EMICS is a dedicated network of specially trained doctors from Rutland, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire who are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to give medical assistance at the scene of accidents when requested by the medical services. This unpaid work is in addition to their normal patient caseload. Are such scemes something new?

No. they have been running in parts of the country for around 35 years. EMICS has been running since 1984. Can doctors react like paramedics? Yes. every doctor on the scheme has to undergo post-graduate specialist training. They also receive advanced driving training to enable them to reach incidents safely. How much does it cost to run? Although doctors are unpaid, EMICS pays for their equipment and special training - none of which is provided by the NHS. It costs £15,000 - £20,000 to equip each doctor and their car. EMICS relies on public donations.

Not many people are aware that local G.P. Dr Nick Foster is registered with EMICS, helping them by volunteering his time for this great service. Ways people can help: - Send a donation, large or small - Organise a fundraising event - Nominate EMICS as your workplace's adopted good cause.

You can contact me at 5 Kirk Avenue, Kegworth, DE74 2FY for more information or to make a donation. Or simply pop into the Britannia Inn on London Road and make a donation there.

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But as the first and only elementary scholarship girl she is encountering much prejudice from the rich snobbish element who seem to regard it as their duty to try every sneaky trick in the book to make her unhappy and get her to leave.

Will Daisy Meredith triumph over her enemies in the end ?

Will the superachiever overcome all the dastardly plottings to discredit her ?

Come and find out how Daisy copes with her trials and tribulations on Wed 19th / Thurs 20th / Fri 21st November at Kegworth Village Hall.

Tickets are on sale now at £5.00 each from Homelet, Market Place, Kegworth. Tel: 01509 672328.

Click here to see Photo of Daisy

As old age pensioners and long time residents of Kegworth, we enjoy our walks on Sideley recreation ground and applaud the building of the new children's playground. However, what form of madness has come over the council in the dumping of huge mounds of earth for the teenage vandals to ride their bikes over and terrorise elderly people like ourselves. The recreation ground now resembles a landfill site and the council should hang their heads in shame at this current state of affairs.

There is so much for the youngsters to do in Kegworth. We have a youth club, cricket club, football, tennis, lawn bowls and angling. Why then do the council encourage the teenagers to create havoc and cause damage.

Come on Kegworth council, start thinking about the residents and tax payers who actually pay for these facilities.

Disgruntled, Long Lane.

JOLLY HOCKEY STICKS

and that is exactly what Kegworth Players are currently appealing for.

Rehearsals are now well under way for Kegworth Players autumn production of “Daisy Pulls it Off” and it promises to be an absolutely spiffing production of this wonderful and hilarious parody of life in a “gels” boarding school.

The play is set in the 1920’s and if there is anyone who has hockey sticks of the old style long headed type and would be willing to loan them to us for a limited period please phone Daisy on 01332 811445

Take an evening away in Burkina Faso………..

On Friday 4th April come to the Kegworth Community Centre where Anne Lott of Barrow on Soar will give a talk on her trip to Burkina Faso in West Africa, and you will be able to immerse yourself in the food, music and sights of the country.

Anne says “...the landscapes are stunning. The Burkinabé are incurably friendly and open and have a wonderful sense of humour. Most people live from subsistence farming in traditional villages. Burkina Faso’s economy is the third poorest country in the world but this does not begin to describe a land full of richness and beauty, nor does it do justice to the people there who often struggle to survive. The lengths the Burkinabé must often go to in order to gain minute quantities of water are mind-boggling. However their compelling sense of when to take action, what to value and what to expect from life lead me to look much further than their problems and even to reflect on our own.

“I had the luck to be introduced to Burkina Faso by the Milons, a French couple who have been visiting for 30 years as part of a twinning programme between Burkina’s Tikaré and Rouen in France, also twinned with our own Soar Valley Twinning Association. We travelled in the lush south of the country, attended a conference of mammoth proportions on Franco-Burkinabé cooperation in Ouagadougou, visited the President and were welcomed for a week in Tikaré, a village in the arid Sahelian north. Events were always surprising, sometimes tragic but often pure comedy….”

Tickets are available from 01509 568793 for £6.50 and include a Burkinabé meal and drink. Proceeds go to the Soar Valley Twinning Association and to support a community project in Tikaré.

Rev Nigel Tuffnell is presently registered as Rector of three parishes in the Ely Diocese.

He will be inducted as Priest in Charge of Kegworth, Hathern, Belton, Diseworth, Long Whatton and Osgathorpe on June 9th.

He is married to Vivienne and they have a 13 year old daughter.

They will live in the Kegworth Rectory.

Data Protection Agency Services, A.K.A. Crown Data Collection Enforcement Agency
Hyde House,
193 Market Street,
Hyde,
Cheshire,
SK14 1HF,

demanding £95 to register companies under the Data Protection Act 1998 they would be well advised not to pay it according to, both the police, and the Governments Official Data Protection Service.

There is no connection between the Information Commissioner and such individuals. The Commissioner advises those approached in this way not to make any payment and to notify the local police.

If you receive this 'Final Warning' it should be forwarded to Leicestershire Constabulary, Economic Crime Dept, at Coalville Police Station. Together with your details.

Further details can be seen here, www.dataprotection.gov.uk/dpars.htm and here, www.dpr.gov.uk/donotbemisled.html where the people concerned are featured at the bottom of the list featured.

There are at least 10 other names misleading companies in a similar manner.

The Secretary of State for Transport has announced to Parliament the publication of a series of consultation documents setting out a range of options for the future development of air services and airports in the UK over the next 30 years. Following this consultation, the Government intends to publish a new air transport White Paper that will provide a policy framework for the long-term future of both aviation and airports in the UK. The deadline for responses is 30th November 2002.

The consultation document that covers Kegworth and the East Midlands Airport is in the one covering the "Midlands". The whole document can be found on http://www.airconsult.gov.uk or you can telephone 0845 100 5554 to obtain a copy.

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The idiot (sorry - motorcyclist) unfortunately suffered no injuries - only to his ego.

Found on CNN news site

KEGWORTH, England -- Damocles drives?

A shocked driver alerted police Sunday after he saw a sword swinging over the head of two women in a passing car.

"I think the women are being kidnapped by a blade-wielding maniac," police spokesman David Storer quoted the unidentified caller as saying.

The police traced the plates to an address in Kegworth, central England -- and swooped down on a pint-sized perpetrator armed with plastic.

"He's sword-mad," said Pamela Keogh, mother of 4-year-old Daniel.

"I was driving my sister, Cheryl, to her home from a Nottingham fairground," she said. Daniel was in the back seat trying out a new plastic silver-colored sword his mother had bought him at the fair.

"My car windows got steamed up" Keogh said. "When the other driver spotted him, Daniel was in the back, waving his sword over our heads as he tried to write his name with it on the sun-roof."

Daniel is a Power Rangers fan, she explained.

"They all have swords and their leader, Jason, is his hero."

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