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Our annual Christmas Tree Festival will be over the weekend of Saturday 7 December and Sunday 8 December, 10am- 4pm both days. Funds raised are for the continued upkeep of our beautiful church. Usual festive refreshments will be on sale as well as unique gifts.

Smeeton Westerby Parish Council is seeking to recruit a Clerk, starting in January.

Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital will be holding a Christmas table top sale on Saturday 14 December in Kibworth Village Hall, LE8 0LN, from 10am until 12.45pm.

Readers of the Neighbourhood Link emails from our local police will have read about this but finally, after more than a year, of Community Speed Watch, lobbying and chasing, there is to be a 12-18 month period for police camera vans to be based on the A6 through the Kibworths to check the speeds of passing vehicles. Two locations have been identified on the A6 either side of the Wistow Road roundabout.

It’s over 3½ years since I wrote the first article for the Chronicle about climate change and the challenge it presents, after a powerful presentation by David Ramsden MBE, speaker at the February U3A meeting. David told us about the huge sums of money spent by the main oil companies on anti-climate lobbying policies and the harm yet more oil production was causing. He urged us to take action, if only for the sake of the younger generations.

The parish council’s monthly public meeting was held on 22 October 2024 in the Studio at the Kibworth Community Hub.

The building of the new library extension is carrying on apace and it is really beginning to take shape now. Once again, we would like to apologise to our users for the inconvenience that the building work has caused. We are sure that you will consider it to be well worth it.

“Thelma” (12A)

Fleckney and Kibworth running club have made the most of races and events far and wide recently. 

Sunday 17 November, 6.30pm