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Village Representatives: Ranskill: Vaneeta Kilby, 24, Arundel Drive
Scrooby: Izzi Marshall, Chirnside, Low Road—01302 719811
Torworth: Derek Gill, 26 Underwood Avenue—01777 818745
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Local Organisations—Some useful Telephone Numbers
Guides: Lorna Cook, 0779 302 7531
Brownies & Rainbows:
Janet Symonds, 01777 818713
Explorer Scouts:
Caroline Kercel 818077
Scouts: Mark Mounde, 01427 849130
Beavers: Laren Mounde, 01427 849130
Cubs: Serena Wyld, 01777 816327
Duke of Edinburgh Awards:
Caroline Kercel, 01777 818077
St. Wilfrid’s Church Scrooby and
St. Barnabas’ Church, Ranskill:
Rev.Kate Bottley, 01909 591857
Methodist Church:
Circuit Office: 01777 702786
Mon.,Tues.,Thurs. 9.30 - 3.00
Mothers Union, Ranskill:
Pat Gill, 01777 818745
Mothers Union, Scrooby:
Gail Foster, 01777 816062
Bawtry Amateur Dramatic Society:
Jane Thomson, 01777 818215
Scrooby Village Hall:
Izzi Marshall, 01302 719811
Bassetlaw Cardiac Support Group:
Robert Blatchford 01777 818519
W.R.V.S. Afternoon Fellowship Club: Ranskill Parish Council:
David McAra, 01777
Carol Head, 01777 705077
816864
Ranskill Post Office (Top Shop):
Scrooby Parish Council:
01777 818864
Sheila Firth, 01302 710936
Mattersey (with Ranskill)
Torworth Parish Council:
After School Club:
Rachel Hyland, 07595
01777 816714
932307
[email protected]
Ranskill Bowls Club:
District Councillors:
Sue Smith, 01777 710302
Ranskill & Torworth:
Ranskill Investment Club:
Michael Gray,
David Smith, 01777 818400
01777 700318
Ranskill Nursery Pre-school:
Scrooby: Barry Bowles,
Karen Meakin, 01777 816066
01909 732121
Little Owls Toddler Group:
Karen Meakin, 01777 816066
County Councillors:
Ranskill Primary School,
Ranskill & Torworth:
Head Teacher, Mrs. H. Leone,
Liz Yates 01777 860219
01777 818468
Scrooby: Sheila Place
Ranskill Reading Room:
01909 731900
Peter Parkin, 01777 818852
Ranskill & Torworth W.I:
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Pat Blatchford, 01777 818519
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07525 226893
Carolyn West, 01777 818016
PCSO Aaron Stocks,
Barry Bown, 01777 816325
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The
STAR
No.350
April 2014
Scrooby, Torworth And Ranskill
All the news and views from our three villages
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OPINION
Welcome to this - the 350th Edition of The STAR!
This is yet another milestone in the history and development of
the village news magazine for the villages of Scrooby, Torworth
and Ranskill.
The STAR was first produced back in 1984 – and the fact that it is
still going strong 350 editions later is a fitting tribute to those who
had the dedication and foresight to first produce a village
newsletter all those years ago.
Long before the computer age, the STAR was then typed by
dedicated volunteers, hand duplicated, collated and stapled
before being delivered to every home in the three villages.
Things have moved on considerably since those very early days,
but until quite recently, although it was printed on a duplicating
machine, it was still hand collated and hand stapled by a small
army of volunteers prior to delivery to you home.
In the last couple of years, the STAR has moved to fully
computerised production and – thanks to a National Lottery grant
obtained in 2012 – it is now printed on a modern, full colour printer
which also collates and staples the pages and is capable of
printing around 60 copies an hour.
However, just as in 1984, it is still produced and delivered entirely
by volunteers.
Production is funded largely by income from advertising, although
the STAR does receive some financial support from the three
local parish councils, Scrooby, Torworth and Ranskill, for which
we are very grateful.
And while over the years it has expanded greatly from that first
hand typed edition, it remains YOUR village newspaper, keeping
you informed about what is happening in your village.
We WANT your news each month, we WELCOME your views and
we are grateful for the financial support of our advertisers for
without you there would be no STAR.
Those pioneers who produced that first edition back in 1984
cannot have imagined what they were starting, but we owe them a
great deal just as we do to all the volunteers who have been
associated with the STAR through the intervening years.
The success of the STAR proves that even in these days of
instant communication, emails, mobile telephones, texts and the
like, these is still a place for what would once have been called
parish pump communications.
So, thanks to you – our readers. Thanks to you – our advertisers.
We couldn’t have made it without you.
And, perhaps more importantly, here’s to the next 350 editions
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Planting for the future
Eight children took time out from the classroom to plant five flowering cherry trees outside their school.
Supplied by Green Mile Trees, the trees have
been paid for by a grant of £250 from the
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That’s the way to do it.
Scheme obtained by Ranskill Parish Council,
and are replacements for diseased trees at
Cherry Tree Walk which had to removed for
safety reasons.
The planting was supervised by Fraser Smith
and Stephen Spurden from Green Mile Trees.
Stephen was one of the first pupils at Ranskill
School when it opened.
Parish Council chairman Cllr Sue Floyd said:
“The Parish Council decided to involve the
children from the school in the planting to encourage them to look after the trees which
they will pass as they walk to school.
Children who took part in the planting were
Georgina Parkin, Leo Cotton, Ewan Kilby, Oliver Jewitt, Billy Stevenson, Emily Fee, Albie
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The Victoria Cross holder who lived out his last
22 years in Scrooby is to
be commemorated with
a paving stone in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
World War I flying ace
Second Lieutenant later
Group Captain GSM Insall, was awarded the
Victoria Cross for his
daring exploits, was one
of 173 VC holders who
fought for Britain, but
were born overseas.
Last summer Communities Secretary Eric
Pickles announced that
all VC recipients from
the First World War
would be honoured with
a paving stone in their
birthplace and said that
said that those born
abroad with strong local
connections to a place in
the UK would have a paving stone in that place.
Insall was born in
Paris, where his English
father was head of the
Ecole Odontique at the
Sorbonne.
After an RAF career
that took him all over
Scrooby VC hero
to be honoured
Britain and the Middle
East he settled in his
‘most loved home’ in
Monks Mill, Scrooby.
He has a headstone at
Rosehill Crematorium in
Doncaster, although his
ashes are interred in Lincolnshire.
However, it has now
been confirmed that all
First World War VC recipients will be honoured
at the National Arboretum
His son David, aged 75,
said: “We can’t complain,
or deny that it would be
difficult to choose one
county. I would not have
wished this to be a subject of aggro like the skeleton of Richard III.”
“I very much hope that
my wife Jeannette and I
will be able to be in the
UK for the unveiling of
the plaque”
Replying to an email
sent by David, a spokeswoman said: “Although
there was some discussion of laying the stone
in a town in the UK with
which the VC recipient was associated, as
the case of your father
shows, there would have
been many difficulties in
determining where that
should be in each individual case.
“Instead the National
Memorial
Arboretum
will create a fitting memorial where all these
brave men will be commemorated together.”ww
VC holder: Second Liuetenant
Gilbert Insall
Face to face with portrait of father
In leather coat, with
slicked hair, Second
Lieutenant GSM Insall
looks every inch the
World War I flying ace.
But his son David Insall says that despite his
father holding the Victoria Cross, he was a modest, unassuming man
who loved gardening
and fly fishing, and was
known as the ‘shy VC’ in
the 1920s.
David, aged 75, had to
choke back tears as for
the first time he saw the
painting of his father,
who lived out his last 22
years in the village of
Scrooby, near Bawtry .
The environment consultant and former Wing
Commander in the Oman
RAF, said: “We have
black and white photos
of it at home, but I had
never seen the original,
so had no idea it was so
good.
“Of course I was immensely moved seeing it,
but couldn’t shed tears in
public.
Father and sons: David Insall and son Nick in front of the portrait of
Second Lieutenant GSM Insall at the National Portrait Gallery the Great
War in Portraits exhibition
Picture: Dr Paul Munton
David said that the ‘shy
VC’ was almost reclusive
as far as the press were
concerned.
He said: “I think deep
down he was almost embarrassed at being singled out for that award,
as he felt so many people did incredibly brave
things and he was just
doing his duty.
“But he did have a mischievous twinkle in his
eye when faced with interesting challenges.
“He hated corruption
and nepotism, the dirty
tricks brigade and would
have no truck with people who indulged.”
The portrait, painted
by Edward Newling in
1919, is part of the Great
War in Portraits exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery.
David was on a flying
visit from Oman, where
he is an environment
consultant, to deliver a
lecture at the Royal Geographic Society.
Ironically, the portrait
of Gilbert Insall is part
of the Imperial War Museum collection, which
was co-founded by his
brother AJ Insall.
The exhibition runs until June 15. Admission is
free.
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Smile please, children
Picture perfect: Some of the pictures of children at Ranskill Primary School on the revamped website
it’s been an action-packed
term so far at Ranskill Primary School, as these pictures from the revamped
school website show.
National Book Week was
a fantastic five days of reading, with parents coming
in to read to their children,
and a good excuse for pupils
to dress up as Superheroes
and characters from their
favourite books.
On Shrove Tuesday there
was a delicious smell from
Mrs Heald’s class as Barney’s Bunch made tasty
pancakes.
West End in Schools, a
professional London-based
theatre company that brings
top actors into schools,
came in to perform a show
called Back to Before.
The show centred around
four children’s books and
there was plenty of dancing
and singing involved.
As part of their Pole to
Pole topic Leland Class went
to Ice Sheffield to have a go
at ice skating and curling.
All the children enjoyed
the experience of being in
the Winter Olympics and
no-one will forget the sight
of novice skater Mr Smith
pushing a polar bear round
the rink.
There was even time for a
thrilling swimming gala at
Retford leisure centre.
Ranskill finished a creditable third out of five schools
behind St Joseph’s, Retford,
and St John’s Worksop.
For more pictures of what
your children have been up
to visit www.ranskillprimary.co.uk/home
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We need you to help
save Ranskill Beavers
Second Ranskill Scout
Group’s Beavers section
will fold unless a new
leader comes forward.
The
dire
warning
has come after Laren
Mounde’s decision to step
down as leader after seven
and a half years’ involved
with running the section.
Chair of the executive
committee Carolyn West
said: “From the end of
the current school year,
in July, unless we can
recruit some new leaders
the Beaver section will
have to be disbanded.
“This will be a great
loss to the group as a
whole, as Beavers feed
through to Cub Scouts,
Scouts and Explorer
Scouts.
“If you feel you could
help, please either contact Laren, her assistant
Jill Swannack or any
other leader and help us
to save our Beavers.”
Carolyn said that a
leader was needed as
soon as possible to learn
the ropes and it may be
possible to run the meeting on a rota basis with a
small band of volunteers.
She said: “Full training will be given, and you
will be supported every
step of the way.”
Please contact any leader or call Carolyn West
on 01777 818016.
Rev Kate back on the telly
The Rev Kate Bottley
has been experiencing
another 15 minutes of
fame after appearing
on popular reality show
Gogglebox.
The Channel 4 programme, which films ordinary families watching
TV together and records
their
reactions,
has
been featuring the vicar
of Blyth, Ranskill and
Scrooby, and her husband Graham, a music
teacher.
The pair were scouted
out by Gogglebox’s production team, who heard
about the Rev Bottley,
pictured, after a video
of her leading a flashmob
dance at a wedding went
viral online.
“You don’t apply to
be on Gogglebox – you
have to be approached.
They wanted a vicar and
I popped up on Google,”
said the Rev Bottley.
The
Bottleys
were
‘massive fans’ of the series and were thrilled to
be asked to take part.
“We were really excited, although we had
to think about it. My job
is a public role and the
vicarage is a workplace
as well as my home, but
luckily the Church were
fine about it.”
Two cameras were set
up in the family’s living
room and each week they
were shown a DVD preview of the coming weekend’s TV schedules.
“We weren’t really
aware of them – there’s
no camera crew, it’s all
remote controlled so you
forget they’re there. People were saying, surely
I’m not that loud in real
life; in fact, I’m louder!
I’d toned it down.”
Viewers were entertained when the Bottleys’ greyhound
Buster, stole the
show
during
an unplanned
scene.
“He’s a real
attention
seeker.
“We thought filming
had stopped for a tea
break, so Graham started
playing the piano and we
had a sing-song, which
we do often while having
a cuppa. But then the dog
ran in and started drinking from the milk jug!”
The vicar is hoping that
appearing on the show
will boost the Church’s
image with the young demographic the
series is aimed
at.
“I want to
show
that
vicars are
vaguely
normal and
that people
who
go to church are just like
everyone else – we’re not
holier-than-thou.”
Since most of the TV
watched was post-watershed, the couple imposed
restrictions on what they
would view due to their
religious beliefs.
“I try and do good
things and I’m up for
anything – I’m not shy. It
was filmed after 9pm but
you won’t hear any bad
language from me.”
The family’s two children, Ruby, 12, and
Arthur, 10, do not appear
on screen.
“We had a rule that the
kids aren’t on it.
“We did tell family and
friends we were going to
be on TV, but we’re not
movie stars; the show
is about ordinary people who sit and watch
TV with those they love
most. We’re not after
fame, so we could have
had our 15 minutes already! But it’s all good
PR for the Church. People’s reactions have been
overwhelmingly positive
and very kind.
“I want to point out
that I don’t usually wear
my dog collar to watch
TV in – it’s normally my
pyjamas! The producers
wanted me in costume.”
n Story courtesy of Retford Times
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be just like Postman Pat
Tom Pryce has lived in
Ranskill all his life. He
is a musician and runs
the open mic night at
the Blue Bell on the
second and fourth
Thursday of the month.
He writes and sings
his own music which is
online at https://soundcloud.com/tom-pryce-2
1. Best/worst jobs
you’ve ever done?
I really used to enjoy
working as a labourer in
the summer months. Being outdoors in the sunshine used to make me
happy. The worst jobs
were probably labouring in the winter months
when it was cold.
2. How important was
your education?
I did OK at school and
used to enjoy it. I did
my A-levels and started
a multimedia course
at college. A lot of the
computer skills I learned
have been very useful.
3. Did you have a Saturday job?
I washed pots in a local
cafe in Retford. Despite
good company it was
about as much fun as it
sounds.
4. What would you do
if you won the lottery?
I would definitely buy a
house with a swimming
pool. I think it would be
a good way to keep fit.
5. If you could be
famous for a day who
would it be – and why?
Steven Gerrard. I’d love
to captain England and I
might learn something.
7. If you could change
one thing about yourself what would it be?
I really want to be better at playing electric
guitar. I suppose with
practice I can do that.
8. When you were a
child what did you
want to be when you
grew up?
A postman. I was obsessed with Postman Pat.
I think it was the theme
tune that did it.
9. What has been your
greatest extravagance?
I’m not an extravagant
person at all.
6. What do you hate
spending money on?
10. If you weren’t a
musician, what else
would you have liked
to do?
Footballers seem to have
a good lifestyle. Loads of
money and regular exercise tick the right boxes
for me.
Heating bills, they
always seem to be too
expensive to me.
11. What are your pet
hates?
People who don’t clear
up dog litter, especially
on the park.
12. Happiness is….?
Scoring a good goal at
football.
13. What was your
first job?
I was a paper boy. I used
to share a round with
my mate Dave. I think I
did it about twice before
quitting.
14. What’s been your
most rewarding experience?
I think it’s when I write
a song and watch it go
from scratch into a tune
on a CD.
15. Four favourite dinner guests – dead or
alive
My mum, dad, brother
and sister. We’ve not all
got together for years
because my sister lives
abroad.
16. Any unfulfilled
ambitions?
I want to write and co-
produce a number one
album.
17. Best piece of advice you’ve been given
or you would give to
someone?
Time will tell.
18. Retirement – when
will it be and what
will you do?
Hopefully very soon. I
quite like the idea of having a garden and growing my own food.
19. I don’t see the
point of...
Those referee assistants
that stand behind the
goals at football matches.
I’ve never seen any of
them influence any sort
of decision.
20. How do you see
yourself?
I think I’m a calm, caring person. I like to focus
on the positive things in
life.
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RANSKILL NURSERY IS A MEMBER OF THE
PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE
Email: [email protected]
Interior and
Exterior
Free Estimates
OAP Discounts
30 years experience.
Plus small building
projects e.g.
Brick pointing
Boundary walls
Tel Clint:
01302 310455
or mobile
07599 053739
Dan Atkinson
DPA CONTRACTORS
Tel: 01777 701777 or 07814 563706
All types of tree work carried out
City & Guilds NPTC Qualified
Felling/Pruning/Removal
Hedge cutting/Grass Cutting
All clippings/cuttings/brash removed
Chainsaw/mower/Strimmer repairs
Chipper hire available
SEASONED HARDWOOD LOGS £50 / bulk bag (£45 each for 2+) - free local delivery
Investment Club seeking new
members
Ranskill Investment Club is on
the look out for some new
members.
The club was formed back in
1999 and over the years has
been very successful.
Club member Eric Simms told
the STAR: “The object of the
club is to learn about stocks
and shares and investments.
“The club is run on Pro-Share
rules, which is a Government
backed scheme, so we are
certainly not a here today
gone tomorrow club and over
those 15 years we have generally been very successful,”
he added.
Bowls Club
ready for
the summer
season.
Weather permitting,
Ranskill Bowls Club
will be opening for another season of crown
green bowling on Saturday April 19th.
Outdoor sessions will
then take place
throughout the summer
on Thursday evenings
(6pm), and Saturday
afternoons (2pm).
“We are a small, friendly club and are always
on the look out for new
members,” said secretary Sue Smith.
“Anyone who fancies
trying their hand at
crown green bowls is
welcome to come
along to any of our
sessions to give it a try
and we hold a number
of competitions and
open days throughout
the summer.”
There is a £80 membership
fee payable on joining and
then a minimum investment of
£20 per member per month,
although there is no upper
limit on a member’s monthly
investment.
However, club rules are strict
and it is one member one vote
no matter what their monthly
investment. Meetings are held
once a month at the Old Bell
Hotel in Barnby Moor.
Everyone shares in the profits
and losses and “over the 15
years we have shown a lot
more profits than losses,”
says Eric.
Generally all profits are reinvested but any member can
take their money out at any
time.
More details about membership can be obtained from David Smith (secretary) on
01777 818400, or acting
chairman Jim Baker (01777
818583).
Or there is an open invitation
for new members to go along
to a meeting to see if they enjoy it. You don’t have to live in
Ranskill.
‘Passion and Panto’
A Murder Mystery Evening
with
The Balderton Players.
Come and enjoy an exciting
evening and try to
guess "Who Done It "
St. Barnabas’ Church, Ranskill
Friday 2 May 2014 at 7.30 p.m.
£10 a ticket.
Two Course Meal including a glass of wine
Organised by Ranskill and Torworth WI.
Profits from this evening to go to local charities
Tickets available from Sue Floyd 816035 Dot Perkins 817505
and Jane McHale 816167.
Quiz
Night
a big
success
On behalf of Ranskill
Scout Group, may I
thank everyone who
supported our Quiz
Night in Scrooby Village Hall on March
7th. We made a wonderful profit of £216
for Scout funds, and in
addition, the Explorer
Unit raised £100 by
running the raffle in
support of their forthcoming trip to Switzerland.
My thanks to everyone who donated delicious puddings and
raffle prizes, and to
Sue and JJ Floyd for
once again running
the actual quiz for us.
We worked out that
this must have been
the 15th year Sue has
unfailingly provided us
with our brain teasers
for the evening. Long
may it continue!
Our next fund raisers
will be as part of the
Ranskill and Torworth
Festival in June, selling ice creams and
running the ever popular Skittles. We will
be selling tea and
cakes at the Gringley
Open Gardens the
next day, followed in
July by our Annual
Summer Fair at
Scrooby.
Hope to see you
there.
Carolyn West
(Chair Executive
Committee)
Ranskill and Torworth
Women’s Institute
Traditional Country Crafts is the subject of the talk Mr. Rodney Cousins
will be giving at a meeting of the Ranskill and Torworth Women’s Institute on Tuesday April 22nd.
Our meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday in the month in The Village Hall, Kennel Drive, Barnby Moor, commencing 7.30.p.m. Visitors
are always welcome.
For further information please telephone 01777 818519.
Pat Blatchford.
CAR BOOT AND
TABLE TOP SALE
In aid of the
RANSKILL AND TORWORTH
SCARECROW AND VILLAGE
FESTIVAL FUND
Saturday 10th May 2014
Venue: Book Aid Car Park and St.
Barnabas Church, Great North Road,
Ranskill, Near Retford.
Fee: Cars £5 and Indoor Table
Top £7.50 (must pre-book)
Food and drinks available
10.00 A.M. TO 1.00 P.M.
CONTACT 01777 818419 or
818545 for more information.
OORE GAS LTD
INSTALLATIONS, PLUMBING,
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No call out charges
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Boiler Service & Repairs
Bathrooms Fully Fitted
Radiators Supplied & Fitted
All Aspects of Plumbing
No Job Too Big or Small
Power Flushing/Systems Cleaned
Grants for Over 60’s
Martin
Interior Decorator
For personal and
friendly service
Free quote &
estimate
call
01777 710493
or mobile
07802420646
All enquiries please call Mitchell on
Mobile: 07725 009741. Home 01427 881175
Email: [email protected]
W. H. OTTLEY LTD.
Blyth Road, Ranskill
Telephone 01777 818621
Horse, Pig, Poultry & Cattle
Feed all Pet Food,
Large and Small
Amounts
Cat, Dog, Rabbit, Birds
Ranskill Saturday evening prayer group
Sick? depressed? in a bad situation?
Choose freedom now
Join us or phone
LYNN 07932646477
GRAHAM 07741418464
Complete Feeds
Tinned Dog & Cat
Meat, Biscuits
Rabbit Mix and Pellets
Also Horsehage & Shavings
Agents for FLOGAS
Plus a range of grow bags,
compost, peat & ornamental
bark
Open
Mon-Fri 8.0 a.m—5.30 p.m
Closed for Lunch 12-1.30
Open Saturdays 9 a.m—1 p.m
FOR SALE
Semi-detached 3-bedroom
bungalow at Hunmanby
near Filey.
Ideal position, quiet and near to
village centre.
Suitable for holiday home or
permanent residence.
Price: £134,945
Contact 01777 818346
For care and support when you
need it the most
Personal service 24 hours a day. Independent family business.
Established for over 90 years. Pre-payment plans available.
19, Thorne Road, Bawtry, Doncaster,
DN10 6QL
Tel 01302 710285
www.wepinder.com
You’ve
Got to
Have
A laugh
He said to me . . . Shall we try swapping positions tonight?
I said : That's a good idea - you stand by the stove
and sink while I sit on the sofa and do nothing.
o0o...................o0o
He said to me . . . What have you been doing with all
the grocery money I gave you?
I said to him . ..... Turn sideways and look in the mirror!
o0o....................o0o
He said to me . . . How many men does it take to
change a roll of toilet paper?
I said to him . . . I don't know; it has never happened.
o0o....................o0o
He said . . . What do you call a woman who knows
where her husband is every night?
I said . . A widow.
o0o..................o0o
He said to me . . . Why are married women heavier
than single women?
I said to him . . . Single women come home, see what's
in the fridge and go to bed. Married women come home,
see what's in bed and go to the fridge.
RANSKILL AND TORWORTH FELLOWSHIP CLUB
We would like to welcome new club members.
We meet on Tuesdays in St Barnabas Church room once a fortnight
and play Dominoes and Bingo.
We have our lunch first. Our time is 12.30-3.30.
For more information please ring Rita on 818648 or Carol on 705077.
News from
Robin Hood
Airport....
New ‘Links’
to Belfast
and the
Isle of Man
UK Regional Airline, LinksAir, is to
base an aircraft at Robin Hood
Doncaster-Sheffield Airport to
launch new services to both Belfast
and the Isle of Man.
With effect from Friday 11th April
the return of the popular Belfast
City service will initially commence
a twice-daily weekday and single
Sunday return, departing Doncaster
-Sheffield at both 7.05am and
5.05pm daily on weekdays, with a
10:45am departure also on a Friday, while return services will leave
Belfast City Airport at 8:45am and
6.45pm with a 12:25pm also on a
Friday. A Sunday service will leave
Doncaster-Sheffield at 5.05pm with
the return leaving Belfast City at
6.45pm.
Fares on the short 70-minute flight
to the Northern Irish capital start
from just £64.00 one-way including
all government taxes and airport
charges, a hold-bag up to 15kg,
fast-track security access, seat
assignment and on-board product,
to compliment the beneficial timings
to suit both business and leisure
travellers.
Also being launched for the first
time ever from Doncaster-Sheffield
Airport serving the large catchment
of the Sheffield City region, South
Yorkshire, North Nottinghamshire,
Lincolnshire and the Humber region
is a three-times weekly service to
the popular Isle of Man, with its
strong links to both the financial
and gaming sectors plus world
famous events such as the TT
motorcycle races. Return flights will
commence on Monday 14thApril,
operating on a Monday, Friday and
Sunday allowing for access both
business purposes and create varied short-break stays.
Links Air is also planning further
destinations and additional airports
for later in the year and into 2015.
WOMEN’S WORLD
DAY OF PRAYER
Ranskill Mothers’ Union held their Women’s World
Day of Prayer service on Friday March 7th in St
Barnabas’ Church, using a programme of Worship
written this year by the women of Egypt. The
theme was 'Streams in the Desert'
We envisaged a great wave of prayer, rising with
the sun over the island of Samoa and sweeping
across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and
the Americas, coming to rest in American Samoa
some 24 hours later when the service would have
been celebrated in over 170 countries.
The monies raised from the collection was £106.
This will all go to help the work of the Women’s
World Day of Prayer in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and projects run by Christian Charities
around the World.
MOTHERS’ UNION
Our March meeting was held in St Barnabas’ on
Wednesday March 12th when the Guest Speaker
was Lucille Porter, wife of Bishop of Sherwood,
Bishop Tony. There was a talk and slides on her
visit to a Conference at Ngale in Tanzania with her
sister Denise.
The journey itself was eventful with no tarmac
roads and floating bridge ferries. They were not
allowed to travel by themselves for obvious reasons. There is no electric in part of Tanzania and
small solar panels are used to charge mobile
phones and small lamps. Water was only
available until mid-day. We had a bring and buy
sale and raffle and this enabled a donation to be
made to Lucille to assist another member of the
MU to visit Brundi and see there what Mothers
Union members are doing.
Ranskill & Torworth
Annual Scarecrow and Village
Festival
Saturday, June 7th 2014
to be held on the Ranskill Primary School field from
10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.
Do you have a craft or skill, products to sell,
Can you do ‘face painting’, nail art, make pottery etc.
Then why not complete the
booking form below and join in the fun of the festival
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I enclose a cheque made payable to ‘Ranskill and Torworth Village Festival
£10 to provide own table and gazebo or £15 for a table in the marquee.
For further details contact Hilary Skelton on 01777 818545
Return form to Hilary Skelton, Maltkiln Farm, Low Street, Torworth, Retford, Notts.
DN22 8NX
Jessica Mee
Beauty and Holistic Therapies
A boutique salon in Blyth offering all aspects of Beauty
and Holistic Therapies
HD Brows Hollywood lash extensions Shellac nails Semi permanent make up
Diamond dermabrasion Oxygen facials Teeth whitening Manicures Pedicures
Waxing Lash Lift treatment SiennaX spray tan Sports massage Hot stones massage
Hopi ear Candling Pregnancy treatments Enzyme peels plus more..
Gift vouchers, prom packages, wedding packages and pamper parties are all available.
Please call for more info
Contact telephone number:- 07752 069037
Find me on Facebook :- JessicaMee BeautyandHolistic Therapies
Email:- [email protected]
Start-Rite TTouches
Dog Therapist
TT solves problems: injury,
behaviour and many others.
All with gentle methods.
Qualified therapist.
£10 consultation for ½ hour.
Phone Sarah: 07576 150 430
Email: [email protected]
PROFESSIONAL
BUSINESS CARDS
Made to Order
Logos can be included
Printed either in colour or
black and white on any type
of colour of card
100 for £15
200 for £25
Telephone: 01777 818710
General Builder
GEOFF KELSEY
All Building Work
undertaken
Walls, Patios, Pointing,
Tiling, Brickwork,
Rendering, etc.
No job too small
Free Estimates
Telephone:
01302 771299
Mobile:
07887 980871
THE PARK
Health & Beauty Centre
Physiotherapy. Beauty Therapy
and Complementary Therapy
Treatment of Red Veins
Electrolysis hair removal
Sports and Remedial Massage
Osteopathy and Cranio-sacral Therapy
Reiki.
Meditation classes
Tai Chi.
Yoga
01777 860377
London Road, Retford. DN22 7EB
We can’t give you a new body but we can make a difference!
CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING
● High Powered Portable Equipment
● Commercial and Domestic Services
● Stain Removal/Reduction
● Satisfaction Guaranteed
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● “One Off” or Regular Cleans
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Please Call Mob: 0755 000 2242
Tel: 0177 770 2779
“The bitterness of poor quality service lingers long after the sweetness of price is forgotten”
We are a Nursery for 2 to 5 year olds.
At Ranskill Primary School, Cherry Tree Close, Ranskill.
We cover the Early Learning Goals. We are able to apply for grants for 3 to 5 years olds.
We meet Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 9.00-11.30 / 1.00 – 3.30 or all day.
Tuesday 9.00 – 11.30
We also run a lunch club from 11.30 – 1.00 p.m
Little Owls -We have a parent and toddler session on Tuesday 2.00 – 3.30 p.m
We are a friendly welcoming group. High adult: child ratio— Qualified staff
Quality provision— Lovely outside play area
If you would like to find out more come and visit us or give Karen Meakin a ring on
Nursery 01777 816066
Pre-school learning alliance no. 33967
Charity No. 1026854
Ofsted Reg No. 253108 Email [email protected]
RANSKILL NURSERY IS A MEMBER OF THE
PRE-SCHOOL LEARNING ALLIANCE.
web address www.ranskillnursery.co.uk
Christian Perspective
Spring is here at last and
the sun has started to
shine. What a relief after
so many weeks of rain.
We all feel sorry for those
people whose homes and
businesses have been
flooded and it must seem
to them that they will never get going again. I
remember once someone saying: ‘When
you’re up you feel as if you’ll never be down,
and when you’re down it seems like you’ll
never be up’. But seasons do change, both in
the weather and in our lives. There are times
of struggle and difficulty
and there are times when
things go well and we feel
we are getting somewhere
significant. That’s the ebb
and flow of life and we are
to learn from the different
seasons.
In the Bible Peter explains it like this: ‘Be alert
and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil
prowls around like a roaring lion looking for
someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm
in the faith, because you know that the family
of believers throughout the world is
undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And
the God of all grace, who called you to his
Puzzle for April
About this puzzle
Sudoku is a logic-based, numberplacement puzzle. The aim of Sudoku is
to enter a number from 1 to 9 in each
cell of the 9×9 grid made up of 3×3
sub-grids. Each row, column and region
must contain only one instance of each
number.
The STAR gets its puzzles from
Sudoku-puzzles.net. For lots more free
puzzles, or to play online, go to:
www.sudoku-puzzles.net
eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered
a little while, will himself restore you and make
you strong, firm and steadfast’(1 Pet 5:8-10).
What a great passage! We have an enemy
who is out to stop us making the most of who
we are in Christ, and we need to be on the
alert for the troubles that come. But as we
stand firm in our faith and keep on trusting in
Christ, we can be assured that the troubles will
not go on for ever. But God will step in, when
he sees that the difficulties have achieved
what he allowed them for and he will bring
about a restoration in our lives. He is building
character in his people and looking out for an
attitude of praise and thanksgiving to him in all
seasons.
When Jesus was facing the cross everything
looked very dark. But we read of him in
Hebrews: ‘For the joy set before him he
endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat
down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Consider him who
endured such opposition
from sinners, so that you
will not grow weary and
lose heart’. So wherever
you are right now, fix
your eyes on the Lord
and expect him to move
you on in his time.
Brenda Critchley
Serlby Park Golf Club
A hidden gem of tranquillity just around the corner
www.serlbyparkgolfclub.co.uk
Membership Enquiries 01777 818268
Serlby Park Golf Club is secluded and tranquil even though it is only 2 miles from the busy
A1 just to the North East of Blyth. The Course is a deceptively challenging parkland
course with beautifully tree lined fairways and abundant wildlife. The course has great
drainage, is access friendly and is rarely closed. The club has a large practice field and a
low playing density and the membership enjoys an active programme of gents, ladies,
senior, junior and mixed formal and informal competitions. The friendly clubhouse serves
drinks, snacks and meals and regularly hosts fun filled evening events for members and
their guests.
Golf Lessons are available for members, non-members and
beginners from Marcus Bell, a PGA golf professional
associated with the Club. Group Junior lessons are held at
weekends for all abilities, please contact Marcus:
07791978025 or the Secretary: 01777 818268
Visitors and Societies are always welcome, please contact the Secretary on 01777 818268.
2014 OPENS: Ladies Betterball—Friday 9th May; Seniors AmAm—Monday 28th July;
Gents AmAm—Saturday 6th September.
HOME VISIT
SERVICE
ROBERT WASTENEY
Dip. CFHP, MPS Pract.MVR
Foot Health Practitioner
Nail Cutting
Corn & Callus Removal
Verruca Treatment
Diabetic Foot Care
For an appointment call
01777 710000
THE MOBILE LIBRARY
Will visit the villages on the following dates:
Ranskill and Torworth—Friday, 25th April
Scrooby—Tuesday, 8th April
BuzzOFF
Fully insured member of
NPTA. 25 years experience.
Worked for Bassetlaw DC for 33
years until they have withdrawn
the pest control services.
Wasps, bees, ants, rats, mice,
fleas, bedbugs, moles, feral
pigeons, etc.
Any other pests, please phone.
OAP prices start
from just £30.
Other prices start
from just £39.
Commercial prices start from
£39. Yearly contracts can be
arranged.
Please phone Paul Mob: 07706 747073 or
Tel: 01777 816074
Email: [email protected]
Web: buzzoffpestsolutions.co.uk
MISSING SOMETHING?
See all the magazine’s pictures in colour on
our new website: www.the-star.org.uk
Garden Bird of the Month - The Bullfinch
The Bullfinch is one of
Britain’s most colourful
birds and it is one of my
favourites.
The male has a beautiful
rose-red breast and a slategrey back. It has a white
rump and a black cap.
Its bill is black and is stubby
compared with that of other
finches.
The female has a more subtle plumage and she is mainly pinkish-grey with a black
cap and white rump. Their
name derives from its thick
bull-like neck. You are more
likely to come across this bird
in rural areas where your
garden is connected to
hedgerows and woodland.
It is a shy, secretive bird, so
you should consider yourself
fortunate if you see one.
Although Bullfinches are principally seed eaters, it is late
winter when they earn their
reputation for being a pest by
fruit growers because they
feed off the developing buds
of fruit trees
By the 1970’s, the species
showed such an alarming reduction
in numbers that it was put on the
Red list of the Birds of Conservation
Concern (BoCC). This rapid decline
was not only due to persecution by
fruit growers but also to the loss of
hedgerows from farmland, the modern practice of flailing hedges and
loss of commercial orchards which
altogether removed nesting sites and
food sources.
Because they are no longer considered a threat to commercial fruit
growers, they have shown a very
slight increase in numbers which has
transferred them to the Amber list.
If you see one in your garden, you
will not be disappointed.
Solution to April puzzle
Jean Parrott
Jean is a voluntary Ambassador
for the British Trust for Ornithology’s (BTO) Garden BirdWatch
scheme in Nottinghamshire. To
learn more about the scheme,
visit www.bto.org/
gardenbirdwatch or contact Jean
for a free enquiry pack on 0770
4809741 or [email protected]
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ALL OF OUR WOOD IS SOURCED FROM SUSTAINABLE AND
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What’s
Cooking?
With
Joy Tudberry
PARADISE LOAF
4oz plain flour
1 level teaspoon baking powder
2oz coconut
6oz sugar
1 egg
¼ pint milk
4oz butter, melted & cooled
Rind & juice ½ orange
Beat all together, adding rind & juice last.
Place in a 2lb loaf tin for 45 mins mark 4 350F 180C
Topping!
Cream together and spread over top of cooled cake.
3oz curd cheese (or Philly)
2 tbspn orange juice
2 level teaspoon icing sugar
Sprinkle with nuts or with tropical fruit and nuts mix
APRICOT HOT CROSS BUN PUDDING
Serves 6
A wonderful Easter alternative to the traditional bread
& butter pudding.
4 hot cross buns
3 eggs beaten
50g (2oz) butter
275ml (10floz) full fat milk
200g (7oz) Greek yoghurt 50g soft brown sugar
125g (4.5oz) dried apricots, chopped
1. Preheat the oven 180C gas mark 4. Slice the buns
Vertically into thick slices and butter one side of each slide.
2. Grease an ovenproof dish with a little butter and arrange
the slices on the base, overlapping slightly. Scatter over the
apricots.
3. Place the eggs, milk, yoghurt and sugar in a bowl and whisk
to mix thoroughly. Pour the mixture over the bread and apricots.
4. Place the dish in a large roasting tin. Fill the tin half way up
with boiling water. Bake for 30-40 minutes until the custard is
just set. Remove from the oven. Serve with Greek Yoghurt or
Crème fraiche.
BASSETLAW HOSPICE
Fundraising Events 2014
Spice Coffee Morning
12th April, 10am-12pm Bassetlaw
Hospice Retford.
Memorial Service
29th April 7pm Grove Street
Methodist Church, Retford.
Ladies Lunch and Fashion Show
22nd May, Ye Olde Bell Hotel,
Barnby Moor
Charity Golf Day
27th June Worksop Golf Club
Party at the park
Come and join us to celebrate 20
years of Hospice Care in Bassetlaw
5th July Cannon Park Football
Ground, Retford.
WRAPAROUND CLUB
At
Mattersey Primary
Easter 2014
Activities Available - Easter egg
hunt, Easter bonnet parade, Egg
decorating, Baking, Easter Crafts,
Card Making, Easter Disco etc.
Plus all usual activities including
games, table tennis, outdoor play,
film.
Sessions available 7th -21st April
£25 full day sessions £13.50 for ½
days. Open to children age 4years+
Please ring 01777 817265 to book.
NOTTINGHAM COMMUNITY
HOUSING ASSOCIATON
Please note we advertise all of our
available properties on line via the
A1 Homefinder website. Register
on line at
www.a1homefinder.org.uk or
telephone 08452304365
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Countdown to the Festival...
Scarecrow
weekend
is taking shape
Preparations are well in hand for this year’s annual Ranskill and Torworth Scarecrow and Village Festival.
This year’s Festival takes place over the weekend of June 7th and 8th, and organisers are
hoping for another record entry of scarecrows.
A scarecrow from a previous festival
Last year’s entry of 134 scarecrows was an all time
record, but members of the Festival Committee are
hopeful of beating that record this year.
Committee chairman Dave Hill told the STAR: “Last
year’s Festival was our best ever, but we have been
working hard all year to make sure the 2014 event is
even better.”
For the first time this year, the Festival will be split
between the two villages, with events taking place in
Torworth on the Sunday
You can help Festival organisers beat last year’s record by making
a scarecrow of your own. And, help is at hand.
The year Festival organisers are planning to sell ready
stuffed scarecrow suits - complete with canes to stand
them up - for just £3. Or you can buy a suit to stuff
yourself for just £1.
All you will have to do then is dress your
scarecrow and display it outside your
home or by the roadside.
Make a
“We want everyone in the two
Scarecrow
villages to make a special effort
this
year,” said Festival Committee
of your own
Chairman Dave Hill.
In addition, special scarecrow making sessions will be arranged nearer the Festival date
to help you with your entry.
The judge for this year’s scarecrow competition will
be the Vicar of Ranskill, the Rev Kate Bottley.
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You can can order your scarecrow body (£3) or suit (£1)
by ringing Hilary on 01777 818545 or Paula on 01777 818568.
Once again, for security reasons,
the Festival will be staged on the
School Field, with lots of attractions for all the family, along with
full catering facilities.
Bookings are already being taken
for craft stalls in the Festival marquee and the giant slide which
was a big favourite at last year’s
One of the events planned
for Torworth is a Vintage
Vehicle display.
If you have a vintage vehicle you would be prepared
to exhibit at the Festival,
please contact Hilary Skelton on 01777 818545 for
further details.
Other events are being
planned on Torworth Village
Park, and there will be a full
programme between 11am
and 4pm.
And, as usual, the scarecrows will be on display
around both villages for the
full two days of the Festival.
Entries are welcome from
individuals, groups and organisations.
event has already been booked for
the 2014 Festival.
In addition, there will be lots of children’s rides as well as trade stalls
and displays to keep all the family
busy for a full day out.
So put the date in your diary and
make sure you don’t miss the area’s
best scarecrow festival.
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Countdown to the Festival...
Hog Roast
at the Picnic
in the Park
The annual Picnic in the Park is now
well established as Ranskill’s social
event of the year, but a new attraction
this year will be a Hog Roast.
Turner’s Hog Roast from Torworth will
be setting up on the School Field serving delicious hot roast pork sandwiches.
“You can still bring along your own food
and wine if you wish,” said Festival
Committee chairman Dave Hill, “but for
the first time this year, hot food will be
available on site for those who wish to
purchase it.”
Last year, more than 300 people
danced the night away under the stars
at the annual Picnic event with most
braving the chilly weather to enjoy the
The giant slide was a firm favourite with
disco and live entertainment.
young visitors to last year’s Festival
And the 2014 Picnic will see the return
of old favourites The Storm- the picnic, which will also fea- panied children will NOT be
beats who will be providing
ture an early evening disco
admitted to the Picnic..
the music for dancing.
for youngsters.
“The Picnic has always been
“They are back by popular
Once again accompanied
a popular event at the Festidemand,” said Dave.
children will be admitted free val and we anticipate that this
Tickets, priced at £5, will be to the Picnic in the Park, but year the Picnic will be better
on sale nearer the date for
for safety reasons, unaccom- than ever,” said Dave.
Old photos wanted
The children’s fancy dress competition at last year’s Festival
Another new feature at this year’s Festival will
be a display of old photographs of Ranskill and
Torworth.
This will be staged in St Barnabas’ Church in
Ranskill.
Hilary Skelton, who is organising the exhibition,
said: “There is always a great interest in old photographs, so we thought a display of old photographs would be a good idea.
“We already have a lot of photographs for the
exhibition, but if you have any you would like to
see on display I would be happy to hear from
you,” Hilary added.
Hilary can be contacted on 01777 818545.
Church Notices
Message from Kate
Services in April
There's more to Easter than chocolate eggs and
bunnies, but you knew that, right? The trouble is
the chocolate eggs are the best bit aren't they? Or
are they? You see we often skip right over the
reason for the chocolate and over-indulgence and
go straight onto stuffing our faces. Of course, you
know what happened just a few days before
Easter Sunday; it was the suffering and the death
of Jesus. The cross was a place of huge pain and
shame, if one of your family was arrested that was
bad enough but the shame of a convicted criminal
being executed by the Romans! Well! So, Jesus
found himself on that Friday abandoned by many
that he loved and by those who had followed him.
When the few who were left put his body in the
tomb imagine how they felt, lost, bewildered,
confused. They were even more bewildered when
they heard that the body had gone. And of course,
it was the women who found the empty tomb on
that Sunday morning the disciples must have
thought they were making it up. Jesus was alive!
The good bits of Easter are a lazy lunch with the
family, warm spring sunshine and of course, eggs,
but the best bit is that through the death and
resurrection of Jesus we have nothing to fear in
death! We have a promise of forgiveness and new
life with him.
Everyone is welcome at all our services but
especially over the Holy Week and Easter period.
th
Love
Kate
Sunday 6 April
Blyth
11.00 am HC CW
Ranskill
9.30 am Family Service
Scrooby
9.30 am CW HC
th
Sunday 13 Palm Sunday
Blyth
8.00 am BCP HC
Blyth
11.00 am HC CW
Ranskill
9.30 am HC CW
Monday 14th Holy Week
Scrooby
7pm
th
Tuesday 15
Ranskill
7pm
Wednesday 16th
Blyth
7pm
Maundy Thursday
Scrooby
7pm BCP HC
Good Friday
Blyth
2pm An hour at the Cross
Ranskill
9.30am Family Activies
Holy Saturday
Scrooby
7pm Evening Compline
Sunday 20th Easter Day
Blyth
6am Sunrise service
Ranskill
10am Easter Day
Altogether service HC CW
Sunday 27th
Blyth
8.00 am BCP HC
Blyth
11.00 am FW
Ranskill
9.30 am HC CW
What’s happening at St.
Barnabas’ Church
Key:
BCP
X
Vicar of Blyth and Ranskill with Scrooby and Chaplain of
North Notts College.
Useful
Contacts
There is room for about 320 words in 11 pt.
Rev Kate Bottley 01909 591857
Church Wardens—Ranskill
David Hill 01777 818072
David Stacey 01777 818303
Church Wardens—Scrooby
Gordon Ashworth 01777 818322
Maurice Clapham 01302 710078
Book of Common Prayer
Barney’s
Toddlers
CW
Common Worship
FW
Family
Worship 9.30—11.30 am
Every Monday
HC
Holy Communion
(no meeting
Bank Holidays)
MP
Morning on
Prayer
th
Friday 4 April
Youth Club 7pm
Saturday 5th April
Coffee morning and car boot
From 9am
Wednesday 9th April
Mothers Union 7pm
Thursday 17th April
Lunch Club 12.30pm
In Saint Barnabas’ Church
RANSKILL & TORWORTH VILLAGE SCARECROW FAIR
AND SCARECROW FESTIVAL
COFFEE MORNING
Saturday APRIL 5th
10 am – 12.30 am
STALLS RAFFLE
See what the best dressed scarecrows might wear!
£2 includes refreshments
Bacon butties extra.
YOURS HOPEFULLY
Dear Lord,
You know that I love you but can you love me
When the world sees me ranting and raving?
It’s far from the image I’d want you to see,
I just pray that you’ll think I’m worth saving.
I know that I sometimes forget I have knees
That will bend as I seek your behest,
But Lord, will you bear with my efforts to please?
You know that I’m trying my best.
Joy Tudberry
In Saint Barnabas Church
THURSDAY CLUB
APRIL 17th 12.30-2.30pm
All welcome!
Come hungry!
For transport on the day ring Joy
01777 818419
QUIZ ANSWERS
1.Mars (God of War) 2. “lion and goes out like a lamb”
3. Lengthening (of days) 4. John Philip Sousa 5. The
French-built Concorde 6. 15th March 7. The borders
with England 8. The King and I 9. The Treaty of Rome
10. Steal a march on someone 11. Lewis Carroll 12.
Johann Strauss (The Elder) 13. Oxfordshire 14.
Aquamarine/Bloodstone 15. The Cheltenham Festival
APRIL
April was the second month in an early Roman
calendar, but became the fourth when the
ancient Romans started using January as the
first month. The Romans called the month
Aprils. It may come from a word meaning ‘to
open’, or it may come from Aphrodite, the
Greek name for the goddess of love.
Small animals that hibernate are usually
coming out of their burrows in April. The birds
fly back northward or they settle down to
have their families. The bees and butterflies
begin to gather nectar from the first flowers
of the season.
Special days celebrated in April begin with the
first day of April, when children and grownups play jokes on one another. Arbor Day is a
day for planting trees, and it is observed on
various April days. The Jewish festival of
Pescah (Passover) is celebrated early in April.
Easter is almost always in April, and, with it
comes other Christian celebrations such as
Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Good
Friday.
Daisy and the sweet pea are the flowers of the
month. Diamond is the birthstone for April.
William Shakespeare was baptized on 26th
April 1564 according to the records at Holy
Trinity Parish Church in Stratford. His precise
birth date cannot be established as births
were not registered at the time due to the
very high mortality rates of babies at birth.
However it was normal to baptize new babies
3 days after birth which would make his birth
date the 23rd April. His date of death is
formally recorded and strangely this is also
23rd April in 1616 which would make him 52
years old precisely.
Coincidentally the Feast day of the English
Patron Saint, Saint George is also on April 23rd.
Handy gardening hints
The sunshine and showers of April, and rising temperatures bring the garden to life!
Perennials bring colour to the border but the best display is given by the bulbs, such as daffodils
and grape hyacinths to name but a couple.
Make a mental note of what is seen now in order to plant spring bulbs in autumn for next year.
Annuals, such as nasturtiums, aster, tagetes and zinnia can be sown outdoors.
Shrub-planting can continue; pruning of the late summer kinds should be completed and the winter and
spring types, such as Winter Jasmine, can be tidied now.
Keep weeds under control.
Outdoor vegetables sowing can include autumn cabbage, carrots, lettuce, sprouts, peas, and radish.
Barney’s Messy Church
Easter Special
is on Friday 18th April 2014
10am – 11.30am
at St Barnabas Church, Ranskill
Come join us and take part in a range of Easter themed
activities aimed at Primary School age children and their
accompanying adult
There is no formal charge for Messy Church, but we welcome donations as we rely on
these to cover the cost of materials and food.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Join us for…
On Friday 4th April
7pm – 8.30pm at Ranskill Church
All 11 – 16 year olds welcome!
Free entry
Snacks and drinks available to buy
In the Garden with Sue Staveley
The weather may be changing but don’t get caught out by the odd sunny day and
garden centres selling you tender bedding and patio flowers. If you’re tempted
and buy them keep them under cover until you are completely sure of the weather
and that will not be until May.
It’s time to feed the roses, shrubs, spring plants with general fertilizer. Treat moss and weeds and re-seed
bare patches in the lawn. You should start mowing the lawns, remember the first cut should be higher than
normal, then in a week’s time you can go to the correct cutting level. Prune winter jasmine and
hydrangeas, tidy up hedges and have a general spring ‘clean’, now is also the time to plant pot grown
evergreens for hedges. Towards the end of the month you can plant dormant dahlia tubers outside in
fertile soil and a sunny spot –don’t forget to mark where you have planted as when hoeing you could cut
into them – and put in cuttings of tender perennials taken last year.
Last month I planted some cuttings in the greenhouse, but it has been cold so they are only just starting to
show. The ones you plant outside now will soon catch up with any that you started inside. Plant summer
cabbage, summer/autumn cauliflower, leeks and many other vegetables in the garden, read the packets,
to get the best time to plant, don’t be in too much of a hurry as we could still get the odd frost to catch you
out. Look after your veg. Water and hoe regularly, thin out and transplant seedlings and give support to
peas and beans sown earlier. Watch out for flea beetle particularly on rocket, turnips and radishes. You
can now plant strawberries.
If you have a greenhouse you can buy and pot up plug plants, prick out seedlings, pot up cuttings and pot
on begonias, sow tomatoes and sow frost free veg. Watch out for slugs and snails on new perennials and
vegetable seedlings – they like nothing better than to upset all your hard work.
You now have a lot of work as the weeds always take over and seem to grow much quicker than anything
you have planted, keep them down or they will strangle all the new items trying to grow. A little repotting
tip – let your plants dry out slightly before you repot them, this way the compost shrinks slightly so the
rootball comes away from the sides of the pot more easily.
Now’s the time to experiment with leaf cuttings. Cut off the leaf complete with its short stalk. If you only
want one or two new plants push the stalk into a pot of seed compost and leave the rest of the leaf
exposed. If you want several plants cut the leaf in half or fours, slice it across the midrib in the middle and
push each section into the compost so that half is in and half out. Water the compost and slip into a large
plastic bag, keep warm on a windowsill out of direct sunlight, it may take a couple of months before you
see the tiny plantlets grow so don’t give up – give it a try, when they are well established take them out
and repot. If several plants grow from one leaf, sometimes happens, divide them up carefully.
A Thorny Dilemma
Hands up anyone who likes to walk around the village. Yes, me too.
I particularly like walking round Folly Nook, which is without inclines, and paths which slope one
way or the other. It isn’t that I don’t like an uphill struggle, just that I am usually pushing a
wheelchair and it makes it so much harder.
Unfortunately, like the disabled scooter users of the village, and some of the dog walkers too, I
feel unable to do that walk at the moment because the thorns from the hawthorn hedges which
have recently been trimmed back, land on the pathway along the North Road and puncture the
wheelchair tyres. Indeed, one disabled scooter rider told me that he had picked up seven thorns
out of his tyres the first time he rode round that way, not realising that the hedge had been cut
back.
If those thorns penetrate through far enough, it costs over £70 to get the tyre repaired and that
has happened to him several times over recent years. We too have had to repair many punctures
on the wheelchair.
It isn’t a new problem I know, and I realise that the hedges have to be cut back, but it is just so
annoying having to go a different route which usually involves the wheelchair tipping one side or
the other, bumping over tree roots or requiring great effort to push uphill.
I even find that where there are slopes down to cross the road on one side, there are no slopes at
the other side to get back up onto the pavement once you have crossed i.e. top of the railway line
walk near to the bridge.
Apart from taking a dustpan and brush with me on the back of the wheelchair and sweeping up
as we go (and yes I have been known to resort to that, much to the amusement of drivers
passing by!) or giving my 92 year old mother a long handled brush to hold out in front of her while
I push, can anyone come up with a solution to this problem??? Surely in this day and age there
must be some way of picking up the clippings along a public footpath as the hedge is cut?
I would appreciate a solution to this annual problem so much.
Geraldine Sadler.
DRAFT MINUTES OF SCROOBY PARISH COUNCIL MEETING, Monday 17 March 2014.
SCROOBY VILLAGE HALL
PRESENT: Ed Marshall : Chair Councillors: Christine Bailey, Elaine Gargett, Heidi Robbins,
Tony Smith (Treasurer), Mark Firth, James Arrowsmith Clerk: Sheila Firth Maurice Clapham:
Scrooby resident
Apologies: Matt Pollard, Julie Dunstan, Barry Bowles (District Councillor)
Minutes of the Last Meeting: An amendment was made to the minutes of the previous
meeting to the effect that the District Councillor’s report should indicate that a little funding
was still available from the District Councillor’s Community Grants Fund, not from the District
Councillor. Minutes then agreed, proposed by Elaine Gargett, seconded by Heidi Robbins.
Correspondence: The Clerk had received a letter from Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance appealing for a donation to purchase emergency equipment. The letter was passed to the
Treasurer and a donation of £50.00 was agreed.
District Councillor's Report: Barry Bowles was not present but he had forwarded his report
to the Parish Council. In his report he referred once again to the matter of dog fouling in the
village, Matt Pollard to take control of this. Barry Bowles also requested that the dates of all
future Parish Council meetings to the end of 2014 be printed in the STAR.
Finance Report: The Treasurer gave an amended report from last month as one of the figures had been transposed. Invoices totalling £358.40 were agreed. The PC agreed to make
its annual donation to the STAR. Banking arrangements to change from two signatories to
one were discussed but it was decided to maintain the current arrangement.
Police Report:The police report had been circulated, there were no crime incidents for
Scrooby.
Planning & Village Plan: No planning applications had been received.
Play Area: Heidi Robbins was still awaiting the report from the playground inspection.
Village Hall: The fire door has now been repaired at the Village Hall at the cost of £40.00.
The Cinema Club has restarted and has seen good attendances.
Village Environment: Mark Firth to meet with Steve Bowman to confirm Lengthsman’s jobs,
he has also received an online survey from BDC about the effectiveness of the Lengthsman
Scheme.
Heidi Robbins had noted the dumping of rubbish on the Far Whinz, Mark Firth to arrange for
Lengthsman to repair the fencing in the area.
Pilgrim Fathers Origins Society: Ed Marshall attended the PFOS meeting on the 13 March
2014 and reported on the proceedings, we are currently awaiting the minutes of the meeting
before commenting.
Any Other Business: Maurice Clapham, Scrooby resident and Churchwarden, attended the
meeting. He is trying to encourage more people to join the Parochial Parish Council which
will benefit the church in Scrooby. Maurice also passed an email requesting assistance with
the World War I Centenary commemorations. There are a series of proposed talks which will
be given by residents about the involvement of parishioners in World War I. Ed Marshall
agreed to investigate with Maurice the parishioners named on the memorial to get further details for a talk in the Village Hall in November.
James Arrowsmith requested that the Parish Council make a further donation towards the
repair of the church clock.
Mark Firth suggested that the Parish Council consider a further event during the year for the
benefit of the parishioners, e.g., a day trip or event. PC members to consider suggestions for
the next meeting.
Dates of future meetings: April 14 May 12 to include AGM, June 9, July 14, August no meeting, September 8, October 13, November 10, December 8. All meetings commence at 7.30pm in Scrooby Village Hall.
Ranskill Parish Council Newsletter March 2014
(including Draft Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on 18th March)
CRIME REPORT & POLICE NEWS
Incidents of reported crime in Ranskill to 28th February were: One Theft from a Motor Vehicle and one
Criminal Damage Other. There were thirteen reported crimes across the beat area which compares
with twenty two crimes reported in January and ten crimes reported over the same period last year.
There were two incidents of anti-social behaviour (ASB) in Ranskill.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ALERT SYSTEM
If you would like to find out what is happening in the local beat area, PCSO Aaron Stocks submits a
crime alert after each reported incident. To register please visit www.nottinghamshirealert.co.uk.
NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION – PUBLIC CONCERN
In response to public concern about the economic and environmental impact of exploration for, and
potential exploitation of, natural resources including coal bed methane (CBM), Ranskill Parish Council
has been working with Nottinghamshire CC, Bassetlaw DC, the North East Bassetlaw Forum (NEBF)
and local lobby groups to monitor the activities of alternative energy companies in the North Nottinghamshire area. The Council will continue to maintain a balanced and open view until more information
is known and the situation is properly understood. This will then be the basis on which to make an
informed decision as to how best to deal with the increasing pressure for new energy sources in this
area. In addition, the Council will continue to press for assurances that safeguards are in place to ensure that drilling operations do not put at risk the local water source and natural environment and will
keep residents’ informed of developments in this newsletter and public meetings where necessary.
FINANCE
Bank Balances as at 28th February 2014: Current - £100. Reserve - £18633.95. £8000 remains on
reserve to cover the 2012 and 2013 instalments for purchase of garage site on Station Avenue from
Bassetlaw DC. The Council is pleased to announce that Mrs Tracy Crowe has been appointed as the
new internal auditor for the Ranskill Parish Council and Ranskill & Torworth Joint Burial Committee
accounts. Invoices for February 2014 presented for payment:
1634 John D McGill
Litter Picking
1635 CPRE Notts
Best Kept Village Competition Entry Fee
1636 Green Mile Trees
5 x Flowering Cherry Trees and Planting
1637 E.ON
Christmas Illuminations Electricity Charge
1638 Sharpe SystemsWebsite and Domain Host 2015
1639 Petty Cash
Discretionary Expenses
1640
HMRC
PAYE
1641 D McAra
Clerk’s Salary & Expenses
£ 42.00
£ 6.00
£ 300.00
£ 1.83
£ 72.00
£ 40.00
£ 78.80
£ 314.65
PLANNING
No planning applications were received during the February to mid-March period but the trees on Lowfield Close that are subject to Bassetlaw DC Tree Preservation Orders have been assessed for remedial work that has been necessitated by recent storms. This work will be carried out in the near future.
RANSKILL COMMUNITY AREAS WORKING GROUP
The Community Areas Working Group held its second meeting on 12th March and has now recommended the purchase of eight floral planters to be placed at the Ranskill signs at the four main entrances to the village and on some of the community grassed areas within the village. Local businesses, community groups and individual residents are very welcome to sponsor a planter or contribute to
the cost of the container and plants. As a guide, the cost of a hanging basket was £40 but please feel
free to contribute what you feel able – the sponsorship form is in copy of The STAR!
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED
As reported last month, we are looking for more community volunteers to help with the watering and
dead-heading of the floral display in the new planters. If you are green-fingered and feel that you are
able to help maintain the new planter near your house please don’t hesitate to contact the clerk on the
number below or email.
RANSKILL PARISH COUNCIL MEETING – 15th APRIL 2014
The next Parish Council Meeting will be held on Tuesday 15th April 2014 at 7.30 pm at St Barnabas
Church, Ranskill. Members of the public and press are very welcome to attend.
Torworth Parish Council
March 2014
(including Draft Minutes of the Parish Council Meeting held on 18th March)
FULL HOUSE AT TORWORTH PARISH COUNCIL
All the vacancies for Parish Councillors have now been filled, and we would like
to welcome our 2 newest Councillors Christie Willis and Angela Kirkbright. Our
council now consists of 9 Parish Councillors and 1 Clerk.
CRIME
PC Jason Fellows briefly attended the meeting and PCSO Aaron Stocks sent a
report to the meeting. There have been 13 reported crimes in the beat area during February, 2 in Torworth which were theft from motor vehicles.
TORWORTH PLAYFIELD COMMITTEE
Councillor Christie Willis is Chair of the Torworth Playfield Committee and is in
need of new members to join, this is to help organise and host events in the village in order to raise funds to improve the playfield and park equipment. If anyone would be interested in joining or helping to organise an Easter Event for the
local children please contact us at [email protected]
FINANCE
RESOLVED that the following cheques be passed for payment:
Huntsman Inn – Hire of Room
£10.00
£30.00
L Middlebrook—Bus shelter cleaning
R Hyland – Clerks Salary Feb
£95.70
HMRC – PAYE Feb
£24.00
Broker Network Ltd—Insurance renewal
£543.40
INTERNAL AUDITOR
Mr Mark Ellison has been appointed as Internal Auditor for Torworth Parish
Council’s accounts for the year ending 31 March 2014.
YOUTH BUS UPDATE
County Councillor Liz Yates could not attend the meeting but informed us that
the Youth Bus service had been lost and that only Mattersey would retain this
service.
Next Parish Council Meeting is the ANNUAL PARISH MEETING on
Tuesday 15th April 2014 at 7.00 p.m.
followed by the April Parish Council Meeting.
at The Huntsman Inn. Members of the public are welcome to attend.
Clerk: Rachel Hyland — 07595 932307
Email: [email protected]
Ranskill Floral Planter Appeal
This summer Ranskill Parish Council has been obliged to change the floral
presentation in the village. Over the years, the hanging baskets have proved extremely popular and have been generously sponsored by residents, local businesses and organisations; consequently, to enable the tradition to continue, in
2014 eight new planters will be placed on the Great North Road, Mattersey Road
and Blyth Road and on some of the community grassed areas in the village. Volunteers will install and maintain these planters but, once again, you are cordially
invited to help sponsor the floral display!
If you would like to help sponsor one of the new planters as an individual, or in
memory of a loved one, the Parish Council would be grateful if you would complete the form below.
FLORAL PLANTERS 2014
Name................................................................
Address.............................................................
.............................................................
In Memory of......................................................
I enclose a cheque for £40 (made payable to Ranskill Parish Council).
Please forward to:
The Clerk, Ranskill Parish Council, 21 Willow Avenue, Ranskill, Retford, Notts,
DN22 8LB.
THANK YOU IN ANTICIPATION FOR YOUR SUPPORT
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