Perhaps it is a good thing to let off steam now and again.  After my little rant last month, I am pleased to say that many of you have contacted me to say how much they agree and how they are reminding others that there is much to celebrate in this lovely town. Thank you.

With the wonderful weather we’ve enjoyed in May, everyone should be feeling ready for a lovely summer.  If you haven’t attacked the weeds in the garden ...
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We have been selling delicious fresh bread for some time now, and from this month, the range of breads we shall have is increasing.  All our bread is freshly baked daily.

Also on offer is a mouth-watering selection of rolls and sandwiches plus take away teas and coffees.

Orders can be placed by calling 01485 535540, or just call in to see us.  We are open every day.

By Mick Wing, Station Officer, HM Coastguard Hunstanton

Military pHosphorus flares and a tank shell on the beaches at Holme, Titchwell and Brancaster have taken up a fair amount of time for Hunstanton Coastguard recently. If you are walking along the tideline, look out for grey aluminium cylinders or blue-grey wooden boxes, both with stencilled markings. These flares are dangerous enough to need a visit from the RAF bomb disposal team, so if you find one, lea...
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Right here in Hunstanton a unique training programme has been developed to introduce young people to all the possibilities the game has to offer 

Two PGA golf professionals, Ray Stocker and Mitch Kierstenson, are based at the Searles Leisure Resort in Hunstanton. They have mad...
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It is a couple of months now since we’ve had a Councillor’s column and I’d like to get you up to date with what’s been happening.

 The plans for regeneration are now at the final phase and will be available for all to see very shortly.

The potential for a zebra (or other) crossing to the park has been examined by the Police, the County Council , the Town Council and members of the public.  The n...
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By Dale Harrison

Sunny spring mornings are ideal for watching marsh harriers at RSPB Titchwell Marsh. They perform spectacular skydancing routines consisting of highflying climbing and tumbling. These dances in the sky are aerial courtship displays undertaken prior to breeding, allowing the birds to find a partner.

In 2007 there were four marsh harrier nests raising eleven young birds at RSPB Titchwell Marsh. The freshwater reedbed on the reserve is...
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It is over five years now since my wife and I moved to Hunstanton.  One of the questions I was often asked in the first six months of our residency was “are you settled in now?”  Like many of you we moved into the town by choice and it is safe to say that yes we now feel well settled in now. 

              I l...
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By A Grumpy Oldish Woman of Hunstanton

Making a career choice is sometimes down to good luck, sometimes due to years of hard slog to qualify.  Sometimes we don’t want a career at all, just a job that brings in enough money to keep the roof over our heads and food on the table. However, there is a modern phenomenon which is creating a work-based stress syndrome that needs a quiet, dark room and a smallish gin to get over, regardless of your age, qua...
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By Jim Welham

In 1749 the parish of St Giles in London was gaining a reputation for appalling poverty and squalor.  Over a quarter of its 2000 houses were gin shops.  The only way of disposing of all kinds of refuse was by throwing it into the street.  The lanes were so narrow that sometimes a man had to turn sideways to get between the buildings.  Single rooms would sometimes accommodate sev...
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By Emma Jackson

 

We are, as everybody knows, a nation of animal lovers. We spend millions on our pets every year and some give their dogs with more respect than they give their children, but this label only ever used to be applied to cats, dogs and the occasional horse.  Not any more. Our loving of animals has extended to the most lowly, the previously ignored and the all but disparaged creatures. Where once we were quite happy to go t...
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By John Maiden

Once upon a time, I was like Manuel, not because I was from Barcelona, but because I 'knew nothing' of the way local government was supposed to work. Then a wise councillor told me that planning decisions in Lynn are taken by a quasi judicial body called the Development Control Board, which sits like a jury and considers each planning application on its merits, even ...
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By Chris Bamfield

Would you like to tidy up an area of your neighbourhood and help to contribute to Hunstanton in Bloom?

 Hunstanton in Bloom has set up a small grants scheme to allow residents to apply for help with the purchase of plants, trees or bulbs to improve the look of their surroundings.  This could be a few neighbours who want to make a flower bed or a group of children who want to plant some trees.  The grants can be used to impro...
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By Dawn Davies

Girlguiding Norfolk are holding Open evenings to show what guiding is all about and find more adult Leaders

 Rainbows, Brownies and Guides in Norfolk are on the hunt for more adults and girls to come forward and help to run their meetings.

 To highlight the work of Girlguiding Norfolk we will be holding a series of open evenings as part of National Volunteers Week on 1-7th June.  If ...
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This Summer Hunstanton Lions Club will have a great presence on “The Green”. Every weekend just by the Bandstand we will be raffling a brand new Yamaha MT-)£ motor bike.

 This bike is worth nearly £5000.00 , and it could be yours for just £10.00 !

We have limited the number of tickets to  599 so you will stand a very good chance of being the proud owner of this really smashing machine.

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Lorraine Poulter – Press Officer

On 28^th April 2008 the Committee of the Cliff Top Residents’ Association met.  Among the issues discussed were the results of a questionnaire sent to members.  The matters raised by the members were as follows:

· Cliff Top preservation.  To campaign for the whole of the Cliff Top area to be included within the New Proposed Conse...
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Hunstanton Town Council has met on 12 occasions, the Planning Committee had 11 meetings, as did the Finance and Town Hall Management Committees, the Allotment committee met on 3 occasions. Working parties had many meetings. All of these meetings were open to the public.

              Many Councillors attended meetings with other organisations such as the Borough Council, Environment Agency, Norfo...
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As part of Hunstanton-in-Bloom 2008, HUB is sponsoring a prize for the best floral display outside a business premises.

 Having achieved a Silver Gilt award in 2007, this year Hunstanton is going for Gold.

Bob Davies, Chairman of HUB is calling for all businesses in the town to make an effort and get involved by putting on a floral display at their premises and greeting our custome...
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By Joy Webb

You may have received a Hunstanton-in-Bloom postcard with this Newsletter.  If so, your Newsletter deliverer thinks your front garden is something special and ought to be entered for the Front Garden Competition.  Please do enter by filling in your details and popping the card in the post – no stamp required!  We are hoping to have many more, and more varied, entries in this ye...
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By Dick Melton

The summer of 1976 was the hottest summer since 1947.  In July of that year we had an invasion of ladybirds.  Millions of them.  They flew into Hunstanton continuously for three days.  They got everywhere: in your drink, your food, your bed.  All over your house and in the streets.  Many of the food shops had to shut and many holiday makers went back home.  The ladybirds came off the sea. They are attract...
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By Tony Foster

At 2 p.m. on Sunday 22nd June the Hunstanton Concert Band will be playing at home on the Bandstand in Hunstanton.

Come along , buy yourself an ice cream and relax for a couple of hours as you listen to the Band playing a wide variety of music....and its free!

Geoff Needham

On 14^th November 1875, the schooner “Mermaid” of Grimsby, owned by Jack Mayor, (a distant cousin of the Wicks family), anchored out to sea off Old Hunstanton.  The crew, with their skipper set forth from the ship in a rowing boat to attend to some whelk pots which had been set on a neighbouring mussel bed.  The skipper’s son, Johnny, a lad of about 14/15 years old, had been left in charge of the schooner.  During ...
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By Chris Boxall

Wearing my military researcher’s hat, I am writing to you and the readers of the Hunstanton Newsletter in the hope that the wonderful and knowledgeable people of Hunstanton might be able to help me solve a minor mystery.

 On my frequent walks through the cemetery in Hunstanton, I often stop at the Commonwealth War Grave of Able Seaman R. Scrobie RN.  His headstone records the fact that he served on HMS Worcester and died in 12^th...
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WASH BARRAGE PROPOSAL

I learned with interest that a businessman has proposed a wash barrier. We should welcome sensible discussion and work together to see if there is really merit and feasibility in the idea. There is no room for narrow minded bigotry and I am concerned that various "anti" interests are pontificating about adverse effects before any mandatory  Environmental Impact Assessment is undertaken . Unti...
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By A Reynolds

Lack of space meant that there was no report in the last issue of the Newsletter.  The Trefoil Guild continues to thrive!!

In March, the Home Watch Administrator from West Norfolk came to advise us on Home Safety.  The Crime Watch Team look at crimes committed in the area so that they are able to ‘squeeze’ crime enabling residents to upgrade their quality of life.  Families continua...
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 ……..when first we practice to deceive; but when we’ve practiced quite a while, how vastly we improve our style” (attrib).  The issue of ‘lying’ is fundamentally a philosophical one, in that one person’s definition of an untruth is another’s means of avoiding an otherwise unpleasant reality.  “The cheque is in the post” is a classic example of ...
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By Denice Howard

 We are fundraising to try and raise money towards improving the grounds and club house at Old Hunstanton Football Club, we have organised a fete/fun day on Sunday the 13th July.  All are welcome for what should be a great day.

Trevor Hughes will be playing at “A Summer Soiree”, in aid of “new loos” for St Mary's Church, Old Hunstanton on Sunday 6th July.

 Trevor is a graduate of the Royal College of Music, specialising in piano, organ & keyboards.. He has accompanied recitals in the Purcell Room, the Wigm...
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Saturday 21st June 10.30am-1.30pm.

Birds and wildlife in poetry and prose course Spend a relaxing morning exploring some of the best modern writing on the wild and natural world. £14. Contact Leanne on 01328 856788 to book.

By Julie Goddard  -  Slimming World Consultant

As I write the sun is shining and the birds are singing and Summer has definitely arrived.  We seem to have missed out on Spring.  Still the BBQ season has arrived and it is a great time for Slimming World Members as it is so easy to Food Optimise.

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By Gordon Tannet

 It’s taken five years to get from the first thought to completion, but 3rd May saw a joyous celebration at The Way Christian Fellowship in Downs Close. We officially opened the extension of our building. The Mayor of Hunstanton, Cllr Richard Bird, performed the ribbon cutting ceremony.

 The Way is a link church of Ichthus Christian Fellowship of SE London, which is led by its founder Roger Forster. Roger has been a leading...
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In June Hunstanton Town Council surgeries will be held on:

Wednesday 11th June 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Saturday 21st June 10 a.m. to 12 noon

On each day there will also be a representative from the Safer Neighbourhood Team in attendance.

 If these dates are not suitable for you, please contact one of your local councillors by telephone.  Their numbers are listed  on page 8.

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By Lynda Brister

The Hunstanton Macmillan Fund Raising Group held their AGM on 16^th April.  The grand total of £1,912.69 was raised last year and we are hoping to do even better this year.  Dates for your diary:-

Friday, 26^th September – Annual Coffee Morning to be held at Old Town Social Club, Old Hunstanton   10am – 12 noon

 Friday & Saturday (17^th & 18^th October)  - co...
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