Leicestershire County Council, Environment and Transport Department has issued the attached press release.

Due to the inclement weather, the Parish Council meeting scheduled to take place on Monday 11 January 2010 has been cancelled. The agenda will be carried forward to the next meeting, due to take place on Monday 8 February 2010, commencing at 7.30 pm. In the meantime, any issues requiring urgent attention, such as responses to planning applications, will be dealt with by the Councillors and reported to the next meeting.

Sue Bloy
Clerk to the Parish Council

A new Clerk will be taking over on Monday 23 November 2009. Her details are as follows:
Mrs. Sue Bloy
5 The Square
Newton Harcourt
Leics.
LE8 9FQ
The e-mail address will remain the same - thurnbyclerk@yahoo.co.uk
Sue is having a new phone line installed and does not yet know the new number. In the meantime I will take messages for Sue on 0116 2412995
Jean Barbour

Great news - refurbishment of the play equipment at Manor Field is now complete - get on down there!

The Parish Council is on a litter-picking campaign - the current "hotspot" is the old railway cutting on Station Road. If anyone would like to help, please contact the Clerk - litter-picking tools, gloves and bags are available. Let's tidy up the village and keep it that way.

Information regarding Swine Flu is available at www.nhs.uk or www.lcr.nhs.uk/Emergencyplanning.cms

More and more people are making use of their Community Forum to try and improve local services and raise issues of local concern.
- Residents in Birstall were unhappy that the swimming pool in Longslade Community College was no longer going to be open to the public outside school hours. Discussion at the local Area Forum meeting resulted in the College working directly with local users to find ways the pool can remain open.
- Following the Government’s shortlisting of ‘Pennbury’ as a potential Eco-town, the ‘Have your Say’ meetings in Kibworth and Tugby were the first opportunity for residents in the surrounding area to find out how the District and County Council were planning to respond to this challenge.
- At the Blaby South Community Forum residents and Parish Councillors from Sapcote, Sharnford, Stoney Stanton and surrounding villages expressed their concerns about the volume and speed of Heavy Goods Vehicles travelling through their villages. In response officers promised to look into a range of measures to reduce the impact of traffic and improve road safety in the short term, while explaining how they were looking to provide longer-term solutions. More »