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Mountsorrel Public Library Opens

Work is complete on a new £700,000 access centre and library for the people of Mountsorrel. It opens to the public on Tuesday October 16th 2007. Funding for the new Library came from the County Council, Shire Partnership, Charnwood Borough Council and Mountsorrel Parish Council. Look out for Computer and Adult Education Classes starting soon!

2007 Garden Competition Winners

The winners of the 2007 Mountsorrel Garden Competition were presented with their prizes at a ceremony on Wednesday 10th October in the Parish Rooms. Cllr. Harold Newman presented the awards and thanked all the winners for their efforts during a difficult summer. For more details go to Garden Competition.

YOUTH GROUP

A Youth Group has started in the village. Deacon Jan Sutton and Youth Worker Ben Webb have set up the project in the Methodist Church which is open to all young people in the village. Membership is for young people aged 13 to 17 and offers a range of facilties for play, music and a range of other activities. Help is still needed. Funding is promised by the Parish Council but more money is needed to fund the full range of activities. Volunteers are urgently needed as one adult is required for each six young people. Please contact Jan Sutton on 0116 230 2538 for more details.

NATURE RESERVE - MOUNTSORREL MEADOWS

The Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust (LRWT) has just acquired a 13 hectare parcel of land adjacent to the River Soar in Mountsorrel. The reserve will be known as Mountsorrel Meadows and is on the other side of the By-pass to the Mountsorrel Marshes, which is owned by the Parish Council. The strategy of the LRWT is to manage an extensive area of the Soar Valley floodplain for the benefit of wildlife and people. The nature reserve at Cossington Meadows is nearby and will provide a much larger reserve more able to buffer the effects of adverse conditions such as prolonged dry periods than smaller ones. The LRWT's plans for the Mountsorrel Meadows involve creating a mixture of wildlife habitats such as wetland scrapes and ponds, wet woodland and grassland. Public access will be improved by the provision of public paths, kissing gates and a wildlife viewing point. For more details on the LRWT see their website at www.lrwt.org.uk.