Arley News Summer 2021

Hi everyone,

What a change to see sunshine and no sudden outbursts of rain, certainly feels  like summer is here.

The countryside is really coming out and providing wonderful  displays of bluebells, mayflower etc.

We seem to have hit a real problem with fly-tipping, especially in our picturesque lanes etc. If you witness any of this please notify NWBC/ Police please.

It’s good to see our new equipment at Gunhill Recreation Ground being used by a lot of people, please enjoy and get some fresh air and exercise.

At the moment CHESS football club use Hilltop Football Field but a further club, Grove Farm will be on there as well so if anyone is interested in joining them please get in touch with them. Whilst on the subject of Hilltop Football Field we are seeking funding and details to provide facilities up there. Covid 19 and lockdown has delayed all our efforts but will keep you informed.

If you have anything to report to us or need any help/advice please visit our website Arley Parish Council.co.uk or see contact details in our notice boards.

Finally, did anyone notice our four soldier silhouettes on display at Gunhill, Old Arley and two at Hilltop? Do you understand their significance? Just in memory of everyone who served/died fighting for our freedom in conflicts around the world.

Martin Langley

Chairman

Arley Parish Council

100 years of Royal British Legion – Can You Help?

Calling all Knitters….

We are asking for residents who can knit or crochet to help make hundreds of poppies which we hope to display around the villages. We are going to be looking at making a wreath from the knitted poppies and laying on the cenotaphs on May 15th but would also like to display the poppies around the villages on railings, parks etc if we can?

The celebration is on May 15th but the anniversary is obviously all year.

The knitting pattern is attached, so feel free to download today.

Walking in Warwickshire

Are you fed-up with doing the same old walks?

Walking in Warwickshire www.walkinginengland.co.uk/warwickshire is the website for you!

With hundreds of walks to download and print, free, it also has books of walks, contact details for all the walking groups in the county and much more. Whether you want to walk on your own or with a group all the information is there in one place.

John said ‘There is so much walking information on the web but it is difficult to find. Walking in Warwickshire (part of the Walking in England suite of websites (www.walkinginengland.co.uk) – one for each county in England) has brought it together in one place so whether you are walking from home, or away on holiday, you will be able to find a walk suitable for you’.

With walks from half a mile to twelve miles plus long, and a note of suitability for pushchairs and wheelchairs, everyone can find a walk to enjoy.

So home or away, check out the websites and get walking!

John Harris
www.walkinginengland.co.uk
email:

Exciting Times Ahead For Residents

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.

Universal Credit Information

Due to the impact of Coronavirus over 5.5 million people are claiming Universal Credit. If you are new to the process and would like to know more information on how to claim, please see this guide.

Here’s the Universal Credit guide https://www.jobcentrenearme.com/universal-credit/

 

Arley Parish Council Spring 2021

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

BEWARE: Hundred Handers Activity – Right-Wing Posters

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

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another hundred handers

another hundred handers

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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.

Please Do Not Buy E-scooters for Christmas

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.


https://www.facebook.com/warwickshirepolice/posts/3734586919894391

Arley News – Winter 2020 Edition

Please click on the link below for the latest online edition of the Arley News

Warwickshire County Highways Online Fault Reporting

This is advance notification that on Wednesday 25th November, Warwickshire County Council will be changing some of our Report It forms as part of improving the customer journey.  We are replacing embedded FixMyStreet Forms with Firmstep Forms in line with other our Report It functions, which allows us to integrate with corporate systems and improve the customer experience.
Please can you check your website for any links you have to any of our Report It Forms and replace them with either of the following 2 links:
The dedicated Warwickshire County Council Highways fault reporting telephone number is remaining the same – 01926 412515
Many thanks
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