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ments and documentation. My advice is, if you want to become a landlord then please take advice first and be careful where you seek this. Your mate down the pub may sound like he knows what he is talking about, but inevitably this will lead to sleepless nights, not just from the beer. Legislation is continually


I HOPE you enjoyed reading my article last month, or at least found it informative. This month I will concentrate on property letting and management rather than sales, so as to give you a dif- ferent perspective. There has been enormous change within the industry since I started way back in the mid-80`s. The intro- duction of the Housing Act 1988, in January 1989, was the most far reaching since with the introduction of the Assured Shorthold Tenancy it meant that a landlord could regain posses- sion of the property relatively easily. To give you an example, my great-grandfather had some friends move into an empty house in Beccles when they needed somewhere to stay for a few weeks. This was back in 1954 and it was more of a “gentleman`s agreement” than a properly prepared tenancy agreement. Because they contin- ued to pay rent they couldn`t be made to move and we finally got the house back not that many years ago. I regularly run free advice


clinics for landlords and even still today it is amazing how many come to me with incorrect and outdated tenancy agree-


changing and it is difficult to keep up to date unless you are actively involved. How many of you “private landlords” know that you should have an assess- ment undertaken for Legionnaire`s Disease before you let, or that your property must have an Energy Perfor- mance Certificate and that it must meet at least an “E” rating, or that you must serve additional paperwork regarding the deposit you take? Not doing the first two will get you in trouble with the authorities and the last one will make it very difficult for you to get the tenants out when you eventually want to. You have been warned. I will finish on a true story


showing the lighter side to let- ting property. Many years ago a very well dressed middle aged couple presented themselves in my office asking for a flat for their daughter. I looked at the parents, then looked at the daughter and said “sure, sounds like a fair swap”. Initially I thought the father was going to punch me but instead I had to pick him off the floor he was laughing so much! This article was supplied by Jon Wicks at templewicks Estate Agents.


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FUND raising for Beccles Pub- lic Hall on Sunday 13th May, ‘An Afternoon with Martin Bell - War and Death of the News’. Doors open at 2pm and start at 2.30pm - 5pm (with interval). Tickets £9, Concessions £8. Bar open, cakes and refresh-


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Inner Wheel Ladies’ Sew-in for Ugandaid


LADIES of Beccles Inner Wheel Club met together for a sewing day to make dresses from pillow cases for little Ugandan children. Coloured pillow cases were donated and with the addition of bias bind-


ing, lace, ribbon and ric-rac braiding were quickly trans- formed into pretty little dresses. Two dozen dresses were com- pleted and will be taken out to the slum area of Mesese, Ugan- da, by the charity Ugandaid.


FUND raising events to mark Christian Aid Week May 13th -19th will be held in Beccles. A concert given by the Gospel


Choir and musicians of the Sir John Leman High School will be on Friday 11th May at Hungate Church at 7pm. A special Christian Aid ser-


vice will be held on Sunday 13th May at St Luke’s at 6pm.


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TO mark the 100 years Cente- nary of the RAF, on Saturday 31st March the local Branch of the RAF Association, Beccles and Southwold Area held a Wings Appeal Charity Collec- tion in Exchange Square, Bec- cles and an Exhibition of RAF memorabelia in Hungate Church Hall.


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Revd Ernie Bosse for the use of the Hungate Church Hall for the exhibition organised by our Life Vice-President Mr Bob Honey- wood. Special thanks must go to all those who attended the Hall to assist; Mr Barry Williams of RBL Bungay for providing transport for both the display in the Square and the Hall at very short notice; RAFA Life-Vice President Eddie Earl; members Jackie Mcsweeney, Stephen Gil- liam, Richard Smith, Tony Hurst and Bob’s family members and friends for their valuable assis- tance in setting up and recovery on the event Exhibition. We also thank all members of the Bec- cles Community and the general public for their most generous contributions to our RAF charity on the day. Our thanks to you all.”


Beccles Weather Report March 2018


This summary is compiled from the records of


The traditional soup lunches


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Thursday 27th April and in the precinct on Friday 18th May, with a book stall on Saturday morning 19th May also in the centre of Beccles. Last year events in the Beccles


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Max Temperature- 13.4C


(56F) on 10th compared with 20.1C (68F) in March 2017. Min Temperature- -3.5C


(26F) on 1st compared with +1.2C (34F) in March 2017. Avg. Max. Temp- 7.79C (46F)


- 2018. 12.60C (54F) - 2017. 10.50C (51F) - Average. Avg. Min. Temp- 2.23C (36F)


- 2018. 5.30C (41F) - 2017. 3.30C (37F) - Average. Mean Temp - 5.01C (41F) -


2018. 8.95C (48F) - 2017. 6.90C (44F) - Average. Air Frosts- 6 compared with


Nil in March 2017. Rainfall Total- 3.33” com-


pared with 1.39” in March 2017. (30-Year Average (1981-2010) 1.85”). (2018 Total- 180% of Average). Most Rainfall On One Day-


0.52” on 30th. Wind Direction- mainly


from:- South-East 14 days, South-West 5 days, South 3 days, North-West 3 days and North-East 3 days. Winter was never far away


during the first Spring month on the meteorological calendar, March 2018 was much colder and wetter than long-term average. In stark contrast to the mildest


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APRIL 2018


March on my entire record in terms of Mean Temperature (8.95C), last March. This time the Mean Temperature of 5.01C was the lowest for month since 2013. Whereas last March, there were just six days which failed to record 10C or better, this time there were only ten days which actually reached or exceeded that figure. There was a very cold start to


March, which included the first sub zero Maximum Temperature (-1.0C) for the month on 1st on entire record. The 2nd also had a “high” of +0.4C. This was part of a period commencing during the evening Tuesday 27th Feb- ruary till dawn on Saturday 3rd March when air temperature was constantly below freezing. The next coldest period was week- end, Saturday 17th (Maximum +0.1C) and Sunday 18th (Maxi- mum +1.3C), which were also made to feel really uncomfort- able by similarly biting winds as in the earlier period. For such a cold month, six air


frosts noted may seem relatively few, but most for month since 2013. The coldest night of the month (1st) recorded Minimum of -3.5C, lowest for month, since 18/03/2011 (-3.6C). This in great contrast to March 2017 which recorded an absolute Minimum Temperature of +1.2C, the only March on my entire record to avoid an air


frost. Higher Pressure gave us a rel-


atively settled period 17th to 25th, during which only one rain day was noted, otherwise the month saw twenty precipitation days, on four of which snow was observed to fall and six morn- ings had lying snow, each high- est for month since 2013. Seven of these days classed as


“wetter” (0.20” or more), the wettest, 4th (0.50”) and 30th (0.52”). The major snow events at the


beginning of the month did pro- vide snow cover of 12cms on the mornings of the 1st and 3rd and 9cms on the morning of the 2nd. The long-term average March


rainfall total was achieved by the 13th and the eventual 3.33” made this the wettest March since 2013. This the fourth month in a row which has seen plentiful rainfall, in fact Decem- ber 2017 to the end of this month recorded 13.20” (more than half a year expectation in just four months!) compared to just 5.33” in the comparative period just a year ago and 9.56” in the first half of 2017. From the beginning of


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