Safer Nights Live Police event

We will be hosting Safer Nights Live tomorrow night live on the Leigh Facebook page, just use the tab on the left hand of the facebook page to set a reminder or view this event. These events tend to be really interesting, this is what the police say:

Staffordshire Police is going to be giving the public an insight into the challenges of policing the county’s nightlife by taking part in an on-line event on websites and Facebook tomorrow night.

Safer Nights Live is the latest social media engagement initiative organised by the force and is aimed at showing the behaviour the police deal with every week as part of the Safer Nights operations.

Earlier this year Staffordshire Police gave people an insight into a night ‘Behind Bars’ when members of the community were able to follow the events in the Northern Area Custody Facility (NACF) on a busy Friday night. This event was recently praised by the independent ‘Econsultancy’ agency when it listed the top 11 social media campaigns of 2011.

Tomorrow’s event will be hosted on the Staffordshire Police website and the force’s Facebook site, and local media will have the opportunity to also host the event on their own sites and it can also be viewed on community sites (such as the Leigh Facebook page). Some of the updates will be published on the force’s Twitter accounts linked to the hash tag #safernightslive so that people out on the town can feed in comments about their experience.

If you have any problems connecting to the live feed, you can link directly to it here or post a message on the facebook page and we will attempt to assist you a soon as we possibly can.

BACON BUTTY MORNING - November

Saturday 12th November 2011

Church Leigh Village Hall

10am - Midday

Here`s a way to start the weekend, a Bacon Butty with your mates. So pop along to the Village Hall for a tasty Bacon Sandwich with a cup of tea.

A STRANGE STORY OF CHARLES BLOOD OF LEIGH, STAFFORDSHIRE

This is a superb story discovered and retold by Janet Willldig, a Genealogist and Family Tree Researcher, on Google+ . . . . . .

A STRANGE STORY OF CHARLES BLOOD OF LEIGH, STAFFORDSHIRE IN 1909

What was at first supposed to be a case of premature burial has caused a great sensation in the North Staffordshire village of Leigh. Mr Charles Blood of Bent's farm, Leigh who was 65 years of age in 1909 and was buried in the village churchyard, the cause of death being certified as heart trouble. After the funeral service the mourners dispersed, leaving Edward Alcock, the sexton, his brother Henry, the undertaker and a few youths beside the grave. The brothers commenced to fill in the grave, and had about half finished their task when they heard distinct raps coming apparently from the excavation. To those present the noise sounded like taps on the coffin lid, muffled by the covering of earth. Eagerly those around the grave listened. Again came the mysterious rapping, and shouting out "The mans alive". Edward Alcock flung down his spade and rushed for a doctor. The others set to in feverish haste to throw the earth from the grave again, and when Edward Alcock returned with the doctor the coffin was, soon raised and -carried into the church, where the undertaker unscrew ed the lid.

The doctor made an examination of the body and declared there were no signs of life. He expressed the opinion that life was extinct when the body was placed in the coffin. The undertaker- said: "When I took the lid off I found things were as when I screwed it down with the exception that the hands, which had been place placed on the abdomen, where forced against the-lid." He suggested that natural processes caused this, and also the tappings. ''The taps," said the sexton to an interviewer, "sounded as if someone was knocking on an empty box. I heard about twenty taps in all. The noise was rather loud at first, but gradually got fainter. I have buried hundreds of bodies but have never known such a strange occurrence.'

"A curious part about the whole affair," said the undertaker, "was that after we got the coffin back into the grave the sounds were repeated, but, of course, we were convinced they did not proceed from the inside of the coffin.

He refused to believe the theory, that the noise' was caused by earth falling on the coffin. It was too regular.




You can find Janet's post on Google+ and follow her here or look up @yrteesearcher on twitter.

BACON BUTTY MORNING

Saturday 15th October 2011

Church Leigh Village Hall

10am - Midday

Pop in for a tasty Bacon Sandwich with a cup of tea and a chat with friends. What a way to start the weekend.

Police Surgery

17th September 2011

2pm-3pm

Church Leigh Post Office/Shop

PC Richard Boulter

If you have any concerns or just want to meet your local member of the police team, come to the Village Shop/Post Office this Saturday.

Neighbourhood Watch

If any one would like to join the On-line Watch link (OWL) or any Watch Scheme (Neighbourhood, Farm, Post Office etc) contact me or Neighbourhood Watch direct.

Sarah Hunt
PCSO 8884 .
Voicemail:0300 123 2345 Ex 08884
Mobile: 07815 966 340

E-mail:

Sarah.Hunt@staffordshire.pnn.police.uk

PCSO Sarah Hunt

Hello,

I would like to take this opportunity to introduces myself. I have recently (around April) moved from Uttoxeter to become your local Police Community Support Officer based here at Abbots Bromley. For the last fours years I was based on the town centre but as a position became available in Abbots Bromley I took the opportunity and look forward to different challenges ahead and working with community.

You can contact me for any issues/concerns you have via my e mail or numbers below.

Sarah Hunt

PCSO 8884 for Abbots Bromley, Draycott in the Clay, Marchington, Bramshall and Leigh areas.
Voicemail: 0300 123 2345 Ex 08884
Mobile: 07815 966 340