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A Kibworth resident has written to HDC Planning Enforcement. Reference :23/000/79/COMS: non-compliance of landscaping and ecology for 16/00166/OUT-David Wilson Homes Land north of Fleckney RoadKibworth Beauchamp(Now known as Cuckoo Drive Estate)

Looking ahead to the colder autumn and winter days and the serious problems some families face, we’re so fortunate to have agencies coming into The Well café in Kibworth to help people who are struggling to pay their bills and heat their homes. The Foodbank is another great blessing for people who have hit rock bottom.

It is with great sadness that The Kibworth Band announce the death, just short of his 101^st birthday of their President Jack Perbedy. As we wrote in the Chronicle this time last year as he celebrated his 100^th birthday, Jack was a Kibworth lad who never forgot his roots. In gratitude and appreciation of his musical start with the Kibworth  Band, where he rose from player to conductor in a short period of time, he became a lifelong supporter of Kibworth and many other local bands.

Saturday, 2 September, marked the 100^th Village Produce Show in Burton Overy. The village WI started the show in 1923.

Following the public meeting on 23 May in Kibworth Grammar School Hall, further meetings with Network Rail were held with local councillors and MP, Neil O’Brien to change the original plans of a long diversion via Church Road to a temporary footbridge.

The parish council’s monthly meetings during the summer were held on 1 June and 3 August in the Studio at the Kibworth Grammar School Hall with the annual walkabout on 6 Jul

We may be enjoying some late sunshine but the nights will be drawing in soon. Rather than spend your evening trawling through BBC iPlayer, why not come and sing with Foxton Community Choir?

School Road Chapel News

The Parish Council’s monthly public meetings over the summer were held on 27 June and, with no meeting in July, on 22 August. All meetings are held in the Studio at the Kibworth Grammar School Hall.

Flu and covid vaccine programmes brought forward  due to risk of new covid variant