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The winners of the 2013 poster competition were announced at the Abbots Bromley Parish Council meeting on 24th April:

3-4 years:
* Harriet French (Roch House)

5-7 years:
* 1st prize – Oscar Green (Richard Clarke)
* 2nd prize – Susie Catterall (Rchard Clarke)
* Highly Commended – Isabel Stevenson (Roch House)

8-11 years:
* 1st prize – Ruby Kumar (Roch House)
* 2nd prize – Matthew Jackson (Richard Clarke)
* Highly Commended: – Hattie Lulzeman (Roch House)

The posters will be on display at various points around the village over the period of the “Best Kept Village” competition.

Dear Abbots Bromley and Surrounding Areas

We started in August 2012 with an idea or two to raise funds for St Nicholas Church. To coin a phrase, “If we build it, they will come” and you did! Thank you.

We have tried to entertain you, feed you, ply you with drink….(only joking), and we asked
for your support. And support you did! And it is just good news that I want to convey.

St Nicholas Church is an expensive “old dear” to keep. But, I can tell you our church wants for nothing. St Nicholas is well maintained and in good order throughout. Keeping the Church open all year, with our own resident Vicar, including all services is a very costly mouth to feed.

No doubt, without your recent efforts over the past 8 months, the financial state of affairs for our church would be dire. Yes, that bad. BUT………together we made a difference, and that was always my objective when we formed a fund raising committee……….To Make A Difference.

I am so happy and pleased to announce that in 8 short months we have raised more than
………………..£8000. And there’s more! We have a full programme of events for the
remainder of 2013 and I am sure, together, we will move into £5figures raised.

So, on behalf of Abbots Bromley PCC, we THANK YOU!

Martin Godfrey

Note that the meeting will start at 7:00pm and will take place in the Village Hall, Abbots Bromley. Agenda items are:
1. Apologies for absence
2. Public session
3. Updates on Village Hall Field and Lichfield Road Sports Field
4. Declarations of Interests
5. Minutes of Previous Meetings
6. Matters of report
– Parish Assembly
– Councillor Vacancy
7. Planning
– Applications
– Decisions
8. Financial Matters
– Report on payments and receipts
– Finance Report to 31st March 2013
9. Group Reports
10. Correspondence, bulletins & reports
11. HS2
12. Mini bus
13. Agenda items for the next meeting
14. Date and time of next meetings
– Parish Assembly 6.30pm Wed, 8th May 2013 – Village Hall
– May Parish Council Meeting 7.00pm Wed, 15th May 2013 – Village Hall

The full meeting notice is available on these pages

Staffordshire County Council has a page on their website where information about schools closures is available – (link expired) (You might want to select just “East Staffordshire” from the “Area” drop-down list)

The Highways Agency provides an on-line map of traffic conditions for the West Midlands – (link expired) (Note that this is sometimes slow to load and that you need to select additional items for display from the list on the right of the map. You might also want to zoom in)

The vehicle has since been found abandoned in the West Midlands area. If anybody saw anything suspicious in the area, or can offer any information please contact the police on 101 quoting incident 720 of the 7th March, or crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Information provided by Dave Jones
Community Engagement Officer
Neighbourhood Watch