Not appearing in print this month, here is February’s Marshwood Vale magazine:
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Category: Latest News
Fixed Penalty Notice in Force For Irresponsible Dog Owners
The Dorset Council wide Dog related Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) came into force on the 1 January 2021. During that first month Dorset Council focused on advice and guidance to dog-owners explaining the new rules. The new rules were published on this website on 29th December 2020 – click HERE to read or re-read them.
The PSPO places restrictions on dog owners in control of their dogs. These restrictions include clearing up dog fouling and proper disposal of the waste in any open space. On certain land dogs are not allowed on marked sports pitches or enclosed children’s play areas or are required to be on lead, such as in cemeteries, formal gardens etc. There are also dog restrictions on some beaches relating to certain times of the year, see the map below for beach locations.
From yesterday (February 1st) if the rules are broken, fixed penalty notices (FPN) may be issued by enforcement officers. These can also be served by post if a witness provides details of the dog owner, such as their address, or their vehicle registration number and are willing to provide a suitable witness statement.
The current penalty level is set in legislation as £100 to be paid within 28 days. Early payment, within 14 days, will reduce this to £75.
To read more on the Dog Protection PSPO – click HERE
For more detailed information on where, when and what the restrictions are, if any, at Dorset’s Dog Friendly beaches – please click HERE.
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Local Employment: Junior Contracts Engineer
Based at Gore Cross Business Park in Bridport, this is a permanent, full time position with Ackerman Engineering Ltd.
Job description:
Reporting to the Contracts Engineer Manager, The Junior Contracts Engineer will:
- Work with the customer contracts team and deal with incoming enquiries.
- Develop new customers and build a portfolio of repeat order business.
- Ensure quotations and orders are allocated/ processed efficiently and professionally to achieve continued customer satisfaction.
Scope:
This role is suited to a junior manufacturing engineer that has ambition to develop their career into a contracts engineering role. A training plan will be in place for the suitable candidate to initially spend time working between the factory and office. It will be essential to gain experience and to fully understand all of the manufacturing disciplines that Ackerman Engineering facilitates.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supporting the contracts team, dealing with incoming enquiries, providing accurate quotations.
- To obtain a correct understanding of customer requirements.
- To prepare quotation responses in accordance with the established procedures for investigation, design, costing and presentation.
- To ensure that documentation received for orders/enquiries is sufficiently Informative and detailed to allow efficient processing.
- Providing technical and commercial support to customers.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships, demonstrating continuous commitment to customers focus.
- Communicating internally with purchasing, quality and production departments. Knowledge, skills and personal qualities required
Essential:
- Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate clearly at all levels
- Computer literate
- Positive, motivated, can-do attitude
- Energy to increase the capability to deliver and improve business results,
Desirable:
- Driving Licence, to be able to visit customers in the future
- Formal engineering qualifications
- Experience working for a sub contract manufacturer
- Entry level contract engineering experience
Hours: Monday – Thursday 08:00 – 17:00, Friday 08:00 – 13:00
Telephone: 01308 422185 or email: sales@ackerman-eng.com
Ackerman Engineering are a 5th generation family owned Dorset UK company. Established in Bridport in 1885, today they fabricate utilising the very latest in sheet metal working machinery and CadCam simulation techniques.
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Apply To Get Help with Bills By Friday,12th February
Dorset residents have until Friday, 12th February to put in their applications to apply for funding to pay utility bills.
Vulnerable families in Dorset can apply for money to pay their utility bills, but the deadline is approaching fast.
The programme is being administrated by Citizen’s Advice Dorset. To access the funding, which come from the Government’s Covid Winter Grant Scheme, log on HERE. You can also call on 01929 408950 to apply.
Cllr Jane Somper, Dorset Council lead member for Safeguarding, said, “I urge families, and others, who need support this winter with essential bills like heating, to apply online for help or get in touch by ringing our helpline. These are difficult times and helping our most vulnerable families, who have been hard-hit by the pandemic, is vital. We are working with schools and other organisations like Citizens’ Advice to get help and support out to those who need it.”
At least 80% of the Covid Winter Grant will be used to help vulnerable families in Dorset; some of the remaining 20% will either be used to support other vulnerable residents across the area or will also be spent supporting families.
Support and advice for all residents, including information about accessing food and other financial support is available online at: www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/reaching-out.
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You Need A Reasonable Excuse Else Stay Home
Stay Home. Save lives. The new variant of COVID-19 is spreading fast. If you go out, you can spread it. People will die. You must not leave or be outside of your home except where you have a ‘reasonable excuse’.
You should follow this guidance immediately. This is the law.
What is a reasonable excuse?
Clicking on the links in the text below will take you the relative Government page with more detail.
The Government website states that a ‘reasonable excuse’ includes:
Work:
You can only leave home for work purposes where it is unreasonable for you to do your job from home. This includes, but is not limited to, people who work within critical national infrastructure, construction or manufacturing that require in-person attendance
Volunteering:
You can also leave home to provide voluntary or charitable services. You must volunteer from home unless it is not reasonably possible for you to do so.
Essential activities:
You can leave home to buy things at shops or obtain services where necessary. You may also leave your home to do these things on behalf of a disabled or vulnerable person or someone self-isolating.
Education and childcare:
You can only leave home for education, registered childcare, and supervised activities for children where the child is eligible to attend. Access to education and children’s activities for school-aged pupils is restricted. See further information on education and childcare. You can continue existing arrangements for contact between parents and children where they live apart. If you live in a household with anyone aged under 14, you can also form a childcare bubble.
Meeting others and care:
You can leave home:
- to visit people in your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)
- to provide informal childcare for children under 14 as part of a childcare bubble (for example, to enable parents to work, not to enable social contact between adults)
- to provide care for disabled or vulnerable people
- to provide emergency assistance
- to attend a support group (of up to 15 people)
- for respite care where that care is being provided to a vulnerable person or a person with a disability, or is a short break in respect of a looked-after child.
Exercise
You can continue to exercise alone, with one other person or with your household or support bubble. This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.You should maintain social distancing. See the exercising section.
Meeting others and care:
You can leave home:
- to visit people in your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)
- to provide informal childcare for children under 14 as part of a childcare bubble (for example, to enable parents to work, not to enable social contact between adults)
- to provide care for disabled or vulnerable people
- to provide emergency assistance
- to attend a support group (of up to 15 people)
- for respite care where that care is being provided to a vulnerable person or a person with a disability, or is a short break in respect of a looked-after child.
Exercise:
You can continue to exercise alone, with one other person or with your household or support bubble. This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.You should maintain social distancing. See the exercising section of this guidance online.
Medical reasons:
You can leave home for a medical reason, including to get a COVID-19 test, for medical appointments and for emergencies.
Maternity:
You can leave home to be with someone who is giving birth or, accessing other maternity services, or to be with a baby receiving neonatal critical care. There is NHS guidance on pregnancy and coronavirus.
Harm:
You may leave home, to avoid injury or illness or to escape risk of harm (such as domestic abuse).
Compassionate visits:
You may also leave home to visit someone who is dying or someone in a care home (if permitted under care home guidance), hospice, or hospital, or to accompany them to a medical appointment.
Animal welfare reasons:
You can leave home for animal welfare reasons, such as to attend veterinary services for advice or treatment.
Communal worship and life events:
You can leave home to attend or visit a place of worship for communal worship, to attend a funeral or event related to a death, to visit a burial ground or a remembrance garden, or to attend a wedding ceremony. You should follow the guidance on the safe use of places of worship and must not mingle with anyone outside of your household or support bubble. Weddings, funerals and religious, belief-based or commemorative events linked to someone’s death are all subject to limits on the numbers that can attend.
Further reasonable excuses:
There are further reasonable excuses. For example, you may leave home to fulfil legal obligations, or to carry out activities related to buying, selling, letting or renting a residential property, for the purpose of picketing, or where it is reasonably necessary for voting in an election or referendum. See guidance on . This applies to anyone campaigning for electoral events.
Medical reasons:
You can leave home for a medical reason, including to get a COVID-19 test, for medical appointments and for emergencies.
Maternity:
You can leave home to be with someone who is giving birth or, accessing other maternity services, or to be with a baby receiving neonatal critical care. There is NHS guidance on pregnancy and coronavirus.
Harm:
You may leave home, to avoid injury or illness or to escape risk of harm (such as domestic abuse).
Compassionate visits:
You may also leave home to visit someone who is dying or someone in a care home (if permitted under care home guidance), hospice, or hospital, or to accompany them to a medical appointment.
Animal welfare reasons:
You can leave home for animal welfare reasons, such as to attend veterinary services for advice or treatment.
Communal worship and life events:
You can leave home to attend or visit a place of worship for communal worship, to attend a funeral or event related to a death, to visit a burial ground or a remembrance garden, or to attend a wedding ceremony. You should follow the guidance on the safe use of places of worship and must not mingle with anyone outside of your household or support bubble. Weddings, funerals and religious, belief-based or commemorative events linked to someone’s death are all subject to limits on the numbers that can attend.
Further reasonable excuses:
There are further reasonable excuses. For example, you may leave home to fulfil legal obligations, or to carry out activities related to buying, selling, letting or renting a residential property, for the purpose of picketing, or where it is reasonably necessary for voting in an election or referendum. See guidance on campaigning during the national lockdown. This applies to anyone campaigning for electoral events.
To view all the Government guidance on the National Lockdown – Click HERE.
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Lawrences Online General Sale – Wednesday 10th February
Lawrences auctioneers are holding an online General Sale starting at 10am on Wednesday, 10th February.
The salerooms in Crewkerne are closed but you can browse the items in the sale and leave your bids ahead of the sale.
Click HERE to view all the items in their catalogue.
Telephone:01460 73041
or email: enquiries@lawrences.co.uk
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The Bishops’ Kitchen – Feb 21
February’s Bishops’ Kitchen offers you two recipes for a romantic Valentine’s Night
DINNER DATE STEAK
2x15ml tbsp dark muscovado sugar, 2x15ml tbsp red wine vinegar, 1x15ml tbsp Dijon mustard, 1x15ml tbsp soy sauce, 1x15ml tbsp redcurrant jelly, 2tsp chopped fresh ginger, 1x15ml tbsp tomato puree, 1x15ml tbsp garlic oil, 2 sirloin steaks 300g each
Method:
Put the sugar, vinegar, mustard, soy sauce, redcurrant jelly, ginger & tomato puree into a small pan & whisk together over a gentle heat. Bring to boil & simmer for about 5 mins until the sauce has thickened slightly, remove from heat. Rub the steaks with garlic oil before placing on a very hot griddle & cook for 3 mins on each side for rare to medium. Take steaks off & wrap in tin foil & leave to rest for 5 mins. Open foil & pour juices into sauce whisk. Place steaks on warm plates & drizzle sauce over steaks & serve.
LEMON MERINGUE FOOL
150ml shop bought lemon curd, 2tsp limoncello, 250ml double cream, lemon zest to serve, 1 meringue nest (shop bought is ok).
Method:
Put lemon curd & limoncello in bowl & stir together. Put cream into another bowl & whisk until just thick. Fold in half lemon curd mixture into the cream with a rubber spatula then the rest. You want this all folded in completely (whipped cream rippled with lemon is what you are aiming for). Crumble the meringue nest into cream with your fingers & gently fold in. Spoon mixture into a bowl or two goblet glasses & decorate with the lemon zest serve with fine biscuits such as langues de chat [cat’s tongue biscuits].
All recipes are from village resident, Richard Childs.
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Think Brain Health
We see many advertisements and charities promoting looking after your heart and how to prevent heart disease and research tells us that the most important thing you can do is be kind to your heart, especially in your 40s and 50s. What’s good for your heart is also good for your brain!
Looking after your heart health, including controlling blood pressure and being physically active, can help lower your risk of heart disease and dementia too – particularly Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia.
According to a report published by leading medical journal The Lancet in 2020, social isolation in later life could be a factor in around 4% of cases of dementia. We know that being socially active, whether that’s picking up the phone, meeting friends for a coffee, joining community groups, volunteering, or jumping onto Zoom for a catch-up can help us feel happier, healthier and more positive in general. Please reach out, particularly to those on their own.
Some interesting random brain facts from various sources of recent research:
- A brain weighs about 3.3 lbs. (1.5 kilograms).
- A 2 year old baby will have an 80% fully grown brain. It will continue to grow until you’re about 18 years old. It isn’t until about the age of 25 that the human brain reaches full maturity.
- Obesity is linked with poorer brain health in people with and without memory and thinking problems.
- Your brain only accounts for 2% of your body weight but uses about 20% of your energy.
- Afternoon napping was linked to better memory and thinking in people over the age of 60.
- Your human brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons which is about the same as the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
- Officially called a Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia, a brain freeze happens when you eat or drink something that’s too cold.
- Every minute, 750-1,000 millilitres of blood flows through the brain. This is enough to fill a bottle of wine or litre bottle of soda.
- Consisting of minimum 60% fat, your brain is the fattiest organ in your body. This is why healthy fats, such as Omega-3s and Omega-6s, are vital for brain and overall body health.
- We cry when we are very happy because our hypothalamus in our brain can’t distinguish the difference between strong happiness and strong sadness.
- The world’s fastest supercomputer requires 24 million Watts of power to operate, but our brains only require 20 Watts and operate about 100,000 times faster.
- Your brain is the only object in the world that can contemplate itself.
Take their Brain Health quiz HERE.
If you have general questions about dementia or want to know more about dementia research and how you and your loved ones can get involved, Dementia Research Infoline can help.
- Call 0300 111 5 111 between 9.00-5.00pm Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays).
Calls are charged at the same rate as 01 or 02 numbers and should be included in any free call packages you have. Charges for mobiles are likely to be higher. They try to answer calls as quickly as possible, but if the Infoline is busy or you call outside our operating hours, you can leave a message with your contact details and one of their team will aim to get back to you within three working days. - Email: infoline@alzheimersresearchuk.org.
- Write to: Dementia Research Infoline, Alzheimer’s Research UK, 3 Riverside, Granta Park, Cambridge, CB21 6AD
Alzheimer’s Research UK is a registered charity, numbers 1077089 and SC042474.
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Captain Tom Moore In Hospital With Covid-19
Captain Tom Moore’s daughter Hannah released this statement earlier this evening:
The remarkable and truly inspirational man, Captain Tom Moore was appointed an honorary Colonel to mark his 100th birthday on 30th April 2020 in recognition of his exceptional efforts that has raised almost £30 million for the NHS.
The Nation’s thoughts and prayers go out to him and all of his family.
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Trees Planted At Hursey Common
At Hursey Common this morning, 30 saplings were planted.
A massive thank you & well done to David Leader with the group of volunteers: Stefan, Kirsty, Eden, Linda, pictured above with Peter and Hazel, pictured below.
The fungus shown in this photograph is the Scarlet Elf Cup (Sarcoscypha coccinea) – though not poisonous, it is considered inedible. It can be spotted in several places throughout the common at this time.
We are so lucky to have this woodland on our doorstep – please help look after it and take any litter home.
Read the Woodland Trust’s A-Z guide to British trees from native species to naturalised and widely planted non-natives – Click HERE.
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