Welcome to spring 2022. Drama, social groups and community activities are all opening up and happening again. Welcome back to live murder (!) and panto. Jubilee celebrations are planned in Willow Park and you are invited to consider taking up sport: tennis or karate.

We feature activities at all of Barrow’s three churches demonstrating that whatever your faith or not, the churches still play an active part in the community. We consider a couple of alternatives for the provision of postal services for our community.

Please do take time to read the Barrow COP26 pages. We are challenging everyone this year – particularly those organising Jubilee celebrations – to think about the environment: ditch the single plastic cutlery, cups and plates and consider the carbon footprint of the food on offer.

We say goodbye to Brian Henman, who contributed so much to the village over the years, and who sadly died in January. Many people only ever met him formally, but others were lucky enough to experience his genuine kindness and wicked sense of humour. Brian will be missed by many.

Karisa Krcmar (editor)

Front cover photo by Karisa Krcmar: Sileby Road, spring 2021

Letters to the Editor

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1. Your letter is accompanied with your name and full address (we may need to contact you with a question) – you can ask for details to be withheld from print.
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