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Following a number of complaints from villagers about a drone flying fairly low and close to people and property in the village, please see the information below:

Small unmanned aircraft (irrespective of their mass) that are being used for surveillance purposes are subject to tighter restrictions with regard to the minimum distances that you can fly near people or properties that are not under your control. If you wish to fly within these minima, permission is required from the CAA before operations are commenced.

CAA permission is also required for all flights that are being conducted for aerial work (i.e. in very simple terms, you are getting paid for doing it).

The ‘remote pilot’ has the responsibility for satisfying him/herself that the flight can be conducted safely.

The aircraft must not be flown:

• over or within 150 metres of any congested area
• over or within 150 metres of an organised open-air assembly of more than 1,000 persons;
• within 50 metres of any vessel, vehicle or structure which is not under the control of the person in charge of the aircraft
• within 50 metres of any person except during take-off or landing, the aircraft must not be flown within 30 metres of any person except for the person in charge of the aircraft.

Further details may be found here: http://www.caa.co.uk/unmannedaircraft/

Our cat Samson (brown Burmese one) has been missing now for 24 hours. We were away last night but were told he didn’t come back at all and we haven’t seen him this morning.
I’d be really grateful if you could check closed sheds and garages if you get a chance today. He’s a nosy fellow and can get in places he shouldn’t.
Thanks.

Sarah & Alex Grieg

Dear parish and town councils

I want to make you aware of a survey we are running about the county’s local Healthwatch which we commission www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/health-and-care-survey – open until 9th October.

I would be grateful if you could share this opportunity to give feedback with everyone you know.

If you would like to find out more please contact Althia Lyn althia.lyn@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Best regards

Vicky

Victoria Powell

Senior Communications Officer

Communications Team

Gloucestershire County Council

Shire Hall, Westgate Street, Gloucester GL1 2TG

victoria.powell@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Join now at www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/peoplespanel

The Forerunner – September 2016

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Dear All,

 

PRIVATE Fireworks at The Kingscote Barn on FRIDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER 2016 at 9.00PM for approximately 10 mins and will be run by Distant Thunder Fireworks .

 

Kindest Regards,

 

Claire

Claire Shea

Kingscote Barn, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8YE

01453 861161

Please find attached details of the public consultation about a mobile post office van in Kingscote, for information.  Up to now details have been in commercial confidence so this has missed the deadline to be included within Forerunner.

Posters have been put up on the village noticeboards.

Works are going ahead for planning and to facilitate the van in the car park at the village hall, so there is no reason to suppose it won’t happen, as long as there are no objections.

Kind regards

Pauline McTear

PO Consultation 2016-08-23

Please note fireworks being set off tonight at Matara at 9.30pm, just as courtesy to our neighbors.

Kind regards

Rebecca

Wedding & Event Coordinator
www.matara.co.uk
01453 861050

By visiting www.fixbritainsinternet.co.uk and providing your e-mail address and postcode an automatic email will be sent to your local MP and to Sharon White, the CEO of Ofcom lobbying for superfast optical fibre broadband – only 50% of rural communities get speeds of more than 10Mbit/s.  If we can reach 100,000 signatories we can also ask for a debate in Parliament.

Nearly every broadband provider in Britain depends on the national network, Openreach. Through taxpayer money and part of your bill, BT is paid billions to maintain the network. But it isn’t delivering. Millions of homes and businesses don’t have the fast, reliable internet they need. Everyone deserves better broadband.  This summer, for the first time, you have the power to make a difference. Ofcom, the industry regulator, has launched a public consultation on what changes are needed and they want to know what you think.  If you think your family or business deserves better internet, email Ofcom and have your say. This is a once in a decade chance to make your voice heard.

Writing to Ofcom could help give Britain the internet that we deserve. BT is paid to maintain the national network, but even the regulator says it’s not good enough.  BT is spending billions buying the rights for televised football, rather than investing this money in Britain’s broadband infrastructure.  Through taxpayer money and part of your bill, BT is paid billions to maintain the network. But in rural areas, nearly half of premises can’t get speeds above 10Mbit/s.  BT has kept Openreach reliant on copper rather than investing in state of the art pure fibre like other countries. Copper is up to 100 times slower and far less reliable. Writing to Ofcom could help give Britain the internet that we deserve. BT is paid to maintain the national network, but even the regulator says it’s not good enough.

Fix Britain’s Internet is a campaign that aims to fight for the best possible internet for Britain’s communities. The campaign was started by an industry coalition comprising Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and the Federation of Communication Services – and we’re growing every day.

We represent millions of consumers and businesses who rely on Openreach, but are let down every day, struggling to get the internet speeds they need. Together, we’re asking Ofcom to be brave and make bold changes to create an Openreach that delivers the broadband Britain deserves.

Service Calendar for August 2016

Wednesday	3rd	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	7th	Kingscote	9.30 am	Morning Prayer
		Nailsworth	8.00 am	Holy Communion BCP
		Nailsworth	11.00am	Family Service & Baptism
		Horsley	11.00am	Holy Communion
Wednesday	10th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	14th	Kingscote	9.30 am	Holy Communion BCP
		Nailsworth	11.00 am	Holy Communion
		Horsley	11.00 am	Family Service
Wednesday	17th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Thursday	18th	Horsley	3.15 pm	Messy Church
Sunday	21st	Kingscote	9.30 am	Family Service
		Nailsworth	11.00 am	Family Communion
Wednesday	24th	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion
Sunday	28th	Kingscote	9.30 am	Holy Communion CW
		Nailsworth	11.00 am	Holy Communion
		Horsley	6.00 pm	Evensong
Wednesday	31st	Nailsworth	10.00 am	Holy Communion

The Little Angels mothers and toddlers group meets again in September.

The next PCC Meeting will take place on Tuesday 13 September at 8.00 pm in

the Village Hall

Diocesan News                 www.gloucester.anglican.org/news/publications

www.gloucester.anglican.org/news/blog

Nailsworth Benefice         www.stgeorgesnailsworth.org.uk

Kingscote Community      www.kingscoteonline.co.uk

The Vicar’s Letter

Dear Friends,

On the day that I sat down to write this I had already attended two leavers services at both Horsley and Nailsworth Primary Schools. What a contrast to the day when I left primary school 50 years ago! Here there were presentations by the children, and tothe children, sweatshirts handed out by the friends and enough sobbing to fill a swimming pool.It was all very emotional. But then any sort of leaving is emotional whether it is a chosen move or one that we simply have to endure like a bereavement.

Our whole life is a journey – a series of leaving behind as each new day takes the place of the one before. We don’t know what that day will bring, let alone the ones that follow.

We like to try to make plans in order to keep some sort of control over our lives, but events and other people can often scupper them. That may make us very uneasy. Some people may be facing, even now, a very uncertain future for all sorts of reasons.

Psalm 121, written many centuries ago, suggests that we will never be alone in those moments. The writer has obviously experienced troubled times, yet finds reassur- ance in God’s continuing presence with him, no matter what. The final verse goes like this: “the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and evermore”.

Wherever life may lead you, may you know that God walks with you every step of the way.

With every blessing,

Rev. Mike Smith

Flower Rota

7 August	Irene Ingleby-Oddy
14 and 21 August	Lorna Reynolds
28 August and 4 September	Carol Paton

Weddings: Tuesday 2 August 12.30 pm, Daniel Legge and Claire Newman

Friday 5 August 1.00 pm, Paul Gould and Kate Peart

Tuesday 9 August 12 noon, Craig Davies and Jessica Birch

Lorna Reynolds

The next Vestry Silver and Brass cleaning session is at 11.00 am on Thursday

11 August. The PCC is providing cleaning assistance in the church for all other

aspects.

Teresa Day

Village Hall Programme

There are no community events organised in the Village Hall during August.

Carol Paton

Kingscote Parish Council

Following the recent Parish Council meeting, Jon Bowers (Bagpath) was co-

opted onto the Kingscote Parish Council. The Council were very pleased to to see so much interest in the vacancy and thank all who made an application.

The next meeting will be on Wednesday 26 October at 8.00 pm in the Hunters

Hall.

Planning Application 

Lasborough Park – erection of Ha-ha, removal of estate railings and change of use of land to residential curtilage.

Changes are being planned in the waste collection and recycling schedules in some areas which will come into effect in September.

Happy holidays to all parishioners

Anna Davison, Tel. 860 244

Grumbolds Ash Group

Our member Angela Wooldridge has kindly invited us to have a Summer Lunch at her home The Still House on Quarry Lane from 12.30 pm on Wednesday 17 August.

Anyone who would like to join in but has not yet notified us please call Angela on Tel. 860 697.

Jutta Tubbs Tel. 860 194

Free-range eggs for sale

Mrs Pat Cooksley of 2 The Windmill normally has some free-range eggs for sale at £1 for six. Best call afternoons.

Book Club at 8.00 pm

Tuesday 16 August, The Little House by Philippa Gregory at Louise’s
Tuesday 13 September, The Blackhouse’ by Peter May, venue TBC.

Angela Wooldridge

800th Anniversary of the Coronation of Henry III

Henry III was the only English monarch since 1066 not crowned in Westminster Abbey, and it took place in Gloucester Cathedral 800 years ago. A variety of events have been planned in the Cathedral for September and October this year.

Church Restoration plans this Autumn

On 28 July we were visited by a delegation of Diocesan fabric experts from Gloucester to view and discuss our plans for further restoration work. As a result of its Grade II* listed status, the building is heavily protected by both ecclesiastical and local government authorities.  They were in agreement with our objectives and plans, and will support the programme as it passes through the necessary authorisation process. The architect is working on the plans for groundwater drainage around the tower and the north porch in order to reduce the dampness inside the building.

The enclosed Appeal Pamphlet presents more information which we hope will encourage parishioners to contribute generously to the cost of the work. We will also be approaching recognised charitable trusts who generally support such projects.

The PCC

Weekly Recycling – Green food boxes and wheelie bins

All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays.

Fortnightly Recycling – Black boxes, White Bags and Blue bags

All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 5 and 19 August.

Fortnightly Waste – Grey wheelie bins to landfill

All current collection points – from 7.30 am on Fridays 5 and 19 August.

Bus Timetable Enquiries – Ring traveline on 0871 200 2233.

Mobile Library

The next visit will be on Friday 5 August when the van will park in front of The Walled Garden from 10.00 am to 12 noon.

Magazine

Any material which may be of interest for the next issue of the Forerunner should be sent by 20 August to H. Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Tel. 860 194

There is no God

There is no God, the wicked saith, and truly it’s a blessing,
For what he might have done with us it’s better only guessing.

There is no God, a youngster thinks, or really if there may be,
He surely didn’t mean a man always to be a baby.

There is no God, or if there is, the tradesman thinks, ’twere funny
If he should take it ill in me to make a little money.

Whether there be, the rich man says, it matters very little,
For I and mine, thank somebody, are not in want of victual.

Some others also to themselves, who scarce so much as doubt it,
Think there is none when they are well, and do not think about it.

But country folk who live beneath the shadow of the steeple,
The parson and the parson’s wife, and mostly married people,

Youths green and happy in first love, so thankful for illusion,
And men caught out in what the world calls guilt, in first confusion,

And almost every one when age, disease or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Pippa’s Song

The year’s at the spring,
And day’s at the morn;
The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d;
The lark’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn;
God’s in His heaven –
All’s right with the world!

Robert Browning

Knowledge of Scripture

(Origen 185 ~ 254 AD)

Lord, inspire us to read your Scriptures and meditate upon them day and night.We beg you to give us real understanding of what we need, that we in turn may put its precepts into practice. Yet we know that understanding and good intentions are worthless, unless rooted in your graceful love. So we ask that the words of Scriptures may also be not just signs on a page, but channels of your grace into our hearts.

For the Children:

 

Sand between the toes

I went down to the shouting sea,
Taking Christopher down with me,
For Nurse had given us sixpence each –
And down we went to the beach.

We had sand in the eyes and the ears and the nose,
And sand in the hair, and sand-between-the-toes.
Whenever a good nor’-wester blows,
Christopher is certain of
Sand-between-the-toes.

The sea was galloping grey and white;
Christopher clutched his sixpence tight;
We clambered over the humping sand –
And Christopher held my hand.

We had sand in the eyes and the ears and the nose,
And sand in the hair, and sand-between-the-toes.
Whenever a good nor’-wester blows,
Christopher is certain of
Sand-between-the-toes.

There was a roaring in the sky;
The sea-gulls cried as they blew by.
We tried to talk, but had to shout –
Nobody else was out.

When we got home, we had sand in the hair,
In the eyes and the ears and everywhere;
Whenever a good nor’-wester blows,
Christopher is found with Sand-between-the-toes.

A A Milne

Parish Directory

Reverend Mike Smith, 3 Vicarage Gardens, Nailsworth,

GL6 0QS, Tel. 07840 260 182

Curate:

Reverend Sue Sobczak, Horsley, Tel. 01453 833 526

Churchwardens:

Harry Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote, GL8 8YP. 

Tel: 860 194 

Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Kingscote, GL8 8XY 

Tel: 861 683

Hon.Sec.PCC:

Zoe Nichols, Home Farm, Kingscote, GL8 8YB

Tel. 860 254

Hon.Treas.PCC:

Jane Nichols, Asheldown, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote,

GL8 8YB Tel. 01453 860 534

Members of PCC: The Churchwardens, The Hon. Secretary, The Hon. Treasurer, Elin Tattersall, Chris Alford.

Vestry Silver and Brass Team: Teresa Day, Angela Wooldridge, Pauline

McTear.

Nailsworth MU: Trissa Jones, Tel: 832 551

Editor of Forerunner: Harry Tubbs, 3 The Walled Garden, Kingscote,

GL8 8YP Tel: 860 194

Gift Aid and Envelopes: Jane Nichols, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages, Kingscote

Tel. 860 534.

Church Flowers Rota:

Lorna Reynolds, Tel. 860 231

Organist:

Rosemary Sims, 15 Badger’s Way, Forest Green,

Nailsworth, GL6 0HE Tel: 832 446

Sidespersons:

Harry Tubbs, Rod Tibbert, Elin Tattersall,

Godfrey Ainsworth, Jane Nichols.

Electoral Roll:

Elin Tattersall, 3 Boxwood Close, Tel.01453 860 182

Mowing Team:

Harry Tubbs, Sebastian Cooper, Rick Bond, Roger Lucy,

Godfrey Ainsworth, Ken Davies, Brian McTear, John

Moore, Tony Wooldridge.

Village Hall:

Bookings: Pauline McTear, Kingscote, Tel. 861 311

Secretary: Carol Paton, Bagpath, Tel. 860 649

Parish Council Chairman: Graham Nichols, Asheldown, 3 Ashel Barn Cottages,

Kingscote Tel: 01453 860 534

Parish Council Clerk: Anna Davison, Bagpath Court, GL8 8YG, Tel. 860 244

Village Agent:        Aileen Bendall, Tel. 07810 630 156 or 01452 426 868

Printer of Forerunner: Godfrey Ainsworth, Kingscote House, Tel. 861 683

The Forerunner is published by the P.C.C. who are usually most willing to accept copy from village groups and individuals. However, please note that the opinions and views expressed by the contributors within the Forerunner are not necessarily those of the Church, P.C.C. or Editor.