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Trio Jailed for 30 Years for Drug Deals Worth Millions 28th January 2017 www.nenevalleynews.co.uk facebook.com/NeneValleyNews @NeneValleyNews Telephone: 01522 513515 We want to hear from you, so please submit your news story or event at NeneYour local independent community Valley www.nenevalleynews.co.uk newspaper for East Northamptonshire news Nene Valley Bird Haven In Brief Business created at Rick’s challenge News Stanwick Lakes ick Shortle has signed up to Rcontest the Page 8 Page 9 FF1600 Champion of Inside... Brands series, the Walter Hayes Trophy meeting, Silverstone and selected races at Donington. Trio jailed for 30 years for Rick, now in his sixties, has made a comback to raise funds for his friend Noel Wilson, who was diagnosed with Multiple drug deals worth millions Sclerosis five years ago. To read all about his a four-day period totalling up to half a Friday 20th January 2017 all three Three men have been jailed for nearly 30 years story and see how you can kilogram of cocaine, worth £14,640. were jailed as follows: Steven John help, just visit the link. combined after a street deal in Northamptonshire Even more significantly, what also Ellis, of Mill Road in Bozeat, pleaded http://www.crowdfunder. emerged was Ellis’ involvement in guilty to conspiracy to supply Class exposed an organised Class A supply chain. co.uk/rick-shortle-racing- a supply chain dating back to 2012 A drugs and being concerned in the for-noel-motor-sport-ms/ involving more than 60kg of cocaine supply of Class A drugs. He was supply with other sub-dealers. At sentenced to nine years and four New homes soon n November 2014 three local men Ellis, Shaun Davies, aged 43 and Jack street level purity the cocaine would months for the first count and 13 years were arrested by Northamptonshire Gentle, aged 25. have been worth over £3million. and four months for the second, to run to be available rand Union IPolice after a quantity of cocaine Further enquiries by the East During the investigation, officers concurrently. He was also sentenced Housing Group was seized by police on a Rushden Midlands Special Operations Unit attempted to stop Gentle while he to eight months for a POCA offence. (GUHG) is set to street. (EMSOU) revealed two further drove his Audi along John Street, Shaun Eugene Davis, of G deliver the first new homes The men were 44-year-old Steven transactions between the group over Rushden. During the attempt, Gentle Woodpecker Drive in Billing for Rockingham Forest fled from the car and was stopped at Aquadrome, admitted being Housing (RFH) since a nearby toilet block where he was concerned in the conspiracy to supply they joined the Group in attempting to dispose of the car keys of Class A drugs. He received eight November. down the toilet. A search of his car years and four months. He was also RFH will manage the revealed 122.51g of cocaine. sentenced to three months to be schemes when they are A subsequent search of his house served consecutively, for failing to completed towards the revealed scales and a further 5.59g of disclose his phone PIN, which is an end of February. Cherry cocaine. Also seized from the house offence under the RIPA Act. Street, Ringstead is made were 1195g of drying cannabis and Jack Andrew Gentle, of Crabb up of four two-bedroom growing plants. Street in Rushden, also admitted his maisonettes, while the Davis was later arrested and found part in the conspiracy to supply Class site at Church End Road, to be in possession of £1,052 cash. A drugs, along with the production Braybrooke is made up When Ellis was arrested, officers and supply of cannabis after a grow of four three-bedroom seized £1,090 from him, and later was discovered at his home. He was homes. All are available for discovered £2,450 at his home. imprisoned for four years and seven Shared Ownership. At Northampton Crown Court on months. RECEPTION OPEN MORNING 9.30am – 11.30am Call or email Ms Lesley Taylor, Registrar T: 01832 277159 Friday 3rd February 2017 E: [email protected] www.laxtonjunior.org.uk Come and experience the teaching and learning in our An inspiring independent Reception classes. co-educational day school for children aged 4-11 years. 02 To submit your news story or event visit www.nenevalleynews.co.uk or call 01522 513515 28/01/17 Genealogy jottings Editor’s notes hen I was working full time, I used By Jan Pearson ast Northants that this is an odd thing had been fixed, engineers to drive over 20,000 miles a year – Genealogy Specialists, Tracing Our Past, Council’s work on for ENC to be spending visited homes to ensure Wplus travelling by train to London, Discovering Our Genes (TOP DOG) the Local Plan, which our money on but early that the gas supply was Glasgow and Cardiff for meetings. I have www.genealogy-specialists.com E never (until recently) lived and worked in the is mentioned elsewhere in support for those with flowing safely; generally, same town. However, most of our ancestors this edition, is particularly financial problems can this happened on Saturday always lived and worked in the same town or job, they would have no home. important for all of us living save public money in the but not surprisingly there village. Hardly any had the luxury of cars once I see a lot of children walking to and from in the District. It will give longer-term because other were a few problems they had been invented – or even a horse and school each day, which is nothing new. Back the Council the chance forms of support, or even gaining access to cart. Shanks’ pony was the order of the day! along, schoolchildren were always expected to review the way local court proceedings, won’t empty properties. There Have you ever looked into where your to walk to and from their place of study – no development goes ahead be needed. Perhaps we follows the question of folk lived and worked? If they were miners, large cars to bring them to the village school! up to 2031 and, among should be grateful that we compensation for the loss for instance, where was the nearest mine My grandmother and her siblings used to other things, the outcome don’t have to make the of supply; Citizens Advice in relation to where they were living in the walk on their own – from the age of 3 or 4, will have a major influence decisions about where the state that, if your gas is censuses? It was not uncommon for a man to no less! – from their cottage into the nearest on the development of funding goes. cut off for more than 24 walk six miles to work, do a day’s hard labour village, four miles away and think nothing of Neighbourhood Plans, of There was consternation hours, £30 per day can be and then walk the six miles home again. it. I know – roads were quieter then, not as which there are 15 being in Oundle last Thursday claimed from the company Every day of the week except Sundays. Once much traffic, and we live a much faster pace developed across the morning as residents responsible for the gas the railways had been built, travelling from of life these days. However, take a peek at District. We aim to keep you woke to find that their gas pipes connecting to your the countryside into the towns and cities was old maps and see where your ancestors up to date with progress supply had been cut off. home but you must claim certainly easier, but not everyone wanted to lived in relation to work, schools – or even but if you need to get in National Grid were onto within one month. However, do that. Maybe your ancestors worked the the nearest public house! You may well be touch with the Local Plan the problem quickly, albeit National Grid have land and lived in tied cottages – without the surprised. team at ENC their contact there were initial mixed posted on their specially details are in the article. messages about whether established webpage Another ENC related householders should turn that they will be writing to Thrapston Plaza Opera – story in this edition covers off the gas at the mains everyone explaining how the further funding of the themselves or wait for an compensation will be paid. Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onégin Community Law Service engineer to attend. The Perhaps those affected hrapston Plaza Opera, founded by about 30 performing members for each main Debt Advice service based town was soon flooded should give the company local musician Vincent Davy in 2010 is production, including auditioned principals in Rushden but offering with National Grid staff and a couple of weeks to get now just entering its seventh season. who sometimes come from as far afield as free support to those with the problem was identified their house in order before T as a fault in equipment pursuing their own claims The aim of the group has always been to Birmingham and Cambridge. Even rank and financial problems across offer local singers the opportunity to perform file chorus members come not just from the District. Doubtless, regulating the local flow ahead of the one month fully staged ‘grand opera’ with trained Thrapston but other towns and villages within many readers will feel of gas. Once the problem deadline. soloists taking principal roles, accompanied a 20-mile radius. by an orchestra and presented in The This season, the chosen work, Thrapston Plaza at an affordable ticket price.
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