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THE <strong>HERALD</strong> • MID-<strong>JANUARY</strong> <strong>2024</strong> • Tel: 01530 244069 • Email: info@markfieldherald.co.uk<br />
BOROUGH COUNCILLOR’S REPORT<br />
from Councillor Claire Harris<br />
FIRST OF ALL I hope everyone has had a<br />
wonderful Christmas and a good start to <strong>2024</strong>.<br />
I was privileged to attend the Remembrance Day service at<br />
St Michael’s Church and lay a wreath on behalf of Hinckley<br />
& Bosworth Borough Council - a lovely morning with various<br />
groups from Markfield in attendance.<br />
I’ve attended various fund raisers at the Congregational<br />
Church and the Children’s Craft Day at the Methodist Church.<br />
I would like to thank our churches for all the hard work they<br />
put into these events and the time they sacrifice to bring joy to<br />
others.<br />
I met with our Crime Commissioner to discuss crime matters,<br />
police attendance and enforcement. I hope to work closely with<br />
our police team and bring some much-needed presence to<br />
Markfield. See photo (right) outside Brewster’s cafe.<br />
I also attended HBBC’s Making a Difference awards, where three awards were awarded to Markfield: Robert<br />
Quiney for the defibrillator project, Bee Unique Youth Project for the amazing work they do, and Markfield<br />
Community Library for their dedicated volunteers. It was a very proud moment and the awards were very well<br />
deserved. Congratulations all.<br />
As some of you are aware, I am also a Parish Councillor for Markfield and we have had a busy year since a new<br />
council was formed in May. An article has been published in this edition of the Herald explaining some of the work<br />
we have done. There is more to come in <strong>2024</strong> from your Parish Council including capital projects that couldn’t be<br />
completed due to lack of funds, so watch this space!<br />
As we enter into a new year there is much work to be done. Planning is always top of the list, and my aim is to<br />
publish the applications via my social media page to give residents an opportunity to comment. For those that don’t<br />
have social media, all planning applications are discussed at the planning and Highways meetings held by your<br />
Parish Council. Parking enforcement is also on the list; it is becoming an ever increasing topic, with cars parking<br />
irresponsibly and destroying grass verges. Please think of others and our surroundings when parking.<br />
Here’s to an exciting new year. Please get in touch should you need my assistance.<br />
Email me at Claire.harris@hinckley-bosworth.gov.uk<br />
Claire Harris<br />
Don’t forget to<br />
send us your<br />
news.<br />
Email: info@<br />
markfieldherald.co.uk<br />
THANKS!<br />
The Day the<br />
Music Died<br />
IT WAS 65 years ago, on<br />
3rd February 1959, that<br />
American rock-and-roll<br />
performers Buddy Holly,<br />
Ritchie Valens and The Big<br />
Bopper were killed in a<br />
plane crash in Iowa.<br />
Thanks to<br />
Don McLean<br />
and his<br />
eight-minute<br />
hit song<br />
American<br />
Pie, it<br />
became<br />
known as<br />
“the day the<br />
music died”.<br />
Buddy<br />
Holly was a<br />
rock ‘n’ roll pioneer who is widely<br />
regarded as having sparked a<br />
‘quantum leap’ in popular musical<br />
output in the post-war years, being<br />
admired by such stars as Elvis<br />
Presley and John Lennon. He<br />
was born in Lubbock, Texas, to a<br />
Christian family and attended a<br />
Baptist church where he made a<br />
commitment and was baptised.<br />
At the time of the plane crash<br />
– attributed to their young pilot’s<br />
inexperience in appalling weather<br />
conditions – Holly, 22, Valens, 17,<br />
and the 28-year-old Big Bopper<br />
(J P Richardson), together with<br />
other musicians, were on what they<br />
described as “the tour from hell”,<br />
travelling hundreds of miles each<br />
day by bus in temperatures as low<br />
as minus 35F.<br />
After a concert in Clear Lake,<br />
Iowa, Holly decided to rent a<br />
private plane to get to Fargo, North<br />
Dakota, for the next concert. He<br />
planned to take his band members,<br />
Waylon Jennings and Tommy<br />
Allsup, with him, but Valens tossed<br />
a coin for Allsup’s seat and won.<br />
Jennings then gave his seat to the<br />
Big Bopper, who was unwell.<br />
Holly’s young wife Maria learned<br />
about his death on television and<br />
suffered a miscarriage. His mother<br />
heard the news of his death on<br />
radio. Since then, news media<br />
have introduced rules to prevent<br />
the names of people who die in<br />
accidents being revealed before<br />
the family itself is informed.<br />
Maria did not attend his funeral<br />
and has reportedly never been to<br />
his grave, but she preserved and<br />
promoted his music after his death.<br />
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