Editorial
LIKE MANY COMMUNITY MAGAZINES, the Crier takes an August summer holiday. Into the middle this, the County Council carefully dropped the bombshell that they were cancelling our evening bus service, any objections to arrive by September 26.
But we don't run a September issue! You can read all about it in this issue (Letters, Our Reporter, Karen King, and Allen Alderson). Concerned readers should nevertheless turn up at the Neighbourhood Panel meeting:
SP VILLAGE HALL TUESDAY OCT 7, 7pm
since Hazel Williams has obtained the assurance of the Council that any comments here will be "taken into account".
Even for those of us not entitled to subsidised transport, our current half-hourly service represents excellent value, since when fuel and parking is taken into account, it's both faster and cheaper: a pleasant journey with no worries about what to do with the car when you get there.
But for our young people, who had just paid £500 for a yearly bus-pass before this cut was announced, it's there lifeline into the social centre of Cambridge - come on CCC! This is not the time to be cancelling buses.
Record number of entries for the Crossword this month, but no worries for Crossword Federers Bob and Julie Nunn, who effortlessly shrugged off the competition to be the first readers to sample our prize double meal from the excellent home-cooked cuisine at the Red Lion.
You see, there were two obscure birds that might have fitted 25 down, a stilt and a stint, but only one that might also be a spile! - yes, the Crier crossword can be evil, but who will be the Nadal come to challenge?
The Quiz Night went off with a bang, where cool, calm and collected Densa (Quiz Federers from outside the village) got into an unaccustomed fluff, we hear, and "Nevermind the Buzzcocks" Quiz Master Steve Kent Phillips gave a quite exceptional solo rendition of various pop songs - was this what did for Densa? Alas, the editors missed it, we don't know who won, let us know, someone! See you Halloweening..