Planning - No objections to these applications:
1) Extension to existing kitchen at the Anchor Hotel.
2) Part two-storey and part single-storey rear extension to Greenways, The Green.
3) Single-storey front extension to provide new cloakroom at The Gables, Millfield Road.
Blyth Estuary Strategy - The final draft of the formal response of Walberswick Parish Council to the "Preferred Option" strategy published in September 2005 has been drawn up by the Chairman, Robin Buncombe and Councillors Hunt and D. Webb. This was presented to the Council and unanimously approved. A copy of the response can be viewed on the Parish Council notice board outside the Village Hall.
British Nuclear Group offered to visit the Council to introduce their new Site Manager, Mr. Ray Jepps and provide an update on the decommissioning report of Sizewell 'A' power station. Mr. Jepps would outline the highlights of the report and answer any questions. It was agreed to take up this offer and residents will be informed of the date and time once this is known.
Campsite - The Council has contacted the Planning Enforcement Officer following a notice advertising that it would open at Easter and Whitsun 2006. The Enforcement Officer has notified the owners that these intended opening dates were contrary to those set out in the 1975 Established Use Certificate. Planning permission would be required and an application submitted by 13^th January if it was their intention to open as advertised.

Viv Hunt, Clerk to the Council

January: A special sound system for "Master And Commander" had 60 members, and their guests, feeling that they were in the very hull of HMS Surprise. Timbers creaked all around, footsteps resounded up above and with the storms of the South Seas battering them, the audience were held glued to their seats: awestruck by the reality of life on board a Nineteenth Century Man O' War.
February: Our third film will be "Some Like It Hot", a comedy-romance. It's almost impossible to think back to 1959, however, in mixing an affectionate view of transvestism with a light-hearted look at the mob, writer/ director Billy Wilder was being daring in the extreme. The film follows the antics of two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) who, after witnessing the St Valentine's Day Massacre, struggle to escape the gangsters by dressing up in drag and joining an all-girl band.
Wilder presents his cast with great comic scenes that soar on the back of originality and great timing, embracing a super-sharp wit. But, for all the gags and slapstick, the film is also wonderfully romantic. Curtis and Lemmon are a match that generates an elusive and special chemistry, whilst Marilyn Monroe's unique qualities of being shy, sexy and alluring are brought well to the fore.
This is one of those rare movies where all the elements gel all of the time.
Some Like It Hot, Sunday 12^th February, 7.30 p.m. in the Village Hall.

Kay Ungless

The carols around the Christmas tree on the green raised £95.77 and the Christmas Eve carol singers raised £140.00.
On behalf of The Children's Society, I thank all those who contributed so generously.
If you would like to have a collection box, in which to put your loose change, please contact me on 01502 725114.

Maddy Dabbs

We wish to thank all of you for the numerous cards and messages of goodwill we have received over the last two months. They are very much appreciated and, I'm sure, have helped Riq through his two major operations and also to him being well on his way to recovery.

Val and Riq Anderson