Category: News

A message from Slingsby Local History Group:-

Did you take part in the RSPB Big Garden Bird watch this year, or can you tell us about birds and  mammals which regularly visit your garden or that that you have seen this year around the village?

If so, please can you make a list and let us know what you have seen, or let us have your RSPB list so we can compile an up to date record of birds and  mammals that are seen in our gardens or elsewhere around the village on footpaths and in fields.

As part of our current project ‘Entertaining Slingsby’ we hope to update records which started well before the First World War.

The lists were most recently properly updated by the late Dr Michael Thompson in the Millennium History of Slingsby. Michael also kept us regularly updated in the Street Parishes Newsletter with bird and other wildlife sightings.

Fifteen years on from the Millennium History we want to know if we still have as great a variety of wild creatures around the village, and to see if there are newcomers.

We know from website postings last year that the barn owl population in the village had a particularly good year. What of other types of owl for example?

If you live in Slingsby, South Holme or Fryton and can help with this information please can you e-mail your list to the Group before the 29th March?

mailto:[email protected]

Balksyde after the snowfall | Photo by Neil Marshall

The beginning of February saw snow arrive in Slingsby though it didn’t last long. This month’s Photo of the Month comes from Neil Marshall who captured a beautiful shot of the rising sun coming through the trees after the snowfall.

A great photo Neil. Many thanks for sending it in.

Do you have a great photograph you’d like to share with us?

If you’d like to submit an image for the photo of the month slot, you can send it to [email protected]

More details about how to submit photographs can be found HERE

Malton Post Office is to close for two weeks for a major revamp.

The branch will be shut from 5.30pm on Tuesday 17 February to 1pm on Tuesday 3 March.
Post office services will be available during the closure from the branch in Beverley Road, Norton.
Slingsby residents will be able to use the mobile post office as normal (weekdays, excluding Tuesdays). The regular timetable can be viewed on the village website HERE.

The Gazette and Herald has more on the modernisation of the Malton branch here:
http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/11754328.Refurbishment_for_Malton_Post_Office/

An important message sent by Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and internet crime 
A lottery scam takes place when criminals pretend that you have won a prize, often a lottery. The people most likely to fall victim to this tend to be over the age of 60 (although younger people do fall victim too) – but we know that it is often close family members of victims who spot the tell-tale signs of the fraud.

Criminals will normally get in touch by letter or email and will try to engage you into dialogue with them. Once they have convinced you that they are “genuine”, they will ask for a fee to be paid to release your winnings. This fee could be to pay taxes or duty, or for a solicitor, banker or judge to authorise the transaction. NO GENUINE LOTTERY WILL EVER ASK FOR ANY SORT OF FEE TO BE PAID.

Often this first fee will be small, but once they know you are willing to pay it they will ask for more and more money, with ever-changing excuses as to why they need it. Victims can end up losing tens of thousands of pounds over the course of months or even years.

Many of you reading will be surprised that this type of crime takes place. After all, why would anyone fall prey to scam like this when they never entered any such lottery in the first place? Why would they have to pay money when they are supposed to have won millions of pounds? The sad truth is that these criminals are incredibly persuasive and prey on people who are very trusting. Therefore, even if you know that you would not get defrauded like this, please spread this message widely to friends, family and to people within your community.

Prevention:

• If you have not entered a lottery or a prize draw, you have not won it.
• Delete any emails which detail you winning money or being in a position to make a fortune
• Spread the message amongst people you come into contact with, especially older people in your family, and look out for any unusual behaviour, for instance someone paying money via money service bureaux, like Western Union or MoneyGram, or buying Ukash vouchers.