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L eighton N ews www.leightonnews.com

November 2014 Number 288

The November and December issues of The Leighton News are generously sponsored by

LEIGHTON ESTATE WOODLANDS

Please see the back page for a message from our sponsors

The deadline for the next edition is THURSDAY 20th NOVEMBER

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Services at Leighton and Trelystan in November

SIDESMEN FOR NOVEMBER: ALTAR FLOWERS AND BRASS CLEANING:

R. and R.TIBBOTT I.PINCHEN and C.WALTON

SUNDAY 2nd NOVEMBER

Fourth Sunday before Advent Leighton: 9.30 am HOLY COMMUNION

Trelystan: 3.00 pm HOLY COMMUNION

SUNDAY 9th NOVEMBER

Third Sunday before Advent - Remembrance Sunday

Leighton: 10.55am REMEMBRANCE SERVICE

Trelystan: 3.00 pm HOLY COMMUNION

SUNDAY 16th NOVEMBER

Second Sunday before Advent

Leighton: 3.00 pm EVENSONG

SUNDAY 30th NOVEMBER Advent Sunday

Leighton: 10.00am BENEFICE HOLY COMMUNION

YOGA CLASS

Every Wednesday 6 – 7pm Leighton Village Hall

A safe & effective way of improving your health

All welcome, from beginners to experienced….just turn up!

Yoga is good for everyone and the benefits are;

Increased flexibility

Improved circulation

Alleviates stress

Eases backache/sciatica

Encourages a healthy lifestyle

And much more….!

If you are interested or want more information

please call Juli on:

01691 860283

or Visit my Website:- www.julimoran.com

LEIGHTON CHURCH

ADVENT CONCERT

The Welshpool Choral Society

THE ANGEL STORY

Told in words and carols

on

Sunday December 7th

at 7.30 pm

Tickets £8, Children £4

Including a glass of wine, so�

drink, mince pie etc.

All proceeds to Leighton Church

and to Marie Curie Nurses

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Leighton Village Hall COFFEE CLUB

Leighton Village Hall are busy organising a COFFEE MORNING WITH A DIFFERENCE on

Saturday 15th

November 9am – 12noon (see poster on page 3). Lovely cafe/ere coffee will

be served in gleaming new china coffee cups with croissants and newspapers and music, all

the idea of our treasurer Tony Garre2 and his lovely wife Sarah of Chapel House.

THE PERFECT WAY TO START YOUR SATURDAY.

There will be a draw so any draw prizes gratefully received, please contact Garre2s on 01938 580533. The new

Sound System and refurbished hall will be fully opened for everyone to browse so please call in for a cuppa – you

will be made most welcome. Tea will also be served so everyone is catered for!

Funds will be shared between Leighton Village Hall and Macmillan Cancer Support.

IMPROVEMENTS There’s lots of things going at Leighton Village Hall this month. Due to a further generous

dona/on of £19,000 from James Po2er through the Entrust grant system, for which we are

very grateful, Leighton Village Hall is preparing to repair and resurface the floor which will

benefit all of the users and spruce the main hall no end, although sadly it will be shut over the whole of half term

to enable this work to be done. LVH appreciate the understanding of the hirers. New curtains will then be added

and the Sound System will be fully func/onal. It is also hoped that all of the outstanding finishing touches will be

completed by Sneades the builders comple/ng this stage of the improvements.

OUTSIDE SHEDS Plans are being drawn up by our Chair David Williams for a new large Playgroup shed and a

concrete base to be put down for the School shed. Hopefully this work will also be

completed over half term.

CHRISTMAS FAIR Leighton Village Hall’s Annual CHRISTMAS FAIR will be held on Saturday 6

th December

9am – 12 noon at Leighton Village Hall. Local stallholders will be selling beau/ful

Christmas gi�s to solve all your Christmas shopping dilemmas! There will be also be a

Cake and Bric-a-Brac Stall and Draw, Carols and Coffee, Presents and Pastries – everyone most welcome.

Leighton Village Hall BOOKINGS

Tel: 0785 410 3058

Email: villagehall@leightonnews.com

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Leighton Show 100 Club

Congratulations to you all.Congratulations to you all.Congratulations to you all.Congratulations to you all.

Worried about your Christmas Shopping—Sorted!!

Let us take the strain of your Christmas shopping AND get it delivered it to your door!

The Christmas present that keeps on giving throughout 2015, and all for just £12.

We will be having the usual draws in November and December plus a special Christmas

draw, so lots more opportunities still to win this year.

Please fill out the form below to join the 100 club for 2015 (or renew your enrolment)

starting in January. A brilliant Christmas present for all friends and family—everyone

welcome to join. Just fill out the form, include the payment to LEG100Club and pass it to

Catherine at the address below.

You have got to be in it to win it!

______________________________________________________________________________

Application to join Leighton 100 Club 2015

Name : _____________________________________________________

Address : _____________________________________________________________________

Postcode : ________________ email address : ______________________________________

£12 payment en- closed cash cheque made payable to

LEG 100 Club

Signature : __________________________________

Please send form and payment to :

Catherine Williams, Caeberllan, Hope, Welshpool, Powys SY21 8HF by January 1st 2015

at the latest. A certificate will be issued for all numbers.

October’s winners

£20 Tara Jones

£10 Huw, Henry & Rachel

£10 Jenny & David Sanders

£10 Annie Evans

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WITH CHRISTMAS ON THE HORIZON, IT’S TIME TO SHARPEN UP OUR BRAINS FOR ALL

THOSE SEASONAL QUIZZES. SO, TWO QUESTIONS—AN EASY ONE, AND ONE THAT

YOU MIGHT FIND HARDER TO ANSWER.

FIRSTLY, THE EASY ONE:

WHAT DO THESE TWELVE PICTURES HAVE IN COMMON?

THEN THE HARDER ONE:

WHAT DOES EACH PICTURE SHOW?

ANSWERS ON PAGE 9

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In recent issues we have heard something of the bravery of Stephen (Sam) BeaMe,

who was born here in Leighton and who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his

part in breaching German defences at St Nazaire, on the Loire, during World

War Two.

This is HMS Quadrant, one of eight Q Class destroyers which took part in defending Arc/c Convoys, the

North African landings and the bombardment of the Nicobar Islands. Soon a�er the end of World War

Two she served as a troop carrier between New Guinea and Australia.

She was then loaned to The Royal Australian Navy before being re-fi2ed in 1950 as a fast an/-submarine

vessel. Later that year she was transferred permanently to The Royal Australian Navy and when she was

recommissioned in 1953 she was under the command of Captain Stephen Halden BeaMe! He led the 1st

Frigate squadron, having 4 sister ships of Quadrant under his command – Quiberon, Queenborough,

Quickmatch and Quality. Quadrant acted as an escort ship to The Royal Yacht Gothic when the Queen and

the Duke of Edinburgh visited Australia in 1954.

So Captain BeaMe served Australia as well as the United Kingdom, but he moved on again to become the

Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf and worked as a Naval Adviser to the Ethiopian Government in

1965 before re/ring to Mullion in Cornwall.

He died in 1975 and is buried in Ruan Minor Churchyard. He clearly led a brave and adventurous life and

saw and served much of the world. He is a man of whom Leighton can be truly proud.

Jenny Sanders

The further adventures of Captain Beattie VC

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Worthen Practice Patient Group.

There will be a Ques�on and Answer Session with Dr McCormack at

our Open Mee�ng to be held on Wednesday 26th November at the

Methodist Chapel in Worthen. The mee�ng commences at 7.30pm.

If you have any issues rela�ng to the NHS locally, or the

prac�ce itself do come along you will be most welcome.

We are living in a woodland area so readers of The

Leighton News might like to know about Canopy Tree

Care who felled two large difficult trees near the

church. They are contractors for the Arboricultural

Associa/on. Their quote for felling the trees was

accepted from amongst other quotes. Everyone is very

pleased with the result.

They had to be felled unfortunately because they were

causing trouble with the founda/ons and drainage.

Flintshire Woodlands provide forestry services for Wales, the Midlands and the North

West and are a longstanding trusted firm. Canopy Tree Care is the company’s tree care

division. Their parent company is ScoMsh Woodlands. The following are their addresses

and telephone numbers:

Flintshire Woodlands – Brynkinalt Business Centre – Chirk, Wrexham LL14 5NS.

Tel.01691 770261.

Canopy Tree Care – Vauxhall Business Centre – Ruabon, Wrexham LL14 –6HA.

Tel: 01978 824003 Maureen Marrio1

Paul and Carol Harris held their

annual fund-raising coffee morning

for Macmillan last month and raised

£125 for them.

They would like to thank everyone who came and supported the

good work Macmillan does.

The Leighton News thanks Mr. and

Mrs. Phil Mills and Mrs.Maureen

Marrio1 for their kind dona5ons this

month.

Every copy of The Leighton News costs

around 50p to produce and distribute,

so all contribu/ons are very gratefully

received.

We thank all our sponsors, adver/sers

and readers for their con/nued

support.

IF YOU ENJOY SINGING then come along and join

BUTTINGTON CHURCH

for their

GYMANFA GANU

(Festival of Singing)

on Sunday November 16th at 6.30 p.m.

You will be very welcome

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ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ ON PAGE 6:

The easy ques5on:

All the pictures have the name LEIGHTON in common.

The harder ques5on:

A: A self portrait of the eminent Victorian ar/st Frederick Lord Leighton, the first ar/st to be ennobled

in Britain. He died the day a�er the honour was announced.

B: The parish church of Leighton Bromswold in Cambridgeshire.

C: “Flaming June”, one of the most famous pain/ngs of Frederick Lord Leighton.

D: Leighton Moss Nature Reserve in Lancashire, owned by the RSPB.

E: Leighton Hall in Shropshire.

F: Yet another Leighton Hall, this one near Yealand Redmayne in Lancashire.

G: The massive bridge over the Leighton Reservoir near Masham in North Yorkshire.

H: Leighton Andrews, Member of the Senedd.

I: A seascape by Alfred Crocker Leighton, an eminent Canadian ar/st.

J: A window seat in Leighton House, London, the home of Frederick Lord Leighton.

K: The Market Square and Cross in the centre of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.

L: The Leyland Cypress, first grown at (our) Leighton Hall in 1888.

Thank you to all who came and supported the Harvest lunch in the splendidly autumnal Village Hall. A very big thank you goes to all who cooked, donated and prepared food, to those who helped set up the hall, served the wonderful spread, organised the bar and raffle and

dealt with the clearing up afterwards. Over £1000 was raised for the church. A very enjoyable occasion was had and a chance to share in the wonderful harvest that there has been

this year. Elisabeth Griffiths

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TREE ACTIVE

Liam O’Brien Specialist Tree Surgery

Fully Qualified and Insured

01938 554671 or 07528 752679

E-mail: liam@treeactive.co.uk

www.treeactive.co.uk

KINGSWOOD FRAMES & MIRRORS

Framers, Carvers, Gilders, Restorers

Tim Haysell

Unit 2, Offa’s Dyke Business Park

Tel: 01938 554985

Fax: 01938 554901

CHAMELEON HAIR STUDIO

Broad Street, Montgomery

Specialising in foil colouring, plus all other

hairdressing requirements.

Now stockists of the vibrant and fun

Jackie Brazil Jewellery

01686 668286

PETER WHALE

Decorating Contractor Quality Workmanship

For your free estimate, contact

01938 535050

Mobile: 07870 274228

peter.whaledecorating@gmail.com

OAKLEAF JOINERY

Roy Maddox

Building and Joinery Services

Unit 6, Leighton Centre

01938 553748

BROOKLYN KENNELS

AND CATTERY

Gerry Hill and John Nunn

01938 580346

info@brooklyn-kennels-cattery.co.uk

ANDREW THOMAS

Agricultural Contracting and

Septic Tank Emptying

01938 553219

FIREWOOD

Hardwood Logs cut to size for fireplace

or woodburner

Trailer Loads delivered

Bulk Bags for collection

Call BEN on

01743 884403 or 07971 171576

COOKSON’S OF WELSHPOOL

HOPE LANE, WELSHPOOL, POWYS

GROUP TRAVEL FOR ALL OCCASIONS

48 seat Executive Coaches

21, 35, 53 & 57 seat Standard Coaches

14 and 16 seat Minibuses

Daytrips and excursions

Contact Mike or Chris on 01938 553465

THE LEIGHTON DIRECTORY

Paddock Electrical Ltd

Established 22 Years Testing and Inspection

Fire Alarms/Emergency Lighting Installations & Rewires

Electrical Condition Reports Solar Panel Installation

www.paddockelectrical.co.uk Tel 01938 555521 email info@paddockelectrical.co.uk

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SCRUFFY TO FLUFFY

DOG GROOMING

at Whitley Crest,

Halfway House, Shrewsbury.

For more information contact

GIVENY ANDREW

07773 301239

CELTICMOON DOGGY DAYCARE & HOME BOARDING

Does your dog hate being left alone while you're at work, on holiday or just out for the day? We can board your dog in our

home where he will enjoy woodland walks, canine companions and lots of cuddles. We are licenced, insured and

Kennel Club Assured.

Contact Elaine on 01938 559128 or email info@celticmoonhounds.com

WINDOW & SOLAR PANEL

CLEANING

Local Service for Residential and

Commercial Properties

Free Quotes and Affordable Rates

01938 570854 or 07779 837268

BEAUTY BY AMANDA

Ultimate Non-Surgical Face-Lift * Massages*

Tanning * Shellac manicures * Hair Removal *

Hot Stone Massage

For an appointment or consultation contact Amanda

on 01938 580002 or 07950 385215

fb page “Beauty By Amanda Welshpool” for special

offers or e-mail amandaspencer@sky.com Also available Spray Tan Parties; Consultant for “Arbonne”

SPLASH Plumbing & Heating Engineers

GAS SAFE & OFTEC Registered. Fully Trained and CRB

-checked staff. Free Quotation and Advice. Installation,

Service and Repair, from a tap washer to a complete

plumbing/heating installation. 24-hour Emergency

Call Out available to our customers. Fully Insured.

Call your local plumbers on:

01938 580113 or 07800 552026

SALLY DAVIES, HOMEOPATH

01938 580278

Homeopathy is an effective alternative therapy.

It can help with all kinds of health issues for all age

groups, including depression, stress, anxiety,

sleeplessness, and digestion.

Please feel free to phone me if you would like an

initial discussion.

I also have an established pet-sitting service.

LEIGHTON GARDENING SERVICES

For lawn-mowing, cultivating, long-reach

hedge cutting, patio cleaning, fencing,

and any other gardening needs.

Contact:

01938 570241 or 07813 720080

FEEL GREAT WITH ALOE VERA

Superb quality Aloe Vera and bee products.

Drinks, treatment creams, supplements,

personal care, skin care, weight management,

cosmetics, animal care (domestic and farm).

Special gift ideas. 60-day, money-back guarantee.

Try some products at home free.

Carol and Paul Harris 01938 553430

carol@aloevera.uk.net www.bit.ly/carolshop

N.J.EVANS AND SON Your Local Established Central Heating Specialists in Welshpool

Established over 40 years

Planned Annual Maintenance on Oil, Gas & LPG Central

Heating Boilers with 24 Hour Breakdown Cover.

Free quotations on new efficient central heating boilers.

Now is a good time to act and save money on fuel costs.

Showrooms at 1 & 2 Jehu Road, Welshpool

01938 552976

BOOKKEEPING SOLUTIONS

A cost effective bookkeeping service for small to medium size businesses. Services include

computerised accounting, VAT Returns, management accounts.

IAB Registered

GARRETTS LTD

Tel: 01938 580533 e-mail: garretts4.mail@tiscali.co.uk

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THE HERBERT ARMS, CHIRBURY

01938 561216

Lunches and evening meals served daily,

apart from Tuesday.

Sunday Roast lunch, with dessert, for only £10!

Local Ales Available

Happy Hour, Monday to Friday 5—7 p.m.

SARAH EVANS

PROPERTY SERVICES

OFFERING RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL

LANDLORDS A PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SERVICE

Regulated by RICS

CONTACT: SARAH EVANS B.Sc.(Hons) MRICS

T: 07989 175441 E: sarahevans.ps@btinternet.com

A: Castle View, Leighton SY21 8HH

DI STEVENS

MCSP HPC Reg

Chartered Human and Animal Physiotherapist

07808 529925

Helping you and your loved ones reduce pain and

restore movement

Home Visits Available

What would you do with your life

if you could wave a magic wand?

Do you know anyone (any age and anywhere in the UK,

or overseas) looking for more control over their income, a

better pension, or a way of helping others? If so, please

ask them to talk to us about how to achieve totally

uncapped and willable income in a few hours a week.

Carol and Paul Harris 01938 553430

carol@aloevera.uk.net

And finally….. A word from our sponsors

LEIGHTON ESTATE WOODLANDS

CHRISTMAS TREES FOR SALE

Norway, Noble and

Nordmann Spruce

PLEASE ORDER EARLY

TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

Firewood and logs

also available

(hardwood and softwood)

Please Contact:

WILL JONES

on 07889 922342