A glorious day once again brought out the crowds as Glinton Horticultural Society held their 66th Annual Show on Saturday 19th September at the Arthur Mellows Village College, one of the biggest and best supported shows of its kind in the region.
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Tree Identification Wednesday 4th August A family orientated activity – guided walk will start from Willow Brook Farm at 10.30am and last approx 2 hours. Suitable for children over 5, not suitable for buggies or dogs.Booking essential Adults £4, Children £2.50 Call Jo Fane on 01780 749483 for more details Harvest Trailer Rides Tuesday 10th August Trailer [...]
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A Peterborough-based nightingale ringed near Bainton has been re-trapped in France on its way to its African wintering home. This is only the tenth ever nightingale ringed anywhere in the UK and recovered abroad in 100 years of bird ringing! Nightingales are one of the best known birds – everyone has heard of them, but [...]
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No, mercifully, for I am not too keen on snakes, this one was dead. The fact that it was a banded snake I found intriguing if not a mite scary. Was it a Coral Snake or a harmless Milk Snake ? I knew there was a rhyme re. the sequence of the colours in the [...]
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A recent meeting of the Parochial Church Council (PCC) of Helpston was attended by Archdeacon David Painter, following discussions he had had earlier in the summer with the Churchwardens, Pat Jackson and Chris Topper, as well as with the parish priest, Hilary Geisow. The purpose of the meeting was to consider a proposal that Helpston [...]
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I was going to entitle this article ‘Matthew Warn – teacher to us all’. I then realised that this would be doing him, and those who knew him outside his professional life, a great disservice. There were many, many facets to Mat and as such, the following can only serve as a brief sketch of [...]
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