Open for only six months, but it seems much longer! Bow Books thank you all for the heartwarming welcome, purchases and orders. Invaluable… please keep it up! Support from Royston First, Royston Radio, the Royston Crow, trade networks and The Listing has been unstinting. A special tribute to the bookshop’s small team of fantastic volunteers. […]
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At New Year we think about making resolutions to change our lives in ways to enhance our health and wellbeing or even bigger changes that may be long overdue. Big challenges like joining a gym or starting a small business require support from family, friends and outside sources and sometimes major events in our lives
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Local Markets Royston Market Every Wed and Sat, 8am-3pm facebook.com/RoystonMarket Royston Market Square, SG8 9JS Royston Country Market Every Wed and Sat, 8am -12noon Royston Corn Exchange, Market Hill, SG8 9JR Orwell Pannier Market No market in January, we look forward to welcoming you in February 2024 Please keep in touch with your market news
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What happens to the food you donate into the Food Bank collection bins at Tesco Extra Royston? Tesco have two Food Bank collection bins at the front of their store. Tesco customers have been extremely generous throughout the year, and Tesco have been able to support all of the local food banks on a weekly
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The last meeting of the year for our group was a jolly afternoon of song… Local singer, Tom Huttlestone, came to entertain us, singing songs made popular by Frank Sinatra, Chris Rea, Stevie Wonder and Elvis Presley. They were all well-known songs and Tom really got us tapping our toes and singing along. We rounded
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Christmas festivities are well underway at Icknield Walk First School. Children from Nursery through to Year 4 have been singing, dancing, learning stage directions, using props and dressing up as they perform their own take on the Christmas Nativity story. Mrs Sherwood, Head Teacher said, “It has been wonderful to see the children performing on
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Since he opened Bow Books in Royston’s Angel Pavement just six months ago Paul Bowes has hosted a succession of authors signing their latest books and the final visitor for 2023 was a lady whose first book he actually published 20 years ago. Carrie Dunn was reunited with Paul, who re-emerged from semi-retirement at the
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The quantity of retail business openings in Royston is, happily, bucking the somewhat stagnant National trend and the town centre is bouncing back to life after a decade of decline. Although it is not strictly true that the latest incumbent is entirely new to Royston, due to the fact that she has been trading twice
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On the 4th of December Royston Fire Station opened its bay doors once again to its Christmas extravaganza. This is following on from our fantastic Halloween event that saw over 3000 people flow through the station. The station was decorated to welcome Santa and his helpers. This included grottos, 24-hour Santa cam, life size camels,
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With regret Royston Town Council must announce the closure of the Picture Palace. An interim agreement to keep the Picture Palace open comes to an end at the end of the year. The council remains committed to finding a long term solution to keep the cinema open. Councillors are continuing to work hard to find
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Despite the inclement weather on Sunday probably the best crowd ever attended the Remembrance Day Service at Melbourn. At the village cross, people of all ages watched both the young and the old, some in wheelchairs, paying their respects by laying wreaths in memory of those local souls who fell in the great wars fearlessly
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More than 3,500 bulbs have been planted in support of Rotary International’s ‘End Polio Now’ campaign. A working party comprising five Rotarians, two golf club members, and a representative each from The Conservators of Therfield Heath and the Friends of Therfield Heath toiled away and managed to complete the work on Wednesday morning between
