In these uncertain and trying times the aim of the E-Newsletter is to keep people in the parish informed and in contact with other people in the parish. We make no apology for repeating information from previous E-Newsletters. Additional information is included this week.

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A number of people are concerned about scammers contacting them by phone calls related to test and trace. 
NHS test and trace - fraud awareness
If NHS Test and Trace calls you by phone, the service will be using a single phone number 0300 0135 000. The only website the service will ask you to visit is https://contact-tracing.phe.gov.uk

REAL CONTACT TRACERS WILL NEVER DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
• Ask you to dial a premium rate number to speak to us (for example, those starting 09 or 087)
• Ask you to make any form of payment
• Ask for any details about your bank account
• Ask for your social media identities or login details, or those of your contacts
• Ask you for any passwords or PINs, or ask you to set up any passwords or PINs over the phone
• Ask you to purchase a product
• Ask you to download any software to your device or ask you to hand over control of your PC, smartphone or tablet
• Ask you to access any website that does not belong to the Government or NHS

If you think you have been subjected to, or a victim of, a scam or attempted fraud using Track and Trace or any other fraud please call 101 or contact Action Fraud on 0300 123 2040. If you or someone else is in immediate danger or risk of harm dial 999 now.

Click on this link to see how you can verify you are actually being contacted by the government’s Test and Trace service.

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Local shops with delivery service currently as of 6th June 2020

The Spar Shop Baschurch - deliver to over 70s, customers with disability/special needs, customers with long term health problems and single parents isolating with children - 01939 261187. They are now offering a home delivery service with a huge range of items available for delivery within 30 to 60 minutes. Download the Snappy Shopper app from your app store and order from your mobile.
Rowlands Vegetables fruit and veg - 01743 462244. Will deliver veg boxes most days to Myddle and Harmer Hill
Shrewsbury Handy Veg - 01743 461307 - deliver to Myddle
Moor Farm Shop - Shop has now reopened 10.00 to 7.00 pm but not the cafe.Email shop@moorfarmshop.co.uk or phone 01939 262632
J. Hartshorn Dairy and Fresh Produce - 01691 657629 - deliver to Myddle on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 
Oakgate Nursery & Garden Centre free local delivery available Call 01939 250428
Pimhill Farm are currently  offering home deliveries of their oats, mueslis, wholemeal flour and oatcakes in the local area. They can only deliver in the 5Kg mini sacks rather than retail packs but this may help if you are trying to stay at home. For more information please contact jessie@pimhill.com

Please send your recommendations which you think might be helpful for readers for local shops and services to contact@myddle.net

Supermarket Delivery and Click and Collect.
Information for Carers.
Along with other supermarkets MORRISON'S in Shrewsbury have implemented a one shopper only rule. Please note this has a serious impact on anyone who tries to go shopping as a carer or with a carer. The carers are not being allowed in at the same time. 
Click on the link for shopping at TESCO 
Click on the link for shopping at ASDA 
Click on the link for shopping at SAINSBURYS  Delivery to most vulnerable and a click and collect service
Click on the link for shopping at ICELAND 
Click on the link for information about shopping at ALDI during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Click on the link for information about shopping at LIDL during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Click on the link for information and phone number for MORRISONS door step deliveries for vulnerable people

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Clive Surgery. 01939 220295
Should you need need urgent medical attention when we are closed please call 111
The Procedure for ordering your prescriptions is unchanged, phone in the repeat prescription request or use the on line reordering at the Patient Access web site. Telephone the repeat prescription number (01939 220532). Nothing is being picked up from the box. To pick up your prescription, go to the outer door of the surgery, ring the bell, you do not need go in, give your name.The staff will then bring the prescription to you outside. It would help the staff if you could arrange to pick up other peoples prescriptions for them, especially those who are self isolating due to age or serious health issues Patients may ask someone to collect their prescriptions but they will need the name of the person, address and date of birth.

Prescott Surgery  01939 260210
Should you need need urgent medical attention when we are closed please call 111
People can collect their prescriptions from the surgery as long as they do not have symptoms of Coronvirus. Patients may ask someone to collect their prescriptions but they will need the name of the person, address and date of birth. Repeat prescriptions 01939 260752

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Click on this link for the latest updates from Shropshire Council Newsroom on Coronavirus and Shropshire

Sham hand sanitisers are being sold in Shropshire 
 https://newsroom.shropshire.gov.uk/2020/05/warning-hand-sanitiser/

GOUGH WALKS Click on the link to see 6 walks in the area.  Please always follow the Country Code!

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Update from Myddle CE Primary School.
Since the closure of the school in March, the staff of Myddle Primary School have been working alongside staff from Baschurch and Weston Lullingfields Primary Schools to provide care for the key worker children.
This has been a challenge for staff and parents but the children have been brilliant and made us very proud.
During the half term break the school was closed to allow staff to alter the class rooms, this was to ensure that we met the government guidelines and to allow for social distancing.
We are so excited to be welcoming back pupils from Nursery and Reception Classes from Monday 8^th June, although school life will be a bit different for them, we are confident that they will adjust and settle quickly.

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The Parish Paths Partnership (P3) News
Along with Shropshire Council and our Parish Council, the P3 group members have erected two bridleway gates on Hollins Lane bridleway and carried further drainage work. Hopefully the gates will stop the illegal use by motorised vehicles including trail bikes and 4x4s. Click here to see the laws relating to this.
A kissing gate will also be erected on the footpath at Pimhill.
The Gough Walks are being cleared and missing signs replaced. Videos that can be played on smartphones are being created to help walkers find their way on the Gough routes. Please find the link to the latest version of Gough Walk 2.   https://youtu.be/BVtyF2JpBOY
Reminder
Unless the landowner permits it, cycling on a footpath in England and Wales normally constitutes trespass, making it a civil but not a criminal matter. Much of our local woodland has a number of Permissive Paths allowed by the land owners who are concerned by the number of mountain bikes who are on their land and causing damage to the tracks and the environment. 

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Computers and Technology. 
We are now so dependant on technology to communicate with families, friends and shops during this crisis. For this reason Colin Ruck has offered to assist and advise anyone within the parish who is having IT problems or just wants to install Skype, WhatsApp, Zoom, Facebook, etc. Many problems can be sorted out without an on site visit. Please call him 07906622133 or 291436 for this FREE SERVICE during this crisis! Also if you have a computer or laptop you are prepared to donate to help somebody out in the parish please let Colin know.

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If you are isolating due to the Coronavirus there is a network of support operating in our community.
Myddle Support Group
Myddle Support Group  please contact Kayleigh Griffiths 07890 612342
Myddle, Shropshire Facebook page
Harmer Hill Support Group please contact Helen Morgan   07803 123188
Harmer Hill Community Group Facebook page
Crane Quality Counselling  are offering urgent one stop appointments to individuals and families across Shropshire. If you feel that you would like to talk to someone we are just a telephone call away.
01743 240 546  www.cranecounselling.co.uk

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Notification of ROAD CLOSURES
You can see all the proposed and active closures here https://one.network/?tm=117454378

Road Closure 1 UPDATE Station Road and Wayside Yorton near Clive 
Start Date: 1st June 2020  End Date: NOW 22nd June 2020  All the time
New Water Main   Severn Trent Water
Phase One : Railway Arms to Railway under Bridge junction 1st June to 5th June
Phase Two : Railway Under Bridge to The Sidings new development 4th June to 12th JuneYou can view the closure and diversion route by clicking here:  https://one.network/?tm=117235239

Road Closure 2 High Street Grinshill Start Date: 13th July 2020 End Date: 24th July 2020 All the time
Improvements to water main. Severn Trent Water
You can view the closure and diversion route by clicking here:  https://one.network/?tm=117290564

Myddle Bridge Speed Sign Data  In the period 28th April to 29th May 7827 vehicles passed through the village towards Baschurch
About 95% of the vehicles counted were recorded at 30 mph or below, however there are a few speeding drivers with one recording 47 mph at 20:34 on Sunday 10th May. The highest vehicle count was 36 in one hour between 16:00 and 17:00 on Wednesday 27th May. It will be interesting to see how this vehicle count will change when the School fully re-opens. (Please remember there has been much less traffic than usual due to lock-down).

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REMEMBER
If you feel unwell please call 111 or your GP surgery for advice.
For concerns about a vulnerable adult’s safety or welfare, or for support and advice about adult social care 0345 678 9044 .
For concerns about a child’s safety or welfare, or for family support 0345 678 9021.
The Coronavirus is extremely contagious and it is essential to safeguard everybody. Please send a call or a text if you require help or a chat. We will leave shopping and prescriptions on your doorstep and let you know that they are there. Please ensure you wash your hands with soap and water for more than 20 seconds once you have unloaded your items.

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The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace. (Numbers 6. 24-26)
At the time of writing this, we are still in lockdown due to the ongoing impact of Covid-19, albeit with restrictions slightly looser than they were the last time that I wrote to you.
We are still learning to operate within a new normal, sharing less space and life is far from convenient. We notice this mostly in regard to our weekly shop; being asked to queue as we enter shops, and we are still limited to how and where we can see our friends and loved ones.
Yet perhaps this slowing down of life is no bad thing. Perhaps being more intentional with our decisions, particularly regarding consumerism, will cause society to re-orientate and re-prioritise the way it approaches life. Maybe, when we settle into a steadier rhythm, it will be one which is less concerned with self, and more concerned with the needs of those around us.
I was struck by the recent words of Archbishop Justin Welby, who called on politicians to be “brave and courageous” as they sought to deal with the economic and social consequence of the lockdown. Speaking out against the imposition of extensive austerity measures, the Archbishop appealed for a vision to be set for society, in which justice and righteousness are the key stones of common life. Furthermore, that social care and tackling mental health are prioritised.
I was also struck by the recent words of His Royal Highness, Prince William.   Prince William called on people to embrace the “Christian teachings of faith, hope and love” as we “navigate our way through these uncertain times”.
In both the words of Archbishop Justin and those of Prince William, there is a call being made for us to set a vision for, and embrace society around, the teachings of Jesus. May we each spend some time in the coming days reconsidering our own approach to life. May we each recommit ourselves to playing our part in entering this next period of our history, with a vision that embraces the teachings of Jesus.
In Psalm 119 verse 2, we are told that the ones who keep the ways of God and seek Him with their whole heart, will be blessed.
Adam
I hope the following prayers are helpful.

 
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our sins
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours
now and for ever
Amen.
 
 
O God,
help me trust you,
help me to know that you are with me,
help me to believe
that nothing can separate me
from your love
revealed in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
 
 
Lord Jesus Christ
you taught us to love our neighbour,
and to care for those in need
as if we were caring for you.
In this time of anxiety, give us strength
to comfort the fearful, to tend the sick,
and to assure the isolated
of our love, and your love,
for your name’s sake.
Amen.  

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