Surlingham

It is with a heavy heart that we, Gareth and Glenn, announce the passing of our dear mother, and Bill, the loss of his beloved wife, Pauline Watts. Many in our community will remember her from her time working at the village shop in Surlingham, a role she cherished for over 20 years. We have no doubt that her absence will be felt by many.

We would like to extend an invitation to all who knew and loved her to join us for her funeral service. This will take place on Monday, July 3rd at 10:30am at St Mary’s Church, Surlingham.

As a lifelong animal lover, Pauline expressed a wish that instead of flowers, donations be made to Cats Protection. If you’d like to contribute in this way, click here. Donations can be made via her memorial website.

Funeral Service Details:

Date: Monday, July 3rd
Time: 10:30am
Location: St Mary’s Church, Surlingham

We look forward to commemorating Pauline’s life with all who knew her.

Information received from Gareth Watts

Bramerton Village Hall from 7.00 – 9.00pm

The third 5 Mile Market Garden meeting – an opportunity to swap plants, seeds, produce and ideas. It’s an informal and easy way to source locally grown produce as well as offering any surplus produce, time, ideas and enthusiasm to share with others.

Following on from last months meeting there will be opportunity to find out about a selection of practical ‘produce related’ workshops to be run later this year – from storing crops to making jam, rainwater harvesting, companion planting …. and more. No booking needed – just come along.

More info here and look forward to seeing you there.

Please see below a message from District Councillor Vic Thomson:

You will be aware that I have been trying to get Broadband to properties in your Parish for some time mainly through the Government Voucher Scheme. Said scheme is still not anywhere ready and certainly not this year.

At best your parish properties have Fibre Connected to the Cabinet (FTTC) and then copper from the cabinet to properties. The maximum speed with FTTC is 80 mbs and a degrading speed the further you are away from the cabinet plus a service that is often interrupted.

I contacted a company called County Broadband and they have now written to all your residents offering a Gigafast FTTP service. They are a solid company and already have designs drawn up for connecting your parish. They need to get 25% of properties signed up to start the roll out.

With fibre to the property, you get the service you pay for and far less dropouts due to not having copper wire.

They are offering a range of speeds and contract terms even working round any existing contract you may already have for broadband.

This is by far the quickest way to get fibre connected to properties in you Parish.

You can contact Harry Lowman (harry.lowma@countybraoadband.co.uk) for any questions.

Please see attached Councillor Vic Thomson’s June report.