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YOUR SAY

New from this issue we will be bringing you a National topic and asking you to let us have your opinions on how it effects you or how you would solve it.

TOPIC: ID CARDS, YES OR NO

There has been a lot of publicity about ID cards, below is one opinion, what's yours?

Trevor Ivory, the Conservative Spokesman for North Norfolk, today added his support to a new campaign against Labour’s plans for ID Cards. Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, has pledged to scrap the controversial £20 billion scheme.

Under the Labour Government’s plans for ID cards:
Every person in North Norfolk will fingerprinted and interviewed, and forced to travel at their own expense to the regional centre in Norwich.
Each person will have to pay at least £93 for a combined ID card and passport package.

If the card is lost or stolen, the replacement fee will be at least £30. If you get married and change your name, you will have to pay for a new card as well.

Trevor remarked, “ID cards are a bad idea. They will do nothing to improve the safety of our North Norfolk residents. They are not the answer to the threat of terrorism, to benefit fraud, illegal immigration, human trafficking or to identity theft. They are a waste of money, and a Conservative Government will abolish them. Norfolk Police are already badly under funded and the highest part of the council tax rise will come from them. North Norfolk residents want Government money to be spent on more visible policing.

The Labour Government’s plans are to make ID Cards compulsory for everyone, and force people to pay to be fingerprinted by the State. Instead of these intrusive, expensive and ineffective ID Cards, the money should be spent on more worthwhile projects to cut crime - such as a dedicated UK Border Police, more prison spaces and increasing the number of residential drug rehabilitation places and definitely more police.”
Trevor is urging everyone in North Norfolk to sign the online petition set up by the Conservative Party at www.conservatives.com.

Dear Madam,

In tracing my Family Tree I have learned that my mother's cousin Sgt. W.F. Burman VC died in 1974 at The Royal British Legion Home in Cromer, Norfolk.

I realise that this was a long time ago, but I wonder if there are any relatives of Sgt. Burman living in the area. I would dearly like to contact them and should be most grateful for any information you may have. Yours sincerely, Cherry Hooker.

(Please contact us at the office and we will pass this information on).

READERS LETTER

Good morning, Sheringham! I have accessed your website and found it most interesting. I was a pupil of North Walsham High School and spent a lot of my youth in Sheringham,especially with the 2nd Sheringham Girl Guides under the wonderful leadership of Miss Doreen Graver in the 1950s, thus I knew lots about Sheringham. But it is not Guides or school history that draws me to your website. My great grandmother, Charlotte Hems Phillippo, lived in Holloway Road and several of my family were married and buried in St Peters Church. It is a wedding on June 12th 1922 that I am researching at the moment and wonder if you can tell me if there is any way from this distance that I may access information from the marriage register or even the next week's copy of the North Norfolk News and Chronicle or whatever the local newspaper was called then. Henry Thomas Phillippo Shepheard married Elsie Hems Phillippo on June 12th 1922. The wedding reception was held at "Heatherdene", Holloway Road, Sheringham. I now have the photos but need to name the last member of the wedding party, who was undoubtedly the Best Man. I do hope you can help me. It is an awful long way to come back to do this research for myself but I just hope you can at least point me in the right direction. Does the church still have their 1922 marriage register? If not, where might it be stored? And, other than, I assume, The Forum in Norwich, are there any archives of 1922 Sheringham newspapers in Sheringham still? How do I access this information from across the world?

Hoping against hope that you can help me... thank you in advance. Lisa Webber, Wellington, New Zealand.

A Large Tiger at Muckleburgh!

The North Norfolk Amateur Radio Group at the Muckleburgh Collection, has created a working 1950’s vintage amateur radio station based around a rare Tiger TR200 transmitter, standing 1 metre high, which is probably only one of a handful left in existence. The associated equipment includes a number of amateur radio receivers and accessories from the same period, both home-made and professional. The display, which can be seen in the “radio hut” at Muckleburgh, is intended to show visitors what an amateur radio “shack” was like in the past, to compare it with the Group’s present-day modern radio station and, hopefully, stimulate an interest in the hobby of amateur radio.

Using the Group’s special callsign, GB2MC, the Tiger went on the air for the first time on 10th January, contacting nine amateur stations across the UK and in Holland which, with one exception, were all using vintage equipment themselves. When the museum is open, the Tiger station will operate from time to time on Wednesdays, Thursdays and some Sunday afternoons, if operators are available. It will transmit with either amplitude modulation (AM) speech or Morse code (CW), the standard transmission modes of the period featured.

To obtain more information about the Radio Group, or arrange an introductory visit, telephone the Group’s chairman, Laurie Buttriss, on 01263 825651.

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