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Life has seemed rather flat recently. I feel guilty about saying that as there are almost 50,000 people who would love to be here living any sort of life, flat or interesting.

On 15 August we remembered 75 years of Victory in Japan. This brought back memories of my Great Uncle Oliver ‘Jack’ Crowdell who died aged 27 in Japan at the end of World War 2.

This is unusual, to get a joint report from both Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt Parish Councils in one article!

Fourth week of lockdown. On the whole, life is so much simpler, especially while we are blessed with beautiful weather and we actually have the time to enjoy Spring evolving before our eyes.

This is the photo taken in 1950, my name was Helen Silver then and I lived at 24 Dover Street.

I am researching the history of my father Len Wright of Leicester.

Over the past few months you may have noticed a queue appearing from The Railway Pub in Kibworth early on Thursday mornings.

Newly formed Kibworth Easy Riders, is a group designed for the cyclist who wants to enjoy a social ride with like-minded people.

You’re running a winery in New Zealand and, to stand out from the crowd, you want to produce something that’s not Sauvignon Blanc. Create Left Field Albarino.

Dear Editor,

It seems like an age since our last article, when I said that rehearsals for The Vicar of Dibley were going well and we were on track for a June production! 

The Kibworth School have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic candidate to join our friendly team.

The first cohort of a new course, to train dog owners to Canicross in Kibworth, with their four legged friends, graduated this week, and they are now taking to tracks and fields to practice their new learned skills.

Observed on Wistow Road, Kibworth Harcourt the attached sign affixed to the railings adjacent to the Midland Main Line railway track between Market Harborough and Leicester.

I am sure readers can not help but notice that our medium sized village (actually its two villages called Kibworth Harcourt and Kibworth Beauchamp) is expanding almost expeditiously with the building in recent times of Kibworth's new estates.