If you have not picked up a paint brush since you left school, now is the chance! Residents in Guilden and Steeple Morden invite you to make a piece of art that you can display from a window in your home, visible from the street, for the Morden Art Trail. Display your art between 1st […]
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Out & About: What has Covid-19 done for our community spirit The UK’s response to Covid-19 has had an unexpected upside: it has demonstrated that we have an amazing capacity for generosity and community spirit at times of severe crisis. Feel-good stories about neighbours helping neighbours, clapping for the NHS and carers, and the heart-warming
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Out & About: Royston Parish Church Fundraising: Collaboration With Local Artist It goes without saying that this has been a strange and unsettling few months for everybody. During all of this, work has continued with respect to the rebuilding and restoration of Royston Parish Church. It is wonderful that “casual”, generous donations have now reached
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Out & About: The Success of Orwell Pannier Market The Orwell Pannier Market has been going for 16 years. From a very modest start outside the Orwell Recreation Ground pavilion in 2004, to inside the Methodist Church Schoolroom then, as more stalls joined, to inside AND outside the Methodist Church Schoolroom! Then 10 years ago
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The Barrington Classic Car meet is back Friday evening witnessed the welcome return of a fantastic collection of vehicles, paraded on the village green. Eager spectators, who were delighted with the turn out of the pristine models after such a long spell of boredom during the summer months, were treated to an exciting range of
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Out and About: Shepreth Wildlife Park Welcome to the Wildlife Walk! Shepreth Wildlife Park is pleased to be able to finally invite their much-loved visitors back to enjoy their luscious green surroundings and lakes, whilst taking in the sights and sounds of a variety of beautiful and exotic species. Join them on their new socially-distanced
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Spotlight on… Royston Girlguiding Our Guiding Light still shines! Up until COVID-19 put a stop to things in March, we have been celebrating 100 years of guiding in Royston. Our opening ceremony on 7th July 2019 focussed on celebrating the historical traditions of Girlguiding, many of which were new experiences for the girls. We ended
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Royston Town Band in Lockdown The band’s last rehearsal together before lockdown was a practice for the upcoming area contest, if we had known what was coming I think we would have made more of a big deal of it! We all know what followed next. There are lots of things that just aren’t the
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VE Day at Home When VE Day dawns on 8th May 2020 it will be 75 years since the guns fell silent at the end of the war in Europe. Years of carnage and destruction had come to an end and millions of people took to the streets and pubs to celebrate peace, mourn their
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You’ve probably heard about – or maybe even been involved in – the short film Kettle’s Yard have been making in Royston in collaboration with artists Marcus Coates and Leah Millar, and Royston Cave. Coates has been asking Royston residents about the questions they carry around with them that never get resolved. He placed question
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It may be February – but Panto season isn’t yet behind us, at least not in Barkway. A troupe of seasoned local thespians are getting ready to present their 28th annual pantomime, Toad in a Hole. As you might guess, the show is inspired by Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows. Full of colour, music
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A much anticipated event in the town’s calendar is the annual Town Pantomime, and for 2020 local group Corvus Amateur Drama Society (CADS) is presenting Jack and the Beanstalk by Tom Whalley (who wrote this year’s hilarious Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates). The show is being directed by Nicky Paton, whom many readers will know
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