Latest POLICE.UK Crime Data for the Area - January 2017

Here is a brief summary of the crime information for the past 2 months:

	December 2016	January 2017
All crime	37	82
Anti-social behaviour	8	22
Bicycle theft	0	0
Burglary	7	12
Criminal damage and arson	5	12
Drugs	0	0
Other crime	1	0
Other theft	2	4
Possession of weapons	0	0
Public order	1	2
Robbery	0	2
Shoplifting	2	0
Theft from the person	0	0
Vehicle crime	2	4
Violence and sexual offences	9	24

Please visit: www.police.uk for more information including outcomes for these crimes and contact information for your local policing team.

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Urgent Road Closure - High Oak Hill, Bobbing

For details of roadworks, please see: www.kent.roadworks.org

Streetworks Mid Team

Kent County Council - Highways, Transportation & Waste
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Upchurch Horticultural Society - Meetings & Events 2017

U.H.S. MEETINGS AND EVENTS 2017 

IN CONJUNCTION WITH STOCKBURY COTTAGE GARDENERS 

Monthly meetings will be held at 97 Chaffes Lane, unless stated otherwise, and will be on the 1st Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm. Details as below; 

February 1st - AGM. Start of Potato competition. 

March 1st - Meeting Speaker - Joe Major Growing for Showing.

March 2nd - Stockbury Village Hall. With Paolo Arrigo from Franchi Seeds on growing from seeds. (Please confirm your place) 

April 5th - Meeting - Old Tools Workshop. Please bring your old tools for discussion. 

April 6th - UHS Quiz team at Stockbury Village Hall.

April 29th - Plant Sale at Stockbury Village Hall. 

May 3rd - Workshop at Stockbury Village Hall on planting Hanging Baskets (Bring 2 baskets and liners. Everything else will be supplied. (You may bring your own plants if you wish) (Please confirm your place) 

May 6th - Upchurch Plant Sale in the Paddock. 

June 7th - Planning for June show. 

June 17th - Show in the Paddock with the Village Fete. 

July 5th - Visit to Upchurch Allotments from 6pm. Please contact the Secretary if you wish to attend. 

August 2nd - Fish & Chip evening and Show Planning. 

September 2nd - The September Show. 97 Chaffes Lane and Potato competitions weigh in. 

September 7th - Talk by Jim Buttress from The Allotment Challenge at Stockbury Village Hall. (Please confirm your place) 

October 4th - Meeting. Carved Pumpkin competition. October Show planning. 

October 21st - The October Show. 97 Chaffes Lane. 

November 1st - Planning Meeting for 2018. All suggestions welcome. 

December 7th - No Meeting.

We are always looking for new members and try to encourage a fun attitude towards friendly competition. So if you want to grow your own fruit, vegetables and flowers or even enter any of the 3 shows we hold each year, then please get in touch, we would be happy to hear from you.

If you are interested in becoming a new member, (all ages are welcome), please contact Rosey on: 01634 377812 (evenings) or Email: rosemary@ringwoodaccounting.co.uk

Sponsored by Upchurch River Valley Golf Club - www.rivervalleygolf.co.uk

Sean Barry - Upchurch Horticultural Society

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Obituary to Oswald Clark in The Telegraph

Please click on the image to enlarge.

Further to our piece dated January 10th, 2017 on the passing of Oswald Clark, the eldest son of the Reverend and Mrs Hugh Clark, former vicar of St. Mary's, Upchurch.

The Telegraph have published this obituary to Oswald dated March 4th, 2017.

Bryan Veale

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The Great British Spring Clean Upchurch - Thank You

Holywell School.

Nursery Days.

Scouts.

Beavers.

Brownies.

Cubs.

Guides.

A load of old rubbish!

Alison and Sarah Lewin with Councillors Mike Baldock,
Alan Horton, Tyrone Ripley, Stephen Hunt and Gary Rosewell.

Our ‘Great British Spring Clean - Upchurch’ took place over the weekend of March 3rd, 4th and 5th. With the support of Swale Borough Council, Biffa, Holywell School, Nursery Days, Brownies, Guides, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Cliff our village Caretaker, Upchurch Parish Council called on all villagers to volunteer as litter pickers and clean up Upchurch!

Friday 3rd - Young people from Holywell School, Nursery Days and Scouts all went out litter picking around our village.

Saturday 4th - Young people from Brownies, Guides, Beavers and Cubs all met at Drakes Lodge Scout Hut to continue Friday's good work.

Sunday 5th - Alison and Sarah Lewin joined Councillors Mike Baldock, Alan Horton, Tyrone Ripley, Stephen Hunt and Gary Rosewell. Between us we managed to cover all of the 6 planned litter picking routes around our country lanes. Heavy rain on the morning seemed to put the public off, but by the time we started the sun was out and we got a lot done.

This year it was the young people of the village, along with their leaders and teachers who really lead the way. Every one of the 200 pairs of small size disposable gloves we had were used, showing just how busy they all were!

Our tremendous 3 day village effort resulted in over 75 sacks of litter being picked from our public spaces and the surrounding country lanes. Well done everyone!

We'd like to thank Upchurch Scout Group for kindly letting us use Drakes Lodge Scout Hut over the weekend and to Vikki Sedgwick at Swale Borough Council for loaning us the equipment.

Thank you to everyone who gave up their time, this year’s response was better than we could have ever hoped for.

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New Mobile Mast in Holywell Lane Goes Live

O2 and Vodafone users in Upchurch and Lower Halstow have hopefully experienced a welcome boost to their previously patchy mobile phone reception, thanks to a new mast which went live recently at Upchurch Cricket Ground in Holywell Lane.

The new telecommunications antennae is for shared use by Vodafone and Telefonica to provide 2G, 3G and 4G reception.

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