24th February 2018 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 newspaper for East Northamptonshire news www.nenevalleynews.co.uk Rushden Kettlebell Oundle School says In Brief lifting competition goodbye to long-serving Welcome to our a great success employee readers in Islip Inside... Page 5 Page 7 Healthy eating on the menu in East Northants Four more food businesses in East Northamptonshire are now award experience and currently offers relaxed festival e’re pleased food for events. Paula Marshall, Co-owner of winners for offering healthy eating options on their menus. to announce Stanley Street Eats, said: “We are thrilled to have Wthat from 24th received the gold award and have had positive February residents of feedback from our customers already. I attended Islip will receive a copy he caterers are recognised for their menu customers to make healthy choices when eating ENC’s nutrition course, which I found really helpful of Nene Valley News choices through a healthy eating scheme out, is assessed and managed by Trading and informative. It helped us to focus on our directly to their home. Tknown as Eat Out Eat Well. Standards, local Environmental Health teams and cooking processes and the ingredients we use to Over the last few years The Eat Out Eat Well Award, developed to Public Health. It has three levels – bronze, silver, optimise the healthier options. It is important for KM Media and Marketing reward caterers who make it easier for their and gold. our customers to be able to purchase food and be has continually grown East Northamptonshire Council (ENC) has confident it is good for them and taste great too.” the distribution area of awarded four more businesses with the nationally Love Food JM Ltd offers hot school meals to a the paper to include recognised award: number of schools in the district. Mandy Love and new developments as • Stanley Street Eats (Barnwell) achieved gold Jacqui Kilkerr set up the business in 2014 when well as some of the • Love Food JM Ltd (district) achieved silver they felt school dinners needed to change. smaller villages in the • Jamaica Blue (Rushden Lakes) achieved bronze Managing Director, Mandy, said: “We have area. Nene Valley News • Rose and Crown Public House (Rushden) worked very hard with ENC’s help to achieve our has a distribution figure achieved bronze silver award and we are on track to achieve gold! of over 34,000 copies The level of award is based on a scoring We worked in conjunction with the school, the fortnightly, which are system (bronze 80-100, silver 101-119 and gold children, parents and our Environmental Health delivered door-to-door 120+) that takes into account the type of food on officer to create a menu that was chosen by the as well as a further 2,000 offer, cooking methods, and how the meals are children but endorsed by the adults, and healthier copies which are bulk promoted to customers. options were created from what the children dropped to high footfall Stanley Street Eats has over 20 years of catering wanted to see on their menu.” areas around the district. For more information on Eat Out Eat Well in East Northamptonshire, including a list of those who have To contact our team received the award, visit www.east-northamptonshire.gov.uk/EOEW call 01522 513515 or To find out how your food business can apply for and receive the award, please contact the Council’s email us at advertising@ Health Protection Team on [email protected] or 01832 742055. nenevalleynews.co.uk. AN INDEPENDENT PREPARATORY SCHOOL Visit the School in our ‘The quality of the pupil’s achievements Open Week and learning is excellent’. 16th April 2018 ISI inspection report January 16 FOR GIRLS & BOYS AGED 3-11 YEARS Telephone: 01536 512066 Email: [email protected] www.st-peters.org.uk 02 To submit your news story or event visit www.nenevalleynews.co.uk or call 01522 513515 24/02/18 Genealogy jottings Editor’s notes t is very tempting to think that our ancestors By Jan Pearson ur article on village or town so please increase to our Council did everything in the correct order – Genealogy Specialists, Tracing Our Past, Titchmarsh’s let us know what’s in the Tax by almost 6% – the Imarriage first and then had the babies. But Discovering Our Genes (TOP DOG) 100-year-old offing. maximum allowed without oh no..... nothing as simple as that! My great www.genealogy-specialists.com O grandmother was born six months before apple trees illustrates the We now have a little recourse to a referendum. her parents wed. A good clue that it was her great work being done more clarity about the However, as we go to father that her mother married was the name Man’s Divorce’! This was fine as long as you around the District to County Council’s proposed press, there is yet more with which she was baptised – her middle didn’t get caught as if you did, the penalties commemorate the end of position on cuts to services confusion. The Council’s name was the surname of her father. A could be severe. Prison sentences were the First World War. The because of their dire auditors, KPMG, have handy hint to remember if you ever discover usually given for proven cases of bigamy – original providers of the financial situation. The said the budget does not ancestors with unusual middle names. most often for the man, but sometimes for the trees were certainly far- major points are: Library balance and that it could When searching for a marriage, we usually woman. sighted, philanthropic and services will continue breach the Local Audit and start with the birth of the oldest child and Another reason for not marrying might be practical and the members pretty much as they are for Accountability Act 2014; then have a rummage a couple of years consanguinity – how close the couple were of Titchmarsh History another year, except the they believe the council either way of that date. Folk usually married already related. It was illegal to marry your Association deserve great mobile service which (in its is relying too heavily on just before – or just after – that oldest child’s dead wife’s sister – it took the Deceased credit for finding such an current form at least) will takings from selling off birth. However, how many times have you not Wife’s Sister Act of 1907 to overturn this – excellent way to mark the stop, but thereafter local land and buildings – funds been able to find a marriage at all around that but I have a couple of those in my tree who centenary. Let’s hope that communities will have to which are not guaranteed. time? This could be for a variety of reasons managed to escape punishment! Also, you the village’s new trees last foot the bills for utilities and From the outside, it looks – a very real possibility being that one of the could not marry your dead brother’s widow at least another 100 years. by April 2020 all County like the fundamentals of parties was still married to someone else! I until 1921. This article highlights Council funding will cease. managing a large and have an example in my tree, where a couple Don’t forget that women who had been the topic of the 100th Subsidies for bus services complex organisation were living together as married but then a wed previously would now be married under anniversary of the end of will be reduced by around are being ignored as the wedding suddenly happened over 20 years that married name and not their maiden the Great War and what’s 50%, with the on-demand Council lurches from one later than they were first found together. Yes, name – a little confusing when checking birth being done across the County Connect and crisis to the next! We will one of them had been married before and the certificates, as the mother’s maiden name is District to remember those Call Connect services know more when the spouse had finally died! Bigamy – the ‘Poor recorded! who gave their lives in the continuing but subject to external investigation of conflict. Not surprisingly, review in order to make their finances produces its as we report elsewhere them more cost effective. report. Meanwhile we can The Life and Adventures of Dick Turpin in this edition, the Royal Trading Standards will but reiterate our sympathy he Denford Thespians’ the militia Major Overhall Majesty King George II British Legion will be taking suffer a one-third cut in for the Council’s staff who brand new panto as they try to bring Turpin himself. And, of course, the a leading role but we would funding. And, perhaps have to endure so much Tby regular writers to justice. Matters are Bee Gees… like to hear more about most importantly for each uncertainty about their Will Adams and Peter complicated when Mutton’s So join us at 7.30pm on what’s planned in your of us, there will be an future employment. Fairweather takes as its daughter Mercy falls for the Monday 5th to Saturday subject the folk hero and dastardly Turpin. But then 10th March as the Great notorious highwayman Dick one robbery goes badly North Road is re-routed Turpin. wrong, and Turpin becomes through Denford Village Hall On the eve of his execution a thoroughgoing felon – and and Turpin, on his famous in York Gaol, he tells his the puns are pretty criminal (hobby) horse Black Bess, life history to a group of too.