This well known, Norfolk born, entertainer famous for both his humour and accordion playing, accompanied by Lisa Marie, is providing an evening of entertainment at the Dickleburgh Village Centre.

Tickets £10.00 (including buffet)

Why not get a group of friends together and reserve a table?

Admission by ticket only book now: Call Jan Logan on 01379 741535

Swing Jive 7.30pm - 8.30pm
Boogie Woogie 8.30pm - 9.30pm
Practice hour 9.30pm - 10.30pm
£5 each per lesson or £8 for Swing and Boogie Woogie with Practice Hour all in the price.

For more details contact: Esther & David tel: 01473 635176

The wind companies have already been besieging landowners whose property might provide suitable sites for these lucrative monsters. The fact that the government is now taking new powers to railroad them through the planning process regardless of local objections only makes the prospect more alluring.

Just how attractive a proposition leasing out land can be to a cash-strapped farmer can be seen

from a letter recently sent out to farmers by Scottish Power Renewables, promising them “the chance to make millions”. For each two megawatt turbine the company will pay £10,500 a year for 25 years, so the reward for allowing a 10-turbine wind farm on your land could work out at £2.6m - all for no work other than putting your signature on the contract.

Elsewhere landowners have been offered as much as £ 17,000 a year for having just one turbine on their premises, equating to an income over 25 years of £425,000. What the wind merchants are careful not to tell the farmers, however, is how much they themselves can hope to earn from these. 

Although a two megawatt turbine, up to 350ft high, generates on average only a quarter of its capacity - due to the variability of the wind -thanks to the government’s subsidy system this will earn its owner some £450,000 a year. At current prices, £230,000 will come from selling the electricity to the grid. But the developer also receives a further £218,000 from the government’s “renewables obligation”, which compels our electricity suppliers to buy all the power generated from wind, paying that much on top of its normal price, which is then passed on to the rest of us when we pay our electricity bills.

This is the secret which the wind companies are anxious not to reveal to the farmers whose land their machines stand on. It means that for each turbine, the developer will be making considerably more money each year than the landowner can hope to make in a quarter of a century. By the time a farmer who has a two megawatt turbine in his fields has made his £425,000, the wind company will have been able to put £11m in the bank - in return for an initial outlay of some £2m, plus yearly maintenance costs, all of course tax deductible.

And the benefit for the taxpayer who is funding all this? Last year the 2,000 wind turbines already built in Britain generated between them less electricity than a single gas-fired power plant, and much less than a nuclear power station. Even the 7,000 additional turbines Brown boasts of building (including those offshore) will produce less electricity than the Drax coal-fired power station in Yorkshire.
For any wide-eyed farmer who thinks of how much they themselves can hope to earn from cashing in on the wind bonanza, meanwhile, another factor to bear in mind is that he is not likely to win the affection of many of his neighbours. When a windfarm scheme in Norfolk last year tore the local community apart, one unfortunate farmer involved became so depressed by the bitterness it aroused he was found dead in a ditch. It’s a heavy price to pay for helping to save the planet.

Organised by Viki Hooper entailing a great deal of preparatory work, commitment – and resilience – assisted on the day by Tom & Mary Hicks acting as stewards and other committee members “pitching in”, the entries were judged by Lyn Kirk a food & textiles teacher and Wally Patterson a Dickleburgh man who in the past had won the silver Kepple trophy seventeen times to the extent it was given to him. He in turn gave it to the Village Society as their main award for the Best in Show.

With the large amount of entries, judging took some time with each of the six classes having several categories, finally resulting in the winners of the classes as follows:

Best in Show: Viki Hooper, Vegetable Class: Geoff Beaujeux, Fruit Class: Michael Hooper, Flower Class: Viki Hooper, Cookery Class: Bob Joy, Handicraft: Mike Tinsley, Children’s Class: Ben Filmer.

At 4.00pm, John Taylor, the Chairman of the Village Society expressed his thanks to Viki Hooper for all of her hard work in organising such a successful event, the judges, and the help given by other committee members. Finally he announced the winner of the Kepple Cup for the best entry in show, as Viki Hooper  who was quite overwhelmed – ecstatic – at receiving it!

He also reminded those present that the Village Society’s annual Cheese, Pate & Wine Lunch at Dickleburgh Hall was scheduled for August 10th  at 12 noon with tickets available from Raymond (Tel. 741394), Carl (Tel. 741517), Tom (Tel. 740531) and Beryl (Tel. 741259) – members £6.00 and non-members £7.00.

Tickets are available from Raymond (Tel.741394), Carl (Tel. 741517), Tom (Tel. 740531) or Beryl (Tel. 741259)

Members £6.00 and non-members £7.00.

Come and join us at the beautiful Hall, have fun and enjoy some lovely food and wine and a great raffle.

Dickleburgh & Rushall Parish Council

Dickleburgh & Rushall Parish Council

In the picture: Paul Playford (Group Scout Leader), Andy Turner (Explorer Leader), Kathy Leeder (Assistant Beaver Leader), John Munday (Beaver Leader).

The official presentation of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service to the Leaders/Helpers of the Scout Group takes place on August 4th at the Great Hospital, Bishopgate, Norwich where the Lord Lft. of Norfolk Ricard Jewson will present the award. The Group intend to hold a party for the youngsters and all who have made the Scout Group such a success over the years possibly in late September co-inciding with the Group’s Annual Sponsorship Weekend “Sea to Dickleburgh Event”