Page 24 • The HERALD • 3rd October 2024 v INDEPENDENT, LOCAL AND PROUD v Whether new to driving or wanting to get back on the road we can help Automatic Driving Instruction Grade A Instructor with over 20 years experience Specialist in nervous and anxious pupils www.learn-2-drive.org.uk • Call 07796795028 Learn2Drive • Digital Aerial & Satellite Installations • Repairs & Servicing • TV Distribution Points • TV Wall Mounting & Installations • Freesat HD/Freeview HD • Sky, Sky+, Sky HD • SMATV & IRS Systems • DAB/FM Aerial 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 Chris Hopkins Painting, Decorating, Carpentry, Tiling Free Estimates Photographs & references available on request Telephone: 023 8081 5210 Mobile: 07986 806277 All General Plumbing • Boiler Installations • Boiler Breakdowns • Gas Appliance Servicing • Central Heating Repairs 023 8089 9300 07917 445369 petertarr1@hotmail.co.uk Reg: 3515993 PETER TARR Gas, Plumbing & Heating 1100th Callout for Hampshire Search and Rescue from Hampshire Search and Rescue Starting in 2003 with a very small team to where we are today, we have now responded to 1100 requests for assistance. Our main remit is still to search for and rescue vulnerable missing people on behalf of the police, but we have expanded our capability to include assisting the Local Resilience Forum and the Fire and Rescue Service with our water, drone, medical and foot teams when possible. Whilst this Callout number is obviously a milestone Woodland search in our SAR journey, it is by no means intended as a glori cation of what we volunteer to do. But it does let us re ect on those we have tried to help over the years, the team members who served and retired and the ongoing invaluable support we receive from our Preparing for a night search Casualty evacuation and Rescue teams, wish we did not need to be called because it means someone is in trouble or a family is traumatised. But when there is a need we willingly step-up – and will continue to do so. families. We, like all the Search Hythe and Dibden Community Centre Briefing from Hythe and Dibden Community Centre is is number three in our series of “brie ngs” which we hope will be of interest to readers regarding the Community Centre and its hirers. In 1982, following an exhibition of old photos of the Hythe and Dibden area held at the South Street Centre in Hythe, it was decided to try and form a local history group. A preliminary meeting was held at the Parish Hall in West Street, Hythe on Tuesday 27th July that year. From that meeting Hythe and District Historians came into being. e initial membership fee was £3. e society decided to collect old photos and documents of the area, but eventually changed to hold monthly meetings with speakers on subjects, if possible, on local or general history. It has stayed the same ever since. From an initial membership of 35 which over time has uctuated from low 20s to 60 plus, it still has 10 meetings each year held at the Hythe and Dibden Community Centre on the first Thursday of the month except July and August. In 42 years the membership fee has risen from £3 per year to £15. Allowing for in ation still a reasonable charge. Come along – Visitors are welcome. In other news: A reminder that the games a ernoon will now take place on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month from 2pm to 4pm. We have a selection of games, or please bring your own if you have a favourite that you would like to share. As before the cost will be £2 which includes a hot drink and a slice of cake. For those parents who are still looking for a pre-school place for their child, don’t forget that we have Little Stars Preschool at the centre who have just started their second year with us. ey have spaces available for ages 2 to 4 year’s old. New Forest Aviation Group’s (NFAG) next meeting takes place on Friday 11th October for a talk titled ‘Recovery of a Fairey Barracuda from the Solent’ in Lyndhurst Community Centre - doors open 7pm for prompt 7.30pm start. e £5 admission for visitors (members £3) includes tea and biscuits. e group meets monthly, except for August and December and the programme is on the website: www.nfag.info. No internet? No problem call 023 8084 0139. Recovery of a Fairey Barracuda from the Solent
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