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PARISH CHURCHES - WEEKLY SET SERVICES & EVENTS:
All are welcome at any of our Services.
Morning Prayer will be said at 8.30 am at St John’s Barnack on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and on Thursday at 7.00am.
A Service of Prayer for Peace and Justice will be said in St Mary’s Bainton at 9.00am on Tuesdays, followed by coffee.
Prayer Group: Mondays 6-6.00pm Ufford Church
Children’s Church: Children’s Church meets on the 1st, 2nd and 4th Sunday of every month, during the service. Children of all ages are most welcome.
Family Services: A Family Service is held in St John’s Barnack on every 3rd Sunday. This service is specially for families and their children and is not a communion service.
Parish Organist
Elizabeth Snowball to celebrate her 70th birthday
a party will be held on
Saturday 17th January 2009 in
Wilfrid Wood Hall Barnack at
7.30-10.30pm
Supper and soft drinks
(bring your own alcohol)
Musical Theme- Brigadoon Admission by ticket £5
A donation will be made to the muscian’s benevolent fund.
Contact Ann Davies 740403
BAINTON & ASHTON NEW YEAR QUIZ
Please send or email your answers to Parish News. A prize for the most correct answers will be given. (A draw will decide if more than one)
How well do you know your village?
1. How many dwellings do you think there are in Bainton and Ashton combined?
(a) 120 (b) 140 (c) 160 or (d) 180.
2.One of the houses has a quotation from a book of the Bible engraved on its wall. Which house? Which book?
3.At what time is the Bainton postbox emptied on a Saturday?
4.Within two miles of Bainton Church, there is a house legitimately numbered 141. What is the rest of its address? (street and village only!)
5. What are the names of the rector’s two dogs?
6. The parish of Bainton and Ashton includes residents of Bainton, Ashton and which other village?
7. Which street has a house with two griffins guarding its gate?
8. What animal has the chairman of the Parish Council permanently on his roof?
9. (Tricky one, this) Of all the public roads and pathways throughout Bainton and Ashton, which is the only one that enables you to see the spires of all three local churches (Barnack, Bainton, Ufford) from the same spot?
10. How many different postcodes do you think there are throughout Bainton and Ashton? (a) 7 (b) 14 (c) 21 (d) 28
11. Who in the village(s) is an equine dentist?
12. Who has lived in Bainton the longest?
13. If you needed to dip a sheep in the wash dyke, what special tool would you use?
14. (Not everybody knows this!) If you went due east, due north and due south from Bainton church you would eventually arrive at three different seaside towns! What are they?
15. What type of tree is the one that is largest in the churchyard?
16. Which village road would you go along to reach the wood named ‘The Jubilee’?
17. Torpel Manor (the ruins are east of Ashton) used to be a very important house in the parish. In which century was it built?
18. The Ashton village sign includes a coat of arms. Which local family did it belong to?
19. Which is the top family in the two villages (alphabetically speaking, that is!)
20. When did we last achieve the Best Village award?
THE SISSON FAMILY
On the floor of the church vestry in Barnack there are a number of memorial slabs to the Sisson family, some partly concealed by the organ. There are two more in the north aisle. One of these slabs bears the name Moses Sisson (1737-81). In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the Sissons were one of the more prominent families in the district. The 1773 open field map of the parish, held in the Burghley archives, shows that a Moses Sisson was tenant of 316 acres of farmland, making him Burghley’s most important tenant farmer. This is most likely the Moses commemorated in the vestry. There was a second Moses Sisson (1741-1806) who was village schoolmaster, according to the parish burial records. These records show that eight Sissons are interred in the churchyard.
One of the two men named Moses was probably the father of John and Robert who both met tragic ends.In the Stamford Mercury for August 22nd 1806, the following notice appeared;
On Wednesday night died, aged 26, Mr. John Sisson of Pilsgate, near this place, farmer. The cause of this young man’s untimely death is scarcely less deplorable than the consequence. He was assisting his reapers on Friday evening last, and urging them to cut as much corn that night as the light would permit, when some of them refused to work longer, and one of them by his insolence so incensed Mr. Sisson as to induce him to strike him: upon which the son of the man (who was also employed in the field) immediately struck Mr. Sisson a violent blow on the side of the head with a wheat hook, and although he had on a strong hat, the weapon penetrated the skull, and he died in consequence on the day above-mentioned, leaving a widow who is pregnant and five small children, to bewail the loss of an excellent husband and father. The offender is committed to Peterborough gaol. Yesterday a coroner’s inquest sat on the body, and returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against him.
The Mercury later reported that the offender, who came from Bainton, was hanged at Peterborough on October 10th 1806 and his body delivered for dissection. Four years later the Mercury reported that Robert Sisson, farmer of Barnack and brother of John, died as a consequence of a fall from his horse.
The name of Sisson continued to figure in the local area. A Francis Sisson seems to have been a wealthy farmer who was also landlord of the New Inn in Barnack. His name appears in a list of twenty seven members of the Ufford Association for the Prosecution of Felons. Other members included Sir John Trollope Bart., Christopher Henry Noel Esq., and the Rev. Robert Boon (Stamford Mercury, June 1st 1838). These associations reflected the inadequacy of rural policing and the desire by farmers and landowners to protect themselves against rustlers and petty thieves. After the death of Francis Sisson in 1839, the Mercury for April 26th announced that an auction of the deceased’s goods was to be held on his premises. Included in the auction were;
Nine working horses, two fillies, cow and calf, sow and nine pigs, gilt, ram, fifteen ewes and lambs, two stocks of bees, core of hay, three ploughs, two pairs of harrows, land roll, narrow-wheeled waggon – dung, market and tilted carts - winnowing machine, sacks, corn riddles, chaff boxes, cutting knives.
In addition to this farming equipment there was household furniture and china. The Mercury for May 3rd 1839 carried a notice stating that all claims on the estate of Mr. Francis Sisson should be sent to Mr. Moses Sisson of Maxey, farmer and one of the executors. He is the third Moses Sisson. Probate for his will shows that he died in 1845.
There were many other Sissons in the surrounding area. The Stamford Mercury between 1803 and 1839 mentions nine further Sissons living in Market Deeping, Stamford, Tinwell, Essendine, Great Casterton, Pickworth, Barrow and Thorney. Today’s telephone directories show the nearest Sissons to be living in Peterborough, Bourne, Gedney, Elm and Murrow.
Brian Palmer
TXT Peterborough Samaritans 4 emotional support
Peterborough Samaritans has launched a new service offering confidential emotional support via text messaging.
Branch Director, Wendy Ferguson said: “We are delighted that our Branch can now offer Samaritans service via SMS. By developing this service we are hoping to reach a new, more vulnerable group of people who may have found our service inaccessible. We are acutely aware of much young people prefer to use texting as a method of “talking” and we hope that our callers will be able to express their feelings in an manner they feel comfortable with.”
Samaritans’ volunteers will reply to anyone who sends a text with a confidential, non-judgemental text reply, giving emotional support and aiming to respond within 10 minutes. Volunteers have received training in the reading of abbreviated text language but all replies from Samaritans will be in full spelling, except for when using small or clearly recognised abbreviations. Samaritans volunteers have embraced the new service and are looking forward to providing emotional support in a contemporary way.
To receive emotional support from the Samaritans simply send an SMS message to 07725 90 90 90 in the UK.
New Legislation Offers Better Protection for Consumers Buying in the Home
Peterborough Business Regulation Section is pleased to advise that from the 1 October 2008 consumers will have seven days to cancel an agreement with a trader who visits them in their own home provided the goods cost over £35.
The Doorstep Regulations cover all salespeople who visit consumers in their homes to sell goods or services whether you have invited them or not. A trader must provide you with a written cancellation form, whether or not a written contract is provided.
Jane Day, Senior Adviser & Education Officer said “It is hoped this new legislation will provide chance for consumers to give careful consideration before entering contracts and so deal more effectively with legitimate traders”
If you require advice on your consumer rights please contact Consumer Direct on 08454 04 05 06
Bishop Frank writes: The change we need
January will see a dream turn into reality. That dream of Martin Luther King over 40 years ago gave many people hope that one of the deep human fault lines could be overcome. The dream was that black people and white people could live genuinely as sisters and brothers.
We will never know whether King was foresighted enough to believe that Americans would elect their first black President. But in the inauguration of Barack Obama this month that dream will have dawned into reality. Hope can overshadow the despair that has undermined so many activists the world over who have worked to make that dream come true.
Barack Obama has written a book called “The Audacity of Hope” and it contains the reflections of someone who appears not to have given in to the cynicism which afflicts politicians and those who report on them. Yet he comes into office at a time of extraordinary uncertainty in the global economy and therefore of potential instability in the political world.
Mr Obama certainly needs our prayers as he walks on to the world stage this month. In his book he offers serious ideas which have become distilled into his campaign motto “Change We Need” and which seems to meet the longing of many people in America and the world.
As Christians we have celebrated the audacious hope that God has offered us in the birth of Jesus. In Epiphany we see Christ’s revelation to the Gentiles and God’s commitment to transform the world. We are inheritors of this dream and join with people of goodwill everywhere, praying that 2009 will bring the change we need
Wiki Cafe
Back by popular demand, the Wiki Cafe will be opening its doors on Sat 10th January from 10.30-12noon at Bainton Reading Room. The Wiki Cafe will run for 6 weeks to 14th Feb. Come along and join us for coffee.
Bainton Reading Room
A photo copier has recently very kindly been donated to the Reading Room for us all to use. If you wish to make copies there is a charge of 5p for black and white copies and 10p for colour copies (in order that we have funds to replace ink cartridges). Please bring your own paper. The key to the Reading Room is available from Mrs Elaine Ward.
Village Ladies’ Group
A big thank you to all those people who made our Advent Evening a happy and lively affair, the food was delicious, the carols and music gave a festive feel, thank you Ray Jarvis for your accompaniment. The Thesbians also exceeded all our expections.
Our next meeting will be on the 27th of January 09 when we will be having the a talk by the East Anglian Air Ambulance and we hope to have some one who has had first hand experience of their expertise.The evening is an open to males and females, please come and support the professionals who give up their valuable time to come and talk to us,we start at 7.45pm at Ufford Village Hall.
The February meeting is our meal out and we would like your opinion on whether you would like to have a lunch-time meal or an evening meal,could you please decide at the January meeting or before by ringing Frieda on 740343 as we need to confirm the numbers, thank you.
The Children’s Society
Children’s Society boxes
January sees our annual opening of the Children’s Society boxes - where has the year gone! Last January I banked on your behalf the magnificent total of £538.14 which went towards various projects such as taking care of children who have run away from home or helping children who are carers of parents or providing support for many young people who are going through a difficult time in their lives. Those of us who have children or grandchildren know how important the blessing of a loving stable home can be for a child and so many of the young people helped by the Society do not have this advantage. Please bring your boxes to church on Sunday during January if possible, or if this is not convenient contact me on 01780 740387 when I can arrange to collect from you. Many thanks. June Graham
Bainton and Ashton Calendar
Thank you to everyone who bought a copy of this calendar. Together we have made the life-changing operation possible for SIX children via “The Smile Train”.
Also, due to two more generous donations, a rewarding total of 9 children with hair-lip and cleft palettes will have their lives transformed.I am so pleased. Judith Morrice
Wnter Lunch
Thursday 5th February 12.30 for 1pm Bainton Reading Room.
Remembrance Services.
The traditional Ecumenical Service was held in St John the Baptist Church Barnack on Sunday 9th November to a packed congregation. Afterwards the Legion and Stamford School CCF standards were paraded up to the War Memorial for the ‘Two Minutes Silence’ at 11am and to hear the reading of the names and regiments/units of the Fallen and the ‘Last Post’ played by a trumpeter from Stamford School.
Wreaths were laid watched by over 150 villagers to commemorate the 42 men of Barnack and District who lost their lives on active service in both World Wars and the Falklands conflict.
On 11th November a surprising large group of locals also attended a similar mini-ceremony at the 11th hour, including a very smart contingent from Barnack School who marched up led by their own standard; they showed a keen interest in the proceedings.
Winter Lecture.
75 people attended an excellent presentation on the subject of ‘CLIMATE CHANGE’ in Barnack Village Hall on 17th November given by Dr Simon Morley of the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. This is a very thought provoking topic which resulted in many questions from an appreciative audience.
Support For British Forces In Afghanistan.
Rather than sending parcels to our troops in Kandahar (who are apparently inundated with them at present), we sent a £200 donation to the Commanding Officer’s RAF Wittering Benevolent Fund to support the families left behind in the UK of men deployed on operations out there.
We have received a warm thank you letter from Group Captain Higgins who has promised to be the guest speaker at the Legion’s forthcoming ‘WINTER SUPPER’ which is to be held in Barnack Village Hall on Monday, 2nd February – 7.15 for 7.45pm. Tickets from Malcolm Morrice (740865), Patrick Knights (740774) or Charles Clark (740441).
Poppy Appeal 2008
Thank you to everyone who helped with, or donated to, The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal in our district. Especially to the house-to-house collectors who,it must be said, have a tough job to do.
The figure raised by Poppy sales was £2,656.98 (an increase on last year despite the credit crunch!). Wonderful.
In addition to this, the Remembrance Day Service loose collection and a very generous private donation brings the total, to date, to £3381.26.
I am very grateful. Judith Morrice
The Buttercross Club
The aroma of mulled wine wafted round the Reading Room as everyone arrived for our Xmas party.
After we all had tasted the delicious home-made Christmas treats provided by the Buttercross members, we were entertained by a group of hand bell ringers from Caistor and Ailsworth, festively dressed in red, who impressed us with their precision and timing skills.
Their melodic music included Christmas carols and old favourites and this charming band appeared to be as honoured to perform for us as we were to enjoy their beautiful music!
Our thanks go to Pat Stott for making some lovely raffle prizes and to Brian Yates for stoically manning the bar.
There is no meeting in January as usual but our next meeting will be on Wednesday 4th February 2009 when Elaine Ward will be talking about her Christmas trip to China. We will have a short AGM before the talk. Join us in the Reading Room at 7.45pm. JJ
‘Have I Got News For You!’
The antidote to pub quizzes!
Come and enjoy a fun evening and blow away the January blues, at The White Hart, Ufford – Wednesday 21 January – 7pm for 7.30pm.
This is a new style fun quiz, based very loosely on the BBC TV programme ‘Have I Got News For You!’
Supporting ‘Friends of Rutland Sailability’ – your local charity providing sailing for people with disabilities, on Rutland Water.
Teams of six are invited to join us and tickets cost £5 for each person.
Just a few tickets left! so do call to book now – call Mike Baumber on (01780) 740289
Bainton, Ashton, Ufford and Barnack Really Do
Have A Twin Town
You may remember that two years ago, Mary and Tony Gowers appealed for help to provide decent shelter for a village in Malawi inhabited entirely by disabled people.
Their nephew (an architect) and his wife, currently working in Malawi had come across this sorry story- people are so poor in the country that disabled people are often discarded from their villages as they cannot be looked after, and this group had clubbed together for mutual support. This involves living in a community that has no buildings with roofs on- even through the rainy season!
Well, the people in Barnack, Bainton Ufford and Ashton donated over £1200 for this project and with this money villagers have been trained in brick making, materials have been purchased and two huts with roofs on will shortly be finished. This has been done almost entirely from the £1200 from local folk!
We have been asked to send all those who helped a big thank you- in fact one of the photos shows them doing a thank-you dance!! No more money is needed just yet, thank you, but it does go to show what a relatively small sum (in house building terms) to us can achieve elsewhere! On top of that every penny you donated went to the project. We have asked that the houses are named ‘Bainton and Ashton’ and ‘Barnack and Ufford’, so next time you are in Malawi.........
Thanks to the tremendous generosity shown, the project now has sufficient funds to complete the work. No further funds will ne needed!
Ding-dong merrily on high,’ in Barnack the bells are ringing – although they have been a bit irregular as we are occasionally short of ringers.
Here in Barnack we enjoy a whole-hearted ring, and the Barnack bells are a truly excellent set. Up-graded and extended for the millennium, they are light and easy to ring.
Ringing coaching is available and if you fancy trying your hand, contact Petrina or June and we will arrange some tutoring. Then next Christmas, we will all enjoy a good ‘ding-dong’.
We hope you have all enjoyed the festive season, and wish you a Happy New Year
June & Petrina, Church Wardens.
Barnack Bowls Club
Winners of the November draw were:
No 27 Brian Walsh £25 No 14 Sue Chowings £15
No 4 Doreen Rice £10
And for December:
No 89 Becky Clark £50
No 24 Pat Gyles £30
No 42 Jane Elwood £20
No 70 Colin Lunn £10
After paying out to the winners each month, at the end of the year I am able to hand over around £1000 to the club to help with the upkeep of the green. We are now starting on the new season and so I hope all present members will continue to subscribe to the 200 Club and I look forward to receiving their subscriptions. Of course, anyone can join – you don’t have to be a member of the Bowls Club - and you will be helping to preserve one of the amenities of this lovely village. My address is 14 Whitman Close, Barnack.
Jill Unsworth
Alpha Course
Do you think that Christianity is boring, untrue and irrelevant, if so why not come along to the Alpha Course and be challenged. The Alpha Course is a 10-week course that tackles the difficult questions of life. The course starts on Tuesday 20th January at 7-30 pm in Barnack Village Hall. Refreshments that include a ‘delicious dessert’ will be provided each week. For more information please contact Julie Stanton (01780 749123) or Karen Dunn (01780 749198). The course is being organised by Barnack Baptist Church.
December meeting of Barnack WI
WI members were greeted with a welcoming glass of mulled wine as they arrived at the Village Hall on a chilly December night.
The meeting commenced with the AGM business. Treasurer, Val Stratton, gave the financial report, and unlike the world economy, Barnack WI’s accounts are flourishing!
Secretary, Liz Young, presented a very positive report on the success of 2008 with excellent speakers, wonderful trips arranged by Sue Jarman and the enjoyable luncheon group organised by Adrienne Collins. She also praised Margaret Broadbelt for her brilliant handiwork producing the banner for the school and Brian Dailey for making the wooden support.
June Graham who has been this year’s President gave her report, re-iterating the comment about the excellence of the speakers for the year. She remarked on the success of the provision of WI teas at the church fete at Walcot Hall and the Horticultural Society show, and also for the WI contribution to the church Christmas tree festival. It has also been a sad year with the loss of Mary Perkins and Pat Schmidt.
The competition cup was won by Sue Jarman. June thanked her committee and all WI members for their support throughout the year. Ann Butland gave a vote of thanks to the committee.
Adrienne Collins has agreed to take on the role of President for 2009, and Janet Duff the position of Secretary. The subscription for 2009 will be £29 and Val would be grateful if members would pay by cheque (made payable to Barnack WI).
The business part of the meeting over, the members then enjoyed a warming meal provided by the committee, and a seasonal quiz provided by Liz Young.
The first meeting for 2009 is to be held on January 13th at 7.30 in the village hall when Mike Lee will speak on the refurbishment of the Corn Exchange Theatre. The competition will be “a theatre programme”.
If you would like to join Barnack WI, please feel free to come along to any meeting where you will be offered a very warm welcome.
Barnack Christmas Tree Festival
Many thanks to all who helped in any way, and to those who visited. Full details will appear in the February magazine. Sheila Berrill
Methodist Chapel Coffe Morning
Our Christmas Coffee Morning and Cake Stall raised the magnificent sum of £170.45. This means that during 2008 you have helped us to raise over £1200 for our funds and we are very grateful for all the support we receive. As most of you know, we are only a small congregation and this money which we raise each month helps us with our running expenses. Two of our heating units have to be replaced at a cost of £3000 and so this coffee morning money is vital to us. Fortunately, we don’t have large expenses like this every year but we have to keep raising money for when such eventualities occur. Thank you again and we look forward to having your continued support in 2009. We would also like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year.
As is our normal custom, there will not be a Coffee Morning in January and so we hope to see you on Saturday, 7 February from 10 am to 11 am.
A humorous play on words...
What kinda Tater are you?
Some people are very bossy and like to tell others what to do,
but don’t want to soil their own hands.
They are called “Dick Taters.”
Some people never seem motivated to participate,
but are just content to watch while others do the work.
They are called “Speck Taters.”
Some people never do anything to help,
but are gifted at finding fault with the way others do the work.
They are called “Comment Taters.”
There are those who say they will help,
but somehow just never get around to actually doing the promised help.
They are called “Hezza Taters.”
Some people can put up a front
and pretend to be someone they are not.
They are called “Emmy Taters.”
Then there are those who love and do what they say they will.
They are always prepared to stop whatever they are doing and
lend a helping hand.
They bring real sunshine into the lives of others.
They’re called “Sweet Taters.”
What kinda Tater are you?
BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD:
The 5 Minute Meditation
In his Sermon on the Mount our Lord said, ‘Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be satisfied’ (Matt. 5:6). These words that link hunger and thirst with blessedness sound strange in our ears. Every night around the world millions of people go to bed hungry and wake up to another day of not knowing where the next meal is coming from. Blessed? Hardly!
It is shocking and obscene when we are told the grim facts about world poverty and then told that the average family in Britain wastes £400 of good food every year. But of course our Lord was not talking about physical hunger and thirst on this occasion, although the world’s hunger grieves him deeply and he expects that we and all his people will do all we can to relieve it.
Rather he was talking about spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst. We are truly blessed when we long for righteousness. ‘Righteousness’ is one of the very important words in the Bible. It describes what God is; God is righteous, meaning he is holy, just and absolutely dependable. We are blessed when we long to be like God – when we hunger and thirst to reflect his character in our lives.
When we look into the Scriptures we see that this longing for God and his likeness is the mark of the saints in every age. It is very prominent in the books of Psalms. Here is Psalm 42. ‘As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for you, O God. My souls thirsts for God, for the living God’ (vv.1,2). The same longing is expressed in Psalm 63. ‘O God, you are my God, I seek you. My soul thirsts for you as in a dry and weary land where no water is’ (v.1).
When the Psalmist is confronted with the enigmas of life, especially when the wicked seems to triumph, of one thing he is sure. ‘Whom have I in heaven but you? There is nothing upon earth that I desire beside you’ (Ps. 73:25). One of the most familiar and most moving expressions of a pilgrim seeking after God is found in Psalm 84. ‘My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God’ (vv.1,2).
This longing for God is not confined to the Old Testament. In Philippians 3 Paul gives us a long autobiographical passage. He tells us what he used to be, what happened to him through meeting with ‘Christ Jesus my Lord’ – and now what the great all-absorbing ambition of his life is. ‘That I may know him and the power of his resurrection’ (v.10).
Down through the centuries of the Church it has been the same; the mark of God’s people is their longing to know him and be in closer communion with him. This longing fills the pages of the biographies and autobiographies of God’s servants; from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas, to Martin Luther, to John Wesley, to Elizabeth Fry, to Mother Teresa. But of course this longing for God is not the prerogative of well known Christians in the history of the Church; it is the hallmark of all God’s people whether expressed publicly or only secretly in prayer. And to all of them, and to us, our Lord gives the most wonderful assurance. When we hunger and thirst to be like him, we will be satisfied!
Parish Council Notices
ird Nesting Boxes
Ufford Parish Council has acquired some RSPB bird boxes which will be offered to residents at a bargain price of £5 each. They are of 3 kinds:
1. Open fronted, for robins, wrens, wagtails and blackbirds.
2. With a 25mm opening for blue tits.
3. With a 28mm opening for great tits.
Instructions for erecting the boxes:
• 10-15 feet above the ground, with the opening between east and north, so that the birds are not exposed to the full sun or wettest weather.
• There should be easy flight access, and with no overhanging branches so the birds are safe from marauding cats.
• The box can be fixed on to a wall, tree or fence with a nail or screw.
• Boxes should be erected as soon as possible. With some hay or wood shavings in the bottom, they may be used as a winter roost.
After care
Bird boxes should be washed out with boiling water to kill any parasites each autumn.
If you would like one or more boxes please contact Frieda on 740343.
Barnack Parish Council Meeting – Monday 08 December 2008
Six parish councillors were present together with two members of the public. Apologies were received from Dr. Ian Burrows and Councillor David Over.
The council reported that:
i. Burghley Estates have cut the weeds in the garden ground in Millstone Lane.
ii. Crosskeys Housing have provided an extra parking area in Little Northfiedls car park and have marked out parking bays in Orchard Road car park. These have caused a problem as there is insufficient room for cars to be driven to and from the garages.
The weeds and over hanging bushes on the footpath between Little Northfields and Manor View have not been cut. Crosskeys will be contacted.
iii. The two telephone boxes are listed and are not on the list for closure.
iv. The council will request that the verges in the village are not cut until the daffodils have flowed in the spring as last year blooms were destroyed by the mowers.
v. Comments were forwarded on two tree applications.
Requests have been made for:
i. Faulty street lights to be repaired in Bishop’s Walk, Station road and Orchard Road
ii.The missing chevron signs at the Millroad junction to be replaced with a smaller size as the one that have disappeared were the size of those put on a motor way.
iii. The leaves to be cleared from the pavement in Bainton Road between the school and Uffinton Road junction.
iv. two pot holes to be repaired in Stamford Road.
v. the sunken storm drain to be repaired in Allerton Close
vi. the tree in Chapel Lane overhanging 3 Owen Close to be cut back
Norman McCallum reported that the three issues are being addressed from the Police Liaison meeting are traffic problems including speeding, drink driving and density of traffic during the closure of the road from Stamford to the A1, the reduction of burglaries and the reduction of car crime in the Barnack area. The present problems being incurred are poaching and coursing on the Burghley Estate and tractor crimes on the periphery of the village.
David Roxburgh gave a report on the Emergency Planning meeting that he had attended. Parish councils were asked to address a number of areas. David Roxburgh agreed to write a draft policy document for the parish council to discuss and then adopt.
There was no report from David Over as he was unable to be present at the meeting
The next meeting will be at 7.30 p.m. in the Village Hall on Monday 12 January