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In the last week of Rev Ludger Fremmer’s time as priest at St Wilfrid’s, Congregationalist Anne Flower organised for Salvo Brass to play a Christmas concert. Isn’t brass band music and Christmas just the perfect match?

Eileen Bromley passed away on 7 November at the age of 92, ending a ministry of 76 years and a lifetime with Jesus that continues in heaven.

Fleckney & Kibworth Running Club are offering a FREE 9-week couch to 5k running course, starting on Thursday 15 January, and every Thursday thereafter, at 6.30pm.

The original Christmas Tree Festival of Leicestershire, and now 23 years young, again attracted crowds of visitors through its doors to witness the many and varied decorated trees.

Jayne Hubbard (left) and team in the kitchen at Kibworth Methodist Chapel on Saturday 6 December preparing to feed the Senior Citizens with Christmas lunch and all the trimmings.

Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Police and Crime Commissioner Rupert Matthews has launched a dedicated Road Safety Round as part of his Community Action Fund (CAF) programme, pledging to support grassroots projects that can help him promote safer travel for all road users.

Between April and September 2025, Action Fraud has received 2,790 crime reports relating to Winter Fuel Payment scams, with victims reporting losses totalling over £27,000.

An innovative housing development has been completed and it has earned net-zero verification—the first in Harborough district. The development at Sidings Yard on Station Street in Kibworth Beauchamp includes six one-bed apartments and four two-bedroom bungalows.

As I retire from my role as parish priest, my family and I want to thank the people of the Kibworth Benefice for 18 years of shared life, faith and friendship.

It is with great regret, we have to inform you that from 31 March 2026 the charity, Kibworth Grammar School Hall (also known as Kibworth Community Hub, charity number 1044822) will be dissolved and the lease handed back to Kibworth Beauchamp Parish Council.

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I grew up with an annual real Christmas tree that my mother decorated beautifully, the most amazing sight being when the real candles in their holders were lit and the light bulb turned off, for a magical, fragrant though fairly brief, experience. I can’t imagine anyone taking the chance of a house fire now!

I have in my possession an interesting newspaper article from the 1960s that shows a picture of Skeffington Hall, which is situated in the village of Skeffington, Leics., adjacent to the Church of St. Thomas A Beckett. According to my records the hall was originally constructed in 1450 and was the birthplace of Thomas Skeffington, Bishop of Bangor and Sir William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland. It was later owned by a William Farrell whose son, Sir William Farrell-Skeffington 1^st Bt., adopted the Skeffington surname and later sold the hall to the Tailby family in 1815. William Ward Tailby (1825-1914) was a keen huntsman and formed the Fernie Hunt in 1856 and Sir Richard Sutton 2^nd Bt., who was Master of the Quorn Hunt also resided at Skeffington Hall at one time.