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AS I WAS PUTTING THE FINALtouches to the mag – desperatelychecking for those not so deliberatemistakes that is – Sue Chapmanemailed to say that Lesley Dolphin’sRadio Suffolk programme was onceagain featuring Redlingfield.

By the time I tuned in Ann Stebbingswas recounting the story of theRedlingfield crash.

As I sat in front of my computerthinking there wasn’t much new to tellLesley a Radio Suffolk researcherrang. However, as I started to tell herthat we’re a small, quiet village withnot much going on we both realisedthat in truth quite a lot goes on. It wasjust one day after the anniversary of

the crash – and the wreath layingceremony on Green Lane, the wintercoffee mornings were now under way,our vicar had just retired, a new windturbine had just been commissioned atRussell Kerry’s . . . and that’s withoutwhat’s going on at the Red FeatherClub and with the Bygones Rally.

By the time you read this we willhave held our first meeting about the2013 Horham Country Bygones Rallyand on Saturday June 8 and outlineplans for next June’s 70th anniversaryreunion at the 95th Bomb GroupHeritage Association reunion will havebeen sent off to America.

It’s all go in this quiet little corner ofSuffolk. Mike Ager

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EDITORIALS

If you would like to advertise or contribute to the magazine or have an event ororganisation you would like featured contact: Evelyn Adey on

evelynadey@e1603.fsnet.co.uk or 01728 628428 at Ivy House Barn, SoutholtRoad, Athelington, IP21 5EL; or Mike Ager on mike@gn.apc.org or 01379 678835

at Hidcote Lodge, Mill Road, Redlingfield, IP23 7QU.Athelington, Horham & Redlingfield News is printed & published by Evelyn Adey& Mike Ager for the villages of Athelington, Horham, Redlingfield and surrounds.The editors reserve the right to edit or refuse submissions. The views expressed

in the magazine are not necessarily those of the editors.You can receive your village magazine electronically. Email mike@gn.apc.org

with your name and address (so you don’t get a paper version as well) and whenthe next issue is published we’ll email it to you as a pdf. Or you can find the pdfs

of current and previous issues at www.redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk We aim to produce four seasonal issues a year, coming out at the end of

February, May, August and November. The next issue - Spring 2013 - is due tobe published at the end of February. The final deadline for all submissions is

February 14.If you would like to receive a large print version of this magazine please

contact Mike Ager on 678835 or mike@gn.apc.org

Front page picture of Ove Fundin in Horham by Janet Norman-Philips. See centre pages for the story.

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ASOAKING WET SATURDAYmorning and the garden is asquiet as a graveyard. And it’s

not just because of the rain. I can see afurtive sparrow-hawk wriggling awaythrough the branches of the hawthornhedge, from very close to where myGiant New Birdfeeder is hanging on abranch with its 10 feeding ports alldeserted.

The GNB, which makes a fair olddent in the pocket-money whenrefilled with sunflower seeds, has beencarefully hidden away from thesparrow-hawk flightpath, apparentlyto no avail, as the supreme hunter stillscares the life out of any small fry daftenough to feed there.

IT IS 27TH OCTOBER AND autumn is closing in. The ash tree isfull of fieldfares which have just flown

in for the winter, though some of theresident birds cannot resist pretendingits spring.

Two cock pheasants shape up for ascrap, the extended family ofmoorhens have a practice run atmaking a nest, and two mallards areinto some head-bopping courtship. Asfor the goings-on of a pair of collareddoves, it is all vive le sport and typicalof the pigeon family. They haveforgotten they should give it a rest forthe winter.

That tree favoured by the arrivingfieldfare is one of the farms’ best ashtrees for which the prognosis isdistinctly gloomy. The plague of AshDie-back Disease has been discoveredin East Anglia.

For years I have been a bit rudeabout the ash as it doesn’t take tobeing hedge-trimmed like the

hawthorn, maple anddogwood, and if youtake your eye off theball in the garden, itappears waist-highwhere you least expectit. It has always grownlike a weed in the claysoils in our part ofSuffolk.

There is an oldadage, “Be careful

Supreme hunter in hidingTrevor Edwards finds that while some raptors are notoriouslylazy others will go to any lengths to sneak up on their prey.

Two doves a’ cooing.

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what you wish for”, whichregarding my view of the ash treelooks apt. The loss would beserious enough for the localbullfinches, which fed handsomelyon the ash keys last January, butnationally that one species makesup 30 per cent of British nativetrees.

PHEASANT AND PARTRIDGEare now on the menu though Iwould stop short at paying £70 fora grey partridge dish as advertisedin one London restaurant. Yes, greypartridge, even though it is on theendangered list of the FarmlandBird Index! We have seen a coveyof a dozen English/grey thissummer so they did well in thiswater-logged breeding season.Game has got everything going for itaccording to all the foodies; it isnatural, free-range, local and low-fat.What is more, you can find a brace forunder a fiver.

AUTUMN CULTIVATIONS FROMthe tractor seat often produce somegood sightings, and this year producedanother first. We had two ploughsgoing after harvest, me and Drew inthe same field, and talking away onthe phones we realised that the usualfollowing of seagulls was notable forits absence. The reason was because apair of young buzzards, always partialto an earthworm or two, wereclaiming first pickings and theseagulls were keeping a safe distance.We think they could well have beenhatched out in Caroline’s Wood. It’s

amazing that juvenile buzzard are soat home in North Suffolk that they arebold enough to follow the plough.

ON THE SUBJECT OF RAPTORS, a visit to the beautiful county ofShropshire in May has produced anew favourite bird. It was a lovelyhumming summers’ day and I waslucky enough to see a fantasticgoshawk display at Clee Hill, an areaas green as Suffolk, gloriously hilly,with equally friendly natives. The sizeof a buzzard, and resembling a largerversion of a sparrow-hawk, thisgoshawk hung in the air untilplummeting 500 feet in a stoop toground level, a manoeuvre that anyperegrine falcon would be proud of.

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continued from page 3Having missed its target, it sat

grumpily in a dead tree, apparentlytypical behaviour as it readily gives up(if at first you don’t succeed, forget it).

In the past, I have seen a peregrineflitting about some Essex pylons doingnot much at all, so this was somespectacle. The goshawks’ reputationfor copping out and being a trifle lazyis confirmed by its habit of patchingup the previous year’s nest, rather thanmake a new one. So, a cool customerwith a bit of attitude, I rather like it.

Although it didn’t perform for me,the peregrine falcon has manyadmirers and nests on the OrwellBridge. It can range for 10 milestravelling at speeds of over 60mph,and in a stoop from on high in thepursuit of prey, it reaches double thisspeed, over 125 miles per hour. With awide chest, large feet and huge eyeswhich are half the size of its skull, itcan make a meal of almost anything itwants. Which means the feeding birdson the river mudflats, such as thelapwing and gulls, are in for a hardtime.

FROM A LITTLE FURTHER DOWNthe Orwell, Doc Brown of the RoyalHarwich YC, rang with an invitation towatch whiffling geese on the RiverOre whilst moored overnight byHavergate Island. Sadly, this coincidedwith 48 hours of dense fog so the mainevent was missed. However, as webravely edged across the main channela mile out at sea heading towards thebar of the Ore, a song-thrush sweptover Chris’s shoulder and hitched aride on the deck all the way to theshore. Exhausted and disorientated inthe fog, it was a darker Continentalvisitor and might not have made it butfor this chance encounter. Whiffling, Iunderstand, is the clever loss of windthrough the feathers as a bird losesheight quickly.

APROPOS ALL THE SAINTS DAYSin November, listening to the radiowhilst writing up these notes, I heardthat St Matilda is the patron saint fordisappointing children and St Jude isthe saint for lost causes. Such aminefield, choosing names for thechildren.

■ RAFA NEWS: Diss & District branch of the Royal Air Forces Association has senta total of £3,125 to the national Wings Appeal Fund. This includes the moneycollected during Wings Appeal Week and other amounts raised throughout the year.The branch, which covers this area of North Suffolk as well as Diss and surroundingvillages in Norfolk, meets on the fourth Monday of each month (except December)at the Grasmere Club, Diss, at 7.30pm. Anyone can join, whether or not they servedin the RAF. Or you can come along as a guest and see what we get up to. The branchsends parcels to personnel from RAF Honington who are serving in Afghanistan. Ifyou are interested in contributing please contact me on 640337. Brian Ager■ CHRISTMAS GIFTS: Father Christmas will be delivering again on Christmasmorning in Horham and Athelington. Mother Christmas will accept gifts the weekbefore Christmas but you can phone 384231 before then to book a delivery. Adonation is requested for the East Anglian Children’s Hospice for this service.

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Update on church changesIT IS LIKELY TO BE SEVERAL

months before a new priest isappointed to our parishes. In the

meantime church wardens areresponsible for organising services andthe day-to-day running of thechurches.

Most of us have not had to do thisbefore but thankfully we have plentyof help from neighbouring parishesand the many ‘retired’ priests in thearea. Baptisms, weddings and funeralswill usually be taken by Canon FionaNewton (rural dean from Laxfield) orRev Sue Loxton currently inFressingfield.

Church finance is an ongoing issue.We are always tremendously gratefulthat we get such a positive responsewhen we need help with repairs to thefabric of the churches. We also needhelp with running costs, if we can’tpay our way there is always a threat ofclosure. Everyday costs, electricity,minor repairs etc can be kept down butwe also have to insure the church andcontribute to the diocese. We insureagainst accidents to people or propertyand to damage to parts of the buidingbut we do not insure to completely re-build a church so we keep thepremium within bounds.

Our contribution to the diocesemostly goes to pay priests, pay priests’

pensions and maintain vicarages. Wealso contribute to other work of thediocese such as maintaining youthgroups and other outreach work. Asgovernment funding diminishes theseincreasingly need our help.

If we are to have a functioningchurch rather than an empty shell,however beautiful, we need all thesefunctions of the diocese. It is a greathelp when people give us regularcontributions. Whether it is £1, £5 or£50 it helps to know that we can relyon some income.

Many people want an active churchin their village although they may notwant to attend regularly. If you wouldlike to contribute you can senddonations to your church or to me andI can direct donations to your church. Ican also supply direct debit forms forany of the three churches.

As well as private donations peoplemay consider it appropriate for theParish Council to support the church.You can lobby the councillors andmany do support their churches.

If you have any questions or need toarrange a special service contact yourchurch warden: Daphne Harvey,Horham, (384216); Hazel Abbot,Redlingfield (678217); and EvelynAdey, Athelington (01728 628428).

Evelyn Adey

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WHATEVER HAPPENED to the East AnglianMagazine? Founded in

1936 and revamped almost exactly 50years ago in 1962, it vanished in theearly 1980s having run out of steam.Perhaps its most distinctive eraspanned 1946 to 1962, when eachissue featured an attractive colourillustration by Ipswich-based artistAlbert Ribbans.

When the magazine reappeared afterits wartime hiatus, it was in a formatnot dissimilar to a parish magazine.Picking a year at random (1951),articles covered a diverse range ofsubjects including airships, countryhouses, windmills, country customsand so on. Two pieces on Hoxne werewritten by H. L. Norman in Suffolkdialect. Illustrations were provided bythe likes of Leonard Squirrell, PaulHogarth and Andrew Dodds. Alwaysworth perusing was the letters page,

such as the plea from JosephSheldrake (of Station Cottages,Horham) for the Middy Line to escapeclosure: “The line earned its keepduring the war and can do so in peaceif properly run.”

About a year ago I was luckyenough to buy some of the originalpen-and-ink artwork for the covers ofthe magazine. Through a series oftenuous internet links I managed tomake contact with Albert Ribbans’only daughter, and learned a littlemore about the man. Born in 1903, hisearly career was as an artist workingfor Tibbenham’s in Ipswich, where hepainted furniture, pictures and murals,including some on the Queen Maryliner.

During the 1930s, Albert beganwork in an architectural practice,designing his own house along theway, but soon after transferred toIpswich Borough Council in the

planning department. All the while hepainted and sketched, and took on thetask of providing the cover picturesfor the East Anglian Magazine uponits post-war relaunch in late 1946.

At first his illustrations were highlystylised, being reusedfrom card designs hehad provided for J.Arthur Dixon, butwithin a year or so hisdistinctive style hademerged. He wouldpaint a conventionalwatercolour, trace offthe salient features inblack pen, thenprovide the printerswith further‘separations’ toindicate where thelimited range ofcolours should beapplied.

The results were striking and muchadmired. Readers of the magazineeven suggested ways of cutting themout and making place mats ordecorating screens with them!Albert’s work featured in Christmas

cards (published by the magazine) andon book cover designs for the likes ofJohn Appleby’s Suffolk Summer andMunro Cautley’s Norfolk Churches inthe late 1940s.

All this came to an abrupt end 50years ago when themagazine underwent amajor revamp. Gonewere the colourfulcovers; instead ratherboring black and whitephotos wereintroduced, and themagazine’s contentbecame less backward-looking. The magazinehad caught up with thetimes, or perhaps hadbeen caught up by thetimes.

Albert retired aroundthis time, but his finalyears were dogged by

depression and he died in 1966 agedjust 62. It was a rather sad end to lifethat brought much pleasure throughthe covers of the East AnglianMagazine.

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Dear friends, I said goodbye and thank you last time, but there is much more forwhich I am most grateful that has happened in September and October, especiallythe kind words in the Autumn issue, and the gifts and farewell messages that wehave received. Our garden at Doggetts Farm should look wonderful. I was able tobicycle between the four churches for the Sponsored Ride, and you will see mewalking or cycling down Horham Street for about three months as we are coming toJolly Cottage for that time. The Harvest Festival services were joyful and splendidoccasions, and now we are looking forward to Advent and Christmas. Please cometo Horham Community Centre for 7pm on Sunday 16th December. I shall be able tojoin you this year in the carol singers’ world record-breaking attempt.

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ALOVELY STILL, SUNLITOctober afternoon – somethingof a rarity in this soggy year but

for once the soil is fairly dry and I(under Jan’s supervision) am making70 holes in the rough grass under thecrab apples so I can plant 70 bulbs.Each hole has to be precisely 100mmdeep (will the bulbs, I wonder bedissatisfied and resentful if the holesare 110mm deep or, worse still only90mm deep?). Luckily I have a handytool especially designed for the purposewhich enables me to get it just right.

The bulbs I am planting are daffodilsand, I know there are only 70 so it’shardly in the league of “ten thousandsaw I at a glance” but in the springthere should be enough for me towatch them “tossing their heads instately dance”. Not only that but as Ihave planted them in grass, I can getout of mowing that particular patch fora few weeks in the spring becauseafter the daffodils have flowered, theleaves will need to be left long enoughfor them to nourish the bulbs for theflowers for the following year.

Before planting you need todecide whether to arrange thebulbs in serried ranks likethe commercial growersround Spalding and in theNetherlands or to go for arandom pattern. An unlikelyfollower of the serried ranksschool was the painter ClaudeMonet but in the part of his gardenwhere he grew daffodils and his

beloved Irises he merely wished tocreate an impressive mass of bloomsin one view or beds for cutting armfulsof flowers for his still lifes.

In an informal space we would like arandom look. But how to achieve it?Gertrude Jekyll’s custom was to tossbulbs over her shoulder, not to keepthe gardener’s boy occupied byclearing up after her but to create atruly random pattern. This is thepractice that we favour – if it was goodenough for her etc. etc.

However, after doing this, on turninground to see where the bulbs havelanded, my nerve fails me and I amcompelled to move some of them,either they do not look sufficientlyrandom or else they are too closetogether for their own good.

Why are many of us so fond of thesesimple flowers? Well perhaps becausetheir appearance in the garden is a suresign that, however cold and bleak theday, spring is here and the time whenyou can cast a clout with impunity isjust around the corner. Further, theyhave such a simple form and colourthat anybody can recognise them – a

quality which they share withtulips. Any child can recognise

a tulip or daffodil and thedelight in that recognition

surely stays with us all our lives.Unlike the tulip whose form and

colouring are quite varied, thedaffodil or narcissus does not vary

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Does all of this sound as though Ihave been looking it up? I admit it andI am glad that I did as I was going toput down that the number of varietiesof narcissi was quite limited but after

looking into Jan’s 2nd hand copy ofthe Readers Digest Encyclopaedia ofGarden Plants and Flowers, just tomake sure that I was not writingcomplete nonsense, I read that thereare about 50 garden varieties and thatthe RHS classified list has about80,000 varieties and that the number isbeing added to each year. Whew! Andthis edition is dated 1985 – how manyare there by now?

The encyclopaedia also tells me thatan old name for the daffodil was theLenten Lily because, while the flowerwas like a Lily (well a bit) it bloomedaround about Lent.

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OSCAR WINNER: Peter Havers of Athelington Hall picked up a top award at arecent event nicknamed the Farming Oscars. The awards saw more than 230farmers, farm employees and families turn out at Trinity Park, on the outskirtsof Ipswich. They are the amalgamation of the Suffolk Farm BusinessCompetition, open to all farms in Suffolk, and the Best Alternative LandEnterprise (BALE) Awards, which celebrate business diversification in Suffolk,Essex, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. Peter (pictured third right) won the BALEaward for his log cabin holidays business.

Rates for adverts in four issues distributed to approximately 300 homes inHorham, Athelington, Redlingfield and surrounds are:-

1/6 page £8.50 (60mm deep, 60mm across)1/3 page £16.50 (60mm deep, 125mm across)1/4 page £12.50 (90mm deep, 60mm across)1/2 page £25 (90mm deep, 125mm across) A whole page £50

You can supply the artwork and/or logos or we can design the adverts for you. Revenue goes towards the costs of producing the magazine and profits will be splitbetween Horham & Athelington Parish Council and Redlingfield Village Meeting.If you would like to advertise or contribute to the magazine or have an event ororganisation you would like featured contact: Evelyn Adey onevelynadey@e1603.fsnet.co.uk or 01728 628428 at Ivy House Barn, Southolt Road,Athelington, IP21 5EL; or Mike Ager on mike@gn.apc.org or 678835 at HidcoteLodge, Mill Road, Redlingfield, IP23 7QU.

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THE 95TH BOMB GROUPHeritage Association recentlyunveiled a new memorial to the

man credited with saving the 95thtwice.

Robert “Bob” C Cozens is creditedwith saving the 95th Bomb Groupduring WW2 by rallying the aircraftduring the group’s most disastrousmission and then again after the warby reinvigorating the 95th BombGroup Memorials Foundation duringpeacetime.

His son Tom is now president of theUS-based memorials foundation. Thememorial, a black marble bench wasunveiled by Tom and his wife Peggyon their first trip to Horham.

The couple had hoped to visit theRed Feather Club with Tom’s father,however, Bob’s sad passing earlier thisyear meant they made the emotional

pilgrimage without him. But Tom andPeggy got to see the Red Feather Clubat its best, sampling a school visit,getting an aerial view of the base,enjoying the 200th Mission Dance andunveiling the new memorial.

A flight with Andrew Castleden,former chairman of the 95th BombGroup Heritage Association, gavethem an idea of the scope of the base.

They also saw the visit of youngstersfrom Yoxford Primary School. And toprove the Red Feather Club is amuseum that is truly alive, they had agreat evening as a full house enjoyedthe 200th Mission Dance with the RedFeather Club’s in-house band Skyliner.

James Hollington, of H. L. Perfittstonemasons in Diss, who made andengraved the new memorial, is the sonof Red Feather Club regulars Steveand Jayne Hollington.

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I cant believe it’s November already. It only seems like last month it was here!This means December’s just around the corner. I haven got my cards yet!No shopping got in for the big two days!No cards written or sent. No presents got in and stashed away!

Now I’m ahead of myself here. Don’t panic, no rushing around.November’s here, take time, remember others not here!Rest, relax, remember others this month - painful reminders of others so dear!Their life is gone but the love they had so very near!

The month of odd twilight that comes at this time of year!Some days it looks like it has been here all day!Sharp cold mornings and sharper evenings, the cold takes your breath away!To be seen in a puff of smoke almost lingers like memory of sunny days.

But then the leaves all green, gold, brown, auburn, that swish and rustle!Squirrels rush to gather in nuts. Birds attack peanuts and seed to feed them up,Some mornings a dust-fine white frost lays here and there like scattered flour!Novembers come all to soon like an old acquaintance you like to see but can’twait to leave.

November’s here. Oh dear. Cards to write food to get. Gifts to buy! But I will sit a little longer and let the world go by. But not for too long.November’s here already!So much to do. Not much time. Six weeks to go!I can not believe it is that time already. Next year I will not let November creepup on me! Manday Miller

POETRY CORNERI CAN’T BELIEVE NOVEMBER’S HERE

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■ THANK YOUS: Redlingfield PCC would like to thank Lesley and Tony for collectingsignatures and donations for David Streeter. £270 was collected and presented toDavid at the Harvest Festival service. Thanks also to Chris Tringham for organisingthe quiz at Horham Old School which raised £266 for St Andrew’s and Harvey whoabseiled and raised £150. Thanks also to the cyclists who raised £312 on the SuffolkHistoric Churches Sponsored Bike Ride, half of which goes to the church. Manythanks must also go to the village for supporting our events along with a belatedthanks to all who helped with the churchyard tidy earlier in the year. Hazel Abbott ■ COFFEE MORNINGS: Village coffee mornings have now taken over in Redlingfieldfor the winter. They will be on the 1st Wednesday of each month from 10am untilnoon. They will be in the following homes: Dec 5, Chris and Midge Gibbons, RushMeadow (with sherry, mince pies and a free raffle); Jan 2, Neville and Jan Butcher,Hill Cottage (with a book swap); Feb 6, Pat Kelly, Red Mill; March 6, David andJacqueline Love, Western Barn, Abbotts Meadow (with a free raffle). All residents ofthe village are welcome. Jacqueline Love (678805)

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A FURTHER RELATIVE OF ONE of the young US airmen whotragically lost their lives when their B-17 crashed at Green Farm inRedlingfield has been in touch.

When Tracey Mogan Googled thename Richard Diete – hergrandmother’s brother – she was“shocked and honoured” to find thememorial had been set up for the tenairmen who died in the crash. Shewrote: “My great grandmother(Richard’s mom) would be sohonoured and proud”. Redlingfield’swebsite has now put the village, andthe 95th in the UK and US, in touchwith relatives of six of the crew – 2ndLt Kenneth B Rongstad, pilot; 2nd LtWarren Franklin Mansfield Strawn,co-pilot; 2nd Lt Richard E Diete,navigator; S/Sgt Gail A Richmond

Junior, top-turretgunner/flight engineer; SgtCharles E Phinney, ballturret gunner; and S/SgtKenneth Cosby, tail gunner.

Marcia Moyer, the niece of2nd Lt Strawn, has sent us awealth of new pictures

which chart the life of WarrenMansfield Strawn from his early life tohis training in the US and his massgrave in the UK and his reburial in theStates. These are online atwww.redlingfield. suffolk.gov.uk.

And in September a duo of visitorsfrom pilot Kenneth Rongstad’s hometown visited. John Reinhold also hasties to the 95th as his mother’shusband is Harry Redding, co-pilot onGeorge W Austin’s 412th squadroncrew, which flew “Roarin’ Bill”, on 25missions. He was accompanied byFrank Hale, a B-17 pilot with aneducational foundation based inMassachusetts. It was their first visitto Horham. They visited Redlingfieldto see the memorial having read aboutit when it was unveiled in 2010.

Mike Ager

FEATURES & NEWSCHURCH

C of E Services: St Andrew, Redlingfield; St Peter, Athelington; St Mary, Horham; StPeter and St Paul, Hoxne. Enquiries to: Daphne Harvey, Horham (384216); EvelynAdey, Athelington (01728 628428) Hazel Abbott, Redlingfield (678217). Check timeson notice boards (Holy Communion unless otherwise stated):Sunday Nov 25 Horham - Family Service (Laurence Weaver).

Redlingfield - St Andrew’s Day (Revd Julian Barker) 10am.Sunday Dec 2 Athelington - Advent Carol Service (Brian Chester) 4.30pm.

Hoxne - (Canon Andrew Vessey) 11.15am.Sunday Dec 9 Horham - Benefice Holy Communion (Canon Vessey) 9.30am.

Hoxne - Morning Prayer (Lay Elder) 11.15am.Sunday Dec 16 Hoxne - (Canon Vessey) 11.15am.Monday Dec 17 Redlingfield - Carol Service (Bert Stanford) 7pm. Sunday Dec 23 Horham - Carol Service (Laurence Weaver) 4.30pm.

Hoxne - Christingle (Lay Elder) 10am.Christmas Day Horham - (Canon Vessey) 9.30am (possible hymns).

Redlingfield - 10am.Hoxne - Family Service followed by Holy Communion (Canon Vessey/Lay Elders) 10.30am.

Sunday Dec 30 Wingfield - Benefice Holy Communion, 10.30am. Sunday Jan 6 Horham - Family Gift Service or Epiphany Gift Service (Laurence

Weaver) 11.15am.Redlingfield - Morning Prayer (Lay Elder) 10am.Hoxne - 11.15am,

Sunday Jan 13 Athelington - 10am. Hoxne - Morning Prayer 11.15am.Sunday Jan 20 Benefice Holy Communion - Redlingfield 10am. Hoxne - 11.15am.Sunday Jan 27 Horham - Family Service (Laurence Weaver) 11.15am.

Hoxne - Family Service 10am.Sunday Feb 3 Horham - 9am. Hoxne - 11.15am.Sunday Feb 10 Redlingfield - Morning Prayer (Lay Elder) 10am.

Hoxne - Morning Prayer 11.15am.Sunday Feb 17 Benefice Holy Communion - Athelington 10am. Hoxne - 11.15am.Sunday Feb 24 Redlingfield - 10am. Hoxne - Family Service 10am.

Horham - Family Service (Laurence Weaver) 11.15am.Sunday Mar 3 Horham - 9am.Parish notices:Baptisms: Horham, March 18th, Robin Nicole, daughter of Gary and Nicola Melton.October 21st, Callie Ree-Ann and Keira Lily Jean Hunt and Lola Louise Mary-MayHammond, children of Jackie Hunt and Matthew Hammond.Wedding: Athelington, September 29th, Paul Gunton and Naomi Wright.Funeral: Horham, September 15th, Jamie Barlow, aged 29 years.Cremation: Seven Hills, September 17th, Richard Joe Alderton, aged 69 years,and a Service in Celebration of his life, at Horham, September 22nd.

Tom and Peggy Cozensunveiling the new memorial at the Red Feather Club.

RED FEATHER CLUB EVENTS 2013Saturday March 23: Swing dance – a selection of different DJs to suit all tastes.Saturday May 18 & Sunday May 19: 1940s Weekend – Strictly 40s dance on the

Saturday evening and 1940s re-enactments on Sunday.Thursday June 20 to Wednesday June 26: 70th anniversary reunion visit to Horham

including a members-only open day on Sunday June 23. Saturday September 28: 200th Mission dance with the 95th’s own band Skyliner.Sunday September 29: Open day and softball game – Wallopers vs Snowdrops.

Regular open days are the last Sunday of every month from April to October.

LIKE MOST COUNCILS, MIDSuffolk is having to findsavings. Over the last 18months there has been arestructuring and a new

relationship with Babergh. There have tobe savings of £4m over four years andyet we need to enhance services.

There have been exhaustiveconsultations including a CommunityEngagement day at Wingfield Barns.

I think we all agree that this part ofSuffolk is quiet and peaceful and that iswhy we live here, but what will villagersneed in the future?

While we need to protect the style andethos of rural villages if we do not movewith the times villages will die. We needto look at affordable and appropriatehousing, encourage small businesses toset up and expand and see what thecommunity can do together forthemselves rather than wait for fundingthat might not come. For instance, wherethere is a need for services for the elderlyand housebound, instead of gettingsomeone else to provide it, can thecommunity get together with plans thatcan be aided by council grants?

There are statutory services the districtis obliged to supply. such as bincollections, but there are others thatcould be done in the neighbourhood withfinancial or practical help. All this soundsconfusing but we are beginning to seesome green shoots with regard toplaygrounds and village stores. I wonderif there is a case to bring the villages ofthis ward together to combine efforts?

As you know Hartismere Health Centreis up and running for alternativetreatments and outreach nursingservices and the new and larger parkingarea will soon be in use. Next will comethe 60-bed nursing and care facility.MSDC has a role in the new Health andWellbeing Board for Suffolk. In April 2013,the present NHS PCT will disappear anddoctors’ Commissioning Groups willbecome responsible for securing anddelivering services. I hope that we will beable to secure services from regionalhospitals to be delivered at Hartismere.

On behalf of MSDC and myself, I wishyou a very Happy Christmas and ahealthy and pleasurable New Year.

Elizabeth Gibson-Harries,District Councillor – Hoxne Ward

YOUR DISTRICT COUNCILLOR

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POLICE REPORT COLUMNS

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I SEND THIS FROM OSNABRUCK WHERE I AM ATTENDING Aconference to promote the Corridor 2 (the link from Birminghamthrough Suffolk to Holland and on to Warsaw).

The importance of this route for all of us and our prosperity can not beunderestimated. We need to ensure that goods from Jaguar, JCB and

Muntons are able to get into the very heart of Europe without hindrance and delay.In Suffolk work has started on the Ipswich Rail Chord (this will reduce lorries on

Suffolk's roads by making rail more competitive). So I am here to bang the drum forSuffolk and GB plc. Guy McGregor, County Councillor – Hoxne & Eye Division

YOUR COUNTY COUNCILLOR

A THIEF WILL USUALLY COMEequipped with a limited range of toolsto attack your heating oil tank so it’sworth spending a little more on goodquality locks.

Closed shackle padlocks are best asthey offer most resistance to the mostpopular of burglar tools, namely thebolt cropper. Due to their design,closed shackle padlocks have verylittle of the metal hoop (shackle)exposed and bolt croppers cannot get agood grip.

The position of the tank can alsohave a significant effect on how hard atarget it is in the eyes of a thief.

If the tank is within good view of thehouse, then the thief may consider therisk of being seen too high. If the tankis close to a road, path, drive oralleyway then it will be a far easiertarget.

Hiding the tank behind the garage,shed or some other type of outbuildingis fairly commonplace but, on theother hand, it could help to conceal thethief.

Remember your tank should bepositioned in a way that will notprevent the oil supply company frombeing able to gain access to refill thetank

Check with your insurance provider

that you are not only insured for fuelthefts, but also any oil seepages, eitherthrough wear and tear or deliberatelycaused by an offender.

The cost of any resultingenvironmental clean up could proveexpensive.

Remote electronic oil level gaugesare now available, which will set offan audible alarm if the oil level in thetank suddenly falls in fuel level.

These gauges are sited within thehouse to warn of any potentialproblem. If you have already installedan alarm for your property ask yourprovider if they can also add an alarmlink to your heating oil tank.

Another recent security measureavailable is a padlock with a built-inalarm, which activates, whentampered, at up to 110 decibels.

Other options include restrictingaccess through gating, installing duskto dawn security lighting, or lockablecaps, supported by closed shacklepadlocks.

Join a Neighbourhood Watchscheme to keep an eye out forsuspicious vehicles/persons, and makea note of the registration number ofany suspicious vehicles and if in doubtreport any suspicions to the Police on999.

Heating oil thefts . . .

Mid Suffolk North Safer Neighbourhood Team,PCSO 3172 Steven Long & PC 878 JacquiThomas, Eye Police Station, Victoria Hill, Eye,Suffolk, IP23 7HJ. Phone 101, emailMidsuffnorth.snt@suffolk.pnn.police.uk

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ALTHOUGH THERE IS STILLa long way to go before theBritish economy returns to fullhealth, we recently saw someencouraging signs as figures

were released which showed that it hadgrown by one per cent between July andSeptember this year.

This was the strongest quarterlygrowth in five years and followed newsthat unemployment has also fallen, withmore people in work, while inflation hasalso come down, bringing welcome reliefto the budgets of families and businessesin Suffolk and across the UK.

I was particularly pleased to see thatthe East of England now has more peopleemployed than any other region in thecountry, and only 2.6 per cent of thepopulation in my constituency wereclaiming job seekers allowance lastmonth. This is testament to our excellentlocal businesses, farms and shops inSuffolk and across the region, whichform the backbone of our economy byproviding jobs for local people, drivingeconomic growth and supporting ourschools and hospitals.

It doesn’t come as a great surprise tome that Suffolk has some of the highestlevels of employment in the country.

During my regular visits to local ruralbusinesses, such as Suffolk FarmhouseCheeses and Aspall Cyder, I see atfirsthand the sheer hard work,enthusiasm and effort that is put in bystaff all year round. We are lucky to have

such excellent businesses, inspirationalschool teachers and hardworking people,all of whom have a vital role to play inputting our county on the path toeconomic recovery. I shall continue to doall I can as your constituency MP toensure that local businesses, schoolsand colleges have the necessary supportfrom Government to succeed in thefuture.

Local village services such as the postoffice, pub and store form the lifeblood ofrural communities. Our village postoffices are particularly important forvulnerable elderly residents or thosewithout their own cars.

Along with many residents, I wasextremely concerned to hear about theclosure of the Stradbroke Post Officeearlier this year, after sub-postmasterDavid Johnson closed down in July. Sincethen local residents have been leftwithout a post office. However, followingmy contact with senior management atthe Post Office, I was delighted to hearrecently that Darren and CharlotteMelton, who run the Spar shop in ChurchStreet, have applied to open a newbranch on their premises. While it islikely to be a number of months beforethe application has completed itsprocess and a new branch is opened inthe village, this is encouraging news and Iwill be closely following the progress ofthe application in the weeks and monthsahead. Dr Dan Poulter, MP - for moreinformation see www.danielpoulter.com

DR DAN POULTER, YOUR LOCAL MP, REPORTS BACK

■ DONATE FURNITURE: St Elizabeth Hospice is appealing for donations of furnitureto sell in their shops. The charity has a van and team of volunteer drivers who willpick up good quality items from your home, Monday to Saturday. Donations of sofas,table, chairs, wardrobes and cabinets are welcome. Contact 0845 259 0319.

STRADBROKE & DISTRICTRBL is holding a Christmas GiftConcert for Wattisham military

wives at Stradbroke High School onSaturday December 1.

The concert, starting at 4pm, willfeature Gislingham Silver Band.People are asked to bring a gift-wrapped present suitable for themilitary wives. Admission is £2.50and includes warm punch and a mincepie. Father Christmas will also makean appearance. Tickets available atHorham Post Office.

OUR POPPY APPEAL ORGANISERJeremy Higgins is retiring and movingcloser to his family so on behalf of thebranch I thank him for his outstandingservice over many years. PeterChetwynd from Stradbroke is takinghis place and at our agm Jeremy wasreplaced as our branch secretary byour chaplain Rev David Streeter.

Nineteen members attended the agmat Laxfield King’s Head – the guestspeaker was county chairman ColinHawkins fromStowmarket.

AS ALWAYS OURannual RemembranceDay services were wellattended and this yearRev Susan Loxtonconducted both theservices around the warmemorial and in AllSaints Church. Wreaths

were laid, Last Post and Reveillesounded and I gave the RBL Tribute.

Joyce Cooper, who carried thestandard, and I represented the branchwhen the Royal Anglian Regimentreceived the Freedom of Diss onWednesday November 7. It was agreat event for the town and was wellattended.

THE BRANCH’S ANNUALChristmas carols lunch is at LaxfieldVillage Hall on Thursday December13 at 11.30am – names to branchsecretary (384363) a week before theevent please.

BRANCH MEMBER ALBERTSiggers recently passed away. He wasa good and dedicated member and ourthoughts go out to his wife Edna andfamily. He will be very much missedby us all.

A very happy Christmas and bestwishes for the New Year to all

readers, Branch Chairman, MichaelBurton

Christmas gift concert

Members of the Royal Anglian Regiment parade in Diss.Photograph courtesy Richard E Flagg.

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1Grand Christmas Bazaar: WorlingworthCommunity Centre, 11am-2pm, lightlunches from noon. Various stalls, granddraw. Adults 50p, includes cup of tea orcoffee, children free. For church funds. Christmas Gift and Craft Fair: StonhamBarns. 10am-4pm.Friends of Debenham High SchoolChristmas Market: noon-4pm.Christmas Fayre: Fressingfield PrimarySchool, 2pm-4pm. Christmas Gift Concert (for Wattishammilitary wives): Stradbroke High School,Wilby Road, 4pm, presented byStradbroke & District Royal BritishLegion. See story.St Trinian’s School Disco: ThePlayingfield Pavilion, Hoxne, 8pm-late.Tickets £7.50 All proceeds to St EdmundsPreschool.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1 & 2Christmas With The Owls: Suffolk OwlSanctuary.

SUNDAYS, DECEMBER 2, 9, 16, 23 & SATURDAY,DECEMBER 15Santa Special: Mid-Suffolk Light Railway,Steam train rides to see Santa at hisrailway home with Christmas themedactivities and stories. Pre-booked ticketsonly, on sale now. £10 per head, adult orchild, present for each child. Bookingform www.mslr.org.uk/santabooking.htmlor 01473-890622.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5Redlingfield coffee morning: Chris andMidge Gibbons, Rush Meadow, 10amuntil noon, sherry, mince pies, free raffle.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7Christmas Bazaar: Eye Town Hall, 5.30-7.30pm, for parish church.

Christmas Dinner Dance: Horham &Athelington Community Centre, AngelaWilkins (384625).

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7-9Christmas Tree Festival: St Mary’sChurch, Worlingworth. Locally sourced

living trees decorated with handmadedecorations. Adults £2 including abeverage, children free. Soup & rolls,cakes & mince pies available at lunchtime. In aid of church funds. 7th: Festivalopens at 7pm, with sherry & mince pies,8th - 10am-5pm; 9th - 10am-3pm,followed by a carol service at 3.30pm.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8Christmas Produce Market: SancroftHall, Fressingfield, 10am-noon.

Jazz at Eye: Christmas Jazz Concertstarring Digby Fair Weather & Band, EyeChurch (St Peter & Paul), 7.30pm.Admission: £15. Contact: P Barter 07516370502, www.jazzateye.co.uk.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12Redlingfield ladies Christmas lunch:White Hart, Stradbroke.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16Carol Singing: Horham CommunityCentre, 6.45pm for 7pm start. PremierChristian Radio’s Guinness World Recordbreaking attempt for the largest group ofcarol singers across multiple venues. Thebar will be open, & refreshments served.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28 & 29 Treasure Island: St. Edmund’s Hall,Hoxne, Puzzle House Pantomimespresent a traditional family panto.3.00pm start. Tickets £6. Tel: 384656.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31New Year’s Bash: Thorndon Village Hall.New Year’s Eve Party: HorhamCommunity Centre, from 8pm. Allwelcome. Admission free. Live musicfrom Paul (Hammy) Hamilton. Pleasebring some food (snacks etc).

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2Redlingfield coffee morning: Jan andNeville Butcher, Hill Cottage, 10am untilnoon, to include a book swap.SUNDAY,

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23Hidden Histories Of Medieval & TudorEast Anglia: Stradbroke CommunityCentre, Wilby Road. 8-week course byStradbroke & Laxfield WEA. 2-hour

WHAT’S ON IN MEMORIAM

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RICHARD JOE ALDERTON: Joe wasborn to Joe and Belle Alderton onApril 19 1943 in his grandparents’home at Trust Farm in Wilby. When hisfather came home from Italy where hewas working on bomb disposal theymoved to London City Road. When Joewas six his little brother William wasborn. Joe went to school in Wilby(Wilby High as he called it) where hisgranddaughter Lola now attends. Heenjoyed cricket and played football forStradbroke on Saturdays as a strikerand for Stoke Ash on Sundays. Hesupported Ipswich Town allhis life and a highlight wasgoing to Wembley for the FACup Final in ‘78. He leftschool at 14 and worked onvarious farms beforeworking for GordonChambers in Wilby where hedrove a digger and then aBig A. He married KarenHuggins at Horham church on June 281975 and moved in with her mum anddad in Horham. In July 1977 theymoved to Stradbroke and Kevin wasborn in July 1978, Tanya arrived in May1981 and Matthew in September 1982.In February 1984 they moved back toHorham, next door to Karen’s Mum atKetama on Redlingfield Road where helived until his death on September 52012. He joined the committee at thecommunity centre helping cut thegrass, maintain the hall and rundances with Karen. In 1980 Joe wentto work with J&H Bunn in GreatYarmouth were he drove a Big Aspreading granular fertiliser andmeeting farmers across East Anglia. In

1996 it became Alderton and Sonwhen Kevin joined the company. Joewas happiest with his family – Kevinworking with him and living next door,with Amanda and their girls Lola andFreya, Matt being head boy at schooland going to Turkey to work, and Tanyagiving him little William to play with.The proudest moment of his life wasprobably walking Tanya down the aisleto marry Ian at Horham Church inJuly. The grandchildren were allimportant to him – I am sure Lola willmiss playing camps with him in the

lounge, farmyards on thekitchen table, andtrampolining and football inthe garden. Joe retired in2003 but was busy with hisgarden and mother-in-lawsnext door. He enjoyed thesimple things in life – hisgarden (growing biggerpotatoes than Gordon),

walking the dogs, a good shoot, a pintand the odd wee dram. Joe was ahusband, brother, dad, granddad,nephew, cousin, workmate and a verygood friend and as he would probablysay “a good old boy”. He wasdiagnosed with brain and pancreatictumours in May and courageouslybattled the pain and confusion, nevergiving up. He was a very special manand will be missed by his family andmany friends. Karen and family wouldlike to thank everyone who gave themsupport in the last few months and forall the donations in his memory – anamazing £1,045 for MacMillan CancerSupport, Marie Curie Cancer Care andSt Elizabeth Hospice. Karen Alderton

WHAT’S ON & NEWSIN MEMORIAM & NEWS

JAMIE BARLOW: Jamie Barlow, who died tragically onAugust 28th, aged 29 years, lived as a boy in Tannington,and was at school in Wilby and Stradbroke. Later helived in Stradbroke, Hoxne and Wingfield. He was anactive member of my youth group, and enjoyed discos,pool and darts, the Inter Village Games, carpet bowlsand bungee jumping. He came to church at HarvestFestival, Christmas-time and for other special services, and helped put up theAdvent candles at Athelington. He was strong, energetic, hardworking and goodhumoured, and had many friends. We miss him very much. David Streeter

MY JOEWhen I first met him I was on my bike

On the way to workHe would smile and wave at meI thought what a berk

Then in the White Hart he bought me adrinkLong time ago a vodka and lime I thinkAsked to take me to a club in townSo I couldn’t turn that down

Came along next SaturdayIn all his fineryI took one look and thoughtYou will do for me

We got engaged and marriedThen the children came alongWe worked together as a teamThat’s what made us strong

He asked me to wear red today And don’t be sad when I’ve gone awaySo I will do my best to hold back thetearsRemembering all the good years

The world keeps turning and life goes onTake care of each other when I havegoneJoe had a contented lifeAnd I was very proud to be his wife

In dark days ahead it will be sadBut we are here today to celebrate thelife that he had69 years with memories to treasureMy darling Joe I will love you forever

Poem written by Karen Alderton for he husband Joe

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■ CHRISTMAS SERVICES: Horham Baptist Church is holding a Christmas Familyservice on Sunday December 9 at 10.45am and Carols by Candlelight on MondayDecember 24 at 6.30pm. Everyone gets a very warm welcome to our services, bothof which are followed by refreshments. On Tuesday December 18 there are Carols atWorlingworth Community Centre at 7pm. Anne Jarrett (Church Secretary)■ CUB SCOUT LEADERS NEEDED: 1st Fressingfield Scout Group is looking for a newCub Scout leader and assistant leaders to open a Cub Pack on Wednesday eveningsat its Scout HQ at the Goodwin Hall, New Street Fressingfield. It has a growingwaiting list for Cub Scouts (aged 8-10 years old, boys and girls). Information fromAndrew Aalders-Dunthorne, Group Scout Leader, at The Old Forge, New Street,Fressingfield, IP21 5PG (07908 262623 or andrew.aaldersdunthorne@talk21.com).

■ THANK YOUS: Thank you very much to everyone who supported the coffeemorning on August 31 which raised £259.85 and to the cyclists and churchstewards for the SHCT bike ride on September 8, which brought in £779.60, to beshared equally between St Mary’s fabric fund and the Suffolk Historic ChurchesTrust. Our cyclists were Brian Gue, Daphne Harvey, Abbie, Jake and Ella Hawes,Natasha, Joe and Jessie Lewer-Davidson, Daniel Streeter, Andy Smith, LawrenceWeaver and David and Michael Whatling. £12 has also been sent to Christian Aidfrom sales of harvest produce. Daphne Harvey

Event information: Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, Brockford Station, Wetheringsett nrStowmarket, Suffolk Suffolk IP14 5PW, www.mslr.org.uk, general enquiries KeithFroom 01449 672670 or keith.froom@ftinternet.co.uk; Redlingfield, 678835,pc@redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk, www.redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk; Wingfield Barns,384505, enquiries@wingfieldbarns.com, www.wingfieldbarns.com (Chick Flicks, 8pm,£10 or four for £30 pre-booked).

MONDAYS: Ballroom dancing: St Edmund’s Hall, Hoxne, 7.30pm-9.30pm (for adults).Sandra Hartley, 01728 723887.

TUESDAYS: Bingo: Thorndon Village Hall, 7.30pm every other Tues. 678178. WEDNESDAYS: Redlingfield & Occold WI, 1st Wed of the month at, 7.45pm, in Occold Village

Hall. Hoxon Hundred: Summer dance-outs at local pubs. Winter practices. Ron Ross,643563. Eye Country Market, every Wed 10am-11am, Eye Town Hall (closed Jan).

THURSDAYS: Keep fit classes: 8pm, Worlingworth Village Hall, all abilities, lose weight, toneup – £4 per session. Call Sarah on 07884 186849 for details. Hoxne Garden Club: 3rdThurs St Edmund’s Hall, Hoxne, 7.30pm

FRIDAYS: Bingo: Stradbroke Community Centre, Wilby Road, 2nd Fri monthly. 7.30pm. MaryEllis, 384642.

FRIDAYS/SUNDAYS: Traditional music: Worlingworth Swan, 2nd Fri evening of month inspring & summer. Sun lunch in autumn & winter.

SATURDAYS: Occold Market & Car Boot: Occold Village and Village Hall, 9.30am-noon, lastSat of the month from March to November.

SUNDAYS: Open days: Red Feather/95th Bomb Group Heritage Association & 95th BGHospital Museum last Sun of month May-October inclusive,

lectures start 2.15pm. £48 for course(01728 724746).

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24Cinema in Stradbroke: StradbrokeCommunity Centre, doors & bar open7pm, films starts 7.30pm. Tickets £5.50on door (388629).

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27Treasure Island: Wingfield Barns, PuzzleHouse Pantomimes. 3pm start. Tickets £6.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31-SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2Jack and the Beanstalk: FressingfieldPlayers Pantomime, 7.30pm, Sancroft

Hall. Tickets, adults £6, children £4,WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Redlingfield coffee morning: Pat Kelly,Red Mill, 10am until noon.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28Cinema in Stradbroke: StradbrokeCommunity Centre, doors & bar open7pm, films starts 7.30pm. Tickets £5.50on door (388629).

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 Redlingfield coffee morning: WesternBarn, Abbotts Meadow, 10am until noon,to include a free raffle.

ONE OF THE BIGGESTnames in speedwayrecently stopped off in

Horham lured by the chance toride a replica of his old bike.

Former Norwich Stars favouriteand five-time world champion OveFundin, who was nicknamed theFlying Fox, took the bike built byHorham’s Brian Marsh for spin onthe field beside the communitycentre.

The 79-year-old Swede, whorode for Norwich Stars from 1955 to1964, was in the UK for a reunion and topromote a move to relaunch speedway inNorwich. He delayed his return to his

planning permission goes through for thenew stadium on the Norfolk ShowgroundI will come back in proper gear and I willrace it. I hope I will not break it,” he said.

Brian said he hoped the Ove wouldreturn to Norwich next year and set thefirst lap record on a new speedway trackwith his replica bike.

Dozens of fans and villagers gathered towitness the Flying Fox’s laps and thenjoined him in the community centre for anautograph signing session.

“He is the greatest rider of all time andfor a period of 11 years he was in the topthree at Wembley. I know in his time, hewas a ferocious rider and he has melloweda lot since. What Muhammid Ali is toboxing, Ove Fundin is to speedway. He isfantastic,” Brian said.

The Norwich Stars stopped racing in thecity in 1965 but Ove and the team are stillfondly remembered by many older localswho enjoyed a night out watching theFlying Fox and team mates.

His visit pulled in the press as well as

locals with Radio Norfolk the DissExpress and the Diss Mercury/EADT/EDP sending reporters andphotographers.

Mike Ager (sources Diss Express,EADT & EDP)

FEATURES & NEWS

Above: Ove Fundinin action on theRotrax replica bikebuilt by BrianMarsh. From left:Ove Fundin at easein Horham, withDavid Whatlingand, during hisdays at theNorwich stars.Inset: theSpeedway WorldCup trophy namedafter him.

French Riviera home to ride theRotrax bike which Brian spent ayear building.

Ove donned a yellow and greenhat and a Norwich Stars bib to ridethe replica of the bike he rode at theFirs Stadium in Aylsham Road in the1950s and 60s.

He managed a few sedate laps on therough wet grass despite having abobble hat instead of a helmet buthopes that if speedway does restart

in Norwich to return and race Brian’sbike at the new stadium.

“Norwich used to be the hub ofspeedway and it amazes me that therehasn’t been anything there since 1965. If

A sporting superstar comes to Horham

OVE FUNDIN’S SPEEDWAY CAREER: Ove Fundin made a total of 15 World Final appearancescoming runner-up three times and third three times as well as his five wins. He also helpedSweden win the World Team Cup in 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967 and 1970 as well as theSpeedway World Pairs Championship in 1968. He is considered by many to be the greatestrider of all time and this is reflected by the Speedway World Cup being named after him. Oveis still remembered within speedway with awe. It’s appropriate then that the eight teamscompeting in the SWC will be aiming to lift the Ove Fundin Trophy.

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ONE OF THE BIGGESTnames in speedwayrecently stopped off in

Horham lured by the chance toride a replica of his old bike.

Former Norwich Stars favouriteand five-time world champion OveFundin, who was nicknamed theFlying Fox, took the bike built byHorham’s Brian Marsh for spin onthe field beside the communitycentre.

The 79-year-old Swede, whorode for Norwich Stars from 1955 to1964, was in the UK for a reunion and topromote a move to relaunch speedway inNorwich. He delayed his return to his

planning permission goes through for thenew stadium on the Norfolk ShowgroundI will come back in proper gear and I willrace it. I hope I will not break it,” he said.

Brian said he hoped the Ove wouldreturn to Norwich next year and set thefirst lap record on a new speedway trackwith his replica bike.

Dozens of fans and villagers gathered towitness the Flying Fox’s laps and thenjoined him in the community centre for anautograph signing session.

“He is the greatest rider of all time andfor a period of 11 years he was in the topthree at Wembley. I know in his time, hewas a ferocious rider and he has melloweda lot since. What Muhammid Ali is toboxing, Ove Fundin is to speedway. He isfantastic,” Brian said.

The Norwich Stars stopped racing in thecity in 1965 but Ove and the team are stillfondly remembered by many older localswho enjoyed a night out watching theFlying Fox and team mates.

His visit pulled in the press as well as

locals with Radio Norfolk the DissExpress and the Diss Mercury/EADT/EDP sending reporters andphotographers.

Mike Ager (sources Diss Express,EADT & EDP)

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Above: Ove Fundinin action on theRotrax replica bikebuilt by BrianMarsh. From left:Ove Fundin at easein Horham, withDavid Whatlingand, during hisdays at theNorwich stars.Inset: theSpeedway WorldCup trophy namedafter him.

French Riviera home to ride theRotrax bike which Brian spent ayear building.

Ove donned a yellow and greenhat and a Norwich Stars bib to ridethe replica of the bike he rode at theFirs Stadium in Aylsham Road in the1950s and 60s.

He managed a few sedate laps on therough wet grass despite having abobble hat instead of a helmet buthopes that if speedway does restart

in Norwich to return and race Brian’sbike at the new stadium.

“Norwich used to be the hub ofspeedway and it amazes me that therehasn’t been anything there since 1965. If

A sporting superstar comes to Horham

OVE FUNDIN’S SPEEDWAY CAREER: Ove Fundin made a total of 15 World Final appearancescoming runner-up three times and third three times as well as his five wins. He also helpedSweden win the World Team Cup in 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967 and 1970 as well as theSpeedway World Pairs Championship in 1968. He is considered by many to be the greatestrider of all time and this is reflected by the Speedway World Cup being named after him. Oveis still remembered within speedway with awe. It’s appropriate then that the eight teamscompeting in the SWC will be aiming to lift the Ove Fundin Trophy.

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WHAT’S ON & NEWSIN MEMORIAM & NEWS

JAMIE BARLOW: Jamie Barlow, who died tragically onAugust 28th, aged 29 years, lived as a boy in Tannington,and was at school in Wilby and Stradbroke. Later helived in Stradbroke, Hoxne and Wingfield. He was anactive member of my youth group, and enjoyed discos,pool and darts, the Inter Village Games, carpet bowlsand bungee jumping. He came to church at HarvestFestival, Christmas-time and for other special services, and helped put up theAdvent candles at Athelington. He was strong, energetic, hardworking and goodhumoured, and had many friends. We miss him very much. David Streeter

MY JOEWhen I first met him I was on my bike

On the way to workHe would smile and wave at meI thought what a berk

Then in the White Hart he bought me adrinkLong time ago a vodka and lime I thinkAsked to take me to a club in townSo I couldn’t turn that down

Came along next SaturdayIn all his fineryI took one look and thoughtYou will do for me

We got engaged and marriedThen the children came alongWe worked together as a teamThat’s what made us strong

He asked me to wear red today And don’t be sad when I’ve gone awaySo I will do my best to hold back thetearsRemembering all the good years

The world keeps turning and life goes onTake care of each other when I havegoneJoe had a contented lifeAnd I was very proud to be his wife

In dark days ahead it will be sadBut we are here today to celebrate thelife that he had69 years with memories to treasureMy darling Joe I will love you forever

Poem written by Karen Alderton for he husband Joe

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■ CHRISTMAS SERVICES: Horham Baptist Church is holding a Christmas Familyservice on Sunday December 9 at 10.45am and Carols by Candlelight on MondayDecember 24 at 6.30pm. Everyone gets a very warm welcome to our services, bothof which are followed by refreshments. On Tuesday December 18 there are Carols atWorlingworth Community Centre at 7pm. Anne Jarrett (Church Secretary)■ CUB SCOUT LEADERS NEEDED: 1st Fressingfield Scout Group is looking for a newCub Scout leader and assistant leaders to open a Cub Pack on Wednesday eveningsat its Scout HQ at the Goodwin Hall, New Street Fressingfield. It has a growingwaiting list for Cub Scouts (aged 8-10 years old, boys and girls). Information fromAndrew Aalders-Dunthorne, Group Scout Leader, at The Old Forge, New Street,Fressingfield, IP21 5PG (07908 262623 or andrew.aaldersdunthorne@talk21.com).

■ THANK YOUS: Thank you very much to everyone who supported the coffeemorning on August 31 which raised £259.85 and to the cyclists and churchstewards for the SHCT bike ride on September 8, which brought in £779.60, to beshared equally between St Mary’s fabric fund and the Suffolk Historic ChurchesTrust. Our cyclists were Brian Gue, Daphne Harvey, Abbie, Jake and Ella Hawes,Natasha, Joe and Jessie Lewer-Davidson, Daniel Streeter, Andy Smith, LawrenceWeaver and David and Michael Whatling. £12 has also been sent to Christian Aidfrom sales of harvest produce. Daphne Harvey

Event information: Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, Brockford Station, Wetheringsett nrStowmarket, Suffolk Suffolk IP14 5PW, www.mslr.org.uk, general enquiries KeithFroom 01449 672670 or keith.froom@ftinternet.co.uk; Redlingfield, 678835,pc@redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk, www.redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk; Wingfield Barns,384505, enquiries@wingfieldbarns.com, www.wingfieldbarns.com (Chick Flicks, 8pm,£10 or four for £30 pre-booked).

MONDAYS: Ballroom dancing: St Edmund’s Hall, Hoxne, 7.30pm-9.30pm (for adults).Sandra Hartley, 01728 723887.

TUESDAYS: Bingo: Thorndon Village Hall, 7.30pm every other Tues. 678178. WEDNESDAYS: Redlingfield & Occold WI, 1st Wed of the month at, 7.45pm, in Occold Village

Hall. Hoxon Hundred: Summer dance-outs at local pubs. Winter practices. Ron Ross,643563. Eye Country Market, every Wed 10am-11am, Eye Town Hall (closed Jan).

THURSDAYS: Keep fit classes: 8pm, Worlingworth Village Hall, all abilities, lose weight, toneup – £4 per session. Call Sarah on 07884 186849 for details. Hoxne Garden Club: 3rdThurs St Edmund’s Hall, Hoxne, 7.30pm

FRIDAYS: Bingo: Stradbroke Community Centre, Wilby Road, 2nd Fri monthly. 7.30pm. MaryEllis, 384642.

FRIDAYS/SUNDAYS: Traditional music: Worlingworth Swan, 2nd Fri evening of month inspring & summer. Sun lunch in autumn & winter.

SATURDAYS: Occold Market & Car Boot: Occold Village and Village Hall, 9.30am-noon, lastSat of the month from March to November.

SUNDAYS: Open days: Red Feather/95th Bomb Group Heritage Association & 95th BGHospital Museum last Sun of month May-October inclusive,

lectures start 2.15pm. £48 for course(01728 724746).

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24Cinema in Stradbroke: StradbrokeCommunity Centre, doors & bar open7pm, films starts 7.30pm. Tickets £5.50on door (388629).

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27Treasure Island: Wingfield Barns, PuzzleHouse Pantomimes. 3pm start. Tickets £6.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31-SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2Jack and the Beanstalk: FressingfieldPlayers Pantomime, 7.30pm, Sancroft

Hall. Tickets, adults £6, children £4,WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6

Redlingfield coffee morning: Pat Kelly,Red Mill, 10am until noon.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28Cinema in Stradbroke: StradbrokeCommunity Centre, doors & bar open7pm, films starts 7.30pm. Tickets £5.50on door (388629).

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 Redlingfield coffee morning: WesternBarn, Abbotts Meadow, 10am until noon,to include a free raffle.

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1Grand Christmas Bazaar: WorlingworthCommunity Centre, 11am-2pm, lightlunches from noon. Various stalls, granddraw. Adults 50p, includes cup of tea orcoffee, children free. For church funds. Christmas Gift and Craft Fair: StonhamBarns. 10am-4pm.Friends of Debenham High SchoolChristmas Market: noon-4pm.Christmas Fayre: Fressingfield PrimarySchool, 2pm-4pm. Christmas Gift Concert (for Wattishammilitary wives): Stradbroke High School,Wilby Road, 4pm, presented byStradbroke & District Royal BritishLegion. See story.St Trinian’s School Disco: ThePlayingfield Pavilion, Hoxne, 8pm-late.Tickets £7.50 All proceeds to St EdmundsPreschool.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1 & 2Christmas With The Owls: Suffolk OwlSanctuary.

SUNDAYS, DECEMBER 2, 9, 16, 23 & SATURDAY,DECEMBER 15Santa Special: Mid-Suffolk Light Railway,Steam train rides to see Santa at hisrailway home with Christmas themedactivities and stories. Pre-booked ticketsonly, on sale now. £10 per head, adult orchild, present for each child. Bookingform www.mslr.org.uk/santabooking.htmlor 01473-890622.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5Redlingfield coffee morning: Chris andMidge Gibbons, Rush Meadow, 10amuntil noon, sherry, mince pies, free raffle.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7Christmas Bazaar: Eye Town Hall, 5.30-7.30pm, for parish church.

Christmas Dinner Dance: Horham &Athelington Community Centre, AngelaWilkins (384625).

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7-9Christmas Tree Festival: St Mary’sChurch, Worlingworth. Locally sourced

living trees decorated with handmadedecorations. Adults £2 including abeverage, children free. Soup & rolls,cakes & mince pies available at lunchtime. In aid of church funds. 7th: Festivalopens at 7pm, with sherry & mince pies,8th - 10am-5pm; 9th - 10am-3pm,followed by a carol service at 3.30pm.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8Christmas Produce Market: SancroftHall, Fressingfield, 10am-noon.

Jazz at Eye: Christmas Jazz Concertstarring Digby Fair Weather & Band, EyeChurch (St Peter & Paul), 7.30pm.Admission: £15. Contact: P Barter 07516370502, www.jazzateye.co.uk.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12Redlingfield ladies Christmas lunch:White Hart, Stradbroke.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16Carol Singing: Horham CommunityCentre, 6.45pm for 7pm start. PremierChristian Radio’s Guinness World Recordbreaking attempt for the largest group ofcarol singers across multiple venues. Thebar will be open, & refreshments served.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28 & 29 Treasure Island: St. Edmund’s Hall,Hoxne, Puzzle House Pantomimespresent a traditional family panto.3.00pm start. Tickets £6. Tel: 384656.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 31New Year’s Bash: Thorndon Village Hall.New Year’s Eve Party: HorhamCommunity Centre, from 8pm. Allwelcome. Admission free. Live musicfrom Paul (Hammy) Hamilton. Pleasebring some food (snacks etc).

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2Redlingfield coffee morning: Jan andNeville Butcher, Hill Cottage, 10am untilnoon, to include a book swap.SUNDAY,

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23Hidden Histories Of Medieval & TudorEast Anglia: Stradbroke CommunityCentre, Wilby Road. 8-week course byStradbroke & Laxfield WEA. 2-hour

WHAT’S ON IN MEMORIAM

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RICHARD JOE ALDERTON: Joe wasborn to Joe and Belle Alderton onApril 19 1943 in his grandparents’home at Trust Farm in Wilby. When hisfather came home from Italy where hewas working on bomb disposal theymoved to London City Road. When Joewas six his little brother William wasborn. Joe went to school in Wilby(Wilby High as he called it) where hisgranddaughter Lola now attends. Heenjoyed cricket and played football forStradbroke on Saturdays as a strikerand for Stoke Ash on Sundays. Hesupported Ipswich Town allhis life and a highlight wasgoing to Wembley for the FACup Final in ‘78. He leftschool at 14 and worked onvarious farms beforeworking for GordonChambers in Wilby where hedrove a digger and then aBig A. He married KarenHuggins at Horham church on June 281975 and moved in with her mum anddad in Horham. In July 1977 theymoved to Stradbroke and Kevin wasborn in July 1978, Tanya arrived in May1981 and Matthew in September 1982.In February 1984 they moved back toHorham, next door to Karen’s Mum atKetama on Redlingfield Road where helived until his death on September 52012. He joined the committee at thecommunity centre helping cut thegrass, maintain the hall and rundances with Karen. In 1980 Joe wentto work with J&H Bunn in GreatYarmouth were he drove a Big Aspreading granular fertiliser andmeeting farmers across East Anglia. In

1996 it became Alderton and Sonwhen Kevin joined the company. Joewas happiest with his family – Kevinworking with him and living next door,with Amanda and their girls Lola andFreya, Matt being head boy at schooland going to Turkey to work, and Tanyagiving him little William to play with.The proudest moment of his life wasprobably walking Tanya down the aisleto marry Ian at Horham Church inJuly. The grandchildren were allimportant to him – I am sure Lola willmiss playing camps with him in the

lounge, farmyards on thekitchen table, andtrampolining and football inthe garden. Joe retired in2003 but was busy with hisgarden and mother-in-lawsnext door. He enjoyed thesimple things in life – hisgarden (growing biggerpotatoes than Gordon),

walking the dogs, a good shoot, a pintand the odd wee dram. Joe was ahusband, brother, dad, granddad,nephew, cousin, workmate and a verygood friend and as he would probablysay “a good old boy”. He wasdiagnosed with brain and pancreatictumours in May and courageouslybattled the pain and confusion, nevergiving up. He was a very special manand will be missed by his family andmany friends. Karen and family wouldlike to thank everyone who gave themsupport in the last few months and forall the donations in his memory – anamazing £1,045 for MacMillan CancerSupport, Marie Curie Cancer Care andSt Elizabeth Hospice. Karen Alderton

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ALTHOUGH THERE IS STILLa long way to go before theBritish economy returns to fullhealth, we recently saw someencouraging signs as figures

were released which showed that it hadgrown by one per cent between July andSeptember this year.

This was the strongest quarterlygrowth in five years and followed newsthat unemployment has also fallen, withmore people in work, while inflation hasalso come down, bringing welcome reliefto the budgets of families and businessesin Suffolk and across the UK.

I was particularly pleased to see thatthe East of England now has more peopleemployed than any other region in thecountry, and only 2.6 per cent of thepopulation in my constituency wereclaiming job seekers allowance lastmonth. This is testament to our excellentlocal businesses, farms and shops inSuffolk and across the region, whichform the backbone of our economy byproviding jobs for local people, drivingeconomic growth and supporting ourschools and hospitals.

It doesn’t come as a great surprise tome that Suffolk has some of the highestlevels of employment in the country.

During my regular visits to local ruralbusinesses, such as Suffolk FarmhouseCheeses and Aspall Cyder, I see atfirsthand the sheer hard work,enthusiasm and effort that is put in bystaff all year round. We are lucky to have

such excellent businesses, inspirationalschool teachers and hardworking people,all of whom have a vital role to play inputting our county on the path toeconomic recovery. I shall continue to doall I can as your constituency MP toensure that local businesses, schoolsand colleges have the necessary supportfrom Government to succeed in thefuture.

Local village services such as the postoffice, pub and store form the lifeblood ofrural communities. Our village postoffices are particularly important forvulnerable elderly residents or thosewithout their own cars.

Along with many residents, I wasextremely concerned to hear about theclosure of the Stradbroke Post Officeearlier this year, after sub-postmasterDavid Johnson closed down in July. Sincethen local residents have been leftwithout a post office. However, followingmy contact with senior management atthe Post Office, I was delighted to hearrecently that Darren and CharlotteMelton, who run the Spar shop in ChurchStreet, have applied to open a newbranch on their premises. While it islikely to be a number of months beforethe application has completed itsprocess and a new branch is opened inthe village, this is encouraging news and Iwill be closely following the progress ofthe application in the weeks and monthsahead. Dr Dan Poulter, MP - for moreinformation see www.danielpoulter.com

DR DAN POULTER, YOUR LOCAL MP, REPORTS BACK

■ DONATE FURNITURE: St Elizabeth Hospice is appealing for donations of furnitureto sell in their shops. The charity has a van and team of volunteer drivers who willpick up good quality items from your home, Monday to Saturday. Donations of sofas,table, chairs, wardrobes and cabinets are welcome. Contact 0845 259 0319.

STRADBROKE & DISTRICTRBL is holding a Christmas GiftConcert for Wattisham military

wives at Stradbroke High School onSaturday December 1.

The concert, starting at 4pm, willfeature Gislingham Silver Band.People are asked to bring a gift-wrapped present suitable for themilitary wives. Admission is £2.50and includes warm punch and a mincepie. Father Christmas will also makean appearance. Tickets available atHorham Post Office.

OUR POPPY APPEAL ORGANISERJeremy Higgins is retiring and movingcloser to his family so on behalf of thebranch I thank him for his outstandingservice over many years. PeterChetwynd from Stradbroke is takinghis place and at our agm Jeremy wasreplaced as our branch secretary byour chaplain Rev David Streeter.

Nineteen members attended the agmat Laxfield King’s Head – the guestspeaker was county chairman ColinHawkins fromStowmarket.

AS ALWAYS OURannual RemembranceDay services were wellattended and this yearRev Susan Loxtonconducted both theservices around the warmemorial and in AllSaints Church. Wreaths

were laid, Last Post and Reveillesounded and I gave the RBL Tribute.

Joyce Cooper, who carried thestandard, and I represented the branchwhen the Royal Anglian Regimentreceived the Freedom of Diss onWednesday November 7. It was agreat event for the town and was wellattended.

THE BRANCH’S ANNUALChristmas carols lunch is at LaxfieldVillage Hall on Thursday December13 at 11.30am – names to branchsecretary (384363) a week before theevent please.

BRANCH MEMBER ALBERTSiggers recently passed away. He wasa good and dedicated member and ourthoughts go out to his wife Edna andfamily. He will be very much missedby us all.

A very happy Christmas and bestwishes for the New Year to all

readers, Branch Chairman, MichaelBurton

Christmas gift concert

Members of the Royal Anglian Regiment parade in Diss.Photograph courtesy Richard E Flagg.

LIKE MOST COUNCILS, MIDSuffolk is having to findsavings. Over the last 18months there has been arestructuring and a new

relationship with Babergh. There have tobe savings of £4m over four years andyet we need to enhance services.

There have been exhaustiveconsultations including a CommunityEngagement day at Wingfield Barns.

I think we all agree that this part ofSuffolk is quiet and peaceful and that iswhy we live here, but what will villagersneed in the future?

While we need to protect the style andethos of rural villages if we do not movewith the times villages will die. We needto look at affordable and appropriatehousing, encourage small businesses toset up and expand and see what thecommunity can do together forthemselves rather than wait for fundingthat might not come. For instance, wherethere is a need for services for the elderlyand housebound, instead of gettingsomeone else to provide it, can thecommunity get together with plans thatcan be aided by council grants?

There are statutory services the districtis obliged to supply. such as bincollections, but there are others thatcould be done in the neighbourhood withfinancial or practical help. All this soundsconfusing but we are beginning to seesome green shoots with regard toplaygrounds and village stores. I wonderif there is a case to bring the villages ofthis ward together to combine efforts?

As you know Hartismere Health Centreis up and running for alternativetreatments and outreach nursingservices and the new and larger parkingarea will soon be in use. Next will comethe 60-bed nursing and care facility.MSDC has a role in the new Health andWellbeing Board for Suffolk. In April 2013,the present NHS PCT will disappear anddoctors’ Commissioning Groups willbecome responsible for securing anddelivering services. I hope that we will beable to secure services from regionalhospitals to be delivered at Hartismere.

On behalf of MSDC and myself, I wishyou a very Happy Christmas and ahealthy and pleasurable New Year.

Elizabeth Gibson-Harries,District Councillor – Hoxne Ward

YOUR DISTRICT COUNCILLOR

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POLICE REPORT COLUMNS

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I SEND THIS FROM OSNABRUCK WHERE I AM ATTENDING Aconference to promote the Corridor 2 (the link from Birminghamthrough Suffolk to Holland and on to Warsaw).

The importance of this route for all of us and our prosperity can not beunderestimated. We need to ensure that goods from Jaguar, JCB and

Muntons are able to get into the very heart of Europe without hindrance and delay.In Suffolk work has started on the Ipswich Rail Chord (this will reduce lorries on

Suffolk's roads by making rail more competitive). So I am here to bang the drum forSuffolk and GB plc. Guy McGregor, County Councillor – Hoxne & Eye Division

YOUR COUNTY COUNCILLOR

A THIEF WILL USUALLY COMEequipped with a limited range of toolsto attack your heating oil tank so it’sworth spending a little more on goodquality locks.

Closed shackle padlocks are best asthey offer most resistance to the mostpopular of burglar tools, namely thebolt cropper. Due to their design,closed shackle padlocks have verylittle of the metal hoop (shackle)exposed and bolt croppers cannot get agood grip.

The position of the tank can alsohave a significant effect on how hard atarget it is in the eyes of a thief.

If the tank is within good view of thehouse, then the thief may consider therisk of being seen too high. If the tankis close to a road, path, drive oralleyway then it will be a far easiertarget.

Hiding the tank behind the garage,shed or some other type of outbuildingis fairly commonplace but, on theother hand, it could help to conceal thethief.

Remember your tank should bepositioned in a way that will notprevent the oil supply company frombeing able to gain access to refill thetank

Check with your insurance provider

that you are not only insured for fuelthefts, but also any oil seepages, eitherthrough wear and tear or deliberatelycaused by an offender.

The cost of any resultingenvironmental clean up could proveexpensive.

Remote electronic oil level gaugesare now available, which will set offan audible alarm if the oil level in thetank suddenly falls in fuel level.

These gauges are sited within thehouse to warn of any potentialproblem. If you have already installedan alarm for your property ask yourprovider if they can also add an alarmlink to your heating oil tank.

Another recent security measureavailable is a padlock with a built-inalarm, which activates, whentampered, at up to 110 decibels.

Other options include restrictingaccess through gating, installing duskto dawn security lighting, or lockablecaps, supported by closed shacklepadlocks.

Join a Neighbourhood Watchscheme to keep an eye out forsuspicious vehicles/persons, and makea note of the registration number ofany suspicious vehicles and if in doubtreport any suspicions to the Police on999.

Heating oil thefts . . .

Mid Suffolk North Safer Neighbourhood Team,PCSO 3172 Steven Long & PC 878 JacquiThomas, Eye Police Station, Victoria Hill, Eye,Suffolk, IP23 7HJ. Phone 101, emailMidsuffnorth.snt@suffolk.pnn.police.uk

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A FURTHER RELATIVE OF ONE of the young US airmen whotragically lost their lives when their B-17 crashed at Green Farm inRedlingfield has been in touch.

When Tracey Mogan Googled thename Richard Diete – hergrandmother’s brother – she was“shocked and honoured” to find thememorial had been set up for the tenairmen who died in the crash. Shewrote: “My great grandmother(Richard’s mom) would be sohonoured and proud”. Redlingfield’swebsite has now put the village, andthe 95th in the UK and US, in touchwith relatives of six of the crew – 2ndLt Kenneth B Rongstad, pilot; 2nd LtWarren Franklin Mansfield Strawn,co-pilot; 2nd Lt Richard E Diete,navigator; S/Sgt Gail A Richmond

Junior, top-turretgunner/flight engineer; SgtCharles E Phinney, ballturret gunner; and S/SgtKenneth Cosby, tail gunner.

Marcia Moyer, the niece of2nd Lt Strawn, has sent us awealth of new pictures

which chart the life of WarrenMansfield Strawn from his early life tohis training in the US and his massgrave in the UK and his reburial in theStates. These are online atwww.redlingfield. suffolk.gov.uk.

And in September a duo of visitorsfrom pilot Kenneth Rongstad’s hometown visited. John Reinhold also hasties to the 95th as his mother’shusband is Harry Redding, co-pilot onGeorge W Austin’s 412th squadroncrew, which flew “Roarin’ Bill”, on 25missions. He was accompanied byFrank Hale, a B-17 pilot with aneducational foundation based inMassachusetts. It was their first visitto Horham. They visited Redlingfieldto see the memorial having read aboutit when it was unveiled in 2010.

Mike Ager

FEATURES & NEWSCHURCH

C of E Services: St Andrew, Redlingfield; St Peter, Athelington; St Mary, Horham; StPeter and St Paul, Hoxne. Enquiries to: Daphne Harvey, Horham (384216); EvelynAdey, Athelington (01728 628428) Hazel Abbott, Redlingfield (678217). Check timeson notice boards (Holy Communion unless otherwise stated):Sunday Nov 25 Horham - Family Service (Laurence Weaver).

Redlingfield - St Andrew’s Day (Revd Julian Barker) 10am.Sunday Dec 2 Athelington - Advent Carol Service (Brian Chester) 4.30pm.

Hoxne - (Canon Andrew Vessey) 11.15am.Sunday Dec 9 Horham - Benefice Holy Communion (Canon Vessey) 9.30am.

Hoxne - Morning Prayer (Lay Elder) 11.15am.Sunday Dec 16 Hoxne - (Canon Vessey) 11.15am.Monday Dec 17 Redlingfield - Carol Service (Bert Stanford) 7pm. Sunday Dec 23 Horham - Carol Service (Laurence Weaver) 4.30pm.

Hoxne - Christingle (Lay Elder) 10am.Christmas Day Horham - (Canon Vessey) 9.30am (possible hymns).

Redlingfield - 10am.Hoxne - Family Service followed by Holy Communion (Canon Vessey/Lay Elders) 10.30am.

Sunday Dec 30 Wingfield - Benefice Holy Communion, 10.30am. Sunday Jan 6 Horham - Family Gift Service or Epiphany Gift Service (Laurence

Weaver) 11.15am.Redlingfield - Morning Prayer (Lay Elder) 10am.Hoxne - 11.15am,

Sunday Jan 13 Athelington - 10am. Hoxne - Morning Prayer 11.15am.Sunday Jan 20 Benefice Holy Communion - Redlingfield 10am. Hoxne - 11.15am.Sunday Jan 27 Horham - Family Service (Laurence Weaver) 11.15am.

Hoxne - Family Service 10am.Sunday Feb 3 Horham - 9am. Hoxne - 11.15am.Sunday Feb 10 Redlingfield - Morning Prayer (Lay Elder) 10am.

Hoxne - Morning Prayer 11.15am.Sunday Feb 17 Benefice Holy Communion - Athelington 10am. Hoxne - 11.15am.Sunday Feb 24 Redlingfield - 10am. Hoxne - Family Service 10am.

Horham - Family Service (Laurence Weaver) 11.15am.Sunday Mar 3 Horham - 9am.Parish notices:Baptisms: Horham, March 18th, Robin Nicole, daughter of Gary and Nicola Melton.October 21st, Callie Ree-Ann and Keira Lily Jean Hunt and Lola Louise Mary-MayHammond, children of Jackie Hunt and Matthew Hammond.Wedding: Athelington, September 29th, Paul Gunton and Naomi Wright.Funeral: Horham, September 15th, Jamie Barlow, aged 29 years.Cremation: Seven Hills, September 17th, Richard Joe Alderton, aged 69 years,and a Service in Celebration of his life, at Horham, September 22nd.

Tom and Peggy Cozensunveiling the new memorial at the Red Feather Club.

RED FEATHER CLUB EVENTS 2013Saturday March 23: Swing dance – a selection of different DJs to suit all tastes.Saturday May 18 & Sunday May 19: 1940s Weekend – Strictly 40s dance on the

Saturday evening and 1940s re-enactments on Sunday.Thursday June 20 to Wednesday June 26: 70th anniversary reunion visit to Horham

including a members-only open day on Sunday June 23. Saturday September 28: 200th Mission dance with the 95th’s own band Skyliner.Sunday September 29: Open day and softball game – Wallopers vs Snowdrops.

Regular open days are the last Sunday of every month from April to October.

THE 95TH BOMB GROUPHeritage Association recentlyunveiled a new memorial to the

man credited with saving the 95thtwice.

Robert “Bob” C Cozens is creditedwith saving the 95th Bomb Groupduring WW2 by rallying the aircraftduring the group’s most disastrousmission and then again after the warby reinvigorating the 95th BombGroup Memorials Foundation duringpeacetime.

His son Tom is now president of theUS-based memorials foundation. Thememorial, a black marble bench wasunveiled by Tom and his wife Peggyon their first trip to Horham.

The couple had hoped to visit theRed Feather Club with Tom’s father,however, Bob’s sad passing earlier thisyear meant they made the emotional

pilgrimage without him. But Tom andPeggy got to see the Red Feather Clubat its best, sampling a school visit,getting an aerial view of the base,enjoying the 200th Mission Dance andunveiling the new memorial.

A flight with Andrew Castleden,former chairman of the 95th BombGroup Heritage Association, gavethem an idea of the scope of the base.

They also saw the visit of youngstersfrom Yoxford Primary School. And toprove the Red Feather Club is amuseum that is truly alive, they had agreat evening as a full house enjoyedthe 200th Mission Dance with the RedFeather Club’s in-house band Skyliner.

James Hollington, of H. L. Perfittstonemasons in Diss, who made andengraved the new memorial, is the sonof Red Feather Club regulars Steveand Jayne Hollington.

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I cant believe it’s November already. It only seems like last month it was here!This means December’s just around the corner. I haven got my cards yet!No shopping got in for the big two days!No cards written or sent. No presents got in and stashed away!

Now I’m ahead of myself here. Don’t panic, no rushing around.November’s here, take time, remember others not here!Rest, relax, remember others this month - painful reminders of others so dear!Their life is gone but the love they had so very near!

The month of odd twilight that comes at this time of year!Some days it looks like it has been here all day!Sharp cold mornings and sharper evenings, the cold takes your breath away!To be seen in a puff of smoke almost lingers like memory of sunny days.

But then the leaves all green, gold, brown, auburn, that swish and rustle!Squirrels rush to gather in nuts. Birds attack peanuts and seed to feed them up,Some mornings a dust-fine white frost lays here and there like scattered flour!Novembers come all to soon like an old acquaintance you like to see but can’twait to leave.

November’s here. Oh dear. Cards to write food to get. Gifts to buy! But I will sit a little longer and let the world go by. But not for too long.November’s here already!So much to do. Not much time. Six weeks to go!I can not believe it is that time already. Next year I will not let November creepup on me! Manday Miller

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■ THANK YOUS: Redlingfield PCC would like to thank Lesley and Tony for collectingsignatures and donations for David Streeter. £270 was collected and presented toDavid at the Harvest Festival service. Thanks also to Chris Tringham for organisingthe quiz at Horham Old School which raised £266 for St Andrew’s and Harvey whoabseiled and raised £150. Thanks also to the cyclists who raised £312 on the SuffolkHistoric Churches Sponsored Bike Ride, half of which goes to the church. Manythanks must also go to the village for supporting our events along with a belatedthanks to all who helped with the churchyard tidy earlier in the year. Hazel Abbott ■ COFFEE MORNINGS: Village coffee mornings have now taken over in Redlingfieldfor the winter. They will be on the 1st Wednesday of each month from 10am untilnoon. They will be in the following homes: Dec 5, Chris and Midge Gibbons, RushMeadow (with sherry, mince pies and a free raffle); Jan 2, Neville and Jan Butcher,Hill Cottage (with a book swap); Feb 6, Pat Kelly, Red Mill; March 6, David andJacqueline Love, Western Barn, Abbotts Meadow (with a free raffle). All residents ofthe village are welcome. Jacqueline Love (678805)

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collected in bunches on the stem.Apparently daffodils, coming as theydo under the heading of narcissus andare ‘trumpet narcissus’ which meansthat the trumpet part of the flower is aslong or longer than the petal. Coloursare more varied than form, passingfrom white through many shades ofyellow to orange, pink and evenscarlet. They originate from mainlandEurope, particularly Portugal andSpain but also from France,Switzerland, the Balkans and NorthAfrica. The aforementioned Tazettasare found in Eastern Europe, centralAsia into China and even Japan.

Does all of this sound as though Ihave been looking it up? I admit it andI am glad that I did as I was going toput down that the number of varietiesof narcissi was quite limited but after

looking into Jan’s 2nd hand copy ofthe Readers Digest Encyclopaedia ofGarden Plants and Flowers, just tomake sure that I was not writingcomplete nonsense, I read that thereare about 50 garden varieties and thatthe RHS classified list has about80,000 varieties and that the number isbeing added to each year. Whew! Andthis edition is dated 1985 – how manyare there by now?

The encyclopaedia also tells me thatan old name for the daffodil was theLenten Lily because, while the flowerwas like a Lily (well a bit) it bloomedaround about Lent.

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OSCAR WINNER: Peter Havers of Athelington Hall picked up a top award at arecent event nicknamed the Farming Oscars. The awards saw more than 230farmers, farm employees and families turn out at Trinity Park, on the outskirtsof Ipswich. They are the amalgamation of the Suffolk Farm BusinessCompetition, open to all farms in Suffolk, and the Best Alternative LandEnterprise (BALE) Awards, which celebrate business diversification in Suffolk,Essex, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire. Peter (pictured third right) won the BALEaward for his log cabin holidays business.

Rates for adverts in four issues distributed to approximately 300 homes inHorham, Athelington, Redlingfield and surrounds are:-

1/6 page £8.50 (60mm deep, 60mm across)1/3 page £16.50 (60mm deep, 125mm across)1/4 page £12.50 (90mm deep, 60mm across)1/2 page £25 (90mm deep, 125mm across) A whole page £50

You can supply the artwork and/or logos or we can design the adverts for you. Revenue goes towards the costs of producing the magazine and profits will be splitbetween Horham & Athelington Parish Council and Redlingfield Village Meeting.If you would like to advertise or contribute to the magazine or have an event ororganisation you would like featured contact: Evelyn Adey onevelynadey@e1603.fsnet.co.uk or 01728 628428 at Ivy House Barn, Southolt Road,Athelington, IP21 5EL; or Mike Ager on mike@gn.apc.org or 678835 at HidcoteLodge, Mill Road, Redlingfield, IP23 7QU.

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ALOVELY STILL, SUNLITOctober afternoon – somethingof a rarity in this soggy year but

for once the soil is fairly dry and I(under Jan’s supervision) am making70 holes in the rough grass under thecrab apples so I can plant 70 bulbs.Each hole has to be precisely 100mmdeep (will the bulbs, I wonder bedissatisfied and resentful if the holesare 110mm deep or, worse still only90mm deep?). Luckily I have a handytool especially designed for the purposewhich enables me to get it just right.

The bulbs I am planting are daffodilsand, I know there are only 70 so it’shardly in the league of “ten thousandsaw I at a glance” but in the springthere should be enough for me towatch them “tossing their heads instately dance”. Not only that but as Ihave planted them in grass, I can getout of mowing that particular patch fora few weeks in the spring becauseafter the daffodils have flowered, theleaves will need to be left long enoughfor them to nourish the bulbs for theflowers for the following year.

Before planting you need todecide whether to arrange thebulbs in serried ranks likethe commercial growersround Spalding and in theNetherlands or to go for arandom pattern. An unlikelyfollower of the serried ranksschool was the painter ClaudeMonet but in the part of his gardenwhere he grew daffodils and his

beloved Irises he merely wished tocreate an impressive mass of bloomsin one view or beds for cutting armfulsof flowers for his still lifes.

In an informal space we would like arandom look. But how to achieve it?Gertrude Jekyll’s custom was to tossbulbs over her shoulder, not to keepthe gardener’s boy occupied byclearing up after her but to create atruly random pattern. This is thepractice that we favour – if it was goodenough for her etc. etc.

However, after doing this, on turninground to see where the bulbs havelanded, my nerve fails me and I amcompelled to move some of them,either they do not look sufficientlyrandom or else they are too closetogether for their own good.

Why are many of us so fond of thesesimple flowers? Well perhaps becausetheir appearance in the garden is a suresign that, however cold and bleak theday, spring is here and the time whenyou can cast a clout with impunity isjust around the corner. Further, theyhave such a simple form and colourthat anybody can recognise them – a

quality which they share withtulips. Any child can recognise

a tulip or daffodil and thedelight in that recognition

surely stays with us all our lives.Unlike the tulip whose form and

colouring are quite varied, thedaffodil or narcissus does not vary

greatly in form; the exception beingthe Tazetta in which the flowers are

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At first his illustrations were highlystylised, being reusedfrom card designs hehad provided for J.Arthur Dixon, butwithin a year or so hisdistinctive style hademerged. He wouldpaint a conventionalwatercolour, trace offthe salient features inblack pen, thenprovide the printerswith further‘separations’ toindicate where thelimited range ofcolours should beapplied.

The results were striking and muchadmired. Readers of the magazineeven suggested ways of cutting themout and making place mats ordecorating screens with them!Albert’s work featured in Christmas

cards (published by the magazine) andon book cover designs for the likes ofJohn Appleby’s Suffolk Summer andMunro Cautley’s Norfolk Churches inthe late 1940s.

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Dear friends, I said goodbye and thank you last time, but there is much more forwhich I am most grateful that has happened in September and October, especiallythe kind words in the Autumn issue, and the gifts and farewell messages that wehave received. Our garden at Doggetts Farm should look wonderful. I was able tobicycle between the four churches for the Sponsored Ride, and you will see mewalking or cycling down Horham Street for about three months as we are coming toJolly Cottage for that time. The Harvest Festival services were joyful and splendidoccasions, and now we are looking forward to Advent and Christmas. Please cometo Horham Community Centre for 7pm on Sunday 16th December. I shall be able tojoin you this year in the carol singers’ world record-breaking attempt.

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WHATEVER HAPPENED to the East AnglianMagazine? Founded in

1936 and revamped almost exactly 50years ago in 1962, it vanished in theearly 1980s having run out of steam.Perhaps its most distinctive eraspanned 1946 to 1962, when eachissue featured an attractive colourillustration by Ipswich-based artistAlbert Ribbans.

When the magazine reappeared afterits wartime hiatus, it was in a formatnot dissimilar to a parish magazine.Picking a year at random (1951),articles covered a diverse range ofsubjects including airships, countryhouses, windmills, country customsand so on. Two pieces on Hoxne werewritten by H. L. Norman in Suffolkdialect. Illustrations were provided bythe likes of Leonard Squirrell, PaulHogarth and Andrew Dodds. Alwaysworth perusing was the letters page,

such as the plea from JosephSheldrake (of Station Cottages,Horham) for the Middy Line to escapeclosure: “The line earned its keepduring the war and can do so in peaceif properly run.”

About a year ago I was luckyenough to buy some of the originalpen-and-ink artwork for the covers ofthe magazine. Through a series oftenuous internet links I managed tomake contact with Albert Ribbans’only daughter, and learned a littlemore about the man. Born in 1903, hisearly career was as an artist workingfor Tibbenham’s in Ipswich, where hepainted furniture, pictures and murals,including some on the Queen Maryliner.

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Update on church changesIT IS LIKELY TO BE SEVERAL

months before a new priest isappointed to our parishes. In the

meantime church wardens areresponsible for organising services andthe day-to-day running of thechurches.

Most of us have not had to do thisbefore but thankfully we have plentyof help from neighbouring parishesand the many ‘retired’ priests in thearea. Baptisms, weddings and funeralswill usually be taken by Canon FionaNewton (rural dean from Laxfield) orRev Sue Loxton currently inFressingfield.

Church finance is an ongoing issue.We are always tremendously gratefulthat we get such a positive responsewhen we need help with repairs to thefabric of the churches. We also needhelp with running costs, if we can’tpay our way there is always a threat ofclosure. Everyday costs, electricity,minor repairs etc can be kept down butwe also have to insure the church andcontribute to the diocese. We insureagainst accidents to people or propertyand to damage to parts of the buidingbut we do not insure to completely re-build a church so we keep thepremium within bounds.

Our contribution to the diocesemostly goes to pay priests, pay priests’

pensions and maintain vicarages. Wealso contribute to other work of thediocese such as maintaining youthgroups and other outreach work. Asgovernment funding diminishes theseincreasingly need our help.

If we are to have a functioningchurch rather than an empty shell,however beautiful, we need all thesefunctions of the diocese. It is a greathelp when people give us regularcontributions. Whether it is £1, £5 or£50 it helps to know that we can relyon some income.

Many people want an active churchin their village although they may notwant to attend regularly. If you wouldlike to contribute you can senddonations to your church or to me andI can direct donations to your church. Ican also supply direct debit forms forany of the three churches.

As well as private donations peoplemay consider it appropriate for theParish Council to support the church.You can lobby the councillors andmany do support their churches.

If you have any questions or need toarrange a special service contact yourchurch warden: Daphne Harvey,Horham, (384216); Hazel Abbot,Redlingfield (678217); and EvelynAdey, Athelington (01728 628428).

Evelyn Adey

■ PLANNING: To be decided – plan to erect a single storey rear extension, MoatFarm Cottage, Redlingfield Road, Horham; plan to erect single storey rear extensionfollowing demolition of existing one, Malsters, Chapel Lane, Horham. Granted – planto install a 5kW wind turbine, Mill Farm, Mill Road, Redlingfield; plan to increasenumber of events held in a marquee to nine, Athelington Hall, Athelington.

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continued from page 3Having missed its target, it sat

grumpily in a dead tree, apparentlytypical behaviour as it readily gives up(if at first you don’t succeed, forget it).

In the past, I have seen a peregrineflitting about some Essex pylons doingnot much at all, so this was somespectacle. The goshawks’ reputationfor copping out and being a trifle lazyis confirmed by its habit of patchingup the previous year’s nest, rather thanmake a new one. So, a cool customerwith a bit of attitude, I rather like it.

Although it didn’t perform for me,the peregrine falcon has manyadmirers and nests on the OrwellBridge. It can range for 10 milestravelling at speeds of over 60mph,and in a stoop from on high in thepursuit of prey, it reaches double thisspeed, over 125 miles per hour. With awide chest, large feet and huge eyeswhich are half the size of its skull, itcan make a meal of almost anything itwants. Which means the feeding birdson the river mudflats, such as thelapwing and gulls, are in for a hardtime.

FROM A LITTLE FURTHER DOWNthe Orwell, Doc Brown of the RoyalHarwich YC, rang with an invitation towatch whiffling geese on the RiverOre whilst moored overnight byHavergate Island. Sadly, this coincidedwith 48 hours of dense fog so the mainevent was missed. However, as webravely edged across the main channela mile out at sea heading towards thebar of the Ore, a song-thrush sweptover Chris’s shoulder and hitched aride on the deck all the way to theshore. Exhausted and disorientated inthe fog, it was a darker Continentalvisitor and might not have made it butfor this chance encounter. Whiffling, Iunderstand, is the clever loss of windthrough the feathers as a bird losesheight quickly.

APROPOS ALL THE SAINTS DAYSin November, listening to the radiowhilst writing up these notes, I heardthat St Matilda is the patron saint fordisappointing children and St Jude isthe saint for lost causes. Such aminefield, choosing names for thechildren.

■ RAFA NEWS: Diss & District branch of the Royal Air Forces Association has senta total of £3,125 to the national Wings Appeal Fund. This includes the moneycollected during Wings Appeal Week and other amounts raised throughout the year.The branch, which covers this area of North Suffolk as well as Diss and surroundingvillages in Norfolk, meets on the fourth Monday of each month (except December)at the Grasmere Club, Diss, at 7.30pm. Anyone can join, whether or not they servedin the RAF. Or you can come along as a guest and see what we get up to. The branchsends parcels to personnel from RAF Honington who are serving in Afghanistan. Ifyou are interested in contributing please contact me on 640337. Brian Ager■ CHRISTMAS GIFTS: Father Christmas will be delivering again on Christmasmorning in Horham and Athelington. Mother Christmas will accept gifts the weekbefore Christmas but you can phone 384231 before then to book a delivery. Adonation is requested for the East Anglian Children’s Hospice for this service.

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what you wish for”, whichregarding my view of the ash treelooks apt. The loss would beserious enough for the localbullfinches, which fed handsomelyon the ash keys last January, butnationally that one species makesup 30 per cent of British nativetrees.

PHEASANT AND PARTRIDGEare now on the menu though Iwould stop short at paying £70 fora grey partridge dish as advertisedin one London restaurant. Yes, greypartridge, even though it is on theendangered list of the FarmlandBird Index! We have seen a coveyof a dozen English/grey thissummer so they did well in thiswater-logged breeding season.Game has got everything going for itaccording to all the foodies; it isnatural, free-range, local and low-fat.What is more, you can find a brace forunder a fiver.

AUTUMN CULTIVATIONS FROMthe tractor seat often produce somegood sightings, and this year producedanother first. We had two ploughsgoing after harvest, me and Drew inthe same field, and talking away onthe phones we realised that the usualfollowing of seagulls was notable forits absence. The reason was because apair of young buzzards, always partialto an earthworm or two, wereclaiming first pickings and theseagulls were keeping a safe distance.We think they could well have beenhatched out in Caroline’s Wood. It’s

amazing that juvenile buzzard are soat home in North Suffolk that they arebold enough to follow the plough.

ON THE SUBJECT OF RAPTORS, a visit to the beautiful county ofShropshire in May has produced anew favourite bird. It was a lovelyhumming summers’ day and I waslucky enough to see a fantasticgoshawk display at Clee Hill, an areaas green as Suffolk, gloriously hilly,with equally friendly natives. The sizeof a buzzard, and resembling a largerversion of a sparrow-hawk, thisgoshawk hung in the air untilplummeting 500 feet in a stoop toground level, a manoeuvre that anyperegrine falcon would be proud of.

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ASOAKING WET SATURDAYmorning and the garden is asquiet as a graveyard. And it’s

not just because of the rain. I can see afurtive sparrow-hawk wriggling awaythrough the branches of the hawthornhedge, from very close to where myGiant New Birdfeeder is hanging on abranch with its 10 feeding ports alldeserted.

The GNB, which makes a fair olddent in the pocket-money whenrefilled with sunflower seeds, has beencarefully hidden away from thesparrow-hawk flightpath, apparentlyto no avail, as the supreme hunter stillscares the life out of any small fry daftenough to feed there.

IT IS 27TH OCTOBER AND autumn is closing in. The ash tree isfull of fieldfares which have just flown

in for the winter, though some of theresident birds cannot resist pretendingits spring.

Two cock pheasants shape up for ascrap, the extended family ofmoorhens have a practice run atmaking a nest, and two mallards areinto some head-bopping courtship. Asfor the goings-on of a pair of collareddoves, it is all vive le sport and typicalof the pigeon family. They haveforgotten they should give it a rest forthe winter.

That tree favoured by the arrivingfieldfare is one of the farms’ best ashtrees for which the prognosis isdistinctly gloomy. The plague of AshDie-back Disease has been discoveredin East Anglia.

For years I have been a bit rudeabout the ash as it doesn’t take tobeing hedge-trimmed like the

hawthorn, maple anddogwood, and if youtake your eye off theball in the garden, itappears waist-highwhere you least expectit. It has always grownlike a weed in the claysoils in our part ofSuffolk.

There is an oldadage, “Be careful

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AS I WAS PUTTING THE FINALtouches to the mag – desperatelychecking for those not so deliberatemistakes that is – Sue Chapmanemailed to say that Lesley Dolphin’sRadio Suffolk programme was onceagain featuring Redlingfield.

By the time I tuned in Ann Stebbingswas recounting the story of theRedlingfield crash.

As I sat in front of my computerthinking there wasn’t much new to tellLesley a Radio Suffolk researcherrang. However, as I started to tell herthat we’re a small, quiet village withnot much going on we both realisedthat in truth quite a lot goes on. It wasjust one day after the anniversary of

the crash – and the wreath layingceremony on Green Lane, the wintercoffee mornings were now under way,our vicar had just retired, a new windturbine had just been commissioned atRussell Kerry’s . . . and that’s withoutwhat’s going on at the Red FeatherClub and with the Bygones Rally.

By the time you read this we willhave held our first meeting about the2013 Horham Country Bygones Rallyand on Saturday June 8 and outlineplans for next June’s 70th anniversaryreunion at the 95th Bomb GroupHeritage Association reunion will havebeen sent off to America.

It’s all go in this quiet little corner ofSuffolk. Mike Ager

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If you would like to advertise or contribute to the magazine or have an event ororganisation you would like featured contact: Evelyn Adey on

evelynadey@e1603.fsnet.co.uk or 01728 628428 at Ivy House Barn, SoutholtRoad, Athelington, IP21 5EL; or Mike Ager on mike@gn.apc.org or 01379 678835

at Hidcote Lodge, Mill Road, Redlingfield, IP23 7QU.Athelington, Horham & Redlingfield News is printed & published by Evelyn Adey& Mike Ager for the villages of Athelington, Horham, Redlingfield and surrounds.The editors reserve the right to edit or refuse submissions. The views expressed

in the magazine are not necessarily those of the editors.You can receive your village magazine electronically. Email mike@gn.apc.org

with your name and address (so you don’t get a paper version as well) and whenthe next issue is published we’ll email it to you as a pdf. Or you can find the pdfs

of current and previous issues at www.redlingfield.suffolk.gov.uk We aim to produce four seasonal issues a year, coming out at the end of

February, May, August and November. The next issue - Spring 2013 - is due tobe published at the end of February. The final deadline for all submissions is

February 14.If you would like to receive a large print version of this magazine please

contact Mike Ager on 678835 or mike@gn.apc.org

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Please Contact - Andrew Muttock The PostmanFencing Services

Home: 01379 678778 Mobile: 07876355579 Email: ajmthepostman@yahoo.comF

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WINTER 2012-13ISSUE NO. 20

MERRY CHRISTMAS& HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Servicing ● Repairs ● Tyres ● Exhausts ● Batteries ● Air-Con ● MOT Testing

Barley Green Garage

Laxfield Road, Stradbroke, IP21 5JT

Telephone 01379 388 947

www.barleygreengarage.com

After hours call Julian 07733 118100

Good selection of cars, vans & MPVs❆

Air-con servicing from £20❆

LPG Auto-gas filling station❆

Coal, logs & kindling❆

Vehicle recovery & transportation❆

Courtesy cars available❆

Free local collection & delivery