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Hykeham Herald - December 2014

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PARISH OF HYKEHAMTHE MEMBERS OF THE PARISH TEAM

Rector: Peter CollinsThe Rectory, Mill Lane, North Hykeham Tel: 882880e-mail : [email protected]

Hon Priest: Michael Frere, 164 Newark Road North Hykeham Tel: 806326Hon Priest: Jo Reid, Tol Pedn, Monson Park Skellingthorpe Tel: 828403 Parish Administrator:

Sally Long - 7 Hathersage Avenue, N Hykeham Tel: 883100 e-mail: [email protected] Tel: 881664

Diocesan Readers:

Di Denman, 26 Hutson Drive, North Hykeham Tel: 838159Eric Poole, 1 Broadway, North Hykeham Tel: 682315

THE PARISH CHURCHES

The Parish Church of All Saints', North Hykeham

Sundays: 8.00 a.m. Holy Communion9.45 a.m. All Saints' Seekers (Children 3-11)9.45 a.m. PARISH HOLY COMMUNION (2 & 4 Sun)nd th

9.45 a.m. MORNING SERVICE (1 & 3 Sun)st rd

6.30 p.m. Evening Prayer 6.30 p.m. Evening Worship with Eucharist (3 Sun)rd

11.45 a.m. Holy Baptism on the second & fourth SundayWednesdays: 9.30 a.m Holy Communion

The Parish Church of Saint Hugh, North Hykeham

Sundays: 9.45 a.m. PARISH HOLY COMMUNION (1 & 3 Sun)st rd

9.45 a.m. MORNING SERVICE (2 & 4 Sun)nd th

The Parish Church of Saint Michael & All Angels, South Hykeham

Sundays: 11.15 a.m. Holy Communion (1 & 3 Sun)st rd

Sundays 11.15 a.m. Morning Service (2 & 4 Sun)nd th

When there is a 5th Sunday the main morning service will alternate around the churches,please watch the link.

Saints’ Day and Holy Days are kept in the Parish Churches as announced.

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PARISH DIARY FOR

DECEMBER

Tuesday 2 7.30 pm Hykeham PCC Meeting in All Saints’ Churchnd

Wednesday 3 MU Cluster Carol Service at Saxilbyrd

Tuesday 9 7.30 pm Women’s Fellowship Party at the Methodist Church Hall -th

Bring and Share supper

Wednesday 10 Hykeham Town Council ‘Nativity on the Green’th

Sunday 14 3.00 pm Civic Carol Service in All Saints’ Churchth

Wednesday 17 10.00 am The ‘Big Tea’ in the Arkth

Saturday 20 9.00 am Big Breakfast at St Hugh’s Hallth

1.00 pm Wedding in All Saints’ Church

7.30 pm Hykeham Choral Society Christmas Concert in St Hugh’s

Church

Sunday 21 6.30 pm Nine lessons and carols at St Michael’s (NB no 11 am service)st

Monday 22 9.30 am Holiday Club in the Arknd

Wednesday 24 4.30 pm Christingle & Crib Service at St Hugh’sth

Christmas Eve 4.30 pm Crib Service at St Michael’s

6.00 pm Christingle Service at All Saints’

11.30 pm Midnight Mass at All Saints’

11.30 pm Midnight Mass at St Hugh’s

11.30 pm Midnight Mass at St Michael’s

Thursday 25 9.45 am Eucharist at All Saints’th

Christmas Day 9.45 am Eucharist at St Hugh’s

Sunday 28 6.30 pm Carol Service at All Saints’ (Normal morning services at allth

Parish Churches)

JANUARY 2015

Tuesday 6 7.30 pm St Michael’s DCCth

Wednesday 7 2.00 pm Mothers’ Union AGM in the Arkth

Monday 12 7.30 pm All Saints’ DCCth

Thursday 15 2.00 pm St Hugh’s DCCth


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From the Rector’s Desk............

Welcome, all Wonders in one sight!

Eternity shut in a span.

Summer in winter, day in night,

Heaven in earth, and God in man.

Great little One! Whose all-embracing birth

Lifts earth to heaven, stoops heaven to earth.

In his poem, ‘In the Holy Nativity of our Lord’ the 17 century poet Richard Crashawth

profoundly captures the true meaning of the holiest of nights, the first Christmas night. This

verse especially revealing the most important moment in human history, the Incarnation.

Incarnation, from Latin ‘Incarnare’, meaning ‘made flesh’, is the reason why we celebrate

Christmas. In one moment in time all time stopped as earth and heaven met, ‘all wonders in one

sight’, and through this embrace of ‘summer in winter, day in night, heaven in earth’ a child

was born into our world.

When Mary kissed the face of her new born baby she kissed the face of God. ‘God in man’ is

the Incarnation, when God ‘took flesh’ in the human body of baby Jesus. Jesus is the

Incarnation, ‘the visible image of the invisible God’ (Col. 1:15).

Immanuel, from Hebrew, which literally means ‘God with us’, is the miracle of Christmas.

We sing out this miracle in our most loved Carols such as ‘O little town of Bethlehem’,

‘We hear the Christmas angels the great glad tidings tell,

O come to us, abide with us, our Lord Emmanuel.


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Immanuel is God with us in a tiny, helpless Christ child. Not a remote God but a vulnerable

God who loves us so much that he took upon himself our flesh and lived out a human life with

all its wonders, limitations, joys and sorrows. Immanuel is Jesus the Christ who poured out his

Spirit at Pentecost to fulfil his promise ‘to be with us always, to the end of the age’ (Matthew

28:20).

Isolation is for many the reality of Christmas, it is a time when loneliness is often most keenly

felt.

The Christmas story tells of Mary and Joseph, far from their home, friends and community,

being turned away from the Inn and having to find shelter in a stable. It tells of Mary young,

frightened and vulnerable as she gave birth without midwives or help. It tells of a displaced,

refugee family having to flee persecution. It tells of our God who knows and feels the pain of

our isolation and loneliness.

God reached out to isolated humanity through the Incarnation.

Jesus as Immanuel reached out to the lonely and marginalised.

As children of God and disciples of Christ we are called to do likewise, to reach out to the

isolated and vulnerable in our communities. Christmas especially reminds us that we are called

to be aware of, sensitive to, and respond to the needs of those around us. This is the true Spirit

of Christmas.

It is through reaching out to the lonely and isolated in this Spirit that we lift earth to heaven as

heaven stoops to earth, and new life is born.

Peace, joy, and every blessing this Christmas

Peter


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All Saints’ Cleaning Rota.

December 6 V. Smith L. Edminsonth

December 13 S. Long A. Longth

December 20 J. Davies A. Meltonth

December 27 J. Hunt R. Morristh

January 2 S. Thomas B. Reidnd

January 9 C. Robinson G. Robinsonth

January 16 G. Walldale S. Carrth

January 23 J. O’Sullivan L. Barnesrd

January 30 M. McWatt R. Allenth

February 6 V. Smith L. Edminsonth

Women’s Fellowship

Sylvia Ballam writes: All Members AND Friends, don’t forget our ‘Bring and Share’ supper

on December 9 with Janice Taylor’s demonstration on Christmas Baubles - members mayth

have a try for themselves! (Maybe a small fee)

Our January meeting on 13 , 2 Tuesday of the month, will be a Beetle Drive and Funth nd

Night! Your new Programme is coming shortly.

........CARDS.......Do Please remember that there will be boards in the back of the churches where you will be

able to pin one card for all the ‘Church Family’, and give a donation for Shepherd Food

Ministries, rather than sending to lots of people.

Also do remember that you can send any cards that need to be posted using the franking

machine in the Church Office - at a cost of 43 pence per card - a large saving when you

have many cards to post. You’d be daft not to, and the Parish will make a small amount to

offset the cost of the machine during the rest of the year.


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Bishop Christopher’s December Letter

I write to you just after Remembrance Day this year, which for many was particularly poignantin this year as we marked the outbreak of the First World War 100 years ago. Already, thesymbols of remembrance that have been around us have given way to signs that Christmas ison its way. Even the television advertisements have started, designed to encourage us to digdeep in search of the perfect Christmas.

Christmas advertisements are fast becoming a television genre in their own right. Many havetaken a familiar approach - 'tis the season to spoil yourself,' we're told in one - but onesupermarket chain has, more controversially, used the trenches of the First World War as thesetting for its Christmas advert. It is unsurprising that this has generated much comment in themedia. Despite its endorsement by the Royal British Legion, the advert is seen by some as anunashamed (and inaccurate) romanticisation of the horrors of the grim and bloody battlefieldsof Northern France, with one commentator describing it as a “dangerous and disrespectfulmasterpiece”.

However, the advert does remind us of the remarkable moment when unofficial truces werespontaneously declared at Christmas in 1914. In the weeks leading up to Christmas Day,soldiers from both sides heard each other singing the same carols until, on the day itself, theylaid down their weapons and climbed out of the trenches, met each other, exchanged gifts,buried their dead and, famously, played football together. Some stopped for worship together. Those truces began with the singing of Christmas carols, songs that celebrate the birth of Jesus,the one who is the Prince of Peace. If you catch sight of that advert on television thisChristmas, pause for a moment and give thanks for the birth of the Prince of Peace. The birth ofJesus is our ultimate hope and vision for a world founded on love, marked by compassion, andgoverned by the true and lasting peace of which the angels sang, and for which we long.

I wish you a happy and a holy Christmas.


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Our November meeting started with our short service led by Di Denman. Members were

reminded about Winter Council on 15 November. Help was also needed to run St Benedict’sth

on the first weekend in December. All members had been asked to bring a poem of their own

choice to read and there was a vast variety performed, from those learned at school to newly

written ones - everyone enjoyed the poems.

There will be no Meeting in Hykeham in December because we will be going to join other

members of the Witham Cluster at Saxilby for a Carol Service.

The Christmas dinner for members and partners is being held at Pennells on the 30 ofth

December. Please will members make sure that Sheila receives their menu choices AND

payment as soon as possible.

Please note that 2015 Subscriptions, which will be £20.50, will be due at the January 7th

Meeting which will be the AGM

.

WIN A FAMILY TICKET FOR THE LOCAL PANTOMIME!!!

Simply answer the following question and

send your entry to Ray Allen, c/o the Parish

Office BEFORE Christmas.

Who was the infamous ‘Lady’ who plotted

against the Musketeers?

a) Lady d’Autumnne

b) Lady Somer

c) Lady de Winter


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GENERAL SYNOD REPORT 17/18 November 2014By Revd Canon Chris Lilley

Tel: 01507 440039 E-mail: [email protected]

The Anglican/Methodist Covenant, the Bedroom Tax and Syria/Iraq

In a two day session General Synod finalised some legislation including that relating to

women bishops, but also held good debates on topical concerns.

WOMEN BISHOPS It was not yet another debate but a vital procedural matter that took just

five minutes to promulge and execute Amending Canon 33. That done, the way is now clear

for women priests to be made bishop.

Comment There are several Diocesan Sees vacant as well as a few Suffragan Sees. Which will

be the first to announce a woman bishop in the Church of England? Our recent Lincoln

Diocesan Synod approved a proposal for a new full time Bishop of Grantham and it will be a

while before the appointment, if agreed nationally, can be made. May the best woman or

man be appointed!

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Archbishop Justin gave a realistic assessment of the difficulties

facing the Anglican Communion worldwide and described the terrible persecution and

immense courage of Anglicans in countries in the Middle East and elsewhere who face death

at the hands of radicalised Muslims.

Comment Did you know that there are Anglican communities in 165 countries covering more

than 500 cultures and 2000 languages. Talk about diverse! We range from some of the richest

to many of the poorest peoples in the world.

VIOLENCE AGAINST RELIGIOUS MINORITIES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. This was a presentation by

a panel that included Shaykh Faud Nahdi, a Muslim scholar (and the first Muslim ever to

address Synod) and Bishop Angelos, our Orthodox representative on Synod. We heard more

details of persecution in Egypt and elsewhere and how many Muslims are distancing

themselves from what they regard as the evil actions of Islamic State and other groups who

use religion to cover political aims and appear to have no conscience.

GUIDELINES FOR THE PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT OF THE CLERGY Synod considered updated

draft guidelines that will be given final approval by the Convocations (the Houses of Clergy in

our two Provinces) next summer.

Comment The Guidelines have been described as sanctified common sense and are based on

the Ordinal. My question to the clergy is – how many of us have ever read them? We should

familiarise ourselves with them.

THE ANGLICAN-METHODIST COVENANT Good news stories about shared mission and

ministry were shared in the debate and the lunchtime fringe meeting that preceded it. There

is now a clear challenge to the Methodist Church to accept personal episcopacy (ie bishops)

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and to the Anglican Church to accept inter-changeability of ministers (ie to accept the validity

of the ordination of current Methodist ministers.)

Comment We are still a long way from the goal of full organic unity, but my sense is that this

will give fresh impetus to the Covenant which was in danger of being overlooked. The

challenge is how to build working together into the structures of both churches at all levels

without being swamped by meetings!

THE SPARE ROOM SUBSIDY Synod was very critical of the practical outworking of the

“Bedroom Tax,” which financially penalises the poor who have a spare bedroom even though

there is no smaller accommodation available in many areas. It also penalises those whose

spare room is used for medical equipment, as a room for returning serving armed forces

personnel, or for children staying with single parents.

Comment This concern was raised with the Archbishop of Canterbury when he visited

Mablethorpe in July 2013 and he has raised the matter with the Government. Perhaps this

resolution will add pressure to change an unjust and unworkable penalty.

LEGISLATION The Draft Care of Churches and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction (Amendment)

Measure and the Draft Church of England (Ecclesiastical Property) Measure were given

final approval, as was the Draft Amending Canon 35 and the Draft Scheme Amending the

Diocese in Europe Constitution 1995 and the Draft Naming of Dioceses Measure .

Comment. No comment!

STIPENDS FUND This Measure, which will allow Dioceses to spend part of the capital growth

of funds held in trust for the payment of stipends, was given warm approval. It will go to a

revision committee (chaired, as it happens, by the Archdeacon of Lincoln) with the aim of

final approval next July

Comment It is worth noting that this apparently abstruse item of legislation was started by

our Diocese in the form of Trevor Bush, the chairman of our Board of Finance. Trevor took it to

the Inter Diocesan Finance Forum (a meeting of the financial experts from every diocese)

which approved it unanimously and agreed to draft legislation to make it possible to spend

capital gains. Why does this matter? I was able to explain to General Synod that we wish to

invest some of our capital gains in the growth of our diocese by appointing extra parochial

clergy, as well as people to help us deepen our discipleship and develop our mission.

AND FINALLY The present five year General Synod ends in July 2015. I am not standing again

and others from our Lincoln group may make the same decision. Even those who do stand

again will not necessarily be re-elected! Now is the time to think about whether you might

stand. Please talk to us about what is involved. Maybe even have a day at General Synod in

London (dates are provisional) 10-13 February or in York 10-14 July.


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SATURDAYS 20 DECEMBER th

& 17 JANUARY 9 - 11.30 amth


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WISDOM

What is wisdom

And how is it acquired?

Where will you find it?

In the worn pages

Of the history book

Of your life.

But can the chapters

Of your experiences

Be accurately read?

Can the young

Achieve wisdom?

Or is it the preserve

Of the discarded elderly?

But perhaps there is

No fool like an old fool.

Does wisdom live in folk lore?

Only the onlooker sees the whole game.

If only we could see ourselves as others aee us.

Start as you mean to go on

Said the dinosaurs before extinction.

If you have achieved wisdom

Is it wise to hoard it to yourself?

Or could you please send me (and the magazine)

Some examples.

John Burnett


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December EASY Sudoku December MODERATE Sudoku

November EASY Solution

November MODERATE Solution


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Across1 Provisional meeting place of God and the Jews (Exodus 25:9) (10)

7 David’s third son, killed when his head got caught in a tree (2 Samuel 18:14–15) (7)

8 They ruled much of the west coast of South America in the 15 and early 16th centuries (5)th

10 Small deer of European and Asian extraction (4)

11 Seized control of (Numbers 21:25) (8)

13 Terror (Luke 24:5) (6)

15 First World War heroine shot by the Germans in Brussels, Nurse Edith — (6)

17 Stormy (8)

18 A bitter variety of this, together with lamb and unleavened bread, was the Passover menu for

anyone ‘unclean’ (Numbers 9:11) (4)

21 Arson (anag.) (5)

22 How John Newton described God’s grace in his well-known hymn (7)

23 Habitation (Isaiah 27:10) (10)

Down1 ‘ — and see that the Lord is good’ (Psalm 34:8) (5)

2 ‘The wicked man flees though no one pursues, but the righteous are as — as a lion’ (Proverbs

28:1) (4)

3 One of the exiles, a descendant of Parosh, who married a foreign woman (Ezra 10:25) (6)

4 He escaped from Nob when Saul killed his family and joined David (1 Samuel 22:19–20) (8)

5 City and lake in Central Switzerland (7)

6 ‘Offer your bodies as living — , holy and pleasing to God’ (Romans 12:1) (10)

9 Pouches carried by horses (Genesis 49:14) (10)

12 One who accepts government by God (8)

14 Aromatic substance commonly used in Jewish ritual (Exodus 30:1) (7)

16 He asked Jesus, ‘What is truth?’ (John 18:38) (6)

19 Are (Romans 13:1) (5)

20 ‘You are to give him the name Jesus, he will — his people from their sins’ (Matthew 1:21) (4)


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FROM THE PARISH REGISTERS

BAPTISMS:

November 23 Ruben George Clifford:rd

Darcie-Leigh Bensley &

George Robert Oliver-Dallas

MARRIAGES:

November 21 at St Michael’sst

Shaun Douglas Henry Dunn & Harriet Patricia Row

November 28 at All Saints’th

David Lawrence Hirst & Helen Elizabeth Abery

FUNERALS:

November 4 Doreen Edith Coleth

November 6 Brian Fairweatherth

November 12 Doris Baggaleyth

November 13 Arthur Richard Barrettth

November 21 Evelyn Mabel Whitest

November 24 Ada May Andersonth

November 27 William Buchanan Davisonth


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St. HUGH’s CHURCH HALL

HAREWOOD CRESCENT

can be hired for

PARTIES ! WEDDING RECEPTIONS ! DANCES

Contact Don Wagstaff, 2 Runswick Close, North HykehamTelephone: (01522) 883779

The ArkMoor Lane

for DANCES ' PARTIES ' JUMBLE SALES ' FAIRS

' MEETINGS ' GROUPS ' KEEP FIT ' SOCIALS '

SALES ' SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS '

Mrs Ann Lingard (01522) 882014

All copy for the February 2015 magazine needs to be submitted to 7 Eyam

Way or The Parish Office by Saturday January 24 at the latest. Anythingth

arriving after this date may well not be included. Articles may be sent via e-

mail (attachments in MS Word (.doc) or in WordPerfect (.wpd)formats; or

plain text - if possible as A4 size documents using 14 point text - if you send

it already formatted for an A5 Booklet it actually makes our job more difficult)

to “[email protected]”.

Please note: The views expressed in each edition of the Hykeham Herald are those of theindividual contributors. They may or may not represent the opinion of the PCC or Clergy.


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CHURCHWARDENS FOR THE PARISH OF HYKEHAM

Doug Horn East Bank, Meadow Lane, S. Hykeham Tel: 682658Andrew Long 7 Hathersage Avenue, North Hykeham Tel: 881664Connie Mumby Olde Forge Cottage, South Hykeham Tel: 682019Fergus Redford 7 Eyam Way, North Hykeham Tel: 696133Jill Sayer 20 Broadway, North Hykeham Tel: 685967Derek Thompson 28 Ash Grove, North Hykeham Tel: 881805

ASSISTANT CHURCHWARDENS

Ray Allen 13 Hibaldstow Road, Lincoln Tel: 683920Margaret Driffill 19 Meadow Lane, South Hykeham Tel: 692669Lorraine Edminson 134 Station Road, North Hykeham Tel: 873136Hetty Naylor 78 Newark Road, North Hykeham Tel: 681984

PCC OFFICERS FOR THE PARISH OF HYKEHAM

Secretary: Sally Long 7 Hathersage Avenue North Hykeham Tel: 881664Treasurer: Jean Wagstaff 2 Runswick Close, North Hykeham Tel: 883779

Stewardship & Covenant Secretary,

Mavis Rees 12 Wharfdale Drive, North Hykeham Tel: 681776 SeeKers (Sunday Children's Activity Groups) All Saints’: Contact Sarah-Jane Redhead 39 Belton Park Drive Tel: 806406 All Saints' Seekers meet in Term Time in the Hall at 9.45 a.m. including half term Youth Group Tuesday Evenings

Contact: (Currently in abeyance)

Organists

All Saints': Ken Herriman, 27 Bodmin Moor Close, North Hykeham Tel: 681770 Choir: All Saints' Choir Practice: Thursdays from 6.30 to 7.30 p.m.Choir Master: Fergus Redford 7 Eyam Way, North Hykeham Tel: 696133


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X THE TEAM ADMINISTRATOR, Sally Long, is at the Parish Office in the Ark on Moor Lane –883100 — from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon every morning for general enquiries or leave a messageon the answer phone. Her home number is 881664. Groups needing typing & copying shouldmake sure it is at the Office as early as possible.

X BAPTISMS & WEDDINGS at the three Parish churches may be arranged at All Saints' Vestry onFRIDAYS from 6.00 - 7.30 p.m. or by phoning the Team Administrator. We have an OPENBAPTISM policy.

X MAGAZINE SECRETARY: The parish office will be pleased to arrange for the Hykeham Heraldto be delivered monthly to your door. Extra deliverers are always welcome.

X PLEASE use the Answering Machines if you cannot contact the Clergy directly. By the natureof their job, our priests are often out or unable to answer the phone because they have peoplewith them.

ORGANISATIONS IN THE PARISH OF HYKEHAM

The Mothers' Union 2.00 p.m. meeting at All Saints' on the 1st WednesdayBranch Leader: Sheila Rooke Tel: 788315Secretary: Coral Rutherford Women's Fellowship 7.30 p.m. at the Methodist Church Hall 2nd TuesdayChairperson: Jean DavisSecretary: Sylvia Ballam, 2 Trevose Drive, Tel: 687658 Bible Reading Fellowship Notes Contact the Parish Office Scouts & Cubs Keith Sampson, 17 Lincoln Road, Tel: 683795Guides & Brownies Mrs C Renwick 4 Rosedale Close, Tel: 690014 All Saints' Flowers Pat Burton 150 Newark Rd N. Hykeham 824676All Saints' Wedding Flowers Mrs Angela Mumby 2 Elm Close 881982St. Hugh's Flowers Jean Wagstaff 883779St. Michael's Flowers Connie Mumby, Forge Cottage, SH, 682019 THE ARK PROJECT: Andrew Long, 7 Hathersage Ave 881664(available for parish groups) (Convenor) ARK BOOKINGS SECRETARY Ann Lingard 882014 or Sally Long 883100Community Shop/Coffee shop Sally Long 881664

2 x 2s Toddler Group Wednesday mornings in the Ark 9.30am

St Hugh’s Play Group Sally Blanchard, Tel: 882951Park School Day Nursery Maureen Gammon, School Lane, Tel: 681019All Saints' School (C of E) Headteacher: Tel: 681417 Magazine Editor Fergus Redford Tel: 696133

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