ST.BARTHOLOMEW’S CHURCH: “A Family Service” will be held at St. Bartholomew’s church this coming Sunday 11th September. The service starts at 9:30am and everyone is welcome. Come along and bring the family.
POSTAL SERVICES: The Post Office in the village hall will be available as usual on two occasions each week. On Mondays: 9:30am – 1:30pm and on Thursdays 9:00am – 1:00pm. The local office can supply residents with: Pensions, Foreign Currency, Travel Insurance, Car Insurance, Investments and Savings.
NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH: The local association has received the following information:
Thieves stole riding equipment, a diesel generator, a lawnmower and strimmer after cutting the lock on a shipping container. Concrete statues were also taken from the field in wood lane, Gringley on the Hill during the break-in.
Police are investigating the incident which happened during the early hours of the morning
Five saddles, six bridles, nine horse rugs, four riding hats, and one child’s body protector were all snatched from the container. Four distinctive head collars, embroidered with the names Vice Versa, George, Billy and Hercules were also taken.
The generator, petrol lawnmower and petrol strimmer had also been kept inside the container. Two concrete statues, one of a horse and cart and the other of an Easter basket had been on display outside the stables.
Police said “it appears that bolt cutters were used to break the lock on the shipping container and were also used to remove the hinges from an entrance gate to the field.
Further information states: Forget gold and silver, lead and copper are the new precious metals to criminals. As well as risking peoples lives, metal theft costs the country hundreds of thousands of pounds each year. It costs the nation £770 million.
In a bid to clamp down on this rising crime trend, Notts Police and its partners have launched an operation dedicated to targeting thieves who steal metal from houses, churches, railway lines, telecommunications masts and utilities sites.
This in turn, causes disruption to vital services, such as heating and water supplies as well as undermining the integrity of infrastructures and causing fire risks.
Chief Inspector Sean Anderson said “Crime such as burglary and auto-crime may be falling, but intelligence points to a number of these offenders switching to stealing lead, copper and scrap metals because there is such good money in it.
These people don’t care about anyone but themselves and we need the publics help to catch them.
VILLAGE HALL BOOKINGS: Enquiries with regard to the booking of the village hall should be made by contacting 07902 985 831 or by visiting the web page; www.suttonvillagehall.net
WOMENS INSTITUTE: There was no meeting of the Sutton and Barnby Moor WI in August, although some of the members gathered together to enjoy an excellent meal at the Huntsman Inn on Wednesday 17th.
The group will meet as usual in September, at Sutton cum Lound Village Hall at the normal time of 7:15pm. On this occasion Sarah Kaiper-Holmes will address the ladies on the subject of Rainbow Homeopathy.
Instead of a competition, a Produce stall will operate on the night.
Members old and new always welcome, with further details available from the secretary.
POLICE: Local Beat manager for the area PC Chris Glover can be contacted on
Mobile: 07595 074 176 for information and advice.
Alternative Police contact can be made on: 0300 300 9999
More urgent needs may require a 999 call.
MEET THE NEIGHBOURS: Will patrons please note that there will be no meeting off the group on Tuesday 13th September. This is mainly due to holiday arrangements and pre-booked appointments by the organisers and many of the regular attendees.
The group will meet as usual in October, Tuesday 12th to be precise, when the team will be back with a fresh box of tea bags and biscuits and cakes. You are cordially invited to join them.
MOTHERS’ UNION: The branch meeting of the Babworth and Sutton Mothers’ Union took place on Monday 5th September at 2:00pm as scheduled.
The venue on this occasion was 25 Town Street Sutton and the speaker was Gail Bradley.
SUTTON ART GROUP: The group will meet as usual on Friday mornings and will continue throughout the season. Further detail available from Joan Reiter on 01777 702 137 or Margaret Beare on 01777 704 836.
SUTTON SCHOOL NEWS: The Summer term was full of hard work and fun, starting with SAT’S – excellent results for all the school – Well done!
The school helped with Bassetlaw Spring Clean Day, litter picking around the village.
The children and parents also helped fundraise for Christian Aid Week by selling cakes and biscuits, raising a excellent sum of £114.77p.
Sports, as always, played a big part in school activities, the biggest achievement being the swimming gala victory in June. Fantastic swimming by all involved, thanks to Mrs Hunt for her hard work. All the children have been helping in Monica’s community garden. The PTA have also been raising money by organising non-uniform days, water fights and selling hot dogs. The money raised by the PTA throughout the year, bought tickets for all the school to go on a visit to “The Deep” at Hull, a day out enjoyed by everyone. The music group took part, singing at the annual Strawberry Fayre.
The schools summer concert was “Oliver with a twist and was a huge success.
As is normal at the end of term, the PTA organised the “End of Term” party and said their farewells to year 6 children, Adam, Amy, Dulcie, Matthew, Rebecca and Scott.
PCSO for the area is 4735 Catherine Phillips who can be contacted direct on: Mobile: 07525 409 789.
ZUMBA FITNESS: Zumba craze continues to gather momentum. Not as many in attendance as last session, with many of the regulars away on pre-booked holidays.
The weekly run classes held at the Village Hall on Tuesday evenings at 7:45pm are still attracting an enthusiastic crowd. This very popular pastime is open to over 16’s and the entry fee is £4.00. Everyone is made welcome.
Fire: Two fire appliances were in attendance at an incident on Station Rd. in the village on Friday afternoon at approximately 3:00pm. The incident occurred after the passing of a train with a steam engine fore and aft over Sutton level crossing, heading in a southerly direction. A local resident reminiscing over the steam era noticed as soon as the train had gone past, that the grass on the railway side had caught fire and was rapidly spreading. The Fire Brigade was then called.
Whilst making the area safe at Sutton various other outbreaks were reported further up the track and one appliance left to deal with incidents at Torworth and Ranskill.
The first response unit was detained for approximately an hour at the initial reported incident.
COFFEE MORNING: After a slow start, things gathered momentum at the coffee morning run by regular hosts Brian and Kathryn Seddons in the Village Hall on Saturday 3rd. Villagers were able to enjoy tea/coffee and cakes whilst socialising in convivial company. The £2.00 entry fee included an entry ticket to the instant raffle, with all profits from the event going to Village Hall fund.
WHEELIE BINS: Residents are reminded that green bins should be put out for collection late on Monday night (12th September) or early Tuesday morning.