February 2013
Closure of roundabout Closure of Field Head Roundabout closure
Closure = Diversion route =
The Markfield & Thornton Theatre Group
Snow and ice didn’t put off the panto fans!
Area 7 diversion route
A Temporary Traffic Regulation Order (TTRO) is to be made for the Field Head Roundabout, Markfield to facilitate carriageway resurfacing. The TTRO will incorporate a temporary road closure. Whilst the TTRO is physically in place the diversion route will be via Junction 22 of the M1 to junction 21, back along the M1 to junction 23A and along the A46 to the A50 junction. This is to be in reverse for traffic wishing to travel from the A46 to the A50 beyond Field Head. Diversions for local traffic will be signed on site. The duration of the restriction is not anticipated to exceed a period of 4 days commencing on 2nd April 2013.
Allotment opportunities for Bagworth, Merrylees and Thornton Residents A few allotments in Bagworth have just come available for Bagworth, Merrylees and Thornton residents to rent. The Bagworth and Thornton Parish Council has recently been looking into making improvements to various aspects of these local allotments, including making the plots more evenly sized, improving access to the allotments, thereby allowing deliveries such as manure and compost directly to plots. (In the past many allotment holders have had to have deliveries made at a distance and then spend considerable time barrowing the delivery to their allotments.) The central path has been straightened and at the January meeting, the Parish Council approved a proposal to widen it to allow tractor access and to lay down hard core. The work will be going ahead as soon as possible. The constitution has been rewritten and there is a newly appointed committee for the Bagworth Allotment Association, keen to develop the activity on them, including competition for the Allotment Cup at the Bagworth Annual Show. The intention is that the Bagworth Allotment Association will become a member of the National Allotment Association and gain from the benefits available from such membership, including possibly applying for small grants for improvements to the allotments. If you are interested in applying for an allotment, please email the Parish Clerk, Ann Murray at clerk@bagworthandthornton.org.uk, drop a letter in to her at Bagworth Community Centre or telephone her on 07580 574093. Remember, these allotments will be rented out on a first come, first served basis (£15 p.a). Those people currently on the Bagworth Allotments waiting list are being contacted now.
Thank you so much to our appreciative audiences who came to see “Dick Whittington and his Cat” at Thornton Community Centre in January.
NICE BRAS: Sailors Barnacle (Keith Barnes) and Limpet (Jon Perkins) go native with Dick’s cat, Black Jack (Darren Woods)
Outside the temperature fell below freezing and snow and ice covered the ground. However, as the curtains opened on a London Street scene and we heard the happy voices of our Junior Chorus singing “Maybe it’s Because I’m a Londoner”, time stood still for a while as we tried to fill the Community Centre with warmth, fun and laughter. Pantomime is a pure, theatrical indulgence. It’s all about largerthan-life outrageous characters thrown together in highly improbable situations, having fun . As we rehearse, we wonder what the audience reactions will Junior Chorus from the Linda be to our shenanigans and hope Williams Academy of Performing Arts that people will be amused and entertained. Our reward, hopefully, is to see rows of happy smiling faces. Comments on the Show do filter back to us. One lady “nearly choked on my lime cream” when a very respectable male villager danced before her eyes wearing a grass skirt, with coconut-shell accessories and garlands of flowers, and singing, “I want to dance with a big panty woman”. A little three-year-old urgently whispered to her granny at the interval that she was sure Dick was lying! CONTINUED ON PAGE 4
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