Week beginning April 8th 2002

The East Riding of Yorkshire Council have now issued a Temporary Footpath Closure Order, effective for six months from April 8th, for the footpath which leads from the High Paull Car Park (north of Paull Fort) along the river front right along to Stoney Creek. This path, popular with dog walkers, bird watchers and ramblers as well as families out for an afternoon stroll, is being closed as a matter of public safety whilst the work on the Managed Retreat of the Humber bank south of Paull goes ahead. The surface of the path is prone to erosion by winter storms and has some large holes and gaps in it; it is being resurfaced as part of the whole project and will eventually join on to the re-routed footpath which will follow the embankment round the newly-created salt marsh once the scheme is completed. At present the contactors hope to have completed the works by October this year; the new embankment will then be given a further year to settle and for planting to become established before the present embankment is breached to allow the sea to encroach.

Would-be car thieves have recently been active in Paull, attempting to break into parked cars either to steal property from them or to steal the cars themselves. Fortunately these thieves have been thwarted by the vigilance of local residents and have fled empty-handed on each occasion. Maybe they are unaware that, in a community as small and close-knit as Paull, strangers are conspicuous and easily recognised as such. Anyone seen tampering with a car, which everyone knows does not belong to them, will inevitably be challenged; already one group of would-be car thieves has been detained by the car's owner and his neighbours and handed over to the Police when they arrived.

Humberside Police Band will, at the invitation of the Mayor of Hedon, Councillor Mrs. Ann Suggitt, be performing a Springtime Programme of music at St. Augustine's Church, Market Hill, Hedon. The concert will commence at 7.30pm on Friday April 19th and tickets (available in advance from the Town Hall, 898428, or Frames of Hedon, 890214) will cost £5, concessions £4. The concert takes place by kind permission of the Vicar, Rev. James Hargreave, and the Church Council, and proceeds will be divided between the Mayor's Charity and St. Augustine's Church.

As part of Multiple Sclerosis Awareness week, the Multiple Sclerosis Society are holding a Coffee Morning in Hedon Methodist Church hall, Church Lane, Hedon, on Saturday April 13th from 10 - 11.30 a.m. Coffee and refreshments will cost 75p and there will be a cake stall, a Bring and Buy stall and a raffle as well as an information table. For further details, contact Ann Worthingham on 846126

Mrs. Anita Hall, centre organiser for Hedon Red Cross has asked for the following statement to be issued, after recent speculation: Hedon Red Cross is NOT ceasing any of its operations in the Hedon and Holderness areas. They will continue to provide all the high level services (First Aid cover, First Aid training, medical loan, etc.,) that people have come to expect.

On the second Tuesday in every month the Excel Club meets in Hedon Catholic Church presbytery at 1.30pm for lunch followed by a meeting : the organisers have asked me to remind everyone that all are welcome to join them, not just existing club members.