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The Royal Norfolk Show is quite simply one of the best agricultural shows in Britain. Visiting it last Thursday, it's easy to see why. The mix of first-class livestock, rural pastimes, hi-tech machinery and special events offers something for everyone.
After welcoming HRH The Duke of York to the Show, I met with a group of Norfolk farmers at the National Farmers Union stand.
Local farmers are worried about the proposed EU sugar beet quota cuts and fear lost jobs and price cuts of up to 50%.
The NFU is taking 200 beet growers to the European Beet Rally in Brussels on 18 July to protest over the EU's reform proposals. Contact the NFU if you want to be involved.
Among many other exhibits I also visited the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association's education marquee and saw the excellent conservation display put together by pupils from Archbishop Sancroft High School in Harleston.
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Recently I presented Norfolk Gliding Club
with a certificate to mark the club's success in obtaining a
£5,000 national lottery grant from Awards for All England
to train more gliding instructors.
Gliding is a thrilling experience and I would encourage anyone to have a
go. I enjoyed my second flight from the club’s headquarters at Tibenham
Airfield, under the expert eye of Instructor Tim Davies who is
benefiting from the grant with some advanced training.
To find out more about gliding, call Norfolk Gliding Club on 01379
677207 or visit
www.ngcglide.co.uk.
Charity Sun Visors
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Mondi Packaging (formerly Bux
Corrugated) at Pulham St Mary is a respected local
employer with a big heart. The company, which has good
links with local schools, set a competition for Norfolk
schoolchildren to come up with a design for car sun
visors made from the company's corrugated card. Mondi Packaging asked me to present prizes to the winners. |
WINNERS: From left, Harleston Primary head Roger Walsh, Megan Lawn, Marilyn Walsh, Richard Bacon MP, Karen Roberts
and Sarah Chubbock of CLIC and Mondi
Packaging MD Melvyn Mabbutt, with the
winning design |
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The overall winning entry has been
printed up and 2,000 visors have been donated to the
Pulham St Mary voluntary fundraising support group of
CLIC Sargent, the UK's leading children's cancer
charity, who will sell them to boost local funds. Mondi
Packaging also gave the three winning schools handsome
cash prizes.
Overall winner Georgia Elsey of Harleston
Primary, whose design features on the visor, and joint runners
up, Dereace Guttery of Dickleburgh Primary and Rose Chubbock of
Pulham Primary, each received book tokens.
I congratulate Mondi Packaging's Managing
Director Melvyn Mabbutt and his staff on such an innovative
scheme.
▪ Need to see your MP? You can
make an appointment to see Richard by calling 01379
642769.
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