News

How is the new bus timetable working for you?

We were advised recently that due to public pressure the service would operate at 30 minute intervals from 8.38 a.m. Monday to Saturday inclusive.

Peter and Mary Weller have been deeply involved in driving this forward on your behalf, allegedly, First are not sticking to the new timetable.

We need everyone who has been effected by the service to contact Pam Horner either by mail or email and advise her of your feelings. The details are:

Pam Horner MBE (Mrs)

External Relations Manager

South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive

11 Broad Street West

SHEFFIELD

S1 2BQ

Tel 0114 2211452

E mail pam.horner@sypte.co.uk

Click on the "New Bus Timetable" link on the left for more details.

Postal Scam

Can you circulate this around especially as Xmas is fast approaching - it has been confirmed by Royal Mail.

The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam:

A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 (a Premium rate number).DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail scam originating from Belize. If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed £15 for the phone call. If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 02072396655 or ICSTIS (the Premium rate service regulator) at www.icstis.org.uk

Watch out there's a thief about!

A member of the Neighbourhood Watch Team have advised that a shed in the back garden of a bungalow on Harvey Close was broken into during this week (w/c 25^th October).

Please ensure that your sheds, outhouses, conservatories, all windows and outside doors are securely locked at all times. Don't make it easy for thieves and consider using the latest technology to safeguard your valuables. They will then be protected by Forensic Science as the window label states. The Police use it and Criminals hate it. A simple procedure will mark all your valuables giving them a better chance of being returned to you, should they be stolen and then recovered.

The kit is now available at a reduced price. To obtain it call 01302 736000. Mention SmartWater 100 Project.

Comfort Parcels For Troops

The following information was picked up from the Post Office today (Wednesday 30/09/09) by an eagle-eyed member of the Team.

Go to this webpage for more information www.comfortparcelsfortroops.moonfruit.com

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO..........

The Finningley Parish Plan Group?

We have changed our name, to avoid confusion with other local groups, we will now be known as Finningley Community Group. We are please to announce that the above group is very much alive and pursuing those areas high-lighted in the document produced as a result of the questionnaire that was circulated in the village and completed by the residents in the autumn of 2007.
Currently the group are involved in four aspects.
With the help of the Parish Council the existing notice boards have been refurbished and it is hoped that an additional one will be sited on The Green.
The website www.finningley.org that was setup in the autumn of 2007 is being continually improved and developed by two stalwarts in the group. Your contributions, - news, views, sale adverts and local business adverts - are very much encouraged and welcomed. Simply email them to:

contact@finningley.org

No email? Simply drop them off at either 18 Gatesbridge Park, Finningley or 47 Harvey Close, Finningley.
Road safety issues are being addressed, and we are seeing real developments such as the speed camera and the plans to have a speed indicator on the entry to the village from the Austerfield direction.
The Tuesday Club has been created to provide interests and activities for the 55's and over and meets in the Village Hall at 2 p.m. on the last Tuesday of each month. Come along and join us. We'll be very pleased to see you. For more details click here.