the National Championships in September, when they’ll be travelling to Cheltenham to do battle with 25 other bands. That journey alone will cost them about £500 and they’re looking for any local business who would like to sponsor them for the event and maybe beyond. With such a high standard and track record this is a good bet for someone looking for publicity. This is how champions are made. On Sunday March Katie Griffiths is the contact on 13th Cleobury Concert Brass won their section of the [email protected] Midland Area Regional Brass Band Championship. On On more local matters, their next event at Tuesday the 15th they were practising again in the Parish Hall, with conductor David Maplestone. home is the Spring Concert in the Parish Hall The enthusiasm that drives Cleobury Concert on Saturday, May 7th. It’s a sell-out every Brass to success is really impressive. Playing year, great entertainment and value with a in the name of this small town, they attract fish and chip supper in the interval. Reserve players from as far as Knighton and your tickets with Katie on CM 270262. Shrewsbury, who travel to practise evenings This is a thriving, enthusiastic group of in the Parish Hall and to performances all people, united by the love of making music over the Midlands. and who have the imagination to look ahead We photographed them two days after they and see greater things to come if they can just won the Midlands Area Fourth Section title, get some backing. Take a look at their website with conductor David Maplestone using his on www.cmc.org.uk to get a better idea of gentle touch to bring out the best in them. how much they do. “The judges said that Cleobury was crisp and More about the band on Page 45.

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Editor and Advertising Sales: Jim Reynolds, 4 Childe Road, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire DY14 8PA. Telephone: 01299 270642 Mobile: 07410 977 212 E-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Printed by: Linda Fowler at Glint Print 01299 266657 The Clarion On The Web: www.cleoburyclarion.co.uk The Clarion is published by Cleobury Clarion Media Limited Collect the Clarion in Cleobury Mortimer from: Spar Grocery, M & M Baldwin, Butler’s Store, Cleobury Cafe, The Severn Hospice Shop, Harry Tuffin’s, Carrot Tops, The Library, Simply Fresh and Nock Deighton. Or Out in Cleobury Country at: Heath Farm Meats, Bagginswood; Clee Hill Post Office; Cleobury North Village Store; Clows Top Stores; The Sun and Slipper at Mamble; Hopton Bank Service Station; Ludlow Library; Mawley Oak Garage; The Colliers Arms Farmers Market Shop, Rock; The Fighting Cocks, Stottesdon; The Duck Inn, Chorley; The Live and Let Live, Neen Sollars; The Eagle and Serpent, Kinlet; Parker Motors, Ditton Priors. Missed your Clarion? Cleobury Mortimer Library keeps the current month’s copy on file. THE DEADLINE FOR THE MAY ISSUE IS APRIL 24th Clarion Contacts - Useful Local Telephone Numbers and Emails CEMETERY ADMINISTRATOR - 07703 965 064 Theresa Parfitt; [email protected] CLEOBURY COUNTRY CENTRE - 01299 272300 In Love Lane. Open 9.00 to 5.00, Mon to Fri. CITIZENS ADVICE - 08444 991100. Advisors on line 10.00 to 4.00. CLEOBURY CARERS - Wendy Duley CM 270562 CLEOBURY COMPASSIONATE COMMUNITIES - CM270018 Katja Ward 10.00 to 12.00 Wednesday. CLEOBURY MORTIMER LIBRARY - 01299 272301. Open 9.00 to 7.00 Monday, 9.00 to 5.00 Tuesday to Friday and 10.00 to 1.00 Saturdays. LOCAL POLICE - Constable Anne O’Leary; [email protected] CLEOBURY MORTIMER GUIDES: Dorothy McBride 07761 976610 CLEOBURY MORTIMER SCOUTS: Ingrid Purslow CM 270314 CRIMESTOPPERS - 0800 555 111. Free Police contact. Talk in confidence, to report any crime. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HELPLINE - Women’s Aid, 24 Hour support: 0800 783 1359 HOME FROM HOSPITAL - 01584 878046. Help over the first weeks back home from Age UK. MARKET HALL- Dorothy CM 272717, 07761 976610 mobile, or [email protected] MEDICAL CENTRE - 01299 270209. Out of surgery hours, the Shrop Doc Service. SHROP DOC - 08444 068888. Service available evenings and weekends. THE PHARMACY - 01299 270219. Closes for half day on Saturday. Delivers prescriptions. NEWLIFE CHURCH - Pastor E Stirrup 01562 630595. Sunday services at 10.30 NIGHTINGALE NURSING FUND - 01746 718210. Rosemary Abbiss is the contact. PARISH COUNCIL -Clerk Matthew Sheehan, Market Hall 9.00 to 2.00, Monday to Friday. 01299 271154. www.cleobury.org.uk. Council meets in the Market Hall on the first Monday of the month. POST OFFICE - 01299 270211. In the Spar Grocery Store, Church Street. SAINT MARY’S YOUTH PROJECT - Mark Greaves 07828 116810, [email protected] SHROPSHIRE COUNCIL - 0345 678 9000 SOUTH SHROPSHIRE YOUTH FORUM - E-mail [email protected]. VOLUNTARY CAR SCHEME - 01299 270209 bookings via the Medical Centre WASTE DISPOSAL - 0345 678 9007. The contractor is Veolia WATER SUPPLY EMERGENCIES - Severn Trent on 0800 783 4444.

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The sound of a nearly new truck scraping along a stone wall as the driver fails to read the warning sign properly only pleases one man - the body shop manager. Effortless cycling with the new See Page 7. Sue Brown - Great Speaker. generation of electric power. See Page 25. See Page 51 And On Other Pages…. 3: Local Information 33: Clarion Coppers 9: Fencing the School Grounds 37: On the Buses 11: Nikki’s Marvellous Mixes 41: April in the Wyre Forest 13: Severn Hospice Success 43: David’s Poetry Reading 15: The Clarion Jobs Page 45: Cleobury Mortimer Lectures 17: In Praise of Amanda 47: On the Market - Stellan Vert 19: The Breakfast Club 49: Lacon Childe’s Mural 21: The Severn Edge Vets Pets Page 53: The Reading Group 23: Cleobury Patients’ Voice 55: The Farming Page 27: Philip Dunne MP 57: Bayton Primary School 30: The Social Calendar Part One… 59: Mark Greaves 31: …and Part Two John Brazier & Co Accountants & Business Advisors

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Page !6 Clarion Clippings - The Local News ANOTHER TRUCK around so that it could that David and his partner are STUCK IN CHILDE ROAD continue its journey. covering. So all the income The drivers had from ticket sales, donations misunderstood the sign, and and the raffle will go to the this may not just be due to hospital. What a very fine, their language difficulties, as it human thing to do. happens regularly to drivers of Tickets are £12.00 each and all nationalities. The present are available from the Town sign showing the weight limit Hall Box Office (01562 732158) does not warn them of the or from The Park Royal, 62 problems due to the width and Load Street, Bewdley (01299 length of their vehicle. An 405636). HGV sign with far more One Mercedes truck and one stone THANKS FROM FAY specific information and wall meet. Guess who won. Dear Uncle Jim and Clarion warning is needed; better still, George Munro heard the Readers stop all lorries from using this noise and was quickly on the Thank you so much to the part of the road. spot with his camera. We’ll let George Munro Clarion for featuring my him tell the story: appeal for clothing, saleable A familiar grinding sound at TENUTO IN CONCERT goods and in date food to 2.40pm on March 16th FOR THE KIDS announced yet another vehicle Tenuto is a trio of professional help the homeless of making contact with the stone singers: David Lawrence, Wolverhampton. As a direct walls. At this time school Robert Urban Nagy and Neil result of the Clarion I have traffic, including the buses, Greenway, whose talents cover made three trips with a boot was due and so it fell to local musical theatre, opera, rock full of wonderful clothing, and pop. And they’re putting residents to send messages to etc that will have made such the schools, place warning on a concert at Kidderminster a difference to those cones and redirect traffic. This Town Hall at 7.30 on May 7th included a first responder with in aid of Birmingham receiving them. Thank you lights flashing en route to a Children’s Hospital. all very much indeed. I will patient; one hopes the delay The idea was born when be continuing with caused no harm. A massive David met a little boy who is a collections so please do feel traffic jam had been averted patient at the hospital, who free to drop any donations asked him to sing. David and there was nothing left for off at 7 The Crescent, Clee the police to do when they decided he was going to raise Hill. turned up two hours later. Four money for the hospital and the hours after the encounter with management at Kidderminster Thank you again, the walls, a rescue vehicle Town Hall gave the group a Fay Vass moved the rear of the lorry booking at a very special price

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Page !8 Clarion Clippings - The Local News FENCING THE SCHOOL will be greatly enhanced whilst Savage are invited by the GROUNDS also ensuring that members of Trustees to make applications to Lacon Childe School issued the the public will still be able to the above fund for financial following statement to explain use the public footpath which assistance to help further their the fencing of the playing will be unaffected by this studies. fields: development. Details and application forms The safeguarding of pupils is Darren Reynolds, Headteacher can be obtained from Lloyds becoming an increasingly at Lacon Childe, said "We have Bank, Cleobury Mortimer, significant consideration in the thought hard and long about Lacon Childe School or running of schools and is this and is not a decision that Reverend Justin Parker, Clerk to something that Osfted, the body has been taken lightly. As the Trustees of the Fund, at responsible for the regulation Headteacher my first priority Adam House, Birmingham and inspection of education has to be the safety of our Road, Kidderminster DY10 2SA. services in the UK, sees as one students and I believe that The closure date is June 24th. of their key priorities. The by continuing to allow LUDLOW DOG DAY importance that Ofsted places unrestricted access to the school The third Dog Day returns to in this area is underlined by the we are failing in our duty of Stokes Court on July 24th, fact that there have been care. Unfortunately we where it attracted over 3000 a number of cases recently have examples where the safety people last year. Run by the where previously good or of our students has been Ludlow Rotary Club, it raises outstanding schools have been compromised and therefore I funds for local charities. Two placed into special measures on believe that this is something names who will help draw the the basis that safeguarding that we needed to address as a crowds are TV personalities controls have been deemed to matter of importance. In Jules Hudson of ‘Countryfile’ be inadequate. arriving at this outcome we and Kate Bliss of ‘Bargain Hunt’ For some time now the have consulted with people and ‘Flog It’. governing body at Lacon Childe who continue to have legitimate The gates will open to dogs School has been concerned that access to the school site. and their owners at 10.00 for having playing fields that are Matthew Hayes what looks like being another open and therefore allow Business Manager, great day. If you would like to unrestricted access to the school Lacon Childe School help the event, contact the grounds is a situation that has THE CHILDE o r g a n i s e r s v i a the potential to compromise the ENDOWMENT FUND www.ludlowdogday.co.uk safety and well-being of pupils. Students residing in the It’s a great idea that offers As a result of this, the school parishes of Cleobury Mortimer, more than a wide range of has taken a decision to erect a Neen Sollars, Milson, Coreley, doggy attractions, with lots of perimeter fence around its Hopton Wafers, Farlow, local produce and companies playing fields. This means that Wheathill, Aston Botterell, showing their wares. A good the security of the school site Stottesdon, Kinlet and Neen family day out.

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Page 10! Clarion Clippings - The Local News NIKKI’S MARVELLOUS TV’s Great British Bake-Off, she 271639. This meeting started at MIXES TAKE OFF could be on a real winner. Take a 7.00 and finished at 7.35; another look at her website on feather in the Friends’ cap. www.marvellousmixes.co.uk SHROPSHIRE KIDS’ and see for yourself. FESTIVAL A GOOD YEAR FOR This is a new event, catering for THE FRIENDS children from babies up to early The Annual General Meeting of teens, that will be held in the Friends of Saint Mary’s had Shrewsbury’s Quarry Park on a small attendance of nine the weekend of April 23rd/24th. people out of 85 members to It’s open from 10.00 to 5.00 both hear good news. In 2015 their days and tickets cost £6.00 for fund raising to help preserve the the children and £1.00 for adults, fabric of the Parish Church which gives the children access Nikki Raine, ex Lacon Childe pupil raised a total of £6291.51 and to most of more than 100 carving out a second career. their expenses were a miserly attractions, activities and A year ago Nikki Raine was £12.65. A prime example of what workshops. Where there is a making cookies for her good volunteers can do, with charge , part of the proceeds will daughter’s birthday party bags. five events all in the black and go to the Harry Johnston Trust They went down so well that other money coming from that supports work with she set about developing the subscriptions and donations. children suffering from cancer. idea that's now her business. It’s Something new this month is Bookings and more details on taken off and she quit her a Scrabble competition in the 01952 432175 or look in at accounting job and started Market Hall on April 17th, www.shropshirekidsfest.co.uk Marvellous Mixes, offering a starting at 3.00. Teams of four to PHILIP DUNNE SURGERY range of cookie mixes, all made make up the games, tickets are Our Member of Parliament is in her Lichfield kitchen. £7.00 per person that includes a holding a constituency advice There’s a range of flavours, cup of tea or there’s a special surgery on April 8th. It’s at 54 from traditional Triple deal for a full team. There will Broad Street in Ludlow, starts at Chocolate Chip through to some be a cash prize for the winners, 4.30 and ends at 6.00. exciting new ideas that she’s we understand. It’s an opportunity to meet the tried on the family and friends. A number of committee man face to face and ask him She's come a long way from a members have stood down and questions or raise matters that Farlow schoolgirl via work as an there are vacancies to be filled. If concern you as one of the people accountant to having her own you feel you want to join a he represents. Appointments can business that she can share with friendly group that does a very be made by calling 01584 her children. With the current successful job for a worthy 872187. interest in cooking triggered by cause, talk to Steve Todd on CM

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BURWARTON SHOW OFFICE require an Office Assistant to work June/July/August for inputting entries and other clerical duties. Must be computer literate (word/excel). Flexible working hours with full-time during July/early August. Would suit college student. Please e-mail [email protected] for further information giving details of experience and contact details.

Female personal assistant required 25hrs a week for young lady with sustained brain injury, wheelchair user, living in Cleobury. She requires some personal care and support to access the local community. Clean driving licence (and car) and DBS required. No experience necessary. To apply or more details please contact Nikki Stone- [email protected]'

Temporary Lunchtime Supervisor Part Time 5 hours per week. 1.15pm-2.15pm Monday-Friday Enthusiastic, committed and reliable individual who enjoys working with children, to join supervisory team. Application form can be found at www.lacon-childe.org.uk For further information contact Mrs S Broad 01299 270312

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Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service is currently looking to recruit on-call firefighters at Cleobury Mortimer Fire Station. On-call firefighters agree to be available for a certain number of hours per week; they carry a pager and must be able to get to the fire station within five minutes. For this they are paid between £1,587 - £2,116 per annum (dependent on contract) as a Retaining Fee plus payments for attending incidents and drill evenings at Cleobury Mortimer fire station.

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MOFFATS SCHOOL The Choir and Orchestra chuckling, ‘Got ya!’ I needed Open Morning: The next Open together concentrate on help, but who could provide it? Morning will be on Bank Christian musical productions, Friends tried and were defeated. Holiday Monday, May 2nd, from coming together from an area So, I turned to the pages of the 9.30 – 12.30. All are welcome, covering Monmouth to Clarion and there I saw that with tours conducted by the Cleobury to make good music. Amanda Horton Mobile senior children. Nursery Tickets are £5 and are available Computer Services provided funding is available for children in the Market Hall, the proceeds advice and guidance. When I aged four and five attending the being shared between St. Mary’s phoned and told her the Kindergarten. and a local charity. problem, she cheerily assured me Parent and Toddler Sessions: A Teme Spirit Choir practice on that she could fix it. Spring into Mini Moffats session Monday nights in Clee Hill Shortly afterwards she sat at will take place on Wednesday Village Hall from 7.30 pm. Why my desktop and tapped away on April 27th from 10.00 am to 12.00 not come and join a very friendly the keyboard. Pretty soon she noon. Parents and carers of group? announced her triumph; the children aged three and under Jane Barnes 01299 272892 problem was fixed and my are welcome to register by IN PRAISE OF… unruly inboxes were all nicely calling 01299 841230. No charge I don’t know about you, but I am marshalled into a tidy array. She – just come along and join in the mildly paranoid about Bill Gates! told me what she had done and fun and the beautiful setting! It seems as if the software that is how I might, if I ever needed to, Scholarships: Moffats will be written by Microsoft is designed be able to repeat her victory over offering a number of to entice me into a spider’s web Bill Gates. She bade me farewell scholarships for children aged of dependency, only to leave me and left Bill Gates sobbing seven to nine years, for entry in high and dry at a crucial quietly. September 2016. If you would moment. That’s when you need The next time I find myself like to find out more, contact the someone who knows their way caught in a morass of computer school on 01299 841230 or email around ‘Word,’ ‘Outlook’, gobbledegook I will call Amanda [email protected]. ‘Excel’, et al. on 01746 861612. LOOKING AHEAD That was where I found myself P.A.J. Waddington A LITTLE a day or two ago. Since retiring I SILLY BITS ‘ A t h e i s m i s a n o n - p r o p h e t The Teme Spirit Choir and seem to have accumulated email organisation.’ Orchestra are giving a addresses? For years I’d ‘How is it possible to have a civil performance of ‘Two Sisters and managed with just one, but now I have three and wanted to bring war?’ a Funeral’ in St. Mary’s Church ‘Is there another word for synonym?’ on Saturday, May 7th at 7.30 pm. them together for convenience. It tells the story of Martha, Mary Could I convince ‘Outlook’ to and Lazarus. help me? I could hear Bill Gates

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Page !18 Clarion Clippings - The Local News THE BREAKFAST CLUB pleasures of this form of travel, talking to us about her career In March, the CM Breakfast almost all of which uses double- change and success as a Club met to hear Chris Kippin decked trains, whose landscape and wildlife talk about ‘Across America by observation cars provide photographer Train’. Starting with the historic unrivalled views of the It will be on Wednesday 13th ‘driving of the last spike’, American countryside and at Neen Savage ParishHall. The symbolising the joining-up of mountains. It looked wonderful! cost is £4, to include entry, the Union Pacific and the The Club next meets on April refreshments and raffle ticket. Central Pacific Railroads in 1869, 12th in the King’s Arms, to hear Julie Hobin Chris provided a brief survey of Steve Parker talk about ‘My CHANGES TO THE the evolution, and decline, of Father’s experiences as a PoW in COMMUNITY CAR passenger railways in the USA. World War 2’. Members wishing SCHEME to attend should contact Predictably, the system peaked From April 11th, Val Simpson is in the early years of the 20th Jonathan Fair (271913) or Gill retiring from the Coordinator century, and then contracted Chapman (270575) to book role but she and Graham will under the combined pressures of places. road and air transport. Mark Baldwin continue as drivers. We are very In 1971 the US Federal SPRINGTIME IN BAYTON fortunate that Mandy and Iain Government intervened to save There's a rather tempting offer Smith, despite being busy what was left of long-distance in Bayton Church on Saturday people, are willing to take this passenger rail transport, the 23rd. The Oakville Singers on this vital community role. creating AMTRAK, a will get together with the Our drivers drove 24,950 miles government-sponsored Bayton Choir to present a range last year in over 600 journeys. company operating passenger of Springtime Music, from trains over privately owned Queen to Sting and on to others. In future booking requests to track. Many of the private It starts at 7.30, the tickets are the Medical Centre (01299 companies still operate £10.00 each and include interval 270209) must be made a week in profitable freight trains (some drink and nibbles; available advance; emergencies cannot be over two miles long), and freight from Cathy on 01299 832249 or handled. now takes precedence over [email protected] The car scheme number will passenger traffic, often creating All proceeds to the Church stay the same (01299 666119) for delays for the latter. The current Fabric Fund. booking changes or queries, but passenger network has shrunk NEEN SAVAGE W.I. you will probably have to leave so much in the last hundred Our March meeting welcomed a message. years that there are now whole two members who attended the states without any passenger WI centenary celebrations to If you read this notice please rail services at all. give their reports. Judith Beckett help spread the word to others. Long-distance passenger rail gave an interesting account of Val Simpson journeys are therefore now Afternoon Tea at Buckingham SILLY BITS largely undertaken for pleasure Palace and Angela Flowers Women will never be equal to rather than for business, which recalled her trip to the Royal means that the average rail Albert Hall. Both ladies noted men until they can walk down the passenger is a little out of the that these events were indelibly street with a bald head and a beer ordinary, and Chris and Heather etched on their memories and a gut, and still think they are sexy. had met some interesting people privilege to have attended. The Money will buy a fine dog, but on their travels. Having crossed group were thanked for sending only kindness will make him wag the USA on all three East-West them . his tail. rail links, and undertaken The April meeting is an Open numerous other shorter Evening and all are invited to I’ve reached the age where journeys, Chris was well placed attend. Claire Carter, a local Happy Hour is a nap. to give us an insight into the celebrated photographer, will be

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CLEOBURY PATIENTS’ scaled back in order to save cleoburypatientsvoice@hotmail VOICE money. If you have been .co.uk The most significant news of affected by measures such as Mark Radford, Chair CPV this, CPV would like to hear the last month has been the THE VILLAGE PLAYERS about it. retention, for now, of Shropdoc, A new name to us, but they are the cooperative of local GPs On a brighter note, NHS presenting ‘Love and Other which provides an excellent England has published the Disasters’ at Neen Sollars out-of-hours service for which results of its GP Patient Survey many of us have had cause to for 2015. Overall, Shropshire Victory Hall. 8.00 on Saturday be grateful. The plan was to put scored above the national April 16th, tickets at £10.00 this service out to tender at a average and Cleobury include a “gourmet buffet” regional West Midlands level in Mortimer scored above the from Bev Price on CM 271535. conjunction with the much- Shropshire average in most FOOTPATH NEWS categories. It ranked amongst troubled 111 non-emergency The Parish Walk in March telephone helpline. Following a the top ten practices (out of 45) attracted a band of walkers public outcry, the part of the for confidence and trust in both who "Cleaned for the Queen" as plan that would have affected GPs and nurses, helpfulness of Shropdoc has been postponed receptionists, waiting times and we walked, filling two huge until 2018. However, the local overall experience. When it sacks. Next walk is April 3rd health authority (now known came to success in getting an and will feature daffodils along as Shropshire CCG) has refused appointment and convenience the path to Musbatch. Our to guarantee the existence of a of that appointment, Cleobury other activities are all in full matched the Shropshire and separate, dedicated phone swing - see www.cmfa.co.uk national averages, respectively. number for Shropdoc beyond NOW THERE’S A THOUGHT…. CPV meets at the Medical October this year: watch this “A liberal’s paradise would be a Centre every third Monday of space. place where everybody has the month at 6:30pm. The Shropshire CCG is in "special guaranteed employment, free measures". This means there is objective of the group is to promote positive patient comprehensive health care, free a team of external accountants education, free food, free housing, crawling all over it to see how involvement in monitoring, free clothing, free utilities, and only it can manage its finances more improving communications law enforcement has guns. Believe it effectively. The CCG is required about, and developing our local or not, such a place does indeed to find savings – or make cuts, health and social care services. already exist: It's called... Prison." depending on your viewpoint – We always welcome new Sheriff Joe Arpaio of £19million next year, and we members, so if you would like Maricopa County, Arizona have already heard that knee to get involved please contact and hip operations are being us: telephone 01299 407224 or e m a i l

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Page !24 Clarion Clippings - The Local News THE HORTICULTURAL of our food sources would not 718018 or Clare 718007 SOCIETY produce the seeds and fruits CLEOBURY W.I. Kath Thornton of Rock gave a that we consume, they are a Cleobury WI was pleased to thought provoking illustrated very important creature that present a cheque for £200 to talk on the plight of the bumble we should not take for granted. Cleobury First Responders bee to our March meeting. Our next meeting will be on towards their scheme car. There are only 24 different April 11th in the Methodist Thank you to everyone who types of bumble bee in the Hall, when Lei came to enjoy the winter United Kingdom. They have a la Jackson will tell us about warmer soup lunches which very distinctive furry body and ‘The Road to Chelsea’. Liz helped fundraise for this. it is the pattern of the stripes or Smurthwaite In March we were shown by the colour that distinguishes STOTTESDON W.I. local osteopath James Smith, them from one another. They Although most of us may have with the help of his daughter as also have favourite parts of the seen the devastating effect of a model patient, how country so what we see here in dementia or Alzheimers on a osteopathy uses a gentle Cleobury will not be the type friend or a family member, our hands-on approach to treat a you would see in Scotland. understanding of the causes, variety of muscle and joint Bees are hardworking lovable effects and treatment of these conditions. Looking forward to creatures but their populations conditions may be limited to this month, we have a date have declined during the last our own observations. So we with purple plastic bags at 80 years. We have lost many of really welcomed Zoe Baggott's 6.30pm on the 19th as Cleobury our hay meadows with the highly informative and well WI will join in the Keep Britain wild flowers the bees enjoy presented overview of the Tidy Initiative to 'Clean for the collecting nectar and pollen different forms the disease can Queen’. Any other volunteers from, therefore their food take, enabling us to understand are invited to join us. The April sources have disappeared so the needs of sufferers. We too meeting is 7.30pm on Tuesday the bee has turned to our can contribute to the research 12th at the Market Hall when gardens more and more. As a programme and optimising our we will be having a go at T'ai result of this, some garden own chances of staying healthy. Chi with Rose Jacks. Visitors centres are labelling plants that Zoe's presentation was succinct are welcome. are a good food source for the yet sensitive, the intimate More information from me on bees and we are encouraged to setting encouraging a lively 01299 270983 or plant such species. Farmers are discussion and sharing of [email protected] also being encouraged to anecdotes. Thank you, Zoe, for Judy Sant reintroduce wild flower areas a valuable evening. THE LACON LOTTERY on their land either in April Open evening : Dr There’s been a very strong meadows or around the edges Mark Baldwin – Second Word response to the latest Lottery of their cultivated fields. War Codebreakers and it looks like the monthly The queen is the only bee to Join us at Chorley Village prize will be a very good one. survive the winter in the nest Hall on April 20th at 7.30 pm We’ll let you know what it’s and when conditions are right for a truly fascinating talk by going to be as soon as we hear. she will venture out and get our local expert on the Enigma In the meantime, if you want food before making a new nest and the role played by a small to have a modest flutter with a and laying her eggs. She relies band of people in shortening £10 stake that will take you on the nectar she has collected the war. Dr Baldwin is a through the year, you can pick as she keeps the eggs warm. national figure who travels up a form at the school office. They take about two weeks to widely to lecture on this SILLY BIT hatch and then a new colony is extraordinary machine. If the Police arrest a mute, do ready to carry on the very Talk and refreshments free of they tell him he has the right to important work of pollinating charge – just a raffle. remain silent? our plants. Without them many Contact: Marian 718151, Stef What was the best thing before sliced bread? Page !25 Another Page of Clarion Smalls

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Page !26 Letter from Westminster - Philip Dunne MP

With Easter falling early, spring is very much in essential and momentum needs to be the air. A wonderful time to appreciate the maintained. natural beauty of the Ludlow Constituency, and It is worth making clear that it is not just to celebrate new life, both through the livestock farming that is facing pressure. resurrection of Christ and the seasonal Statistics from the Department for the reawakening of plants and animals. Leaves are Environment, Food and Rural Affairs show that greening hedgerows and trees and lambs leaping in the last five years, incomes in horticulture around the fields. have fallen by 43%. Arable farms have been hit Next month, this will be celebrated at the by falling global prices, as incomes from cereals Royal Horticultural Society’s Malvern Spring and general cropping have more than halved Festival, from 5th to 8th May. I am delighted to be since 2010. attending as this year’s President of the Royal To alleviate pressure on farming, the Three Counties Show. I hope to see some familiar Government is taking action to enable a faces from South Shropshire exhibiting at the productive, resilient food industry by further Spring Festival, and others at the agricultural cutting red tape (there have been 34,000 fewer Royal Three Counties Show from 17th-19th June. farm inspections a year since 2010), as well as As England's largest livestock and equine working to create more apprenticeships and show, the Royal Three Counties celebrates the grow our skills base. Since 2010 more than 600 best of rural life and farming. This sector has new export markets for UK food and drink have been at the heart of the Marches counties’ been opened, nearly three a week, growing sales economic and cultural heritage for centuries. by over £1 billion. Farmers have faced some tough times recently, From this month tax changes come into effect to so these Shows provide welcome opportunities enable farmers to average their incomes for tax to demonstrate the best of British rural life. purposes across a five year period, rather than As a farmer myself, I am acutely aware of the the previous two, reflecting seasonal differences current challenges facing many in farming and volatility in food prices. This should also communities. We have just had two cows test help farmers in South Shropshire. positive for Bovine TB recently, the seventh time While industry pressures need to be tackled, in recent years. Any farmer will tell you of the there are plenty of encouraging things going on distress caused by Bovine TB, but it affects us all, in the countryside. I am pleased that my not only piling pressure on British producers, but Parliamentary Private Secretary is leading the also adding to costs in the shops and costing campaign to restore hedgehog numbers, working taxpayers £100 million each year. The with the British Hedgehog Preservation Society, Government is working through a 25 year multi- whose Chief Executive leads this organisation pronged strategy to eliminate the disease. This is from her home on Clee Hill. I am taking a close interest in their progress.

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Page !28 Clarion Clippings - The Local News THE LEGION LUNCH There were humorous Cleobury’s branch of the Royal moments, like flying the Army British legion held their annual from one location to another, the luncheon in the Sports and squaddies were told there was a Social Club on March 13th, with female crew member in the Sue Brown of Cleobury hope that their language might Chiropractic as the guest be moderated. In the big Wessex speaker. And what a revelation craft, pilot and navigator sit up she turned out to be. high, the passengers below She took up flying as a them with only the lower legs student, because the RAF and boots above visible. One offered a two year course at her day Sue’s navigator borrowed a university. Starting with a basic pair of her high heels and put trainer she graduated to an RAF on fishnet stockings, which Provost jet trainer to earn her caught the soldiers’ eyes, not to pilot’s licence. And having mention their imaginations. But enjoyed the experience, decided when they were landed and she wanted to fly with either She looks far too feminine to fly one looked around to see who this British Airways or the RAF. At of those big helicopters that pass very feminine specimen was, it her interview with the RAF she over the town, but Mrs Brown is was the bearded face of the was asked what she wanted to one very able lady. navigator they saw. do and the obvious answer was she could fly. The support of her She served ten years, moving to fly. One problem - the RAF MP and the local press helped from the troop movements of did not have women pilots. and the long term result was a Northern Ireland to Air Sea One member of the interview reversal of policy and women Rescue and her description of panel asked her: “Do you realise pilots allowed. controlling a helicopter in high that if you do a 3G turn, your She trained on helicopters, winds as the winch man was womb will collapse?” He might starting with two-seaters and lowered on to the deck of a have been an officer, but he working up the scale to the big rolling ship to help an injured clearly didn’t recognise one stuff, eventually being allowed seaman was graphic. After that feisty young lady, who asked to fly on active service in sort of experience, manipulating him if he had a medical Northern Ireland. That your spinal column must seem qualification to back up that charming young woman who like a rest cure. But she’s not statement. He didn’t. smiles and offers a very gentle bored, with a family and a Not a lady easily put off, Sue form of chiropractice on the business to look after. Top joined the force and began to High Street was the very first marks to the Legion for such an push for a chance to prove that woman to fly for the RAF on inspired choice of speaker. active service.

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Page !29 The April Clarion Social Calendar - Part One

If you’ve not been to one of the Household Goods Sales at Knowle Sports Ground you’ve missed a lesson in how to raise money for a good cause. The whole monthly event is built around people donating unwanted clothes and furniture and leaving it at the Sports Ground on the Clee Hill to Tenbury Wells road. It’s sorted and paid out for the sale day, which is on Saturday the 2nd this month. It starts at 8.00 am and you need to be there early to get the pick of the bargains, because people furnishing flats to let use it as a source. If you’re looking for a bargain, there are very few places better than this.

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The Friends of Saint Mary’s Church are trying something they’ve not done before, with a Scrabble Competition in the Market Hall on Sunday the 17th. It starts at 3.00 and is scheduled end at about 5.00, so you’ll be home in time for tea. Teams of four can be entered, at a cost of £7.00 a head and the overall highest score will be acclaimed the winner and take home a prize; no details of that will be as we go to press. Should be a good social occasion and you can expect tea to be served for this most English of afternoon entertainments, even if the game was invented in America by Alfred Mosher Butts.

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Another fun month which included the communications person. As you can see from second Local Joint Committee meeting to above, she has got a challenge on.... discuss the 2L service. But more of that Shropshire Council were also represented. shortly. The usual rash of breakdowns Madge Shineton, the Chair, asked for continues leavened with other adventures – questions and comments to be delivered never let it be said that travelling with initially to Diamond. And they were. Lots of Diamond is dull. them. And none were complimentary. Person One morning, passengers arrived to board after person spoke passionately about the the early bus to Kiddy to find the driver and a effects of the poor timekeeping and supervisor peering at vapour coming from unreliability on passengers, especially the the back of the bus. When they boarded, the elderly and students who are having their supervisor repeatedly asked for all the education disrupted. The attitude of many of windows to be opened to prevent 'the fumes the drivers was also questioned. At times, the getting to the driver'. These attempts appear Diamond representatives turned quite red to have failed as although things went well (and it wasn't just the heat) and seemed until the steep climb up into Far Forest (the surprised that their buses were ever one with the solid white line and blind bend problematic quoting a recent official at the top) when the driver decided to inspection of the Kidderminster depot which overtake the vehicle in front... True, this was had revealed only one small problem. Clearly only a digger but in an ailing Diamond bus they need to get out more. with a lorry coming the other way? - no, me The conversation then covered the neither. Still the lorry was missed (just) and convoluted route, which Diamond said was Bewdley was reached in one piece caused by the fact that the 2 service was run whereupon the driver dismounted for 15 on a commercial basis but the 2L was minutes for a fag, presumably to settle his subsidised and any extra passengers picked nerves. History does not relate how the up on the way round helped their financial passengers felt. position. This might be true if they did pick Just this week, passengers caught the 9.38 up extra passengers but as they rarely do, I into Ludlow with no problems and intended don't think this argument works. The to return on the 12.20. Departure time came Shropshire Council representative gave an and went with no sign of a bus until excellent explanation of the background and eventually, a passer by told them that the why we are where we are with this service service wasn't picking up from Corve Street and seemed genuinely concerned that things as roadworks meant it had to return by the were as bad as they are.The reason that same route it arrived and was picking up at Shropshire pay 80% of the subsidy on the 2L Tesco. There was no notice at the stop and the route was finally explained (after months of driver that had delivered them had said refusals to discuss it) in about 30 seconds as nothing. As they were not psychic and had this only covers the stretch from Bewdley to failed to divine that this was the case, they Ludlow, most of which is in Shropshire. had to wait for the 2.20. When this arrived I spoke to the Shropshire Council and they asked the driver why nothing had representative after the meeting and he seems been said, he became abusive and said he was determined to get this situation sorted, even if 'only the driver'. Another PR triumph for it means creating a fresh contract with a Diamond. different operator although any solution is Which brings me on to the LJC meeting on clearly dependent on sufficient funding being 23rd March with the 2L discussion lasting a available. full 2 hours. Diamond were represented by their Operations Director and two staff from Steve Todd their Kidderminster depot including their

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IMPRESSIVE PEDELECS roads, with some very serious alternative if you have a short cyclists, and found the ease of journey to work. It is presented travel a revelation. Would you as a City Bike and you can see believe climbing Farlow Bank that as its natural place. with little effort? That’s quite a The big advantage of these two test. extremes in a new market is that I took a ride around the they are regarded as bicycles so farmyard on the same bike. It’s long as they have limited speed just like riding a normal pedal and power - 15mph and 250 cycle, with Bosch motor Watts, which both do. So no assistance all the time you’re need for a driving licence, road pedalling. Stop pedalling and tax or insurance, though you you coast, touch the brakes would need a strong sense of levers lightly and you stop. First mortality before you tried to join time I’ve ridden one of this new the big tractors and Mitsubishi Contrast in styles.On the left is the transport offerings and I was Shoguns on local roads. Treat sporty KTM, with 11-speed gearset, well impressed. And the quality them as a serious means of guidance system and hydraulic disc of the build and all the travel or play and they make a brakes. On the right the totally accessories were really good. At lot of sense. Sense of fun, that is. different approach of the Ebco city £2500 it’s the top of the range Just dress sensibly and wear a style, with seven speeds, an upright unless you’re into serious helmet, because falling off at riding position and the ability to competition, but you could even 15mph can hurt. carry luggage as well. tackle almost any hill, up and Dave is also expecting the Shropshire Quads at Neen down, with complete Italian made and styled Benelli Savage have taken a further step confidence. range, which offers a range from into electric transport. One of The more sober alternative is shopper to super sports. All with the first quad bike specialists to the Ebco, looking like the pedal Italian flair; the pictures look stock electric versions, Dave cycles you see in thousands in gorgeous. Johnson has now expanded the Holland. Upright riding Electric power is making big range with electric bicycles. The position, sensible mudguards inroads in car transport. Scooters trade they call them pedelecs. and for the business commuter and mopeds are well established The first stock in was from the or shopper a set of panniers that and they don’t directly pollute Austrian off-road specialist will fit over the rear mounted the atmosphere. You can see KTM, who have a very good battery. It comes with a range of some of the future at Neen name for their bicycles and gear sets, from three to seven, Savage and Dave is always a motorcycles. Dave has done and prices start from £990, straight talker, not at all a sharp some riding around the local which makes it an affordable salesman after a quick buck.

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Page 52 Clarion Clippings - The Local News THE READING GROUP THEATRE AT FARLOW received a cheque to the value A triumph for our February AND ORETON of £934.00. read “Crooked Letter, Crooked Theatre comes to the Farlow My thanks go to the captains Letter” by Tom Franklin, it met village hall at 8.00 on Saturday and players of the teams at The with 100% approval. Set in rural the 9th of this month, with ‘The Lion, Bell, Talbot and Sports Mississippi about 30 years ago, Iranian Feast’. and Social Club. The lottery it immerses the reader in the It’s set in Tehran, where a players at The Bell donated landscape, people and local family are working out how life £270 to the fund. politics of a small decaying will be in the future. English Roger Gittins, Secretary/Treasurer town. Although dealing with players, Persian food, modern THE POPPY APPEAL 2015 murder, the story is more about setting - great mix of variety. The Poppy Appeal has so far poverty, prejudice, parenting Tickets are £10, bookable on raised £5419.57. May I pass on and friendship. The main 01746 718642. the thanks from the Appeal to characters, Larry and Silas are COCO COFFEE all the businesses who allowed richly defined as we follow MORNINGS us to place collection boxes on them through youth to their counters. My thanks to the These are held in the Market adulthood when the loneliness collectors, schools and all who Hall on the second and fourth of Larry becomes did a grand job in raising such a Wednesday of every month, heartbreaking. The Southern magnificent total. from 10.00 to 12.00. Everyone is dialogue is authentic, Roger Gittins (P.A.O.) made very welcome and where descriptions vivid and social else can you get a slice of HOBSON’S WIN AGAIN relations realistic. A moral In March the Society of Independent homemade cake and tea or dilemma has to be resolved, Brewers (announced the winners of coffee for £1.50? If you want a their Business and Industry Awards, which makes the reader reflect slice of Audrey’s legendary at the BeerX event in Sheffield. on life and how one decision coffee walnut cake, arrive early! Hobson’s fought off tough can alter many lives. A slow competition to take the acclaimed Catherine Evans burner of a novel but a marketing award for its Tasting THE SUNDAY LEAGUE Room. recommended read. "Hobsons had clearly realised their This month we are reading CHARITY FUND vision to create an enhanced visitor “Child That Books Built”, a Last year the Sunday League experience at their brewery by biography by Francis Spufford Charity Fund donated 90 developing a sustainable tasting room. percent of the funds raised to The visitors centre and tasting room is and we meet to discuss it on not only a huge marketing asset for the Monday April 18th at 7.30pm, in MacMillan Cancer Support, brewery, but an example of what can be the library Nightingale Nurses and done on a limited budget when social media and other public relations Deana Kimber 271754 Cleobury Compassionate Communities. They each activities are utilised effectively" commented the panel of judges.

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Page 54 The Farming Page - John and Catherine Evans of Broome Park Farm Who can believe Easter has already return in December, check all the been and gone yet it doesn’t really feel movements on and off the farm and like Spring yet! The daffodils have that all the records are up to date. Not been out since January, alongside the so easy when there are over 1100 ewes snowdrops and primroses but it has and 500 store lambs and rented land been too cold and wet to plant has a different holding number to the anything in the garden or the fields. rest of the farm so every time sheep are Finally the ground is drying up and moved from one part to another a ploughing has started for the spring movement form is needed, as well as planting. Yet to plant there are beans, when sheep are bought or sold. Each fodder beet, spring barley and a whole ewe has a unique number and two crop pea and barley mix to cut as silage electronic ear tags, fortunately lambs for the beef cattle. This is a change don’t need tagging until later. from the usual maize crop and Hopefully everything was as it should hopefully be ready for harvesting in be but a huge amount of paperwork August rather than late October for and not really farming. maize. Here at Broome Park the last two pigs As the weather is dry there is also lots are in the freezer (very tasty sausages of spraying to do, keeping the weeds and bacon) and have been replaced by down and preventing diseases but two new piglets, named Hillary and John is happy to get out and about in Donna as a nod to the elections over his self-propelled sprayer. the pond. The cattle have been TB The end of March brought a sheep tested and passed which is always a inspection. This is a spot check by the relief and we have two lambs on the Rural Payments Agency to see if we bottle, always popular with guests. have what was declared at the annual John and Catherine Evans

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Appointment of our new Head Teacher

At the end of this summer term we will be sorry to say goodbye to our Head Teacher, Mrs Avis Pounder, who will be retiring. Mrs Pounder has led the school for over fifteen years, and has helped the school grow from only a handful of students to a thriving, outstanding school with 110 pupils. Mrs Pounder says, “I knew when I started at Bayton that I had found my niche. Bayton is a wonderful community. I could not have asked for better support throughout my tenure here, from parents, pupils, staff and Governors to the wider community. I shall miss so much but know that the school will be going from strength to strength under the leadership of the new Headteacher”.

After a gruelling interview process our interview panel were delighted to appoint Mrs Helen Hoarle who is currently the Headteacher at Grimley and Holt School. The interview day was extremely intense with a wide range of tasks and presentations, including a question and answer session with our very own School Council children, but the candidates all survived and we wish those who were not successful all the best in their next interview.

Mrs Hoarle will be coming into Bayton School several times over the next few months so that the handover can be as effective as possible. It will be lovely to welcome her in more relaxed circumstances than the interview day!

This process would not have been possible without our Governing Body, especially with Becci Godwin as Chair, who worked tirelessly to put together the whole interview process, from compiling questions for interview to observing candidates teaching in their own settings.

We currently have places available in our year 2 class. For further details about our school, contact the office on 01299 832393. Alternatively, visit our brand new website at www.baytonprimaryschool.co.uk

Page 57 Page 58 Clarion Clippings - The Local News How good to read the plaudits the Youth Project brings to Mary's and the Methodist Hall, for Mark Greaves in the last young people; our act of faith supported by the Methodist Clarion edition. He deserves was that we believed we would Church as their contribution to them. He works for St Mary’s be able to find the funding to the Project’s work. All this is Youth Project, and is employed move the youth project forward. part of an even wider range of by St Mary's Parochial Church With a great deal of hard work work that comes from St Mary's, Council. we have been able to find the like the Pastoral Care Group The Church is often seen as funding from donations. Last who work with Cleobury's out of touch with what goes on year we were able to secure Compassionate Communities in its surrounding area, but funding from the Diocese of team visiting the ill, the frail, the among the local community and Hereford to expand the work to lonely. A group take assemblies in St Mary’s Youth Project, we include families as well, in the Primary School once a have an excellent example of bringing in another full time week; we help run the Lent and The Church at work. If you get worker to take over some of Advent lunches, again bringing the chance to talk to Mark, ask Mark’s activities. people together in relationship. what is the secret of his work. Mark is infectious. He seizes In the bible Jesus says thirteen The likely answer is that he opportunities to engage in times 'Follow me'. In St Mary’s helps to build strong schemes to help all youngsters, Youth Project and the church, relationships with all those he like the mentoring programme Mark and others are doing that, comes into contact with. No he has set up in the local and it makes a difference to doubt he will be willing to share schools, drawing in members of why faith drives him. The Church to support him. He individual lives. Find Mark at: The PCC have faith in the finds time to organise and lead The Hub @ The Methodist Hall – value of the relationships that informal worship times in St Youth Drop-in: Tuesdays.

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