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Worth Way Closure – Update
The closure will be in place from this Friday 11th August. In order to have the route reopened by 4th September in time for the start of term there may well be some weekend working as well.
Notices will be posted at either end of the closed section with an alternate route, please note that for cyclists and equestrians this will involve some road riding.
Royal London Cup – East Grinstead CC Quarter Final Winners
On a glorious sunny day East Grinstead 1st XI hosted Bath CC in their quarter final match of the ECB national cup. With a good crowd at Saint Hill, EG won the toss and elected to bat. Openers Adkin (86) and Hatchett (49) got the team off to the perfect start putting on 106 for the first wicket. This was before Hatchett was LBW to the impressive T.Hankins (2-39). Hudson-Prentice came and went in the same fashion leaving EG on 119-2. Graham (35) then joined Adkin and the two of them put on a valuable 63 run partnership for the third wicket. Graham was the next batsman to go LBW to Green (3-25). Sturmer (23) came to the crease and increased the scoring rate with some well timed 4’s before Adkin was caught by the keeper off a top edge for a well made (86)
EG lost a quick flurry of wickets at the end but ended on a competitive 221-7 off their 45 overs.
In reply EG were looking for early wickets and that’s exactly what they got. Lewis Hatchett (2-15) removed both openers, Campbell (9) and Ackland (2) both caught behind by keeper Heppell. Sturmer (2-31) then removed Hankins caught and bowled for (6). At 21-3 in was the best possible start for EG and Bath needed to rebuild. Thankfully for them that’s exactly what Muchall (32) and Benton (27) did. Once again the spin pairing of Hatchett (2-34) and Graham (2-30) provided some tight overs in the middle of the innings and were rewarded with wickets. Hatchett broke the partnership having Muchall LBW before Graham had Mount (8) out in the same fashion. Graham also then picked up Benton caught at cover and Bath once again needed to rebuild at 99-6. Padgett (38) gave some late order resistance and alongside Davies (12) took Bath up to 136-7. Brad Hatchett then came back into the attack and struck taking the wicket of Davies bowled. Lee Granger then bowled an inspired one over to remove the set Padgett and EG were on the home stretch. Returning seam bowlers Hudson-Prentice (1-26 )and Sturmer returned to bowl the late overs and both picked up a wicket each. Bath finished all out for 177 giving EG a winning victory of 44 runs.
EG move onto the semi-final where they will play Wanstead and Snaresbrook CC.
East Grinstead Play Day
Lest We Forget
IN a regular feature on the Town Council website, we will be remembering, on the anniversary of their deaths, the East Grinstead soldiers who died during WWI, and who are named on the High Street War Memorial.
This month we recall (as recorded on The Roll of Honour website):
Sydney BURCHETT
Private G/5411 9th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment. 24th Division.
Killed in action near Ypres 8.8.17. Aged 24.
Son of Ezekiel and Anne Burchett of North End, Felbridge. Employed locally as a groom. Born in East Grinstead and enlisted in Brighton.
Included on Felbridge Parish Church War Memorial. Commemorated on The Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium MR. 29
Frederick ELPHICK
Lance Corporal 31236 The Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) No 61 Company.
Died of wounds 8. 8.17. Age 20.
Son of Frederick James and Amelia Elphick of”The Lodge” Barton St. Mary, East Grinstead. Born and enlisted in East Grinstead. Formerly with the Royal Sussex Regiment.
Buried Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belg. B.16.
Herbert Frederick LEPPARD
Guardsman 6982 3rd Battalion, The Coldstream Guards. The Guards Division.
Killed in action 30. 8.17. Aged 29.
Son of William and Elizabeth Leppard of 5, Carlton Cottages, Wellington Town Road, East Grinstead. Born and enlisted in East Grinstead.
Buried Bluet Farm Cemetery, Belgium B.13
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EGCC Cricket Report
Well done EGCC!
A talk on Guinea Pig Club – Rebuilding Bodies & Souls
At the Swan Mead Activity Centre, Queens Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex. RH19 1BE
A talk on Guinea Pig Club – Rebuilding Bodies & Souls
By members of the East Grinstead Museum
Thursday 3 August 2017 at 11.00 am
Age UK Outings and Events 2017
GP Services – Extended Access Survey 2017
Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) plan and buy healthcare services for the local population in your area.
National funding is available from 2018 to improve access to GP services. This includes ensuring that everyone has more convenient access to GP services, including a mixture of same day and routine appointments, on weekday evenings after 6.30pm, and at weekends based on local needs. This piece of work is known as ‘delivering extended access to GP services’.
As local CCGs we are currently considering how best to deliver extended access in your area so that it meets the needs of our population; is affordable and is realistically deliverable within the budget we have been allocated to provide this additional service. There is a national and local shortage of GPs and other clinicians who work in general practice. This means that extended access services could be provided at a venue other than your own surgery and that you may not see your own GP or even a GP from your usual practice. Should that GP need to access your medical records, your consent will be sought when you book the appointment.
The CCGs would like to find out more about your views on extending access to GP services in the evenings and at weekends.
By completing the survey you have the opportunity to tell us:
- How likely you are to access GP appointments in the evenings and weekends.
- The kind of services you might want to use in the evenings and weekends.
- Whether you would consider alternatives to face to face consultations.
In deciding what level of extended access provision is needed for the local population, the CCGs will consider the responses to this survey, alongside evidence of how GP appointments are currently used; current levels of usage of other services during extended access periods such as GP Out-of-Hours, A&E and local urgent treatment centres/minor injuries units. We will also look at intelligence from neighbouring CCGs on their experience of delivering extended access and nationally available evidence where these approaches have been piloted. All of this information will help to inform how extended access is provided in your local area.
The survey will take around 5 minutes to complete and is anonymous.
http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/GPExtendedAccessSurvey