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News for the villages of Colsterworth, Woolsthorpe, Stainby, Gunby, North Witham and LobthorpeEdited by Trefor Williams 21B Woolsthorpe Road NG33 5NT 01476 860 936 trefor@thewilliamshome.org.uk

Issue 426 June 2010Colsterworth

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Parish Council report

Tony WrightPest control services◊ Professional ◊ Registered ◊ Qualified ◊

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JUBILEEGARAGE

All makes of vehicle serviced and repairedCar & Motorcycle MOTs Cat Testing

Top quality professional workmanshipThe Bypass

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LOGS FOR SALEHardwood logs

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Grantham Log CompanyThe Sawmill, Bridge End Road, Grantham

The Market Cross Surgery Corby GlenDr John Elder

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Dr Nikki James MBBCh DRCOG DFFP

Ms Mary Hemingway BSc (Hons) RGN

NHS servicesPrivate medical services including

acupuncture (Dip Med Ac)Nurse led Diabetes and Asthma Clinics

Family Planning & Teenage Health Clinics Travel Clinic and Yellow Fever Centre

Village outreach surgery session. Phone Corby Glen for details.

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At the meeting held on Tues-day 11th May 2010, Council-

lor Mrs Cooper was re-elected as Chairman for the following year, Councillor Derrick Hamilton-Hinds was elected as Vice Chair-man. The Chairman then wel-comed new Councillors Brenda Palmer, Colin Russell and Bill Scorror to the council. Portfolio Group committees

Members volunteered to join the following committees: Law & Order; Planning/Roads/Village Maintenance; Finance; Amenities and Recreation/Environment.The old railway line

Councillor D Hamilton-Hinds proposed to accept the land offered to the Parish Council by Waste Recycling Group. An amendment was then passed to enter into ne-gotiations with Waste Recycling Group with regard to acceptance of the proposed land to be gifted to the Parish Council.Clerk’s report

Interserve has confirmed that the limestone areas the north-east side of the new bridge were inten-tionally left bare as devised in the landscape plan. The clerk will how-ever enquire again as to the poten-

tial slippage on the banks. War memorial

SKDC has advised that a plan-ning application is required regard-ing restoration work to the War Memorial. However, there is no fee payable and it is not expected to delay the scheduled work. Correspondence

Lincolnshire Biodiversity Part-nership - Local Wildlife Sites review (old railway line); Com-munities & Local Government - Small business rate relief; SKDC Democracy Services - Training session 18 May 2010 Planning and S.106 agreements PlanningReceived: A G White for develop-ment of land for mixed commer-cial uses adjacent to Truckstop, A151 & A1 Colsterworth; Mr Ju-lian Lander for the front elevation to dwelling at 4 Beech Close, Col-sterworth; Mr Gary Twelvetree for demolition of stables, exten-sions to dwelling including single storey at rear extension and glazed link, change of use of B&B accom-modation to be incorporated into existing building at The Stables, Stainby Road, Colsterworth; Mr Derrick Hamilton-Hinds, on be-half of Parish Council for exten-sion of cemetery at agricultural land adjacent to Cemetery, Old

Post Lane, Colsterworth; Mr Robert Cunniffe for change of use of area 1 into garden and change of use of areas 2, 3 and 4 to recrea-tional equine use on land adjacent to Orchard House, Woolsthorpe Road, Woolsthorpe.SKDC approved: Mr S Coleman, erection five 8metre security lights, Sewstern Fabrications, Sewstern. Retrospectively approved with conditions.SKDC refused: Mrs Helen Broad-hurst, David Wilson Homes for erection of five dwellings with as-sociated infrastructure on land at former Industrial Estate, Bridge End, Colsterworth.Other matters

Rubbish on access road behind China Moon was reported.

Colster Way play area – can the green be designated dog free area?

New street light opposite car park on High Street requested.

It was asked when the B676 Stainby Road is to be resurfaced.

ColsterworthSports & Social Club

Function Room

available

Party?Reception?Meeting?

Call Rose on 860487 for details and bookings

Coffee Morning and RaffleTuesday 29th June

10am to noonat the White Lion

by kind permission of Dave and MadeleineAll funds raised will be used in support of local services

Mick & Maggi welcome you to �e Angel Inn South Witham

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There was a commotion outside the School on Thursday 5th May.

Fifteen local persons staggered up the hill from a nearby hostelry intent on casting their votes for I M Standing -Around, the local Drinkers Party can-didate. Unfortunately they’d checked the time on the half-hunter that be-longed to Phil Glass, the wealthiest of the group. As his partner, Tina Larga, pointed out, ”That old pocket watch came from ‘is grandpa an’ it never kept time proper. I shoulda guessed we’d be late – them officials shut the door in our face an’ disenfranchised us! It’s a disgrace.”

Mrs B Phair, the polling booth of-ficer said later to In Touch, ”Rules is rules. These people could have voted anytime from seven this morning and we have to close up at ten prompt.”

A distressed Mr Standing-Around was seen in the pub standing around but not standing a round. With just fifteen more votes he would not have lost his deposit.

The election was won by Liberal Conservacrat, Miss Ina Dither.

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Back Lane brawl

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The House, Grounds and newly refurbished Science Discovery Centre are open Wednesdays to Sundays between 11am and 5pm.

Wednesday 2nd June – As others see us – local artists work-ing on site – drawing, painting and other media. Free entry to artists as long as they don’t mind being watched at work!Friday 25th June – The Great Woolsthorpe Manor Picnic – local people and organisations are invited to picnic in the grounds, during the evening. Activities for children, house tours and ‘science for the terrified’ in our newly refurbished Discovery Centre!

Adult £6.10, Child £3.05, Family £15.20, National Trust Member Free. Group visits by arrangement at an additional charge. Hire of Byre £20 per hour. For further information call 01476 860 338

Volunteers required – Woolsthorpe Manor is looking for more volunteers to help with extended opening hours, a larger café and refurbished Science Discovery Centre. If you have a few hours a week free, enjoy meeting people and taking on new challenges, please call Margaret Winn on 01476 862821 or email margaret.winn@nationaltrust.org.uk

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Submissions for Buy-n-Sell must be from households under Colsterworth & District Parish Council. You must have authority to offer (eg it’s yours or a family member has asked you to offer it). You must be in a private capacity (you’re not a trader, whether as a business, hobby or sideline) and give your name, and contact details. Acceptance is at the editor’s discretion.

In Touch Buy–N–Sell

For SaleNothing this monthTo Buy

Folding transfer wheelchair. Unused. Offers. Tel 860161

White Zanussi DA 6141 Automatic Dishwasher in working order £50. Tel 550165

Stainless Steel cooker hood/extractor £25. Tel 550165

Free to good home. Flymo DLE lawnmower, no grass box. Tel 861081 to collectTrojan Odessa Ladies'/girls' mountain bike. Fuschia pink, 16in frame. Good as new. £20. Tel 861081

Jam jars for chutneys and jams. Ideal for making use of this summer's crops. Tel 861143

What a difference from our April meeting when we were joined by our neighbouring Institute members. This month it was a case of spot the member. It’s May, when we discuss the resolution to be put before the delegates attending the National Federation AGM. Last year it was Save the Bees, this year we are urging HM Government to introduce clear and mandatory country of origin la-belling on all meat, poultry and fish products sold in this country. Cur-rently, if meat and so on is labelled British, it needn’t mean that it comes from Britain. Under EU legislation the country of origin is the country where a product undertook it’s last “significant change.” So a pork pie can be labelled British if it was made into a pie in Britain, even if the pork it contains comes from pigs born, reared and slaughtered elsewhere. It made us think when we voted on the resolution. Well, we have put our penn’orth forward ready for the big day on 2nd June.

Our President, Mary Cowley, reported on the Home Econom-ics Group meeting which some of us had attended earlier in the week when Tim Fee, a line producer on Emmerdale, told of the day when HM the Queen visited the set. He illustrated his talk with both slides and film. A most enjoyable evening we all agreed.

We heard that our entry for the Institute’s programme hadn’t made it into the next round of the National Federation competition. Never mind, it’s the taking part that counts they say. Jane Ostler brought along her entry for the Lincolnshire Show, a lovely embroidered Christ-

Women’s Institute report

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mas decoration which was much admired. Good luck Jane.

County has more events lined up for us - Scrabble, short mat bowls and a painting day. And not forget-ting the invitation to Corby’s fashion show, a trip to Harlaxton and Bar-rowby and finally one to Denton. Busy, busy, busy as usual.

We recently did a bit of baking for the Primary School PTFA event, and we have received an invitation to take part at the village fete in July (no chocolate tombola this time after last year’s meltdown). There is also a new quiz in preparation, so look out for it, coming soon at all good outlets as they say.

Barbara Moore won the competi-tion for a single bloom, with Mary Cowley the runner-up. I was lucky enough to win the super book on the Crown Jewels donated by Keith Hanson at our last meeting. Dora Farley was the other winner. Bett Pope helped Barbara with the re-freshments, Dora manned the bring and buy stall and we finished the af-ternoon with an impromptu quiz.

Our next meeting on 17th June will be interesting. We have John Mallindine with his hearing dog for the deaf (lots of “ahs” I bet). So, if you would like to hear a talk with a difference, join us in the Village Hall at 2pm, visitors are most welcome as always.

Dot Williams

Colsterworth & District Gardeners and Allotment Holders Association

We got down and dirty at the last meeting, planting up

the troughs for the church railings. We’re all looking after them now so they are ready for hanging on Sat-urday 5th June. David and Roy will be there at l0am so please make sure your trough is there in time. If you have difficulty with this then you can either leave your trough just behind the railings in the Church Yard on Friday night or early Saturday morn-ing or telephone David on 860638 for somebody to collect it.

Later, we were treated to some un-usual gardening tips by Ros Hibbins, one of our members from Croxton Kerrial. They ranged from compan-ion planting to making a compost bin from an oil drum. This very talented lady even showed us how to do topiary and it rounded off a lovely evening.

Not surprisingly Ros won the Flower of the Month competition with a lovely Iris and Rona was sec-ond with a Clematis. Gillian held a culinary stall which was well attend-ed and had some interesting items for sale. She will be holding a ‘Tin Stall’ at the next meeting so anything in a tin would be gratefully received. This will be our last fundraising until October apart from our stall at the Village Garden Fete on 10th July - which I hope you are all growing plants for!

Our speaker for June will be Ray Biggs from Grimsthorpe Estate who will give an illustrated talk on the Garden Evolution of an English Es-tate. As always, visitors and friends would be most welcome. So see you all in the Village Hall at 7.30pm on 14th June.

Joanna Smith

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The Grizzled Skipper is a butter-fly whose numbers have halved in recent years. In 2008 its only two Lincolnshire sites were in South Kesteven, one of which being in Colsterworth. This year it has been rediscovered on the Woolsthorpe Line. The Grizzled Skipper’s main stronghold in the county is in Twyford Wood. The Dinghy Skip-per, another scarce butterfly has also been found at more than one site in Colsterworth. Both these butterflies are associated with limestone grassland where their caterpillars’ food plants of Wild Strawberry and Bird’s Foot Trefoil are undisturbed on sunny banks.

It may have been the meander-ing course of the River Witham in fields below Stamford Road, which attracted in some unusual visitors. Three Little Egret were

reported in a garden in this area! Most Field Guides don’t show this bird, related to the Heron, as visit-ing this country at all. Reports by the Lincolnshire Bird Club show that there were only eight records in 1999. However there were large numbers in the County in 2008, mainly at coastal sites. This may have been due to the mild winter

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01476 552000The last days of April were warm and sunny and began

a time to celebrate some of the very special plants and animals we have in our parishes. A survey of the Colsterworth Bank Roadside Verge revealed a remarkable spread of a plant scarce in Lincolnshire: Wild Liquorice or Milk Vetch has a small spike of cream flowers which appear in July, half hidden by a sprawl of paired leaflets. South Lincolnshire is on the northern edge of this plant’s range and it is confined to limestone grassland. The bare rock above it is colonis-ing with some interesting plants including Salad Burnet, Weld and Wild Strawberry.

By contrast, other areas are sprouting nettles and the disturbed flat areas at Bridge End have not been reseeded as hoped so giant thistles and docks are flourishing. Wherever roadworks along the Al have been followed by the planting of conservation mixes, cowslips are flourishing.

Natural History Bulletin that year - not a feature of 2010! There were only three locations where the birds nested. Finding them here in May is, therefore, even more unusual.

By the first week of May cuckoos and swifts were back but, at the time of writing, it is not known if the turtle doves have returned.

The limestone plants and the Skipper butterflies depend on a very few sites - the Woolsthorpe Line Reserve, Roadside Verge Nature Reserves and the Twyford Butterfly Sanctuary. These are all managed for wildlife. Most of our wildlife is increasingly vulnerable to all our actions and it is disheart-ening to know that a number of initiatives and the efforts of several people to protect areas and their plants and animals have, as yet, come to nothing.To look for in June

The first damsel and dragonflies will be about. There should be plenty of newly-fledged birds and grassland flowers will be at their best. Shrubby areas, particularly of blackthorn are valuable (and scarce) on our verges. Look for both birds and insects at Bridge End in front of the laid hedge for example, and on Old Post Lane north of the Stainby/North With-am crossroads. The shrubs planted on Stamford Road and on Colster-worth Bank by the Tree For Life have been found to be good for both insects and small mammals.

Jane Ostler

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COLSTERWORTH METHODIST CHURCH

Tel 860 046

Mondays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall 5.30-7pm Brownies Village Hall except 2nd wk 7.30pm-9.30pm Music And Drama Village HallTuesdays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall except 1st wk 7pm-9pm Youth Group Youth Centre Colster Way 7.30pm-9.30pm Music And Drama Village HallWednesdays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall 10am-1.30pm Open Door Methodist Church 6.45-8pm Anderson’s Taekwondoo Village Hall School (adults continue until 9pm)During Term 5.30pm-6.30pm Beavers Village HallThursdays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall 6pm-7.30pm Girl Guides Primary School 7pm-8.30pm Cubs Village HallFridays 9am-3pm Pre-School Methodist Hall 7.30pm-9.30pm Weekly Bingo Sports & Social Club 6pm-7.30pm Boxercise Village HallSaturdays 10-12noon Football Coaching Sports Field

Tue 1st 7.25pm Parish Council Meeting Village HallTue 1st 10am–11.30 Church coffee morning 56 Colster WayWed 2nd 7.30 for 8 As Others See Us , artists Woolsthorpe ManorWed 9th 10am Open Door Methodist ChurchMon 14th 7.30pm Garden Club Village HallTue 15th 7.30pm Chapel Anniversary Methodist ChurchThu 17th 2pm Women’s Institute Village HallSun 20th 2pm-5pm Open Garden The Manor House, Nth Witham in aid of Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust Wed 23rd 10am Open Door Methodist ChurchFri 25th early evening The Great Picnic Woolsthorpe ManorSat 26th St John’s Patronal Festival St John’s Parish ChurchSun 27th St John’s Patronal Festival St John’s Parish ChurchSun 27th 10.30am Sunday School Anniversary Methodist ChurchTue 29th 10am-noon Red Cross coffee morning White Lion

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The Villages’ Diary for June 2010

Copy for the July 2010 issue of In Touch must arrive by noon on Saturday 19th June 2010.

E-mail contributions to trefor@thewilliamshome.org.uk are preferred (call 860936 and check they’ve arrived) and clear typescript suitable for scanning is second best. If there is something you’d like to include but have no access to mechanical or electronic devices, manuscript can be taken.

Please ensure that you put your contact details on any submission. Send or deliver any hardcopy to Trefor Williams at 21B Woolsthorpe Road NG33 5NT (Tel 860 936).

Don’t forget to add the dates of future meeting to your copy if you want them to appear in the Villages’ Diary.

In Touch 22nd May 2010

Sunday School10.30am in the Hall during school term time. All children welcome.

Chapel AnniversaryWe celebrate the anniversary of our Chapel at Colsterworth on Tuesday 15th June at 7.30pm. The service will be led by Elaine Robinson, and followed by a Buffet Supper – all are welcome.

June 2010 Preacher FlowersSun 6th 10.30am Morning Worship Roger Wilkinson Cheryl SutcliffeSun 13th 10.30am Morning Worship Ian Collinson Helen ScorrerTue 15th 7.30pm Chapel Anniversary led by Elaine RobinsonSun 20th 10.30am Morning Worship Dennis MacDonald Marjorie Harris Please come and support your children and all the others on this special day.

Open DoorEvery second and fourth Wednesday of the month in the Church from 10am to 1.30pm. Simply call in for friendship, morning coffee, takeaways, light lunches and charity shop.

Minister Rev Tony Pick, 142 Princess Drive, Grantham, NG31 9PY , 564 191Lay Minister Ian Collinson, c/o Colsterworth Methodist Church, 07814 712702 and 01159892 064

There’s a warm welcome to our services and events.

Forward DiarySaturday 10th July Colsterworth Village Garden Fête

Priest -in-charge Rev Eric Lomax (861 959), ericjohnlomax64@aol.com

Church Wardens: Peter Smith (860 218) and Simon Jowitt (07903 390 051)

Secretary: Sarah Thomson (860901)

June 2010Wed 2nd 11am Said Eucharist Wed 16th 11am Said EucharistSun 7th 10.30am Sung Eucharist Sun 20th 9am Said EucharistWed 9th 11am Said Eucharist Wed 24th 11am John the Baptist Patro-

nal Festival ServiceSun 13th 10.30am Group Eucharist

at SkillingtonSun 27th 8am Said Eucharist

Coffee morningsOn the first Tuesday of the month from 10am to 11.30am.

June 1st at 56 Colster Way and July 6th at 10 Meadow Close

A touch of colourThe hanging baskets outside the church are to be provided by the wonderfully green-fingered Gardeners and Allotment Holders again this year.

Christian Aid CollectionA small house-to-house round was done this year which when added to donations at the Churches and Open Door, totalled £179.48 for Colsterworth. A special note of thanks from the collectors for the friendly reception (as well as money!) from young as well as old. Donations can still be made and envelopes returned to the Churches. Many, many thanks.

Patronal festival weekend, Sat 26th and Sun 27th.Please come and visit this festival of flowers and music

Details of other services being held in Colsterworth Group churches (Skillington, Stoke, Little Ponton and Great Ponton) are on the church notice board.

Nottingham Community Housing Association are pleased to o�er for sale

7 newly built homeson the Newton Grange development

in Colsterworth.

3 Bed Houses from £34,375 for 25% Share. 2 Bed Masionettes from £28,750 for 25% Share.

Rent and Service Charge will be payable monthly on the remaining share.

Contact Anna or Kirren on 0845 650 1204 or

homeownership@ncha.org for further information.

They are available to purchase via the New Build HomeBuy Scheme.

ColsterworthSports & Social Club

Charity Bingo NightFriday 4th June

All proceeds to the Colsterworth War Memorial Fund

All welcome

21st August Fun DayInteresting in running a stall?Come along to a meeting

on Thursday 17th June at 7.30pm or contact

Rose Wood on 860487

North Witham Village HallThursday 10th June Bingo 7.30pm

Saturday 26th June Coffee morning & rummage sale 10am-noon