Category: Community

In Smeeton Westerby, we celebrated the King’s Coronation in style. From flags flying throughout the village to our special church service. Plus the Coronation BBQ, and Big Community Help out, (litter picking along the roads that enter our village). It was all rounded off with a ‘bring your own’ picnic!

Thank you very much for the kindness and help Linda afforded my cousins, Richard and Elizabeth Smith - during their recent visit from New Zealand.

An important meeting has been called by Network Rail to discuss the forthcoming upgrading of the footbridge between Elliot Close and Warwick Park.

After nearly thirty years (twenty nine years and ten months to be exact), Anne Charlton is hanging up her bar towel for the last time at The Kings Head, Smeeton Westerby.

The Heritage England, Grade II listed cob wall at 70 High Street, Kibworth is likely to be demolished to be replaced by a brick wall of the same height following an application to HDC.

The SPAB and their Mills Section have now completed the repair project at Kibworth Harcourt Mill, an outstanding historic post mill at Kibworth Harcourt in Leicestershire.

There has been an increase of e-scooters being used across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland in recent months.

Have you ever really taken a proper look at what is actually in your dog’s food?

Date: Friday 26th May

“Sun is shining in the sky, there ain’t a cloud in sight, it’s stopped raining, everybody’s in a play and you know it’s a beautiful new day” – Jeff Lynne, ELO, Mr Blue Sky