Girton Parish News
Girton Parish News is the monthly newsletter of the village of Girton. It is produced by villagers with the support of Girton Parish Council and St Andrew's Parochial Church Council. The newsletter is funded by donations from the village churches, the Parish Council, voluntary donations from villagers and by advertising. The aim is to produce an informative newsletter which will build up the whole village community.
The newsletter is delivered free to every household in the village and is a rich source of village news, listings of church services, excerpts from Parish Council meetings, community notices, diary of events, advertisements from local businesses, village history, humour and activities.
Editors
and policy
Copy dates
Copy pick-up points
Advertising
Focus on Girton
Around the Village
Nature
Archive 1950-
Back Issues 1999-2002
Editors and policy
The
editors aim is to produce an informative newsletter which will build up
the village community.
The
editors reserve the right not to publish any material which is felt to go
against the ethos of the Girton Parish News.
Copy dates
Copy
is collected from all pick-up points on the the Wednesday falling two weeks
prior to the press date (e.g. Wednesday 15th). The draft newsletter is then
circulated for proof-reading and it goes to the printers on the Monday before
the press date (e.g. Thursday 30th). Please email the editor for firm copy
date relating to a particular issue.
Copy
pick-up points
You
may email text copy to the typesetter, leave it with any of the Editors,
at Walkers Newsagents in Thornton Road, or at the Parish Office at the Rectory
in Church Lane. Please get copy to us as soon as possible. Late copy
may be deferred to a later issue.
Email
copy should be sent to the Editor (gpn@iname.com)
in text format only. Please do not send attachments in other programs.
We do not use MS Word, and our importing translators cannot read the material.
If you have pictures for inclusion, please email the text with a description
and/or photo captions and send the photographs separately.
Advertising
Advertising
rates for the newsletter are modest. They vary depending on number of column
inches, and whether you are advertising a company or event, and whether
the advert is Girton based or not. For further information, please contact
the advertising manager, Pete Gibbs: gpnads@girton-cambs.org.uk
Focus on Girton
Focus on Girton is an occasional series about varying organisations
within Girton. Please follow the links below.
Girton College | Haywards Garage | Signify | "breathe" | Physic | Girton Glebe | Girton Golf Club | Cambridge Academy of English | Birdlife International | The Lady Adrian School | Hotel Felix | The Barn | Gretton Court | Peter Graves | Cottontails
Around the Village
Around the Village is an occasional series about people
in Girton. Please follow the links below.
Margaret Parnwell | Daniel Pilecki
Nature
Follow the links below for Ken Sheard's articles on birdwatching in Girton.
2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2006: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Archive
Below are complete scanned copies of Girton Parish News from its
inception.
1950: Jan
Back issues
Selected articles from recent issues are provided below as archive material. Since 2002, material
from Girton Parish News has been spread throughout the web site.
2001: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec
2000: Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec
