Feb2014 - page 6

6
NEWS RELEASE
The Flora and the Lizards of the Canary Islands, the Galapagos of the Atlantic
The Huntingdonshire Local Group of the Wildlife Trust is pleased to present an illustrated talk on the
flora and lizards of the Canary Islands on Wednesday 12
th
February at 7.30pm at Brampton Memorial
Hall, Thrapston Road, Brampton.
Our speaker, Peter Payne, formerly worked at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge and, since retire-
ment, has been studying the flora of East Anglia and the Canary Islands.
There are seven main islands in the Canary Island archipelago, each distinctly different. They have a
unique and beautiful flora and include 600 species only found on these islands, with many of these re-
stricted to just one island. With birds their only predators, there are many lizards on the islands, includ-
ing several exotic species with very restricted distributions.
Anyone interested in wildlife is most welcome to attend. Suggested donation: £2.00 members; £2.50
non-members.
Please contact Phil on 01487 822835 for further information.
Part of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Registered Charity No: 1000412
LOCAL EVENTS & SERVICES
ROUNDABOUT WEBSITE
I am delighted to tell you that the website for the Buckden Roundabout is now live and can be found at
www.buckdenroundabout.info. Some of the features are outlined below:
Monthly editions
: All future editions of the magazine will be available online in the form of a flip-book—
it is just like flipping through the paper copy! A pdf version will also be available to download for those of
you that want to read this on the move on your tablet or Kindle.
Diary
: As has been mentioned in previous editions, the Roundabout team will be maintaining a village
diary on the website. The diary will contain all events that we are aware of. The principal idea of the dia-
ry is to enable event organisers to check for clashing events when organising an event of their own, but
it will obviously also be there for anyone to check what events are planned. Whilst we have started pop-
ulating the diary it is dependent on event organisers contacting us so that we can enter the event de-
tails. Please send entries for the diary to editor@buckdenroundabout.info.
Please note this is not re-
placing the For Your Diary section in the magazine - only minimal information will be stored
online.
Announcements
: Alongside the diary page we also have an announcements section which will have
both time-sensitive articles and ‘stop-press’ type announcements.
Forum
: This is the place where any discussions relating to the village and anything associated with it
can be discussed. Registration is required but it is a simple process.
Additionally we are launching a Facebook page (www.facebook.com/buckdenroundabout) and a twitter
account (@BuckdenRbt) which will regularly post relevant updates and provide event reminders.
Please do visit it and let us know what you think - we’d love to hear anything you have to say!
1,2,3,4,5 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,...24
Powered by FlippingBook