Rattlesden Village Website
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Welcome to our Spring newsletter! With tips for a more sustainable Easter, Food Waste Action Week's focus on buying loose with an opportunity to win a 'Choose what you'll use' grocery shopping voucher, the Great British Spring Clean, plus the Love Nature recycled art project ... and more!
Suffolk County Council has secured millions of pounds of funding to help develop electric vehicle (EV) charging across the county.
Read more on Suffolk to benefit from huge £7.3 million EV Investment
We are pleased to announce that John Lee has been formally appointed the new Rattlesden Parish Council Footpath Officer.
The role of Chairman has become vacant - see enclosed Notice for details.
Read more on Position Filled: Notice of Vacancy in Office of Councillor
Approximately 13,580 people are currently living with dementia in Suffolk. By 2030, it is estimated that this figure will rise to 18,770, an increase of 42.5%.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been confirmed in a backyard flock of poultry, near Stowmarket, Suffolk. All poultry on the infected premises will be humanely culled.
A 3km Protection Zone and 10km Surveillance Zone has been put in place around the premises (a map of Zones can be seen in the comments).
Trading Standards Officers will be be making contact with all properties in the 3km Protection Zone to help us and the Animal and Plant Health Agency establish where poultry are housed.
A reminder and plea to all poultry keepers to please continue to keep your birds housed, and ensure you you follow strict biosecurity measures.
- Keep your birds undercover away from wild birds.
- Use dedicated footwear to enter your birds' housing so you don't walk disease in.
- Remember that anything that enters your birds' housing could introduce disease, whether that's a bag of bedding, your pet cat walking in or rats and mice.
- Store bedding undercover and keep other pets out of your birds' housing. Control rats and mice and clear up spilled feed.
- As a priority, mend any damage to your birds' housing after the recent bad weather.
The national data opt-out was introduced on 25 May 2018, enabling patients to opt out from the use of their data for research or planning purposes, in line with the recommendations of the National Data Guardian.
We are very pleased to say that thanks to our great band of volunteers, Rattlesden shop is staying open during the current epidemic although we are reducing our opening hours to enable all our shifts to be covered. We will be open every weekday and Saturday mornings from 9am to 1pm and Sundays as usual from 9am to 11am. We are working very hard to keep stock on our shelves, sourcing from a wide range of suppliers but we may have to reduce the number of lines we normally carry. Please help us to keep the shop going as a service for all our village by only buying what you need at any one time – there is enough for all to go round if we behave sensibly. Newspapers will be in the shop as normal – please put in an order if you are not normally at home and would like to have a newspaper kept for you.
