'Island of Two' by Sarah Westby - Are you a Fraternal or Different Gendered Twin?

My name is Sarah Westby and I am currently in my final year studying a BSc in Film and Television at the University of York. I live in Hartlip and I am part of Uplift at St. Mary's Church, Upchurch.

I am currently in my final year at the University of York and in the research stage for my dissertation which is a research project in the form of a documentary proposal.

My documentary is called 'Island of Two' and is about fraternal and different gendered twins and their relationships throughout their lives.

I am currently looking for girl/boy twins to be interviewed as part of my research and was wondering if there are any in the village or the surrounding area?

I am interested in talking to twins of all ages, either as an individual twin or in pairs. It would be a short interview either in person or over the phone and I would be asking questions about their experiences of being a twin and about their relationship with each other.

Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Sarah Westby

Email: saw552@york.ac.uk

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Hartlip School May Fair

Anna Mayon Golding

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Temporary Closure - Iwade Road, Newington

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

Kent County Council - Highways, Transportation & Waste

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Upchurch Horticultural Society - April Meetings and Stockbury Cottage Gardeners

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

The UHS April meeting will be at 97 Chaffes Lane on Wednesday 5th April 2017 at 7:30pm. The main subject will be an Old Tools Workshop. So if you have any bygone tools bring them along to discuss or even to identify what they are.

Stockbury Cottage Gardeners (SCG) have a quiz night at the Stockbury Village Hall on Thursday 6th April 2017 and UHS hope to raise a team.

SCG will also be holding a plant sale at the Village Hall on Saturday 29th April 2017.

For further details contact Chris or Dianne Spree on: 01795 843859.

Refreshments and Raffle

If you are interested in becoming a new member of UHS (all ages are welcome), please contact

Rosey on: 01634 377812 (evenings) or Email: rosemary@ringwoodaccounting.co.uk

Sean Barry - Upchurch Horticultural Society

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Burglary - Holywell Lane

Hartlip, Newington & Upchurch Ward

Crime Number: XY/013609/17

Between 12:00pm and 3:00pm on Sunday 26th of March (Mothers Day) a burglary took place in Holywell Lane, Upchurch. Money and jewellery were stolen.

If you have any information that could help investigators please contact Kent Police on telephone number 101 and quote the relevant crime number above.

For more information on crime prevention visit: www.kent.police.uk

Kent Police Neighbourhood Watch

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Training for the 2 Village Defibrillators at the Annual Parish Meeting

Upchurch WI commemorated the Institute's Centenary in 2015 by fundraising for a village Defibrillator. Thanks to the generosity of many village organisations, individuals and through their own fundraising, they eventually raised enough money to purchase 2.

Councillor John Arnold installed the first Defibrillator to the side of Snaffles, and on Saturday 17th October Upchurch WI President, Carol Williams officially handed it over to the Parish Council at a small ceremony which was followed by a Coffee Morning in the Village Hall.

Bernie and Gail at The Three Sisters then kindly gave Upchurch Parish Council permission for Councillor Arnold to install the second Defibrillator to the front of their pub in November 2016.

Both Defibrillators are ready for use at:

Snaffles Equestrian & Country Store, 2 - 4 The Street, Upchurch ME9 7AJ

The Three Sisters Public House, Otterham Quay Ln, Upchurch ME8 8QR

A Defibrillator is a portable device that checks the heart rhythm and can send an electric shock to the heart to try to restore a normal rhythm. Defibrillators are used to treat sudden cardiac arrest and may save the person's life.

Kent Ambulance response times for critical emergencies can often take longer than the targeted eight minutes, especially in rural areas. For someone undergoing a heart attack, using an Automatic External Defibrillator within the 8-minute time frame is crucial for their life-chances. After 12 minutes it is often too late. Medway Ambulance Station and Sittingbourne Ambulance Station are both, according to RAC Route Planner, 16 minutes away (assuming no traffic issues). Clearly, using the Defibrillator is important as the emergency services would not be able to attend to someone having a heart attack in time. 

In the event of an emergency you must dial 999 and the emergency operator will give you the access code to open the Defibrillator cabinet. An ambulance will also be dispatched.

REMEMBER- No training is actually required to use the device. It comes with its own voice instructions which are given as soon as the device is removed from its case and is opened. It won’t deliver a shock unless one is needed.

If you notice a problem with the Defibrillator or if you have had to use it, please let the Parish Council know as soon as possible so that it can be made ready for future use.

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Annual Parish Meeting - Thursday, April 20th at

7:00pm in Upchurch Village Hall

The Annual Parish Meeting is a general Parish meeting rather than a Council Meeting, with the aim of engaging with residents to discuss future projects and listen to issues they feel are of importance to the village.

Residents are invited to come along and use it as a forum to speak about any projects they are currently involved with or looking to go ahead with in future months.

Everyone is welcome to attend. Please stay for drinks and nibbles after.

Steve Westwood from Sittingbourne Community First Responders will be at this year's APM to teach how to do effective CPR and get the heart into a shockable rhythm and then use the Defibrillator to reset the rhythm. He'll give practical experience with training so people have the confidence to know what to do.

Upchurch Parish Council
Telephone: 01634 363906
Email: clerkupc@outlook.com
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Emergency Road Closure - Warren Lane, Hartlip

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

Streetworks Mid Team

Kent County Council - Highways, Transportation & Waste
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