King's Arms at Burton in Kendal wins national competition!

Press Release: 22 March 2016

CUMBRIAN PUB IS NATION’S HEARTWARMING HERO

A CUMBRIAN pub has scooped top prize in Heinz’s Heartwarming Heroes competition – and has pledged to turn hundreds of children into life-saving heroes with the prize money.

The Kings Arms, in Burton-in-Kendal, won first place in the national competition, which was searching for pubs and restaurants that go the extra mile.

Winners Ann and Neil France, Licensees of the Thwaites pub, will receive £10,000 prize money as well as £10,000 towards a community event.

Ann said: “We couldn’t believe it when we were told we had won. Neil read out the email to me and I thought he was joking but we’re absolutely thrilled with the news. It’s a great honour for the pub and it will be great for the village.

“We’ve been overwhelmed with the support we’ve had from everyone and would like to thank all those involved.”

Ann and Neil are planning to spend the prize money on a community first aid day for the local primary school, teaching youngsters, their parents and teachers valuable life-saving skills. The day will include demonstrations, practical advice and take away materials to help keep the whole community safe. They are currently contacting local organisations that may be interested in supporting the event, including the Air Ambulance and Community First Responders.

The Kings Arms is a former coaching inn dating back to 1753, and listed as a stop off on the John O’Groats to Land’s End cycle route, as well as the Wainwright Coast to Coast walk. As a result, it is a popular spot for walkers and cyclists and recently expanded, converting a barn into seven luxury bedrooms, which gives them 13 ensuite letting rooms in total.

Ann and Neil have been at the helm for seven years, and have run pubs across the country for the last 37 years. They are at the heart of village life in Burton-in-Kendal, hosting two major annual events, the Daffodil Show and Onion Show, which raise thousands of pounds for local good causes. They have turned the rear of their car park into allotments for local growers and support the local school sports day.

News that they had been named top community pub in the Heinz competition came as no surprise to Andrew Buchanan, Daniel Thwaites’ Director of Pub Operations, who said: “Ann and Neil have high standards in place and take pride in the pub as well as making a valuable contribution to the local community. Whenever I speak to them they are always at the heart of activity taking place in Burton-in-Kendal and willing to get involved in anything that brings the community together.

“Their friendly approach makes the King’s Arms welcoming for both locals and visitors alike and they deserve every success.”

ELECTION OF PARISH COUNCILLORS (Burton in Kendal)

South Lakeland District Council NOTICE OF ELECTION

ELECTION OF PARISH COUNCILLORS

to be held on

Thursday, 5 May 2016

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT

1. An election is to be held of Parish Councillors for each of the Parishes or Parish Wards as indicated in the Schedule below.

2. Nomination papers must be delivered to the Returning Officer, South Lakeland House, Lowther Street, Kendal LA9 4UQ, on any day after the date of this Notice, on Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm (excluding bank holidays) but no later than 4pm on THURSDAY, 7 APRIL 2016.

3. Nomination Papers may be obtained from the offices of the Returning Officer at the same address, during the times stated above, or from the person named in the Schedule below, who will, at the request of any elector for the electoral area, prepare a Nomination Paper for signature.

4. If any election is contested, the poll will take place on THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016.

5. Electors should take note that:

•  applications to register to vote must reach the Electoral Registration Officer at South Lakeland House, Lowther Street, Kendal LA9 4UQ, by MONDAY, 18 APRIL 2016
•  applications for new postal votes or applications to change or cancel an existing postal or proxy vote must reach the Electoral Registration Officer by 5pm on TUESDAY, 19 APRIL 2016
•  applications for new proxy votes must reach the Electoral Registration Officer by 5pm on TUESDAY, 26 APRIL 2016.

6. Applications to vote by emergency proxy at this election on the grounds of physical incapacity or for work/service reasons must reach the Electoral Registration Officer by 5pm on polling day, 5 May 2016. The physical incapacity must have occurred after 5pm on 26 April 2016. To apply on the grounds of work/service, the person must have become aware that they cannot go to the polling station in person after 5pm on 26 April 2016.

Dated: Friday, 18 March 2016 

DEBBIE STORR

Returning Officer

South Lakeland House

Lowther Street

Kendal LA9 4UQ

SCHEDULE

Parish BURTON-IN-KENDAL

Parish Ward (if applicable) 

No. of Councillors to be elected 9

Person from whom Nomination Papers can be obtained 

Ms C. Davidson, 2 The Square West, Burton-in-Kendal, Carnforth, Lancs. LA6 1LX

Cumbria Police campaign against Child Sexual Exploitation

Cumbria Constabulary is committed to preventing child sexual exploitation, helping victims and bringing offenders to justice. It is a crime that can affect any child, anytime, anywhere - regardless of their social or ethnic background.

It involves offenders grooming young people and using their power to sexually abuse them. It can take many forms, whether it occurs through a seemingly 'consensual' relationship with an older boyfriend, or a young person having sex in return for attention, gifts, alcohol or cigarettes.

Sexual exploitation is child abuse and, although they may not realise it, it puts the young victim at huge risk of damage to their physical, emotional and psychological health.

Many young people who are being abused do not realise they are at risk and will not call for help. They may see themselves as willing participants when in fact their behaviour is anything but consenting. And, while there is no stereotypical victim of exploitation, there are warning signs in children's behaviour that may indicate something is wrong – and if you know what you're looking for, you can take steps to help them.

Read more and how to help keep our young people safe:https://www.cumbria.police.uk/Advice-Centre/Personal-Safety/Child-Sexual-Exploitation.aspx

Anyone with concerns about child sexual exploitation can contact Cumbria Police on 101. In an emergency always dial 999.

Notice from the Parish Council

It has come to the Council's attention that horse manure is being dumped beside the roads at many different locations in the parish. As fly tipping, it is a criminal offence under the terms of The Clean
Neighbourhood and Environment Act. This unsightly and noxious mess is now attracting other forms of fly tipping.The council asks residents to be watchful and if the offender is seen carrying out this offence that the vehicle registration is taken and reported to the Police (call 101) or South Lakeland District Council (01539 733333) so appropriate action can be taken.

Annual Burton Daffodil Show - List of Auction Promises

2016 Daffodil Show List of Auction Promises

1. Side of home smoked salmon. Neil Shaw
2. 75 + mixed vegetable plants plus 12 strawberry plants. Amy and Jessica Graham
3. Mixed Greek Basket. Gill and Akis
4. Afternoon’s guided trout fishing inc supper. Carl Jackson
5. Selection of home made jam and chutney. Rachel Graham
6. Haunch of Venison. Jeff Nichols
7. Afternoon’s pigeon shooting inc 50 cartridges and supper in the King's. Callum Graham
8. 30 cupcakes or a kids birthday cake. Ruth Shaw
9. 12 mixed Dahlia Tubers from Ed Hindson/Jack Gott stock. Callum Graham
10. Cake a month for 6 months. Group leaders
11. Slate place mats. Carl Jackson
12. 10lb of free range pork sausage. Shagram meats
13. Chris Kirkham’s home made cheese and onion pie. Chris Kirkham
14. 7 x 4ft load of seasoned firewood. BPW “Firewood”
15. Molly’s Marmalade. Molly Long

Plus many more lots on the day.

2016 Daffodil Show Easter Sunday 27th March, at the King's Arms Hotel, Main Street, Burton
Entries must be in between 10.30 am - 12 noon. Auction and sale starts 1.30 pm.

In aid of Burton's Guides, Brownies and Rainbows.

Family Easter Bingo 18th March at BMH

Burton Children's Sports Committee presents: A Family Easter Bingo on Friday 18th March at the Burton Memorial Hall, doors open 6:30pm eyes down 7:30pm. Your compere without compare, Julian "one little duck" Rowley will be calling the numbers. Licensed bar serving beers and wine. Hot sausage buns will be served along with tea, coffee and cakes. Raffle and cash flyer. Kids Easter colouring competition to be judged on the night, colouring sheets will be available in school and at pre-school soon. Would be nice too see lots of family's support this event as all proceeds go towards the children's events that are put on during the course of the year.

Weather for astronomers

Today we have added a new panel below this one, which gives information about weather and visibility from a website called Clear Outside. The difference being that this one is aimed at astronomers.

The info covers all aspects of the weather that is of interest to stargazers and those who enjoy taking photos of the skies at night, but will also prove useful to others who want specific and accurate (well as accurate as we can hope for!) information about the weather.

So whether it is cloud cover, rain or frost our new panel will keep you informed.

As a bonus if you go to the Clear Outside website and see the info there it will also tell you if the International Space Station is due for a pass overhead - how neat is that?!

Now you have no excuse for not knowing when you can take pics of the moon or those meteor showers or other sky objects. :)

The full moon over Burton on Xmas Eve 2015, photo © Anne Nichols 2015

Library van dies, library book drop begins

The nearest library to our village is 5 miles away, so Burton was visited weekly on a Monday for an hour by a mobile library van which parked in the memorial hall car park. It was very well-used, by many people from older people to mums with small kids, for all of whom it saved the hassle, time and expense of a trip on the bus or by car into the nearest library to borrow or order books.

Late last year the library van developed a fault which meant it was withdrawn from service - as a replacement would cost c.£100,000, according to county council, and as they are cutting back due to reduced grants etc. from govt., we faced having no library presence in the village.

For many years on the first Monday of the month a group of volunteers have been running a library coffee morning at the same time as the van visited, and this raised funds to help with the village hall's upkeep. Loss of library van put the coffee morning at risk, so the volunteers got together and decided to approach the county council to ask if there could be a book drop at the hall instead of the library van. 

After several meetings with the county library service to hash out the details there is now a book drop service to replace the library van. A large folding bookcase is stored in the village hall into which the library service will drop off 200 books every so often and take the old batch away, and the volunteers run this village library on the first and third Mondays each month, with the option to increase to every Monday if demand justifies it.

It's still a very new service, but is worth trying to keep access to books going within the village. What would be even better would be if the county council could be persuaded to allow the village hall to be a library link, which would require the use of a computer terminal to access the online services which are only available in libraries and library links, e.g. reference and genealogy resources. But at least for now the books are accessible easily still.

Lancashire Life features Burton in January 2016

Burton features in the January edition of Lancashire Life magazine.

Lakeland Wildlife Oasis flood appeal

The local little charity, Lakeland Wildlife Oasis, across the moss from Burton on the A6 has been badly flooded, and is needing help with the clean up and repairs. 

This is a small place, doing important conservation work. This is the park where the globally endangered and rare Snow Leopards cubs were born in May 2014.  One of the two cubs has left to join a breeding programme elsewhere, whilst the other is still at LWO awaiting paperwork which will allow him to move to another breeding programme.

As well as practical help (details when we have them later) they have launched an appeal to raise £5000.

If you can help in any way, please would you do so?
Appeal Link: https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/jayneestelle-gibbins

Find them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Lakeland-Wildlife-Oasis

Their own website: http://wildlifeoasis.co.uk/

Christmas Fair

Christmas Fair in aid of Burton Memorial Hall & Burton Pre-school. Lots of stalls, Santa's Grotto, Music by Kirkby Lonsdale Brass Band, games, refreshments, cakes!  Everyone welcome!!!

After the Deluge - the Spirit of Cumbria

What a stressful time it has been thanks to Storm Desmond. Here is Burton we escaped relatively lightly. A few wet cellars, some flooded and damaged roads, and a collapsed wall or two, but nothing on the scale of the communities around us. 

Seeing many places under feet of water is so shocking. It's hard to imagine what it is like living in a street where the flood water comes up to your chest, or where the West Coast Main Line is under eight feet of flood water.

Some 5,000 homes across the county have been flooded, which means all those families are now either staying with friends and relatives or have taken shelter on one of the refuges around the county.

The assistance given by the emergency services, by volunteers from organisations such as RNLI, Bay Search and Rescue, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the mountain rescue teams and many others, plus the support given by the Army, has been invaluable. They have worked tirelessly since the Storm began, and everyone in the county owes a huge debt of gratitude to them all.  Without them it would have been so much worse.

Aid has also come from all over the country. Kind people throughout the UK have been contacting local groups, offering clothing, bedding, Christmas gifts, food and drink, and much more besides, to those who have lost so much in the floods. Their generosity is overwhelming and much appreciated.

It will take millions of pounds to effect repairs to all of the properties damaged, to mend all the roads ripped up or washed away, to replace the bridges destroyed. Just cleaning the mud and water out and disposing of damaged items will be a huge task. Kendal Lions have provided a huge quantity of cleaning materials for those affected in Kendal. Supermarkets ASDA and Morrisons have been sending food and clothing to the refuges. Hundreds of local businesses have offered help without being asked. The community spirit is strong in Cumbria, but it will take more to rebuild our towns and villages.

The Cumbria Foundation's Cumbria 2015 Flood Appeal was launched over the weekend, and has, as of today, raised more than £500,000 towards its target of £2 million, which will go to help anyone in the county who needs help as a result of the flooding.

If you can help by making a donation to the Appeal, you can do so via their Just Giving webpage here http://campaign.justgiving.com/charity/cumbriafoundation/cumbriafloodappeal2015

If you need help just ask, if you can help just offer. http://www.spiritofcumbria.co.uk/ And thank you to everyone who does.

Diary of a Border Collie Pup - local book

Book: Diary of a Border Collie Pup
by Elaine and Edd Hindson

If you have ever wanted to understand what a Border Collie pup thinks, this is the book for you!

The answers are all here in this enchanting diary, as this wee pup gets to know the village and meets lots of new friends on his walks with Edd.

Available now from Amazon: £3.99 in paperback

Christmas Bingo Dates at Burton Memorial Hall

Annual fun and fund-raisers for four groups in the village, this year's Christmas Bingo details are:

Thursday 26th November

Thursday 3rd December

Friday 11th December

Friday 18th December

All four sessions follow the same format: Doors Open at 6.30pm, eyes down at 7.30pm.

Drinks, sandwiches and cake on sale at each event.

Raffle plus great Bingo prizes.

Family friendly event. Everyone welcome.

Please see the poster below!

Job vacancy for local farm worker - weekends

VACANCY at local farm: "We are in need of a part time farm worker to cover weekend milking time to feed & bed-up, both days. If you know of anyone could you please pass this on with my contact details (07852 240778) thanks."

Whin Yeats Dairy at Hutton Roof

I was excited to hear today that Whin Yeats Dairy at Hutton Roof are making cheese from the milk from their dairy herd. I love cheese, and having it made just a couple of miles away is even better, so I'm eagerly awaiting the first batch's arrival.  It will be on sale at various farmers' markets in the area, so watch this space for more news. You can also follow Whin Yeats Dairy on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

Burton CraftMarket 2015

CraftMarket 2015 - Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th October, 2015. 10am - 4pm both days

Annual fund-raising CraftMarket at Burton Memorial Hall, Cumbria, LA6 1NA with fabulous crafts on sale direct from the crafter, craft demos, kids' crafts, Vintage Village Hall Tea Room. 

Admission: adults £1, kids go free.  Disabled parking, access and toilet. Baby-change facilities. Parking. WiFi. 

Burton in Kendal Onion Show

Kings Arms, Burton in Kendal

Sunday 4th October 2015

Classes and promises to date are as follows:

Classes

1. 3 Dressed Onions
2. 3 Leeks
3. 3 Onion sets
4. 2 Cabbages
5. 3 gourd
6. 3 Beetroot
7. 3 Carrots
8. 3 Individual Salad Vegetables
9. 3 Individual Mixed Vegetables
10. 5 Individual Mixed Vegetables
11. Heaviest Onion
12. Heaviest Vegetable
13. 5 Dessert Apples
14. 5 Cooking Apples
15. Pot Plant
16. Vase of Flowers
17. Vase of Dahlias
18. 3 Chrysanthemums
19. Chocolate Cake
20. Novelty cake
21. Fruit Pie
22. Loaf of Bread
23. 4 Cup cakes
24. Tray Bake
25. 3 Poultry Eggs
26. Novice Class (any veg)
27. Jar of homemade jam with taster pot
28. Jar of chutney with taster pot

Children’s classes’. Up to yr 2 and yrs 3-6

29. Item made from recyclable materials
30. Fruit and Veg animal
31. Wildlife/animal picture
32. 3 Decorated biscuits

Entries taken from 10.00hrs and closed at noon for judging to commence afterwards. Auction of promises/entries to commence at 2pm, we look forward to another brilliant day.

There will be a ducking stool offering you a chance to dunk a local “Lady” plus bouncy castle and kids entertainment.

List of promises to date (donor)

Side of Home Cold Smoked Salmon. Neil Shaw.

Walking Stick. Roger Shaw.

Fly only session on the River Bela Ian Hunt

Dinner, B&B in the deluxe Lapwing suite @ Longlands. Fiona and Barry Robinson

Half Rib of Hereford Beef John Long.

Traditional English Game Meal for 4. Neil and Ruth Shaw.

Haunch of Venison Jeff Nicholls.

Days Driven Pheasant Shooting @ Heversham. Callum Graham

15kg Park House Box of Beef. Paul Capstick

Greek hamper. Jill and Akis.

Weekend at Seathwaite Cottage. Julian Rowley

Photo shoot inc 1 10 x 8 print. John Jackson.

10lb pack of traditional free range pork sausages. Shagram meats.

Afternoon Tea for 2 at Sharrow Bay. BPW Fire Safety.

Side of Lamb. Mark Blease.

Personalised slate place mats. Carl Jackson.

4hr bush craft/forest skills kids’ session in the woods. Graham Brandwood.

Overnight stay for 2 in the White Hart, Harrogate, inc brewery trip. Louise and Andy Barker.

Furness Fish and Game Hamper Clare Worrall

Pure Essence voucher. Sue Shields.

The best Cheese and Onion pie in’t world. Chris Kirkham.

MOT Pritchard’s Garage

Evening rise on Lupton Reservoir Ian Hunt

Days Salmon fishing inc lunch. Carl Jackson

Selection of homemade jam and marmalade. Mollie, Sheila and Rachel.

Onion show liqueur pack Onion show committee.

Homemade Christmas cake Rebecca Ludlum

½ dozen free range eggs a week for 3 months. Roy Healey.

2 gardeners for half a day. Julian and Moira Rowley

Fresh fish hamper. Nathan Lusted.

Bath Lift for sale

A Celebration of the Music of Simon and Garfunkel

A Celebration of the Music of Simon and Garfunkel is coming to Burton Memorial Hall on Friday 31st July.  As well as great music performed by Tim Chu and Ian Bailey, there will be a bar in aid of Hall funds.  Tickets are £12 per person and are on sale (cash only) at Burton Village Store, or via the musicians' website here: http://classicsingersongwriters.co.uk/sandg/