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The Board of Rothley Park Golf Club has implemented a waiting list for the first time in 15 years following a surge in membership applications. Director of Membership & Communications, Alan Dorn, said: ‘We are delighted that our waiting list is already beginning to fill. At Rothley the number of Full Playing members is limited to ensure that all members have the best possible access to the course and competitions throughout the year.’

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Club Chairman, Ian Dawkins, is sure that the ability to play regularly on a course that is rated one of the Club Chairman, best in the county is the main reason for the sudden Ian Dawkin uplift in numbers. He said: ‘Our reputation has been built around a course that is always presented in the best of condition which resulted in us hosting the Senior British Men’s Amateur Championship in 2016. A recent survey of club members underlined the importance attached to the quality of the course as well as the ease of access to play are the major reasons for making Rothley Park their chosen golf club.’

Last year the members voted to incorporate the club with a new management structure intended to cope with the future demands of running and developing a modern members club in an environment where, across the country, the number of membership places available far exceeds the demand from those wishing to participate.

During the recession over 60% of golf clubs experienced a decline in numbers resulting in only 5% of clubs maintaining full membership. Despite a more recent survey by England Golf showing membership numbers increasing over the last two years the proportion of golf clubs not showing an increase in members over the same period remains the same at 62%.

Clearly the benefits offered to members at Rothley Park are enabling the club to buck the national trend of small growth in membership numbers. Alan Dorn highlighted their unique waiting list policy as an example: ‘While you are on our waiting list you are able to play the course at a discounted rate and you are guaranteed club membership within a year’.

Anyone interested in joining Rothley Park Golf Club can contact the Club Manager on 0116 2302809 or by e-mail to clubmanager@rothleypark.co.uk

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Three county attractions are shortlisted for tourism awards The winners of the awards will be announced this month.

A two-day festival themed around the medieval battle which changed the course of English history, an ancient manor house with links to the Gunpowder Plot and Britain’s only surviving travelling theatre have all been shortlisted as finalists in awards celebrating the best of Leicestershire tourism.

Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, the 1620s House & Garden and the Century Theatre have been selected to compete in the Leicestershire Promotions Tourism & Hospitality Awards 2018.

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IN DECEMBER, hundreds of people will be running dressed in their best red suits as Santa Claus, to support the Hospice.

Age UK Leicestershire & Rutland have listened to local Family Carers pleas for help in learning how to handle repetitive, difficult or challenging behaviour from the family members that they are caring for.

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Parents encouraged to help prepare their children for school Help your child become 'school ready' Parents across Leicestershire are being encouraged to ensure children who are starting school for the first time next year are ‘ready’. The new campaign forms part of a shared view of ‘school readiness’ developed by the Leicestershire Children and Families Partnership, where families, early years providers, 0-5 services and schools work together to ensure the best start in life for young children.

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“Parents have a key role in helping to ensure their child is ready to continue their learning journey as they enter school and can get off to a flying start.” Ivan Ould, Leicestershire County Council cabinet member for children and families, and partnership chairman Examples of how parents can help their children become school ready include: • Building their confidence and praising them for their efforts and achievements • Letting them play with other children and encouraging sharing and taking turns • Trying and planning healthy meals, having regular routines and making sure they get enough sleep More information about being ready for school is available here online.

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The fun runs which are organised by local Rotary Clubs, will be taking place at three locations across the county, so if you want to be a secret Santa and join the festive fun, why not signup to one of the events while raising valuable funds this Christmas?

The runs are fun for all the family, as they can be walked as well as ran; you can even bring your four-legged friends along for the festivities, with prizes being offered for the ’Best Dressed Festive Pooch’ at the Loughborough and Melton Mowbray events.

Fundraising co-ordinator, Debbie Dickman said: “These events are a fantastic way of bringing the community together during the festive season, while raising vital funds for the Hospice.

“Kit yourself out with the beard, belt and suit, take on the 5k, then treat yourself to a well-deserved mince pie at the end!”

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HIGHCLIFFE AMATEUR THEATRICAL SOCIETY (HATS) PANTOMIME 2018/19 “Babes in the Wood� by Paul Reakes, presented by special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd. January 10th, 11th, and 12th 2019.

Blue Peter is 60 years old

Rehearsals are now in full swing, with Robin determined to challenge the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham, in more ways than one.

The more we practise, the nastier the Sheriff is becoming, he seems to think that he can win anything and anyone, just be raising his voice and ordering people around.

Well, as we all know, that never works does it. The townsfolk along with others will be hoping that someone will come along and sort the Sheriff out. I wonder who will be able to do that???? Have you any ideas? Can you guess? Your help will be needed to make sure that the “goodie� wins the day. So get your voices ready, lots of interaction is needed, shout and boo and jeer so the Sheriff gets the message that he is not the super duper hero of the Panto.

For all of our regular audience members, see if you can identify the characters, clearly they are in disguise so it might take you a few minutes, but I am sure you will soon work it out. For our new audience members, I am sure that you will soon be coming back as much welcomed regulars and will also be able to identify people in a flash. Our scenery and costume crew are once again doing a fabulous job as you have come to expect, so a big thanks goes to them.

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SIX DECADES after Owen Reed, then the BBC’s head of children’s TV, first spied the blue and white flag hoisted by a ship as it set sail and decided he had found the name for the a new TV programme that was meant to be a voyage of discovery for the nation’s kids, everyone has a favourite Blue Peter memory.

Whether it’s John Noakes dropping his trousers to reveal his bobsleigh bruises — and his wife’s underwear (he had, according to his own account, put on her pants by mistake having dressed in the dark) — or, Noakes again, clambering up Nelson’s Column wearing nothing for protection but a combat jacket and a pair of flares, or Valerie Singleton working her way through the national supply of sticky-back plastic or, most memorably, an incontinent elephant called Lulu.

At its peak, the show notched up eight million viewers an episode and received 1,000 letters a day from viewers, most of them after that most precious of small screen prizes, the Blue Peter badge. Of which there are, in fact, six types, from blue to gold (the highest award reserved for acts of remarkable courage — or for being David Beckham, JK Rowling or the Queen).

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Birstall Food Hub Coffee Morning Birstall Food Hub are holding a coffee morning to raise funds for the fresh goods that are bought for the food parcel service. This is the only way we have of replenishing those costs.

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Bradgate Drama Society bring Comfort and Joy Christmas is apparently the worst time of year for family upsets as people who don’t really like each other very much are thrown together in an atmosphere of compulsory enjoyment.

This is brought out hilariously in ‘Comfort and Joy’, a brilliant comedy written by Mike Harding, the famous comedian and folk singer, which is being performed by Bradgate Drama Society as their 2018 Christmas Production.

Martin and Margaret Duggan have their grumpy uncle Goff staying with them over the Christmas period and are expecting visits from the rest of the family. Things soon spiral out of control as the family arrives and other unexpected visitors call by, resulting in a spectacularly chaotic festive period.

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The festive season gets under way in Leicester when the Cards for Good Causes charity Christmas card shop opens in our exciting new venue at BISHOP STREET METHODIST CHURCH, off Town Hall Square. Buying Christmas cards through Cards for Good Causes is the best way to get access to the widest selection of Christmas cards available, as well as a fantastic range of seasonal gifts and products, while supporting a range of national and local charities.

It’s the return of the Big Knit campaign and Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland is calling on Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to join in and get knitting!

Whether a knitting ninja, purling pro, crochet connoisseur or just keen to have a go it’s time to get wild about wool and join the Big Knit. Now in its 15th year, the campaign is recruiting knitters to help create an impressive 1.6 million hats to adorn innocent smoothie bottles. For each be-hatted smoothie sold*, Age UK receives 25p, and that money helps the Charity support older people who are facing later life alone.

Tony Donovan, Executive Director of Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland said: “We need local people to join us and help knit as many miniature hats as possible this winter to help us hit our huge 80,000 local target. It’s such a fun campaign to get behind and it does so much to help older people in our area.

“The money raised will make a big difference to the lives of older people by funding our hugely important services and classes. These services, which include Day Care, dementia support, Men in Sheds and befriending amongst so many others, give local older people the chance to come along and make friends, learn new skills and most importantly have fun.”

Last year alone, more than one million hats were lovingly created nationally, with designs including the hugely popular unicorn, grizzly bear, fluffy sheep and desert island.

Bara Amouyal, innocent drinks, said: “The Big Knit has had such an incredible amount of support over the past 15 years and we are hugely grateful – we love seeing what miniature creations the nation can come up with! Through the Big Knit campaign, we want to do everything we can to make a difference to the lives of older people.”

For more information on The Big Knit contact Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland on 0116 2992233 or visit https://www.ageuk.org.uk/leics/get-involved/fundraising/ the-big-knit/. Please send completed hats to Age UK Leicester Shire & Rutland at Lansdowne House, 113 Princess Road East, Leicester LE1 7LA or hand them in at any of our 24 shops or Resource Centres.

This year’s hat knitting patterns are available to download, to find out more visit: www.ageuk.org.uk/bigknit or pop into any of our addresses to request a leaflet

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Staffed by a team of local volunteers, the Leicester pop-up shop is part of a network of more than 300 temporary shops run by Cards for Good Causes, the UK’s largest charity Christmas card organisation. It represents more than 250 charities including Alzheimer’s Society, Barnardo’s, Cancer Research UK, NSPCC and RNLI as well as a number of local charities such as Charity Link, Leicester and Leicestershire Animal Aid, Rainbows Children’s Hospice and The Laura Centre.

Shoppers will be able to choose from hundreds of different Christmas card designs, as well as traditional advent calendars and candles, wrapping paper, gift tags, napkins and stocking fillers.

Sue Berridge, Shop Manager for Cards for Good Causes says: “Buying charity Christmas cards is one of the simplest ways to support good causes this festive season and we stock one of the widest ranges of Christmas cards anywhere. The proceeds from every card or product sold make a vital contribution to the work of the charities that we partner. Come and find us in Bishop Street Methodist Church at the rear of Town Hall Square and get ahead in your Christmas preparations by getting your cards early.”

In the past ten years, charities have received more than £40 million from Cards for Good Causes, representing at least 70p in every pound.

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Christmas Concert, Thursday 6th Dec., Newtown Linford Church

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Dr D McNeil Long ago there was on the radio a series called ‘Dick Barton, special agent’. He was never associated, as far as I know, with a bean. Yet again, Hill Hill on the Hill does sound a rather improbable name. Yet such places exist in our countryside.

Have you ever wondered about a ‘thorpe’, a ‘by’, or a ‘ton’? And where on earth would someone concoct a name like Loughborough?

A ‘Colours of Christmas’ concert will be presented by Newtown Linford Choral Society at 7.30 pm on Thursday 6 December in the village church. The programme of music will follow the Christmas theme, including carols, Christmas songs, and classical pieces such as an excerpt from The Messiah. In addition, there will be songs about colours, such as ‘Fields of Gold’. There will be performances by the full choir, by the ‘After Eight’ quartet, and by the ‘Eight Misbehavin’ octet, making for a varied and entertaining evening.

These are some of the questions that confronted Julie Attard, late of the Charnwood Roots project and now the Charnwood Forest development manager, when she spoke at the Friends of the Charnwood Forest meeting on Monday (Charnwood – from the Celtic ‘carn’ – a pile of stones ans ‘wudu’ – a wood). She started her talk by stating that she was not a specialist in interpreting one At time one every At time one family’s every time family’s every dietworking included family’s dietonincluded bread diet included which breadrelied which bread relied which a constant on relied a aconstant on supply awho consta supp of names, but while the Roots project she hadon encountered lady All proceeds will be contributed to At the church was.

Also there were a couple of books which she recommended which listed the redecoration fund. Tickets at ÂŁ7.50 each including f f f meanings of place names in Leicestershire. refreshments, are available from Newtown Linford Stores and 01509 890771.

English place-names often come from ancient sources. In those times England was peopled by various cultures which usually swept in from the east. Each of these cultures had its own language, and over time place names may have been altered or added to by them. First – as far back as it is practical to go, as no doubt there were very ancient names from languages and peoples we know nothing about – are the Celts; with each wave of immigrants these people’s culture would have been pushed into the more remote, mountainous areas of these islands.

Then there were the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings and the Normans. So - Breedon on the Hill is from three languages, each providing a word meaning ‘Hill’: thus ‘Hill Hill on the Hill’.

Of course there are other complications. Land ownership may be celebrated by places being named after the owner. The syllables ‘ough’ in Loughborough are t MondayMonday 19t Monday 19 19t in two different ways, the second of which is derived from ‘Burgh’. pronounced This leads me to suspect that some names have been altered as time has gone by rather than by a new culture. I knew an old lady several years ago who pronounced ‘Woodhouse’ as “woodus’. As the spelling of the English language became more organised, think what chaos that could have caused. One of my ancestors had six children, and ‘McNeil’ was spelt differently in every case on the census return.

If we did not find out about Barton in the Beans, at least she cleared up Woodhouse Eaves. The ‘Eaves’ part means ‘on the edge of’. Would you like to live in a place called ‘On The Edge Of Woodhouse’? People do, apparently without realising it.

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A Night to Remember Dementia UK has been selected as one of three charities being supported by Leicester Tigers during the 2018/19 season. This recognises the efforts and achievements of a local campaign, aimed at securing a specialist dementia Admiral Nurse for the community in Leicestershire.

To celebrate this, a charity dinner will be held in the Premiership Suite at Leicester Tigers on Friday 8th March 2019. The ‘Night to Remember’ event will include a four-course dinner, magic, music and dancing. All proceeds will go to Dementia UK Leicestershire, to fund an Admiral Nurse. To date the Leicestershire Fundraising Group has raised in excess of £60,000, and is now in talks with host partners to recruit Leicestershire’s first community Admiral Nurse, who will provide specialist dementia support to families across the county.

The members of the Leicestershire Fundraising Group all have first-hand experience of caring for a family member with dementia. When they heard about Admiral Nurses and realised there weren’t any in Leicestershire, they established the group with the aim of raising enough money to fund a nurse.

Gwyn Jones, chairperson of the group, says “We are delighted to have exceeded our initial target of £50,000, and to learn that Dementia UK is starting the recruitment process for Leicestershire’s first community-based Admiral Nurse. But we can’t stop there! Enough money has been raised for one nurse for one year, but that is not enough to help the hundreds of families in the county facing the challenges of dementia. We must keep fundraising to fund more nurses to meet the growing need.”

Anna Casswell, a member of the fundraising group, says “Everyone is invited to this fun event, so get some friends, relatives or colleagues together; dust off your glad rags, and come along to help raise vital funds - while enjoying a Night to Remember”.

Dementia UK is a national charity with the sole purpose of recruiting, training and supporting dementia specialist Admiral Nurses.

They work with families affected by dementia by giving them one-to-one support, expert guidance and practical solutions. The unique dementia expertise and experience an Admiral Nurse brings is a lifeline – it helps families to live more positively with dementia in the present, and to face the challenges of tomorrow with more confidence and less fear.

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