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Lubenham Scarecrow Weekend 2008 September 14th & 15th.
Anyone is welcome to make a scarecrow to help the village to celebrate the event. Stalls and events will be on all weekend around the village.
Come along and enjoy a good day out at Lubenham’s 8th Annual Scarecrow Weekend. The biggest and best of its kind locally.
Join the fun on the Village Green where you can have a go on the fairground rides, sample local fare on the stalls, enjoy the live music, snack on a burger, try your luck on the tombola, let your little one’s have fun on the under 5’s play area or watch our gymnastics and baton twirling display.
Vintage Fire Engine, Cars & Tractors will be displayed from 12noon on Sunday.
If you are in need of a rest, hop on the tractor & cart ride around the village and have a look at all the wonderful scarecrows created by the villagers.
After all that excitement, refresh yourself with a Ploughman’s lunch at the Village Hall or treat yourself to cream teas in All Saints Church.
There really is something for everyone.
Come and join us on the Village Green on Saturday 14th September 11am till 6pm or Sunday 15th September 10am till 5pm.
It promises to be a fun filled family day out.
Free Entry and Free Parking.
Learn more about Leicestershire Villages Websites
A number of villagers are trained to use the leicestershirevillages website for Lubenham. If you would like to find out how you could edit your own page on the Lubenham site please register on Leicestershire villages and send us a message.
Lubenham's speedwatch campaign.
Lubenham villagers have been trained to take part in a speed watch campaign. Speed monitoring equipment will be loaned to a group of trained villagers by Leicestershire County Council. Volunteers will monitor the speed of traffic through the village at random times during daylight hours. Information gathered will be returned to the county speedwatch team and letters will be sent to offenders.
Watch out for more information of this project.
The rural village of Lubenham is 2 miles west of the town of Market Harborough on the Leicestershire / Northants border.
Lubenham has a 12th Century church, a village Primary school, a village shop and garage, a village hall, a village green and a playing field. Lubenham won the prestigious Calor Central Region Village of the Year Award in 2001.
Lubenham was invited to represent the Central region in the Calor Village of the Year 10th anniversary awards. Lubenham, winners of the central region prize in 2001 competed against other past winners in the region. Unfortunately Lubenham did not figure among the prizewinners but 2 representatives enjoyed a presigious awards even at the Millenium Hotel in London. Click on the picture to find out more about Calor Village of the Year Competition.
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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:14
Claybrookes Parish Plan Launch
Claybrooke Magna and Claybrooke Parva
Sculpting the future of the Claybrookes!
Claybrooke Parva and Claybrooke Magna, in the Harborough area, have completed their Parish Plan and the Report and Action Plan was launched on Saturday 21st June at 3pm.
Trevor Dawes, the Chairman of the Parish Plan Group and Clerk of the Village Hall Committee, introduced the Report and Action Plan, with an explanation of the value of Parish Plans from Hazel Fish from the Rural Community Council. Copies were available for all villagers and will be distributed to every household. Trevor invited villagers to sign up for many new activities, including an environmental and heritage group and a neighbourhood watch group at a champagne/wine reception on Saturday. There was a slide show about the Village Plan, which ran continuously for the 2 days of the Village Fete, with the sign up sheets as well as displays from the school and local artists. Rosita Page, the County and Borough Council was present and responses were displayed from both Leicestershire County Council and Harborough District Council.
Many of the Actions have already been started, which were shown in the displays, e.g. increasing the use of the Village Hall and the provision of a revitalised play area.
Full details of the Plan can be viewed below.For information contact Hazel Fish Tel 01162689707 hfish@ruralcc.org.uk
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:47
Leicestershire Constabulary are urging people to be on their guard after a spate of copper wire thefts in June from ten electricity substations across the county.
Officers are checking the identification of any person that they reasonably consider it necessary to challenge in the vicinity of electricity cables, substations and metal dealers in the county.
Posted:
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:42
Leicestershire Trading Standards website is getting a brand new look and you are invited to make suggestions for what you want to see on it. To take part in the consultation, please complete the online form by following the link from this page.
The consultation will run until Friday 25th July and the new website will be launched in the autumn.
