Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

It’s the penultimate day of our fraud awareness campaign and today we’re delving into…

Courier fraud 

In these cases, fraudsters often target elderly and vulnerable people and call them over the phone purporting to be from the police or the bank. Once these con artists have engaged a victim, they may make up a story claiming to need help with an investigation into a money scam at the victim’s bank or perhaps spin a line that their account has been hacked and they need further details to protect their assets. They may ask the victim to disclose their card details and pin number or withdraw money from their account ready for them to collect. Recent reports of courier scams in our area show the fraudsters are getting even more sophisticated and providing convincing fake police identity badges at the door.

Prevention: 

• Remember, we – the police – will never call you up to request or collect bank details, cards or cash
• If you receive a call of this nature, pause and think. End the call and process the information. Call us on 101 – preferably from a different device to the one the call came in on – and we will be able to verify if the person you spoke to was a genuine officer
• Call your bank immediately if you think you have been scammed so they can freeze your account 

For more advice about all kinds of fraud, visit our website

Its Back!!!!!!

“A much improved Whittlesey Armed Forces Weekend”

2025 sees a full line up of daytime entertainment over the weekend in the church.

PLUS an “Armed Forces Day FIRST!!!!!” a 4 day BEER FESTIVAL inside the church, with a full range of Beers and Ciders to choose from. this will include a full evening entertainment line up.

More re-enactment groups!!! Lots of stalls, More military vehicles and great daytime shows

Book a stall quickly as they are going very fast.
{All Charity stalls are free}
Another More Muzic Community Radio event. supporting our armed forces and our local community

The Whittlesey Festival was yet again a fantastic success for all to enjoy – several thousand people attended this years event. The organising committee are ALL volunteers – who raise a subsantial amount of funding to be able to put on this event.
The group is very well organised and structured and are always looking for more help …..

The Car Park of the Manor Centre will be closed to have the parking bays repainted.
Closure is from Wednesday 20th at 21:30 to Thursday 21st at 15:00

I understand there is to be a big sweeping up operation to remove all the chippings first.
There is to be NO PARKING on the grass.

All Councillors (Whittlesey Town/Fenland District/Cambs CC) can be found on the
Whittlesey Town Council Website – click on the link and you can put your street/road name in the box and it will tell you – your Councillor.

Find Your Councillor

I just love the word ‘doolally’ (indian phrase) – Our Interactive Sign on Syers Lane seems to have it quite frequently……Man up a ladder again today – fix well maybe?