Tag: Castle Bytham

Pilot, 73, escapes with cuts and bruises

A 73-year-old man has miraculously escaped with cuts and bruises after his light aircraft crashed through the roof of a bungalow in Lincolnshire.

The pilot of the small aeroplane had to be freed from the wreckage by emergency crews after his aircraft came down on the farm building outside Castle Bytham, south of Grantham, just after 2pm.

Read more from the Daily Mail website.

Post box broken into in Castle Bytham

Police are appealing for witnesses after the post box on the outside of a farm premises in Castle Bytham was forced open, between 8am and 12.30pm on November 27.

Police said it is believed that the offender made at least two visits to the post box during that morning to try and retrieve letters from it.

Read more from the Stamford Mercury website.

 

Fibre broadband is here…

BT Openreach FTTC in ClipshamSome great news. Fibre broadband is here… But only if you live in the local villages of Clipsham, Stocken or Stretton.

If you think what does this have to do with theBythams. Well they all happen to use the Castle Bytham telephone exchange. But happen to be in Rutland and not Lincolnshire.

So you have to ask yourself, why they did not put FTTC cabinets, in Castle Bytham and Little Bytham at the same time.

We have been told. We have to wait till July 2015, till we get fibre broadband!!

Time for everyone to write to our local MP and tell him this is just not on at all!!

For more information about getting fibre broadband in Clipsham, Stocken and Stretton. Check out www.rutland.gov.uk/digital_rutland/where_and_when.aspx.

Burst main leaves villages without water

Several villages were left without water today (Monday) because of two separate faults.

Residents of Carlby, Essendine, Castle Bytham, Swayfield, Witham-on-the-Hill and surrounding areas with PE9, PE10, NG33 and LE15 postcodes have been affected by the problem, which began at about 11am today (Monday).

Read more from the Stamford Mercury website.

 

County council libraries consultation ends

A public consultation on plans to withdraw funding from county council libraries has closed.

Lincolnshire County Council gave residents the chance to have their say on plans to close 32 of its 47 libraries.

Read more from the Rutland Times website.

Lincolnshire villages could lose mobile libraries

Many village residents could lose their mobile library services if county council proposals are approved following a consultation.

Lincolnshire County Council needs to cut £2m from its annual £6m library budget by 2015.

It has launched a consultation on proposals to revamp the entire library system, with mobile services included.

Read more from the Stamford Mercury website.