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Lego Building Afternoon at Over Baptist Church
LEGO building afternoon @ Over Baptist Church Saturday 18th October 2-3 pm FREE entry, bacon rolls, tea & coffee Children to be accompanied by an adult.
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Over Carnival Fund-raiser
Hello Over! I’m sure you have seen us advertise on Facebook and posters around the village. We are a small group and we need your help in raising funds for the carnival next year! The harsh reality is that if we cannot get enough raised then the carnival next year may not be able to happen as rising costs across all sectors is making the carnival more expensive to put on every time. Our current fundraising event is a ‘Music Bingo’ night on the 18th October at 7PM at Over Community Centre. Tickets are only £10 and that gets you into the event and all the main games, we will…
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Over Players Christmas Pantomime
Sound the trumpets! Tickets are now on sale for The Over Players 2025 pantomime: Once Upon A Time. Panto Land is celebrating the upcoming royal wedding between Cinderella’s daughter, Princess Lottie, and Snow White’s son, Prince Marvellous. Their union is foretold to break the last hold of darkness forever. Evelyn, a wicked witch in charge of Panto Land, vows to stop the marriage, fearing the prophecy banishes evil from Pantoland forever. But Prince Marvellous embarks on a quest to rescue the princess. Along the way he is helped by many folk from fairy land, all ready to battle against Evelyn’s schemes and ensure a happy ending. Expect magical chaos, theatrical…
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Over Gardening Club October Meeting: 15 October
Over Gardening Club’s October meeting will be held in the main hall at Over Community Centre on 15th October, and this month we have a talk by Hawk Honey entitled “Wasps – Malicious or Misunderstood”. We are a friendly group of gardeners and plant lovers who have regular meetings with a speaker and raffle and occasional plant sales. Meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month; from September to May we meet at Over Community Centre where we usually have a guest speaker talking on various aspects of gardening, in June we often arrange a visit to a local garden and in July we hold a social evening. …
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Willingham Medical Practice Newsletter – October 2025
WILLINGHAM & LONGSTANTON SURGERIES:Willingham 01954 260230 Longstanton 01954 207600 Dispensary 01954 207602Website: www.willinghammedicalpractice.nhs.net Community (District) Nurses: 0330 726 0077 Health Visitors: 0300 029 5050 A&E is not an alternative to a GP appointment. When the surgery is closed please call 111 for medical assistance, or 999 for a life threatening emergency. For urgent mental health support, please call 111 and select option 2. Contacting the Surgery Emails to the surgery are not the appropriate route for our patients to make clinical contact with the GP and we ask that you do not convey any clinical information this way. This includes, for example, asking clinical questions, letting the GP…
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Over Day Centre Quiz – 10th October 2025
Just a few places left! Book now so you are not disappointed! Details on the poster.
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New Road Preschool Autumn Fayre
Come along to meet Bluey, enter the raffle, buy cakes and children can enjoy the bouncy castle! Details are on the poster.
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South Cambs District (SCDC) Councillor Report October 2025
Update on Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) The LGR is the government’s plan to reorganise local authorities into unitary bodies which will replace the current district, county and city councils. The changes will mean that residents will get all of their council services – for example, bin collections, housing support, roads maintenance or social care – through one organisation. The seven councils in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough have been working collaboratively since December 2024 to identify viable options for the new unitary authorities, and the results of a countywide engagement survey has just been published. The feedback from this survey will help to inform how councils are to be structured from April…
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Over W.I. – Food, Farming and Fishing
This month’s speaker was Jennifer Jefferies, who shared her remarkable journey from city life to championing the stories of farmers and fishers across the UK and beyond. Jenny confessed she had never seen a combine harvester until meeting her farmer husband, John, on a blind date. That first harvest opened her eyes to the sheer graft behind a loaf of bread or a glass of beer—and inspired her to share those stories more widely. From that moment grew a series of award-winning books: For the Love of the Land and For the Love of the Sea, along with their sequels, and most recently Islands in a Common Sea, which brings…
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Swavesey and District History Society – September 2025 meeting
The first meeting of 2025/26 was well attended by about 40 people when Neil Dickinson, a former industrial chemist from Haverhill spoke on the toxic legacy of arsenic. Elemental arsenic, used commercially as arsenic trioxide, is a white powder which is very versatile with a variety of beneficial uses ranging from pesticide control in crops to producing a brilliant green dye used e.g. to colour ladies’ dresses. It is possible that the eventual cause of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death in exile was arsenic fumes from wallpaper in his rooms. The Victorians often claimed that arsenic is the answer – what is the question? It was initially collected as a waste product…
