Press release
28 January 2010 09:42
Mid & West Wales Fire & Rescue Working Closely with Community Partners
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service are working closely with their Community Partners to encourage the public to take advantage of the FREE Home Fire Safety Check service we provide. We want to continue to deliver a high level of public service, focusing on getting important safety messages to our communities.
We are working alongside local Councils so that that their websites, as well as community websites have a link set up to inform visitors that we provide Home Fire Safety Checks. A Home Fire Safety Check is a visit by a member of the Fire Service to your home to provide home fire safety advice and supply and install FREE smoke alarms. These checks are the cornerstone of the proactive role we adopt in our drive to reduce the deaths and injuries that are caused by accidental fires in the home.
We hope that everyone will take advantage of this free service. If you have a Community website and would like to help by placing the FREE link on your website, please contact Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue service on 03706060699.
You can request a FREE Home Fire Safety Check for yourself or a dependant relative by visiting www.mawwfire.gov.uk or by contacting the Service on 0800 169 1234 or by clicking on the links on your local Council / Community websites,. You can also Text the word 'HFSC' followed by your name to 88365. If you are deaf or hard of hearing, you can type the word 'deaf' after your name before sending the text to the same number (88365), and a member of the fire service will contact you within 3 working days.
"Educational Fruit Orchard in Clyne Gardens"
Last year the Mumbles Community Council supplied rare apple trees to the Primary schools in the Mumbles Community area. The other part of our Plant and Pick project is setting up an Orchard in Clyne Gardens where the schools can come and and see a variety of Welsh fruit trees.
In December we had permission from Swansea City Council to go ahead with the project and Mr. Hopkins (Specialist Parks Officer) met some of the MCC Councillors to discuss his planting scheme for the orchard.
The orchard will be located at the top of the gardens near the Castle and Mr. Hopkins will be ordering 24 trees of various types and ages which will be planted this spring.
The Council are grateful to the experts in this specialised park for advising us on our project and we look forward to a fruitful future!
O ! THE BELLS THE BELLS
No it's not Quasimodo speaking, these are the "Bells of Santiago" Chile, which have been stored for more than a hundred years in All Saint's Church, Oystermouth.
The three ornately cast Spanish bells, which date from 1753, are the only remaining objects from the Jesuit Cathedral of La Campania which was destroyed by fire in December 1863.
The bells were bought as scrap and shipped to Swansea, but instead of being melted down, they were housed at All Saints' Church.
The Chilean Government is planning a memorial to what remains one of the worst fire disasters in human history when, more than2500 lives, mostly women and children were lost.
The President of Chile has sent a letter to the vicar of All Saints' asking for the return of the "Bells of Santiago" so that they can mark the 150th anniversary in 2013.
(for further details see the full report by Nino Williams in the Evening Post, 5th February)
Further news in the Evening Post 23nd Feb 2010
"...the Oystermouth Parochial Church was set to give the move its official blessing, before the move is considered by the diocise and the Church in Wales, All Saints Vicar, Cannon Keith Evans said: " I expect the vote to go through because it has overwhelming support. We have had lots of letters in support of the move and no one is opposed to it, so it is very, very likely, and it means that we could be handing back the bells later in the summer."
It is further suggested that a digital link-up could be arranged so that the first peeling of the bells , in Santiago, could be broadcast and heard in Mumbles.
CRIME UP IN MUMBLES!
The Evening Post reports that fifty-five (55) crimes were reported in Oystermouth ward in October, November and December 2009, up from 46 for the same period in 2008. Only 11 were reported for in the Newton ward for the final quarter of last year, down from 20 reported. This was revealed at a PACT meeting this week.
Keep a careful lookout for possible crimes and always lock your back door, when answering the front door to avoid distraction thefts.
SWANSEA UNIVERSITY
THEOLOGY PUBLIC LECTURES
"Marcion and the Making of a Heretic"
By
Professor Judith Lieu
(Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University)
At 7.00p.m. On Thursday, 18th February 2010
In the James Callaghan Lecture Theatre, Swansea University
N.B. Before taking up her present post at Cambridge, Judith Lieu previously
taught at The Queen's College Birmingham; King's College London;
and at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia
She is a Methodist and one of the world's leading New Testament scholars
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"Did Darwin Kill God?"
By
Dr Conor Cunningham
(Assistant Director of the Centre for Theology and Philosophy at Nottingham University)
At 7.00p.m. On Tuesday, 9th March 2010
In Faraday Lecture Theatre A, Swansea University
N.B. Conor Cunningham wrote and presented
the highly acclaimed programme on 'Darwin and God'
on BBC2 TV last year
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" 'A Blessing and a Curse': George Herbert and Rhetoric"
By
The Reverend Dr Michael Piret
(Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College Oxford)
At 7.00p.m. On Tuesday, 16th March 2010
In the James Callaghan Lecture Theatre, Swansea University
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"Richard Dawkins and 'The God Delusion' "
By Professor John Lennox
(Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University
and Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science
at Green Templeton College Oxford;
Adjunct Professor at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics)
At 7.00p.m. On Friday, 30th April 2010
In Faraday Lecture Theatre A, Swansea University
N.B. John Lennox has in recent years had two public debates
with Richard Dawkins:
the first at Alabama in the USA and the second in the UK at Oxford
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"Sisters of Sinai"
By
Professor Janet Martin Soskice
(Professor of Philosophical Theology at Cambridge University
and Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge)
At 7.00p.m On Friday, 11th June 2010
In the James Callaghan Lecture Theatre, Swansea University
N.B. Janet Martin Soskice grew up in Canada. She is a Catholic.
In addition to her academic duties in Cambridge, she lectures around the world and writes for The Times and The Times Literary Supplement.
She is also a frequent contributor to radio and television
These lectures are open to everyone
and admission is free
A GREAT NIGHT OUT IN BISHOPSTON
"Billy Liar", A Comedy by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall (by arrangement
with Samuel French - London) and which will be performed by Bishopston
Amateur Theatrical Society at St. Teilo's Church Hall, The Glebe, Bishopston
on Friday 19th, Saturday 20th, Thursday 25th, Friday 26th and Saturday 27th
March, Directed by Denise Currell. Tickets are priced at £5 and £4, with a
special buy-one get-one-free on the first night. For tickets contact Heather
Cooper on 01792 234385
Billy Fisher lives with Mum, Dad and Gran in Stradhoughton and is an
undertaker's clerk - but in his mind he is President of Ambrosia, a film
star, a scriptwriter - and anything else glamorous that happens to occur to
him! However, nobody else believes him, certainly neither Barbara nor Rita,
to both of whom he has promised marriage, though there is only one
engagement ring! He frantically tries to lie his way out, so he can run away
with Liz, the only girl who understands him, but we know he'll never quite
make it.
NOT TO BE MISSED!
ALADDIN - The Ostreme Theatre Players, with a cast and chorus of 27
are getting ready for the panto to be performed at Ostreme centre,
starting on Wednesday 17th Feb. commencing at 7.30 pm and will run
for 4 nights, plus two matinees on Friday and Saturday at 2.30pm
Two free family tickets, for up to five people are being offered. Call 01792 404713
THE GHOST OF WILLIAM HANCOCK?
The Evening Post Reporter, Laura Davies, 15th February , has brought out the spirit of Hallowe'en by telling us of a "spooky experience" at the William Hancock pub, Mumbles Road.
The 'spirit' in the 160 years old pub does not appear to like television and it is suggested that a 26 inch TV set jumped off a solid oak support.
Seven locals, who were at the bar, when it flew off the shelf and landed two to three metres away from them (must have been a programme about wrestling, perhaps). It is also reported that Mr. Reed, the landlord, has heard the sound of keys being dropped and lights turning on.
Well, I say its worth another, another Drink, don't you think!!
TREE FELLING OR PRUNING NEEDS PERMISSION.
A full report is in the S.W. Evening Post 16th Feb.10 by Post Reporter,
Julia Bosnyak.
Anybody looking to fell trees in a conservation area must get permission from their council, so the report tells us.
Many trees in a conservation area are already protected by TREE PRESERVATION ORDERS (TPO)
"Anyone intending to carryout work on a tree in a conservation area must give six weeks notice to the local planning authority... failure to give notice can be treated in a similar way to unauthorised work to a tree protected by a TPO, despite the fact that the work is often carried out with the best intentions".
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