There were medals galore for young boxers from Phoenix ABC who recently took part in a prestigious regional tournament.
The youngsters earned two golds and two silvers for the Burton Road club at the East Midlands Box Cup in Grantham.
More than 400 boxers took part in the three-day tournament with finalists being awarded gold and silver.
Current national junior champion and Phoenix ABC fighter Sinead Willbye, 14, boxed in the final against Tilly Hymers, of Guildford City ABC.
This turned out to be one the best and most talked about contests of the day with both boxers giving their all.
After three hard-fought rounds, Sinead was declared winner by a unanimous decision and was awarded the gold medal.
15-year-old Lyas Smith 15 was also in fine form over the weekend, winning by unanimous decision in the quarters and semis.
In the final he took on local rival Jack Smith of Bad Boys ABC in Clifton.
Lyas was much shorter and boxed a very smart fight, moving in and out to Jack miss before landing his own shots.
Lyas was declared the winner by unanimous decision and awarded the gold medal.
14-year-old Paddy Smith took on Diljah Singh of Islington ABC from London.
Both boxers were evenly matched and the bout was a real chess match.
After three rounds, Singh was named victor after a split decision in a very close contest. Paddy was awarded the sliver medal.
Darragh Walsh, 13, took on Cole Weston of Ingles Gym in Sheffield.
Again another closely matched contest with both boxers giving everything. Weston was declared the winner by split decision and Darragh was awarded the sliver medal.
There is a theory used in counselling which states that we decide how our life will turn out by the age of seven.
We make self-limiting decisions in childhood in the interest of survival. This plan is called a life script, as it’s a story we have made up for us on how life will be.
Children brought up in the same environment will make different life script decisions. Although, initially it’s a conscious story it soon becomes unconscious and so becomes natural and our normality. It’s based on what we learn from the adults in our lives very early on in our childhood and how and what they communicate both verbally and implied.
By the time we are four years old we have the basic essential details in place, and by the age of seven all the main and important details have been created.
Then for about five years, until we are twelve, we polish our script up and add characters which are both the heroes and villains. Finally, we the spend ten years looking for experiences that reinforce our script and prove us right.
Our life plan
is complete (beginning, middle and end) and will be directed towards a payoff, which
is either good or bad, based on messages from our parents or parental figures
on how we will end up or what they attribute to us like ‘you are naughty’ or ‘you
are useless like your dad’.
It’s now
completely outside of our awareness, and the only way we would have any clue
about it is through our dreams or if we have therapy. We redefine our reality
to fit the script and create our own frame of reference and bearing in mind
that four-year olds don’t make the same kind of decisions as adults, you can
image how our realities can be distorted.
As you wrote this script as a child, you can re-write it, so how would your life story look if you could change it?
Although there
are many types of life scripts and everyone will be different, we can split
them in to four types –
Until
– this means we can never be happy until we have…or life begins at 40, but when
we get there it may be 50
After
–there is always a price to pay for everything, we cannot be too happy as
something bad will happen after
Always
– the generalisation that we always will be the one to suffer or win
Never
– this one is when we know we will never get what we want, we will never
succeed or fail
Almost
– we almost make it; we can see what we want we can only get close to it never
obtain it
Our life script therefore limits our freedom, takes away our
free will and we don’t know about it. It’s just how life is – we all know the
‘life is always hard’ kind of person.
PICTURED: Local counsellor Elaine Bond
So, what are the messages we get that create our life script
so early in our lives? These are called injunctions and there are lots of them.
They start when we are pre-verbal, and these are often implied by adult’s
behaviour towards us and not said outright. We often get more than one that
forms the basis of your script
Don’t be – we hear messages like ‘I’ll kill you’, ‘I wish I’d not had you’ or we develop this injunction as a child after hearing that our birth has caused trauma or upset. Sometimes the adult feels deprived of attention or love and blames us. We end up with a script that makes us feel worthless, useless, and unloved.
Don’t be who you are – we know that the adults in our lives wanted someone different as child, being told ’I wish I’d had a boy not a girl’ or we have a favoured sibling. Or we are compared to some other child who is felt to be better than us or the ideal non-existent child. As adults we may struggle with who we are or where we belong in life.
Don’t be a child – The adults in our lives feel threatened by having a child in the family, an adult feels ‘there is only room for one kid in this house and it’s me’. We feel like we can only stay if we act like a grown up. Or If we are an only child and the adults argue we know there is only us here, so we are the cause and we better grow up and be good, similarly the eldest child takes responsibility for their siblings when the adults don’t. This makes us awkward adults who can’t loosen up and have fun.
Don’t grow up – when the adults in our lives do not want to let go of having a child in the family , they get their value from us as children, or it can be that we are victims of being told ‘don’t leave me’ on a regular basis, or we are carers for the adults as a child. This can sometimes lead to us to be helpless or infantile as adults.
Don’t be important – the message is given that we will be tolerated only if we do not have any wants or needs. As adults we turn into people pleasers, we sacrifice ourselves for others and often do not even know what we want or need.
Don’t be close – the adults in our lives rarely touch or show affection, or feelings are not spoken about in our family. Our script will have us constantly looking for any signs of rejection, and we will test a relationship to destruction. We can’t trust people and we often end up saying ‘I told you so’ as we destroy yet another relationship.
There are more and each one will
present itself differently depending on our parents, family and upbringing, but
they all create our life script.
A good way to start to identify your life script is to write your lifeline, by getting a large piece of paper and draw a line for each decade.Then plot by age the significant events, losses, relationship and themes in your life.
You can often pick up patterns from this, repeating issues, the roles you have played and messages you received. You can try observing yourself and reveal the beliefs that you hear yourself repeating all the time that cause you to make certain choices. (life is hard, why bother I won’t get it right, if it’s not perfect why bother…)
Look for recurring patterns relating to your beliefs, desires and decisions.
As you wrote this script as a
child, you can re-write it, so how would your life story look if you could
change it? Write it out and look at what’s stopping you, what’s helpful in
current life script and what is not? You can now re-write your childhood script
as an adult with much more knowledge that you had at four years old!
This is not an easy process and means facing up to things that were difficult in our childhoods, things that were missing or adults who made mistakes in our lives. We often need help to go through that process and I recommend counselling or the help of a good friend/partner to start this process.
The report describes the Head Teacher ‘as an effective leader’ and that pupils respond well to the school’s values of ‘Confidence, Hope, Understanding, Respect, Community, Honesty’ (CHURCH).
Classrooms are described as having ‘a positive atmosphere for learning’ with teachers planning and delivering ‘interesting lessons that motivate pupils’, within a curriculum that, ‘ensures that pupils successfully develop knowledge, skills and interest in a broad range of subjects as they move through the school.’
Pupils at the school told inspectors that they ‘feel safe in school and know that the staff will listen to them and act in their best interests.’
The report had glowing remarks concerning all children, highlighting that by year 6 they are well prepared for the next stage of their education and that pupils ‘talk with enthusiasm about their work in subjects such as science, history and religious education’.
It added that ‘the skills pupils show in their art and design and in music highlight the good quality of learning in these areas of the curriculum.’
Head Teacher at the school, Heather Gabb, said she is delighted with the inspection result.
PICTURED: Children from Burntstump Academy celebrate their recent ‘Good’ rating from Ofsted
She said: “We were thrilled with the overall judgement of Good and especially pleased with so many incredibly positive comments.
“The staff and children all work so hard and make this school a caring and joyful place for children to receive the best educational opportunities on offer. This has been reflected in the fantastic feedback we have received, and we will use this as a springboard to seek out and implement further improvements wherever we can, and with the best interests of children at the heart of all of our decision making.”
Chief Executive Officer of the Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham Multi-Academy Trust, Chris Moodie said, “The inspection report really does capture Burntstump Seely very accurately. It has been a great pleasure to witness the improvements in the academy under Heather Gabb’s leadership.
“The pupils clearly enjoy coming to this wonderful academy – situated in a unique and idyllic setting in a country park. I know that Heather and her team have worked incredibly hard and I also know that they are now looking forward to the future and making Burntstump an outstanding academy.”
The Ofsted report did recommend a number of improvements the school could make.
It said Burntstump should now focus on improving attendance, creating greater challenge to the most able pupils, and raising attainment further with improvements to KS1 & 2 handwriting, spelling, punctuation and grammar skills.
A ‘lifeline’ bus service for Arnold residents has been saved by a community transport service.
Local bus operator CT4N, part of Nottingham Community Transport, has stepped in to replace part of a Locallink bus route due to be withdrawn from 24th June.
Part of the L11 route, between Bulwell and Arnold, is due to be axed as part of a package of cost savings by Nottingham City Council.
But now CT4N will launch a new commercial service to cover this route from June 24.
PICTURED: CT4N Managing Director Ian Combellack, left, who has also helped launch a new service in Calverton
The new ‘Shopper’ S11 will run from Bulwell to Arnold via Bulwell Morrisons, Top Valley Tesco and Arnold Sainsburys, also extending to Mapperley Plains and Mapperley shops, running hourly during the Monday to Friday daytime.
The S11 also serves Norwich Gardens and Sandhurst Road in Bulwell, providing new links to Tesco and Arnold.
The current L11 school journeys serving Christ the
King School in Arnold will also be covered by the new S11.
CT4N managing director, Ian Combellack, said: “We are thrilled that again, we are able to step in and replace these vitally important local bus services that were due to be withdrawn.
“These routes provide a lifeline for many people as it is their only way to access local shopping facilities.”
Last year CT4N launched a new Shopper service taking residents from Lowdham, Calverton, Woodborough and Lambley to Arnold town centre on Mondays and Morrisons at Netherfield on Wednesdays and Fridays.
They also launched a service from Bestwood Village to Bulwell and Morrisons as part of a drive to keep local communities and villages connected with town centres and supermarkets.
Police have said a 23-year-old man who was arrested in connection with a firearms discharge in Arnold has been released under investigation.
Detective Inspector Steve Wragg, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “Enquiries are continuing and we would urge anyone who saw the incident or has any information, to contact the force.
“People can contact us on 101 quoting incident 320 of 8 June 2019, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.”
NCT can now serve parts of Lambley and Woodborough on Sky Blue 46, 47, but not as circular routes:
Sky Blue 46 from Nottingham will operate through to Woodborough (St Swithun’s Church) then continue along Main Street to use Dover Beck Drive to turnaround and return back along Main Street and Bank Hill to resume normal route to Nottingham.
Sky Blue 47 from Nottingham will operate along Spring Lane into Lambley as far as The Lambley PH then turn left Catfoot Lane (full length), left Mapperley Plains to resume normal route.
Earlier closures of Arnold Front Street have been lifted and buses in this area are following their normal route.
Any further disruption to services will be posted at https://www.nctx.co.uk/service-updates and in the NCTX Buses app, as well as on Nottingham City Transport’s Facebook page and Twitter – @NCT_Buses
Detective Inspector Steve Wragg, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: “A team of detectives has been working hard on this investigation and while we now have a man in custody our enquiries are continuing and we would urge anyone with information that could help us to come forward.
“People can contact us on 101 quoting incident 320 of 8 June 2019, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.”
Those with ghostly goings on in their homes in Gedling borough are being offered help from a team of TV paranormal investigators.
The team behind the Really chanel’s Help! My House is Haunted are offering to visit homes across the borough and get to grips with what’s behind their haunting.
A spokesman for the show’s producers Back2Back said: “We are filming in the area and looking to speak with people about their experiences with ghostly encounters. Especially in their homes/businesses.
GHOSTBUSTERS: The team behind the Really channel’s Help! My House is Haunted
“We are keen to speak with people from around the area, as Gedling borough seems to be a hotspot for paranormal activity.
‘Help! My House is Haunted!’ brings together the world’s leading paranormal investigators: British ghost hunter and paranormal consultant Barri Ghai; and American medium and paranormal expert Chris Fleming and paranormal researcher Jayne Harris.
This is the second series of Help! My House is Haunted for UKTV’s Really channel. It will transmit later in the year.
For more information, and to tell the team about your paranormal experiences contact haunted@back2back.tv.
A 29-year-old man caught fishing without a licence in Colwick has netted a hefty fine.
The man was caught by the River Trent at Colwick and found with a bag full of Perch which he had removed from the water.
The case was brought to Northampton Magistrates Court by the Environment Agency on June 3, 2019 where Constantnsocv Florin of Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham was proved guilty in absence and was ordered to pay a total penalty of £597.47. An annual fishing licence would have cost him just £30.
The penalty includes a fine of £220 for
fishing without a licence contrary to the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act
(1975), a fine of £220 for removing fish contrary to the Environment Agency
National Byelaws (2010), costs of £127.47 and a victim surcharge of £30.
Following the verdict, Lee Watts, Fisheries Enforcement Officer for the Environment Agency, said: “This case shows how seriously the courts take these offences and we hope the high penalty will act as a deterrent to any angler who is thinking of fishing without a licence. It also shows we are catching and prosecuting people for removing fish from waters, which is an offence under our national byelaws.
“We work 24/7 and carry out our
enforcement duties throughout the evening and night. We have the same powers and
liabilities as a police constable to uphold the legislation and can arrest and
detain offenders, enter land, stop and search, seize boats, vessels, vehicles
and equipment, and ask people to show them their fishing licences.
“Money raised from fishing licence sales
is used to protect and improve fish stocks and fisheries, benefitting anglers
and, for those caught cheating the system, we will always prosecute.”
WARNING: Don’t forget your fishing licence
Every year across the country, thousands
of anglers are prosecuted for not having a fishing licence. As well as cheating
other anglers, fishing illegally can carry a hefty penalty. Getting caught
without a licence could land a fine of up to £2,500.
Anglers who wish to buy their licence
online should buy it directly from GOV.UK as they will receive a reference
number allowing them to go fishing on the same day. Customers who use
third party sites may be charged more and might not get added to the official
database as quickly.
Any angler aged 13 or over, fishing on a
river, canal or still water needs a licence. A 1-day licence costs from just £6
and an annual licence costs from just £30
(concessions available). Junior licences are free for 13-16 year olds.
Licences are available from www.gov.uk/get-a-fishing-licence
or by calling the Environment Agency on 0344 800 5386 between 8am and 6pm,
Monday to Friday. Alternatively you can purchase a licence from your local Post
Office.
The Environment Agency carries out
enforcement work all year round and is supported by partners including the
police and the Angling Trust. Fisheries enforcement work is intelligence-led,
targeting known hot-spots and where illegal fishing is reported.
Anyone with information about illegal
fishing activities can contact the Environment Agency Incident Hotline 24/7 on 080080 70 60 or anonymously to Crimestoppers on
0800 555 111.
Work on the Gedling Access Road will progress as planned after it was revealed the final outstanding objection to the Compulsory Purchase Order and Side Roads Order has been formally withdrawn.
The Inspector for the Public Inquiry has decided that as all of the objections have been satisfactorily resolved a Public Inquiry is no longer required.
A spolesman for Nottinghamshire County Council said: “We will now await the Secretary of State for Transport’s formal confirmation of the Orders which will enable construction of the Gedling Access Road to commence later this year.”
Councillor John Cottee, Chairman of Communities and Place Committee, said, “This is good news for the programme for the Gedling Access Road.
“All of the objections have been formally resolved and withdrawn, and our hard work means we have avoided up to six months of potential delays.
“The Government will now be able to give the County Council the necessary consents to get on site and start construction of this important new road as we had originally scheduled.”
He added: “The Gedling Access Road will improve local access and unlock much needed new housing development in the Gedling area.”
