The tickets, which cost £1 each, were then placed back into the raffle in time for the main draw which will take place at the hospice on Monday 21st May.

If you would like to purchase tickets for yourself or to sell amongst family, friends and colleagues they can be obtained now from all LOROS shops, by contacting the LOROS Lottery office @ lottery@loros.co.uk or on 0116 231 8430. The closing date for entries is Friday 11th May.

Don’t delay, 8 lucky winners will share a prize pot of £11,000 which includes a top prize of £10,000. It could be you so contact us today!

LOROS (The Leicestershire and Rutland Organisation for the Relief of Suffering) is based onGroby RoadinLeicester. The hospice currently has to raise over £4m per year in voluntary income to fund the services provided to patients and their family members.

The aim is to put on a show for everyone to enjoy,and two of the previous participants continued with their careers by performing in national & international competitions.  On the night professional singer Mikala will perform to open the show and professional dance group R & R Productions will also perform their sizzling dances.
All participants will receive medals and the winners will share £500 worth of vouchers donated by Next fashion.
Tickets to see the finale are priced at only £5, and are available from all LOROS shops.

Alexandra Gamble from LOROS Hospice says: “This should be a great event for the local community to support especially asBritain’s Got Talent is currently showing on TV.  We appreciate the community putting on an event for LOROS as much needed funds are always crucial.”
This event was originally arranged for 28^th April, but has had to be rescheduled for 19^th May.

With many GP practices due to close from 6.00pm Friday 4th May until they re-open on Tuesday 8th May, it is important everyone knows the most appropriate place to go if they feel unwell:

Self care – every day illnesses like a headache, hangover, sore throat or cough can be treated at home by using over-the-counter medicines. Your local pharmacist will be happy to give you more advice. If you are unsure about the right treatment call NHS Direct on 0845 4647.

Minor injury or urgent care services – for vomiting, ear pain, sore belly, backache, cuts, sprains, strains and itches visit your local minor injury service at the venues listed in the table below or for urgent medical care than cannot wait until your GP surgery opens call the Out of Hours service on 0845 045 0411.

A&E – if you have chest pain, difficulty breathing, loss of blood or loss of consciousness go straight to A&E or dial 999 in an emergency.

Professor Azhar Farooqi, co-chair of the Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “Most minor illnesses such as colds, tummy bugs and sore throats can be treated at home with rest and fluids. Your local pharmacist can help with over the counter remedies to help ease the symptoms you have.

“Keep a note of your pharmacy’s opening times should you feel unwell and need advice over the bank holiday and if you are worried about you or your family’s health call NHS Direct.”

For details of pharmacies open in Leicester during the May bank holiday visit NHS Leicester City’s website at www.leicestercity.nhs.uk and for Leicestershire and Rutland visit NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland’s website at www.lcr.nhs.uk. For general advice log onto www.choosebetter.org.uk.

For out of hours emergency dental advice in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland call 0845 840 0065.

Local girl Sinéad has worked in the village at The Fox and Hounds, The Cornerhouse and The Dog and Gun pubs along with Boots and Pukka Pies whilst supporting her education. Sinéad studied Drama at Brooksby Melton College and went on to Study for a BA hons in Performing Arts at De Montfort University and an associates Diploma from the London College of Music. She is a musical theatre teacher at New College Stamford, Studio 79 Dance College and the Pauline Quirke Academy Leicester as well as a professional singer but she is in need of your help! She was recently been given the chance of a lifetime by being offered a place to study at LSMT on their one year intensive musical theatre programme. Sinéad has always dreamed of being a professional actress since she landed her first professional role aged three in the CITV show ‘WOOF!’ Since then this has been her main goal and graduating from this course will surely leave her set for fulfilling her dream of performing in the glittering West End.

The unfortunate side to this story is that the fees to study at this prestigious school are £13,600. Along with personal savings, fundraisers and applying for grants Sinéad is accepting donations of any amount to her fund via her website sineadwall.yolasite.com. The fees are due in by mid-July and time is rapidly racing ahead. This really could change her life and a simple donation from anyone of £1.00 could really help. To learn more about Sinead’s career or for more information about how you could help or about donating to the fund please visit www.sineadwall.yolasite.com  or email sineadwall_vocals@hotmail.co.uk

During the evening, the Officer in Charge, Flying Officer Kenyon RAFVR(T), had the opportunity to celebrate the hard work of the Air Cadets and staff during the recent exams. Following some tough exam sessions during previous years, the results just keep getting better with three Credits to celebrate at Senior Cadet level. Corporal Poole, Cadets Watson-Evans, Malam and West were all presented with their Senior Cadet badge on final parade. Corporal Holmes was also congratulated for passing his Master Cadet exam, however, the squadron will have to wait until his badge arrives in the post before they can present it to him. These presentations follow some successful work for Cadet Bhundia who also recently passed his Leading Cadet exam online.
Well done to all cadets who sat exams for their hard work and also a large thanks to the staff team who put a lot of effort into making the cadets ready to sit the exams, especially to CI Diane Reeves, the squadron training officer.
Plt Off McGlynn.

1181 Squadron meet on a Monday and Thursday from 7.00pm to 9.30pm and are based in the ATC hut in the grounds of Wreake Valley College. We are actively recruiting new members and any interested parties should contact Flying Officer Kenyon on oc.1181@aircadets.org  or visit www.1181sqn.org.uk

Eight boys from the Under 10’s kwik cricket section of Syston Town cricket club took part in the 6th Thrussington fun run to raise funds for their club. The event took place on Saturday 3rd March in Thrussington and the boys had to cover the three quarter mile circuit whilst negotiating monster hay bales and water crossings.

They all thoroughly enjoyed it and between them they raised over £200, of which Matthew Evans individually raised £61. He was awarded a £20 gift voucher to use at Talent Cricket in Loughborough to kit himself out for the coming season.

The kwik cricket section have a thriving group of children from age seven to ten years. If your child is interested in having a go at cricket, then come along to one of our training sessions on a Wednesday night. The outdoor training began on Wednesday 11th April from 6.00pm to 7.30pm at our Potters Lane ground. For further information visit our website www.systontowncc.com or contact Liam Tailby on 07989 561 373.

Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

Christmas Market
The Events Panel have already started to make plans to make this year’s Christmas Market even better than the last one. If you have any ideas to help achieve this then why not drop us a line here at the Town Council Offices.

Civic Reception
The current Chairman of the Town Council, Councillor Howard Midgley hosted a Civic Reception to recognise some of the people who have contributed to the Town over the last 12 months. The Mayor of Charnwood, Chairman of the County Council and our local MP Stephen Dorrell were all invited to have the opportunity to mix with those who attended. There was a Charity Raffle, proceeds from which are for the Town Council’s Chairman chosen charity Syston & District Volunteer Centre.

Syston in Bloom
Following last year’s superb result in the East Midlands in Bloom competition (Silver Gilt Award) the Town has entered the competition again. Apart from the competition the ‘Syston in Bloom Committee’ work very hard in conjunction with Town Council to gain a pretty and colourful Town for all to enjoy throughout the Summer.

Defibrillator
A potential life saving piece of equipment is to be fitted outside the Community Centre, School Street that could help people who are suffering a heart attack. A simple to use defibrillator has been purchased that is hopefully the start of a Town wide initiative for others to support further installations around the area. The one thing to appreciate is that persons of any age may need this, remember the desperate situation with a Bolton Wanderers footballer recently.

Dog Fouling/Anti Social Behaviour
With hopefully a long sunny summer please let us work together to keep Syston a clean, happy and vandal free Town.

Contacting Your Council
Syston Town Council currently has 20 Councillors

Merton Ward
Mr. Simon Bradshaw
Mr. Ken Pacey
Mr. Harold Screaton
Mr Paul Henr
Mr Ivan Spibey

New Barkby Ward
Mrs. Claire Dolan
Mr. Hanif Asmal
Mr. Howard Midgley
Mrs. Janet Midgley
Mr. Eric Vardy

St. Peter’s East Ward
Mr. Stephen Hampson
Mrs Susan Gerrard
Mrs. Rita Gray
Mrs. Maureen Pacey
Mr. Toby Griffiths

St. Peter’s West Ward
Mr. Tom Barkley
Mrs. Josie Branston
Mr. Mal Carnall
Mr. Nick Gee
Mr. Patrick Wright

All councillors can be contacted at
The Community Centre
School Street
Syston
Leicester LE7 1HN

Our email address is: mailbox@syston.co.uk
Tel: 0116 260 7150
Fax: 0116 269 6904

Allan Clarke                  Town Manager
Ursula Southan           Office Manager
Kay Liquorish          Office Coordinator

Council meetings for May, June and July are as follows:
01 May Development Meeting
08 May Amenities Meeting
15 May Resources Meeting
22 May Annual Town Meeting 7.00pm start
22 May Annual meeting of the Town Council 7.30pm start
29 May Development Meeting

12 June Amenities Meeting
19 June Resources Meeting
26 June Full Council

03 July Development Meeting
10 July Amenities Meeting
17 July Resources Meeting
24 July Full Council

All committee and full Council meetings take place in the Community Centre in School Street on Tuesday evenings and all residents are welcome to attend.

Jubilee Weekend at St Peter and St Paul Church
Sunday 3rd June
10.30am Thanksgiving Communion
12noon to 5.00pm Church Open to view festive decorations.
Refreshments available.
12noon to 3.00pm Tower open
See the town from the top of the tower!
6.30pm Jubilee Thanksgiving
Sings, Hymns and prayer of thanksgiving
Monday 4th June
11.00am to 4.00pm Church Open
To view festive decorations.
Refreshments available.

Thurmaston’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
Thurmaston have events planned from Wednesday 30th May through to a finale on Monday 4th June.
JUBILEE CARNIVAL
Monday 4th June
1.00pm to 5.00pm
On Elizabeth Park Sports & Community Centre, Checkland Road LE4 8fFN
Stalls and attractions, kiddies fairground rides, all manner of food stalls and field events which include ‘It’s a Carnival Knockout’. This wacky event for the over 16’s promises loads of laughs as teams of four pit their wits against each other, so get together your team, could be friends, workmates or family, at just £10 per team you won’t regret it, Tel 0116 220 0698. Also at the carnival will be a very special display from Leicester Speedway and a boxing display from Thurmaston’s very own Boxing Club.
The Cemetery Chapel will also be open with a display by the Heritage Group. This is a great opportunity to look inside this stunning Victorian Chapel, chat to group members and pick up a copy of the groups books Memories of Thurmaston vol’s 1 & 2.
To round off this amazing weekend of events will be the lighting of a Giant Sparkler especially for her Majesty. The finale of this Jubilee Spectacular weekend will take place on Monday evening on Garden Street Recreation Ground  – don’t miss this spectacular end to the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Thurmaston.
For further details of all events contact Thurmaston Events team on 0116 269 5821.

Barkby’s  Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
Monday 4th June
The church bells will ring to open the days events and the church service to follow at St Mary’s church. A display of children’s art will be shown in the  church along with a mosaic.
There will be a scarecrow competition which will be on display at various points in the village. A children’s fancy dress competition with a royal theme is also planned for the day.
In the afternoon villagers and guests are invited to have a picnic at the cricket ground, were games will be organized for the children followed by the cutting of the jubilee cake and a toast to the queen.
The hiss and boo band will be playing at the cricket pavilion from 6.30pm to 10.30pm. Admission by ticket price £5.00. The days events will be ended with the lighting of the beacon at 10.30pm followed by a magnificent firework display.
It is intended that every child under 16 years old in the village will be presented with a diamond jubilee mug.
To coincide with these celebrations, The Malt Shovel are holding a beer festival, with live music on Sunday 3rd and Monday 4th June.

Saric Musical Evenings
Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June
7.45pm
The Old Chapel in Syston.
In celebration of the Queens Diamond Jubilee SARIC are holding two musical evenings spanning 60 years.  The evenings will bring together all your old favourites and audience participation will be encouraged.
So if you fancy a sing or just want to listen please come and help us celebrate.
Tickets £7 are available from Sally on 0116 2606095. Refreshments will be on sale and you will be seated cabaret style. All proceeds from the evenings will go to the refurbishment of the Old Chapel. SARIC is a registered charity no.1111557.