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BY the time you read this magazine the Heswall Arts Festival should be in full swing. There are dozens of events, ranging from drama to music, and even science during the festival which runs until 11th October. So please give it your support. Elsewhere in the magazine there is the departure of Heswall rector Jonathan Gibbs, a fantastic swim by Marjorie Wood-Griffiths, cash hand-outs from Heswall Round Table, a local wedding, lots of local news and the regular features such as Linghams book reviews, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on and a Heswall business directory. Remember to say you saw the advert in the Heswall Local magazine!

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The Rector of Heswall the Rev Dr Jonathan Gibbs is to move to Yorkshire to take up a new post. Rev Gibbs is to become the Bishop of Huddersfield in the newly created diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales. He will be consecrated in his new role on Friday 17th October at York Minister. The 53-year-old has been Rector of Heswall since 1998, having previously worked in Stalybridge at Basle, in Switzerland. He is married to Toni and they have three children, Harriet (24) who is married to Matthew Curry, Edward (21) and Thomas (18). His interests include walking, usually accompanied by their Cocker Spaniel, and rummaging in second-hand bookshops. He is a fluent French speaker with a love of France and especially its wines; he also speaks German and Swiss-German. He and his wife, who originally met when working in Paris, enjoy entertaining and making new friends. Dr Gibbs is also a member of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), committed to supporting village and community life.

David’s epic bike ride for Alzheimer’s Heswall’s David Gee is hoping to raise thousands of pounds for Alzheimer’s Disease by cycling from London to Paris. By the time you read this David will hopefully have completed his epic cycle ride in memory of his father Frank who suffered with the debilitating disease for many years. He was due to set off from the garden of remembrance at St Peter’s Church on 20th September to join his Paris-bound colleagues four days later. At the time of going to print he had raised almost £2,500 for the charity.

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Age is no barrier for keen swimmer Marjorie

Recently, octogenarian and member of Heswall Soroptimists, Marjorie Wood-Griffiths, undertook a sponsored swim for the BIG project. The BIG project, which stands for Birthing in the Gambia, is a three-year project, which Soroptimists clubs all over the UK are supporting. The various fund raising efforts undertaken by UK Soroptimists so far have resulted in much needed improvements to hospital facilities, the provision of emergency drugs and appropriate training for doctors and other health professionals working with mothers and their babies in Gambia. It was the success of the project, which inspired Marjorie to undertake her sponsored swim. She swims regularly with Heswall Swimmers who meet every Friday morning at Calday Grammar Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s swimming baths, and she chose this occasion to carry out her sponsored swim. Amazingly, she completed 40 lengths of the pool and she raised ÂŁ250 for the project.

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REGULAR EVENTS IN HESWALL Tuesdays The Parade Jazz Club: Jazz sessions are held upstairs at the Boathouse, Parkgate, every Tuesday starting at 8.30pm. The 7 piece Parade Jazz Band plays a broad spectrum of traditional and mainstream tunes from their extensive repertoire gathered over 25 years of playing there. The atmosphere is warm and friendly with a modest entry fee of just £3.00 - so why not come along, join in the fun and enjoy the music. Tuesdays Health Walk - Arrowe Park, from 10am. This is a new Health Walk run by Wirral NHS Community Trust. Meet at the Red Rooms Cafe near the golf course Clubhouse at Arrowe Park. The contact is Helen Webster on 0151 630 8383. Wednesdays Conservation Work - Heswall Dales, 10:30am - 3:30pm. Come and volunteer to do tasks involving footpath restoration, heathland management, site surveys etc. Please wear suitable clothing, footwear and bring a packed lunch. Meet at the Rangers Office off Oldfield Road. Free event. Call the Wirral rangers on 677 7594 or email dantravis@wirral.gov.uk Wednesdays The Singing Café 10.30am- 12 noon, at the Church of the Good Shepherd, next to the Bus Station, Telegraph Road. Music for everybody (popular and classic). Come and join the fun, relax, and enjoy a singalong. Coffee and biscuits 50p. Call 342 3471 First Tuesday of the month Wirral Breast Cancer Support Group meets on the first Tuesday of each month except August at the Post Graduate Centre at Clatterbridge Hospital (opposite Oncology), 7-9pm. There is a varied programme of speakers and demonstrations. All Ladies who have or have had breast cancer will be made very welcome. Every Friday during term time Hester Hedgehog’s Active Tots takes place at 9.30 - 11.30am at Heswall Hall Cost: £2 per child each session. Pre-school children only. Parent/guardian controlled play. Refreshments available. Baby changing facilities also available. Serenades on Sundays Tea, Cakes and a Concert: The Winter series continues with monthly, friendly and relaxed concerts to be held in Heswall United Reformed Church at 3pm.

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Enjoy a night at the theatre Heswall Hall are delighted to host two excellent plays in October

Wednesday 15th October to Saturday 18th October at 7.30pm Riverside Players present: Relatively Speaking Alan Ayckbourn’s wonderfully funny comedy of sex, sherry and a pair of slippers. Tickets £8 from Linghams Booksellers, Heswall; Fringes Hairdressers, Irby; Masseys Butchers, Heswall; or book online at www. brownpapertickets.org (a service charge will apply) Wednesday 29th October to Saturday 1st November at 7.30pm Woolgatherers present: Murder on the Nile A classic whodunnit by Agatha Christie. A play full of memorable characters and more than enough red herrings to keep you guessing until the end. Tickets £8 from Linghams Booksellers, Heswall; Fringes Hairdressers, Irby; Masseys Butchers, Heswall; or book online at www.ticketswirral.com (a small booking fee will apply) For more events: see the entertainment guide on pages 38 & 39

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Heswall Round Table is proud to work with local schools to help with their fundraising. As part of the Santa Sleigh Collections 2013, a number of local schools got involved in the collections including those pictured; Dawpool School, Thurstaston, Ladymount, Pensby, Gayton Primary and St Peter’s, Heswall. In Total Heswall Round Table raised over £5,000 during the Christmas period and are pleased to have presented £470 to each of the schools involved.

Special thanks to the Friends of Dawpool School who broke an all time record in helping to collect the most donations ever recorded in a single night – and it was their first time collecting! If you would like to get involved with Heswall Round Table then please get in touch at www. heswallroundtable.co.uk. Alternatively, if your school would like to get involved in fundraising with Heswall Round Table’s Santa Sleigh 2014 then please get in touch at the same address.

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Steve Tasker and Jonathan Barr, from Heswall Round Table, present cheques to St Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CE School (left), Gayton Primary (above), Ladymount and Dawpool Primary Schools in Pensby (below)

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Useful numbers and info Clubs Heswall Artists Association Monthly meetings and weekly group sessions at Heswall Hall. Summer Exhibition. New members very welcome, all abilities and beginners. Call 342 3721. Dee Sailing Club Station Road, Thurstaston. 0151 648 2300 www.dee-sc.co.uk Flower Club Meet 1st Wednesday of the month, 8pm at Heswall Hall, Telegraph Road. Tel 342 9327. Gayton Probus Meeting at Richmond Hall every Tues 9am-12noon, also Lunch Meeting 1st Monday of the month at Heswall Golf Club, Cottage Lane, Gayton. Call 342 3960. Heswall Probus The group hold their luncheon at The Grange, Thornton Hough every third Monday in the month & meet for coffee at the URC Wednesdays 10am-12noon. Tel 342 5367. www.heswallprobus.co.uk Heswall and Gayton Ladies Lifeboat Guild 0151 342 4389 Heswall Society Established for the public benefit to conserve the heritage of the parish. Contact Carolyn Eddowes on 342 5066 Heswall U3A The Heswall University of the Third Age ( U3A ) is a self help organisation providing educational, creative and social opportunities for the over 50s. www.heswallu3a.org.uk. Tel 342 5331 Horticultural Society Meetings on the first Monday of the month at 7.30pm in Heswall Hall. Tel 342 8204 Lawn Tennis Club Quarry Road East, Heswall. Tel 342 1775 Wirral Lions Club Meets 1st Tuesday every month at 7.45pm at Heswall Golf Club. New members welcome. Secretary: 334 3044. Heswall Mid Week Ramblers Walks between 5 and 9 miles on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday every week, locally and in Wales and Cheshire . Tel 336 6044 Heswall Squash Club Gayton Playing Fields, off Brimstage Road, Heswall, Wirral, CH60 1XG.0151 342 2817

Oldfield Theatre and Concert Club Arranges visits by coach to theatres and concert halls throughout the Wirral and beyond. Opera - Ballet Concerts or Plays. New members welcome. 342 8952. Riverside Players Heswall based Drama Group. New members welcome. Call 632 4923 or www.riversideplayers.org Rotary Clubs Heswall Club meets Thursdays at Heswall Golf Club for 12.45. Secretary 648 7661 West Wirral meets Wednesdays 6.30pm at Heatherlands Court, Irby. Tel 342 1883. Mid Wirral meets Tuesday mornings for breakfast at the Jug and Bottle at 7:15am. Tel 342 1034 North Wirral meets Mondays 6.30pm at the Holiday Inn, The Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gap, Hoylake 07516371128 Round Table Social club with a conscience open to men between 18 and 45, meeting at The Black Horse, Lower Heswall & other venues. 342 9159. www.heswallroundtable.co.uk Soroptimists The group meet on the 2nd & 4th Thursdays of the month at the Grange. Tel 342 3446 Wirral WIldlife The local branch of Cheshire Wildlife Trust. www.wirralwildlife.org.uk Tel 342 1395. Woolgatherers Heswall-based drama group. New members welcome. Call 648 2717 Useful Numbers Councillors Leslie Rowlands 342 2454 Andrew Hodson 342 6253 Kathy Hodson 342 6253 Police Heswall Police Station (not open for inquiries). Please call 709 6010 for non-emergencies . Heswall Hall Community Hall, 111, Telegraph Road, Heswall. Tel: 342 2614; www.heswallhall.co.uk Richmond Hall Community hall in School Hill. Tel 342 5742 Schools Barnston Primary. Tel 342 5229 Gayton Primary. Tel 342 3772 Heswall Primary. Tel 342 7491 St Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CE Primary. Tel 342 2556 Wirral Council General switchboard 0151 606 2000

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Heswall Arts F By the time you see this magazine the Heswall Arts Festival should be in full swing. The festival runs from Saturday 27th September until Saturday 11th October. Saturday 27th September l All the Fun of the Fair! Puddydale: Medley of Street entertainment – including Punch and Judy, music, art, dance, InterACT Youth Theatre Club and the Little Actors l Rob Keeley – signing of his new book ‘Childish Spirits’, at Linghams l Heswall Antiques Evaluation , at the United Reformed Church, Heswall l Curtain Up! – Orchestra dell’Arte, at Heswall Hall, 7.30pm Sunday 28th September l An evening with Ann Widdecombe, at Heswall Hall, 7.30pm Tuesday 30th September l Circle Dancing taster session at the United Reformed Church, Heswall l Stitch Craft Group, at Our Lady and St John Church, Heswall l Tastebud Tingling Tapas, Otto Lounge, 139/141 Telegraph Road, Heswall Wednesday 1st October l All day music event at the Church of the Good Shepherd hall, Heswall Thursday 2nd October l Swan Movie Makers, at Heswall Hall. l First Thursday Poetry evening , Linghams l Inaugural Engineering Day - The Art of Engineering, at Heswall Hall, 9.30am - 3.30pm Friday 3rd October l Wirral Jazz friends present a Special Jazz night, Royal British Legion, Pensby Road, Heswall, 7.30pm

l An evening with crime writer Sarah Hilary, at Linghams 4th-11th October l Art Trail – Various venues throughout Heswall Saturday 4th October l Designer Craft Fair, at Church of the Good Shepherd Hall, Heswall l Wirral Grammar School for Boys’ Honour March, War memorial, Lower Heswall to Royal British Legion DnA

l DnA – Delyth and Angharad Jenkins, at United Reformed Church, Heswall, 7.30pm l Property Design and Improvement Roadshow, at Cara Design, 77 Pensby Road, Heswall l The Heswall Centre Fun Day, at The Heswall Centre l The Scaffold, at Heswall Hall, 7.30pm l The Artists’ The Scaffold Association Heswall - Exhibition, until 11th October (part of Art Trail) United Reformed Church, Heswall – (closed 5th Oct)

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he mountains of Southern Spain, and now his daughter is flying the nest ersity. In this latest, typically hilarious dispatch from El Valero, we find ow something of a literary celebrity, using that fame to help out his old earing partner, cooking a TV lunch for Rick Stein and discovering the h public speaking. Yet it’s at Valero, his beloved sheep farm, that Chris include an appearance by former Government minister Ann Widdecombe, ment, Highlights as he, his wife Anna and a menagerie of domestic animals weather performances by the Riverside Players and Woolgatherers and a science day at Heswall Hall. flood and emerge as newly certified organic farmers. His cash crop? Sunday October 8th October ranges he 5th once so blithely drove over,Wednesday of course! If you enjoyed his l Come and sing Handel’s Messiah with the St l A Handbag of Harmonies – Award-winning at Our Lady John church, choir, atTree, the Church Good Shepherd, ivingPeter’s oversingers, Lemons andandAStParrot in thefemale Pepper youof the will love this.

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vel Heswall which translate brilliantly the Flowerwould Club will welcome demonstrator Sue Munslow from to Shifnal to TV screen. I our monthly club night at 8pm, Heswall Hall when she will share, “My World author. of Flowers”. If you aren’t a member but would like to join us on her journey do come along as a visitor. This month we are also holding flower classes in TALKING ABOUT AND SIGNING Heswall Hall as well as supporting Heswall Arts Festival. Tel Ann 342 3960. rd N OCT 3 AS PART OF THE Friday 3rd October An evening with crime writer.Sarah Hilary, at Linghams (pictured) s from the shop Sunday 5th October Cleaver Heath Workday. Meet Oldfield Road, Heswall at 10am. Stout footwear and waterproofs recommended, and volunteers should bring a packed lunch if staying for the whole session, which ends between 3pm and 4pm. Further details and directions from Mike Maher at Wirral Wildlife on 0151 342 4249 www. wirralwildlife.org.uk. l Apple Day at Eastham Country Park, 1.30 - 4pm. A display of locally grown apples, apple juice making and children’s activities.

: Simon Jenkins arkable not just for their beauty but also for their of vistas that we know and love- and more that we ks one hundred of the country’s best and explores the Wednesday 8th geology October botany and that lies behind them. Jenkins Merseyside @ War Project with Liverpool John Moores University at Heswall Library, 2.15pm. Drop in & add your family stories this people’s for World War One. Email heswalllibrary@ amiliar, from theto spire ofarchive Salisbury Cathedral to the wirral.gov.uk or call 606 2665 for info. covers less well known spectacles such as the loveliest Wednesday 8th October ed College in the and theFriendly snow-swept Tea Dance, , 2pmValley to 4.30pm. Dancing to liveCheviots music from The Swingmasters. atmosphere, come along and make new friends. £3.50 (tea, coffee and biscuits included). Heswall Hall, 111, oads of gorgeous photos capturing the sights, sounds Telegraph Road, Heswall, CH60 0AF across the year and pinpointing the best spots to enjoy Friday 10th October Scouse Night at guide Linghams. Come and enjoy a helping authentic tasty and homemade Scouse d beautiful to places thatof refresh inspire. and pickled red cabbage. With witty poetry and book signing from celebrated Scouse poet Wilson and music from the fabulous Portfor Sunlight Sea Dogs Shanty Band. 7.30pm at thethis toKeith put a few books aside Christmas presents, bookshop on Telegraph Road, Heswall. Tickets £12.50 from Linghams and the Heswall Arts alsoFestival provide an ideal flavour England website: www.heswallfestival.com Places areof limitedso please bookfor early!overseas Phone: 0151 342 1809

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