Winter weather updates

November 30th, 2020

Please see below and attached winter weather information

From 1 November, gritting teams and their fleet of 30 gritters went on full-time standby across four depots, meaning they could be called out at any time, day or night.
For drainage teams, heavy rain, storms and flooding can lead to a spike in demand for their services, and when high winds lead to fallen trees, it is the forestry team who will be called out.
As for the emergency response team, their 24/7, 365 days-a-year role can be easily impacted by adverse weather and could see them dealing with anything from managing road closures, to delivering sandbags and putting out flood boards

I would like to take this opportunity to bring a number of Via EM Ltd.’s other Winter Service preparations to your attention, these include:

Ensuring our highway depots are fully stocked with grit; currently around 18,000 tonnes is being held at various locations around the County.
The County Council’s gritting fleet has been fitted with updated vehicle tracking & navigation systems. The new tracking & navigation systems provide greater resilience for our Winter Service because they allow drivers to be deployed on routes they may be unfamiliar with.
The yellow grit bins on the highway network have been inspected and refilled.I hope that you find the information contained within this leaflet useful.

With best wishes

John

Councillor John Cottee

Chairman, Communities and Place Committee

Nottinghamshire County Council

Brownies

November 30th, 2020

A message from Brown Owl, which has been missed from the Decembers edition of the Signpost:

When will we manage to meet again?

Before Christmas has now gone to “next year”……..so disappointing. We’re in limbo!

However, if Brown Owl can get her act together, we hope to do a bit of Zooming before Christmas, just to keep our spirits up! It will be nice to say ” hello” to each other and maybe meet our new Brownies. We can have a gnome parade!

Hopefully the Butterfly and Halloween tree has been noticed together with our Remembrance Day display. There’s a Christmas one to come- -many of the decorations have been made by the Brownies in the past.

Hopefully, we’ll be back!

Best wishes to all.

The Owls, Owlets and the Brownies

Please share, so all of the Brownies get to see Dot’s message

Signpost December 2020

November 30th, 2020

Hello,

Please see attached Decembers issue of the Signpost.

Signpost December 2020

I hope you find the articles interesting, and that you will come across some new companies advertising their services.

The number of brilliant enterprises which exist in and around the Parish is simply fantastic

Many thanks to Heather Whittaker for all of her hard work in producing this document

If you know of anyone that would like a paper copy, please let me know

Sharon

Parish Clerk

Advent Window Trail

November 28th, 2020

Advent Window Trail

Advent is the time of preparation and reflection that prepares Christians for the arrival of Jesus at Christmas. We ready ourselves by reflecting on the events in the Christmas story, doing good for others and trying to be lights in the world. Advent 2020 begins on Sunday, November 29th and ends on Thursday, 24th December The world needs us to bring light into others’ lives more than ever. Would you like to bring some joy and light to our community this December?

Mrs Turner is organising a living Advent calendar throughout Langar, Barnstone and the surrounding villages. · 24 volunteers agree to decorate a street facing window on a nativity theme. Mrs Turner will assign each volunteer to a date for the window to appear. · A new window appears every day from 1st to 24th December (and if possible is lit so that it can be seen in the dark). · Each window remains displayed from the first day of it appearing until 1st January · Details of where and when the windows will be appearing are then published and displayed so that anyone can go around the community and enjoy the advent display.

Please let Mrs Turner know via the office email (office@langar.notts.sch.uk) if you would like to take part as she will then assign a date to you. It would be great to have at least 24 windows appearing during December but if there are more, we can have more than one window appear each day.

Mrs E J Brown

Head Teacher

Langar Church of England Primary School

Barnstone Road,

Langar,

Nottinghamshire,

NG13 9HH

Tel: 01949 860056

Broadband

November 27th, 2020

Nottinghamshire County Council have invested £750,000 in order to help deliver high-speed broadband to the most rural parts of the county. The £750,000 investment is to support the government’s ‘Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme’ which delivers subsidy to rural homes and businesses without access to high-speed broadband to help deploy a full-fibre network. Under the scheme residential premises are eligible for up to £1,500 and small and medium sized businesses are eligible for up to £3,500 through a registered supplier when part of a group scheme. The Notts top-up doubles the value of the voucher, meaning rural residential premises are eligible for up to £3,000, and small and medium sized rural business are eligible for up to £7,000. For further details on the scheme and to see if your property is eligible please visit www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/top-up or contact the team at enquiries.broadband@nottscc.gov.uk