Littleport Rotary Club — Update

Posted on 8th December 20168th December 2016 by watchthedot

Another highly successful Race Night —A Family Charity Social Evening, was held at the Littleport Village Hall on Friday 7th Oct We raised £2000 for Rotary causes Littleport Rotary have been engaged in providing some 50,000 Crocuses which have been planted by Rotarians & school children in Littleport and Little Downham Thousands of primary and secondary school pupils were planting the purple crocus bulbs in October as part of a project by Rotary International in…

Martin School Reunion 50 years on

Posted on 8th December 201627th November 2016 by Linda Barker

We held a school reunion on Saturday June 18 2016 at the Royal British Legion, Littleport. (The Ex-Servicemen’s Club) Having had a reunion for the class of ‘66 in 2001 we decided to this time extend the invite to other years either side of ours. There was a very good response and former pupils of the Martin School took great delight in meeting each other and meeting three of their teachers. Mr Harrold Partridge who…

Littleport Town FC Optimistic About The New Season

Posted on 8th December 201627th November 2016 by Cathy Gibb

We are already into the new footie season, and no we are not talking about the elite of the professional world alias Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United and City, Arsenal or Chelsea et al, but none other than our local amateur side Littleport Town FC who everyone should come and support down at the Leisure Centre’s playing field. They are a hard-working and hard tackling side who give their all, and don’t command obscene amounts…

Wrestling for charity

Posted on 8th December 201627th November 2016 by Alex Knowles

Little Miracles is an award winning Cambridgeshire and Suffolk based charity and parent led support group for families with children that have autism, additional needs, disabilities and life limiting conditions. We are based in Ely and put on weekly sessions every Saturday for our members. We offer different themed sessions with a sports hall, sensory room, cinema room, arts and crafts room, general toys/ play room and a quiet room to mention a few. Themes…

The Vine Fellowship “Evidence That Demands A Verdict”

Posted on 8th December 201627th November 2016 by Littleport Life

As well as being the title of a book by Josh McDowell, this statement is very relevant for those of us who have been doing the Alpha course at the Vine Community Church. In our second session we learnt from a barrister, Nicky Gumbel, how we can trust the documents that make up the New Testament as reliable accounts of historical events that took place around 2000 years ago. Nicky pointed to sources outside the…

New Taxi Firm in Littleport!

Posted on 8th December 20168th December 2016 by Littleport Life

It’s always nice to hear about new businesses and services in the village – and to include any extra information about them that comes to light! Well, the new taxi service in Littleport run by David Allen is one such. When someone needed to be conveyed to Littleport Village Hall from Chettisham on a Thursday night to attend the Spiritualist meeting there, this taxi firm came up trumps! The fare in question was disabled curate,…

Littleport Lions

Posted on 8th December 20168th December 2016 by Littleport Life

We are looking forward to Christmas and one of our events is Breakfast With Santa at The Almonry, Ely on 22nd, 23rd and 24th Dec. Tickets are selling out fast so go to our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ breakfastwithsanta2016), our website (www.e-clubhouse.org/sites/littleport), email breakfastwithsanta1@yahoo. co.uk, or phone David & Jenny Ellis 01353 664318 / 07817 592438 to book your children’s places. Children must be accompanied by an adult. The cost is Adults £3.50 and Children £6.50….

Baynur’s Tattoo Parlour’s award winning artist

Posted on 8th December 20168th December 2016 by Littleport Life

Beynur’s Tattoo Studio in Main Street continues to pick up accolades in their popular and fashionable profession. For the second year running their talented young apprentice, Laura Weller, added to her ‘2015 The People’s Choice Award’ won in London at the Great British Tattoo Show, with the ‘2016 Best Black Work Award’ at Cambridge’s First International Convention, which Laura modestly felt she was “lucky to win”. Proprietor Beynur, a superb innovative tattooist himself, happened to…

Community Spirit in Littleport!

Posted on 8th December 201610th March 2017 by Littleport Life

ThePort youth group celebrated its 1st year of providing a wonderful service to the youth of Littleport last August! Almost 800 people turned out to support the day, a £1000 plus fund-raiser for ThePort organised by Joanne Coe. They continue to meet regularly every week to give youngsters some old-fashioned sociable fun.

A Christmas Message from St John’s Methodist Church

Posted on 8th December 20168th December 2016 by Rev Joanne Sherwood

My late Mum was a genius at cryptic crosswords and had an extraordinary gift for numbers. I too love word puzzles but alas did not inherit a head for maths, my sister Alison got rather more of those genes I think. Acrostic poems and puzzles are an ancient literary device in which the first letter of each line spells out a word or phrase. Acrostics were used in the Bible’s Old Testament particularly in the…

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