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NEWS, VIEWS - AND MORE ...

Rides: We are very grateful to the Organisers of our Rides but regret that there are no Rides in the W of the county mainly due to a shortage of venues capable of carrying 30-40 boxes. There are routes but some creative thinking about venues would be welcome - industrial estates, for instance. Please make our Organisers’ lives easier by reading the Ride Rules & Information on the back of the Programme and adhering to them.

Membership: Those of you who have renewed your membership will have your blue 2010 membership card. It helps us greatly if you pay by Standing Order rather than by cheque, as it is much simpler to tick payments off in a Bank Statement than faff around taking cheques to the bank - especially as our 2010 treasurer lives on a farm, so has to make a special journey.

Temporary BW Closures in E Leics
The National Grid has just started work on overhauling the power line running from Tilton to Great Bowden/Northants. Safety requires that RoW are closed temporarily for periods between now and 29 Sept. The affected routes are:

BW B90 from Tugby to Rolleston and SE section of BW B93. Alternative route - from Tugby, down BW B91 to Palmers Lane, turn L to Noseley Hall, then via permissive BW on track to Joiner’s Close and join BW B93 to reach Rolleston Hall. And vice-versa.

BW B25 from Glooston Lodge to Noseley, closed at Glooston end, E of BW B21. Alt route: from Glooston Lodge S to Glooston, R onto Andrews Lane/Gartree Rd, then N on BW B21 to rejoin B25, and vice-versa.

The Midshires Way BW off the Welham Lane, Gt Bowden which crosses the Welland into Northants. There is no safe alternative in Leics, but we recommend that Way users going N if, when they come to the “Six Ways Meet” (5 BWs + a fpth) prior to crossing the Welland, they see a notice that the BW heading W carying the Midshires Way is closed, take the BW heading NW carrying the Macmillan Way. Follow this BW to the road (B664), turn R down into Weston, turn L twds Welham and then R onto Green Lane to go N. After crossing Welland, turn L onto BW (B34) and at 2nd rd turn R for Cranoe. And vice versa, but going S, visitors are advised to telephone and check as there is unlikely to be a notice of closure where they need to divert..

Unfortunately we do not, at the moment, have any accurate information as to when each BW will be closed and re-opened. So the advice is to keep your eyes open and, if in doubt, phone the Leics RoW Inspector, Harry Bartlett on 0116 305 2202.
We thank Harry for ensuring that the Langton Caudle BW (B24) will remain open; also Andrew’s Lane at Glooston - both crossed by this power line.