Huw Harris of White House Cottages has won a writing competition.

He is to visit London on Tuesday 6th March with his mum, Lynne and have a tour of the Palace of Westminster. After that they’ll have a tour of 10 Downing Street where he will meet Deputy Prime Minister Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP. After lunch at the press gallery he will go to the BBC tv studios.

All the family are very proud of him. Well done Huw!

Leighton School baby and toddler group are having a ghoulish Halloween Party on Tuesday 25 October 2-4pm in Leighton Village Hall.

£2 entry per child – all ages welcome. Please come in your spookiest fancy dress, prizes for the best costumes.

Other activities include:

• wrap mummy as a mummy competition
• apple bobbing
• halloween crafts
• scarey face painting
• refreshments
• musical ghouls
• guess the weight of the pumpkin

plus lots more SCAREY fun!

Please come along and support playgroup for a spooky afternoon of fun! You can see the flyer here (PDF).

Dear Editor

I would like to thank all the Leighton people who supported me at my afternoon tea fund raising event. On Saturday 13th August we held a cream tea event in my garden at Lymore in Montgomery (former resident of Tirdu, Leighton). Our event was to raise funds for breast cancer, we all know people who have suffered from this and it is a problem close to my heart as my 43 year old cousin died from it 2 years ago.

Sadly her sister is now battleing the illness, I have a number of clients in my salon in Montgomery who have survived, as it is my tenth year in business, I wanted to put something back into the community, therefore a loyal client Annie decided to join me to raise funds. Annie raised £1054 and we had our heads shaved to a grade 3, although apprehensive we felt it was easy for us, we had a choice, unlike all the brave people suffering from breast cancer. Our grand total amounted to £3,062.04 of which we are very pleased. Thankyou to all my old neighbours who supported us.

With Love  Jane Williams