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POLECAT SIGHTINGS Village Calendars
The sale of the calendars made a profit of £180. This money will be donated to the
Firefighters Charity.
Apparently polecats are
gradually re-establishing locally
after years of persecution in the Speed Watch Report
previous century and earlier. Our
home is near the top of Rye Hill
st
and you may interested that, on Monday 1 December; Court
Saturday 20th November, we Green 11am to 12pm
saw a polecat within yards of our Total number of vehicles 340; of
back door at about 7:15 a.m. which 2 were travelling in excess
Previously on 19 July 2014 we of 38 mph and 20 were travelling
had a sighting of a family group in excess of 30 mph.
of a mother and two three
quarter grown youngsters which
stayed around our garden for most of the morning that day disappearing from Monday 6th December; Green Close 1pm to 2pm
time to time into shrubs only to emerge again later. We've had no further sightings
until this recent one so we were very pleased as it suggests the re-establishment is This was monitored by DST. As it was raining our team did not join DST for this
continuing successfully. session. 20 vehicles were recorded travelling in excess of 36 mph and will receive
a speeding fine.
We had reported the earlier sighting to DERC at the time and have reported this
latest sighting to them and the DWT with the latter body being especially
interested with the development (if that is the right word) of the Wild Woodbury 13th of December was cancelled due to the weather.
project which is only half a mile away. Unfortunately we were unable to get a The next session will be on 10th January 2022.
photograph as the creature was constantly on the move hunting in and out the
shrubs.
Parish Lengthsman
Jan and Chris Nother
Most residents are aware that we are in the very fortunate position that we have
a Lengthsman but perhaps not many actually know what he does. So here is a
breakdown of the work he undertook for the parish during December.
23 hours at the Cemetery keeping the grass and hedges neatly cut at all times,
clearing litter, and maintaining the graves and marking plots for new burials.
14 hours at the play area – undertaking maintenance of all the play equipment
and carrying out all necessary repairs. Litter picking the area and carrying out
weekly inspections.
37.5 hours clearing litter and fly tipping from around the parish, emptying litter bins
and taking it to the tip.
39 hours clearing fallen trees and branches and removing the debris from the
Elder Road area, Rye Hill and West Street.
Other duties included repairing benches, collecting and delivering Christmas

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