Category: Community

How can it be May already? It doesn’t feel like we’ve seen much sunny spring weather yet, or is it just me?

There are many reasons why we should be worried about the climate crisis we face. However, thankfully, there are still good news stories about saving wildlife and reducing our carbon footprints.

Please join us at Ireland and Company Accountants for our afternoon tea event on Thursday 8 June 1.30pm-4pm raising money for our charity of the year, The Hope Initiative UK.

Foxton Community Choir will be bringing you a concert to delight the senses with a wide variety of joyful and uplifting music. With special guest sopranos, it will take place on Saturday 10 June at 7.30pm at St Andrew’s Church, Foxton.

In Smeeton Westerby, we celebrated the King’s Coronation in style. From flags flying throughout the village to our special church service. Plus the Coronation BBQ, and Big Community Help out, (litter picking along the roads that enter our village). It was all rounded off with a ‘bring your own’ picnic!

Thank you very much for the kindness and help Linda afforded my cousins, Richard and Elizabeth Smith - during their recent visit from New Zealand.

An important meeting has been called by Network Rail to discuss the forthcoming upgrading of the footbridge between Elliot Close and Warwick Park.

After nearly thirty years (twenty nine years and ten months to be exact), Anne Charlton is hanging up her bar towel for the last time at The Kings Head, Smeeton Westerby.

The Heritage England, Grade II listed cob wall at 70 High Street, Kibworth is likely to be demolished to be replaced by a brick wall of the same height following an application to HDC.

The SPAB and their Mills Section have now completed the repair project at Kibworth Harcourt Mill, an outstanding historic post mill at Kibworth Harcourt in Leicestershire.