Letters to the Editors
Hurrah, hurrah for the buses.. .
Dear Editors,
As many people in the parish will know by now, the threat to the 10/10A evening and Sunday bus services has been removed, at least for the short term.
Our understanding is that Cambridgeshire County Council will continue to subsidise those services which Stagecoach regard as uneconomic. But their support for the Sunday services will be reviewed next July. This announcement was greeted with a great sense of relief by the many users and their families along the route. A lot of people wrote letters, sent e-mails, signed petitions and lobbied influential bodies and/or individuals to gain the favourable decision made by Cambridgeshire County Council. To those individuals, we owe our thanks. We also recognise the help of and wish to thank our Parish Council, our District Councillor Allen Alderson for his hard work, our County Councillor Hazel Williams for her great effort and encouragement and our MP James Paice for his support. We understand that all the representations to the C.C.C. Passenger Transport Communication Team helped win the day for the 10/10A services when pleas for services on other routes were less successful or failed.
For villages which have lost services we feel sorry. But be aware, we must justify a need for our services. This means using them or we may well lose first the Sunday services and who knows what after that.
The Crier will be doing it's bit!. Thanks to Celia Tyler, our new Transport Correspondent, bus timetables will be delivered to all in next month's issue. Eds
HOCKEY ON BOXING DAY MORNING
AFTER the disappointment last year both Prior and Bulbeck are pawing the ground
to get at each other in the annual great inter-village challenge match.
Bulbeck has signed the brilliant David Towriss as its new manager. Pah!, let's see how this youngster gets on. I hear he reckons he's already picked the winning team.
Meanwhile I am starting to put together the Prior team. If you are new to the village and want to show off your hockey skills phone me. And if you feel you've been overlooked please do likewise.
As usual the match will take place on Boxing Day, on the lovely Denny at Swaffham Bulbeck, at 11.00am.
There will be a collection for Magpas, and there may even be some mulled wine, so bring some money as well as yourself.
Come and Support your local team!
HOLLY
Having moved from Anglesey House we will not be cutting and selling Holly this
year.
Even if we had remained at Anglesey House we would not have continued with the Holly. Increasingly it is going out of fashion. Last year we had to work very hard to shift our harvest. We phoned, we waved down passing cars, and accosted innocent visitors to the village.
This year, with the permission of the Vicar, people are welcome to cut their own holly at £2.50 a bunch. Please place the money in the donation box within St. Mary's Church.
If any of our favoured customers from the past are really unable to manage the physical cutting, please phone us and we will cut and deliver.