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I have supported Refuge, a charity supporting women and children who are survivors of domestic abuse since 1982 when I was a social work student and worked in a Women's Aid Refuge.

THURSDAY 5 0CTOBER 2023

As I’m writing this, it is unseasonably warm, even though the trees and our gardens are reminding us that autumn is upon us! 

‘The Falls’ Canadian Riesling (Aldi £4.99)

Summer in Smeeton, like everywhere else, seemed to come and go but then, as I write this, be back in all its glory. Long may it last.

Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital will be holding a Carvery Night and Mini Auction on Thursday 12 October at The Shires Inn, Peatling Parva, LE17 5PU.

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Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital will be holding a coffee morning and table top sale on Saturday 14 October in Kibworth Village Hall LE8 0LN from 10am until 12.45.

You are invited to the 20^th Coffee Morning

We are told the future of cricket is city franchises. Like Brigadoon, the fabled Scottish village that appears every hundred years, they emerge each season pulsating with artificial colours, canned music and manufactured fun. Then, having achieved maximum monetisation in minimal time at major venues, they revert to the form they take for the other eleven months of the year – a WhatsApp group. At the other end of the permanence scale is Kibworth CC, who played host to the first county game in its 110-year history on Tuesday. This district of Harborough in Leicestershire comprises Kibworth Beauchamp (population 5,433) and Kibworth Harcourt (population 990). It is a place so typical of rural England that in 2010 a BBC history documentary told the story of our entire nation using the narrative arc of Kibworth’s development. In recent years, its growth has been a double-edged sword. As Kibworth’s Wikipedia page stated, ‘new housing continues to be built, causing periodic controversy.’ But it remains a village in feel and outlook if not population.