Colin Church, Kenya PR executive who oversaw the protection of black rhino and other rarities in the Aberdare park – obituary
A 250-mile-long electrified fence was installed surrounding the Aberdare mountain range, protecting elephants, leopards and antelopes
Colin Church planting a post in Mau Eburu
Colin Church, who has died aged 81, was a Kenyan public relations executive who devoted the latter part of life to protecting his country’s wildlife and mountain forests, becoming one of East Africa’s most renowned conservationists.
From 2002 to 2012 he served as the chairman of Rhino Ark Charitable Trust, a charity dedicated to combating the rampant poaching of black rhinos in central Kenya’s Aberdare National Park. He oversaw the completion, in 2009, of an 250-mile-long electrified fence surrounding the mountain range.
PUPILS past, present and even future at a primary school in a thriving rural Radnorshire community have made an emotional video hoping to save it from closure. In the three-minute, 52-second video, generations of pupils who’ve attended Llanfihangel Rhydithon Community Primary School in the tiny village of Dolau are filmed initially catching and then passing on a green/turquoise-coloured school jumper. The jumper is a symbol of the school being passed down among the generations, with the heart-warming video set to the song ‘This Is Me’ by Kesha. At the end of the video, the youngest current pupil is seen receiving the jumper as she stands in the middle of a green-shaped heart formed by fellow learners in a field.
Bishop of St Asaph with the bespokeedition of John’s Gospel EVERY child in a Church in Wales School in North East and Mid Wales is to receive a gift from the Bishop of St Asaph to celebrate the work of the Welsh Bible Translators, more than 400 years ago. It is part of plans by the Diocese of St Asaph to mark the 400th anniversary of Edmund Prys’ 1621 translation of the Psalms into Welsh suitable for congregational singing. Prys and seven out of the eight Bible Translators were born in the Diocese of St Asaph and are commemorated by a memorial outside St Asaph Cathedral.
THE decision not to hold a public meeting on the proposed closure of a Powys primary school has been condemned by a prospective new Senedd candidate. Welsh Liberal Democrat candidate Alison Alexander says a decision not to hold a public meeting on Churchstoke County Primary School’s prospective closure damages confidence in Powys County Council. In an open letter to the education portfolio holder Phyl Davies, a member of the Conservatives, Ms Alexander states poor communication on school closure consultations has already damaged confidence and the refusal to hold a public meeting on the future of Churchstoke risks entrenching this lack of trust even further.
A SCHOOL in Powys has lambasted the local council after it revealed plans to consult on its closure. Supporters of Llanbedr Church in Wales School in the south of the county say they “refute” any assertion that the best interests of learners and the pupils have been at the forefront of the decision-making process. Powys County Council (PCC) announced last Wednesday, April 21, that it is looking to reconfigure and rationalise primary school provision in the county as part of its ‘Strategy for Transforming Education in Powys 2020-2030’ and is proposing to close the school, near Crickhowell. “The governors, parents and children of Llanbedr Church in Wales School call on everyone in the local community to respond to the consultation by the Conservative/Independent-led Powys County Council to close our school,” said supporters of the school in a statement.