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Man Arrested in Connection with Dog Theft

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Police investigating the alleged theft of two dogs from a property in Moorends have arrested a 32 year-old man in connection with the incident.

The two dogs, belonging to Adele and Steven Worgan, were allegedly stolen from their home on South Road, Moorends, just before lunch-time on Saturday 4 April.

The dogs had been let out into the garden and after hearing the dogs yelp Mr Worgan went outside where he said he saw a man running up the street with the dogs, before getting into a pick-up van and being driven off.

Mr Worgan and his son Gareth gave

chase but could not catch the van.

The dogs have not yet been recov-ered. They are described as Peking-ese, one a tan colour named Mitzy, and the other black in colour with just one eye, named Marley.

Mr Worgan said “We’ve put up a £1,000 pound reward to anyone who brings them back to us – no ques-tions asked - We just want our dogs back safe”

A neighbour’s private CCTV footage captured the alleged incident. Stills from the CCTV show a man who appears to be running with two dogs, one under each arm.

A police spokesperson said: “Police

are currently investigating the reported theft of two dogs from the Moorends area of Doncaster.

“It is believed that at around 11.20am on Saturday 4 April, an unknown man took the two dogs from the garden of a property in South Road, Moorends.

“A 32-year-old man from the Grimsby area has been arrested on suspicion of theft and bailed pending further enquiries.

“The investigation continues and officers would like to hear from anyone that may have witnessed the incident.”

Anyone with information is asked to call 101 quoting incident number 428 of 4 April 2015

Alleged Dog Theft.

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Welcome to the May edition of the THORNE TIMES It’s all go at the moment read-ers… You will have noticed we have now moved into our new premises on King Street, Thorne, and although we are making progress getting the building up to scratch, there is still a way to go, so the paint brushes will remain out for a few more weeks to come.

Hasn’t it been just lovely see-ing the wonderful sunshine out over the last couple of weeks, it certainly brings people out, and our new location is a prime spot for being nosey at all the passing foot traffic!

With the warmer weather arriv-ing, many of you will be turning your attention to the garden and this is the perfect time to let your green fingers get creative. Or, if you haven’t got green fingers,

why not get a gardener in to help you create your dream garden? See our Gardening Corner feature in this edition for top tips about what you should be doing in the garden at this time of year.

One thing that can be said for our area is that there is lots of community spirit and over the coming months there are events galore happening, which will see the community celebrate together, with many leisure and entertainment opportunities for you to attend.

The next big thing happening is the wonderful 40’s Weekend which falls on the 9th and 10th May in many locations across the Thorne area, It sees The Royal British Legion and Thorne 1940’s Weekend organisers team up to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of

the end of WWII in Europe.The event will take you right back to the 1940’s with brass bands playing, classic cars and trikes, craft stalls, re-enactments, enter-tainment from a host of talented artists, all singing songs from the 40’s era, dancers, pianists, plus much more.

This event promises to take you back to the 1940’s, so why not join in by getting dressed up in fashions from this period, along with all the many places taking part and really feel part of the event? See our 7 page special on the 1940’s Weekend including the programme of events in this edition of the Thorne Times.

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A Moorends resident is taking part in the Channel 4 TV programme The Island with Bear Grylls.

Vic Fellowes, 47, is taking part in the new series of the reality survival programme, on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean with 13 other contestants.

Vic, a Cleaning Facilities Manager, said he wanted to take part in the programme to prove to his sons he could still be an action hero: “I did a bit of hunting and fishing as a kid. We love Bear Grylls in my house, everyone watches it, my three boys are all into outdoor stuff and our house is full of testosterone.

“And this is such a challenge. What man wouldn’t want to know they could do this? It’s Boy Scout stuff!

“I’m 47, it feels like my last hurrah before I hang up my boots with all this physical stuff. After my last holiday with my wife, I said, ‘I don’t really want to sit around a swim-ming pool next time, I want an ad-venture’. And then a few days later, this came along. Isn’t that weird? I wanted my boys to think I was a hero before they all leave home.”

During the series Vic says he cut his thumb with a knife fixing a trap, and broke his toe on a rock. “I’ve got welts on my legs, scratches, bruises, everything. And I got some-thing in my eye that the doctor had to pluck out with tweezers when we got back to London.”

Vic was given three things by his wife that he wasn’t allowed to do: no religion, no politics, and he wasn’t to put himself in any danger because he had three kids at home.“My wife’s going to kill me when she sees it!” enthused Vic.

Viewers can expect to see greater challenges on The Island this time round. It has been ramped up and made both tougher, and longer. Presenter Bear Grylls said “This is the ultimate challenge into what modern man and modern woman are really made of when they are stripped of all the everyday modern conveniences we have grown so accustomed to.”

The mens’ show airs on Wednes-day evenings at 9.00pm

Moorends Man Stars on TV’s The Island


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A woman died last month after being hit by a train at a level cross-ing in Moorends.

The crossing was closed and rail services de-layed to allow emergen-cy services to attend the incident.

A British Transport Police spokesman said: “Our officers were called to Thorne Level Crossing, Moorends Road, Doncaster at around 9.10am on Tuesday, 24 March following reports of a per-son being struck by a train.

“Colleagues from South York-shire Police and Yorkshire Ambu-

lance service also attended but a woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

“The incident is not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner”Officers worked to identify the woman and informed the family.

Woman dies after being hit by train

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Thorne Memorial Park is looking resplendent in its spring bloom thanks to cash from local busi-nesses and funding groups.

The Friends of Thorne Memorial Park have been working on an initiative to brighten up the park with plants and flowers and the volunteer group received grants from Thorne Community First Panel and a cash donation from the local branch of Howarth Timber.

The money was used to purchase decorative containers, bedding plants and flowers for the park - purchased from Walkers Nurs-eries at Blaxton, who did their bit by giving the group a special discount.

In addition to this the group re-ceived funding to buy a number of litter bins for the park, thanks to a grant from E.ON’s Tween Bridge

Wind Farm Community Benefits Fund, administered by the South Yorkshire Community Foundation.

The initiative to brighten up the park is ongoing and the group hope other local businesses will help with donations to help keep the park looking in tip-top shape, giving the local communi-ty something to be proud of, and visitors to the town a pleasing outlook that will make a lasting impression.

Caroline Robinson, from The Friends of Thorne Memorial Park said: “We are looking for people to help with bedding more plants at the end of May, start of June, so if you can lend a hand for half an hour, please get in touch”

Caroline can be contacted on 01405 818724 or email [email protected]

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Howarth Timber Branch Manager John Brandon with Caroline Robinson & Sandra Chap-man from The Friends of Thorne Memorial Park.

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Road to be Named in Tribute to Fallen HeroA local soldier who died whilst serving his country in Afghanistan is to be honoured by having a road named after him in the village where his regiment was based.

Thorne’s Sgt Lee Davidson is to be given the lasting tribute along with six other members of The Light Dragoons who died in active service whilst based at Robertson Barracks, in Swanton Morley, near the town of Dere-ham in Norfolk. .

As a tribute from the village to the soldiers, the local parish council in Swanton Mor-ley have said a new housing development will have roads and an open green space named in the soldiers honour. Trees will be planted and seating provided on the devel-opment, along with a noticeboard containing information about the naming of the site.

Roger Atterwill, chairman of Swanton Morley

Parish Council, said “The parish council feels that this will be a lasting tribute from the village to the regiment and the seven individuals that died in the service of their country.”

Lee’s widow, Samantha Davidson said of the gesture: “The naming of the street in Dere-ham means so much to me, the kids, and our families as Lee spent 12 years of his life over there. It’s so nice what the council have done in recognising his achievements.

“Everyday I am overwhelmed with the support we receive in helping keep Lee’s memory alive”

The Light Dragoons, also known as Eng-land’s Northern Cavalry, are to move to Catterick here in Yorkshire after they vacate their current base.




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A group of local people are canvassing pub-lic opinion on the placement of a new monu-ment to commemorate Thorne & Moorends’ mining heritage.

The Thorne Colliery Monument Committee, assisted by Moorends Local History Associ-ation and Thorne Heritage Society say they are working towards erecting a memorial in remembrance of all who constructed and worked at Thorne Colliery, in a noticeable position at the entrance to Moorends by the side of Marshland Road.

A monument erected in 2009 made from the old pit headgear is currently located at the Welfare Recreation Ground at the end of Grange Road in Moorends.

A spokeperson for the committee said: “We understand the people of Thorne and Moorends are very proud of their mining roots and there are very few families who don’t have some sort of connection with Thorne Colliery. We aim to educate the young in the area with regards to their Heritage and we would be very pleased for them to actually see a daily reminder of it

in the way of a Monument in respect of their forefathers.

“Since the demolition of the new pit heads, there is no obvious sign on walking or driv-ing into the village that it was once a thriving little mining village and after extensive research we find that most people of Thorne and Moorends are not aware of the monu-ment on the Welfare Ground which has been placed as near to the location of Thorne Colliery as possible and on land donated by

Group Canvass Opinion on Mining Monument Pease and Partners in the late 1920s to the people of Moorends for recreation purpos-es.“

Whilst appreciating the significance and history behind the existing monument, the group feel it is “hidden in the depths of the village“, and are looking to erect an addi-tional monument in a much more visible location.

They added: “We feel both monuments will compliment the other, one being at the beginning of the village, the other being at the end, and the story of our heritage will unfold.”

The committee are asking for the commu-nity’s opinion and support regarding the location of the new monument, and have placed appropriate forms at several sites where individuals may sign in order to agree with their proposal.

Residents may also have their say and show their support for the venture by adding their name via their web site - http://www.thorne-colliery-monumentcommittee.com

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Following a five-year investigation into the disappearance of Thomas Groome, a 56-year-old woman is finally behind bars starting a 16-year prison sentence for his manslaugh-ter, even though the location of Mr Groome’s body remains unknown.

June Buttle of Doncaster Town Centre, appeared at Sheffield Crown Court in March and admitted to killing her partner Mr Groome in January, 2010, aswell as entering guilty pleas to conspiracy to prevent a burial and fraud against the Thomas Groome estate.

Mr Groome was 53-years-old when he was last seen on New Year’s Day morning 2010 as he left his sons’ home in Thorne, Doncaster.

He was reported missing by his fam-ily a few weeks into the New Year and police began to investigate his disappearance.

A murder investigation was launched in 2012 and Buttle was initially arrested in March 2013 on suspicion of murder.

She was charged in September 2014 and the case was set to go to trial, however Buttle later admitted to her involvement in the death of Mr Groome, along with the two other charges, and her guilty plea to manslaughter was accepted.

Senior Investigating Officer Detec-tive Superintendent Lisa Ray said: “This investigation has been very challenging due to the passage of time and the loss of conventional investigative opportunities, however I am very pleased with this result

Woman sentenced to 16 years for killing missing man

and our achievement to bring Buttle before the courts and to secure a conviction against her.

“My thoughts are with the family of Mr Groome, and while there will still be untold grief for them because of Buttle’s actions, I hope today they do feel some sense of justice has been served knowing that she has been sentenced for her crimes.”

Mr Groome’s family have issued the following statement:

“Thomas Groome, known to his family as Tommy was a much loved Dad, Son, Brother, Grandad, Uncle and partner. We love and miss him so much. He was a larger than life character who loved to travel and sing on the karaoke.

“On the 1st January 2010 we said goodbye to him not knowing that this was the last time that we would see and speak to him.

“Throughout the last five years, we have hoped and prayed that Tommy was still alive but our worst fears became a reality when we were told

that Tommy had been killed.

“However his body has still not been found. We are devastated that we have been unable to lay him to rest in a place where we can visit and remember him and give him the funeral that he deserves.

“June Buttle was welcomed into our family as the partner of Tommy. She spent the last five years lying about the whereabouts of Tommy leading us to believe that he was still alive when all along she knew what had happened to him. She is heartless and cruel and we will never forgive her.

“We would like to thank everyone who has been involved or assisted in the investigation into the disappear-ance of Tommy. This includes the Police in Ireland, Portugal and South Yorkshire. Without them, we would never have known what happened to Tommy.

“June Buttle has now been sent to prison. We still have to live with the pain of not knowing where his body is.”


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A warm hearted young lady from Moorends is hoping to raise money so that she can travel to Nepal to help in some of the country’s most poverty stricken communities.

Zita Severn wants to visit Nepal to

help children and young people whose lives are blighted by hard-ship from living in one of the world’s poorest countries.

Zita, 21, will be volunteering for the charity Restless Development, as part of the UK Government funded International Citizen Service pro-gramme.

She needs to raise £800 to qualify for the three month trip, but stresses this is not to cover her costs “It is simply going towards the charity, so that they can carry on their amazing work”

Help Me Hit My Target to Help Others

Whilst in Nepal, Zita says she will be living with a host home and living in basic conditions which includes use of an outdoor bucket bath and an outdoor squat toilet. “A massive change from what we use here in the UK”

In an effort to raise the cash, Zita said “This is life changing for me and there are many things I have decided to do” These so far have included a car boot sale, bag pack-ing in Sainsbury’s, Thorne, and the challenging ‘Live Below the Line’, where for 6 days she will live on just £1 a day. She has already raised nearly half towards her total.

She is also willing to do day-to-day chores in a bid to raise funds. “I’m offering to give my time to do odd jobs for people such as car wash-ing, dog walking/sitting, babysitting etc, for a donation of any size, small or big.”

If you can help Zita reach her target, contact her on 07581056690 or visit her just giving page: www.justgiving.com/Zita-Severn

First South Yorkshire say they are introducing changes to bus services from 26 April in response to customer requests.

Service 84A Doncaster - Barnby Dun - Hatfield - LindholmeTwo journeys on service 84 on Mondays to Fridays will be re-num-bered 84A and extended to serve Hatfield, Westfield Green.

Journeys affected are the 0646 Barnby Dun - Doncaster, which will start from Westfield Green at 0631 and the 1713 Doncaster - Barnby Dun, which will continue to West-field Green, arriving at 1800.

Service X8 Doncaster - Hatfield - Thorne - MoorendsAn additional stop is introduced on this limited stop service, with buses stopping at Dunsville Medical Centre.

Changes to Bus Services


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Boston Park Farm are very pleased to announce that they have been nominated for a prestigious What’s On 4 2015 Junior Awards

This exciting awards pro-gramme, which is once again supported by babyworld.co.uk is now in its ninth year and celebrates the best activities, classes, people and places throughout the country as nominated and voted for by the experts - parents, carers and parents-to-be.Boston Park Farm runs a tod-dler group at the farm called ‘Little Farmers’ with sessions on a Monday afternoon and Thurs-day morning.

The Little Farmers toddler group has been nominated in the Best Local Activity for the under 5’s category which

means they have received at least FOUR nominations and will now go through to the na-tional voting stage!

Each and every children’s activ-ity, party venue, entertainer and volunteer from throughout the country had the opportunity to be nominated and the number this year reflects the support from the nations’ parents for these exciting awards and their eagerness to reward the very best! From 11th March to 1st May 2015, parents can log onto any of the award winning on-line directories - www.whatson-4littleones.co.uk to vote for their favourites from all of the nominees which have qualified. The winners will be announced at the live award ceremony on Friday 19th June.

Boston Park Farm nominations


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Welcome to your TIMES Property, bringing you the latest property on the market, mort-gage advice, ideas on costs to sell, and retail & office space opportunities.

This month’s topic: Mortgages are like cars!

Who’s got the best interest rate? Who’s got the fastest 0-60? Who’s got the best service? Which car is most reliable?

You can play Top Trumps with most people who have a mortgage and everyone will tell you why they think that theirs is better than yours.

The fact is that they are probably all right because selecting a mortgage is as individu-al as choosing your car, it depends what you need it to do and how much you can afford. It wouldn’t make sense to buy a Ferrari to pull a caravan or a Smart Car to race at Silver-stone!

Imagine the lenders are like the car manufac-turers and the mortgage products are like the models of car they produce.

Many people think you get a mortgage and that’s the one you have until it’s paid off. Would you buy a car and keep it for 15, 20 or 25 years? Circumstances change during the time you have your mortgage just like they do when you have a car, you might need to get rid of the 2 seater sports car when you have kids or when they move out you might think of getting one!. A mortgage is probably the big-gest financial commitment most of us will take on in life. It makes sense to review it every few years to see if you can get a better deal. This doesn’t mean you’re back at square one look-ing at 25 years again, you can shop around and keep your remaining term or even look to reduce it. By doing this whilst you have your mortgage can save you £1000’s on the overall cost in the interest you will pay back, and I’m sure you’d rather have your money in your pocket rather than the banks!

So have a look on your driveway and review your car, then think..’Have I serviced the mortgage recently?’

Over the next few issues I will be looking at various topics in detail, providing an insight into all things mortgage related. Next issue will be first time buyers. So if you or someone you know is looking to buy their first home, make sure they pick up a copy.

Jonathan Wells (CeMap) – Financial Ad-viser, mortgage and protection specialist. 07449450330

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Glews are now approved repairers for:

Rawcliffe Road, Goole, DN14 8JS (Junction 36 off M62)

Call 01405 764525 visit glews.co.uk or email [email protected]

Candidates for the forthcoming general and local elections have been confirmed.

Voters will go to the polls on Thursday 7th May to vote for their Members of Parliament, as well as local borough councillors, and town & parish councillors.

In our area, the Fishlake and Sykehouse Parish Councils, and the Hatfield & Dunscroft wards of Hatfield Town Council wont face the public vote as too few people have put themselves forward for nomination, or they have the same number of councillors as seats, so are returned uncontested.

Below is a list of candidates for the Thorne Times area.

Parliamentary candidates for Don Valley(encompassing Hatfield/Thorne):

Charles Aston - UKIPLouise Dutton - English DemocratsCaroline Flint - LabourCarl Jackson - ConservativeRene Paterson - Liberal Democrats

Steve Williams - Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Parliamentary candidates for Doncaster North(encompassing Stainforth/Moorends):

David Allen - English DemocratsPenny Baker - Liberal DemocratsNick The Flying Brick - The Official Monster Raving Loony PartyMark Fletcher - ConservativeMary Jackson - Trade Unionist and Socialist CoalitionPete Kennedy - Green PartyEd Miliband - LabourKim Parkinson - UKIP

Candidates for Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Councillors

Hatfield Ward (Three seats):Jessie Credland - UKIPLinda Curran - LabourMick Glyn - UKIPAli Hurworth - Green PartyPat Knight - LabourRon Powell - LabourAnne Rutherford - UKIPBen Wagstaff - Conservative

Norton and Askern Ward (Three seats):(encompassing Fishlake/Sykehouse)Rhiannon Bartlett -Trade Unionist and Socialist Coa-

litionIris Beech - LabourMartin Drake - ConservativeCarol Greenhalgh - ConservativeAlan Jones - LabourAdrian McLeay -- Liberal DemocratsCharles Morris - UKIPAusten White - Labour

Stainforth and Barnby Dun Ward (Two seats):George Derx - LabourMary Jackson - Trade Unionist and Socialist CoalitionKeith Jacques - UKIPKen Keegan - LabourVeronica Maxwell - Green PartyTerry Taylor - ConservativeJohn Waggitt - UKIP

Thorne & Moorends Ward (Three seats):Kevin Abell - UKIPJoe Blackham - LabourJohn Brown - ConservativeLyndsey Clark - The Community GroupSusan Durant - LabourShaun Hirst - UKIPMark Houlbrook - LabourBrenda Nixon - Trade Unionist and Socialist CoalitionKim Parkinson - UKIPStewart Rayner - The Community GroupMartin Williams - The Community Group

2015 Election Candidates Confirmed

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Candidates for Town/Parish Councillors

Hatfield Town Council - Dunsville Ward (Two seats):Linda Curran - LabourMick Glynn - UKIPKen Knight - Labour

Hatfield Town Council - Hatfield Woodhouse Ward (Two seats):John Brown - ConservativeRon Powell - LabourWarren Temperton-Ball

Stainforth Town Council (Fifteen Seats):Arlene AbbottJoan Bolton - LabourStuart Bolton - LabourStephen Cook - LabourLorraine Crosby - LabourGeorge Derx- LabourPauline Derx - LabourJoan Harvey - LabourNeil Hughes - LabourVal Mackintosh - LabourDavid Moore - LabourIris Moore - LabourEddy Nesbitt - LabourMary Nesbitt - LabourPat Pilkington - LabourJohn Thompson - LabourJohn Waggitt - UKIP

Thorne-Moorends Town Council - Moorends Ward (Six seats):Bob Alsop - The Community GroupCarol Blackham - LabourCarole Cliff - The Community GroupSusan Durant - LabourAnnie Farrand - LabourMick Hennessey - The Community GroupAnnie Jones - LabourRob Porter - LabourRon Powell - LabourAlison Risdale - The Community GroupCharlene Smith - The Community GroupRoy Turner - The Community Group

Thorne-Moorends Town Council - Thorne Ward (Nine seats):David Barton - The Community GroupPeter Best - The Community GroupJoe Blackham - LabourTony Brookes - The Community GroupLyndsey Clark - The Community GroupMark Houlbrook - LabourJanet Martland - LabourKaren Mundin - The Community GroupJoanne Parker - The Community GroupJohn Phillips - LabourKaren Redmile - The Community GroupRichard Walker - The Community GroupMartin Williams - The Community Group

The following seats were uncontested meaning those listed below are duly elected.

Fishlake Parish CouncilDave ChafferPeter TriminghamJohn WaitePamela WebbDouglas White

Hatfield Town Council - Dunscroft WardMags Curran - IndependentDavid Gregory - LabourDavid Moore - LabourBill Morrison - IndependentAnne Rutherford - UKIP

Hatfield Town Council - Hatfield WardJessie Credland - UKIPValerie MoatePat Sanderson - Labour

Sykehouse Parish CouncilJohn DuckittDavid FoxStephen Lee

For more information on voting and the elections in Doncaster, visit: www.doncaster.gov.uk/elections


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Hatfield Woodhouse Village Hall users groups Monday - Girl Guides www.girlguiding.org.uk Jive Infusion – 07719189863Tuesday - Radio Hams [email protected] Martial Arts – 07714737155. Yoga - 07557096086Wednesday - Mother and Tod-dlers – 07900580477. Line Danc-ing – 07545 979473/ 01302 817124. Beavers and Cubs – 07802875738. Scouts – 07500 031570Thursday – Zumba – 07905 128972. Brownies - www.girlguiding.org.uk Woodhouse PhoenixFriday - Mother and Toddlers –

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Date for your Diary: A Fashion Show is being organised for CLIC Sargent on Thursday, June 25th at 7 30pm.

Friday April 24th will be the usual monthly Bingo May 9th the coffee morning is for Bluebell WoodMay 23rd the coffee morning is for Thorne Rural Lions

On Monday 11th May Rev Jump will be holding a ‘Discipleship Ex-plored’ course, this follows on from the ‘Christianity Explored’ course that was held last year. This meet-ing will continue for eight sessions, May 11th, 18th, 26th, June 1st, 8th, 22nd, 29th, and July 6th. All starting at 7pm. All welcome.

A coffee morning is held every Sat-urday at the Chapel 10 to 12noon. Come along and have a bacon buttie a coffee and a natter.

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Easter was another milestone in the life of the library as a Community Library. We organ-ised some activities for children, which were advertised in the local schools. All these were well attended. Children and adults were entertained by Kimmo and delighted by the animals brought in by Sam’s Safaris. Whoever said “Never work with children and animals!?” We will book them for summer.

We held our first author event on March 27th when Felicity Knight came to talk about her books. She kept the audience interested

as she told us where she found the inspiration for her story and characters and how she had her books published. The question and answer sessions generated some lively discussion. There were even some budding writers in the audience.

The Wi Fi is up and running in the library (hurrah)so you will be able to use internet on your I-pads, tablets, Smart phones etc for free in the library. If anyone is interested in learning how to download E-books from the library service, we can arrange a session subject to availability.Pilates Class. This started on Monday 13th April at 6:30 – 7:30. Cost £4 Please bring a mat if you have one.

Yoga Classes. Tuesday 6:30-8pm (beginners) Wednesday 3-5pm (beginners) Wednesday 6:30-8pm ( more advanced)

Art Group. There are a few places for anyone interested in painting. You could be a begin-

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People are coming to the library to get permits for the tip. Volun-teers cannot issue the permits as

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A website is now available for resi-dents wishing to know more about the proposed development hoping to revitalise Hatfield, Stainforth, and Dunscroft by bringing new homes, facilities and job opportunities.

The DN7 initiative, known as the ‘’Unity’ project, proposes to trans-form a significant area of brown-field land off Junction 5 of the M18.

The development is being lead by Waystone Ltd, and the company held two drop-in public consultation events in March, one at the Hatfield Town Council offices, Cuckoo Lane, and one at the Stainforth Com-munity Resource Centre, Church Road.

The scheme is being planned around existing consents for a link road from the M18, a Power Park, Materials Recycling Facility, power station and marina.

The long term project hopes to pro-vide 3100 new homes over the next 30years, with 1200 houses being built throughout the development area at a rate of around 100 per year over the next 12 years.

The company says once it has considered all feedback following the consultations, it will be finalising proposals and hoping to submit a planning application in May 2015.

Subject to obtaining a satisfactory planning approval, construction of the early housing phases could commence in Spring/Summer 2016.

People can view the website by visiting www.j5m18unity.com An online feedback form is avail-able by following the link ‘Tell Us What You Think’, for people to give their views on the scheme, or ask any questions regarding it.

Give Your Views on the DN7 Project

Live Music fans were treated to a night of Folk and Blues Roots at the Moorends Community Centre in March, the first in a series of events & gigs this year from Thorne Charity Events in partnership with Right Up Our Street.

Music lovers saw live performances from a range of artists, some of who will grace the Something to Smile About festival in June.

First up on the night in place of Alistair Pearson who couldn’t play due to illness was Chris ‘Jolly Roger’ Heald. The rum swilling frontman giving a slightly watered down, family friendly version of his one-man, upbeat pirate punk blues on the night. Chris was followed by Rob ‘Dylan’ McGregor, playing his first ‘official’ set of melancholic country blues.

Next up were Crooked Weather who gave the crowd a taster of what to expect when they appear at Thorne Charity Events’ in June. The folk outfit have a distinctive sound, from haunt-ingly atmospheric to rebellious, almost pained guitars and vocals.

Tribal Vibes, who will also be at the festival, then had the audience up and taking part in a djembe drum

circle, with those participating giving an enthusiastic, rhythmic perfor-mance.

The penultimate act of the night was Cocklebread, a ragtag collective of musicians playing a variety acous-tic, traditional and world music.

To finish the night James Taplin treated those remaining to his soulful, acoustic blues. With witty interludes entertaining you between songs, If you get chance to hear this man live – take it. He really does en-tertain. His powerful performances would leave many x-factor wan-nabes cowering backstage.

Overall the night raised £92 to be split between the Moorends Miners Welfare & Community Development Centre, and the Something to Smile About festival fund.

Thorne Charity Events have further events planned, an ‘Ultimate Girls Night Out’ at Thornensians Rugby Club on Friday 1 May, and ‘Just for Laughs’ at the Canal Tavern, Thorne, on Saturday 2 May with Right Up Our Street.

See their website: thornechari-tyevents.org.uk or search them on Facebook for further details.

Live Music Treat from Thorne Charity Events

James Taplin

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Thorne Times reader, Alice Turn-er, was so pleased to be attend-ing the Queen’s visit on Thursday 2nd April to Sheffield. So much so, Alice made the journey to Sheffield by train and managed to get front row viewing.

Well-wishers adorned the pave-ments in their thousands and the queen made her way along the crowd and came to take flowers from a member of the public which is when HRH stood in front of Alice.

Alice recalls the queen was wearing a stunning broach which was a spray of daises in pink, Alice said “it was very dainty but so beautiful”.

As the Queen continued along the crowd Prince Philip was next to stop in front of Alice and said

“Good Morning”.

There were thousands of visitors hoping to get a glimpse of HRH who will be celebrating her 89th birthday on 21st April. Alice said “the atmosphere was fantastic and it really did make my day to meet the queen and Prince Phillip, he looked very smart in his mourning suit”.

You may recall in our last edition of the Thorne Times a special lady called Dorothy Wiltshire from Sykehouse was also to travel to meet the Queen to be honoured by receiving Maundy money. The number of recipients and the amount of money given are directly related to the age of the Sovereign. As the Queen is 89 years old, 89 men and 89 women were presented with 89 pence in specially minted Maundy money.

When The Queen met Alice Turner

Thank you to all who entered the Thorne, Sainsbury’s Easter egg design competition.

The overall winner was Lay-la-Louise Holmes, the runners up were Kaysey-Leigh Holmes, Kian Houlbrook, Keira Farrell

and Lexi-Lou Holmes.

Well done to you all, your de-signs were beautiful and took pride of place on the stores no-tice board in the week running up to Easter.

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Following the success of last year’s event the 40’s Weekend is back and not only is it happening all over the Thorne area – it’s bigger and better!

The Royal British Legion and Thorne 1940’s Weekend event organisers have teamed up to celebrate the 70th Anni-versary of the end of WWII in Europe and will be holding a Beacon lighting ceremony to kick off this weekend long

40’s Weekend

Miss Marina Mae from last years event

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playing, Ben Parkinson MBE will be in attendance and food and refreshments will be available.

The weekend then gets into full flow with so much to see and enjoy. To try and help you plan your weekend, we have been

able to bring you a programme of events for the Saturday and Sunday so you can see what entertainment is on where. Why not dress for the occasion in the fashions from the 40’s and really feel part of this prestig-ious event, taking everyone back in time!

celebration.

The Beacon lighting ceremony will be held at 9.30 pm on Fri-day 8th May at the Thornensi-ans Rugby Club, which will be

part of a synchronised nation-wide event. Before the beacon is lit a tribute will be read out by a WWII Veteran.

There will be a Lone Piper

George formby entertainer from last years event


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Sunday, 10 May - in association with Thorne’s 1940s Weekend with vintage bus shuttle service from Thorne to Sandtoft

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11 pm Parade starts from Punch-bowl to Canal Tavern - The Royal British Legion will be leading the parade adorned with full medals, accompanied by Sheffield Pipe Band, Brewery Dray, Classic Cars, Trikers and lots more……..

The Parade will be met by Marc Deakes after a 15 Mile Sponsored walk for ‘Help the Heroes’There will be wreath laying by Jayne Ben and Marc.

Saturday Daytime Entertainment:

10.00 am – In The Green, TMCR

radio will open the event with a live broadcast all weekend

Plus don’t miss Don Gentile, Ruby Macintosh and various other enter-tainers throughout the day.

12 noon - The Green & White Hart - Body Rockers (weather dependent)

1 pm - Fair Green Hotel - Marina Mae plus other acts. Various times see venue for full details

Willaspoons - 1pm - George Formby Experience

1.30 pm - White Hart - Jane Jackson

40’s WeekendSaturday 9th May Programme of Events

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2 pm - White Hart - Pin up compe-tition

Evening Entertainment Saturday night:

Punchbowl - George Formby Experience, Ruby Mackintosh and Scarlett

Fair Green Hotel ....Marina Mae

Thornensians R.U.F.C - Ruby Mackintosh, Don Gentile, plus more entertainment.

The Harlequin - Elsie Dene, plus support and fancy dress

Willaspoons - 7pm Scarlett and singalong Piano player


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Sunday Daytime:

St Nicholas Church - 10.30 am - Armthorpe Elmfield Band and WW2 exhibition, comedy duo

Free WW2 bus service between Thorne and the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft

40’s WeekendSunday 10th MayProgramme of Events

Photo courtesy of Rosey Pops Photography from last years event

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The Service will start at Thorne North Station, picking up / set-ting down at the Punch Bowl, Market Place, Park Gates and all stops to Sandtoft.

Thorne (North Station) depart 11:0012:00 13:0014:0015:00

Sandtoft depart 11:30 12:30 13:30 14:30 15:30

White Hart - Spilt Milk forties re-enactment - Time to be announced

White Hart - Listen to ’The Vintage Vocalist’

Fair Green Hotel - Sunday lunch and listen to Marina Mae

Evening Entertainment Sunday night:

Willaspoons - 6 pm - Vintage Vocalist

Punchbowl - 7.30pm - The Land Girls, ’Victory Celebration Show’

All Weekend long

Punchbowl - Lots happening with attractions: Helter-skelter, Trikers and lots more

Thorne Older Peoples Welfare Centre - Town raffle, Town tombola and special guest artists and Event – full details from the centre.

Church Hall - ’Make do and Mend’, all day with Thorne Food Bank with a Ration book

menu.

Thorne Market Place - Craft stalls throughout the weekend

Re-enactment through the town and at the back of Woolworths

Lone piper - At various venues.

Funfair in Al-Murads car park

Lots more still to be announced all over town & will be updated through TMCR radio

Church carpark - lots of stalls and an Italian ice cream seller cycling around Thorne


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To join in with the celebrations the Thorne Times are giving away 3 x £10 vouchers, to be spent with any advertiser on pages 26 – 32. All you have to do is find the 12, 1940’s associated words/phrases above in our word search.

Send your entries to: Thorne Times 40’s Weekend Compe-tition, Thorne Times, Gazette

House, King Street Thorne, DN8 5BA. Include your name, contact telephone number and where you would like to spend your £10 voucher. Winners will be selected at random from all correct entries received. Closing date: Wednes-day 6th May. We will be giving out the vouchers prior to the 40’s week-end event so you can spend them there - GOOD LUCK!

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The Spring 2015 edition of the Yorkshire Journal is available with the first publication of this year containing an article by Daniel Theyer entitled ‘The Rise and Fall of Thorne Moors’ , that “explains the formation of Thorne Moors after the last ice age, and chron-icles their near destruction at the hands of man in recent times.”

Dedicated to England’s largest county, the journal is a free to download, non-profit e-journal, written by volunteers and de-signed to appeal to all readers with an interest in Yorkshire’s heritage past and present.

The journal was first published in 2010, and has recently re-started following the death of Editor An-drew Simpson, and illness of two of the writers since the release of the Autumn 2014 issue.

The team say contributions to the journal are welcome from anyone, and the editors will gladly advise about the suitability of a subject.

To find out more, or to download the e-journal, visit: theyorkshire-journal.wordpress.com

The Rise and Fall of Thorne Moors

Boaters travelling the Stainforth & Keadby Canal last month expe-rienced a week long navigation closure beyond Thorne after a boat sank, sparking a potentially damaging pollution incident.

Oil spilled from the boat result-ing in the canal being closed to boat traffic for a number of days between Medge Hall Swing Bridge and Keadby Lock, while the incident was dealt with.

A Canal and River Trust (CRT) notice at the time described the incident, saying “CRT staff are presently dealing with a pollution incident on the Stainforth & Kead-by Canal. Specialist contractors are mobilising to site to contain and recover the pollution.”

The Environment Agency (EA) was called in and two teams worked closely with the Canal & River Trust to contain and deal with the incident.

An absorbant boom was put out across the canal to contain and soak up the oil, preventing it from spreading into the River Trent and affecting a Site of Special Scien-tific Interest. The Canal & River Trust removed the boat

After the clean up the Environ-ment Agency reported there was little, if any, environmental damage.

A spokesman for the EA said “We are happy that a quick response and close assistance from the Canal & River Trust meant that the oil spill was contained and that there was little impact on the environment.

“We would encourage anyone who sees a pollution incident to contact us immediately on 0800 80 70 60”.

Environment Teams Respond to Canal Oil Spill

Thorne family support group pro-vides sport and leisure activities for people with special needs and the group recently took part in the Shef-field Hallamshire Disability League.

Thorne Lions played 3 matches

lasting 30 minutes each, winning 2 and losing 1.

The team were so full of enthusiasm and a joy to watch, playing Shef-field Warriors, a strong team, but managed a win with determination showing in the players faces.

Well done to David, Steven, Brent, Paul and Dun. New players are wanted, 16yrs and over, practice is every Saturday. Friday evenings the group play Boccia and there is a Youth Club every Wednesday evening for all ages.

Disability league success

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The group would also like to say a big thank you to Sobriety of Goole who took out 12 members on the

narrow boat recently.

The group boarded at the Canal Tavern and were excited to be embarking on such an enjoyable day, the skipper said “take care and do not fall”. Along the route the members saw lots of lovely scenery, families in their boats and even had chance to take it in turns to steer the boat, taking lots of photographers along the way. Everyone also had an educational and social day on the boat with a talk and slide show

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Debby, Steven, Lisa, Cory, David, Brent and crew members.


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Whatever you are planning dur-ing May there are lots of things to do whether that is popping to watch a band at a local venue, going out for a meal, taking a little break in the caravan or

finding some family fun.

Here are just a few options to help you plan your leisure time, so enjoy, whatever you get up to!

Cast, Doncaster announces its Summer 2015 season Cast, Doncaster’s performance venue announces its Summer 2015 season continuing its trend of bringing high quality companies and productions to the region whilst at the same time creating engaging and relevant in-house productions for people all over Doncaster.

A distinctive name within the arts, Cast offer a world of artistic, creative and cultural exchange for everyone to experience.

The venue features a 620 seat main theatre space, a second flexible performance space for up to 200 seated or 400 standing, dance and drama studios, rooms for learning, rehearsing and meetings, and a café bar that enjoys wonderful views onto Doncaster’s Sir Nigel Gresley Square.

Coming up in May at Cast: - Friday

1 May, 4x4 Gandini Juggling. Saturday 2 – Monday 4 May, The Movement Mode, Right Up Our Street. Wednesday 6 May, The Complete History of Comedy (abridged), Reduced Shakespeare Company. Thursday 7 – Saturday 9 May, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, JKL Productions. Wednesday 13 May, Phoenix Dance Theatre. Wednesday 13 May, The Hemline Index, Portmanteau. Thursday 14 May, Clare Tealand her Hollywood Orchestra celebrate Doris Day. Thursday 14 May, We Can Be Heroes. Friday 15 May, Cast Comedy Club. Saturday 16 May, Carmina Burana, Doncas-ter Choral Society. Wednesday 20 May, Muscovado, BurnOut Theatre. Thursday 21 – Saturday 23 May, Madame Butterfly with Perpetuum Mobile, Northern Ballet. Thursday 21 May

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De Profundis, Actual Size. Saturday 23 May, Elves and the Shoemaker, Northern Ballet. Saturday 23 May, The MusicBomb Live, Sine FM and Higher Rhythm. Sunday 24 May, Eliza Carthy and Tim Eriksen. Wednesday 27 – Friday 29 May,

Festival of Student Performance. Saturday 30 May, The Demon Bar-bers XL, Disco at the Tavern.

For full details of all performances call 01302 303 959 or visit: www.castindoncaster.com

Boston Park Farm is a traditional working farm where children can get up close with a wide range of farm animals. You can pet and feed most of the animals and on special days we have animal handling sessions. The whole experi-ence is geared up to suit children up to around 10 years old. We have outdoor play equipment, a mini maze and bale pyramid also inside there is a soft play area which is suitable for babies and toddlers and a large indoor sandpit. You and your child can have hours of fun exploring everything we have to offer here at the farm.

Boston Park Farm is open all year round, serving homemade cakes, delicious fresh ground coffee, speciality teas, light lunches and snacks. Situated directly opposite the Hatfield Moors National Nature Reserve, it is ideally located to sit and relax after a walk on the moors.

They have just finished a new extension to the tearooms, giving more seating area inside and also a small gift shop. Why not pop along and see all the excit-ing changes on the farm. It is open each day from 10 – 4 (closed Wednesday’s), admission is free for adults and £4 for children

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As promised last month, we start off with a report on the 2015 Spring Show, which was held, appropriately, on Saturday 21 March which is of course the first day of Spring. The Show was held at our usual venue, Hatfield Woodhouse Working Men’s Club.

This year we had a splendid display in the Bulb Section. Many of the classes had more than six entries, which, besides providing a riot of colour, also produced perfumes, especially from the hyacinth classes. Competitors set up their entries during the morning, and then from 11am onwards our judging team (Lee Plevey, Julie Parker and Sandra Scott) inspected the entries and

made the awards. In the after-noon, the Show was open to the public.

At the end of the Show, our President and Chairman, John Brown, presented the trophies. Following on, John then took up his gavel and became an auc-tioneer, selling off all unclaimed entries, the proceeds going to Society funds. This year’s trophy winners were:

Bulb Cup - John DaviesKitching Cup - John DaviesJubilee Trophy - Maria BrackJean Lewis Trophy - Maria BrackBetty Colwill Trophy - Maria BrackCookery Cup - Marion Head

Dorrick Plate - Pam BanksHandicrafts Cup - Marion Head

After Easter we got back to our usual monthly meetings. On Tuesday 6 April we once again welcomed our good friend Stephen Gay as guest speaker. Stephen entertained us with one of his railway based talks, this one being about the Doncaster to Hull line. But of course, it being Stephen, we had diversions onto the canals around Barnby Dun, into Goole and Immingham Docks and the Howden to Selby railway line. As usual, the talk was illustrated with high quality slides, and frequent references to his German Shepherd dog, Wrawby. We had a thoroughly entertaining evening.

Next month our meeting will be on Tuesday 5 May at Hatfield Woodhouse Working Men’s Club, commencing at 7-30pm when we will be having a Plant Sale. Bring your spare plants and buy some new ones. Proceeds will go to Society funds.

The following meeting is on Tuesday 2 of June. We are having a guided walk around Medieval Thorne led by Kate Harrison. If you came to Kate’s tour of Hat-field last year you know we are in for a treat. Meet at the Working men’s Club at 6-30 pm, or at the car park opposite Thorne Church at 6-45pm. Wear stout shoes.

Hatfield Woodhouse Amateur Gardening Society

Many trees and shrubs are now in flower, giving colourful displays of white and pink blossom. Amongst these are Magnolias and Orna-mental Cherries.

Magnolia is an ancient species which appeared in the fossil record some 95 million years ago. It is thought to have been around even before bees. Its natural home is in south east Asia and the Americas. Many of the varieties are too big for the small garden even though they are slow growers. Two smaller types which grow to about 12ft (4m) are Magnolia stellata and Magnolia ‘Betty’. Stellata produces a star shaped white blossom at this time of year and Betty has large red and white cup shaped flowers.

Ornamental Cherries (Prunus), grown for their white or pink flowers are excellent specimen trees, many of which are suitable for small gar-dens. P. ‘Cheal’s Weeping’ grows to about 9ft (3m) with dense clusters of pink flowers. Many of the Prunus laurocerasus (Cherry Laurel) varie-ties are also suitable for the smaller garden and they produce fragrant white flowers.

In spring most plants develop strong new growth, so this is a good time to tidy up straggly growth and to get special shrubs back into shape. Neglected privets can be cut back hard to re-shape them. This will encourage new growth and the bare areas will re-grow fairly quickly. Yew trees can also stand hard cutting back because they too re-grow from old wood.

Upright shoots which have ap-peared in weeping trees and shrubs should be removed. If left, they will destroy the shape of the tree or shrub and it could revert to its original natural shape. Similarly,

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any fully green shoots appearing on variegated shrubs should be removed.

The early flowering shrub for-sythia is coming to the end of its flowering season and it should now be trimmed back. Forsythia flowers on the new shoots formed the previous year so on a newish shrub cut back to a strong bud on each of the shoots. On established shrubs, remove about a quarter of the growing stems down to ground level as well in order to promote new growth.

Ponds are attractive garden features whether they are for fish, wildlife or simply decorative. Whichever you choose, they are all built in a similar way. Ponds can be of any size, which will depend on the space which you have available. They can be built using a preformed liner or a flexible one. (My first pond was a tiny affair, about 4ft by 2ft using a preformed

liner. It attracted a tired Mandarin Duck one afternoon which stayed until the early hours of the following morning so I never say a pond is too small).

If you are going to use a preformed liner, I suggest that you buy it before you start digging. You can then use it as your template for the excavation. If you are making your own shape, do not over complicate it, so that it is easier to dig. If you are digging a pond for fish it should normally be about 3 ft (1m) deep at its deepest part, a little deeper for koi, and it can be shallower for goldfish. but not less than 20 inches (50cm). At least half the pond should have the maximum depth so that there is a comparatively large amount of ‘warm’ water in the pond over winter. It should have a shelf around the side for marginal plants, and preferably a small ‘beach’ and shallows so that frogs can get in and out. When you have completed the excavation, make

sure that the top is level. Now to line the pond. Remove any stones which are protruding above the soil level. Then, put in an underlay of old carpet, curtaining, sacking, something similar, or commercially available pond underlay. If using a preformed liner, fine sand can be used here. Next put in the pond liner. If it is pre-formed, lay it in carefully, and make sure it is level when complete, and then fill with water. If you are using a sheet of liner such as butyl rubber, carefully place the liner in the hole. To fit the liner snugly you can take off your shoes, get into the pond, push the liner into position and secure it with stones around the edge of the pond outside the excavation. Next fill with water. Or you can place the liner across the hole, press it down in the middle, and the start to add water which will gradually pull the liner into position. I think that a combi-nation of the two methods is best, getting the liner into a reasonable accurate place from within the pond, and letting the water pull it into its final position.

Leave the water in the pond for a few days before you do anything with it. This will help to settle the liner. Then you can trim it around the edge of the pond leaving up to foot (30cm) overlap. Cover the overlapping liner with flat stones or flags and put pebbles on the beach area. Leave everything for a further couple of weeks to allow chlorine to disappear and the temperature to equalise. More next month.

Like all other plants, weeds are growing well. So make sure that you remove them either by pulling out or hoeing before they get too well established.

Lift and divide michaelmas daisies, red hot pokers and other perennials which are spreading out too much. Start to put in your supports for border perennials whilst they are fairly small and you can see what you are doing.

So with the lighter evenings I hope you will be able to spend more time enjoying your garden.

Geoff’s Gardening

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Thorne Coutrywomen’s Association entered Yorkshire Countrywomen’s Association groups craft competi-tion at Wetherby. The Ladies did really well getting three 1st, and a 3rd. One of the crafts was for a pre-mature baby’s knitted jacket, these have been sent to the neonatal hospital units in Yorkshire. A lot of the association’s ladies have been very busy knitting.

Following a talk by the Yorkshire Air Ambulance in March, the group learned the importance of fund-raising for the Air Ambulance, as a helicopter wiper blade alone is £800.

19th May the association are having a chocolate demonstration by Sciolti Botanical Chocolates. All welcome.

Friday 29th May 7:15pm the ladies are holding a special event, Singer Roger Davies at Thorne Rugby Club. Tickets £5 avalable on the door.

Contact via email [email protected] or Facebook - Thorne Countrywomen’s Association.The association meet 1st & 3rd Tuesday every month 7:30 at Thorne sea Cadets, Union Road.

Winners at Wetherby

With Thorne Community Wood hav-ing benefitted by the mild weather the work progress has continued. Before the vegetation and leaves are in full bloom, litter picking and tidying of the Wood has been in full flow.

Last month, because of a leak in the canal, one of the main paths was diverted to avoid the water-

logged ground. A stone base was placed to one of the stiles and self set trees and tree thinning took place. Some restorative ground work has been undertaken on Ings Lane.

The volunteers also continued on the maintenance of the Adopt-A-Tree areas and the first grass cutting of the picnic area, next to

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the car park, was undertaken.

The warm weather has also brought out the motorbikes and this has caused the largest number of complaints from users. The Friends of Thorne Commu-nity Wood would like to ask all users to report sightings via the contact methods below, so they can compile data on the number of incidents. Please do not get confrontational. A large number of tyres have been dumped which then found their way into the pond.

The group would also like to ask users of the site to report if they see any of the Ermine Cherry Moth. This is a moth which covers cherry trees with what looks like a cob-web. It does not kill the cherry trees but it does not help. Normally it first becomes visible in May, and over the past four years the group have been trying to stop it spreading around the site.

The Friends are having a stall at

the 40s event on the 9th and 10th of May so go along and say hello!

You can contact the Friends via:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/thornecommunitywoodMobile: 07902 772965 (please leave a message)Email:[email protected] for general [email protected] for reporting anti-social behav-iour

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Top to Toe – Health & beauty’


It’s almost summer time, the perfect time for feeling beautiful, so get your plan of action at the ready! Are you going on holiday? Have you got plans for days out with the family? Or a big cel-ebration or event coming up? Either way, when you look your best, you feel your best.

Start with your skin; we hammer on about drink-ing water all the time, but it really is the cheapest, easiest and most effective way of clearing Skin and maintaining a more youthful look.

The great thing about the summer is having a natural glow and not having to layer on the foundation, Cover any blemishes with a light concealer and apply a light dusting of bronzer for a daytime look.

Keep your skin moisturised every day after show-ering and add a gradual tanning lotion every other day to give a little colour and add definition to your skin tone.

Smokey eyes are really big for the summer and they couldn’t be easier to work. Follow our step

by step guide to a beautiful sultry look:

Apply kohl eyeliner along the eyelid, as close to the eye as possible, apply to the bottom water-line.

Take an eyeshadow brush, with short bristles and go over the line, Smudging into the lash line as close as you can get, repeat with the lower.

Apply 2 coats of blackest black mascara, to really add intensity go over the water line one more time.

Flawless foundation and nude lips make this an effortless, night time Look.

Keep your nails short and neat with pale gel var-nishes that look really pretty with tanned hands.

Finally to finish your summer make over, have your hair neatened up with a trim to get rid of any dead ends. If you’ve being toying with idea of a colour change, summer is the perfect time to add high lights to brighten up your style.

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Looking good on the outside is great but real beauty shines through when you are at your healthiest on the inside. We all know what we have to do, eat less, and move more. It sounds so simple, on paper it does anyway but it is one of the things we all struggle with at some point or another.

Get support - Studies have shown that when trying to losing weight and exercise more, we work better as a group. This is because you don’t feel as though you’re fighting a battle alone, and others are in the same boat as yourself.

Slimming clubs and exercise

classes are great for this and they are also an excellent way to meet new friends. As you get closer and closer to your goal, your confidence will soar and your target will seem more and more achievable.

Now we are seeing some better weather there’s no excuse for not being active, walk or cycle to work if you can and always take the stairs instead of the elevator. When thinking of activities to do on the weekends try and use the outdoors, it’s free and you can pack up a healthy picnic and enjoy a low cost day out for all the family.

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Sometimes after a hard day’s work we just can’t find the energy to exercise afterwards, if this is you, take a different approach. Get up half an hour earlier in the morning and try and squeeze in a morning jog before work, or purchase an exercise DVD to do at home.

We have so many fitness classes in our area now that are really

fun, go with a group of people and you’ll hardly notice you’re working out at all. It will just feel like you were having fun with your friends.

When it comes to bad food habits the golden rule is… never shop on an empty stomach! You’ll be tempted to fill your basket with high calorie treats, and once you’ve bought them, you’ll defi-

nitely consume them. Instead, make a shopping list and stick to it. If it’s not there, you can’t be tempted, you’ll also save money too!

Always have a weekly meal plan in place, and take a healthy packed lunch to work. Don’t get caught

out, when we are hungry we crave sugar and it’s so easy to grab a chocolatey snack or bag of crisps.

Finally, drink lots of water. It’s great for skin, hair, & nails. If you start to feel hungry between meals, try a glass and you’ll notice you’re not hungry after all.


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Sykehouse TIMESBy Marilyn Lifsey 01405 785636 Email: [email protected]

Well, Dorothy had her special day in Sheffield Cathedral meeting the Queen and receiv-ing the special ‘Maundy Money’ that the Sovereign gives to worthy people who have supported the Church and their communi-ties. Well, Dorothy certainly fits that bill – the ‘girl who can’t say “no”. Whatever she is called upon to do, she will if she possibly can, whether it be baking for events in the Village, manning the library, sorting all new books out for the library, playing the organ in Church, dealing with all matters to do with the Church, and much more. So Dorothy was a worthy re-cipient and congratulations to her. She had a fabulous day, one that she will never forget.

A reminder of the ‘Book Sale’ in the Village Hall at 10.00 a.m on Saturday 9th May. There will be coffee, cakes and a raffle. There will be no price tags on the books, just donations please. All proceeds to go to the Royal British Legion. Please come along and bag some bargains!

Also in the evening of the 9th May at 7.30 in the Village Hall, will be a celebration of the 70th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day which signalled the end of the Second World War in May 1945. There is music and danc-ing to the ‘Band with No Name’ (although I think they have a name now- not sure what it

There is to be an organised litter pick on Sat-urday 16th May at 11.00 am, meeting at the Village Hall. DMBC Neighbourhood services are to provide litter pickers, bin bags and latex gloves. Volunteers are needed for this day, so if you are willing and able to meet us at the Village Hall we will be delighted to see you. Refreshments will be available on arrival back at the Village Hall. I think we would all like to see an end to all the rubbish strewn about, not to mention dog fouling on pave-ments and the playing field.

Did someone say there is an election coming up soon? I hadn’t heard!!

‘We’ll Meet Again’

Marilyn

is). Whatever it is, they are a fabulous group and they will be singing and playing music from the era and beyond. A buffet (rations) will be provided, although you can bring your own bread and dripping (yummee, I remem-ber that). There is a licensed bar (wonder if they are 1945 prices?) and tickets are only £6. Forties dress is optional. Also the beacon, which was installed to celebrate the Jubi-lee, will be lit. Come along and ‘roll out the barrel’.

Sykehouse is a fabulous place to be, par-ticularly at this time of year when the flowers and blossom are coming out, and it is lovely to walk along the canal banks and through the Village. One thing, however, spoils the scenery. Litter. The grass verges are covered with plastic bottles, cans, crisp packets etc.

Spring is here and it is spring cleaning - time. Cleared out the attic, the garage and the house but what about all the stuff in your head that you mean to deal with and don’t? Stuff that makes you feel sad, stuff that makes you feel angry, stuff that makes you feel guilty not to mention all that stuff which is causing stress , sleepless nights, bad temper and irritability? Talking to a Coun-sellor who is there for you every week for an hour for as long as you need, can help you find your answers and a better way for-ward and improved well-being.Counsellors are insured, DBS checked, Members of their Pro-fessional body and Supervised on a regular basis. Counselling is confidential and in a private

setting. You may be surprised how it helps so why not give it a try? Don’t suffer alone and in silence. Clouds Counsellors are here to help offering you a FREE Service.

Appointments are by pre-ar-rangement. Leave a message on the client line 07962907053.Please note: (Your message will be answered shortly but should your message not be returned please ring again as sometimes they get lost) OrContact through the web-site www.cloudscounsellingservices.com NEED TO TALK….WE LISTEN

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Thorne Summer Festival

25th & 26th July 2015Thorne Memorial Park

Would you like a charity or commercial stall at the park this year?

Two days of Entertainment all FREE!Sit in a deck chair; enjoy the sunshine and

entertainment at the band stand and stage.Bands, groups, singers, dance schools, Thorne Male Voice Choir, Magic , majorettes, model aeroplanes,

vintage motorbikes, classic cars, face painting, birds of prey, static displays, TMCR, fair rides, Sue Fryer

dog training,/dog obedience, dog tricks and lots more……

For more information contact 07540 098692 or 01405 812403

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A cash machine stolen after being ripped from the wall is being inves-tigated following a series of similar thefts across the region.

Detectives are investigating the theft of the ATM from the McCo-ll’s Convenience Store, Thorne Road, Stainforth, which is reported to have taken place at around 3.50am Monday 16 March.

It is believed that a forklift-type vehicle was used to remove the cash machine from the wall of a

building in Thorne Road, before being loaded onto a silver pick-up vehicle, which was driven off in the direction of Field Road.

Police deployed significant resourc-es to the area and the road was closed for a short time. When the road opened Police and partners remained there, making the build-ing safe and carrying out enquiries.

Officers are exploring the possibil-ity that this theft could be linked to others in South Yorkshire and from across the region.

Anyone with information should call 101 quoting incident number 70 of 16 March 2015. Alternatively, people can report information in confidence to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111

Stainforth Cash Machine Stolen

Police are investigating after two homes in Stainforth were shot at on the evening of Monday March 23 in what are believed to be targeted attacks.

A South Yorkshire Police spokesper-son said “Police received reports of two incidents of criminal damage at two properties in the Stainforth area just after 8pm on Monday 23 March.

“The properties in Junction Road

and East Lane had windows dam-aged. It is understood the damage was caused by a firearm.

“Police do not believe these incidents to be at random.”No one was injured during the incidents.

Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 quoting incident number 925 of 23 March 2015.

Probe launched after shots fired in Stainforth

South Yorkshire Police, South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue along with their partners are inviting residents in the Thorne Times area to a free safety event for the over 60s on Friday May 8th 2015 at the Lifewise Centre, Hellaby in Rotherham be-tween 10.30am and 2.45pm. Partners will be on hand to offer advice on a number of subjects including Health and Well-Being, Doorstep Crime, Fire Safety, Fraud & Scams and First Aid.

‘Get Lifewise’ is an initiative to help people feel safer and healthier and enable them to deal with difficult situations

they may encounter. It is a free event with lunch included.

If you are interested in attend-ing, please contact the Life-wise Centre on 01709 832455 or E-mail: [email protected]

Admission is prior booking only and places are limited. If you have mobility needs, Doncaster Community Trans-port has agreed to support the event by offering a limit-ed reduced price return fare service. To book your journey in advance please call Com-munity Transport on 01302 360 600

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All walks are by Coach £10 any

journey. Walks are 7 to 9 miles. 8am starts.

Pickups. Moorends,Thorne,Stain-forth,Dunscroft,Broadway. To book a seat and pickup time please contact Keith Staines 01302 841062.


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Thorne & District Agricultural Society held their annual Charity Ploughing Match recently where a sum of £1200 was raised for charity - split equally between Yorkshire Cancer Research, Society of

Ploughmen - World Ploughing 2016 fund, and RNLI Filey Lifeboats.

Nearly 150 ploughmen from across the country attended the event.

Not only have the clocks gone forward, but Thorne Camera Club goes forward, too, and is now into its third year. Time flies when you’re having fun, so the saying goes, and that is certainly true for Camera Club members. It seems hardly any time at all since the first meeting to see if there was enough interest in photography to start a Camera Club in Thorne.

Showing how far they have come, photograph-ically speaking, members entered a Club competition with a theme of Water. Gerry Padgett LRPS, DPAGB, APAGB from Wakefield, came to judge the prints and found it a difficult task. Water, of course, had to make up a large part of the photograph, and those scoring highly, ‘in the top drawer’ as Gerry put it, were Graham Linley, Bill Mitchell, Lynda Rhodes, and Frances McIntosh whose photos each scored 20 marks.

Spreading their wings a little, members also en-tered the 8th Sheffield Photographic Association Annual Knockout Competition. 28 Camera Clubs from a wide area entered, and images were elim-inated in a series of rounds. Several members travelled to Sheffield to watch and support, and commented on the difficult task for the judge hav-ing around 165 images to mark on the night, 80 of which were eliminated in the first round, including some of Thorne’s. They were in no way disgraced, however, coming 22nd in their first ever exter-nal competition. Not content with that, they also entered the Photography News Camera Clubs Competition. This is a national competition which many Camera Clubs across the country have entered, consisting of 5 monthly rounds. The last round is now in progress so watch out for news of how they did in that competition in the future.

A visit from Mike Tudor of Sony Cameras proved very interesting, as members learnt about the company and got to play with some of their latest models. Impressive megapixels, high ISOs, mir-rorless action and whisper quiet operation were some of the aspects of the Sony range which got members talking, and making a wish-list for Christmas!

Another visitor, Allan Rowsall, current President of Lincolnshire Photographic Association, came to explain the use of Lightroom in post processing, developing your photos and storing in an easy to

retrieve system. As usual, Allan was a pleasant, relaxed and genial speaker, always ready to answer questions and help out.

Members have enjoyed trips on the canal, thanks to the Sobriety Trust, and an outing at Easter to the Yorkshire Mining Museum. There are still a few meetings to go before the summer, when members go out and about again, with their cameras, to different locations, taking pho-tographs and enjoying the company. Visits are

planned to Burnby Hall Gardens for the waterlil-ies, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Eastrington Nature Reserve and Castleford, where hopefully it will be dry this year, and many other interesting places. These visits are ideal for getting to know your camera better and learning about photography from other members.

If you would like to join the members of Thorne Camera Club, telephone David on 07463821182, text, or email [email protected]. You’ll be made very welcome.

Thorne Camera Club Going Forward

Top Left: Sophia at work on the lock. Bpttom Left: left to right, Lynda Rhodes, Graham Linley, Frances McIntosh, Bill Mitchel and the judge, Geryry Padgett LRPS, DPAGB,APAGB Top Right: Lunch on board Waterstart Bot-tom Right: David and Frances by the canal

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Spring is struggling to stay with us for any sustained spell. A couple of days of glorious sunshine and then cold winds have stalled the unwind-ing of the spring ‘coil’?

Spring migrants are, in the main here with us, with Sand Martins being recorded on 13 March at Thorne Moors and on 18 March at Hatfield Moors. The first Whea-tears arrived on Hatfield Moors on 22 March and at Thorne on 25 March. The first Swallows were seen at Hatfield Moors on 31 March and on 7 April at Thorne Moors. Willow Warblers only a day apart with Hatfield Moors on 6 April and Thorne Moors on 7 April. Little Ringed Plover and Garganey two other breeding species which spend summer with us have been recorded on both Moors. Black-necked Grebe, is a rare breeding species in Britain which favours shallow, eutrophic pools, prefer-ring those which are undisturbed has also been recorded locally. Since 2003, the number of pairs confirmed breeding each year has declined annually, with a parallel reduction in the number of breeding sites. It is unfortunate that another local site has recently been lost to agricultural ‘improvement’ and this on the back of other sites being ‘developed’. It would seem that despite Government accepting findings from such as the “Making space for nature” Report published in 2010 which promised to provide a prescription for the delivery of a coherent and resilient ecological network, that there is no noticea-ble improvement locally here in the Humberhead Levels? One could be forgiven for offering that the more recent “State of Nature” Report published in 2014 more accurately reflects the state of af-fairs for wildlife? The Humberhead

Levels Nature Improvement Area was awarded around £600,000 and back in 2011 it promised to ‘make space’ through ‘bigger’ and ‘better’ with projects joining up corridors thereby creating resilience.Osprey’s too have been sighted over Thorne and Hatfield Moors as they head for their breeding sites. The earliest date ever for Hobby has been recorded when two early arrivals were logged on 9 April at Crowle Moors.

The wintering Great Grey Shrike was last seen on 7 April, with late Hen Harriers on Hatfield up until 22 March and 11 April on Thorne Moors.

How much longer before ‘our’ local Hen Harriers depart for their up-land breeding moors? There exists acres of suitable upland moor for territories but will they be able to breed and will any young survive to fledging? The English young of

last year have all been lost despite conservationists best endeavours to keep track of them. There has been a significant and well documented decline in Hen Harrier numbers and for those able to engage by “twittering” search out or look up #HaveYouSeenHenry.

As if raptor persecution wasn’t bad enough, the Maltese Government have recently voted to continue to allow the shooting of migrants birds over their territory. Malta is a member of the EU yet are the only member to have secured a dero-gation to allow wholesale slaughter of migrant birds to continue under the guise of ‘traditional shooting’ of some game species. Birds such as our much loved Turtle Dove, an indication that summer is truly with us, a delightful species which spends its summer here with us is a frequent casualty. The best view I had of this charismatic species last year was on the brownfield site of

bog-trotter

Thorne Colliery, now proposed for development as a solar ‘farm’.

Another bird in decline, and the reason for which is not fully under-stood is the diminutive Willow Tit. Willow Tits requires well-structured woodland and maturescrub habitats that are, often but not always wet, with a good proportion of standing rotten wood and a well developed shrub layer within the wood. This habitat type is in decline and as management activity increases across the Moors then competition from other tit spe-cies, for food and for nest sites (blue tits are known to take over newly excavated willow tit nests), could be exacerbated as indeed it can be nationally by garden bird feeding, which promotes increased winter survival in the more common Blue and Great Tits. Observant readers might recall one of the images I used in February of a potential nest hole with a rather smart porch to shelter any incumbents from the weather. Easily confused with the rarer Marsh Tit the two species are best separated by call, Willow Tit has a diagnostic buzzing eeez-eeez-eeez, while Marsh Tit has an explosive pitchoo. If readers see or hear Willow Tit whilst walking the Moors or they are lucky enough to get them coming to garden feeding stations then drop us a line via [email protected]

The blackthorn bushes are well into flower and the hazel catkins nod gently in the breeze, Coltsfoot flow-ers are on the wane as their leaves begin to appear. Marsh Marigold, resplendent with their cheery yellow sheen can be found in wet areas and along drains where the management has not removed all the rhizomes preventing their annual appearance. Fritillaries too with their ‘snake’s-head’ buds are well advanced in unimproved old grassland.

The Orange Underwing is a day flying moth and one which is very active in warm spring sunshine around birch trees. I noted good numbers on 27th March. This moth can be confused with its cousin the Light Orange Underwing, but that species is associated with Aspen. One key difference are the antennae, with that of the Orange Underwing being finely serrated and the Light Orange Underwing antennae is feathered. There is much out there already, so get out there and enjoy the season’s wildlife spectacle as it unfolds.

helen r kirk

Top: a living breathing wildspace [Helen R Kirk]. Above: Willow Tit, a species in decline [Copyright Tim Melling]

Ramblings and nature notes of a


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Stainforth TIMESBy Mavis Fletcher 01302 [email protected]

SUGAR CRAFT CLASSES

EvERY WEDNESDAY 1PM – 3PM – JuST £2 A WEEk

At Stainforth community centre, Station Road, Stainforth.

For beginners up to advanced.Marzipan, cakes, Flowers & Decoration

come along, learn & have fun!

contact Doris on 07789 275336 for more information.

07962907053 or contact them through the website www.cloudscounsellingservices.com. Long Toft Primary school - Red Nose Day raised £190.03, thanks everyone for your support.

Class 1 and 2 Year - 6 to extend their work in Science they visited the Austerfield Study Centre.

Class 5 and 6 - Year 4 had a enjoyable term learning about Vikings - what they did and who they were and where they came from.

Class 7and 8 - Year 3 have been working on their ‘Stone Age Topic’- during this they made clay houses and learnt about Stone Age life as a child.

Class 9 and 10 - Year 2 loved the work based around the book - ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and have linked this to their science work all about habitats.

Class 11 and 12 - Year 1 pupils had an exciting trip to Cusworth Hall and had a wonderful time dressing up in Victorian clothes, as well as writing on ‘slates’. They even had a go at washing with carbolic soap, using a ‘dolly tub’, washboard and wringer.

Class 13 and 14 Foundation 2 - This term was all about Fairy Tales, next half term topic will be about the animals.Foundation 1 (Nursery) this term have worked on traditional tales with the children working really hard to remember parts of the stories and even worked together to write their own class story.

Improvements have been made to the nursery’s environment; new furniture has been acquired to make it more engaging for the children.

News from the Parent Support Team - after Easter Classes include Family Fun on Tuesdays 9am until 10.30am. Again on Tuesday from 1pm until

Stainforth and District Local History meets at 7pm on Thursday May 7th in the Methodist Church on Church Road in Stainforth. The Speaker will be Kevin Lennox, with an illustrated talk about New Zealand’s North Island. All welcome non-members just a £1, any more enquiries contact Pearl Howland on 01302 350036 ‘Diane’s’ store on Thorne Road in Stainforth handed £29 to the Cerebral Palsy charity that was collected in her store. Lullaby Trust was boosted by £1782.07p by a collection from the Weldrick Group, in which we have two of their stores in Stainforth.

Two Stainforth organisations have benefitted from the Asda Community Life Foundation recently - Stainforth Allotments received £200 and Stainforth Arts Club - £50.

Clouds Community Counselling Service offers a’free’ service by Counsellors who are trained , supervised, insured DBS checked and members of the BACP their professional body. A Counsellor works from St Mary’s Community Centre on a Monday and others from the EDDT building on Station Road in Dunscroft. Then Moorends and Hatfield, appointments are pre-arranged so please ring the client line number which is

3pm -Healthy Lifestyle. On Thursdays - 1pm until 3pm Craft. Friday 9am until 11am - Craft.There is a crèche available at all sessions.

Attendance Fun Day In support of the local authorities drive to improve school attendance - Long Toft held an Attendance reward day on Friday March 20th- 66% of the children were able to take part because they attended at least in line with the schools target of 96%. 25% took part in all the fun sessions with an amazing 100% attendance- well done to you all.

The Mayor of Stainforth Councillor Dave Moore wishes to thank the sponsors at the Race Night he held at Hatfield Main Pit Club in Stainforth recently in Aid of Yorkshire Air Ambulance, it raised £150. Thanks to everyone - He has two more fundraising events in May – look out for the posters Wednesday May 13th is the next afternoon of training for Drs and Nurses at Field Road Practice in Stainforth so the surgery will close at 12noon so be sure to order tablets in good time - do not run short. The surgery will re-open as usual at 8.30am the next day- until 6pm. St Mary’s Church in Stainforth is saying goodbye at this time is the 10.30am service (and 11.30am when required).baptism service on first Sunday of the month.

Baptisms will instead generally be the first and third Sundays at 12.30pm.Instead they are looking for new life in a 10.30am informal meeting on first Sundays with time for refreshments, fellowship, bible study and prayer for each other.

An All Age Communion Service on Sunday May 10th at 10.30am. will be held, and the 17th May as well as Baptism. May 24th Holy Communion service with children’s group during the service. A Poetry Night is to be held on Monday May 11th at 7.30pm until 9pm- do come and join us. A date for your diary- the next Memorial Service for funerals in March and April is June 14th at 6.30pm

know we contributed to the impressive figure donated from Sainsbury’s to Comic Relief.”

On Red Nose Day, Sainsbury’s announced it had raised £11.5 million for the charity with additional funds yet to be collected.

Sainsbury’s Thorne is celebrating after raising £1,685 for Comic Relief. Colleagues took part in a number of fundraising events during the week leading up to Red Nose Day, which took place on Friday 13th March.

Activities included name the bear, guess the number of sweets in the jar with customers joining in the fun. The Red noses were a huge success in schools and community groups this year with over 800 of them sold in West Road Primary, Brook Primary, King Edward Primary and with our local charity Moorends Miners Welfare and Development Centre. We’d like to say a huge thank you for all their support.

Rod McAndrew, Store Manager, said “Our colleagues always go the extra mile for Red Nose Day, and this year was no exception. I’d like to thank all of our customers who donated or took part in the activities we held in store. It was a record year for Sainsbury’s and it’s brilliant to

Sainsbury’s Thorne raises £1,685 for Red Nose Day

Store manager Rod McAndrew and colleague Maria Barra-clough doing something funny for money!

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were : Rita Southgate, Ruth Pridham and Josh Smith. Recent winners of the quiz in the Hare and Hounds include: Barbara Watson and Tony Sewell.

Barely was the Easter bank holiday over when the first house martins flew into the village after their long flight from North Africa. Etiquette seems to require them to drop in first on John Waite’s house in Fosterhouses before approaching the rest of the village as they recognise his status as Chairman of the Parish Council.

Polling cards have been delivered through our letterboxes ready for this year’s general and local elections.

A group effort by the Monday Club, the Neighbourhood Watch and the Parish Council brought safety labels to householders this Easter. The labels, based on those of Coltishall in Norfolk, urge motorists to slow down in the village and appear weekly on the sides of dustbins facing the traffic.

An accident damaged the stones of the parapet of Stainforth Bridge on 7th April. Sharp eyed motorists will notice that a camera is now in place along the bridge. Meanwhile DMBC has installed posts with reflector lights on Hay Green just before Camel’s Hump as an additional safety measure.

St. Cuthbert’s Spring Fair raised £600 this year with Betty Smith, Pat Coddington, Rita Southgate, Ruth Pridham, Dorothy Whitehead and Sandra Liddle winning the raffle. All proceeds went to the Parish Church Restoration Fund.

SOLAR eclipses are not two a penny. The last time one was visible from the village was in 1961 when we were warned of direct contact. This time, 20th March, the village went dark for the experience to be fully appreciated.

Fishlake Village Choir brought Stainer’s ‘Crucifixion’ to the parish church for the second time this Easter. As the evening grew dark the stirring poetic tones of the Authorised Version echoed through the lyrics. Choirs from Tickhill, Gringley-on- the Hill and Finningley joined our own singers to produce beautiful singing and a memorable evening. The congregation repaired afterwards to the Hare and Hounds - soon to be renamed ‘The Thirst After Righteousness’ according to one wag.

The collection of £117.72 was shared between Saint Cuthbert’s and the Choir. Holy Week saw performances in the choir’s sister villages before a well-earned rest. Rehearsals have already started again for Saturday 27th June when the Choir’s Summer Concert will include parts of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ and an eclectic medley of numbers such as ‘If I Were A Rich Man’ from ‘Fiddler On The Roof’. Already, village groups are taking care not to let their activities clash in case they spoil their neighbours’ event.

Keep an eye on the visitors’ book in the parish church. It is surprising who has signed in recently with some families returning to visit the village for the first time for fifty years.

Richard III was reburied in Leicester recently. Fishlake’s most visible link with the Plantagenets is Edward IV’s falcon on the base of the church tower. It may be no coincidence, however, that Fishlake Parish Council has chosen to take its senior citizens to visit Richard’s favourite port of Scarborough on 1st July.

The winners of the Fishlake 100 Club in March

Now that spring has arrived take a stroll from the Landing along the banks of the old river Don to the Old Anchor Inn and examine the Monday Club’s handiwork. They and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust have transformed the old river bed by planting reeds and bullrushes, two copses and cleared out drains before securing the area behind hedges and fences which will act as a haven for wildlife in years to come.

Absent from the village on 13th and 14th April were many members of Fishlake Village Choir who were enjoying a short break in the capital where they were following their choirmaster, John Marsden,on his journey to sing at evensong in Saint Paul’s cathedral.

Five candidates for Fishlake Parish Council have been returned unopposed. They are David Chaffer, Peter Trimingham, John Waite, Pamela Webb and Douglas White.

The ladies of the Women’s Institute enjoyed an evening of truffle making in March ( along with a visit from Sharon Osborne’s friend, Dave). They will meet next at 7 p.m. in the Village Hall on 23rd April when the topic will be ‘Three Days as a TV Star’.

Fishlake Walkers’ Club, known to its intimates as ‘Walking With Dinosaurs’, is organising a coach to Bakewell in Derbyshire from the Old Anchor Inn on 13th May at £15.

Fishlake Cricket and Bowls Club is playing host to the Over Sixties’ County Championship matches with Bedfordshire on 7th May and Norfolk on 21st May whilst preparing for the Yorkshire versus Australia’s Over Sixties on Sunday,12th July. Fishlake goes international!

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West Road Primary school in Moorends has a new area in which pupils can go to quietly read their favourite books.

The school has turned a previ-ously unused space into an oasis for bookworms, created by the students, for the students.In an effort to raise the profile of reading, the school had set their young pupils interesting initia-tives and challenges, such as them reading 3 times a week for 5 minutes or more to win a prize, and dressing up as all manner of characters to celebrate World Book Day.

The school then enlisted the ser-vices of Artist Peter Baldry, to help convert an unused conservatory into an enchanting reading area for the young students.

The project was kept secret by covering up the conservatory win-dows while Peter and a group of youngsters worked on the space, transforming it into something which the school can be proud of. Deputy Head, Mrs Rushby said: “Our school counsellors have been working hard to transform an unused space into our beautiful reading garden. The group of 16 students worked alongside the Artist Peter Baldry for two days. All the children thoroughly enjoyed working on this project and it is something they are extremely proud of and so they should be.“Reading is a vital skill. We wanted

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to create a quiet peaceful area for the children to go and immerse themselves in a book. We believe that the reading garden will give the children the opportunity to do this. “

The garden has been filled with a variety of books from Julia Don-aldson to David Walliams, poetry to non-fiction, with something for everyone.

Lawrence Milsom, a well-known figure in Thorne sadly passed away on 28th March. Since his retirement as a Police Deputy Chief Inspector he dedicated his life to community activity in Thorne.

Lawrence has been Chair of Thorne Royal British Legion since 2007, and has been actively involved in all their events and activities including Remembrance Day, the Poppy Appeal and Sum-mer Festival. He has supported the Town Council both in a voluntary

capacity and as an employee, most recently as Caretaker for the Assembly Rooms. He was also actively with the Buffs and Probus (as Chair), and has been a school governor. Lawrence was a very keen stamp collector and when a school governor he used to run the school stamp club. The children that he worked with will now have grown up.

He will be well known to many peo-ple in Thorne, and will be missed.

Mrs Rushby added: “I would like to thank all the children for their hard work and to the parents who attended the grand opening”. Parent Liana Dilks, whose daugh-ter Erin worked on the project, said: “I was really impressed with the new room and think it’s great the artist involved the kids.

“Erin was happy to be involved, it’s a real nice area that encourages the kids to sit and read”

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Friday, 20th March, saw nine members of Thorne Rural Lions, over three shifts, collecting on behalf of Marie Curie Cancer Care at Sainsbury’s, Thorne, where the Lions say staff and customers were extremely kind and supportive.

Between 9a.m. and 6p.m. cus-tomers donated constantly and Thorne Rural Lions would like to thank everyone for their generos-ity and friendliness. The collec-tion went very well and Marie Curie Cancer Care were most grateful for the amount raised.

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Reporters: Footballer Louis Jones is interviewed by Isabel Warren and Jessica Elsey for BBC School Report, at Trinity Academy, Thorne

Students were put under the spot-light as a team of roving reporters joined a national day of news gathering.

Young journalists from Trinity Acad-emy, in Thorne, discovered what it was like on both sides of the camera when they were filmed interviewing fellow students with a story to tell.

The academy was one of hundreds of schools taking part in BBC School Report, a national initiative to en-courage young people to report on news in their local community.

A BBC television crew spent the day with the students, coaching them in how to put a story together and filming techniques.

Jessica Elsey and Isabel Warren, both 12, interviewed Louis Jones, a Year 11 student who plays with Doncaster Rovers academy and next season joins the U18 appren-ticeship programme, and Thomas Graves, who plays rugby for South Yorkshire.

Isabel said: “I never thought we’d get the chance to do anything like this. We both present School News on Trinity Academy TV so we’ve got some experience, but this has been really exciting.”

Back in the ‘newsroom’ - media teacher Sara Backhouse’s class-room - student Sophie Christie worked on her pre-recorded

package covering Tesco’s decision to withdraw its plans to open in Thorne.

“I interviewed the leader of the town council Ron Powell, which was quite nerve wracking but I think it was a good interview and I got both sides of the story,” said Sophie.

Academy principal David Page was given a grilling by students Mitchell Jackson, 11, Luke Hagyard, 12, and Cara Dolby, 13.

“My story was about stress around exams. It was a one-off opportunity to ask Mr Page things we wouldn’t normally get to ask him,” said Cara.

BBC journalists Mark Ansell and

Heidi Tomlinson, and cameraman editor Alistair Candelin were on hand to help the students and record a round-up of their news gathering to be broadcast on the local news programme.

Mark said: “The students had some really good ideas for stories, some that they’d worked on over a few weeks and others that they did live on the day. Then they had the challenge of meeting the deadline to upload them to the School Report website by 2pm on news day.”

Mrs Backhouse added: “It’s been a fantastic experience for the students, who have had an excellent insight into news gathering and learned a lot from our mentors from the BBC.”

A primary school in Thorne has showcased the best of its gifted pupils recently with a ‘Britains Got Talent’ style show.

In front of a packed school hall, youngsters from Green Top in Thorne staged ‘Green Top’s Got Talent’ for local judges the rest of the school in the afternoon, before doing it all again in an evening performance to parents.

Young singers, dancers, comedians, and musicians entertained a captive audience as they did their best to attract top marks from the four judges - Rachel Durant, Paula Sanderson, Laura Hickey and Paul Hagyard.

From ballerinas to street dancers, to kids dressed in animal onsies, the children sang and danced there way through hits such as ‘cash in

my pocket’ ,’move it’ from madagascar, ‘shake it off’, and of course the almost obligatory ‘Let it go’.

A piano recital and a hilarious comedian added to the variety.

The scores ranged from 65 points to 72 points overall out of a maximum of 80 points. The winning act ‘Bunny Howarth’ was presented with her award by last years winners, Sonny and Eric, who now attend Trinity Academy. Bunny danced to a medley of hits, with the children gleefully clapping along before going wild to the sound of one of their current favourites, ‘Uptown Funk’.

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Principal of Trinity Academy David Page is interviewed by students Cara Dolby, Mitchell Jackson and Luke Hagyard, while Alistair Candelin films for BBC news and reporter Heidi Tomlinson observes

Teacher Claira Salter said: “The children were AMAZING! They performed like professional artists, with confidence and charisma. We were delighted to hear ‘they were really good’ , ‘they were braver than I’d ever be’ and ‘they’re all winners’ from the parents and carers who had come to support the event.

“The competition is now in it’s 4th year, Mrs Overson and myself look forward to the event every year, trying to ensure it is bigger and better than the previous year in order to give the children a platform to perform their talents. It is humbling to see

such talent from the children who have attended a club after school, polished their own acts and developed in confidence for our school talent contest.

“We could not put the show together without support from all members of the school and local community, staff, parents, governors, the new friends of Green Top, local businesses (including cartaprojects.co.uk for the lighting system) and the support from the judges - all members of our local community.

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Joan and family would like to thank; Family, Friends and neighbours for their messages of condolence, cards,

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1st battalion king’s own Yorkshire Light infantry, son of the late Edward and Mary belton (formerly of Tudworth Farm). Tom was a farm wagoner and signed up when war was declared. He was sent to Flanders on 16th March 1915. Tom was one of 292 men from the battalion reported missing in action on 8th May 1915 follow-

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guNNER ALbERT WiLLiAM vENuS (aged 22)No. 1817

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Stonegate 4 – 1 Thorne Snooker A Hatfield Main B 4 – 1 Thorne Snooker A

Hatfield Main B 2 – 3 Dunscroft Social Armthorpe S. B 1 – 4 Armthorpe S. A

Barnby Dun B 2 – 3 Hatfield Main A Dunscroft Social 2 – 3 Barnby Dun A

Armthopre S. B 1 – 4 Barnby Dun A Stonegate 2 – 3 Hatfield Main A

Results 8th April 2015

Hatfield Main A 2 – 3 Armthorpe S. B

Dunscroft YOI 4 – 1 Stonegate

Armthorpe S. A 1 – 4 Hatfield Main B

Thorne Snooker 3 – 2 Dunscroft Social

LEAGUE TABLE P W L PTS

Thorne Snooker A 24 17 7 74

Hatfield Main B 24 14 10 70

Stonegate 25 12 13 65

Barnmby Dun A 23 13 10 61

Armthorpe Social B 24 12 12 56

Dunscroft YOI 23 11 12 56

Hatfield Main A 23 13 10 55

Barnby Dun B 23 9 14 54

Armthorpe Socail A 24 8 16 50

Dunscroft Social 23 9 14 49

Thorne Snooker League Results

SINGLES OPEN FINAL

A BEMBRIDGE V B WHITEHuRST

THORnE SnOOKER HATFIELD MAIn

AT ARMTHORPE SOCIAL TuESDAY 28TH APRIL 7.30PM.

SINGLES HANDICAP FINAL

K BEAuMOnT (SCR) V M GRuSzEzAK (30)

THORnE SnOOKER HATFIELD MAIn

AT BARnBY Dun TuESDAY 12TH MAY 7.30PM

At the end of February Thorne Snooker looked certain title winners as they held a ten point lead over their nearest rivals but with only three matches remaining Hatfield B have reduced the gap to only four points and are hoping to continue their good run of form to lift the title for the first time.

Despite a break of 43 from Liam Redmile, Thorne Snooker could only manage a 3 – 2 win over bot-tom of the table Dunscroft Social.

POS TEAM Played Won Lost For Against TotalPoints

1 Ingram Arms 21 17 4 131 58 182

2 Dunscroft Welfare 20 18 2 125 55 179

3 Broadway 21 16 5 117 72 162

4 Red Bear 21 16 5 114 75 162

5 Anchor Lions 21 12 9 104 85 137

6 Bar none 21 12 9 95 94 128

7 Anchor Tigers 20 9 11 92 88 116

8 Moorends Comrades 21 8 13 83 106 107

9 Canal Tavern 21 6 15 84 105 102

10 Thornensians RC 20 4 16 68 112 75

11 Central Club 19 3 16 48 123 46

12 Coronation Club 20 2 18 46 134 45

8-Apr-15

Anchor Lions 3 v 6 Anchor Lions

Central Club v Dunscroft Welfare

Canal Tavern 3 v 6 Ingram Arms

Coronation Club 5 v 4 Broadway

Bar none 3 v 6 Canal Tavern

Dunscroft Welfare v Thornensians RC

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League Table after 8th April 2015 Games


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Warmer weather has finally arrived and with that the fishing should really start to pick up as fish start to feed more fervently. Big bags are to be expected at fisheries around the area. With the fishing picking up, the amount of anglers on the banks increas-es too, and you may have to get up early if you want to get your favourite peg at a fishery.

Match fishing starts to hot up too, and some pleasure anglers may find there favourite fishery ‘matched up’ on certain days.

The closed season is currently in place on rivers, streams & drains, meaning the Don, River Went, and River Torne cannot be fished, but there are a multitude of canals & commercial fisheries in the area with all manner of species to target.

To name but a few in Thorne we have the Stainforth & Keadby Ca-nal, Delves, Triangs, Pine Lakes and Swanlands. Sykehouse is home to Southfield Reservoir, the excellent Sykehouse Fisheries, and also shares the New Junction canal with Stainforth, which of course also has the Stainforth & Keadby Canal running though it, and the Haven Fishery. Fishlake/Fosterhouses is home to Grange Farm.

Hatfield Water Park is often overlooked as a venue, and just outside Hatfield Woodhouse towards Lindholme we have Woodhouse Grange (Millionaire Mick’s), Dale Pitt lakes, and just beyond Lindholme there is Tyram Hall Fishery.

With all that water to go at on your doorstep, why would you want to go anywhere else?

To add to those, for those that do go slightly further afield, still with-in a short driving distance there’s Torne Bank, Lindholme Lakes, Alderfen, Candy Corner, Bank End Fisheries, Hayfield lakes, DDAA waters at Barnby Dun... the list goes on and on.

One of those days...

On a recent fishing trip I had one of those sessions (well, a couple actually) that I’m sure every other angler has from time to time, when nothing seems to go right. Tangles, casts ending up snagged in reed beds, lost tackle, bites failing to come when others fishing the same water are catching – despite you trying all manner of baits and techniques – and when you do get a fish it inevitably ends up getting away. I’m sure we have all had them. It leaves you questioning what went wrong. If you think about it after, and so long as you are honest with yourself, you’ll learn from it and be a better angler for it.

Admittedly at first I was in the wrong peg. I chose a shallower area anticipating the sun coming out and warming up the water, bringing the fish in and onto the feed, but the sun didn’t come and the water was just too cold. An-glers in deeper water were catch-ing, and instead of moving, I stuck it out. With hindsight I should have moved. It’s better to have short time in the right peg than a long time in the wrong peg.

LinesTight

By Fishing Correspondent

Fliers Under 13 team made the fa-miliar journey to Leeds to play in the final tournament in the Winter CVL. They played quite superbly to win all their matches against National League clubs and thus win the league outright. The team consisting of nine players all recruited through the Primary Schools programme with seven also attending Ash Hill Acade-my. These it is hoped will form the basis of a school team to be entered in the National Schools championships.

Well done to Joel Miller Camer-on Day, Mitchell Hughes, Ethan Frizzell , Jenson Christie, Kacpar Fedorowicz, Holly Scott, Kyle Raines and Thomas Codman. In addition well done to Coach Dave Codman for his excellent work giving him his first trophy.

The Under 18 National League programme came to a very satisfactory conclusion with a magnificent performance against Manchester Mystics who are unbeaten in the league and will no doubt go on to the final four in the post season playoffs. Fliers were quite excellent throughout the whole of the first half and held a slim lead going into the second half. Although they were not quite able to sustain the effort with just four minutes to go the Manches-ter lead was just five points Two late three point heaves went in to distort the score unfairly at 62-50

The following day Fliers visited Cheshire to play the Panthers a real bogey team before this sea-son. They comfortably completed the double over a team that insist on playing a very negative style of play. Final score 49-38

The final game of the season saw Fliers easily defeat Stockport 49-40 This was the final match for four girls who go over age and will be going on to University in the future. Good luck to Charlotte Monks, Steph Kelly, Rosie Taylor and Alex LeVoguer. These play-ers have been at Fliers a total of twenty four years. !!!

The final game of the Under 16 programme saw an excellent

Knowing the water well, as it is one I fished before, I moved to a ‘banker’ peg the next day with the hope of putting the previous day behind me. Despite fishing it the way I have countless times before, and ringing the changes when the bites didn’t come, I hardly caught at all. It would have been all too easy to blame it on the conditions, but another angler not too far away was catching consistently.

So what was it? Was it the method, bait, presentation? I can honestly say after analysing it, I just don’t know. Had I overfed the peg? You can put it in, but you can’t take it out is the saying. The conditions weren’t great, but I hate using the weather as an ex-cuse. The lake is commercial, and predator free, so I couldn’t put it down to a massive pike being sat in the middle of my swim, scaring the fish away.

Maybe It was just one of those days. I’d probably upset the an-gling gods somewhere along the line. Despite having all the tackle, and every bait imaginable, I just couldn’t catch.

No doubt one of my fishing men-tors, the wife’s grandad, would have been quietly laughing away to himself. He often told me as I rocked up with my latest rod or reel that the fish didn’t care if their food came on the finest bone chi-na, or if it was bread or caviar – if they were hungry, they’d have it. And time and time again he was proved right. Maybe this time, in my peg at least, they just weren’t having it.

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match with Barrow who Fliers beat by just one point away from home at the start of the season. Fliers got off to a dreadful start and by the end of the first quarter were 15-10 down. The visitors extended this to ten point by half time with Fliers still far from their best. The second half was much better but with such a mountain

to climb Fliers just failed to close the gap losing 60-58. The conse-quences are that they will now play Ipswich at home in the play-offs instead of Birmingham which will be a much sterner test. Well done to the awesome Sunny Wil-liams for a 24 point performance which just failed to get the win.


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Connor season has now begun and a very busy one it has been up to date and will be for the rest of the year, all of the hard work that he has put in over the winter is starting to pay off. He is competing in the Elite British series and has completed two races already. The elite series will take him all-round the country competing with the best riders in this country. Each race consists of all of the major elite teams and there can be up to 200 riders in each event which will be televised on Euro-sport and ITV4.

Connors fist race was the Danum Trophy, there were a few big teams including Condor JLT, Kuota, Acheive and Madison Genises. The race was over a lumpy 95km and had 70 riders on the start line. The race set off and straight away a group of 7 jumped away in-cluding the majority of Condor JLT. The main bunch did not panic and they let them go. Once the race had settled down the chase was on, Connor attacked with 5 others, but after a couple of laps they got pulled back as they wasn’t working together. Another attack happened straight away and Connor was able to go with that group of 8, which included some Condor and Madison riders. The time between the leaders and Connors chasing group was coming down, but not quick enough. The race was won by the 7 in the lead group, Connors chasing group came into sight, with about 1km away from the finish Connor went for the long sprint home and he was able to hold off the others to take 8th, a good start to the season. He averaged a speed of 38.2kmh with a max speed of 74.9kmh.

The next race was the Chorley Grand Prix, first of the Elite Road race series. All of the Elite teams had turned up in force with 140 of Britain’s best riders entered. All of the Major teams were there, NFTO, Madison, Condor JLT, One Pro, Team Wiggins, Raleigh, Velosure, Kuota, Pedal Heaven and Catford. The Chorley GP is one of the hardest races of the series, which covers a vicious 185km with some major climbs lap after lap. As soon as the race had started and hit the hills riders were getting dropped off the back, Connor stayed safe in the main bunch. Every attack that happened kept getting brought back, un-til two laps to go where a bunch of 30 riders

got away. That got split again on the last lap making two leading groups and Connor was in the main group now (the third group). The race was won by the break away and when Connor s group came around the corner, Connor was near the front and managed to come in the top few to take 31st spot. Just to finish the race was a big achievement for the 19 year old, but to be in the top 50 is a phenomenal result and beating a lot of major names who have been doing the Elite Series for years now. He averaged over the race 38.1kmh with a max of 75.6kmh.

His next race was done over two stages and the second round of the Elite series, the Tour

of the Reservoir in Northumberland. Day one was a 165km and day two was 180km of racing. Both stages were to be brutal for everyone, not just with the terrain but the weather conditions too. Once again all of the Elite teams had turned up in force. The race set of and a breakaway of 8 riders went up the road and one of the riders was from Con-nors team Polypipe. This meant that Connor could just sit in the main field and try and stay out of trouble. The wind was horrendous and everyone was feeling it, people were starting to fall behind and drop off the back. Unfortu-nately Connors team mate came back to the main bunch which meant that they had to do some work. Connor was near the front when coming in to an open area and got blown off his bike into the edge; once he had shook himself down he got back on his bike. He spent a lot of time and effort chasing the main group down on his own on a seat that was bent out of position from the previous fall. It took him 15 minutes of getting blown every-where to get back in. After a few more laps a few more people got away from the main bunch, the wind was taking an effect. Another group manage to distance themselves from the main group and this included Connor. Connor finished the first stage in 31st position with an average speed of 37.2kmh with a max of 82.1km.

Stage two was supposed to be a 180km stage, but due to the extreme conditions it got shortened to 130km. It was snowing, blowing a gale and was visibility bad, the tempera-ture was around 2 degrees. The race stayed together for some time before it started to split with 20 riders going clear, one lap later a second group got away including Connor. They were unable to catch the leading group and ended up having a race of their own with another 20 riders. The race was totally split now with the run into the finish; Connor ended up to the front of his group and ended the stage in 27th position, with an average speed of 37.9kmh and a top speed of 77.4kmh.

Once all of the times had been calculated, Connor finished the Tour in 23rd place, an-other brilliant result for the youngster on his first time in an Elite Series against over 150 professional riders.

Cycling with Connor Swift

After a long winter break, the primary school football league resumed again with West Road Primary School playing host to Brooke Primary School. Ms Barrett grouped together a good West Road team and they created a lot of chances early on in the game. Harry Linley was the driving force in midfield for West Road, creating a number of chances. Brooke’s defence held tight and the teams went in to the half time break at 0-0.

The second half saw Brooke come out stronger and creating more chances, Alex Bisby opened the scoring for Brooke, slotting

home after a precise pass from Blake Simms. Mason White made a strong, clean tackle in midfield and continued the run to slot home for Brooke’s second. After a scramble in the box, Blake Simms tapped home the third for Brooke and Alex Bisby rounded things off for Brooke. Final Score West Road 0 Brooke 4.

Brooke’s Assistant Headteacher Mr Farrand commented, “Both sides played well and showed really good sportsmanship,” and Brooke’s manager, Year 6 teacher Mr Whit-field added, “The weather wasn’t kind to us at all! But that didn’t trouble the boys on either

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team, it was a well contested match with both teams showing good skill.”

Brooke now go clear at the top of the league.

Thorne & Moorends Primary School Football League

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April sees the start of the Cricket season with three of our local sides competing in the Pontefract & District Cricket League on Saturdays.

Fishlake Cricket Club, Hatfield Town Cricket Club, and Syke-house Cricket Club all have 1st and 2nd teams playing through-out the eight divisions in the league, featuring players from all corners of the Thorne Times area.

Fishlake CC’s 1st XI compete in Division One, with Hatfield Town CC’s 1st XI competing in Division Two. Sykehouse CC’s 1st XI cur-rently play in Division Four.

With two of the 2nd XI’s, Fishlake and newly promoted Hatfield Town competing in Division Five together, and Sykehouse’s doing there upmost to get out of the league’s basement division, it should make for an interesting season.

Fishlake play their games at their Pinfold Lane home, whilst Hatfield Town are based at Carr Side Lane, and Sykehouse

behind the Village Hall on Broad lane. The clubs also feature midweek in the Snatih & District Evening League.

The seasons starting fixtures Pontefract League (Start of Play 1.30pm) are:

Fishlake CCFirst XI18/4 Fairburn CC (H)25/4 West Bretton CC (A)2/5 Hooton Pagnell CC (H)9/5 Frickley Colliery CC (A)Second XI18/4 Frickley Colliery CC (A)25/4 Hatfield Town CC (H)2/5 Pollington CC (A)9/5 Thurnscoe CC (H)

Hatfield Town CCFirst XI18/4 Sandal (A)25/4 Barnby Dun (H)2/5 Glasshoughton (A)9/5 Crofton (H)Second XI18/4 Old Sharlston (H)25/4 Fishlake (A)2/5 Stainborough (H)9/5 Fairburn (A)

Sykehouse CCFirst XI18/4 Ryhill & Havercroft (A)25/4 Bullcroft Main (A)2/5 Rossington Main (H)9/5 Thorpe Audlin (A)Second XI18/4 Normanton St Johns (H)25/4 Hensall (H)2/5 Rossington Main (A)9/5 Kilnhurst Colliery (H)

Dunscroft United have been crowned Doncaster & District Senior League Division One Champions, and with it secured promotion to the league’s Premier Division.

It follows the news that their rivals, Stainforth’s F.C. Central, the divi-sion’s previous leaders, have folded.

With Central folding and other teams failing to fulfil fixtures Dun-scroft finished a number of points clear of second place with games

left to play.

Despite seemingly winning the league by default, the club, who nar-rowly missed out on promotion by just one point last, can feel deserved winners after they pushed for top place all season long.

The club are also in with a chance of the double, as they are set to take on Harworth Colliery in the Division One Knockout Cup at Rossington Main on Wednesday 22 April.

Three of the area’s teams are involved in cup competitions in the Sunday Alliance League.

Premier Division Champions Canal Tavern are to meet division one side F.C. Dunscroft in the final of the Goole and Thorne Cup, to be held at the Victoria Pleasure Grounds,

Goole, Sunday 26th April.

Premier Division Stainforth F.C. have a chance to reach the final of the Ernie Prince Memorial K.O. Cup when they play championship side Bullcroft Sports & Pastimes on Sunday 19th April in the semis.

Doncaster and District Senior League

Doncaster and District Sunday Alliance League

Hatfield Town CC are looking for a scorer for their Saturday after-noon, Pontefract league games. A small remuneration and tea will be provided in accordance with league rules. If you’re inter-ested in undertaking the role at their friendly, community club please contact Club Secretary, Martin on 07818249917 for further details.

Pontefract & District Cricket League

Stainforth Juniors U13’s Football Club have emulated last season’s feat of being crowned Premier Di-vision Champions in the Doncaster and District Junior Sunday Football League without losing a single match.

Following their triumphant season last year, the side have won the division once again and remain unbeaten in the league with only one game left to play.

Co-managed and coached by Will Ecclestone and Barry Smith, the

team has also won the Doncaster & Under 13 Cup, and are still in with a chance of winning the Goole and Thorne District Cup.

Coach Will Ecclestone, from their home at the Stainforth Welfare Recreation Ground, said: “It’s been a fantastic season. The club has done very well in a very good league and the achievement is down to no one individual - It’s been a real team effort”

“I’m proud of every one of them“

Stainforth Juniors Win It Again


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Thornensians 1st XV leave their best perfor-mance for the final home game of the season and the visit of league leaders, Old Grovians.

Prior to this match, of the nine games played during 2015, the 1st XV have produced seven wins and suffered just two defeats. This impres-sive run of results provided the platform needed to take on the league leaders – and champions – Old Grovians at Coulman Road as Thorne looked to avenge the defeat in the correspond-ing away fixture in early December. In that match, despite a battling performance from Thorne (fielding a weakened team) , penalties proved costly as Grovians held on for a 23-18 win.

The final home game also saw a huge turnout at the final pre-match lunch of the season. Many visiting teams comment time and again at how impressed they are at the turnout of these events and recount how similar attempts at running such activities at their own clubs have fallen far short of what they see at Thornensians RUFC. Brian Willis, Club President, during his speech praised the efforts of those who ensure the smooth running of the lunches – both paid and unpaid.

Watching the teams running out ahead of kick-off it was clear, looking at the size of the Old Gro-vians forwards, that this would be the sternest test of Thorne’s credentials. It would be a huge physical encounter.

Grovians were soon into their stride with some big hits during the opening skirmishes. The first

two scrums provided further evidence of the task ahead with Grovians front row resembling a (rather large) brick wall and powering their pack forward.

Having weathered this early storm Thorne began to make progress with solid runs from the backs. Quick thinking from a tap penalty saw a

great move from hooker, James Fenwick fall just short. Soon after more smart thinking, this time from Aaron Holt, would produce Thorne’s first try. Three quick phases of rugby in Grovians half saw Holt make a well placed chip over the away team back line which was collected by Stuart Hughes to dive over the line. 5-0 to Thorne.

Half way through the first half and Thorne would be reduced to 14 men with Adan Smith receiving a yellow card for a high tackle. Grovians now began to press their advantage, winning every scrum with raw power. Thorne were hanging on for the half-time whistle and a well earned chance to catch their breath. The away team had other ideas and a smart move from the backs following another solid scrum saw Grovi-ans centre sprint away for a try in the corner. 5-5 at the break and all to play for in the second half.

The final 40 minutes of Thorne’s season at Coul-man Road would see the team produce some stunning rugby and give their adoring home support something to smile about during the summer. Within a minute of the re-start James Fenwick received the ball on the half-way line and embarked on a mazy run going past three tacklers passing to Holt who would zip past another three Grovians before passing back to Fenwick who scored under the posts. Brilliant try converted by Ollie Cox.

Before anyone could catch their breath the home side were over once again. This time Ollie Cox blitzed through to score and convert his own try. 19-12 to Thorne. Now the forwards got in on the act with Raper winning the ball at the lineout and from the resulting maul Pilley burst through three tackles for another try. 24-5.

One more team try to finish off Grovians with Adan Smith finishing off a wonderful piece of flowing rugby. A late try from Grovians left the final score 31-12 to Thornensians.

3rd place in Yorkshire League 3 now looks nailed on for the 1st XV. Whilst the team had always aspired to be higher this performance just shows what they can achieve. A brilliant team victory and something to build on for the new season.

The team’s focus now turns to retaining the South Yorkshire Cup with fixtures during April and May.

Thornensians Storm

Match Report – 11/04/15, 3pm KO Thornensians Rufc 31Old Grovians Rufc 8

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To Victory In Final Home Game of The Season

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By Michael Whitehead

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Jubilant Canal Tavern FC are celebrating success after winning the Doncaster & District Sunday Alliance League.

The Thorne based side have finished top of the leagues’ Premier Division after beating title rivals Sprotbrough 4 – 0 on home soil at the Toll Bar Recreation Ground.

Despite Sprotbrough having games in hand over Tavern, the Thorne side started the game know-ing a win would be enough to give them the title, with only a few games of the season left to play.

Both sides had chances to open the scoring during a competitive first half. A timely interven-tion by Aiden Marshall stopped a Sprotbrough forward after he had initially broke clear, whilst Darren Fell had the ball in the back of the net only to see the referee blow for a foul on the Sprotbrough ‘keeper following a challenge by Ross Ebbage.

Neil Sheppard had a shot from outside the area well saved, whilst Fell brought yet a another good save from the keeper low to his left, before the ball was scrambled out for a corner. Tavern then hit the crossbar from the resulting corner.Sportbrough then brought a good save from Rob Chester in the Tavern goal, but despite the chances the sides went in at half time 0-0.After a goal-less first half it took tavern just two minutes to open the scoring in the second. Following an attack from the kick-off, the Sprot-brough keeper initially saved a Ross Ebbage header, but Aiden Marshall was on hand to hammer the loose ball into the roof of the net making 1-0 to Tavern.

Just two minutes later Tavern scored a second, Darren Fell picking the ball up on the edge of the area and rifling the ball home despite the Sprotbrough keeper getting a hand to it.

The two goals in quick succession so soon after the restart seemed to knock the stuffing out of the visiting side, and Glenn Hookway compounded their misery on 63 minutes when adding a third with a shot across goal from the left.With twenty minutes left the outcome was put in no doubt when Ross Ebbage broke clear and lobbed the advancing keeper to send the home side and their supporters into rapture, giving Canal Tavern their title win.

Daron Howe, who co-manages the side with Gary Hankinson said “We never envisaged what would happen this season, we both thought it would maybe be a top half finish and a good cup run and then take it from there.”

“We were top of the league pretty much from start to finish and were unbeaten for the first 16 games.”

Daron added: “We are also in the final of the Goole & Thorne cup, where we play F.C Dun-scroft on the 26th of April at Victoria pleasure grounds in Goole.”

The club are providing a bus for the players for the final, and any fans wanting to travel with them can do so at a cost of £5.

The club are also looking for local businesses to sponsor them in the 2015/16 season. Anyone wishing to do so are invited to call in to The Ca-nal Tavern and ask for Yvonne Freeborn.

Thorne Colliery have had a rea-sonably good few weeks, scoring 18 goals in three home wins, before finally losing at home to high flying Bilsthorpe.

Colliery first entertained Ollerton Town at the Welfare Ground, but soon fell behind to a long range strike from the opposition. Undeterred, Colliery then worked themselves into a 3 - 1 lead thanks to goals from Brett Thomas, Kyle Palmer and Rob Wilson. Ollerton managed to grab a second, mak-ing it 3-2, but Ross Ebbage scored a fourth for Colliery to ensure the points went their way. 4-2 the final score.

Colliery then played host to Welbeck Welfare at Moorends, and went in at half-time narrowly ahead by two goals to one. The

second half was a completely different affair though, as Col-liery ran amok, netting a further eight goals to finish the match 10 – 3 winners. Kirk Frost scored a hat trick, Kyle Palmer bagged a brace, and goals from Darren Fell, Scott Rhodes, Rob Wilson and Glen Hookway all added to the tally. An own goal made up Colliery’s ten.

Colliery then had to come from behind twice as they entertained Glapwell at the Welfare Ground on Easter Monday. The visitors went ahead twice in the first 10 minutes, but two goals each for Kyle Palmer and Kirk Frost en-sured a win for Colliery, the game finishing 4 – 2 to the home side.

With third placed Bilsthorpe next up at the Welfare Ground,

Colliery were high on confidence following the previous three home wins. Their high flying visitors had other ideas though, and eventu-

ally ran out 3 – 0 winners on the day, bringing Colliery’s run to an end.

Thorne Colliery Round-up

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WBA World Champion Bantam-weight Jamie McDonnell says he is feeling 100 percent confident ahead of his clash with WBO titleholder Tomoki Kameda in Texas, USA on May 9th.

Preparations for the fight in the United States have been going well for the Dunscroft boxer: “I’ve been training properly for about eight weeks” said Jamie, “We’ve known the fight was going to happen since my last fight in November, so it was just a matter of keeping on top of things and waiting for a confirmed date.

“I’m feeling fit and strong and things are starting to come together now”

Jamie is as hungry as ever and has a real belief he can do the business when he steps into the ring against Kameda - Knowing a win against the highly rated Japanese fighter could be life changing for him.

“I’m %100 percent confident, I’ve watched this kid and I’ve just got a

gut feeling I’m going to stop him.”

“I want it more than anything. It can change my life if I win this fight - I’ve just got to go out there and do it.”

Jamie is under no illusions though, and expects a tough contest against the undefeated Kameda, who has 31 wins and 19 KO’s to his name.

“I ‘ve been looking at him for the last couple of years. His name’s been up there. He’s an undefeated cham-pion and one of Al Haymon’s top prospects, so I expect a hard fight”

“He’s going to want to win to move on into bigger things - I’m in his way and I’ve got to put a stop to it”

After turning pro over a decade ago, Jamie feels the hard work over the years is now starting to pay off. “I’ve been a pro for 11 years and its only just starting to pay now. It takes some hard graft and you’ve got to mix it around everything else, nor-mal life, work... until you get there”

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In making all that hard work worth-while, Jamie wanted new challeng-es rather than routine defences. Said Jamie “They don’t get you go-ing like these fights do, unification fights, big names, undefeated kids - Fighting them in America or not doesn’t really matter. Its bringing

Jamie Confident of Texas Win

a new challenge, a new lift - I think that’s what I needed.

“As long as you are winning you’re moving on, and hopefully I’ll shine come the ninth of May.”

With two local amateur boxing clubs holding shows for aspiring young boxers in the next couple of months, Stainforth ABC at the Old Club, Stainforth in May, and Lindholme based Freedom ABC at the Dun-scroft Social Club in June, young-sters who hold Jamie in high esteem will be happy to hear he intends to pop along to the latter show in his home village and support the kids from the gym in Lindholme where he trains: “I’ll be coming along, putting my feet up and enjoying it. It’s only around the corner - I can walk there and have a few beers”

“It’s all good, especially when it goes off in the village - It’s something to look forward to”

The McDonnell vs Kameda fight airs live from 7.30pm on May 9 on Sky Sports.

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