This year, The Storers have awarded an unprece-

dented three bursary grants to Eastrea students.

These applicants showed such promise that the

awards were felt to be the best response to the high

quality of all the entries. Each was reviewed by the

Trustees, and independent academic referees.

Rebecca Wenham of Coates Road has worked at Coates Primary School and at Alderman Jacobs. She is a qualified sports

leader. Stefan Marseglia, also of Coates Road, has worked as a trainee jour-

nalist at the Peterborough Evening Telegraph and at the Salvation Army charity

shop in Stanground. He gained a Brian Mawhinney Award for GCSE progress.

Rachel Gardner who is from Thornham Way has

been a teaching assistant and an au pair in Malta. She is studying primary

education with foreign lan-guages at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.

The Nag’s Head opens today, Friday October

26, after a license was granted yesterday to

the new owners, Mr David Lepia and Mr John

Harris, at Fenland Hall. The doors will be

open by 6 pm. The landlord and landlady,

Nog and Dot Paling, are eager to provide vil-

lagers with the relaxed, friendly ambience

that the village needs. A copy of the pub’s new

Christmas Menu is being sent to every home

in Eastrea with this Newsletter. The aim is to

restore the Nag’s Head to its proper position

as our local public house, with a new empha-

sis on good food and on homely accommoda-

tion for visitors to the district. In response to

objections, the opening hours have been re-

duced and proposals for outside music have

been dropped — except for the annual Straw

Bear celebrations, for which a special excep-

tion has been made in agreement with objec-

tors who attended the hearing. The Storers

will be able to resume the lunches in Eastrea,

and many local events can once more be

based where they belong — at the Nag’s Head.

THE PUB OPENS TODAY!

Many of the senior villagers speak of there having

been a railway station at Wype Road, by the level

crossing. They are right. Old copies of the trade

directories for the Isle of Ely mention a station

for our village. Since you can travel from Whittle-

sey to Peterborough in less than ten minutes,

would it made sense to have our station rebuilt?

In the modern world of extensive car ownership,

people might ignore it. Would you use it?

PUBLISHED BY ROTHAY HOUSE , MAYFIELD ROAD , EASTREA .

OCTOBER 2007 NUMBER 14

Eastrea Village News

Rebecca Wenham is reading Natural Sciences at Durham aided by a Storer’s Bursary.

Our bursary student Stefan Marseglia is now studying

journalism at City University.

Our view of the Nag’s Head pub on the day the wind turbine blades passed through Eastrea, en route to McCain’s. The turbines are the largest in Britain, and if anybody doubted their size, they won’t now!

EASTREA STUDENTS

THE VILLAGE STATION