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INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Magazine Celebrates Milestone Opencast Protest March Millennium Chairman Award Sir Thomas Boughey welcomes residents communityAudley news 2003 - 2013 ISSUE: 40 JUNE 2013 DONATIONS WELCOME Your local Newsletter to service the needs of the people from the parish of Audley. TING 1 A 0 Y BR E E A L R E S C year10 issue - 20 PARISH COUNCIL AwARD TO 2003 13 MILLENNIUM GREEN TRUST [email protected] Web: www.audleycommunitynews.co.uk EDITOR: E Moulton AdvertiSEMENTS Potteries Building Supplies Your local Calor Gas supplier Portable heaters Patio heaters BBQs FREE LOCAL Caravans DELIVERY Forklift trucks CALL Logs for sale 01782 Winter rocksalt 562222 www.pbsupplies.co.uk [email protected] Turner Crescent, off Loomer Road Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffs, ST5 7JZ (OFF LOOMER ROAD) ‘The Swan’ Chapel Street Bignall End The Stove Linda & Paul are your hosts Emporium * E ME BL A A T L S I N A V O W A A W V O A N I Live TV Sport L S A T B A L E E BBQM Pool / Darts / Dominoes * Teams required see Linda or Paul GLUTEN FREE OAT CAKES & SAUSAGES NOW AVAILABLE Real Ales - £2.75 per pint 6 Guest Beers available Quality local & home reared 3 - Ciders BEEF, LAMB, Eat for a “£1.00”every Wed 5.30pm to 8pm PORK & POULTRY. Local free range eggs. Meat Raffle Every Friday 01782 722432 01782 720622 56 Church Street, Audley. [email protected] FEATURES 3 Hello readers. I also have to thank all my volunteers, Welcome to our 40th issue. especially Sue, my assistant editor, Contents: Well despite all the problems we have whom I so rely upon to get me through News had over the years, we have managed to the bad days during our meetings at the Views get through ten years of News & Views Audley & District Community Centre. Sports from our parish of Audley. My spelling has improved a hundred Recipes Where on earth has ten years gone? fold all due to my two proof readers, Memories from the past I recall back in 2003 sitting at home Margaret Pointon and Linda Coleing. Poetry & Rhyme wondering what to do with my spare What a wonderful job they both do, Forthcoming events time. I had recently left the Wood Lane always putting me on the right tracks. School information Newsletter, a pastime I had thoroughly Our latest volunteer, Chris Tunnicliffe, Readers letters enjoyed for a couple of years. has brought a new dimension to the look Bereavements As with most things in life, there is of our magazine and with his graphic always a time to leave and find a fresh skills we soon hope to have our new Editor: E. Moulton outlook. When picking my phone up website back on track. Tel: 01782 721565 so late that night to call Sarah Bonam, There are many more who have been Address: who was then working in the old council of help to me during the past ten years 23 Wood Street Bignall End Stoke on offices in the village, helping to bring and without their help I could not have Trent Staffs ST7 8QL Broadband into our village and running published the magazine. Assistant Editor: Sue Wykes a computer learning course, I asked I therefore wish to say a very big thank Reporter: Margaret Pointon her for advice on how to start my own you to everyone. Now let’s see if we can Proof Readers: Linda Coleing Community Newsletter. I had never get through maybe another ten years, Margaret Pointon envisaged it would have still been fingers crossed. Design: Chris Tunnicliffe published and also as successful as it is today. We are always on the lookout for help Printed at Rowtype of Milton. I have so much to thank Sarah for, her or just information with regards to our help was invaluable. I had no computer, parish, events, celebrations and news. Remember you can subscribe to this nowhere to meet and no funding. Our contact details are on this page. magazine, contact the Editor. Sarah was so helpful and I still think We are more than happy to visit you and that this village lost a very knowledgeable help you write your article, but we need Editors appeal person who gave loads of her time you to contact us. Has anyone got spare copies of issue 1. to help the people of our village and Enjoy our celebration edition. 4 and 5 of the Audley Historian to help especially the youth of our village to gain Ernie Moulton / Editor. with my collection, I’m happy to pay for facilities we would have never received. them. Tel: 01782 721565. New Ventures for Audley & District Community Centre Film Morning by local school students 1. Audley Community Centre, in conjunction with the pupils 07946734008. at Sir Thomas Boughey high school, are hoping to start a film More information to follow in your next copy of the ACN. morning on the last Saturday morning of the month at the community centre. Starting Saturday 28th September 2013. 2. A blood donor session will be held between 11am and The pupils will be running the event with minimal 8-30pm on Friday 14th June 2013 at the community centre. contribution/involvement of the “grown ups”. This will involve the hiring of films, setting up the room, a 3. There is a Police and Parish Council surgery at the tuck shop, putting away and cleaning up after the event and community centre at 10am on the first Wednesday of the the keeping of accounts for both the entry fee and tuck shop. month where they will be able to assist anyone with enquiries. We at the centre are quite excited about this new venture This is subject to operational duties. for the youth of our village and will be giving the premises free for the first year. 4. From 14th June 2013 the postal address of the centre Although minimal adult interference is envisaged, we will be: will of course want some adult supervision/assistance, so if Audley and District Community Centre, Castle Hill, Audley, anyone wants to volunteer for a couple of hours call Ron on Stoke-on-Trent, ST7 8DH. Disclaimer: The publishers of the Audley Community News do not endorse or guarantee any products or services advertised, or agree with the views or opinions expressed by contributors. Responsibility cannot be accepted for factual errors, omissions, or spelling mistakes. To advertise or to submit items for publication call 01782 721565 or you can e-mail audleycommunitynews@ yahoo.co.uk 4 FEATURES AUDLEY COMMAudleyUN CommunityITY NEW NewsS Great Oak Protester March Despite the inclement weather, on Saturday March 16th, a It is believed they are as we say around here, up to their large group of local residents who were also joined on route eyeballs in debt. by other local residents went on a peaceful protest march The group’s march journeyed from the Audley & District from the Audley & District Community Centre, to show their Community Centre, down New Road Bignall End then on up disapproval of the proposed Great Oak Opencast site which Bignall Hill, they crossed over to walk the public footpath to the can be found just below the Wedgwood Memorial Monument, proposed Opencast land. on Bignall Hill. They gathered and held a minute’s silence in memory The site is a local beauty spot, with views to die for. The of the dead miners and then a poem was read which had plant life and wild life will be decimated, with trees over 100 been written by our local Poet Derrick Bate, dedicated to the years old torn out, never to be seen again. This area is a memory of the lost miners, which can be read below. walkers’ paradise and it would be a tragedy to change the looks of this precious local beauty spot. More important is that this is a very sensitive area, with 77 Great Oak men and boys losing there lives in the tragic Diglake Mining Gaining momentum the fight has begun disaster in 1895 and most of the bodies are still buried in the With battle lines drawn its course is to run. flooded mine which is located within the proposed open cast At stake is tradition, near to Great Oak land at Great Oak Bignall End. Where hopes for the future could go up in smoke. Why can’t they just leave these men and their families in UK Coal has proposed a site excavation peace, do UK Coal not think they have suffered enough. A blot on the landscape and much devastation The strange thing is how small the amount of coal that To the fury of all making a stand UK coal would be extracting, if planning permission is given, in To prevent untold damage to their treasured land. comparison to the large amount used in power stations, this is the equivalent to a few shovelfuls. Commercial interests often prevail Do the protesters believe in what they are being told by UK “Not this time” say opponents who plan to derail coal, that they will only be extracting from one part of the site The plans to extract deposits of coal and leaving around 400,000 tons of coal on the opposite side Leaving behind an unsightly hole. of the road to Great Oak, NO THEY DON’T THINK SO! Questions being asked reveal so much fear Also what will happen to the site if permission is given to The attraction of landfill abundantly clear. Opencast? And what of the bodies, so long entombed Will our village end up having another Water Hayes, In the Diglake disaster, men and boys sadly doomed.