You will have seen from my previous post – I was joined by ‘Pearl’ (Burdock) – who as an octogenarian is very alert and spritely – she is also involved in many community groups.
She has just released her latest booklet of stories and poems.
Cost £5:00 of which she will donate £3:50 to Whittlesey Charities.
Contact ‘Pearl’ by e-mailing her – pearlmburdock@hotmail.co.uk
Mrs Pearl Burdock & myself had another excellent morning session at the Patients Group awareness week – promoting the New Queen Street Surgery PPG.
We had quite a few questions that patients asked and fortunately we knew most of the answers. Another member signed up today makes our tally 4 over the 2 mornings, better than I expected.
Another piece of information that patients are not very aware of is the ‘Opting IN or OUT’ of their medical history to outside of the surgery – for example if you need to see a doctor whilst of holiday in the UK or at an A&E in another city.
This is the form you need to fill in which is available at the Surgery.
Click on picture to enlarge – Click a 2nd time to further enlarge.
As previously posted, besides having a ‘direct line’ to the Surgery Management the PPG has raised funds for various small enhancements at the Surgery – The present campaign to supply a 24 hour Blood Pressure Monitoring Machine.
Cooled Fresh Water Machine – NQS PPG
You can listen to the feature – Mud Walls of Whittlesey on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire –
The Sue Marchant Show which started at 15:00 today Monday – You will need :-
BBC iPlayer Radio (App for android) and select your local radio station.
Excellent interviews given by the Mud Wall Committee and then a walking tour of some of the remaining walls around Whittlesey.
The Mud Wall Group meet at Whittlesey Museum on the 1st Wednesday of the Month @ 10:30am
I took the first ‘slot’ of manning the PPG (Patients Participation Group) table this morning and talked to many patients passing through.
Information about On-Line Booking of ‘appointments’, prescriptions and information’ via the Surgeries Website. I heard as ‘we’ do, patients frustrations on having to wait for appointments and the surgery management are very aware of the situation.
Do you know – that you can now have access to your medical records, both in electronic or paper format – this will be provided for free – you have to fill in a form, available online or from the surgery.
I did ‘sign’ up 2 new recruits to the Group and revived 1 ex member….not a bad start.
The PPG Noticeboard adjacent to ‘Boots’ Todays PPG Awareness Noticeboard
Besides what would ‘appear’ to be increased ‘Fly-Tipping’ occasionally there are ‘abandoned vehicles’ just left….this one today seemed in quite good condition for it’s year was seen on Station Road – today (Saturday).
I think there is a statutory 14 day period of notice after which the Council (FDC) can legally remove the vehicle – There is no cost to the Rate Payer, as the Towing Company takes it away, and if not reclaimed – make their money be selling it on or spares/scrap.
We all suffer believe it – when fly-tipping occurs, there is a cost to the environment, there is a cost to the rate/tax payer to clear it up, there is a cost to the land-owner if it is on their property.
My thanks to KC who reports these incidents to Fenland District Council – who have a ‘Rapid response Team’ – and are generally pretty quick at getting this blight removed.
Of course it is catching the culprits who are carry this fly-tipping out – not easy.
Peterborough generally much larger than us…suffers more so than we do.
Top photo taken yesterday (Friday) in what is now become ‘Fly-Tippers’ regular dump – Funthams Lane along the Cycle Route.
Centre photo Here we have a ‘caravan’ abandoned on Stonald Road/Field of Dreams – no registration plates, reported one day – had gone by the following day.
Bottom photo taken just North of Ball Bridge.
This is large scale tipping, and as we have witnessed in Fengate , if not removed, will grow into a pretty big mountain. In fact the Fly-tippers were that brazen in the Fengate area, they were dumping in broad daylight.
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Photo’s KC
Where Whittlesey Library & Learning Centre, 31-35 Market Street, Whittlesey, PE7 1BA
When 18 June 2018
Time 10.30 – 11.45am
Price Free
A talk by Cambs Police – How to deal with Cold Callers and Keeping Safe
A week to Celebrate the time and energy volunteers give to support and grow their library’s services.
Volunteering is a great way to learn new skills, build up a CV, meet people, combat lonliness, and give support to an organisation you care about.
The Library Service has many volunteers who are supporting their local libraries and the people in their communities. “Give a little, and you get that back many times over”!
The Home Library Service provides regular visits to people who cannot get to the library by themselves. These are social visits, visits that ensure some-one is keeping an eye out, visits that bring local news. These visits re-engage isolated people with their local community – all by bringing some much treasured books, magazines or audio-books once a month.
To say a big “thank you” to all our volunteers Tea and Cakes events are being held in libraries throughout the County.
What would Whittlesey do without it’s very dedicated Groups of Volunteers across a wide range of social and domestic concerns and issues – so whether you volunteer with us or are thinking of volunteering and would like to know more…please do call in for a cuppa, we look forward to seeing you…
Whittlesey Library on Thursday 7th June at 2:30 -3:30pm –
One of our coordinators has recently been the target of a convincing postcode lottery scam. (Top tip, you can’t win the postcode lottery, or any lottery, if you haven’t entered; genuine lotteries don’t draw random names.) This letter claimed ‘Participants in this programme were randomly selected by computer’. Please mention this to anyone you feel might need a reminder, these scammers take huge amounts of money from victims. Be very wary if they ask for an admin fee or foreign taxes to be paid, according to the ‘Think Jessica’ campaign ‘No genuine lottery or competition would ask you to send money to claim a prize.
The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) have noticed an increase in Action Fraud reports where fraudsters are offering a discount on television (TV) service provider subscriptions. Fraudsters are cold-calling victims, purporting to be from a TV provider offering a discount on their monthly subscription. Victims have been told the following: their subscription needs to be renewed; that part or all, of the TV equipment has expired and they are due an upgrade on the equipment/subscription. In order to falsely process the discount, the fraudster asks victims to confirm or provide their bank account details. The scammers may also request the victim’s identification documents, such as scanned copies of passports. Watch out for the telephone numbers: “08447111444”, “02035190197” and “08001514141”. The fraudster’s voices are reported to sound feminine and have an Asian accent. This type of fraud is occurring nationwide. Since the beginning of this year (2018), there have been 300 Action Fraud Reports relating to this fraud. From the reports received, victims aged over 66 seem to be the most targeted.
There was an interesting article in the Daily Mail recently, here, warning of a scam that tricked a lady out of four thousand pounds. This was a sophisticated scam, so I’d like to draw attention to it. Fraudsters can falsify phone numbers so that your caller display shows a familiar number such as your bank or the Police or imitates a local number to tempt people to pick up. If possible always go into your bank if someone claims that there is a problem with your account, or – as this is not always possible – call them and wait on the line to speak to a member of staff (avoiding the ‘callback’ scam by using a different line from the one you have been called on or by phoning a friend first to ensure the line is clear). This scam tricks people into opening a new account in which they believe their money will be safe, only to find it has been emptied by the criminals.
Finally, finding a job can be challenging so I thought I’d share an opportunity that might interest someone you know. Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for applicants who could make a real difference to the older people we support. Our energetic and highly committed Reablement Team are expanding. The role of a Reablement Worker is to provide support for a limited time period, to enable someone to regain independence, allowing them to carry out daily tasks like cooking, cleaning and self-care without needing anyone to help. If you know of anyone who might be looking for a job and interested in a role in this team please do contact me for more details or call Harriet Cadman on 01223 703579.
Kind Regards
Elaine Mountfort
Community Protection Officer
People and Communities Directorate
Telephone: 01954 286006 or 07810153604
Email: elaine.mountfort@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Please join the fight against scams by registering to become a Friend Against Scams at www.friendsagainstscams.org.uk or follow @AgainstScams on Twitter.
The Whittlesey Mud Walls will be featured on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire thanks to the museum curator Jenny.
Sue Marchant from BBC Radio Cambs likes to find interesting things in and around the county.
The program featuring The Whittlesey Mud Walls will be broadcast on Monday 4th June between 3 – 4pm
A couple of years ago…..(Sainsburys™/Tesco™ Supermarkets) one of our businessmen enquired with several Hotel chains as to ‘if’ Whittlesey was in their expansion plans…
alas, the couple that did reply, said there wasn’t sufficient ‘footfall’ to justify coming to our town.
We have a few good B&B’s that can cater for a few rooms, and of course The Falcon Hotel™. (Did you see 4 in a bed on Ch4)
Tonight I hear that the Old redundant Police Station on Bridge Street Peterborough is planned to be demolished and ‘Premier Inn™’ to build a 150+ room Hotel, this along with ‘Hilton™’ planning to build at the ‘prestigious’ ‘Fletton Quays™’ development another 130 rooms.
I wonder why then, when our own Old Police Station came up for sale – there were no Hoteliers vying to snap this prime site …
However I can reveal that since ‘Subway™’ opened – there are now 21 Eating/Take-Away establishments within a few hundred yards of the town centre (Whittlesea Society).
There is a message somewhere there….
