Pembridge Home to Endangered Species

Pembridge is the host of several rare species of plants and animals.

Tree Warden and farmer Tony Norman explains the importance of preserving the native black poplar. There are 6 of these trees in the parish  out of 100 in the county and 6,000 in the country.  

A planting scheme has produced 40 more trees from cuttings. Find out more and how you can help halt their decline.

www.portraitofpembridge.co.uk/learnaboutfarming

Crayfish  are dying in the River Arrow due to a highly infectious disease. This particularly affects the stretch between Pembridge and Kington. The parish council has highlighted the problem and provided guidance from the Environment Agency on how we can help prevent this spreading. The disease isn’t transmissible to humans but threatens the white crayfish population.

Do not enter the river while this outbreak is ongoing and do not touch any dead fish but report findings to the Environment Agency.

For more information on this see the Parish Council website on

Coffee Mornings

Every third Saturday  (10.30-12.00) a Coffee Morning is held at the Parish Hall giving residents an opportunity to enjoy coffee, cakes and a chat. All residents are welcome, including children and well-behaved dogs. There is no charge, but donations are requested. Each event is sponsored by a parish organisation. The August coffee morning was sponsored by the Page Turners and Pembridge Active Ladies book groups and raised £110 for  Pembridge School library. The next event is on 20th September and is sponsored by Pembridge Allotment Association and will include a sale of produce. On 18th October the Royal British Legion will launch this year’s Poppy Appeal.     

Footpath Group

The parish council are looking to set up a volunteer footpath group, to walk parish footpaths, maintain and report problems for action. If interested contact Cllr Hancock 01544 340799 or Cllr Zagni 07360205777

Defibrillators

Apologies for an error in our last edition which stated that a defibrillator was in Bearwood, this should have read Broxwood.

For clarity the four defibrillators in the parish are at:

• The Parish Hall, Bearwood Lane, Pembridge;

• East Street Car Park Toilets, Pembridge;

• Telephone Box Broxwood;

• The Leen Farm, HR6 9HN.

Mortimer Medical Practice

The practice has published its December newsletter which provides a further guide to its total triage system of seeking medical help and Christmas operating hours.  You can access it on

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:42ce8791-590e-4c79-884c-3608a0389f79

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