Herald - Issue 396

Page 14 • The HERALD • 8th October 2020 v READ THE HERALD ONLINE: www.herald-publishing.co.uk v TRU-FLOW PLUMBING SERVICES For all your Domestic Plumbing, Tiling, Painting and Decorating Requirements • Fully Insured • Discounts for Senior Citizens Please Contact Andy Tel: 023 8087 0145 • Mobile: 07962 590089 FLAT ROOFING SPECIALISTS All Roof Repairs Tel: 023 8089 1677 Mobile: 07880 508415 Email: steve@braithwaiteroo ng.co.uk THE FLAT ROOF SPECIALIST • Digital Aerial & Satellite Installations • Repairs & Servicing • TV Distribution Points • TVWall Mounting & Installations • Freesat HD/Freeview HD • Sky, Sky+, Sky HD • SMATV & IRS Systems • DAB/FMAerial Installations CAI Company of the Year 2014 Humphries Digital Aerials Keith Humphries & Son All Areas Covered Tel: 023 8066 7362 Email: humphriesaerials@btconnect.com • Website: www.humphriesdigitalaerials.co.uk A Family Firm Est 1971 ELECTRICIAN/HANDYMAN FULLY QUALIFIED ELECTRICIAN (30YRS EXPERIENCE) • Mains Upgrades • Testing • Extra/Replacement Points/Lights • Outside Lighting • Sockets • Ponds • BT/TV Points • Ethernet Points • CCTV • Fire/Intruder Alarms • Basic Plumbing Repairs • Outside Taps • Showers • Heating Problems • Blinds/Poles Fixed • Flatpacks • Loft Work Boarding, Tidying etc ALL OTHER DOMESTIC WORK CONSIDERED Call Mick on 07738 166453 or email: michaelshelley80@googlemail.com Send your local news to The Editor, The Herald, 2 High Street, Hythe SO45 6AH or email editor@herald-publishing.co.uk News from Keep Britain Tidy’s New Forest Litter Ambassador - Peter Armstrong It’s been an interesting year which started well with nearly 100 people recruited for litter picking across the New Forest at the Volunteer Fair in Lyndhurst. With 2019’s gures that’s over 200 in two years. Having been litter picking for over 8 years mainly in Hythe and Dibden, getting others involved and giving advice across the New Forest and further a eld has been becoming the norm especially during Lockdown. e website www.cleannewforest.org.uk has increasingly been getting visited especially the google map showing where groups are across the New Forest. Now over 3,600 visits. • On the Waterside and in Totton it has been especially good to see the continuing work of individuals as well as groups. • Big shout out to Dominic and his mum who have held a monthly beach clean at Goatee Beach, Eling for a number of years. - 1st Sunday of the month starting at 10am. picking it did not have the following it has now. It is now six years of organising Litter picks in Hythe and Dibden plus increasingly I have been contacted by businesses who have employees who want to litter pick. • Last year 100 litter pickers from one rm in conjunction with Forestry England rangers • Exxon employees litter picked the whole of Fawley • Aviva Insurance sta • is September sta from Skanska picked 13 bags of litter around Netley View estate in just three hours as part of the National September Clean. en they went to Calshot Beach where more bags were collected mainly in one of the car park. Social Distancing and no more than six! If you know of a business or rm wanting to litter pick then I can help as I am able to get insurance from Keep Britain Tidy as one of their Ambassadors. If you need advice or help with litter picking contact admin@cleannewforest.org.uk or give Peter a ring on 07899 731780. Litter is costing Councils across the UK nearly a Billion a year. Imagine what could be done with this money if everyone loved where they lived! is year our local Council, New Forest District Council have had to spend another £100,000 on litter collections due to littering. at could pay for a new play park! • Lisa Carter has been doing an amazing job in Totton. Now going under the name of Totton Litter Pickers. Find Lisa on Facebook. • Waterside Wombles have been running litter picks from Calshot to Marchwood- nd them on Facebook. All doing a fantastic job on our side of the New Forest. It has been good to help the National Park with their new scheme in providing litter pickers and hi-vis to many individuals. My fellow ambassadors across the UK were really helpful in sharing what organisations and Councils in their areas were doing so the New Forest National Park Authority (NFNPA) didn’t have to start from scratch. Contact the National Park for more details. A number of schools have been provided with litter picking kits across the New Forest at no cost to their budgets though this has ground to a bit of a halt with COVID-19 and visits to schools. When I started litter Peter was joined by staff from Skanska on the litter pick e Chairlady and Committee are regularly reviewing the situation regarding Coronavirus and the measures the Government have in place as well as their meeting venue in Dibden Purlieu. As things stand at the moment our meetings are still suspended until such time as we feel it is safe to get together again. We hope that all our members are keeping well and staying safe and if you need to contact any of the committee our phone numbers are on the back of the programme of events. As soon as we have any news we will contact our members. We are looking forward to better times ahead when we can all meet again and enjoy our meetings. Hythe Wives Update for Members by Chris Edwards, Secretary