November 2014 - Coalville Community Eye

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THRINGSTONE HOUSE Monthly Community Mornings

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CHRISTMAS AT HOUGH MILL

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t’s hard to believe we’re on the run up to Christmas! The children are already practicing for their Christmas performances which I look forward to watching, and whispers of what they would like on their Christmas list are starting too!

I’m also pleased to be able to tell you that we are expanding here at Open Box Promotions and I have now moved from the Sales Team over to the position of Editor for all seven of our community magazines. This has created a vacancy on our sales team and we look forward to welcoming a new member to our team shortly.

We were so spoilt by the warm autumn that many of us haven’t started thinking about the winter weather, so the feature this month is all about preparing for winter and how to keep yourself and your home safe. I’ve also included my favourite winter recipe, lamb stew, a perfect dish for warming you up after a long day.

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FREE Entry, FREE NWLDC Parking FREE Entertainment The buildup to Coalville Town Team’s latest high impact initiative is well under way, aiming to bring together the local community and increase footfall to the retail streets of Coalville Town, Belvoir Shopping Centre and surrounding areas. The 2nd Annual Coalville Food and Drink Festival event is being hosted in the Town Centre of Coalville, Leicestershire within the Belvoir Shopping Centre pedestrianised precinct on: Saturday 22nd November from 9am until 4pm.

An events programme has been constructed, providing the public with Free Parking at Snibston Discovery Museum with a Free Steam Train to transport people down into the Town Centre where they will be greeted by a festival street scene, live entertainment for all to enjoy. There will also be Free Parking throughout all NWLDC Car Parks within Coalville.

Playing host to Street Pantomime from Century Theatre and also Newbridge School, Steel Pan Band from Castle Rock School, CHOIRFACTOR plus music, dancing, arts and crafts to lift the festive spirits.

Lots of excitement is surrounding our Charity Fundraising OMELETTE CHALLENGE, where the public can take on Paul Day of Paul’s the Catering Company fame, to whip up the fastest omelette!

CHRISTMAS AT HOUGH MILL ON SUNDAY 7TH DECEMBER

Santa will be of particular interest to our younger visitors. To minimise queuing, it would be helpful if parents could pre-book a Santa slot by emailing chairman@ swannington-heritage.co.uk or telephoning 01530 222 833.

Coalville Town Team are promoting officially booked traders on a daily basis via social media and the response from the avid followers has been massive. This really is an event that inspires the hunger for food and Christmas shopping in the hearts of the Coalville Community.

Banners and posters are being displayed in the Town and surrounding areas across the following week.

Hot Food and Drink is fully booked, with a handful of spaces remaining only for Non-Electric Craft, Demo and Gift stalls. Anyone wishing to book can do so via email at coalvilletowncentre@gmail.com.

Traders are asked to bring their own 3m x 3m Gazebo, table/point of sale equipment. Places are limited, so bookings are recommended now to save any disappointment.

Join in the fun at www.facebook.com/ coalvilletowncentre or Twitter @talkupcoalville.

LUNCHTIME TALKS AT COALVILLE LIBRARY Come along to Coalville library’s series of monthly lunchtime talks. The talks fall every second Wednesday of the month from 12.30pm until 1.30pm and tickets very often sell out fast. You are welcome to bring along your lunch for the session and a tea/coffee is included in the price of £2.50 (for library members) and £3 (for non-members).

Please pre-book your ticket from the Counter at Coalville library before the talk. Here are the next two sessions:

Although Hough Mill in Swannington is closed for the winter, our resident millers, Teddy and his family, will be welcoming visitors to Christmas at the Mill on Sunday 7th December from 2-4pm.

Come and share the Christmas atmosphere with a decorated mill, carol singing, face painting, stalls, games, raffle and refreshments, plus free children’s craft activities and Santa visit. There will be fun for all ages!

I hope you enjoy your November edition and I look forward to bringing you your festive December edition next month!

Swannington Heritage Trust volunteers will be helping Teddy Miller guide visitors around the mill, hand grind wheat into flour, use the sack scales and enjoy the models relating to Robert Stephenson’s 1832 Leicester and Swannington Railway.

For more details, and to see photographs of previous events, please look at our Hough Mill Facebook page.

• “Polly Put the Kettle on; A talk about Tea.” With Elizabeth Riding.

Come along and listen to this returning popular speaker to find out more about the story behind your cup of tea!

Wednesday 12th October.

• ‘The 1914 Christmas Truce.’ With Dr John Sutton. A moving account of the temporary truce between troops at Christmas time during WW1.

Wednesday 10th December.

Don’t delay – get your ticket now! For further information please contact the library on: 0116 3053565.

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APPLE DAY

CHARITY QUIZ NIGHT AND RAFFLE

We had a wonderful Apple Day at Donington le Heath Manor House last Sunday, 19 October, with apple tasting, apple bobbing, pruning displays, applethemed food and competitions, garden tours and lots more!

We thought you might be interested in letting people know about our community ‘found’ poem, which was created by our Parish Engagement Officer Llynda, Coalville’s County Councillor Terri Eynon and the Manor House staff, from visitors and their kennings: A ‘kenning’ is an Old Norse way of writing simple poems, rather like a riddle. After experiencing the tastes and textures of everything applerelated, visitors to the Manor House were asked to find two short words that describe - without being too obvious what an apple means to them. The twoword poems were then grouped into verses on the branches of a tree.

On 21st Nov 2014 at North Street Club, Whitwick, 8pm start. Teams of 4, £5 per person. Cash prize for the winning team.

ST JOHN’S OPEN DAY FOREST ROAD COALVILLE Saturday 29th November 11:00AM – 3:00pm. Everyone welcome to come along to see who we are, what we do and what we offer.

• CPR demonstrations • Basic first aid training • Radio communications training • See what events we cover • Free information packs • Refreshments

HANNAH’S ROOM HELP TO SUPPORT SICK CHILDREN

Nobody knows when they might need basic lifesaving skills, which might be the difference between a life lost and a life saved.

Project Linus UK is a volunteer organisation. Whose aim is to provide a sense of security and comfort to sick and traumatised babies, children and teenagers through the provision of new home made patchwork quilts and knitted/crocheted blankets, and give volunteers across to UK the opportunity to contribute to their local community.

Sweet baking Under crumble Chain eating Sunset flavour

Bitter sweet Doctor deterrent Crumble crisp Pip-casket

Munchy crunchy Juice diffuser Mouth waker Doctor's one

Big small Sickly sweet Round tasty Tree fodder

Heart fruit Lip smacker Wind-fallen Eve-charmer

Spring king First temptation

Rosy red Name revealer Witch's wine

Basket full Crispy crunchy Wasp's nest Poisonous produce

Lunch crunch Rosy red Juice dripping Teacher charmer

Sweet sour Cider provider Smile raiser Spirit reviver

Hidden star Sun storer Gravity grabber Newton's solution

NEW LIFE CHURCH HEALING PRAYER New Life Church, Margaret Street, Coalville will be having a special time of healing prayer on Sunday 14th December, at 10.30am. It will be led

by Ted and Carol Collins, who are elders and licensed ministers in the Order of Jacob's Well, a C of E healing and wholeness organisation based in South Wales. Everyone is welcome and the prayer is not restricted to physical healing, but also emotional problems of all kinds. All are welcome. Coffee and cake is served from 10.15am. For more information ring 01530 837256.

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Project Linus began in America in 1995 when Karen Loucks saw a newspaper article showing how much a comfort blanket had helped a child cancer victim and decided to organise blankets for her local children’s cancer unit and started spreading the word.

Since that time over 4 million blankets and quilts have been delivered worldwide. The organisation began in the UK in March 2000 as a result of a quilter’s desire to help children in need.

Our volunteers deliver about 2,000 quilts and blankets to sick, disabled or disadvantaged children across the UK each month.

Hannah's Room began as Claire Tinsley's hobby in 1997 and has grown considerably since then.

Started initially in Claire's daughter's bedroom, (hence the name Hannah’s Room) it quickly grew to fill their large house in Yorkshire.

They cannot reach out to every distressed child but they can help to provide them with tangible evidence that someone cares, along with the physical reassurance that comes with being snuggled up in a quilt. They always try to deliver quilts and blankets to children who are local to the makers.

Today Hannah’s Room in Coalville is owned and run by another of Claire’s daughters Roxana Pallatt, who welcomes anyone into the shop for a chat, to browse, or for a cup of tea or coffee. Roxana is a lovely talented lady who offers advice and inspiration to those who visit her shop.

The event was held at Hannah’s Room in Coalville, a new shop located at 8b Hotel St, which opened in June 2014.

Providing quilting and patchwork workshops and courses they also have a wide range of beautiful fabrics on sale.

If you’re interested in supporting Project Linus UK or taking part in any courses or events at Hannah’s Room just pop along to the store, visit the website for more details www.hannahsroomonline.co.uk or call 01530 588890.

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Head over to Markfield and Ibstock libraries and bag yourself a bargain! Our sale includes both adult and children stock (including ex-rental DVDs at Markfield library) and will be held from Saturday 8th of November until Saturday 29th of November.

Stock up your book shelves with popular authors and recent best sellers and check out our ex-rental talking books too.

All items are very reasonably priced - don’t miss our bargain book sale!

For more information call: Markfield library: 0116 3053642 Ibstock Library: 0116 3053608

THRINGSTONE HOUSE COMMUNITY MORNINGS The Community Centre will be holding its monthly Community Morning on Saturday 6th December from 10am until 1pm.

There will be a table top sale, local history, book swap and refreshments.

Admission is 50p each, children are free, and everyone is welcome.

The table top sale will be in the upstairs Hall and in the downstairs rooms and there are a total of 34 tables available, though these are being booked up quickly. Tables are £5 each payable in advance.

There will be a mixture of crafts, bric-a-brac, greetings cards, hand knits, crochet goods, fancy goods, home made pies, honey products, aloe-vera products and jewellery.

This initiative is to help raise much needed funds for the Community Centre.

The Centre would like to receive your ideas for developing these monthly events. Please telephone 01530 222337 or email thringstonehouse@btconnect.com with your ideas.

LOCAL NEWS

ICT FOR ATC!

THE PURRRRFECT PANTOMIME AT HUGGLESCOTE

Coalville Air Cadets are appealing for your vote of support in their bid to upgrade their IT technology and equipment.

1188 (Coalville) Squadron has applied to the North West Leicestershire District Council £20,000-for-Seven funding and the bid is through to the public vote stage. The project is one of eight applications for the £10,000 grant so your vote is important to the cadets!

All the training for cadets is online now and the lack of ICT restricts the number of cadets who can access this. Cadets are offered training in leadership skills and DofE. Leaders want to upgrade so they can offer more of the opportunities available at the Coalville squadron to more young people from Coalville and the surrounding areas.

Fg Off Rebekah Harrison of the 1188 squadron said, ” The Air Cadet Organisation offers a wide range of opportunities for qualifications to both staff and cadets. But we need to move with the times. A lot of the cadet training now takes place online and we need suitable technical hardware to enable the cadets to pass their qualifications and make the most of the opportunities available. It is really important that cadets’ CVs stand out from the crowd.”

This year’s Hugglescote pantomime is Dick Whittington and his cat and will see St Johns Church, transformed into London town.

Councillor Richard Blunt, Leader of North West Leicestershire District Council, said "We're putting the decision making into the hands of the district with a public vote, and I would encourage everyone to get online and vote for your favourite projects. Really show support for communities who have fantastic ideas on how to improve their areas."

The link to the voting page is: www.nwleics.gov.uk/pages/247vote

This is a Vicky Orman’s new version of this classic adventure story and has all the well-known characters, plus two fairies, Bowbells and Dingdong, a remarkable talking cat that only the audience can hear, a truly villainous King Rat and his two ‘henchrats’ Itchy and Scratchy. The fun is provided by Sarah the Cook and her son, Idle Jack.

Dick Whittington comes to London with his cat Tommy to seek his fortune. He is employed by Alderman Fitzwarren and soon falls in love the Alderman’s daughter Alice. However

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WEST END STAR AT CASTLE ROCK HIGH SCHOOL

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Castle Rock High School had a fabulous week last week where they had West End performer Carl Sanderson in their school to work with their students! Carl has performed in the West End and on TV and has played parts such as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray and the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera, as well as performing in Starlight Express, Cats, Crazy for You and Guys and Dolls.

Carl shared his expertise with the Castle Rock high School students where they put together a fantastic performance using many different skills. Look out for photos from these workshops on Castle Rock High School’s Twitter account and on their website!

In 2013, a young group of Gifted and Talented music students formed a small musical ensemble, performing on Steel Pans. Pat Monroe who often performs in the ensemble, Panetiquette, runs the group every Friday after school.

In addition to approximately thirty years of performance experience in concerts and competitions, Pat is a well-established tutor. Over the past year the group have learnt many pieces

well up to performances standard and now have large collection of wellknown songs and melodies included in their repertoire. Not only do they often perform regularly in the school but are often booked for outside events including Coalville’s ‘Picnic in the Park’.

Due to the Steel Pan Group’s success, there seems to be more and more students wanting to join, and this year the music department opened up a workshop aimed at the dedicated and committed students who wish to carry on making the ensemble a success.

Look out for them performing at Coalville’s Food and Drink Festival.

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Castle Rock High School’s Christmas Production is on the 11th of December.

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LOTTERY FUNDING TO TRANSFORM NURSERY GARDEN Ibstock Day Nursery has been awarded £10,000 by the Big Lottery Fund to transform its garden into an interactive, multi-sensory play area.

Phase one of the revamped garden will include a trim trail, tactile surfaces, an artificial river, a new sand pit, a water wall, and a muddy kitchen.

YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS Twenty young entrepreneurs from Ibstock Community College have taken on ‘The Fiver Challenge’ - setting up their own businesses with just £5.

Over the next few weeks, the Year 9 students will work in groups to invest the money and launch their businesses, specialising in everything from cupcake sales to car washing.

Other ideas include smoothie making, a fancy dress ‘photo booth’ for novelty photographs, a football tournament with refreshments, and buying and selling phone cases.

Students are hoping to attract potential customers at the college’s open evening on Thursday 25 September.

To qualify for their £5 funding, teams must first draw up a business plan, including costings, financial projections and timescales, and take into account issues such as market research and health and safety.

Teacher Ben Hemmerman said: “This project ties in with the college’s commitment to 21st century learning which embraces aspects such as entrepreneurship and creative thinking.

The students have been really enthusiastic about setting up their own businesses – they seem to like the idea of making a bit of money!”

MEDIA SUITE & OPEN EVENING AT NEWBRIDGE Thursday 2nd October marked this year’s annual Newbridge Open Evening; which was a great success.

The Open Evening sessions allows perspective students and their families, along with Year 7 students and their families to explore the school’s facilities and resources. Visitors had the

opportunity to talk to members of staff and current students too. The evening was a huge success!

This year it also used to showcase our brand new, state of the art Media Suite. Which was officially opened

Acting nursery manager Joanne Sparrow said: “The garden is a lovely space where we have a lot of fun, but a revamp will be wonderful. Being outside is all part of the learning experience for the children. It is going to have a big impact.”

Work on phase one will begin in November. Staff and supporters of the nursery have already begun planning events to fund phase two of the garden improvements, which will feature a nature area, a music area and a track for ride-on vehicles.

A ladies’ night to raise funds for phase two will be held at the nursery on Thursday 30 October from 7 – 9pm.

Independent, local traders will be selling gifts and other goods during a fun night of shopping. Tickets are £7, which includes a complimentary drink and a goody bag. For more information, contact the nursery on 01530 265829

by Mr Goacher (Headteacher) and Mr Little (Curriculum Leader of Performing Arts).

As our media course develops, we plan to introduce video editing and sound effects into the students’ work.

This new suite has been built especially to house our new media course, but it will also be used to enhance other curriculum areas such as Music, Design and Art.

Alongside the opening of our new Media suite, we have begun a new initiative “Student Media Officers” Their role will be to report on what’s happening within the school and the local community. Being students they will have a greater insight to what other students are up to and their achievements. We will be celebrating success in the students’ reports and as their role develops we will be producing a student publication whilst also featuring reports in Newbridge News.

The Media Suite is primarily used by Music and Media and it’s already had a profound effect on the students’ work.

Music students are writing and producing phenomenal music tracks, similar to which you would hear in the Sunday charts, whilst media students have been getting their hands into stop frame animation by creating their own Lego movies.

Our Photography enrichment students have been using the suite to edit and manipulate the photos they have been capturing.

If you came to the open evening you may have met our new Student Media Officers Isabel Lowen, Daniel Slack, John Stephenson, Keanne LonsdaleEllis, Sophie Cornes, Thomas Cornes, Holly Folwell, Tyler Symons and Tara Reynolds. Watch this space for exciting pieces from the Media Officers!

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PHOTO: Frankie Harwood, Wills expert at QualitySolicitors Mander Cruickshank

The region’s best-known law firm has warned that too many people are waiting too long to make Wills thereby potentially causing havoc for their families.

Frankie Harwood of QualitySolicitors Mander Cruickshank said recent research proved there is wide scale reluctance in the UK to make Wills.

The research carried out by Remember a Charity, a body encouraging charitable donations in Wills, has found out that the average Briton waits until his or her 70s before facing their mortality.

“The average age is 72 that most people finally get around to drawing up a document that has a huge impact on those left behind,” said Ms Harwood.

“Also only one in five people over the age of 50 are yet to discuss their Will with their family or friends,” she added.

“We cannot say that these statistics are a shock to us as professionals who draw up Wills, but it does highlight a problem, when the average man in the UK lives to 77 and woman 81.”

Ms Harwood said this reluctance to face mortality is why so many people die each year intestate, which means without a Will.

She added that only a third of people make a Will before they die, despite the need for Wills being greater than ever.

“The issue is two-fold, first making a Will is seldom urgent and therefore tends to be put on the back burner, and secondly there is reluctance by many people to face the uncomfortable fact that they are not going live for ever,” said Ms Harwood.

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Autumn is a good time to plant them as there’s time for them to settle and establish before the warmth of the spring comes. Trees & shrubs are available bare-root and from November onwards they’ll be offered in garden centres, nurseries and online. As the plants are dormant there’s not much to look at but when selecting plants look for undamaged branches & bark to ensure the plants are fit and healthy.

My garden has tall boundary hedges of Privet and the garden itself is subdivided by Beech hedges and trained fruit trees, all of which were sourced as bare-root plants. Fruit trees are the typical bare-root trees on offer in garden centres. Apples, Plums and Pears are easy to find. Choose a variety based on the crop, size, shape and pollination requirements (info will be on the label).

Ornamental trees like Rowans, Hawthorns and Acers are popular too, choose a variety that will grow to a suitable size and give interest in flowers, foliage or berries.

Bundles of hedging plants known as ‘Whips’, are available from November to March. Hedges are great for defining a boundary, screening a building or dividing a garden into sections. There are lots of varieties to choose from. For formal edging there are evergreens like Box and Yew and for taller boundary hedges, semievergreens like Privet or Beech are suitable. Trimmed twice a year these can be kept neat & tidy.

Native hedging typically consists of a mix of deciduous varieties which when planted together provides an ideal habitat for wildlife. A traditional mix includes Haw & Black Thorn, Hazel, Dogwood and Wild Rose & Crab Apple. Deciduous mixes are less formal and can be trimmed once a year or less frequently for an informal look.

Bare-root plants are pretty easy to plant. Choose a day which is frost free and when the soil is not waterlogged.

Keep the roots of the new plants cool and moist (not wet) until you are ready to plant.

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3. Place the tree in the hole ensuring the roots will be covered and the base of the tree is at the right level. Fan out the roots.

4. Place a tree stake alongside the stem & between the roots. Tap in to give the tree support & add a tree tie.

5. Back fill the hole, firming the soil and water the area thoroughly.

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The trees/hedging may need watering in the spring-summer after planting, then after a year or two the trees or hedging will be established and growing strongly.

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MY CALL FOR LOCAL TORY MP TO BACK NHS BILL This month I have written to North West Leicestershire’s Tory MP Andrew Bridgen calling on him to back a Bill that would protect the NHS from the Government’s rapid privatisation.

The Health & Social Care Act 2012 requires mandatory tendering of services and gives a role in the NHS to the competition authorities for the first time. It also allows NHS hospitals to earn up to half their income from treating private patients.

On November 21st a Bill introduced

by Labour MP Clive Efford will have its 2nd Reading in Parliament. The National Health Service (Amended Duties and Powers) Bill repeals the regulations which mandate tendering of services and restores the Private Patient Income cap to levels similar to those that existed in 2010. In short, it would stop the sell-off and restore the right values to the heart of the NHS. At the General Election in 2010, the Tories stood before the voters of North West Leicestershire on a clear commitment of ‘no top-down

reorganisation of the NHS’. Shortly after, this promise was carried into the Coalition Agreement with the Lib Dems.

However, within weeks of it being signed, the Tories and Lib Dems in Government brought forward the biggest reorganisation of the NHS in its history, despite huge opposition from patients and health professionals.

A reorganisation that placed market forces at the heart of the NHS. Over £10 billion of the NHS budget is now in the hands of private and others providers and a further £5.6 billion of NHS work is out to tender.

Four years on people are struggling to get GP appointments, waiting lists are at a six-year high and the NHS recently missed the cancer treatment standard for the first time ever.

I do not believe that our Tory MP or David Cameron were even given a mandate from the people of North West Leicestershire to put the NHS up for sale. I want North West Leicestershire’s local Tory MP to take this opportunity and correct this mistake by backing a Bill that will protect the NHS from privatisation.

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WOMEN LOSE ANOTHER 3 DAYS THIS YEAR In the month of Equal Pay Day new figures reveal women locally earn over 20% less per hour than men.

As Labour’s parliamentary candidate I’ve thrown my backing behind Labour’s new pledge for a one-week cancer test guarantee.

Equal Pay Day – the day women effectively start working for free because they are still paid less than men – falls on 4 November this year, 3 days earlier than in 2013 because of the rising pay gap.

Labour will ensure that NHS patients in England wait no longer than one week for cancer tests and results by 2020.

Early diagnosis is a critical tool in the fight against cancer and this pledge could make a huge difference to those at risk from the disease.

Labour have pledged to take action to deliver equal pay by requiring companies with more than 250 workers will to publish their hourly pay gap in their annual report. For the first time employees will be able to see if discrimination exists and whether all the top jobs are still dominated by men.

The number of people waiting too long to get cancer tests are going up in our area. In August this year, 218 patients waited longer than six weeks for tests compared to 84 in the same month last year – that’s up over 250%.

Equal pay is long overdue. Under David Cameron and Nick Clegg the pay gap is back on the rise after years of progress, as families are struggling with rising prices. A Labour Government will take action by asking employers to publish their pay gap be.

The cancer test guarantee will be made possible by £750 million of new investment over five years, raised through a new levy on tobacco firms.

I have also backed Labour’s ambition for our health service to have the best cancer survival rates in Europe, which could save up to 10,000 lives a year.

Women in North West Leicestershire will effectively be working for free from this week until the New Year due to the pay gap. Women today still earn just 80p for every male-earned pound.

In Government Labour closed the pay gap by almost 1/3rd and closed the gap almost entirely for women under 40, however under the Tories and Lib Dems in Government the pay gap is widening.

When I’m out and about talking to local people I hear how fed up they are of this government undermining and underfunding our health service.

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Before Tony Blair came to office, net immigration rarely hit significant levels and was certainly measured in the tens rather than the hundreds of thousands.

From 1997 onwards there was an explosion in net immigration with numbers not only exceeding six figures but consistently reaching figures well in excess of 250,000 a year.

In the early years of this Government, Immigration started to come down and at one stage was down by a third compared to the levels under Labour.

However it is no coincidence that in recent months, net immigration figures have picked up again as the UK economy booms and the Eurozone slips back into recession. The fact that immigration figures are so high whilst net immigration from outside the EU has been cut by more than 50,000 and is at its lowest levels since the 1990’s clearly indicates that whilst we have free movement of Labour and a booming

economy, there is nothing we can do to reduce our immigration numbers.

This has several effects, at the same time net immigration has averaged over 200,000, millions of workers has seen their pay at a standstill and are looking for reasons why. The fact is the UK is booming and unemployment is falling. Presently I believe North West Leicestershire is one of the fastest growing Districts in the Country with the County of Leicestershire set to grow by 3.4% this year. As this continues, businesses will need to recruit more staff. As we reach the point where those who are unemployed have been unemployed on a long term basis, it is the best opportunity we will have to return them back to work. Employers would prefer a new wave of immigrants to fill the jobs they are creating but that will be no help to those left unemployed and the Government’s welfare budget.

I am therefore asking the Prime Minister for a commitment that we apply the same criteria to those wanting to migrate from within the EU to those wanting to migrate from outside the EU. We should be looking to bring in the brightest and the best and it makes no sense that we reject migrants from outside the EU who would make a significant contribution to this Country whilst at the same time having an open door for anyone inside the EU to work

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On local issues, I have requested that the Leicestershire Partnership Trust do not dispose of Ashby Hospital for a period of at least 6 months whilst they demonstrate the effectiveness of the Better Care Together programme. The public must have confidence in the new methods of delivering treatment. I will also be actively campaigning against

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Cllr Wyatt has recently met with Senior Council official's and the Chief Executive urging them to once again look at the idea of building more rented accommodation in area’s where there is a need.

Michael said, "I know that many people are stuck in rented council property which they no longer wish to stay in. It’s not rocket science to work out that you need the right sort of rented properties if you want to help free up council properties which are currently rented by one person who is living in a three or four bedroom house. The only way to solve this problem is for the Council to build their own on land available in the local area.

I am delighted to see after many years of highlighting this problem that they have finally agreed to look at the idea of building more suitable council properties in the local area."

Cllr Wyatt will be continuing to push hard to get the Council to build their own rented properties in the Greenhill and other area's on land they already own, and where people need them most. Michael will also be asking the Council to make sure that local people on the waiting list or those wishing to downsize are given priority.

Extra bungalows and some one bedroom flats must be our priority if we are to free up the one’s being rented by larger properties currently being rented by single people.

Local Liberal Democrat County Councillor Michael Wyatt travelled to London with a delegation from all Parties to lobby Leicestershire MP’s over the funding of the Fire Authority, which is struggling to find the funds to continue financing the current level of service provided by the Leicestershire Fire Authority for the people of Leicestershire.

Cllr Michael Wyatt, Liberal Democrat group Leader on the Fire Authority said, “The fire authority is currently having to find substantial savings, which could potentially impact on frontline services. We travelled to London to speak to local MP’s about the funding concerns we are facing.

I was delighted to see our local MP for North West Leicestershire Andrew Bridgen, and Nicky Morgan the MP for Loughborough agreeing with us that we need to seriously look at the funding problem. I must say though I was very disappointing that not one Labour MP from Leicestershire could find the time to meet us so we could share our concerns with them. Clearly they must feel its acceptable the fire authority is to find over £7 million of savings.

Hopefully by travelling to London and showing a united stance the MP’s who took the time to meet us will fight our corner when speaking to the Minister in charge.”

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JACK FROST Bethany, Daniel and Christie were having a warming cup of cocoa at Bethany’s house and talking about the very cold weather they were getting.

‘I don’t really like this weather’ shivered Christie, cuddling her mug of cocoa. ‘It’s too cold to go outside and I miss being able to have my windows open.’

‘I love this weather’ chirped in Bethany it’s so beautiful! Every morning when I wake up it’s like someone has iced the garden, white on all the tips of the grass and on every leaf’.

‘That’s Jack Frost, Bethany’ said Daniel, ‘He visits in the night and puts a white coating all over everything, he even draws the pretty patterns on the windows.’

‘Jack Frost?’ exclaimed Bethany, ‘you mean someone actually turns it all cold and white? All on their own?’

So she sat and waited and watched a bit longer, her eyes growing heavy and tired, but still he didn’t come. Slowly and without realising it Bethany fell asleep in her chair.

The next morning when she woke up, Jack Frost had indeed been and everything was crisp and white again.

‘Oh no’ said Bethany, ‘I fell asleep and missed him.’

Very sadly Bethany got up and went to pick up the tray with the sandwiches and the flask on, which she hadn’t touched the night before.

But to her surprise they were gone! The flask was untouched but all that was left on the plate were crumbs!

Who could have eaten them, thought Bethany, just then she noticed a frosty pattern on the window, but unlike any she had seen before. It was on the inside of the glass and looked like it said thankyou but it couldn’t………….. could it?

‘Yes, he’s magical’ said Daniel, ‘No-one’s ever seen him, he comes in the middle of the night when everyone’s asleep’.

Later that day as Bethany was getting ready for bed, she decided she was going to be the first person to see Jack Frost. So she made up a flask of hot drink and put it on a tray, together with some sandwiches, just in case she got hungry and made herself comfortable in her big armchair, wrapped in a blanket, right by the window.

Bethany sat and watched the sun disappear and the moon come up.

It was a beautiful clear sky and she could see the stars twinkling. She sat and watched and waited but Jack Frost didn’t appear.

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Coalville Christmas lights switch on!

Saturday 22 November Coalville Market car park from 1.30pm • Fantastic stage show (compered by Hermitage FM) to include All Saints Primary School, The Del Sharrons, Leicester Gospel Choir, Rainer and to switch the lights on...

Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalists Keiran and Sarah and Alan Young broadcaster and former LCFC player • Santa’s Grotto with real reindeer • Coalville Market plus guest stalls • Fun fair rides • Woodies Wings owls and birds of prey • Coalville Churches together light garden • Cinderella pantomime characters

Firework finalé at 5pm

With snowflakes and a Guinness World Record attempt to light the most glow sticks!

Please walk or use town centre car parks (free)

Programme subject to change

For more information please call 01530 454603