A new email address - to send stories, future events etc., please email editor@CommunityNews.eu
2. Stop Press: Wind Farm Appeal Rejected
3. Welcome to our new Local Police Constable
4. Hugo Meynell Summer Fayre a great success - £1400 raised
5. Dorothy Clive Entertains Himalayan Lily – She’s a Stunner
6. The Community First Responders Need YOU - see enclosed flyer!
7. Annual Re-enactment - Battle of Blore Heath 1459 - September 19th / 20th 2009
8. A SUPER OFFER FOR BUDDING GARDENERS - SHARE A GARDEN - New Style Gardening!
9. DIDN’T WE ALL DO WELL! - ASHLEY COMMUNITY FESTIVAL OF FLOWERS AND MUSIC
10. “Summer Activities” - A large programme of summer events for young people, aged from 4 to 18+
11. Tadgedale Brook Play Builder Scheme - more Reader reaction:
12. Midsummer Mayhem Sunday 9th August 11.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. Lyme Valley Recreation Park Newcastle
13. Ashley Garden Guild are raising funds with a Cream Tea - Saturday 21st August from 2.00 to 5.00 p.m.
14. LOGGERHEADS & DISTRICT VOLUNTARY CAR SCHEME - see the accompanying flyer with all the details
15. Are you safely Wired? its FREE! - Electric Blanket Testing
16. LOGGERHEADS COMMUNITY INFORMATION SHOP - surgeries
17. LOGGERHEADS MOBILE COMMUNITY INFORMATION SHOP
18. “Community News” contact details
19. Skipping to a World Record?
20. BROUGHTON TENNIS CLUB
21. SUDOKU Puzzle
22. Would you like to volunteer to help tow the Loggerheads MOBILE Community Information Shop?
23. HANDY PHONE NUMBER LIST
24. Sign up to the “Community Information” email. Keep up to date with all the latest Local news
25. The Editor writes:
SAVE
THE FREDDIE !
Our family has lived at Oakley Hall, in the neighbourhood of Ashley/Loggerheads,
for 28 years. My son Freddie announced a few months ago to that he wanted
to audition for a “reality” television programme called “Big
Brother” which is a game show in which a group of typically young
people live in a TV studio “House” where their actions are
filmed by cameras 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
Each week the housemates nominate two of their fellow housemates with
one of them selected for eviction by way of phone-in voting open to the
TV audience. The competition continues until there is only one housemate
left, and that individual is rewarded with a substantial cash prize.
Our son, Freddie, was intrigued, in part, by the social experiment aspect
of the show. Freddie is a devout conservationist, learning a love of our
beautiful countryside from his early days at Mucklestone School. He subsequently
became a chorister at Lichfield Cathedral School, then Shrewsbury School
and ultimately won a place at Oxford where he majored in Politics, Philosophy
and Economics.
Freddie is an enthusiastic free thinker who during his years at Shrewsbury
was diagnosed with severe dyslexia. It was more than just poor spelling.
He had to learn many new skills and deploy other talents to compensate
for his real difficulties. Dyslexia does not go away. Today Freddie copes
well but does see the world in a very different way from most people.
This adds to his pronounced eccentricity, something which his housemates
have found annoying. To date they have “nominated” 
Freddie
each week (five times now) to be evicted from the House. Yet, each week
a fair minded and tolerant TV audience have voted to keep him in. The
drama continues. If you have any interest in Freddie’s continuing
odyssey and wish to express your own views please
follow the link below.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FREDDIE-FROM-BIG-BROTHER/88193742858?
Freddie Fisher III (Father)
(Freddie has done well on the show and is currently the favourite to win!
Ed)
Stop
Press: Wind Farm Appeal Rejected
Congratulations to VORTEX and every one else involved in the fight to
stop this development. Nuon UK Ltd have had their appeal to build 7
wind turbines on land at Lower Farm, Bearstone dismissed.
Welcome
to our new Local Police Constable PC 4628 Neil Coward replaces PC Ivan Crowley, and is now in post and will be covering Loggerheads and the rural area with PCSO 16266 Colin Hodgkinson Please remember - the Police non-emergency number is 0300 123 44 55 |
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Hugo Meynell Summer Fayre a great success - £1400 raised
Big thanks to all who attended Hugo Meynell’s School Summer Fayre.
We had the fire engine and police cars there and the sirens were definitely
tested! A lorry from DHL came along and highlighted the dangers of Lorries
and educated the younger ones how important road safety is. The Loggerheads
Information Shop was there and we had lots of fun stalls including ‘the
human fruit machine’ which went down a treat! There were many prizes
to be won too.
The £1400 raised on the days will be put towards school resources,
which will in turn benefit all. The recent PTFA spend bought in a huge
projector for the school hall, which is fantastic, and also, some whiteboards
for various classrooms. So, ALL money raised is really important as it
helps all our young children in their educational lives.
Everyone is welcome to our PTFA meetings and our next one will be on
Sept 24th at
7.30 p.m. in the school staff room. We look forward to seeing lots of
people there to help start planning our next events!
For more information, please contact Lisa on 01630 672750
or alternatively the school number 01630 672287
But you’ll have to hurry to see her before she dies!
Cardiocrinum Giganteum, the Giant Himalayan Lily, is in flower now
in the quarry at the Dorothy Clive Garden – it takes years
to flower, and then dies after flowering, but it does normally leave
three or four offsets in the soil which could flower in several
years time. |
 The
Community First Responders Need YOUOur local group is looking for volunteers – see enclosed flyer! |
Dorothy
Clive Entertains Himalayan Lily – She’s a Stunner |
A recreation of the events of 23 September 1459 when
forces hostile to King Henry VI met loyal supporters headed by
James Touchet, Lord Audley, at Blore Heath. This was the first
major battle of the Wars of the Roses, and is included in the
English Heritage Battlefields Register. |
A
SUPER OFFER FOR BUDDING GARDENERS
SHARE A GARDEN - New Style Gardening!
Do you want an allotment or an area to garden?
Plots on Loggerheads Allotments remained empty for many years, but now,
with the present climate of credit crunch and not knowing where food is
coming from or what has been done to it, there has been such an increase
in demand for plots that there is a waiting list! Perhaps the same could
be said in your area.
However, a couple of residents within the Loggerheads Parish area who
own large gardens are prepared to offer part of their garden as an allotment
plot, in exchange for a little general gardening – tidying flower
borders etc.
If you are interested, contact the Loggerheads
Community Information Shop on
01630 674365, or email info@loggerheads.eu
DIDN’T
WE ALL DO WELL!
ASHLEY COMMUNITY FESTIVAL OF FLOWERS AND MUSIC
The main aim of the Festival was to bring together as many people
as possible from the area and to open up the church as a community facility,
and the whole event, which took place from 5 to 8 June 2009, was a huge
success.
Thirty-three wonderful flower arrangements were designed and constructed
by people from five Flower Arranging clubs, five churches, Junior Church,
two schools, one college, Brownies and Guides, and Young Farmers. For
several days before the Festival opened, the church was teeming with
activity; even at 8.00 p.m. the night before, it looked like the aftermath
of a hectic day at Covent Garden, but when the doors opened at 10.00
a.m. the next day, the calmness, beauty and serenity belied the energy,
activity and sheer hard work that had gone into the creation of the
masterpieces.
And, of course, we had three major musical events – the Children’s
Concert, with delightful singing by the children of the Hugo Meynell
Primary School, the Community Concert and the Songs of Praise Service
during which many of they hymns which inspired the flower arrangements
were sung. At the Community Concert over forty singers from around the
area raised the roof with a programme that ranged from “Jerusalem”
to Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World”.
We offer our heartfelt thanks to all our sponsors, to our many visitors,
and, of course, to those from all parts of the local community who worked
so hard to make the event such a success.
You can see a record of the Community
Choir concert on www.youtube.com,
under “Ashleycommunitysings”, and a professionally compiled
CD showing the flower arrangements is available for £3.50 from
Linda Ellis on 01630 673331. Also visit www.whatson.org.uk
Sounds Easy Workshop – 5 September 2009
With the Community Choir, we know we have only scratched the surface
with singers in our community. Plenty of people who live here have considerable
experience of singing and plenty more would love to have a go but can’t
make the commitment or are too shy. Over the coming months, we would
like to encourage those people to just come and join us for a sing.
The Parish Church is organising a “Sounds Easy” workshop
on Saturday 5 September 2009 from 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. – no
pre rehearsals, nothing too difficult, just an opportunity to sing some
lovely music together and meet others from the community. If you are
on the edge of saying “yes”, please contact me and I will
send you the details – P.Shone@btinternet.com or telephone 01630
672538.
We will look at another “Community Choir” event with a concert
and lead in rehearsals perhaps early next year – if you are interested
in being kept informed, please contact me.
MAKING MUSIC LEAVES YOU WITH A LOVELY FEELING
– especially singing.
Peter Shone
“Summer
Activities” - A large programme of summer events for young people,
aged from 4 to 18+
Organised by Madeley and Audley Community & Learning Partnerships
Full details in a brochure available from LOGGERHEADS LIBRARY,
or a copy can be downloaded from www.whatsON.org.uk
or www.staffordshire.gov.uk/madeley
Tadgedale
Brook Play Builder Scheme - more Reader reaction: |
Dear Editor In reply to a further point raised by the 'anonymous' author, why doesn't he/she attend the Community Link Meetings or Parish Council Meetings where they can have their say before the meeting begins. Ed Martin has many ideas on the lines of a community centre and I'm sure he would welcome residents' input. It is no use sitting at home with these thoughts! - people need to make themselves heard. Better still why not call in to the Community Shop & leave Eric with your ideas? I am sure he can pass them on to the appropriate person. As we discussed at the last Community Link meeting - there does seem to be a lack of communication between the various groups and the residents. I, for one, never knew i could sit in on a Parish Council meeting until a few months ago! I do try to do just that when I can. Regards, Gill Allen, 11 Sharpland |
| Dear Editor I welcomed the inclusion of the article “TALKING AND LISTENING …..NOT SHOUTING”. I am one of the "silent majority" referred to as I don't have young children and I love living in our peaceful community. I participated in the Parish Plan, an excellent document, and agree with the finding that the main reason people enjoy living in Loggerheads is "peace and tranquillity." My interest is also that my house backs onto the brook. I have only lived in Loggerheads for 6 years and cannot comment on events of 20 years ago. However, as a teacher, I have spoken to children directly about the proposed play equipment and they responded that they would not like play equipment near to their houses because of the anti social behaviour it attracts. The children I teach are responsible and perceptive about the realities of modern day life. They did agree with the views of local residents, and those expressed in the Parish Plan, that encouraging flora and fauna is the way forward. Planting a wide variety of plants and shrubs would appeal and attract more species of wildlife and birds. Better pathways would improve access for all and information boards would assist children in enjoying nature and in becoming proactive about environmental and ecological issues. This scheme would also meet the Borough Council's own regulations that no equipment of a play/leisure variety can be located within 10 metres of a boundary fence. As to a football pitch: perhaps the pitch in the Burntwood could be developed to fulfil this aim? I believe that we all want to enjoy the rural nature of our community and that residents would support a proposal that encourages more interest in nature whilst preserving our tranquil environment. Yours sincerely, Julie Dunlevy |
| (Editor’s note: It also said in the Parish Plan that one of the five visions for the future is that residents of all ages should have equality of access to leisure, recreational and cultural facilities. Facilities for the children and youth of the area should be greatly improved. Surely the proposed Play Builder Scheme in four parts of the Parish is trying to address this vision) |
Midsummer
Mayhem Sunday 9th August 11.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. Lyme Valley
Recreation Park Newcastle FREE ENTRYLive performances - Climbing wall - Donkey rides -Fire Service Preservation Society Fairground rides - Refreshments - Special guests and lots, lots more
Something for everyone!!!!
During the day there will be lots of fun activities including donkey rides, children’s fun fair, land train, bouncy castle, climbing wall and an assault course. The Trent Valley Tribal’s will be performing along with the Gifted DJ Workshop and Graffiti Artist. There will also be FREE hair and beauty demonstrations and a chance to have a FREE head and hand massage aromatherapy session. Refreshments will also be available throughout the day.
 Ashley
Garden Guild are raising funds with a Cream Tea at32 Mucklestone Road, Loggerheads on Sat 21st August from 2.00 to 5.00 p.m. Admission £3 including cream tea. Also stalls, cakes etc. |
 LOGGERHEADS
& DISTRICT VOLUNTARY CAR SCHEMEThis service is now fully operational, see the accompanying flyer with all the details |
Are you safely Wired? its FREE! - Electric Blanket Testing
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service and Staffordshire County Council
will again be testing electric blankets in our area, and are urging
local 
residents
to take advantage of this free service by visiting one of the testing
centres.
Anyone who owns an electric blanket is invited to bring it along for
testing. Any blankets that fail the testing will not be handed back,
and if you are aged over 60, your failed blanket will be replaced for
free with either a single or double under blanket. Last year over 1500
blankets were tested and 40% of those failed the test.
Where to go for the service:
• Monday 7th September 9.45 a.m. - 12 noon and 2.00 p.m. - 4.00
p.m. at Newcastle Guildhall, High Street, Newcastle
• Tuesday 8 September 9.45 a.m.
- 12 noon at Ashley Fire Station, Church Road, Ashley
If you are unable to make it to one of the testing venues, blankets
can be dropped off at Ashley Fire Station on Wednesday
2nd September between 7.00 p.m. and 9.00 p.m. and collected again on
Wednesday 9th September between 7.00 p.m. and 9.00 p.m.
Alternatively, at Loggerheads Community Information
Shop in Loggerheads Library, blankets can be dropped of on Monday 7th
September between 11.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m. and collected again on Wednesday
9th September between 11.00 a.m. and 1.00 p.m.
For further information about the Electric Blanket Testing campaign,
please contact Nicola Wilson at Staffordshire County Council on 01785
277818.
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Who do you contact
for local information? Tel no:01630 674365 (Out of Hours - Answer Machine) |
We are open In Loggerheads Library
Mondays 10.00 a.m to 1.00 p.m. inc. Bank Holidays
Local Surgeries for Local People
Just Drop In - Mondays 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m
Monday 3rd Aug & 7th Sept - Adult and Community Learning Team
Monday 10th Aug & 14th Sept - Local Community Police Officer
Monday 17th Aug & 21st Sept - Brian Tomkins, NUL Borough Councillor
Monday 24th Aug & 28th Sept - A Loggerheads Parish Councillor
Monday 31st Aug - “Shop” open 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
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AND – our NEW LOCAL
SERVICE
The Loggerheads MOBILE Community Information Shop
will be visiting the following areas once a month:
| Date | Time | Location |
| Thursday (2nd monthly) 13th Aug & 10th Sept |
10:30 a.m. to Noon | Next to Ashley Church |
| Thursday (3rd monthly) 20th Aug & 17th Sept |
10:30 a.m. to 11:30a.m. | Opposite Knighton Village Hall |
| Noon to 12:45 p.m. | Mucklestone at end of Rock Lane | |
| Thursday (4th monthly) 27th Aug & 24th Sept |
10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. | Hales next to Church |
| 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | Almington (by houses) | |
| 1:00 p.m. t0 1:45 p.m. | Red Bull |
Please Call In if only to have a FREE cup of tea or coffee and a chat - we now offer a copying service in both "The Shop" and in "The MOBLIE Shop"
The Information Service is manned by Volunteers trained
to deal with ALL your enquiries for information regarding Community
Services and facilities, trading standards, Highway and Welfare matters.
All sorts of useful information for locals and newcomers alike!
| Telephone (answer phone
out of hours) 01630 674365 |
email:
info@loggerheads.eu |
Skipping
to a World Record?
On Tuesday 30th June the pupils of Hugo Meynell Primary School, along with other pupils in Staffordshire, had a go at beating the world record for the most people skipping at the same time. A record presently set at 3009 and held by the Chinese (12/07/07). We practised everyday for a week, skipping continuously for three minutes. The rules stated that we could have breaks, but for no longer than 10 seconds at a time. It was hard work and extremely tiring, but it was well worth it. We got to keep the skipping ropes as a reminder of the event and also used the event to help raise money for the Reynaud’s and Scleroderma Association. Unfortunately, we won’t know for a while whether we’ve managed to break the record but finger’s crossed! We’d like to say a big thank you to Miss H Chadwick, who organised the event and our independent witnesses, Mr E Pemberton and Mr A Firth, who judged it.
| BROUGHTON TENNIS
CLUB The two grass courts behind Broughton Parish room at Wetwood, on the B5026 (Eccleshall to Loggerheads) Road are open now.  The subscriptions for the 2009 season are: £25 family, £10 adults, £5 juniors (under 16), £2.50 visitors. Members can then go along and play whenever they wish. To join, or for further information, please contact Louise Butter (Tel 01630 620479) or Judy Thomstone (Tel 01630 620225) All are welcome to join! |
SUDOKU Rules of Sudoku: Place a digit from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contain the digits 1 to 9.
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 HANDY
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