Category: Community

I think most of us reading this know that our wildlife is in serious decline. (https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/landmark-report-shows-uk-wildlifes-devastating-decline).

Tools are extremely valuable possessions and when stolen, can impact hugely on businesses.
To protect yourself from falling victim to a theft from van crime, Leicestershire Police is asking van owners to always remove their tools when left unattended for long periods of time and overnight.

The Share the Road campaign focuses on anyone who uses the roads and encourages everyone to treat each other respectfully.

Mothering Sunday was on Sunday March 10. Yes Mothering Sunday  not  Mother’s Day, for Mother’s Day is on May 12th and celebrated in every state of the United States by law since 1914 when the President of the United States,Woodrow Wilson made it legally binding.

Millions of Christians all over the world began marking the start of an important period of time back on Wednesday 14 February.

During the month of Ramadan, Muslims won’t eat or drink during the hours of daylight. This is called fasting. Children are not expected to fast until they reach puberty, usually around the age of 14.

Over half the world’s population depends on groundwater for their drinking water and nearly half of all water for crop irrigation. In our country, water for crop irrigation in times of drought has been a real problem for our farmers too.

As we head towards British Summer Time, which begins on Easter Sunday this year, here are pictures of some of clocks visible in the Kibworth & District Chronicle area. Do you know where they are? Answers in next month’s issue.

Locally there are three lovely spring gardens to visit during April which are taking part in the National Garden Scheme (NGS) open gardens.

We know from satellite tracking and from leg-ring numbers that many Ospreys have two homes. Birds that breed at Rutland Water are with us from March until August, fly back to Africa and are there from September/early October until February. Pairs do not stay together in winter but each returns to a favoured feeding area, often perching in the same trees once back to their winter “home”. We like to think of these birds as “our” birds as they raise their offspring with us. If we lived in West Africa we would no doubt welcome the birds back “home” in September and enjoy them as “our” birds for the next five months or so.