Category: Letters

Dear Editor,

I was so thrilled to see the Kibworth Hug Token featured in the Chronicle!
It was an idea I had to spread a bit of joy and magic at a time when we simply can’t even hug one another.

Earlier today I walked into Kibworth to do some shopping. I came across this token in a clear wallet laying on the ground. I was curious and looked closer.

Carol number five ‘A virgin most gentle’ in this year’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast worldwide annually on Radio 4 and BBC World Service from the candlelit Chapel of Kings College, Cambridge 3pm Christmas Eve, is of local interest, having been composed by Andrew Carter, a past pupil of Kibworth Beauchamp Grammar School.

This last week (beginning 6 December) whilst many lands celebrated St Nicholas’ Day on the Sunday, some Beauchamp residents may have missed a local anniversary - the installation of the yellow speed restriction signs, now looking so bent, battered and bruised, twenty weeks ago during the fourth week of July.

I would like to say an enormous Thank You to all those who have contributed to my Just Giving fund to provide toys for children from families who are struggling this Christmas.

I was saddened to learn of the death of Isabel Cullum who, I must admit, was responsible for encouraging me to write articles for the Chronicle.

I should make clear straight away that I have no business axe to grind when I recommend visiting Market Harborough Indoor Market. I just wish to encourage more support for the stallholders by persuading your readers to plan a visit there.

I am sure that I speak for a lot of people when I say a very big thank you to the unpaid volunteers who give their time and energy to make such a tremendous success of Kibworth Library. I know that, over and above their traditional library, they are missing the extra activities they organise when not so restricted by Covid-19.