Gunhill Recreation Ground
The Council have secured more equipment for Gunhill Recreation ground and work will be commencing Tuesday 2nd March. The work is expected to take several days. Why not visit the park afterwards and see what we’ve done?
Footpaths
The footpath from Frederick Road to Arley industrial estate will have the last 30 metres completed. This works begins on Monday 1st March.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with us.
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Well, here we are almost in Spring of 2021 and still in lockdown. The vaccination programme is at full steam ahead and even I get my jab on Saturday. Figures produced at the moment tend to confirm we are getting on top of this pandemic but we need to proceed with caution.
Good News:
We have managed to obtain a small grant to secure some more equipment for Gunhill Recreation Ground. This equipment will be installed once the weather improves and lockdown allows. Whilst on the subject of recreation grounds we pay a contractor to litter pick them all every two weeks. We cannot afford to increase the regularity of this so everyone who uses these facilities please look after them. Place litter etc in the litterbins provided. Broken bottles left in Gunhill Recreation Ground have been problematic recently. Broken glass is a major health problem so please , if you break glass or see broken glass please carefully put it in one of the litter bins provided.
We are hoping to restore the footpath leading from Daffern Wood to Arley Industrial Estate. There is some thirty yards of the pathway incomplete so this will be done and will assist anyone using it. Again, availability of materials and lockdown restriction will dictate when this work is carried out but we are told it is imminent.
We have had to move our website provider and email base which as caused problems with holding Zoom meetings. We are on top of this now and should hold a full Zoom meeting March and if all goes well then our April Zoom meeting will be open to Parishioners. To obtain the link please email me at and include what points you want to raise.
This leaves me to thank everyone for tolerating these lonely and difficult times and hope things ease for the summer.
Martin Langley
Please be vigilant and aware of any stickers or posters that might be placed on signs in and around this area. We have had communications from Warwickshire County Council and Police that the stickers can contain razor blades, designed to injury when attempted to be removed. Please see below for more information from Warwickshire County Council.
hundred handler image
another hundred handers
hundred handers
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The two photos above were taken in North Warwickshire and reported a couple of months ago. The two PP images were from the start of lockdown and featured outside of Warwickshire.
The group is regarded as a White Nationalist body – I’ve attached some information on the typology of such groups in the PP above, along with some further examples of stickers linked to the group.
They are believed to be relatively small as a group, known for extreme racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views. The stickers they post are linked to the Great Replacement narrative – the suggestion that inward migration of non-white, non compatible cultures will ultimately lead to genocide of the white race. It is based on creating a picture that white residents are “victims” in their own land, that there is a clear and identifiable “enemy” – e.g. Jewish elites/Muslims/immigrants/liberal elites etc. and finally that there needs to be “action” taken to stop this from unfolding.
From looking at articles about this group online, I found the following:
“They carry out low level activism anonymously. They recruit through social media and QR codes on their stickers. Some of the QR codes direct scanners to white supremacist news, TV networks like Red Ice, and to an anti-immigration YouTube video entitled, “With Open Gates: the Forced Collective Suicide of European Nations”
As you will have seen in the picture above the North Warwickshire stickers did have the QR codes.
I would also draw your attention to some information reported in the Times yesterday:
Neo-Nazis ‘concealing blades behind posters’
The Times, 01/12/2020
The British army has been warned that a neo-Nazi group has begun a national propaganda campaign and is hiding razor blades beneath their posters to injure those who try to remove them. An intelligence briefing has been sent to army units warning them about the Hundred Handers, an anonymous neo-fascist group, which is putting up far-right posters and anti-coronavirus restriction stickers. Their stickers, with racist messages such as “Mass immigration is white genocide” and Nazi phrases such as “Blood and Soil”, started appearing in the UK this year, as well as in Germany, Spain, Australia, the Netherlands and the United States.
If there are any concerns please ensure these are reported to the local Police.
Warwickshire Police, Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner and Warwickshire County Council have produced a campaign to advise and urge people not to buy E-scooters for Christmas as it is currently against the law to ride an e-scooter in a public place. For more information, please refer to our leaflet and media release.
Partners in Warwickshire working together to improve road safety are urging the public not to buy e-scooters this Christmas because it’s currently against the law to ride a privately owned e-scooter in any public place in the UK. https://t.co/T5I5gNPGpF pic.twitter.com/40QrJnENhl
— Warwickshire Police (@warkspolice) November 18, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/warwickshirepolice/posts/3734586919894391
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CHESS FC at Hill Top playing fields, Arley
A group of junior footballers will be using Hill Top playing fields throughout their season, which is due to start in September.
Camp Hill Education Sports and Social Football Club (CHESS FC) are working with the parish council on getting the playing fields back into regular use.
The club currently run five age group teams and are always looking for new players, as well as adults willing to volunteer and help out.
If you know anyone who would like to get involved, contact chairman Ian Andrew or secretary Steven Thomas for more information.
VJ Day anniversary was commemorated outside St. Wilfrids on 15th August 2020.
