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Princessmeets new graduates


PRINCESS Eugenie of York has visitedMaidstone for theEuropean School of Osteopathy’s 2018 grad- uation ceremony. The event took place atAll Saints’ Church, Mill Street, on July 12.


Princess Eu-


THIRTYthousandbats arenowes- timated to live inMote Park and 10 different speciesmake it theirmost diverse home inKent. Members of the Rotary Club of


Maidstone, led by park manager Alan Frith and using specialist mi- crophones to pick up the varied high-pitch sounds of the species, made a late evening tour of the lake. Alan said the bats were attracted


gery to correct a scoliosis condition, andsupports charities that helppeo- plewith similar disorders. After presenting the awards,


PrincessEugenie spoke to graduates about their studies and their plans. ESOChancellorDr Paula Fletcher


said: “It’s an absolute pleasure hav- ing Her Royal Highness as our pa- tron. The school aims to bring affordable osteopathic care to the whole community and it’swonder-


to the park by the wide range of habitats with their own insects (es- pecially the water) and the large number of mature trees among the 54,000 in the park,with hollows and crevices suited to summer living and nesting. Inwinter, they sleepunderground


genie is patron of the ESO, re- flecting her in- terest


in


musculoskele- tal healthcare. As a child, she had back sur-


in the park’s caved areas. Theirmain diet is flying ants and


mosquitoes, and in a single night one bat will eat as many as 300, echo-locating them at great speed, “seeing through their ears”. Fourteen of Britain’s resident bats


have been recorded in the county, andthemost abundant are the com- mon and the soprano pipistrelles.


Town’s park is home to amultitude of bats


ful to have the Princess’s support.” The European School ofOsteopa-


thy (ESO) provides a four-year un- dergraduate degree programme leading to the integrated master’s degree inOsteopathy (M.Ost). TheESO’smain academic andad-


ministrative site is at BoxleyHouse, with a teaching clinic near the town centre. ESOstudents, supervised by experienced osteopaths, provide more than 20,000 consultations in theMaidstone area each year. The school was founded in Paris A pipistrelle, and right, Alan Frith


in 1951 as Ecole Française d’Ostéopathie (EFO) and moved to According to the Kent BatGroup:


England in 1965. Initially based in London, it moved to Maidstone in 1971where it continuedtodeliver its French-speaking programme. In 1974, a full-time English-speak-


ing programme was created. The School was incorporated as a regis- tered charity trading as the Euro- pean School of Osteopathy and in October 1974 its first four-year full- time diploma began. For more information, visit www.eso.ac.uk.


“These two look very alike, andboth can be seen hunting for insects in gardens and along hedgerows just after sunset, flyingwith rapidtwists and turns. “In summer, pipistrelles some-


times roost behind hanging tiles or barge boards on houses. The brownlong-earedbat iswide-


spread inKent, but is seen less often than the pipistrelles. “It usually lives in or near wood-


News Slayer’s cricketing life with DS/MW/95/18. Boy hit by car


A NEWbook has been published on an outstanding Maidstone cricketer and Kent fast bowler,David Sayer of Bearsted,who died last year. Theauthorof “Slayer – the storyof


a fast bowler” is his Bearsted friend Ian Lambert, himself a talented cricketerwith a long associationwith Bearsted Cricket Club. David, who attended Maidstone


A CHILD was seriously hurt in a collision with a car nearMaidstone on July 11. The four-year-old boy was struck


by a red Kia Carens inWalderslade which then hit a fence. Anyone who saw the collision or


the vehicle just before the incident is asked to call Kent Police’s Serious Collision appeals line on 01622 798538,


reference


Boys’ Grammar School, played for England Schools, Oxford University and 154 matches for Kent, taking a total of 613 first-classwickets. He was twice elected for MCC


overseas tours. He played club cricket with The Mote CC and cap- tained the first teamto Kent League honours. The book includes photographs


land and hunts near trees and hedgerows, sometimes flying slowly or hovering to take insects from leaves or grass. These bats prefer to roost in old houses with high tim- bered lofts, emerging after dark.” There are evening bat walks in


David Sayer, right, and


Mote Park onAugust 8 and Septem- ber 12. Tickets cost £2.50 andproceeds go


above, in his cricketing days with


to theMote Park Fellowship. Go to www.moteparkfellowship.org.uk/eve nts.


TheMote CC


and recollections from family and friends, as well as a foreword by his Kent colleague andWest Indian Test player, John Shepherd. David left the Kent staff in 1969


and later became an insurance bro- kerwith an office in Lenham. The book is available fromthe au-


Choral concert MAIDSTONEChoralUnion orches- tra staged its summer concert atAll Saints’Church inMaidstone on July 7, openingwith SymphonyNo. 1 by WilliamBoyce. There was “wonderful” singing


from Kirsty Hopkins, soprano, Jen- nifer Westwood, mezzo-soprano, GregTassell, tenor andRichardBan- non, baritone, said organisers.


thor at £10 (free local delivery) at lambertsontour@gmail.comand the Kent CCC shop at Canterbury. Pro- ceedswill provide a fitting cricketing tribute to David.


Build a queue FREMLIN Walk experienced lengthy queues outside one of its more popular shops on July 12. Build-A-Bear, where youngsters


canmake a teddy to their own spec- ifications, stagedapromotionwhere the childwould be charged only for his or her age.


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