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Issue 131 January 2021

Corona Virus Update Trafford Lockdown
White Christmas Great Snowy Scenes
Trafford Veterans Awarded Points Of Light Award
Big Night IN Burns Night
Travels With The Llanddwyn Island Anglesey
Big Night IN Number Two Australia Day
Holocaust Memorial Day
Gardening Jobs For January

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Letter from the Editor Page 4 Coronavirus Update we are now as a
Well was an end to nation in Tier 5 please stay at home where
2019 Tier Four and now possible and help save lives and ease the
Nationaly in 2021 we demands on our NHS.
are in Tier Five. Oh well Page 10 Well almost a white Christmas we
we will just have to get did get a brief dusting Christmas Day. Then
on with it and stich to we got some more a few days later although
the regulations and try sadly it didn’t last .
and help our wonderful
NHS t cope with latest Page 12 With nowhere to go why not
wave. celebrate at home starting off with a Big
Stayin at home maybe night in for Burns night on January 25th
not too bad as we have which is also St Dwynwen's Day
had some pretty cold Page 12 We have three recipes for you to try
weather lately and snow a doggy safe cake also humans can eat a
which produced some chicken and watercress wrap and an
fabulous photos and overnight porridge oats and raspberry pot
snowmen. great to start Burns Night with
Staying at home dosnt Page 14 Just off the coast of Anglesey is
mean we cant enjoy Newborough Nature Reserve Forest and
ourselves. I will enjoying beach leading to Llanddwyn Island with the
three big nights in remains of a convent set up by St Dwynwen it
Twelfth Night 5th Burns is breathtakingly beautiful great for a day out
Night /St Dwynwen's Page 16 January 26th is another excuse for a
25th and Australia Day Big Night In is Australia Day. Get in some
26th. wine or cans of amber nectar and cook up
On the 27th January is some Aussie Food.
Holocaust Memorial
Day when you think of Page 18 January 27th is not a day for celebration
what happened in those as such but one cant be sad that this year marks
camps there are staying the 76th anniversary since the liberation of
at home is nothing. Auschwitz it was good thing but the only
after the horrors that happened there and
other places they need to be remembered
Page 26 At the end of January te RSPB is again
holding its big garden In association ith B&Q we
have ideas to bring the birds in to your garden.

Community Pink Pages 31
Stay Safe Stay at home What's On 32
Clubs and Societies 33/34
Councillors MPs and Help lines 35
Churches Places of Worship 36
Hazel Youth Organisations

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Corona Virus Update

Restrictions in Trafford
and Greater Manchester

Trafford, along with the rest of Greater
Manchester and England, is under a
national lockdown from Tuesday, 5
January 2021.

You can find more details on university. You should limit the time you
the government website about what you spend outside your home and only go out
can and cannot do under national for medical appointments, exercise or if it
lockdown rules. is essential. There is additional advice
for people who are clinically extremely
What national lockdown means for you vulnerable to coronavirus.
Schools - Colleges, primary and
Stay at home – You must stay at secondary schools will remain open only
home and work from home if you for vulnerable children and the children
can. You can leave your house of critical workers. All other children will
to: learn remotely until February half term.
Childcare – Nurseries and childminders
· shop for essentials, for you or a are allowed to stay open. You can also

vulnerable person form a childcare bubble to help you.

· go to work, if you cannot work from Businesses and venues - Under national
lockdown many businesses, including non-
home essential retail and hospitality, must close.
For a full list of venues which must close
· exercise outdoors once a day and which can remain open visit
the government website.
meet your support bubble if you are
allowed to have one

seek medical help or avoid harm
including domestic abuse

access childcare through schools or
your childcare bubble

get a COVID-19 test if you have symptoms Public services - The majority of public
– coronavirus testing in Trafford services will continue and you will be able
to leave home to visit them. These include
accessing the NHS and medical services
Clinically extremely vulnerable - Those like GPs and dentists and attending courts
who are clinically extremely vulnerable and probation services. You can find more
should not attend work, school, college or details on the government website.

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Corona Virus Update

When you can leave home
You must not leave or be outside of your
home except where you have a
‘reasonable excuse’. This will be put in
law. The police can take action against
you if you leave home without a
‘reasonable excuse’, and issue you with a
fine (Fixed Penalty Notice).
You can be given a Fixed Penalty Notice
of £200 for the first offence, doubling for
further offences up to a maximum of
£6,400.
A ‘reasonable excuse’ includes:

· Work - you can only leave home for Meeting others and care - You can leave
home to visit people in your support
work purposes where it is unreasonable bubble ( if you are legally permitted to
for you to do your job from home, form one), to provide informal childcare for
including but not limited to people who children under 14 as part of a childcare
work within critical national infrastructure, bubble (for example, to enable parents to
construction or manufacturing that require work, and not to enable social contact
in-person attendance between adults), to provide care for
disabled or vulnerable people, to provide
· Volunteering - you can also leave emergency assistance, to attend a
support group (of up to 15 people), or for
home to provide voluntary or charitable respite care where that care is being
services. provided to a vulnerable person or a
person with a disability, or is a short break
· Essential activities - you can leave in respect of a looked-after child.

home to buy things at shops or obtain · Exercise - You can continue to
services. You may also leave your home
to do these things on behalf of a disabled exercise alone, with one other person or
or vulnerable person or someone self- with your household or support bubble.
isolating. This should be limited to once per day,
Education and childcare - You can only and you should not travel outside your
leave home for education, registered local area. You should maintain social
childcare, and supervised activities for distancing.
children where they are eligible to attend.
Access to education and children’s · Medical reasons - You can leave
activities for school-aged pupils is
restricted. See further information on home for a medical reason, including to
education and childcare. People can get a COVID-19 test, for medical
continue existing arrangements for appointments and emergencies.
contact between parents and children
where they live apart. This
includes childcare bubbles.

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Harm and compassionate visits - you can for the purpose of recreation or leisure
leave home to be with someone who is (e.g. a picnic or a social meeting). This
giving birth, to avoid injury or illness or to should be limited to once per day, and you
escape risk of harm (such as domestic should not travel outside your local area.
abuse). You can also leave home to visit You can exercise in a public outdoor place:
someone who is dying or someone in a
care home (if permitted under care home
guidance), hospice, or hospital, or to · by yourself

accompany them to a medical · with the people you live with
appointment.

· with your support bubble (if you are
legally permitted to form one)
· Animal welfare reasons – you can
leave home for animal welfare reasons, · in a childcare bubble where providing
such as to attend veterinary services for childcare
advice or treatment.
· or, when on your own, with 1 person
Communal worship and life events - You
can leave home to attend or visit a place of from another household
worship for communal worship, a funeral or Public outdoor places include: parks,
event related to a death, a burial ground or beaches, countryside accessible to the
a remembrance garden, or to attend a public, forests public gardens (whether or
wedding ceremony. You should follow not you pay to enter them)

the guidance on the safe use of places of · the grounds of a heritage site

worship and must not mingle with anyone
outside of your household or support · playgrounds

bubble when attending a place of worship.
Weddings, funerals and religious, belief-
based or commemorative events linked to Outdoor sports venues, including tennis
someone’s death are all subject to limits on courts, golf courses and swimming pools,
the numbers that can attend, and must close.

weddings and civil ceremonies may only
take place in exceptional circumstances. When around other people, stay 2 metres
apart from anyone not in your household -
meaning the people you live with - or
There are further reasonable excuses. For your support bubble. Where this is not
example, you may leave home to fulfil legal possible, stay 1 metre apart with extra
obligations or to carry out activities related precautions (e.g. wearing a face covering).
to buying, selling, letting or renting a
residential property, or where it is
reasonably necessary for voting in an
election or referendum. You must wear a face covering in many
indoor settings, such as shops or places of
Exercising and meeting other people worship where these remain open, and on
public transport, unless you are exempt.
This is the law.
You should minimise time spent outside
your home.
It is against the law to meet socially with
family or friends unless they are part of
your household or support bubble. You can
only leave your home to exercise, and not

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Where and when you can meet in to avoid injury or illness, or to escape a
larger groups risk of harm (including domestic abuse)

There are still circumstances in which you · to see someone who is dying
are allowed to meet others from outside · to fulfil a legal obligation, such as
your household, childcare or support
bubble in larger groups, but this should attending court or jury service
not be for socialising and only for
permitted purposes. A full list of these · for gatherings within criminal justice
circumstances will be included in the
regulations, and includes: accommodation or immigration detention
or work, or providing voluntary or centres to provide care or assistance to
charitable services, where it is someone vulnerable, or to provide respite
unreasonable to do so from home. This for a carer
can include work in other people’s homes
where necessary - for example, for · for a wedding or equivalent ceremony
nannies, cleaners, social care workers
providing support to children and families, in exceptional circumstances and only for
or tradespeople. Where a work meeting up to 6 people
does not need to take place in a private
home or garden, it should not - for · for funerals - up to a maximum of 30
example, although you can meet a
personal trainer, you should do so in a people. Wakes and other linked
public outdoor place. ceremonial events can continue in a
group of up to 6 people.
in a childcare bubble (for the purposes of
childcare only) · to visit someone at home who is

Where eligible to use these services, for dying, or to visit someone receiving
education, registered childcare, and treatment in a hospital, hospice or care
supervised activities for children. Access home, or to accompany a family member
to education and childcare facilities is or friend to a medical appointment
restricted.
for arrangements where children do not · for elite sportspeople (and their
live in the same household as both their
parents or guardians coaches if necessary, or parents/
guardians if they are under 18) - or those
to allow contact between birth parents on an official elite sports pathway - to
and children in care, as well as between compete and train
siblings in care
· to facilitate a house move
· for prospective adopting parents to
Support groups that have to be delivered
meet a child or children who may be in person can continue with up to 15
placed with them participants where formally organised to
provide mutual aid, therapy or any other
· to place or facilitate the placing of a form of support - but they must take place
at a premises other than a private home.
child or children in the care of another by Where a group includes someone
social services covered by an exception (for example,
someone who is working or volunteering),
· for birth partners they are not generally counted as part of
the gatherings limit. This means, for
example, a tradesperson can go into a
household without breaching the limit, if
they are there for work, and the officiant
at a wedding would not count towards the
limit

· to provide emergency assistance, and8 Trafford Community News

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The Government announced that, as a
result of Coronavirus cases continuing to
rise rapidly, a national lockdown has now
been introduced. It’s crucial we all play
our part to help reduce the spread of the
virus and I want to let you know what
these latest restrictions mean for travel-
ling in Greater Manchester.

To help protect the NHS and save Services on public transport will continue
lives, you must not leave your to operate as currently scheduled, alt-
home except for legally permitted rea- hough this will be reviewed throughout
sons such as work (where you cannot the lockdown period. If you need to use
work from home), education, medical ap- public transport, you must wear a face
pointments, caring responsibilities, es- covering unless exempt and should follow
sential shopping, worship or private pray- other safety guidelines – such as keeping
er or outdoor exercise. For a full list of your distance from other passengers,
legally permitted reasons for trav- cleaning your hands frequently and using
el, please see Government guidance. contactless payment where possible.
You must not leave or enter the Greater
Manchester region except for these rea-
sons. If you do need to travel, please try
to stay local, reduce the number of jour-
neys you make, and walk or cycle if you
can.

You should also plan ahead, allow extra
time for your journey and consider using
quieter routes. You can check the best
times to travel on our local travel infor-
mation page.

I know that this isn’t how we wanted to
start 2021, but please keep doing your bit
to keep yourself and others safe and pro-
tect our NHS by following the government
guidance.

Take care and stay safe.
Stephen Rhodes
Customer Director TfGM

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Mind: 0300 123 3393
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Let it Snow

Well I did think about having a tour of Dunham Massey Gareth Dickman
Trafford to grab some fab snowy photos Kate McCarthy Bridgewater Canal
but they were coming up as thick and fast
as the snow on Facebook, so to observe
Tier four instructions and stay at home I
asked all the people who took them if I
could use them which all
agreed. There were some
great scenic ones and fab
snowmen to bring a smile.
Trying to choose one for
the front cover was a hard
job I felt like I was picking
one for the Countryfile
calendar how they
manages with tens of
thousands I do not know.
Asking family and friends
was no help as all had
different favorites hers's
the ones that just missed
out.

Kate McCarthy Sale Bridge

Sale Bridge

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St Matthews Church taken from BrKiaanteRGursehefnorMthP Stretford Town Hall
Stretford House by Dee

Bridgewater Canal

taken from Stretford House Dee

Stephen Barker Sale Cemetery

Bill Sumner Stretford

Dunham Massey Gareth Dickman

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Kate Green MP Stretford Town Hall

Snowman made by
Katheryn Jayne snapped
by Sophie Woodward on
Stretford meadows

Har Ley’s daughter
Gorse Hill

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Trafford Veterans
1568. Claire Wright 1569. Chris Squires

Congratulation to Claire and Chris who Picture credit: Karen Herman Wright
have won The Governments Points of
Light award. The Award recognises weekly model making and craft group,
outstanding individual volunteers - people walking football team, minibus trips, an
who are making a change in their allotment project, food shares and coffee
community. Chris and Claire have done mornings, and other aspects of community
amazing work for Trafford Veterans. I outreach, with a particular focus on
myself am not a Veteran but married to providing veterans with volunteering
one my husband served in the Navy fo opportunities. Throughout COVID-19,
seventeen years before we married. ‘Trafford Veterans’ have been offering
Although he doesn't at the moment need welfare checks, delivering food parcels
their services as a family neither do we and hosting online events. As well as the
but happy to support them in anyway we activities, Claire and Chris provide
can. Either financially by taking part in information, advice and guidance to help
their endeavours attending the breakfast the veterans community in Trafford with
club oh how I miss them or food share as employment support, referrals to mental
these help them to finance room hire and health services and applying for veterans
other things or by helping hands on as I badges or replica medals. They have also
did Christmas Eve 2019 helping distribute provided standard bearers, coffin drapes
food out left over from shops. I would have and military veterans to line the roadways
helped this years with them taking out at funerals, provided suits and clothing for
stuff but they were working with a small job interviews, and supported veterans
team o reduce infection understandably. and families who have hit upon hard times
Hoping in the future we can see their by buying food, topping up gas and
stand at various events in Trafford electric and providing them Christmas
carnivals, Armed forces Day Fayres etc. presents.

Claire and Chris said:

Claire and Chris both served in the Armed “Being Forces veterans, it’s a duty to help
Forces and founded the group in 2015, others who are not always able to help
after finding there was little in the way of themselves. We do this because we care
peer support in their area. Prior to the and it is very much needed. We are
pandemic, their group would host regular supporting our brothers and sisters who
activities to tackle social isolation and have also served. To be awarded this
rebuild the sense of camaraderie that Points of Light award was a huge surprise
many veterans miss upon leaving the and we are humbled, thank you.”
Armed Forces, such a monthly breakfast,

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BIG NIGHT IN

BURNS NIGHT
With nowhere to go
January 25th is a good
opportunity for a Big Night
In as it is also known as
Burns Night! A night when
the Scots traditionally
celebrate their national bard
although personally l
believe Walter Scott was a
more prolific writer. Burns
Night Suppers are very
popular even south of the
border although I have
never been to an organised Scottish Salmon soup is Day with strawberry slice
one where the have a piper also a good starter if you which is quite apt as well as
pipping in the haggis I have don’t want to go to the being Burns night and
hosted plenty of my own trouble of make Cock a Scottish it is also St
whether with immediate leekie ie chicken and leek Dwynwen the Welsh
family or friends and we just Scotch broth or Cullen Payton Saint of Love more
play some pipers on our Skink I think it perfectly about her on page. So now
phone. Most Burns acceptable to open a can of my Burns Nights have a
suppers do include of Baxter's. For dessert one romantic twist to them out
course Haggis you can buy can have tipsy laird trifle come the heart shaped
a vegetarian variety but not made with Drambuie as plates and lights and we
sure what's in them though opposed to sherry or fuse the two together and
served with neeps and Raspberry cranachan trifle raise a toast with Whiskey
tatties turnips and potatoes this is made with porridge I suppose Burns My love is
in the main. If you don't oats instead of sponge, like a red red rose is quite
fancy Haggis in any form Another idea for afters is fitting for the evening.
there is Aberdeen Angus shortbread these are easy
Steak for starters or as a to make I often make heart
main you could have shaped for St Valentines

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Travels With The Editor

framing a wide bay and the
mountain is the distance.
Newborough beach was
near the former home of
The Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge when Prince
William was based there as
an Air Ambulance Pilot.
William and Kate returned
there as part of the ITV
documentary about climate
change A Planet for All
shown in October last year
helping to clean it up.

Llanddwyn Staying in Caernarfon we
Island Anglesey looked for somewhere to
go on Sunday before
In summer I was lucky traveling home then I had a
enough to grab a weekend brainwave I have wanted to
away in North Wales go to Llanddwyn Island off
mainly to check of my the coast of Anglesey since
caravan at the end of the seeing it on the BBC
Llyn Peninsula. Due to programme Coast some
Covid the campsites were years ago. Well technically
not open and with little in it is attached to the
way of accommodation mainland but becomes an
there we opted to stay in island at high tide. Getting
Caernarfon traveling to to the Island is via
Aberdaron for the day. Newborough beach it is
breathtakingly beautiful There are woodland walks
with palm trees soft sand red squirrels to be seen as
well as the beach dogs
though are mot allowed on
the beach May to October
but are allowed on the
nature walks and the island
on a short lead. On the
island itself which is about
a 20 minute walk from the
car park are the remains of
a convent set up by St
Dwynwen. Dwynwen was
the prettiest of King
Brychan Brycheiniog’s 24

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daughters she fell in love help all true lovers; and
with a local ad called third, that she should never
Maelon Dafodrill, but King Directions

Brychan had already marry. In gratitude, became Take the M56 towards
arranged for her to marry a nun, setting up the
another prince. Maelon took convent north Wales which joins
the news badly, so the January 25th St. A55 Bangor towards
distraught Dwynwen fled to Dwynwen's Day the Welsh Holyhead.

the woods to weep, and patron saint of lovers. Her Go over the Britannia
begged God to help her. name means, ‘she who Bridge onto Anglesey and
She was visited by an angel leads a blessed life’. take the A4080 to
who gave her a sweet As well as being the Welsh
potion to help her forget patron saint of lovers, she’s Newborough village.
Maelon, and turned him into also the patron saint of sick Turn left, following the
a block of ice. animals. brown and white signs for
‘Ynys Llanddwyn Island’,
and you will reach car
God then granted Dwynwen The popularity and parks £5 a day.
three wishes. Her first wish celebration of St
God then granted Dwynwen Dwynwen’s Day has
three wishes. Her first wish increased considerably in Editors Note The original
was that Maelon be recent years especially Pont Britannia Bridge is
thawed; second, that God amongst Welsh speakers often solely credited to
Robert Stevenson but
William Fairbairn was the
engineer who came up with
the idea of box tubular
steel. Behind Sale fire
station what is now Trident
was called Fairbairn House
until recently named after
him it sat alongside Telford
and Brindley. William
Fairbairn was knighted and
1st Baron of Ardwick
Manchester.

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Unofficially, or historically,
the date has also been
variously named
"Anniversary Day", "Invasion
Day", "Foundation Day", It
marked the proclamation of
British sovereignty over the
eastern seaboard of
Australia then known as
You can have another big 1892 by the French New Holland. Inhabitants of
night in the next day as chef Auguste Escoffier at the fledgling colony very
Australia Day is the official the Savoy Hotel, London, to soon began to mark the
National Day of Australia. honour the anniversary of 26th January
Celebrated annually on 26th Australian soprano Nellie 1788 with formal dinners
January, it marks the Melba. Pavlova is another and informal
anniversary of the 1788 idea either strawberry peach celebrations. 1808, the
arrival of the First Fleet of or whatever you fancy ‘anniversary of the
British Ships at Port named after the Russian foundation of the colony’
Jackson, New South Wales, ballerina Anna Pavlova. The was observed in the
and the raising of the Flag of dessert is believed to have traditional manner with
Great Britain at that site by been created in honour of ‘drinking and merriment’. By
Governor Arthur Phillip. the dancer either during or 1820, Australia was
after one of her tours to beginning to look
As one who enjoys Australia and New Zealand prosperous and sentiments
celebrating anything we in the 1920s . Lamingtons of Australian patriotism were
often have a little Ozzie are another Australian being expressed at
celebration with such dessert. gatherings of ex-convicts,
delights as Kangaroo meat a supposedly named after particularly those who now
certain frozen food shop Lord Lamington, who served enjoyed a better standard of
used to sell it or Ostrich from as Governor of Queensland life. Once it celebrated the
Oz in specialist meat section from 1896 to 1901, or for his staunchly British nature of
and a couple of years ago wife, Lady Lamington. Australian society it now
did bush tucker boxes from I Lamington is a village of embraces multicultural
am a celebrity I think it can South Lanarkshire in Australia, including all ethnic
be bought online or you can Scotland, the title Baron backgrounds, racial
cook up and Aussie pie Lamington itself derives from differences and political
using mince. For desert the village. Lamingtons viewpoints. Australia Day
you can have peach consists of squares or today is a celebration of
melba It was invented in rectangles of sponge cake diversity and tolerance in
coated in a layer of Australian society.
traditionally chocolate
sauce, or the can be jam or
lemon curd then in
desiccated coconut. A bottle
of Australian wine to
compliment and its sorted.

The meaning and
significance of Australia Day
has evolved over time.

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Holocaust Memorial Day
(HMD) January 27th 2021
marks 76 years since the
liberation of Auschwitz-
Birkenau. The Holocaust communities resisted that hatred and identity-based
(The Shoah in Hebrew) was darkness to ‘be the light’ hostility. helpless and
the attempt by the Nazis before, during and after insignificant. The utterly
and their collaborators to genocide. unprecedented times
murder all the Jews in Be the light in the through which we are living
Europe. From the time they darkness is an affirmation currently are showing the
assumed power in and a call to action for very best of which humanity
Germany in 1933, the Nazis everyone marking HMD. is capable but also - in
used propaganda, This theme asks us to some of the abuse and
persecution, and legislation consider different kinds of conspiracy theories being
to deny human and civil ‘darkness’, for example, spread on social media -
rights to German Jews. identity-based persecution, the much darker side of our
Holocaust Memorial Day misinformation, denial of world as well.
Trust (HMDT) encourages justice; and different ways We can all stand in
remembrance in a world of ‘being the light’, for solidarity. We can choose
scarred by genocide. As example, resistance, acts of to be the light in the
well as remembering the six solidarity, rescue and darkness in a variety of
million Jews murdered illuminating mistruths. ways and places – at home,
during the Holocaust, Increasing levels of denial, in public, and online.
alongside the millions of division and misinformation
other people killed under in today’s world mean we
Nazi Persecution and in must remain vigilant against
subsequent genocides in
Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia
and Darfur.
The theme for Holocaust
Memorial Day (HMD) 2021
is Be the light in the
darkness. It encourages
everyone to reflect on the
depths humanity can sink
to, but also the ways
individuals and

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Garden advice In association with

How to nurture birds in your garden

Advice on how to look after wild birds

Water, food, a roof over our flowers, the seeds of sunflowers, while to find out which food the
head. Simple needs to make us thistles, globe thistles and teasels birds in your garden enjoy the most,
feel safe. Did you realise you are a great way to attract tits and so experiment with different types
had so much in common with a finches. until you find their favourite.
sparrow? Plant a flower and
you feed his family. Build a bird Feed the birds You could try bird seed, unsalted
box, and you build a nest, a plain peanuts, mealworms, fat and
home, a place to rest weary Of course, you can feed birds in suet balls. Be sure to remove any
wings. Doesn’t it feel good to your garden throughout the year. nylon mesh before putting fat and
breathe life into your garden? A But feeding becomes even more suet balls out for the birds, as this
few hours outdoors and you’ll important over the winter and early can entangle them.
have built a life for both of you. spring. Not only are their natural
Attracting birds to your foods like berries and insects likely And don’t waste any food scraps
garden to be scarce, birds need more from your kitchen. Cut fruit up to
Birds have a lot of purpose. They make it easier for the birds to peck
control pests and improve our reserves of energy to cope
garden’s eco-system. But more aafSatblmfwTwfeoooinrtihiaiargtroaestdsrdehtvdokakycpmriiifeoocncehnnoeintudoog’istgesntblr,hiwodtdtgoeniobifermoeouidowinbisdrdrrrtse;dstueieefeweu-fmnattwirxxhocsoettaimhhauesorfmiaeetltdteosrnlprf.a.lfgneoad,ogrndffkhdarroeooaeriyrsdpmmbntIoheftihtunyaasttaohreo,ttrrlTrsmebnuiidotte.tidonrsolwctaedsopograsieludtnbltosttrborsiuhipapebeixndoiarr.nleosis.inna..ghinawstdgoshietloafttotwwhlenttynaeeerieobeannnrrsueastdada,trd.tthanifuWvrindenenwcdsch,gwhApahoabf.aDpeoieyotliFbabwleertiokadgitaosvsoraoenthdtreefotprduoe’pyraiblt)atcotarrn,ya(ondafdnfcwogotovedon.thourirrawaadsoebgiudstasteknveeeysreueeaidbwenrutcdni,kssemritdamiciehrnmisnodlwgdaadopwkaiaktlfeehiseenthwdd
than that; they bring life, energy and Choosing the right type of sure to clean the bath regularly so
optimism to our outdoor space. bird food for a seed-filled that the water stays fresh. Keep an
They give purpose to us — once eye on it when the temperature
they’ve made our patch of the world smorgasbord drops. Use warm water to melt any
their own, we have a responsibility ice so that the birds can continue to
to take care of them. Bird food needs to be high in bathe and drink throughout the
Your garden is a bird’s home and energy and protein. Seeds, nuts winter months.
source of food. A sanctuary. Maybe and fats are much better options for
even a place to raise a chick. You them than bread. It can take a little
don’t have to do a lot to nurture the
birds in your garden. And your 28 Trafford Community News
reward is your very own aviary.
Plants you can grow to
welcome the birds
Insects and other bugs form a major
part of a bird’s diet – especially in
spring and early summer when
parenting is their main focus. By
planting anything in your garden,
you will encourage insects and help
increase natural food levels. Even a
humble lawn is a perfect feeding
ground for many birds, including
robins, blackbirds and song
thrushes.
As well as the bugs they attract,
plants themselves can be a great
natural source of bird food. Choose
plants and trees that grow fruit or
berries, like pyracantha, holly,
berberis, apple trees and pear
trees. Or, if you prefer to grow

Garden jobs for January... · Prune roses while they are Wildlife
· A frozen pond is a beautiful
General garden jobs dormant. Use sharp secateurs to
· Protect plants and containers cut back to just above an sight, but if it freezes you will
outward facing bud. Remove need to make a hole in the ice
from frost. Use horticultural any dead or diseased branches so that pond life can survive.
fleece on tender plants in and any which are crossing or Remember, don’t crack the ice
borders and wrap newspaper or rubbing with a hammer. Instead, try
bubble wrap around tubs, or standing a saucepan of hot
move them into a porch, · If it’s not too wet or frozen, bare- water on the ice until it melts its
greenhouse or conservatory way through
rooted roses can be planted in
· Keep paths clear of leaves and borders. · Don’t feed the fish until the

debris with a garden leaf blower Pots and container plants weather warms up. As a
or broom to prevent them from general rule, goldfish and koi
becoming slippery when wet and should only be fed when the
becoming a winter home for water temperature rises reliably
slugs and snails above 10 degrees

· If you’ve not done so already, · Add winter colour to pots and Undercover
· Before you fill your greenhouse
insulate outdoor taps with a tap containers with winter bedding
cover including cyclamen, primroses with lots of lovely seedlings and
and pansies. Space the plants new plants for spring, give your
· Clean, oil and sharpen the metal more closely together than you greenhouse a good clean up
would with spring or summer and tidy out. If it’s made of glass,
blades of garden tools; maintain bedding as they won’t grow as clean down the panes with some
mowers and other machinery, much in winter glass cleaner, if it’s a
following the instructions in the polycarbonate, use warm water
user’s manual · Wrap unglazed terracotta pots with an outdoor disinfectant –
doing this will also let in more
· Grit paths when icy weather is with horticultural fleece or bubble light
wrap to protect them from frost
forecast or sprinkle de-icing damage and cracking · Keep an eye on the greenhouse
rock salt
Vegetables - brush off heavy snow, check
Lawns · Pick off any yellowing leaves the temperature regularly and
·Give your lawn a winter boost. adjust the heater thermostat, if
from Brussels sprouts necessary, to maintain frost-free
Spike it with a fork or hollow-tine conditions
lawn aerator and top dress with a · Place plant netting over
thin layer of sharp sand and · Water plants sparingly
brush in with a broom. Do this for cabbages, kale and sprouts to · Wash pots and seed trays
a couple of years and you’ll see a protect them from pigeons · Harvest stored fruit and
big improvement
· Feed spring cabbages with a vegetables from the shed
Trees, shrubs and climbers
·If it’s been snowing, brush snow high-nitrogen fertiliser · If your greenhouse is frost-free
off conifers, large evergreens
and hedges as quickly as · Once you’ve given the or heated, sow seeds of
possible to avoid the branches houseplants, tuberous begonias,
splaying or breaking greenhouse a clean and tidy, pelargoniums, tender perennials
·Prune wisteria by removing half sow early crop tomatoes, leeks, and slow germinating
of last year’s growth, leaving just broad beans, hardy peas, greenhouse exotics
2 or 3 buds per stem spinach and carrots

Images: Shutterstock.com Flowers Fruit
· Plant early flowers like · Check your stored fruit and

snowdrops to help attract early remove any that are showing
bees and pollinating insects – signs of disease or rot
bulbs will already have been
planted out, but you can buy · Don’t be tempted to prune
potted snowdrops in store now
that are ready to flower cherry or plum trees at this time
of the year, wait until the
· Deadhead winter bedding plants summer

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encourage more flowers

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What's On Community Pages

JANUARY FEBRUARY

1st New Years Day 12th-14th Chinese New
5th 12th Night Year Year of the Ox
6th 12th Day 14th Valentines Day
25th Burns Night 16th Shrove Tuesday
25th St Dwynwen's Pancake Day
26th Australia Day 15th Ash Wednesday
27th Holocaust 22nd–7th March
Memorial Day Fairtrade Fortnight

Moon Phases 6th Jan Sun Rise Sun Set
Last Quarter 13th Jan
New Moon 20th Jan Jan 1st 8.20am 4:09pm
First Quarter 28th Jan Feb 1st 7.51am 4.58pm
Full Moon 4th Feb
Last Quarter 11th Feb
New Moon 19th Feb
First Quarter 27th Feb
Full Moon

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Clubs and Societies Community News

Townswomen’s Guild 7-30pm 4th Monday in month German Church. Park Rd/Barton Rd ,Stretford
Gorse Hill residents website includes local news and updates from Gorse Hill Community Action Group,
Gorse Hill FC www.gorsehill4u.co.uk
Friends of Longford Park for the latest news & what's on www.friendsoflongfordpark.org.uk
Friends of Victoria Park, Stretford www.fovps.org.uk
Stretford Probus Club for retired men, speakers on a wide range of subjects. New members welcome!
Monday 10am meetings at St. Ann's club Chester Road, Call Robin on 748 3034
Urmston Choral Society, meets each Wednesday at 7.30. Greenfield Church, Urmston

Local History Society 3rd Thursday in month St Matthews Church Hall 7-30pm

K2tog meet on the first and third Wednesday of the month at 26 Wardle Close, 2pm - 3.30pmfor knitting,
craft or social. New members welcome

Flixton Brass Band, graded first section meet every Monday and Thursday 8.00pm - 10.00pm.
www.flixtonband.org.uk

Davyhulme Camera Club meet every Wednesday evening at Flixton House, Flixton 7.30pm to 10.00pm.
www.davyhulmecc.org.uk

HATS Theatre Group Rehearsals St Hugh of Lincoln Church Hall, Glastonbury Road Stretford, Thursday
evening at 7.30pm.
Altrincham and Bowdon Civic Society meet on varying dates at 2 pm at Altrincham Town Hall to discuss
matters relating of Altrincham and Bowdon. Tel 962 7108 for info
Sale Brass Band's Age 8 to 80 Monday 6.15-7.15pm at Sale Sports Club, Clarendon Crescent, Sale M33
2DE. www.salebrass.co.uk
Trafford Deaf Community Network meet every first and third Thursdays of the month 7-11pm at Sale
Excelsior Club, corner of Chapel Road and Symons Road, Sale M33 7FJ New members welcome
[email protected] or mobile text to 07796 615 034

Out and about for Pensioners 3rd Wednesday in the month meet from St John the Devine Brooklands Rd
Contact Margaret
Trafford Stroke Support Group Tuesday Weekly 10am - 12pm The Avenue Methodist Church, Wincham
Road Sale Mrs M Siddall 283 1989
Sweet Rhythm Swing Band meets every Friday from 7pm to 10pm in Urmston. www.sweetrhythm.org.uk
Altrincham and District Natural History Society meets two Tuesday evenings per month for walks in
summer and talks in winter. www.altnats.org.uk or contact [email protected] or 0161 865 0118.
G Scale society 3rd Saturday in month 10am-2pm St. Albans Church hall Broadheath B Davis 748 7029
Urmston Musical Theatre, Monday and Wednesday evenings, Urmston Cricket Club, Moorside Rd.
Urmston. http://www.umt.org.uk/.
Urmston Chess Club 7.30pm on Tuesday night at Flixton Con Club, 193 Flixton Rd, Flixton,

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Trafford Councillors
Altrincham Davyhulme East Priory
Geraldine Coggins 07966 298513 Linda Blackburn 0161 748 6659 Barry Brotherton 0161 912 2637
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Daniel Jerrome 07805 958548 Jayne Dillon 07966298508 Andrew Western 07896774011
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Michael Welton @trafford.gov.uk Barry Winstanley 07982 252644 Sale Moor
[email protected] Joanne Bennett 0161 962 7809
[email protected]
Ashton on Mersey Davyhulme West Mike Freeman 07794 092377
Ben Hartley 07971 344499 Karina Carter 07971 344512 [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected] Elizabeth Patel 07970 824545
John Lamb 0161 928 3664 Brian Shaw 0161 747 6310 [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected] St Marys
Brian Rigby MBE 0161 912 2633 Graham Whitham 07970829467 Daniel Bunting 0161905 2786
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Bowdon Flixton Rob Chilton 0161 905 2507
Sean Anstee07791 551334 Paul Lally 0161 747 0291 [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected] John Holden 0161 0162 962 1849
Claire Churchill 07971 344509 Shirley Proctor 07971 344501 [email protected]
claire,[email protected] [email protected] Stretford Ward
Karen M Barclay 0161 980 3462 Simon Thomas 07966298529 Steve Adshead 0161 912 5218
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Broadheath Gorse Hill Ward Tom Ross 07900267339
Serena Carr 07971 362259 David Acton 0161 749 9823 [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected] Jane Slater 0161 283 3321
Denise Western 07794 080240 Laurence Walsh 0161 912 5208 [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected] Timperley
Amy Whyte 07891 014487 Mike Cordingley 0161 865 9228 Jane E Brophy 0161 962 6494
amywhyte @trafford.gov.uk [email protected]
[email protected] Nathan Evans 07843368041
[email protected]
Brooklands Hale Barns Meena Minnis 07971 362257
Chris Boyes 0161 962 2616 Dylan Butt 0161928 8813 [email protected]
[email protected] [email protected] Urmston
Steven Longden 07443 003721 Dave Morgan 07971 344497 Joanne Harding 0161 7550619
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Rose Thompson 07971 344510 Patrick Myers 0161 9298389 Catherin Hynes 07794 092351
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Bucklow St Martins Kevin A Procter 0161 748 8460
Adele New 07966298528 Hale Central [email protected]
[email protected] Denise Haddad 07773 181 1253 Village
Aidan Williams 0161 865 8180 denise.haddad @trafford.gov.uk Thomas Carey 07970 829735
[email protected] Alan Mitchell 0161 928 9220 [email protected]
James A Wright 07773181258 [email protected] Julian Newgrosh 07971 362260
[email protected] Patricia Young 0161 928 0207 julian.newgrosh @trafford.gov.uk
Clifford Ward [email protected]
Akilah Akinola 07971 344504 Longford Ward
[email protected] Anne Duffield 0161 864 3873
Whit Stennett MBE 0161 912 3938 [email protected]
[email protected] David Jarman 0161 866 8289
Sophie Taylor 07900 257 340 [email protected]
[email protected] Judith Lloyd 0161 865 8946
[email protected]

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MP’s Help lCionmemsunity Pages

Kate Green MP Hospitals

Stretford and Urmston, holds a Trafford General Hospital
number of advice surgeries each 0161 748 4022
month. by appointment only. Altrincham Hospital
To book an appointment call the 0161 928 6111
Stretford and Urmston
Constituency office on Police
0161 749 9120.
Alternatively you can fax on 0161 Police Non Emergency 101
749 9121 or e-mail (0161 872 5050 still in operation)
Stretford Neighbourhood Policing Team
Graham Brady MP 0161 856 7655
email [email protected]
Altrincham and Sale West holds Crime Stoppers 0800 555 111
a number of surgeries each Anti Social behaviour Helpline
month by appointment only. 0161 912 1111
To book an appointment please
call the constituency office on Councillors Surgeries
0161 904 8828 Councillor Cordingley holds a monthly
Website: Grahambradymp.co.uk surgery every month at Lostock Library.
(First Saturday of the month, 10-10:30am).
Mike Kane MP Councillor Walsh holds a monthly surgery at
Gorse Hill Primary School
Wythenshawe and Sale East (Last Friday of month 5pm to 6pm)
Flixton surgery every Friday 6-7pm
Trafford Town Hall 146 Flixton Road, Urmston.
Tel 0161 912 2000 Cllr Laura Evans Village 2nd & 4th Saturday
www.trafford.gov.uk 10am Timperley Library Except Bank Hols &
August. First Friday of the month Broomwood
Trafford Youth Cabinet centre 11 am till noon.
www.cyps.org.uk/youth- Cll Alex Williams Altrincham by appointment
cabinet/ Cll Rob Chilton 1st Saturday of every month -
Or find them on Facebook 3.30 pm - Sale West Community Centre,
3rd Saturday of every month - 3.30 pm -
Coppice Library, Coppice Avenue

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Community Pages

Churches and places of worship

St Matthews C of E Chapel Ln/Chester Rd
Sunday 8am Holy Communion 10am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday All Age Tue Ecumenical Prayers 10am
Wed Holy Communion 10am (said) Coffee Morning Sat 10-30 –12pm
Contact 0161 865 2535 www.stretfordstmatthews.com
Methodist Churches in the Stretford & Urmston Methodist Circuit. Contact 0161 755 3357
Gorse Hill Methodist Chester Rd Service Sun 11am
Sevenways Methodist Barton Rd / Derbyshire Ln Service Sun 10-45am Coffee Morning 1st Sat in month.
Brook Rd Methodist Brook Rd Flixton Service Sun 10-45am
Cornerstone Methodist, Hayeswater Rd Davyhulme Service Sun 10-45am Cafe Sat 10am-12noon
St Ann's RC Chester Rd Sunday Masses 9-30am 11-30am 6-30pm
Contact Fr Ged Fr Pat Greasley 0161 865 2079
St Anthony's Church Centre 3rd Avenue Trafford Park Contact 848 9173
St Hilda's Kings Rd/ Warwick Rd South Sunday Service's 10-30am
Daily Prayer 9-15am Coffee Shop & Drop In Thurs 10-12-30pm
Contact Ross Malkin 0161 865 1802
Manchester German Church. Park Rd/Barton Rd 1 11am & 3rd Sundays 4pm Contact 0161 865 1335
All Saints C of E Barton Road Lostock Sun services 8 am 10am Holy Communion,
Tue 9-30am Ecumenical Prayers, Wed 9-45 Holy Communion alternate weeks prayer and praise.
Contact via website www.allsaintsstretford.org.uk
Trafford Christian Life Centre, 107 Barton Road Sunday Celebration and Kidszone 10-30am Contact 718 5248
Gospel Hall Stretford 10 Derbyshire Lane Sunday 6-30pm Gospel Meeting Tue 8pm Bible Study Contact 748 6036
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Davyhulme Rd/Chester Rd Sun 10am

Unitarian Free Church Queens Road, Urmston Sun 10am all ages
Contact Rev Danny Crosby 928 9913
The Avenue Methodist Church & The Living Well Centre, Wincham Road, Sale.
Sunday Worship 10.45am; Holy Communion (2nd Sunday) 9.00am. Breakfast Church (1st & 3rd Sundays )
Activities and Events for all ages: Living Well Centre – Everyday. Stockdales Café: Open every Wednesday 10am-
1.30pm, Lunch 12 noon
Contact: 0161 973 1832. www.avenuemethodistsale.org.uk
St John the Devine C of E Brooklands Rd Timperley. Sunday 8.30am Holy Communion 10.30am Parish Eucharist
(2nd Sunday Parade Service) 6.30pm Evensong Brick a brac and Coffee every Thursday 10am –12pm

St Paul C of E Springfield Rd Sale
Sunday 10 am Parish communion third Sunday All Age service Sunday 9 30am Storytime church a20 minute
service for preschool children and their carers 6pm Evensong There are also several church groups
Contact is E-mail [email protected] tel; 01619731042

St Mary the Virgin, C of E Davyhulme Sunday - 9am, Eucharist, 10.30am, Parish Eucharist with Children's church
Wednesday 10am - Eucharist

Flixton Fellowship Church Acre Hall Primary School, Irlam Road, Flixton, M41 6NA Sunday 10am
Contact: 0161 747 5944.

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Youth Groups Community Pages

23rd Stretford St Matthews/Victoria Mon 6.30-8pm Cub Scouts, Tue 6-7pm Beavers,
Thur 7-9pm Scouts Scout Hut Victoria Park Contact
Quest Scout Group /17th Stretford Lostock Barton Rd, Lostock
Wed 6-7pm Beavers, Wed 7-30—9-30pm Explorer's
Thur 7—8-30pm Cubs, Fri 7-15—915pm Scouts
1st Gorse Hill 2nd Stretford Scout Group The Lodge Beresford Rd, Gorse Hill
Tues Scouts 6:.45-9pm, Wed Beavers 6.30-7.30pm, Thurs Cubs 7-8:30pm
To join contact Jane McGrath [email protected]
25th Stretford (Firswood) Beavers and Cubs and Scouts
Contact Roy Fordham for details 881 3661
3rd Davyhulme Scout Group Off Lostock Rd, Davyhulme
Contact Jim Field 0161 291 0473 www.3dscouts.ik.com
All Saints Barton Rd Girl Guides Contact Stella Green 0161 748 4727
Rainbows age 5-7yrs 5-6pm, Brownies 7-10yrs 6-7.30pm, Guides 10-14yrs 7.30-9pm
St Matthew’s Brownie Guides Contact Mrs Wellington 0161 972 0911
Guides Laura Wellington 0797497485
8th Trafford Boys’ Brigade Hayeswater Rd Methodist Church
Thurs 6.30-9.30pmAges 5 to 18 welcome Contact Michael Guy 07729882201
3rd Trafford Boys Brigade Sevenways Church contact Brian Taylor 748-8493
1st Stretford Girls’ Brigade Gorse Hill Methodist Church
Wed 6.30-8pm Girls 5-18 Carol Conaghan, 718-3221
Stretford Gospel Hall 10 Derbyshire Lane Wednesday 6-30pm
Children and Young Teenagers Activity Night
Trafford Christian Life Centre Barton Rd, Youth Call
Thurs 10-14yrs 7pm –8-30 14 plus 8-9-30pm
St Hilda's Church Kings Rd
Fridays 7.30-9pm The Edge, Wed After school drop-in 2.30-5.30pm Games, Pool Air Hockey etc
Food available, Chill-Out Relax 11-16s

Frantic, 7-11 year olds Woodsend Scout Hut, Woodsend Crescent Road, Urmston, M41 8AD
Saturdays at 6.45-8.15pm. Contact [email protected] www.flixtonfrantic.org

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CROSSWORD SUDOKU

Clues Fill in the grid
so that every
Across row, every
7. Lift (5) column, and
8. Paltry (7) every 3x3
9. Red (7) box contains
10. Balance (5) the digits 1
12. Maternity (10) through 9.
15. Efface (10)
18. Wander (5) 38 Trafford Community News
19. Word opposite in
meaning to another (7)
21. Ardent (7)
22. Unsullied (5)

Down
1. Thriving (10)
2. Necessary (5)
3. Cure (4)
4. Sew (6)
5. Dishearten (8)
6. Caller (7)
11. Love (10)
13. Remote (8)
14. Clearness (7)
16. Nomad (6)
17. Go in (5)
20. Pleat (4)

Sudoku solution

Crossword solutions

Across: Down:
7 Raise; 1 Prosperous;
8 Trivial; 2 Vital;
9 Scarlet; 3 Heal;
10 Poise; 4 Stitch;
12 Motherhood; 5 Dispirit;
15 Obliterate; 6 Visitor;
18 Stray; 11 Endearment;
19 Antonym; 13 Outlying;
21 Intense; 14 Clarity;
22 Clean. 16 Roamer;
17 Enter;
20 Tuck.

SOLUTIONS

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The Stretford End

Front cover Deer at
Dunham Massey
8am31st December
by Gareth Dickman

In this publication you may find the odd!!!! Now open Stretford Mall
Spolling misstock, typing error or where you
find the grammar is not quite as it should be.
That is due to a condition l have called
dyspraxia similar to dyslexia, people with this
tend to spell phonetically and sometimes l
miss the last letters of words due sometimes
to the speed my brain (yes l do have one) is
working basically it means “I am playing all
the right notes but not necessarily in the right
order” to quote Eric Morecambe. If my
malapropisms amuse you that’s fine by me
we all need a laugh. The word comes from
Mrs Malaprop a character in Sheridan's play
The Rivals who misuses words in this way.

"Small business all like
muscles if you don’t use

them you lose them".

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