Things are certainly looking up in Warsop, the Town Centre Improvements are looking good, we have 2 new shops opened on Sherwood Street, FRUITIES and BARGAIN BOOZE with another one due to open soon. We have a new Chinese, LUCKY HOUSE opened at the top of High Street, the menu looks very impressive. FASCINATING FASCIA’S have moved into the Burns Lane Enterprise Centre and our FIRST MARKET is to be held on Thursday 17th April in the car park off High Street 9am - 2pm. See you there!

And at last, we have a lollipop lady at Hetts Lane School, it’s been a nightmare without one – I am sure all the mums would join me in saying thank you Bev! I must share with you a spooky co-incidence, in the letter from Fredrick Flint about Orchard Yard, he talks about a Mr Barlow who ran the Warsop Free Press!!!!! - Kind Regards, Tania Barlow

Contact Details:
Tel: 01623 846011 Fax: 01623 846012
email: tbarlow@warsop.gov.uk
NB: The copy deadline for the May edition is 9th April

Shoppers at Mansfield’s Farmers Market were treated to some mouth watering treat recently courtesy of Andwhynot to help celebrate a special Recipe Book Launch. The Buttercross Fayre Recipe Book, which is dedicated to produce from the Farmers Market, proved a great success with more than 500 books being snapped up in just over an hour by eager shoppers. The recipe book was launched at the
Buttercross Fayre, Mansfield’s own Farmers Market with help from Coun John Allin, Chairman of Mansfield District Council.

The book is jam-packed with wholesome tasty recipes and most of the ingredients featured in the recipes are available at the Farmers Market, which comes to Mansfield every third Tuesday of the month. Guest Chefs from Andwhynot cooked up some of the tasty recipes at the special event including Jamaican Lamb Casserole and Ostrich Stir fry with lemon, ginger and coriander. The recipes feature in the Recipe Book which is the first of its kind for a Farmers Market in Nottinghamshire. The book also includes complete three-course meal ideas, which can be tailored to each season, festive feasts, winter warmers, autumn treats, spring ideas, summer sizzlers and a
bonanza breakfast. There are also lots of cooking hints and tips as well as healthy alternatives and vegetarian options.

Louise Pellet, of the Farmers Market Team at Mansfield District Council said: “We were delighted with the response launch at from the shoppers and visitors to the Farmers Market. A huge crowd gathered to sample the meal tasters and the Recipes Books proved hugely popular with shoppers – more than 500 recipe books were snapped up in just over one hour. The chefs from Andywhynot also did a super job by cooking some wonderful food. “This is the first book of its kind to be created entirely for the Farmers Market with help from the traders in Nottinghamshire. We are delighted with the end product and hope that people will enjoy cooking the recipes. They are all simple and easy to cook and ideal for family meals throughout the year.” All the food found at the Market is fresh, locally produced and healthy because it is produced speciically for the market, reducing 'food miles', supporting our local economy and bringing the country in to the town. For more information on the Farmer’s Market call the hotline on (01623) 463470.

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WALK THIS WAY!
THE THREE PARISHES ANNUAL SPONSORED WALK

will be held on Sunday 18th May 2003 starting at various points in the Parishes of Warsop, Nether Langwith and Cuckney. This is a major opportunity for groups and organisations that benefit our local communities to raise funds for themselves.
There are 8 routes, ranging from 2 miles up to 12 miles. Would you please register your interest with The Clerk, Tania Barlow either tel: 01623 846011 fax: 01623 846012
email: tbarlow@warsop.gov.uk or call in the office in the Town Hall Mon-Wed 9am – 3pm. You can also leave your
details with the Town Hall Reception.
INFORMATION PACKS AVAILABLE CALL AND COLLECT ONE NOW!

SURE START PLANS
TO COME TO WARSOP
Plans have been submitted to build a new 26-place creche here in Warsop on the Old Top Cat Site. If they get the go ahead, building will start soon and they will be up an running by Spring next year.
As soon as plans are available you may call and see them in the Town Hall - watch this space!!

UK’s First – Virtual Spinning becomes a reality!

Mansfield’s River Maun Recreation Centre is the first leisure
facility in the UK to make Virtual Spinning a reality.
The Centre was the first leisure centre to bring Spinning
to Nottinghamshire, and now it has scored a UK first
among Local Authority Leisure Centres by making the
activity virtual.

The classes are set to start on Monday (10th March) and are
expected to be a huge hit with fitness fanatics.
Centre manager Kevan Wakefield is excited by this brand new
concept which he spotted at a Leisure Show in Birmingham.
He said: “When I saw the exhibition in Birmingham I realised
it was something we had to bring to Mansfield. We are always
trying to bring new ideas to our centres and Virtual Spinning
is at the forefront of exercise now. I believe it will really take
off and will be the biggest thing in the leisure industry since
Step Aerobics.”

Coun Les Marshall, Portfolio holder for Social and
Housing said: “I am delighted that we have managed yet again
to be at the forefront of the Leisure Industry by being the
first to bring Virtual Spinning to not only Mansfield, but the
United Kingdom.

“I am sure it will be a real hit among those who are interested
in keeping fit. I think it is a fantastic idea and think that it is
great that we are able to install our own images and logos to
the scenery to tailor it to Mansfield. It will certainly be an
opportunity for other landmarks in Mansfield to put their
name on the big screen.”

The virtual spinning is a DVD system which allows the
spinner to watch a massive 12 foot by 9 foot screen of virtual
scenery as they take part in their class. The scenery is a digital
animated route which starts at the River Maun Centre and
follows a 45 minute road which takes you on a journey
through towns, villages, woodlands and parks.

The company that created Virtual Spinning – Jordan Leisure
in association with AB Audio Visual have even tailored the
DVD to Mansfield by putting graphic images and logos into
the route onto bill boards and buildings. The Civic Centre
features in the route along with other landmarks such as River
Maun Recreation Centre, Palace Theatre, Watermeadows and
Ravensdale Sure Start centre.

There will be six classes a week which start on Monday.
Anyone is welcome to come along, but it is advised to book as
spaces are limited and demand is high. The classes hold up to
26 people and it costs £3.50 per session.

GARDEN NOTES FOR APRIL
Notes last month were for March and not as the heading said.

Most houses have a small garden and the most should be made of them either for flowers or vegetables. A few plants can make a huge difference to the outlook from your own window or from the street. Also, as stated before, radish, lettuce and a few runner beans can be very productive. No need to have a tall row, they will grow easily on a 3ft high cane or wire row. Even a cone shape three pole tripod would only take a 2 ft square piece and six beans produce quite a few beans 10”–20” long, 25-50cms long. Remember when sowing radish, lettuce and spring onions, a little and often, this will ensure a continued supply of young fresh salad plants. If you have plenty of room, then of course, you can grow potatoes and the new varieties of earlies and some of the older varieties are excellent and the taste of these from garden to pot and table is wonderful. Broad beans, peas, French beans are fairly easy and should be able to compete with some weeds.

Protection with black cotton is advisable for peas as the sparrows like them as well. Root crops are usually successful. With the aid of lime
and if available soot, parsnips will escape canker, beet are easy, carrots variable. The carrots would be better protected against carrot fly. All root crops must be thinned, with the carrot and beet thinnings acceptable. Generally speaking, onion sets are best, leek sown in a reserve bed in April, can be transplanted deeply up to August in any piece of ground that becomes available. The last few weeks have emphasised the joy of colour, Crocus, Helleborus, Primula, Viola and of course Daffodils. Houseplants are commonly grown and make a gardenless flat more homely. For pot or window box a host of suitable plants are available from Nurserymen, some, as Geranium, Fuchsia, Begonia, Impatiens (Busy Lizzie) and foliage plants ready to be transferred to larger pots for growing on. Some of the usual bedding plants
make good pot plants Lobelia, Petunia and fibrous rooted Begonias will flower all summer. Whilst most pot plant relish sunshine this may be too powerful if unshaded and the pots dry out too quickly, commonsense treatment with a liquid feed at least once a fortnight should be a matter of routine.

The time is opportune to increase perennials by division or young stock but the new gardener will probably rely on hardy annuals for cut blooms for home decoration. April is the ideal time to sow these, an annual is a plant which grows flowers and seeds within one year, its business is to produce seed and this it will do. In poor conditions it will develop a minimum growth: small weak with but few seeds. In rich soil growth will be luxuriant in both stem and leaf, with an ‘alright Jack’ attitude with no immediate need to flower. Therefore, the happy medium should be the aim, ordinary garden soil will give quite good results. Too frequently annuals are overcrowded, thinning will ensure reasonable stems for cutting and a prolonged season of growth as side shoots are able to develop. Not all annuals are suitable for cutting,
a reasonable length of stem is a must and last a few days in a vase.Range of choice is wide and each grower almost certainly limiting
kinds to suit his/her own personal preference. The queen of annuals, the Sweet Pea, is a general favourite, of dual purpose with colour in the garden and daily gifts of cut blooms. The Semi-dwarf and Jet Set varieties, staking does not present too big a problem. Sow seed thinly and protect against birds and slugs until established. Useful cut and come again annuals are Cornflower, Calendula, Scabious and Salpiglossis to name a few. Some of the everlasting flowers are useful winter decoration. Gather these when half open and hang upside down to dry. This will keep stems straight. Try a packet of mixed ornamental grasses. Happy Gardening.

Wetton's (Est 1951)

Purveyor's of quality meats and fine foods
Specalising in local barley fed beef
and selected Scotch beef

11B Sherwood Street, Warsop
Tel: 842138

Middleton News
33 High Street, Warsop
Newspaper deliveries, stationery, sweets
Tel: 842281

WARSOP PARISH COUNCIL
Town Hall, Church Street, Warsop NG20 0AL Tel: 846011 Fax: 846012 E-mail tbarlow@warsop.gov.uk

COUNCIL MEETINGS FOR 2003
Monday 28th April
Monday 19th May – Annual Parish Council Meeting
Monday 16th June
Monday 21st July
Monday 15th September
Monday 20th October
Monday 17th November

All parish Council Meetings are open to the public and are held in the Council Chamber in the Town Hall and commence at 6.30pm

WARSOP METHODIST CHURCH
Minister The Rev Marie Greenwood
38 Worcester Avenue
Mansfield Woodhouse
NG19 8QD
Tel: 01623 623659

WARSOP METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday Service 9.30am
Coffee morning every
Saturday 10.00am-12.00pm
Preachers for March
2nd Dr. Charles McLaughlin
9th Rev. Marie Greenwood
16th Mr. Ron Revill
23rd Mr. David Malkin
30th Rev. Rodney Warden

The first of this year’s spring migrants were sighted off the south coast (Dorset) in late February, both Sand Martin and Common Tern were seen heading north. On the subject of the much travelled Tern, Birklands Ringing Group and Rangers at Bestwood Country Park are trying to encourage breeding by launching custom made ‘rafts’ on Bestwood’s Mill Lakes site. Common Terns are seen every year moving through the Lakes, hopefully this year they will stop over and raise their young (Watch this space).

A Great Grey Shrike AKA ‘The Butcher Bird’ is still to be seen without too much difficulty on Newlands Drive at Forest Town. (Except by me, everytime I visit the site I get the traditional birding response of ‘you should have been here yesterday’. Jennifer Crookes reports a Woodlark on heathland near to Warsop. This species seems to be doing well locally, it has suffered a very dramatic decline over recent years. Its preferred habitat is known as Lowland Heath, ie, areas where plant species such as Ling, Heather, Gorse and acid grassland flourish. Warsop and surrounding areas are a typical example of good Woodlark country, imagine then, the importance of looking after our remnant heaths and yet it still seems to attract off road vehicles and scrambler bikes that tear up the heathland surface, disturb and destroy the nests of birds such as the sensitive Woodlark. As my much missed pal Danny Taylor used to say, ‘the more I see of some people the more I love my dog’.

I received a very welcome letter from Betty Gregson of Mosscar Close Spion Kop, Betty reports that after 79 years she has sighted her first garden Great Spotted Woodpecker, (you will be twitching with the best of them next Betty). Mr and Mrs Antcliff of Lilac Grove were also kind enough to write and report on the dramatic effect and consternation a Tawny Owl caused, when it decided to spend the daylight hours resting in their garden. All the resident song birds were in ‘mobbing’ mode but it made little difference, the owl sat tight. Mr and Mrs Bower of Robin Hood Avenue are seeing Willow Tits and coal Tits plus the occasional Woodpecker visiting from nearby woodland. Lesser Celendine, Blackthorn and Coltsfoot is in flower, Elder buds are bursting and our resident birds are beginning to get into full song. The year is definitely on the turn. Speaking of Blackthorn, has anyone got a recipe for Sloe gin?

Late News, 8th March, A single Sand Martin was seen just north of Warsop.

Diary Dates, As part of the County Council’s Guided Walks program I shall be leading a walk from Warsop to Cresswell crags and
back in May this year if any walker is interested in coming along you will be more than welcome.

Keep your records coming in to me at 55 George Street, Warsop, by email, bobmoody@btopenworld.com or you may like to visit my
interactive website www.bobmoody.co.uk - Bob Moody

LETTERS OF THANKS............

Mr Edward Smith of 26 Meden Ave, Warsop Cremated 17th February 2003
The family would like to thank all those who sent cards and donations. These were sent to Bert Ashworth Ward, Kings Mill Hospital and amounted to £382.00 - Thank you

Mr Les Slater would like to thank everyone who came to my surprise party to celebrate my 80th birthday.
Thanks to the girls who organised it all and to all my family and friends who travelled from Devon, London, Bradford, Newcastle, Nottingham, Hastings, Doncaster and Warsop who attended. Thank you for all the gifts you brought and thank you also to the staff at the Connie Club, it was a lovely night. - Thank you.

Margaret Kemp. Many thanks to everyone who has sent me cards, flowers and good wishes, they are really appreciated and have cheered me up. A special thank you, to my daughter and son-in-law who have been very kind, since I came out of hospital. God Bless you all - Thank you

To all our customers for your loyalty and friendship. Rachel, Dennis and Christopher, Rachel’s Florist - Thank you

Michael (Mick) Dunstone Karen & family would like to thank all relatives, friends, neighbours, Carnaud Metalbox workmates and Sherwood Forest Park Fisheries for messages of sympathy and donations for the MacMillan nurses. - Thank you.

David Cyril (Sid) Edwards Ethel and family would like to thank all relatives and friends for their many messages of sympathy and their support on the death of her husband Sid. We would like to thank Eric Townroe for all his help and kindness through this sad time, also many thanks to Mark Cantrill for the lovely service and thank you to Sheila and Janice for the catering. £130 was sent to Ward 2 Kings Mill in leau of flowers in appreciation for their help. Once again thank you everyone. Ethel Edwards - Thank you

The Warsop Hospice Support Group would like to thank everyone who donated raffle prizes and/or attended the Beetle Drive, Wednesday 12th March in the Tudor Barn. With your generosity the evening raised £150 for the John Eastwood Hospice. Once again, many thanks everyone, it is really appreciated. Also we are happy to welcome Mrs. Dorothy Royston as a Hospice Support Group member.

Mrs Joyce Malcolm Would like to thank the many friends and neighbours for all their suport and kindness, the many message of sympathy and donations in leau of flowers on the death of her husband Alan on 26th February. Thanks to Eric Townroe, Rev Kathryn Herrod for the lovely service and Mrs Sheila Clarke for the catering. Donations will be sent to Cancer Research and the I.C.U. Unit at Kings Mill Hospital. - Thank you.