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4 The Arts Society
Plenty of fun, photos and competitive Mid Wales & Borders
bargain hunting at the two church
fetes over the summer period. We The September meeting of the The Arts Society Mid
even won a major prize at one of the Wales & Borders (formerly known as NADFAS) will
raffles (a box of white wine). And be be on Thursday 28th at 2.30pm.
The venue is The Royal Oak Hotel, Welshpool.
sure to note the dates of the two harvest festivals and The speaker is Michael Clegg, whose topic will be:
the coffee morning coming up in September. Petra the Red Rose
City - Petra and the
The cover story this month is a completely different Nabataeans.
type of local fund raiser that may not be familiar to Non-members are
everyone. It needs the special feature spread over most welcome to
pages 8 and 9. If you are able to read this online, try attend, but a donation
out the interactive panorama of the event — move of £5 per person is
around the scene, zoom in and out, maybe even requested to help
recognise some of participants. cover costs.
The Broadband Summit report (also on pages 8 For further information please e-mail
and 9) had just been completed when we received a avril@avrilhart.com
reply to feedback submitted to the Assembly
minister. On Long Mountain we have a wireless For BOOKINGS
service from Airband which initially was an Tel: 0785 410 3058
excellent 20 Mb service. Unfortunately, this year Email: villagehall@leightonnews.com
there have been an unacceptable number of drop outs Leighton Village Hall – for your family events,
– fatal for those of us with cloud based businesses. children’s parties, hobbies and meetings. Please
book in plenty of time to avoid disappointment.
Having received a £1,000 grant from the Welsh
government to set this up, would we ever qualify for
a fibre connection? The letter was not a boilerplate
response but answered the specific points we had
raised. Their information from BT says we will get
fibre only to a cabinet but we know his technology
won’t work in our location — a more independent
Openreach is more hopeful for all of us.
Devolved government has achieved many other
useful outcomes for our locality. Russell George
responds to all queries very quickly and has
achieved notable results — most recently getting the
Welshpool and Newtown recycling centres restored
to five day opening including weekends.
Steve Patricia
MARTON WELSHPOOL
Friday Monday
29th Sept 11th Sept
at 7:30pm at 7:00pm
IMDb IMDb
LA LA LAND Doors open at 6:30pm at the Assembly Room.
Tickets: £3.50 Refreshments available.
Tickets are £4.00. Under 16s £2.00.
Bar and refreshments. All welcome.
Plenty of fun, photos and competitive Mid Wales & Borders
bargain hunting at the two church
fetes over the summer period. We The September meeting of the The Arts Society Mid
even won a major prize at one of the Wales & Borders (formerly known as NADFAS) will
raffles (a box of white wine). And be be on Thursday 28th at 2.30pm.
The venue is The Royal Oak Hotel, Welshpool.
sure to note the dates of the two harvest festivals and The speaker is Michael Clegg, whose topic will be:
the coffee morning coming up in September. Petra the Red Rose
City - Petra and the
The cover story this month is a completely different Nabataeans.
type of local fund raiser that may not be familiar to Non-members are
everyone. It needs the special feature spread over most welcome to
pages 8 and 9. If you are able to read this online, try attend, but a donation
out the interactive panorama of the event — move of £5 per person is
around the scene, zoom in and out, maybe even requested to help
recognise some of participants. cover costs.
The Broadband Summit report (also on pages 8 For further information please e-mail
and 9) had just been completed when we received a avril@avrilhart.com
reply to feedback submitted to the Assembly
minister. On Long Mountain we have a wireless For BOOKINGS
service from Airband which initially was an Tel: 0785 410 3058
excellent 20 Mb service. Unfortunately, this year Email: villagehall@leightonnews.com
there have been an unacceptable number of drop outs Leighton Village Hall – for your family events,
– fatal for those of us with cloud based businesses. children’s parties, hobbies and meetings. Please
book in plenty of time to avoid disappointment.
Having received a £1,000 grant from the Welsh
government to set this up, would we ever qualify for
a fibre connection? The letter was not a boilerplate
response but answered the specific points we had
raised. Their information from BT says we will get
fibre only to a cabinet but we know his technology
won’t work in our location — a more independent
Openreach is more hopeful for all of us.
Devolved government has achieved many other
useful outcomes for our locality. Russell George
responds to all queries very quickly and has
achieved notable results — most recently getting the
Welshpool and Newtown recycling centres restored
to five day opening including weekends.
Steve Patricia
MARTON WELSHPOOL
Friday Monday
29th Sept 11th Sept
at 7:30pm at 7:00pm
IMDb IMDb
LA LA LAND Doors open at 6:30pm at the Assembly Room.
Tickets: £3.50 Refreshments available.
Tickets are £4.00. Under 16s £2.00.
Bar and refreshments. All welcome.
