Faversham posties line up special delivery with charity cale

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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PEOPLE could be seeing a little more of their posties than they bargained for next year, after eight Royal Mail workers from Faversham decided to put their own stamp on a fundraising calendar.

With strategically-placed parcels and postbags, the postmen and woman have bared all to raise money for Cancer Research and local charities, partly inspired by two late colleagues, postmen Mick Nutting and Dave Cooper, who were in their 60s when they lost their battles to the illness.

Leading the fundraising, Graham Bedford, 50, of Athelstan Road, swapped his usual round by Faversham Rec for a chilly day at the town's Royal Mail delivery office for the shoot, with fellow posties Ian Hopkins, Andrew Butcher, Jamie Cousins, Jodie Kennett, Wayne Dunn, Martin Lloyd and Basil Hull.

"It's an idea we have had for a couple of years as we all know someone who has been affected by cancer," said Graham, who lost his mother to lung cancer when she was 76.

"It wasn't hard to persuade the others to do it. They were all pretty up for it as it was for a good cause.

"It was fun to do, and actually wasn't embarrassing at all."

But Graham said that delivering the news while on his rounds had left him as red as his uniform on occasion.

"We have had people come up and say 'I didn't recognise you with your clothes on' while we've been out working. But everyone's been really positive about it and we've sold quite a few already," he said.

Now the posties have had 500 calendars printed, and are hoping to raise nearly £3,000 if they sell out.

"We are hopeful people will buy it and contribute to the charity, even if they just buy one as a novelty. After all, everyone needs a calendar."

The calendars will be available from various newsagents, pubs and post offices in Faversham for £5.50.

[Stormproof]

The guys in my office will be gutted, they wanted to do a calendar this year.

[Postman Plodd]

What has been seen cannot be unseen

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[Stormproof]

What has been seen cannot be unseen

must....


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I've just seen one of the pictures.......totally agree, not a pretty sight

[TeeferTiger]

The guys in my office will be gutted, they wanted to do a calendar this year.

Did they want you to take part?

[Stormproof]

The guys in my office will be gutted, they wanted to do a calendar this year.

Did they want you to take part?

Ha Ha..........no chance of that happening, infact everyone has more of a chance on winning the lottery than me doing that.

[Lounge Lizard]

And in the same paper == Herne Bay gran struggles to sleep because of groping ghost .




Saturday, November 19, 2011 Canterbury Times

A POLTERGEIST that haunts a Herne Bay flat is upsetting granny Doris Birch, she claims.
The 73-year-old former nursing home assistant says she can no longer sleep at night as she struggles to fight off the groping ghost.
She said: "It's like an octopus. It started four months ago. I was lying in bed when I felt this creepy pair of hands.
"I kicked frantically and it went away. Next time it came I hurled the duvet on to the floor!
"But the ghost keeps coming back. I've tried sleeping without the duvet. But it started shaking my mattress.
"I even threw the mattress off the bed and bought a new one but it has made no difference.
"I told my 16-year-old granddaughter and she was gobsmacked. She said I must be joking.
"People are going to think I am mad but it is as real as the day to me. I'm not lonely. I love living alone.
"But this is very creepy and is giving me the jitters. It's harassing me. I need to call in the Ghostbusters.
"I told the vicar and he said it is a lost spirit. What I want to know is, why has it got lost in my flat?"
But help is at hand thanks to the Herne Bay Times.
We contacted husband-and-wife ghost-hunters Ray and Beryl Herne from Central Parade to send the poltergeist packing.
Spirit medium Ray, a 52-year-old lorry driver, says he can draw the gross ghost into him while Beryl, 59, will envelope it in a "vortex of light" and send it to the "other side."
Beryl said: "Sometimes spirits need to be here. There is usually a reason. Sometimes it's family. Sometimes we have to alleviate some stress."
Methodist Minister Hugh-Nigel Sheehan, 68, of Mortimer Street's United Church, said: "I was approached by Mrs Birch but I fear I am not in a position to help. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
"I have no expertise in this at all. I am neither a trained counsellor nor from a church with a tradition of exorcism such as the Catholic Church. It is very difficult to know how to respond."
Poltergeists are said to be mischievous spirits that make loud noises and move objects. If you have had any experience of a poltergeist, contact ed.targett @KRNmedia.co.uk or call 01843 578176.