Road Closure Monday 15th-Friday 26th September
⚠️ Early warning! The A52 will be closed at night both directions between Barrowby and Bingham from Monday 15th-Friday 26th September – between 8pm and 6am.
👷 It’s for National Highways to make drainage improvements, inspect safety barriers, sweep the road, clear vegetation and cut the grass.
🗺️ Here’s their suggested diversion ⬇️
OPC Meeting June 2025 Cancelled
The OPC meeting in June has been cancelled due to councillor’s being unavailable. There will be no meeting in June (originally scheduled for 25th) and the next meeting will be on Wednesday 30th July.
Orston Primary School – Governor Vacancies
Do you care about children’s education and have ever wondered how you could be involved? Becoming a school governor enables members of our local community help the passionate educators at Orston Primary provide the best learning environment. The school has started the process of joining a local academy so it is an exciting time to join the team. The Governing body should have a spread of skills and experience to ensure the school team is supported in the widest way and candidates don’t need to have a connection with the school. If becoming a governor is of interest please get in touch for more information.
Contact: nikki.crosby@orston.notts.sch.uk
Express Interest By: 30th April 2025
Proposed Telecommunications Site – Station Road Orston
If you have any views on the attached proposal then please email Wendy Wakefield clerk@orstonparish.co.uk by Wednesday 5th Feb in order to consult with the company on the 6th.
Cornerstone and the operator are in the process of identifying a new radio base station site to address network deficits in problem coverage areas and ‘Not Spots’ (an Ofcom term that Local Planning Authorities and Councils will be familiar with), i.e. areas where mobile signal is too weak and where network users suffer dropped call, poor connectivity and buffering. This matter is particularly important in more remote and rural communities where mobile coverage may be limited. Following the refusal of an initial proposal, as dealt with under planning reference 19/01756, the area has been revisited by the operator in the hope of identifying a more acceptable solution. However, the same conclusion has been reached in that a street furniture style base station along Station Road strikes the best available balance between operational and planning considerations.
Delivery Scam Text and Email Messages
Scam texts
In the run up to Christmas and now with the January sales many of us are expecting parcel deliveries. Scammers are fully aware of this and use it to their financial advantage. Scam texts claiming to be from companies such as Evri are currently on the rounds. However, all are sent from random, likely “spoofed” mobile numbers (see October bulletin).
All of these messages tell you that something is preventing your package from being delivered to you.
The reasons given for a failed delivery include ‘incomplete address information’, ‘package damage’, ‘missing postal code’, ‘the delivery address not being clear’ and ‘insufficient postage paid’.
All of the messages include “phishing” links which lead to malicious websites that ask for your personal and payment information. Some of the links use a short URL generator to mask the real URLs of the dodgy websites and others lead to a QR code which, if scanned, can download malware to your device.
Scam delivery emails
These emails impersonate companies such as Evri and UPS. They aim to trick you into visiting malicious websites to hand over personal and financial information.
The emails included claims that your ‘delivery’ wasn’t possible and try to get you to follow a link to ‘confirm your shipping details,’ or to ‘reschedule a redelivery’ because you weren’t in.
Avoiding and reporting scam delivery messages
The safest way to track a delivery is to check the tracking information in your order confirmation email, or visit the official website of the delivery company. Do not follow links in messages.
You can report these scams by forwarding suspicious emails to report@phishing.gov.uk. Scam texts can be reported by forwarding them to 7726 and dodgy websites can be reported to the National Cyber Security Centre.
If you become the victim of a scam, call your bank immediately using the number on the back of your bank card and report it to Action Fraud.
Orston Open Gardens
Our village has a rich tradition of fine gardens and beautifully maintained public spaces. We have taken a 7 year break from organising Orston Open Gardens but feel we are blessed with so many wonderful gardeners that we want to refresh the activity.
St Mary’s Church, Orston plans to organise the next open gardens event in mid June next year.
We would love to have a wide range of gardens from courtyard to parkland, from formal to informal, from gardens made for entertaining to child friendly gardens. You may have opened your garden before or be opening yours for the first time – we would love to hear from you!
Please contact Patrick Newton (07979075741 or patrick@mulhouse.co.uk) if you would consider opening your garden. Dates and further details will be announced in January.
Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal
Orston and District Royal British Legion would like to give a huge thank you to everyone who has supported this year’s Poppy Appeal. Thanks to the local businesses that have hosted boxes for people to purchase. This year’s total currently stands at over £1700 with more still to come in!
If anyone is interested in volunteering for next year’s appeal please contact Nicola Payne – email npayne@hotmail.co.uk or call 07828538407