There is a website named ‘Village Signs’ which denotes itself entirely to, you’ve guessed it, village signs. from travells around the country pictures are taken of the signs and posts follow with the story behind them. It tells us who began the tradition, why he did,where and when he did, and a little of the [...]
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School buses update
June 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · community
The school transport between Kirby Muxloe, Ratby and Groby is not being withdrawn, only that for Markfield, Thurcaston and parts of Anstey I understand. I’m assuming the meeting did not go ahead for obvious reasons. Perhaps contacting Leicestershire County Council as I have done today, (should have done it last week) would have put peoples [...]
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Apologies
May 17th, 2010 · 13 Comments · community
I wish to offer my sincere apologies to those of you who contacted the site admin and have had no response. This was not intentional and due to a broken link the emails have not forwarded to me.
The problem has now been rectified and I am in the process of dealing with each one, again [...]
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Election Day
May 6th, 2010 · 12 Comments · community
So here we go again!
This general election has brought about much mealtime discussion in our house, my eldest has just voted for the first time. It has been traditional for us to stay up until the results are in despite generally having strong suspicions of which party will win. This time however is more than [...]
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Major New Developement + Parish Council update
April 15th, 2010 · 15 Comments · News, community
The previous post led you to briefly guess on the position and amount of land earmarked for a significant developement. Blaby District Council has received an application to develop 56 industrial units as well as the allocation of an extensive plot for 250 new homes and possibly fast food outlets to serve them by Wilson [...]
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Council cuts! + Update
April 9th, 2010 · 34 Comments · community
There have been 3 comments recently added on the “council cuts” post of February this year remarking on 5 to 7 councillors quitting. In light of this I contacted the Parish Council to ascertain if there were any truth in the matter.
I cannot recall who answered the phone, but I informed him of who I [...]
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Council Cuts
February 25th, 2010 · 3 Comments · News, community
Did you catch David Parsons on the news yesterday regarding the 66 million pounds of approved cuts to Leicestershire’s County Councils Budget? Services earmarked include school bus services, libraries and road repairs amongst others. Whilst there are fears for the young, the elderly and the vulnerable, a budget loss of this size is likely to [...]
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Catching Up
February 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments · News, community
With time away due to illness, what has been happening and what is to come?
Luke Bowyer a young Kirby resident of 6 organised a table top sale and collected £325 for Haiti earthquake survivors. The Royal Oak has made it into the top 10 restaurants guide in the Leicester Mercury last week. Kirby House is [...]
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We wish you a Kirby Christmas
December 8th, 2009 · 36 Comments · community
As suggested a post about the lack of christmas spirit in Kirby from the Parish Council. When surrounding villages like, “Groby looks like Blackpool and Glenfield has been transformed into Narnia on the roundabout”, “NOT SO special kirby has nothing!!!”
I contacted the Parish Council today to ask for their current position on christmas trimmings, I [...]
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“Kirby Characters”
December 5th, 2009 · 55 Comments · community
Reviewing comments today I noticed a recurring theme on the, “post post-office takeover”. Long standing characters of the village like Malcom from the Post Office and Jerry from Hartley’s are very sadly missed. A couple that I greatly miss, albeit not as long-standing as those previously mentioned, are Jaz & Max and The Family Store [...]
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