Sale : The last Saturday of every month from 10am until 2pm an amazing selection of sports gear all for £10 or less at LeSports Factory Unit on Woodside Street, New Mills – next one is 26 September
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Flora and fauna : Jaywalking We were visited by a pair of these beauties the other day, collecting peanuts (they can hold up to a dozen in their gullet at one time) to store in hidey holes. You’re most likely to see them in the autumn when they’re busy collecting their favourite food, acorns, and
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Foxy ladies What a good year for foxgloves. They take a full two years to reach flowering…and as you’ll know the aim of all flowers is to attract insects which pass on pollen to fertilise others. Through evolution, different flowers have developed expertly to attract specific pollenating insects from tiny wasps and flies to the
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Flora and fauna : Balsam bashing Himalayan Balsam colonises areas rapidly and quickly outcompetes the surrounding vegetation and reduces diversity. Himalayan Balsam is an annual plant; growing from seed, flowering and setting seed within a year before dying. All Himalayan balsam plants germinate from the previous years seed. Annual plants do not have the need
Plaque unveiling at New Mills Central The new time for Northern Rail’s Area Manager, Alex Hynes to arrive for the ceremony to unveil the plaque at Central Railway Station is 11.15pm The 150th Anniversary of the Station‘s opening on the 1st July 1865 is being celebrated in New Mills with a number of events, starting
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Familiar to everyone the wren is still a favourite of mine…(does anyone else remember them on farthings?) We’re lucky enough to have a pair nesting in a quiet corner of the garden again this year; they’ve spruced up a nest which was built two years ago, but was left unused last year. Normally the male
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New Mills Walkers are Welcome group now run a weekly short Walk for Health. If you know someone who is recovering from illness, or whose health needs a boost, these short walks are 40 minutes or so in length, and we match our pace to the needs of the walkers. These walks happen every Tuesday
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Visit New Mills have raised funding via DCC to purchase some fantastic cinema equipment including the latest projector, PA, speakers and a 100 inch screen. This is available for local New Mills community groups and schools to use free of charge. If you are interested in making use of the new equipment then please contact
Only a week to go before this years ‘Fox Cross Four’ on Bank Holiday Monday starting 11am. A lovely four mile ‘undulating’ race starting at The Fox in Brookbottom then a lovely country lane route across to Mellor Cross before descending again back to the pub for fine beer and sausage/bacon sandwiches. Race details including
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In my book there are wild creatures, and there are WILD creatures. The former include bluetits, rabbits, robins, blackbirds and so on…the sort we see every day, but the latter, they are the ones that haven’t seen much of humankind. They spend most of their lives in wild, sometimes desolate places and scarper at the
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