Photo by Diane Vose Revellers have been urged to stay away from Avebury during the summer solstice this year. The National Trust has announced that there will be no extended or overnight opening hours of any of its facilities at Avebury over the summer solstice weekend (June 19 to 21). The trust says it has consulted widely with its partners, including the local community, Wiltshire Police and Wiltshire Council and joins them in asking people not to visit Avebury and the surrounding areas for Solstice celebrations. This is in line with current government guidelines and to protect the local community from the impact of large gatherings of people.
A MISSING persons cop warned those who exploit children: “The focus is going to be on you.” Det Insp Mark Kent of Wiltshire Police told abusers: “We are going to be coming after you, we have been coming after you and we will continue to come after you – and we will get better at it. “You’re causing significant harm to children. It is a form of child abuse, it’s causing damage to communities and we can’t stand for that.” The chilling warning came as the county force urged businesses to sign up to a series of online workshops this week aimed at helping people spot the signs of exploitation.
A MISSING persons cop warned those who exploit children: “The focus is going to be on you.” Det Insp Mark Kent of Wiltshire Police told abusers: “We are going to be coming after you, we have been coming after you and we will continue to come after you – and we will get better at it. “You’re causing significant harm to children. It is a form of child abuse, it’s causing damage to communities and we can’t stand for that.” The chilling warning came as the county force urged businesses to sign up to a series of online workshops this week aimed at helping people spot the signs of exploitation.
Jim Lumley learned to appreciate nature’s beauty at an early age.
His parents, the late Mabel and Al Lumley, planted extensive lilac bushes on the family’s Pelham property, which for decades has been a popular visiting site for lilac lovers, picnickers and people who simply enjoy the variety of color. The property’s name says it all: Lilacland.
Lumley, who’s now 75 and has run Lilacland for about 30 years, was so inspired by the colors and light that he took up landscape painting as an adult, first as a hobby and then very seriously.
When he was about 40, he sold his real estate company and went to study in Cape Cod with Henry Hensche, a noted impressionist painter who in turn had studied with one of the first American impressionists, Charles Hawthorne, in the early 1900s.