News of Wivenhoe News
It’s BIG and it’s certainly clever. Well, the arty farty reviews in the spring edition of Wivenhoe News certainly make for enlightened reading.
As for the rest? Clocking in at FORTY pages for only one pound of Her Majesty’s sterling, you can soon see how Wivenhoe News is to publishing value for money what the Co-op booze aisle is to the tired and emotionals of the town.
Chin chin.
As ever, it’s an impossible task to try and condense Wivenhoe News into a single blog post. As ever, I’m in awe of the production team for finding the time to source the stories, let alone write about them.
And so some selected highlights - aka bashing one out on the train before the 4:14 from LS choo choos into the hyperlocal news radar that covers Wivenhoe News.
We’ve already reached Stratford.
Whoops.
Radio Wivenhoe celebrates a £500 grant from BT, whilst Open Gardens gets the green light for all the green goodness that will be heading our way over the weekend of 18th and 19th May.
And with a HONK of the driver’s horn as Shenfield approaches, Wivenhoe News reports on the planned 150th anniversary celebrations of Wivenhoe Railway Station scheduled for 6th May. Betcha they don’t celebrate anything similar back in Shenfield.
The Editorial eulogises over the writing talent within, as well as asking for new contributions for Wivenhoe News. There is optimism over the Localism Act (LOVE it) but a bit of a bum note over the new Colchester Bus Station (that isn’t really a bus station…)
Jane Hughes continues to walk the roads of Wivenhoe and come up with an ACE psychogeographic (Ooooh) approach to hyperlocal mapping. Church Roads occupy the spring edition. It’s not all about St Mary’s, dontchaknow…
A BRILLIANT ad for a Beginners Burlesque in on the very next page. Not quite paid for editorial, but the tassel-teasing heading our way via the Wivenhoe Business Centre has got to be worth a cheeky plug. [email protected] if you want to see what the storm in a D Cup is all about.
Community Safety Watch calls for more support, whilst The Legion and WORC celebrate the Christmas Cocktail Party and Boxing Day Walk. Don’t get yer cocktail dresses and wellies confused, Comrades.
You know what you’re getting with a headline of:
Sue Finn - Bookseller of Wivenhoe
“I’m a voracious reader, I can take up to three books a week quite happily.”
I’m struggling with the voracious quantity and quality of Wivenhoe News with Chelmsford threatening to be the next stop.
Anything Goes with G & S, The Nottage Film Club and Moving Image all get the arts treatment. The G & S Society have something slightly saucy planned for next month; The Nottage Film Club continues to keep it continental down at the Quay whereas Moving Image has been batting well to overcome old boiler issues at the Philip Road Centre. The new season starting this weekend should leave you with a glow.
Come and Sing! …enthuse Sing Wiv.
And why not? The Saturday afternoon open session has no other aim than to achieve something collectively. The Funny Farm looks ahead to the fantastic Colchester New Comedian of the Year award being staged as part of the Colchester Comedy Festival. Plus don’t forget Country Dancing is Fun. So said John Terry [blimey] on p.13.
The descriptive, but effective Wivenhoe News headlines continue with:
Poetry Rules OK
…according to poetrywivenhoe. A witty rhyme would be in order, but the platform at Kelvedon station somehow takes all the creative spunk out of you.
Back to the Bookshop and back to Bring Us Your Mums, the annual window display at the foot of the High Street.
Also blooming is… Wivenhoe in Bloom, flush with success and flush with over £1k of funding raised at the recent Jardine evening. Additional dosh has come via the Essex Community Foundation Jubilee Fund. Two new public planting sprees towards the top of the town are planned.
The growing interest in Wivenhoe Watching Wildlife gets a decent write up by Glyn Evans. With a successful first year of events to build upon, the Springwatch event has been confirmed for 5th April.
The view from Marks Tey brings us to the View from the High Street. Barren, depressed and a carpet of McDonald’s cartons paving the way. Much more positivity though from Tom Roberts with observations of the weather, the new Colchester Bus Station (that isn’t really a bus station…) and fitness.
The 15th anniversary of the restoration of the Wivenhoe Bells gets a write up by Adrienne Wood. Sydney Bayley just about stretches the settlement boundary with a Watering Holes of Wivenhoe review of Wivenhoe House Hotel.
Flick through the three pages of diary listings and then you get to the Monsters Rock review. Riverside observations come via Steve Hart and his tips for training young sailors. Which must also mean that it will soon be time for the Wivenhoe Ferry to come out of hibernation. Anchors away (is this right?) for 29th March.
The Tell It Like It Is take on headline writing continues with:
Transition Town Wivenhoe Bike Trailers for You to Borrow
Chapeau!
Which must mean that the commute has hit Colchester, a leisurely bicycle trailer ride away.
Seven years of the Farmer’s Market are celebrated on p.25, before a whole page is then given away for the University of Essex to big up the Essex Book Festival, staff CBE’s and bees wax.
Chuffers.
We’ve hit the Hythe.
How the hell did that happen?
Hey hoe. Heads down to bash out all the hyperlocal LOVLINESS left in the final half dozen pages of Wivenhoe News. Last man standing on Wivenhoe Platform gets to, um, pay the penalty fare.
£35k of raised grants for the Scout and Guide Hall are explained, The Hub continues to happen at the Phillip Road Centre (volunteers always needed…)
New Broomgrove Infants Head Teacher Lehla Abbott talks of the “delights” of her pupils, Y6 pupils at the Juniors report on WW2 topics, whilst up at Millfields and the recent performance of the choir at the O2 is mentioned.
Wiv Soc in Crisis is another Tell It Like It Is headline. In short - volunteers…
Bernie Boy bangs on about Health and Europe (bad / BONKERS), Cllr Julie Young updates with the Flood Barrier closures, transport for the Colne kids and the new Colchester Bus Station (that isn’t really a bus station…) Plus Health Centre progress. Of sorts.
Up at the Cross and Cllr Mark Cory writes about CBC Council Tax freezing (but not the maneuvers that led to it…) and the spending of the £2k locality budget.
Cllr Cyril Liddy deserves his own locality award for making Planning, Finance and Audit Scrutiny and the Standards Committee sound SEXY.
“We are now approaching Wivenhoe.”
Um…
WTFC is looking for a new Chairperson; the Tennis Club has a new club house…
Mind the gap.
Wivenhoe News is sold at the Co-op, Crossways, the Post Office, Bryans Newsagents and the lovely Wivenhoe Bookshop.
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