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Timely confirmation that Gala 2026 will be limited to one weekend is needed. The Gala website indicates the extension is still in the offing. GALA will return in 2026 on the following dates: Friday 22nd May Saturday 23rd May Sunday 24th May In addition, the following event days are also planned to be hosted on the event site in 2026: Bank Holiday Monday 25th May – On the Rye Festival – a free to attend, community event Friday 29th May – Afrobeats Festival Saturday 30th May – Mahrajan Festival Sunday 31st May – Festival show or Concert show *subject to licence

The events section on here isn't that big! There are presently only 20 events on there for the whole of February! It's just taken me about ten seconds to scroll through to see what's on! Also, where did you sign up for this summary email? Is it definitely coming from this forum, as I can't see it mentioned anywhere?

Early Bird discount has now ENDED But 15% sibling discounts automatically still apply - save 15% when booking in a 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc child.

There is this ‘survey’’ that started the discussions (the one with the council member suggesting the cheapest, not the best option) then of course once the order was issued (after a dubious Council process) there was the walk around and online ones with overwhelming views against the traffic order.

People could also walk around every business and ask them individually if there's any updates, but ....

CT-R has just sent me the full FOI documents (sorry, that’s Freedom of Information Request, for the uninitiated). I’m so angry, I can barely speak! It’s blatant that pressure was applied to internal departments to wave this through and that they were actively instructed to forego informal consultations stages. Apparently the Council Leader and/or others (names retracted of course) were keen to bulldoze this through without reference to those of us who actually live here and pay council tax and to ‘priortize’ it over other schemes, at haste. Rather than follow transparent processes, they went to the Council’s legal team to see how they could impose this with minimal public scrutiny and how exposed they might be if they did so. Having been told that they were treading a thin line, legally, they decided to do it anyway, presumably assuming we unwashed locals would be too stupid or apathetic to notice. I’m raging! I want to know which of our elected politicians thought that was an appropriate exercise of their public office! I’m sending the FOI response to our local Councillors and Ellie Reeves and to demand ‘WTF?!’. Unbelievable!

What was interesting from the data count from the FOI is, those streets that had speed cushions instead of full length speed bumps had both more traffic and a higher % of cars speeding. Also when speaking with people whilst gaining signatures for the petition, we agree that some measures need to be in place to stop speeding but the current solution which is also the cheapest is not it. It was a door to door signature. There was another petition online that took it to 339 signatures.

I have had disappointing deliveries from matoom too, it seems better when I've eaten in. Also they do their own deliveries if you order from their website.