All dentists have been advised to cease all face to face contact. A new directive has been issued that advises those with dental issues not to go to their GP or A&E, but to contact dentists that are participating in a triage service. A full list of dentists operating the triage phone service will be provided on the RCC website.
There will be a visit to our nearest drop off/collection ‘For the love of Scrubs’ location in Ketton tomorrow (Wednesday) @ 12 noon.
If anyone needs any fabric, tape etc for bags, hats or headbands then do let us know; finished articles can also be dropped off at the same time & we’re happy to collect these from your garden gate in the morning.
The FTLS Stamford & Rutland group have sourced a pallet load of the correct fabric with their “just giving“ funds. This is being split into 3 x 3.5 metre packs and this will be distributed amongst the local drop off points.
Please let Liliane Coogan, 01780 721047 know if you would like some of this fabric to make scrub outfits with.
Whilst we are still awaiting arrival of the ‘Scrubs’ pattern, folks can still be making laundry bags, surgical hats & headbands.
Many thanks for anything & everything you can do at this time.
More information on the whole programme here
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2433476800227482/
Stay Safe 😊
A Very Happy Easter,
with hope for everyone to keep their neighbours safe & well.
Small chocolate eggs can be had for the taking beside the cross which is
situated near the zebra crossing.
All eggs in foil which is untouched by human hand, sanitised & can be
easily picked up by its own cocktail stick!
Thanks from the Parish Church to Colin Heasell for some of the wood, to
John Dyckhoff for making the cross & to Lilliane Coogan for some of the
fabric flowers.
Dear resident,
First, a very happy Easter to you all. I hope you are able to enjoy the weather safely and that those of you with children and grandchildren are keeping them entertained whist following the no socialising rules. I’m missing my own daughter who was due to be spending the long weekend here in Rutland and sadly my contact with her is now only electronic. Please don’t be tempted to visit grandparents or let your children play with children from another family; social distancing is still essential. However, if you want something to amuse your children Visions Children’s Centre has come up with some ideas https://www.visionsccc.co.uk/sessions as has Rutland Museum https://rutlandcountymuseum.org.uk/kids-crafts/
Not all children are safe and happy, however, and RCC has recently issued a press release about safeguarding children. Here is part of it “Since the introduction of social distancing measures, brought in to limit the spread of coronavirus, the Council has seen a drop in reports to their safeguarding team. Council experts are concerned that, despite this drop, cases of child abuse may be on the rise, with fewer opportunities for it to be seen, reported and stopped. They are calling on residents to help make sure children are kept safe. If you have any concerns or something doesn’t look right, please let us know. Across the county front doors are being kept closed. But our door is always open. Residents are asked to look and listen out for signs that may indicate abuse:
* Very young children being left on their own
* Children looking dirty or not changing their clothes
* Children are withdrawn or anxious
* Aggressive or repeated shouting
* Sounds of hitting or banging and things being broken
* Children crying for long periods of time
* Relatives denied access to talk to children by phone or video call
To report concerns about children’s welfare call 01572 758 407 or email childrensreferrals@rutland.gov.uk <mailto:childrensreferrals@rutland.gov.uk> .
If a child is in immediate danger call 999 and ask for the police.”
Despite this lovely weather please don’t be tempted beyond your own garden other than necessary food shopping, a medical appointment or your own exercise. And don’t be tempted to have a house (or garden) party. The NHS needs us to keep lockdown so it doesn’t become overwhelmed. Stay safe. Stay happy.
Gale Waller
County Councillor, Normanton Ward
gwaller@rutland.gov.uk 01780 722169
We now have a twice weekly prescription collection scheduled with Empingham Medical Centre. We will collect from them after 4pm on Wednesday and Friday afternoons.
The surgery have requested that any repeat prescriptions are notified 1 week in advance and not 72 hours as has previously been the case (You do not need to do this if your repeat prescription is automatically renewed each month). This is to enable them to provide the key service that we all need so please help them by adhering to this.
If you let the good neighbours scheme know when you have submitted your prescription we can collect for you during the Wednesday or Friday afternoon pick-up. Email nlgns2020@gmail.com or call 07825 697841. Please leave your name as the surgery knows it, address, telephone number, whether you are exempt from charges or have a prepayment certificate, and your date of birth (requested by the surgery to make it quicker for them to process).
If you have an emergency prescription this can be collected any day by contacting us as above.
Thank you
Good advice and useful contact details. Please click on the links below.
Dear resident,
Many of you will have read in the press that calls to national charity helplines for those suffering domestic abuse have increased significantly during our self-isolation period. The Government has set up help for people suffering such abuse; it’s called The Silent Solution. Victims dial 999 and when the operator asks which emergency they want the caller taps the ‘phone or coughs. The operator will then prompt the caller to press 55 and the operator then directs the call to the relevant police force as an emergency. Please let anyone you know who might benefit from this service; more information on Rutland’s Facebook page (see below).
We all love our pets and they bring many people great comfort in times like these but please remember, when you are out walking your dog clear up its mess. Sadly we have seen an increase in dog mess in parts of Rutland. Please do your best to keep our pavements, paths and countryside clean.
If you are an individual or a business and have any Covid-19 questions and haven’t yet looked at RCC’s web site I would urge you to do so as it is being updated regularly. https://www.rutland.gov.uk/my-services/health-and-family/health-and-nhs/health-and-support-services/coronavirus/ You might also want to have a look at the Council’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pg/RutlandCountyCouncil/posts/?ref=page_internal for up to the minute information.
Finally today I have a message from Alicia Kearns our MP.
Dear Residents,
Thank you for all you are doing to keep our communities safe. I’m enormously grateful to you all for adhering to the Government guidance. In this pandemic each of us can save lives, simply by staying home.
Over the coming months our communities will lose people we love, people we used to wave at on the street, and those we hadn’t yet had the chance to get to know. We’re already mourning people this virus has taken from us.
Thank you for all you are doing to support each other. In particular an enormous thanks to all our keyworkers, from NHS Staff and Carers, to our Council Workers, Teachers, Refuse Men and Women, Delivery Drivers, and Shop Workers.
If someone is giving their all to support our local communities, please write to me and nominate them for a Rutland and Melton Unsung Hero Award. I’ve launched these awards to say thank you to those working tirelessly to protect our communities, and have already recognised Oakham School and Rutland Plastics for their substantial and heroic efforts.
Following Government advice my office’s ways of working are changing. I am working to come back to you as quickly as possible, but ask that you make all contact via email as I cannot guarantee that we will be able to respond to telephone calls or letters in a timely manner.
For frequent updates on new Government support for individuals and businesses to defeat COVID-19, and to sign up to my newsletter please email alicia.kearns.mp@parliament.uk <mailto:alicia.kearns.mp@parliament.uk> .
I remain completely committed to supporting every single one of you, together we can save lives and protect our communities.
Stay safe,
Alicia
Gale Waller
County Councillor, Normanton Ward
gwaller@rutland.gov.uk 01780 722169
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic Ahimsa Dairy is running free weekly deliveries of fresh milk in the villages of Manton, Wing and North Luffenham. Whole organic pasteurised or raw milk is available at a special subsidised price of £1.50 a litre throughout the lockdown period.
For more details please contact:
Nikki mobile 07958 347629 or email nikkisemail2002@gmail.com
About Us
The Ahimsa Dairy Foundation is a not-for-profit company that was set up to provide entirely slaughter-free milk. At present our girls, who all have names, produce 23,000 of litres of milk a year. We distribute to the door in North West London and parts of Hertfordshire. We have drop-off points in other areas of London and the South-East and can distribute milk and other products when available nationally by mail. We also go to Queens Park and Islington London Farmers’ markets on Sundays and Stamford market on Fridays. Cows are retired to join their friends in the non-milking herd when they are past milking age where they spend their days eating grass and chewing the cud.
We are looking at a variety of ways of working with bulls. These range from ploughing the land to producing electricity and milling flour.
Our mission is to make slaughter-free milk a reality and establish sustainable dairy farms in Britain, which give people a real ethical choice.
A range of tasty meals to fill your freezer, home made in Morcott, delivered to
your door, available for one, two or four persons.
Please click on the link below for details.
Dear resident,
It is now official, there has been a recorded case of Coronavirus in a Rutland resident. We in Rutland are not immune from this disease so I would urge you to take self-isolation and social distancing seriously. This means restricting visiting a shop to not more than once a week, having shopping delivered if possible, using your village’s prescription collection service to reduce the numbers going to the surgeries and pharmacies, and staying indoors. Some people have to go out to work, of course, and we are all allowed out for daily exercise but one session of daily exercise is just that. It’s not a bike ride/jog in the morning and a walk with the family or dog in the afternoon; it is one or the other and walking your dog is your daily exercise as well as the dog’s! It has been reported that young people have been seen playing football on our village open spaces. This is not acceptable because it is impossible to play football and maintain the 2 meter social distance required by Government and it is enabling cross family mixing, again not recommended. Don’t let your children and grandchildren out to play with other families till all this is over and if you see any football or other games going on, feel free to challenge the players. The latest modelling suggests the death toll in the UK from Covid-19 will be lower that first feared, largely because of the success of self-isolation and social distancing but we all need to keep it up. Look after yourself and if you need to contact me, or just want a chat, the details are below.
Gale Waller
County Councillor, Normanton Ward
gwaller@rutland.gov.uk 01780 722169
For patients of Uppingham Surgery who need their medications to be collected and delivered to them please note the following.
The dispensary team at the surgery are operating the following system:
1: Please order directly with dispensary as usual (phone, online etc) – in the morning
2: Email nlgns2020@gmail.com or phone 07825 697841 (a message can be left) the medicines that you require. Please do this the same day by the afternoon.
3: The surgery currently requires 72 working hours from time of ordering to dispensing turnaround: please see table below
4. A volunteer will deliver the medicines by first ringing your doorbell, leaving the the medicines on the doorstep and wait at least 2 metres (6 Feet) away to see that you collect them.
Order Monday-ready for collecting Thursday
” Tuesday ” ” Friday
” Wednesday ” ” Monday
” Thursday ” ” Tuesday
” Friday ” ” Wednesday
Arthur’s Mobile Fish & Chips24 March at 18:06
COVID-19 UPDATE
We will not be running this week (23rd-27th March) after this weeks announcement.
Next week we will be running but on a DELIVERY ONLY basis.
We will NOT be taking any orders at the van. If you come to the van you will be sent away.
Please understand that we can only deliver in the villages that we park in.. if you come to us regularly but don’t live in any of the villages please contact us on 07702318625 to see what we can do.
If you can call before 2pm if possible to place your order on the day please do. We will be taking orders over the phone while the van is out but it makes our job harder. We want this to run as smoothly as possible for everyone.
Payment can be made via BACS, PayPal or at the door via contactless card payment (our card reader will be on a stick to minimise contact) if you are only able to pay by cash please state while ordering and we will call you when we are on our way with your order to leave the money outside your door, and we will leave food with your change (we are disinfecting all cash handled)
If you are unable to pay by BACS or PayPal at Barrowden, Nassington or Elton you will have to pay by cash as we get no signal to use the card reader.
We will be unable to give you a time that your order will be with you, but it will be roughly within the time slot we are in your village.
There will be a £1.20 charge per order for delivery to cover the cost of the extra car and fuel used.
Kerrie-Ann will be delivering your food wearing clean gloves for each delivery and a face mask. She will knock on your door and leave the food on your door step and wait at the end of your drive way to insure you get your food unless payment is needed.
We will not be selling some items on our menu to keep things simple. We will post a menu by the end of the week.
The number to order on is
07702318625. If we don’t answer the phone please DO NOT leave a voice mail, either call again later or send us a text.
From Alison Woods – My daughter Erin has her GCSE art exam that she is expected to complete at home on Monday and Tuesday next week. I was wondering if anybody in the village has an easel that they would be willing to lend her to help her to complete this exam? Apparently a table top easel would be best but anything/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Please reply to this message if you can help
Dear resident,
This is my third note during these difficult times and this time it is a plea. Many people, understandably, are taking this period of forced isolation to have a good clear out. That’s great but please store what you want to dispose of until the municipal waste sites and charity shops re-open. Both were closed partly because of the need for social distancing but mainly because of the risk of staff becoming infected from the virus being on the goods disposed of/donated. DO NOT leave goods outside the closed charity shops. The charities will not be collecting these donations and their removal will be the responsibility of refuse collectors/street cleaners, both of whom will be at risk if the bags are contaminated. Thank you for your co-operation.
We have all witnessed the courage of NHS staff, albeit for most of us through the medium of our TV screens. We recognise their dedication and the risks to their own health this brings. Can we also remember the dedication of staff working for Rutland County Council and give them a “thank you” too. Like all employers Rutland Council has adopted home working where possible but not all staff can work from home nor follow safe working practices such as social distancing. Staff answering your calls are in the office, refuse collectors cannot keep a safe distance from each other as they dispose of our waste and social workers, RCC’s Admiral Nurses and so on still visit people in their homes and like health service colleagues do not always have sufficient personal protective equipment. So, if you see any of these folk going about their work give them a cheery wave –from a safe distance, of course!
Gale Waller
County Councillor, Normanton Ward
gwaller@rutland.gov.uk 01780 722169
The MoD have closed off the informal access to the airfield area at the top of the lane leading up from Butt Lane, due to Corona virus compliance. I assume they did not have any Royal Engineers available to help install the No Entry sign…
Several people have been searching the vilalge web site for information on the status of the North Luffenham Household Waste and Recycling Centre (The Tip..)
This was closed on 20th March by RCC as part of the Coronavirus distancing measures. Its not known when it will open again
Edith Weston Village Store & Post Office are coordinating home deliveries of food & other provisions from their shop, through a team of local volunteers, to people self isolating in the community.
If you cannot leave your home to shop for food because you are self-isolating, you can call the Store on 01780 722164, and place your order over the phone. They will endeavour to deliver your order asap, but if you can order in the morning it will help them deliver it sooner to you.
Please note the new slightly contracted opening hours for the store below. This will allow the store more time to re-stock shelves , coordinate deliveries and maintain employee distancing in the workplace.
As you may have heard we’ve sadly made the decision to close all of our water parks, including Rutland Water, to the public along with all activities with immediate effect to help limit the spread of coronavirus. None of our car parks will be open and all tracks and gates are closed. Public access will not be permitted in any areas.
All events at our parks will be cancelled until the end of June which sadly means that the Anglian Water Music Festival will be postponed until next year. We’ll be excited to welcome festival goers to the shores of Rutland Water then, but are advising those who have bought tickets for this year’s event to choose whether to defer their booking until next year, or claim a full refund. Refunds can be claimed via Eventbrite, and if we don’t hear from ticket holders by Monday 31st August, tickets will automatically be rolled over to next year’s festival.
We would encourage everybody to follow the Government’s advice to social distance and not travel wherever possible to protect the most vulnerable in our communities.