Category: Community

Kibworth Village Hall committee were pleased to put on afternoon tea for some of our senior residents over the Coronation weekend. We thoroughly enjoyed hosting them, and do hope they enjoyed the event too.

There is, at the time of writing, an advertisement which does not require maths GCSE, witchcraft for young women.

Every time you visit a website, send or receive a message or email, buy or book anything online, comment on a post, upload a photo, or find directions on your phone, you’re adding to your digital footprint. 

The popular Festival of Leicestershire and Rutland Archaeology returns with over 100 heritage events across the two counties.

Robert Monk Hall, in the picturesque village of Foxton, is available to hire for one-off bookings and regular groups.

With the warm weather arriving, finally, it is important to highlight the dangers especially around open water. Each year we have reports of children and young adults entering the water at Saddington and Eyebrook reservoirs. 

If hero plants, the new name for weeds, plus insects, birds and hedgehogs could speak, how many marks out of ten would they give us for the way we care for their homes – our gardens?

Following on from the success of our opening weekend when we greeted over 100 visitors to the mill, and the recent feature about the mill on ITV regional news, we have been delighted with the level of interest and support shown by the community. 

I recently found a vintage photograph of the Old Rectory in Mill Lane, Smeeton Westerby, together with an obituary issued by ‘The Times’ newspaper in London dated Thursday 16 March 1911. Which relates to a member of the Sale family who occupied the property for 25 years. 

It is a sad statistic that one in five children cannot read well by the age of 11. The Summer Reading Challenge, with the support of public libraries, is on a mission to change this. The Challenge will launch on Saturday 1 July and will run until Saturday 2 September.