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Grant for Leeds church work
LEEDS Church is under scaffold- ing for the next few weeks while repointing work and repairs are carried out on the tower. Historic England (HE) invited
the church council at St Nicholas to bid for a grant from the £157bn Culture Recovery Fund to help pay for repairs during lockdown. The church was awarded £23,656 towards essential repair work costing £30,000 to the church clock and for urgent work to stop the most dangerous aspects of the deterioration on the stonework of the tower. Churchwarden Brian Hardy
said: "As well as rescuing precious heritage buildings in need, the in- jection of cash will protect liveli- hoods for some of the most vulnerable heritage specialists and contractors working in the sector. "While we have scaffolding up
and repairs are being done to the clock, we will be taking the oppor-
tunity to re-gild the face of the clock; this is another desperately- needed ‘stitch-in-time’ item of work, but it was not covered by the scope of the HE project and was not eligible for their grant." Leeds Parish Council stepped in with another £3,000 to help with the overall costs. Mr Hardy added: "This current exercise deals with some urgent repair items, but unfortunately there are other even more expen- sive repairs that will be needed on this ancient building in the future." As well as a replacement for the failing heating system in the church, the wooden tiles or “shin- gles” of the spire and the internal structural gutters of the tower are in need of renewal. Contractor Steve Hill, of Pinna- cle Stonemasonry, of Folkestone, said: “There is quite a lot of work to be done. Like all these old build- ings, it takes time.”
Award for test volunteers
SIX Kent Search and Rescue (KSAR) volunteers have been nominated to receive a Deputy Chief Constable's Award in recognition of the work carried out in Operation Barton. Operation Barton was to deliver 10,000 COVID home-testing kits in Maidstone after a strain of the South African variant was detected in the area. The agencies successfully delivered 9,633 home testing kits, of which
84 per cent were returned at the doorstep with the rest returned to a mobile testing unit. KSAR Operations Officer, Stewart Baird said: “We delivered over 9,600
home testing units within 72 hours – a mammoth task, but one that was successfully delivered and indeed with over 84% of tests returned immediately, the success exceeded our expectations. “To be recognised by the Deputy Chief Constable is a great honour
for our volunteers and represents the great relationship between Kent Police and KSAR.”
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