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Message from Cllr Tony Denton:

A3(M) Horndean (Hampshire) Safety Barrier Replacement

Highways England will be replacing a section of safety barrier along the A3(M) northbound carriageway near Horndean, to ensure the network remains in a safe and serviceable condition. Work is scheduled to take place between Thursday 5 December and Friday 20 December 2019.

Aquind and their proposed ‘Interconnector’ cable project that would connect the UK National Grid power supply with RTE in France at Normandy has been in the background for perhaps two years now.

Image from Aquind Website http://www.aquind.co.uk

On the 14 November 2019 Aquind formally submitted the application to the Planning Inspectorate. This means that it will not be heard locally by East Hants or Winchester District Councils.

The Planning Inspectorate has 28 days to review the documents that have been submitted and confirm if the application has sufficient complete information to be considered or not. At this time the documents are not available to view but they will be if the application is registered as valid.

From briefings we understand that the final cable route that has been selected will run through Denmead, not Lovedean. The chosen location for the site is to the West of the existing substation.

HERE is a link to the Aquind application on the Planning Inspectorate website where the documents can be viewed once they are uploaded.

HERE Here is a link to the Aquind Website.

When the documents have been made publicly available there will be an update.

After 3 elections and 9 years as our Member of Parliament, Sir George Hollingbery has decided not to stand again.

George held many posts including whip, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Theresa May when she was Home Secretary and Prime Minister. His last role was Minister of State for Trade Policy.

So, The candidate selected to stand for the Conservative Party is Flick Drummond who was MP for Portsmouth South between 2015 and 2017.

About Flick Drummond

Flick was the MP for Portsmouth South between 2015-2017.

Flick is the Chair of the SE Region of the Veterans Advisory and Pension Committee, a Board member of the National Citizens Service (NCS) and Voluntary Director of the Conservative Policy Forum.

Flick was a city councillor in Winchester before she went to America in 1999-2004 where she saw the horror of 9/11 at the World Trade Centre and campaigned for John McCain. Locally, Flick was a school governor at Milton Park Primary School for 7 years and is now a trustee of the Salterns Academy which looks after Admiral Lord Nelson School and Trafalgar School.  She has been an active trustee of the Citizens Advice Portsmouth since 2010 and helps various charities in the community.

Flick set up Pompey Litter Pickers and a Small Business Forum to help local retailers and businesses. Flick helped out at the Foodbank before she was elected as an MP and worked on a project tackling homelessness in Portsmouth including setting up the Street Support website and app. Flick understands many of the issues and challenges facing local residents. She used to work as an insurance broker, Ofsted lay school inspector and was a member of the TA Intelligence Corps.

Flick lives in Southsea and is married with 4 grown up children.

You can visit Flick’s website on this link HERE

Looking ahead you might want to register for a postal vote instead to save going out on what might well be a cold wed December day and can do so on this link HERE but you must do this before 5pm on the 26th November. If you are not currently registered to vote then the deadline for this is midnight on the 26th November.

The 4 candidates standing in Meon Valley are:

• Conservative – Flick Drummond
• Labour – Matthew Bunday
• Liberal Democrat – Lewis North
• Green – Malcolm Wallace

The 2019 Remembrance service in Horndean, blessed with excellent weather, drew a record turnout with some 350 serving, veteran and uniformed organisations taking part in the parade and an audience exceeding 2,000 – the largest turnout ever. Well done to the team at Horndean Parish Council for again organising this excellent event

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The team at 4 London Road in Horndean have held their second major charity event which raised in excess of £10,038 for Rowans Hospice who are looking to raise £7.5m to transform their Waterlooville facility.

The very popular venue received significant support from their suppliers and local businesses.

The £35 ticket was donated in full as due to very generous support from the suppliers who provided all of the food for the evening with the owners of 4LR funding the staff for the evening.

Local businesses also gave generously which meant there was a ‘spin the wheel’, raffle and also auction. Some of the donors included Portsmouth Distillery, Contemplation homes, General Wine, Cummins and Pope, Molland Projects ltd and Havant and Waterlooville Football Club.

Auction items included a hot air balloon ride for 2, half day in a Rolls Royce to Goodwood, a Tank driving experience, hotel stay with dinner, champagnes and many more.

The Tank Driving and Rolls Royce auction items were donated by Horndeanmatters.com and raised over £1,000.

In addition to the sponsors, sincere thanks are due to Elio and the team for organising the event, the owners of 4LR for giving up the nights potential sales to allow it to run, and of course, the customers who came and supported the event, and donated or bid so generously for the prizes.

If you missed out and would like to support then you can still do so on this Just Giving link here.

To book a reservation at 4LR you can call them on 0239 425 1221

During World War 2 the commonwealth countries contributed large numbers of personnel to the war effort. 464 Squadron – also known as The Gestapo Hunters who were tasked with bombing strategic targets well behind enemy lines – was based at Thorney Island. RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) Pilot Officers Edward Wicky and Oswald Mountford were flying a Mosquito back from an operation and trying to land in exceptionally poor weather.

While trying to land at Thorney Island, they flew over Horndean and, at a very low altitude, clipped the roof of the old Horndean Parish Hall which were then located on the end of Five Heads Road, damaging the roof. Within a few hundred metres they had flown over the Red Lion and crashed in the fields along Havant Road, sadly killing the pilot and Co-Pilot who were believed to have been fighting the damaged aircraft to avoid hitting any buildings and loss of civilian life at the expense of their own.

Photo – Horndean Parish Hall following the crash

Photo – The WW2 Horndean Parish Council officeswhich were at the end of Five Heads Road.

Over the last twelve years, a group of local residents who remember the incident (sadly now only a handful remain) have been looking to fund and install a memorial dedicated to the two pilots. This is especially important as they are not recorded anywhere else in the village, including on our own War memorial.

Cllr Sara Schillemore, who helped with the project to restore the war memorial in the village square, has given this project much support over the last few years and has been able to secure the much of the £26,000 needed to fund the project.

Hampshire County Council and their Highways contractor Skanska did the groundworks for free.

S106 funding worth £10,000 was allocated to the project.

Fullers donated £2,000 with a further £8,000 raised by public subscription including significant sums from the local Masons organisations.

The final £6,000 to make the project viable was donated by Nolan Bird, a local businessman who also made a significant contribution to the Horndean War memorial restoration project a few years ago.

Over the next few weeks the memorial will be completed with planting and some benches with a formal dedication service on the 4th February 2020 which will be the 75th anniversary of the incident. It is hoped some members of the family will be able to make it for the ceremony.

The Prime Minister has today recognised Allen Parton, from Clanfield, for his exceptional service founding ‘Hounds for Heroes’, a charity which provides specially trained assistance dogs for disabled veterans and emergency services personnel, which he established in memory of his service dog, Endal, who helped him recover physically and emotionally after a traumatic injury in the Gulf War.

Allen suffered severe memory loss and was left unable to walk, speak or write, spending five years in hospital. Through Endal, he was able to rebuild confidence and his relationships with his wife and children, with Endal capable of responding to over a hundred commands to provide Allen with support, including reacting to an emergency in 2001 when Allen was knocked out of his wheelchair by a speeding car and left unconscious in a car park. Following this, Allen realised how transformational assistance dogs could be for disabled members of the Armed Forces and Emergency Services and set up ‘Hounds for Heroes’ to provide this service. The charity runs an intensive two year training course for puppies, and since 2011 has achieved 15 successful placements.

Allen is the latest recipient of the Points of Light award, which recognises outstanding volunteers who are making a change in their community and inspiring others. Each day, someone, somewhere in the country is selected to receive the award to celebrate their remarkable achievements. Allen received his award at the Houses of Parliament today from his local MP, Sir George Hollingbery KCMG, alongside his two assistance dogs EJ (Endal Junior) and Rookie.

In a personal letter to Allen, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said:

“I know you do this with no thought of praise or reward, but allow me to offer my own recognition of how you are paying tribute to the memory of Endal by training assistance dogs for other veterans, helping them to rebuild their lives as you bravely did. Our Armed Forces do so much on our behalf and I thank you for all that you do to honour our selfless veterans.”

Sir George Hollingbery KCMG, MP for Meon Valley, said:

“I am very pleased Allen’s tremendous work with Hounds for Heroes has been recognised by this much deserved award. To sustain injuries in conflict but then, through real determination, set up a charity making such a big difference is a wonderful achievement.”

Allen said:

“I am so incredibly humbled and honoured to have been nominated for a Points of Light award. I am though constantly reminded to look over my shoulder at those who have supported me over the years and made my dreams and visions the reality they are today. The message that comes out of awards such as this is “that folk really do care” and from where I sit that is such a powerful message to receive, I salute you all!”

Allen is the 1262nd winner of the Points of Light award, which has been developed in partnership with the hugely successful Points of Light programme in the USA. Over 6,000 Points of Light have been awarded in the USA, and former Presidents have publicly supported the partnership with Points of Light UK. There is a similar cross-party approach to the UK programme and MPs from different parties often present their constituents with their Points of Light awards.

Regardless of whether it’s a doctor restoring local monuments in her free time, a father teaching young people life skills, or a local musician giving a voice to lonely people, the Points of Light award honours shining examples of volunteering across the UK.