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BBC News
7 hours ago
- Business
- BBC News
Bristol Beekeeping Café buzzing to help new enthusiasts
A new café where customers can order bees or locally produced honey has well as coffee and cake, the Beekeepers Café in Redhill, Somerset, is selling all the equipment budding apiarists will need to manage their own hives - including the insects. The café is part of West Country Meadery, which has been producing honey for eight years. Bosses hope the venture will provide a "really good" launchpad to those hoping to try their hand at keeping Rod Jenkins said: "It's important to keep bees, especially for the environment, but it's also important that people do it properly. We don't want to spread diseases, so we teach people how to look after them properly." West Country Meadery is the brainchild of husband and wife duo Rod and Tracey started their journey when Rod bought Tracey her first hive for Christmas in 2017. She said the hobby "got a bit out of hand" and they now manage six apiaries across farmers fields, orchards and their own land. As well as their own produce, the café sells books on beekeeping, suits and gloves. Rod and Tracey also want to give aspiring keepers the chance to get "hands-on" by offering experience May and August, people can visit the café, get suited up and head to an apiary to lend a hand with inspections and 'hive smoking,' a practice used to keep bees café will then offer visitors the chance to buy their own bees and hive.


The Sun
a day ago
- The Sun
Moment red-faced ‘flytipper' gets instant karma when farmer turns detective to ‘return mound of rubbish'
WATCH the satisfying moment a farmer seemingly gets revenge on alleged flytippers as he returns their rubbish. The farmer is said to have tracked down the alleged fly-tipper after she left boxes on his land. 4 4 4 In a rookie error, the 'flytipper' failed to notice that her address was still left on the boxes. Taking the opportunity to exact revenge, land manager Graeme Upton went to her postcode, where he then recognised the car. He filmed himself dumping the rubbish back on her front garden. According to Graeme, the woman had apparently gone to the effort of driving 25 miles to dump her boxes on Graeme's land - leaving her none-too-pleased to have it returned to her. Graeme said in a Facebook post, that he had first noticed the woman idling in a car on his property in Redhill, Surrey when he was moving bales of wheat. When asked what she was doing, he claims she said she was only stopping "for a wee". It was only after she'd driven off that Graeme noticed the pile of cupboard dumped on the ground at the edge of his field. Graeme explained the backstory as part of a video showing him returning the boxes to the woman. In the video, Graeme can be seen knocking on the woman's door and pointing out the familiar car. A man answers and says he hadn't been driving the car when the rubbish was allegedly dumped. Graeme then begins to sarcastically explain the situation to the man, beginning "It's a bit bizarre". He says: "While she was having a wee, all of this stuff clearly fell out of the car and it's got your address on it." The man then goes back into the house before telling them to "drop it all there", pointing at his driveway. Graeme and another man then begin dumping loads of boxes from their van onto the drive. As a woman leaves the house, Graeme says: "I bet you didn't think you'd see me again quite so quick. "I'm just returning what was dropped off in my gateway." As Graeme and his friend leave, he adds: "That's all yours. "A word of advice, make sure you take off your postcode." He wrote: ' The silly cow had left loads of delivery boxes with a post code on and hadn't made a good job of cutting out the address on some boxes or her name !!! 'So I punched the post code into sat nav and lo and behold it took me to her house. 'So myself and two neighbours then collected their rubbish and returned it. They weren't so happy.' In the video, the woman who left her cardboard boxes on Graeme's property stood by her husband, both with their arms crossed and shaking their heads as they watched the rubbish be returned to them.


BBC News
3 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
Former paramedic slams A&E 'chaos' at Redhill hospital
A former NHS paramedic has described being admitted as a patient to A&E as "wall to wall chaos" and said staff treated her "like a piece of meat".Julie Rowland has worked for the NHS for more than 30 years. In April she was admitted to A&E at East Surrey Hospital in Redhill with a potential bleed on her brain. Ms Rowland said she was becoming more ill and thought "I've had a brain haemorrhage...I'm gonna die on this trolley".In response to the allegations, Dr Ed Cetti, chief medical officer for Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, responded by saying the trust was disappointed "we haven't been able to agree an onward care plan that the patient is content with despite our best efforts". Recalling her time in A&E Ms Rowland said it was "wall to wall chaos, noise, unprofessional, non-caring, chaotic, disorganised madness"."I've worked in A&E, I've never been confronted by that," she what she witnessed, she said there were "trolleys everywhere going up the main corridor round the corner out of sight of everybody, you could have died in that corridor and nobody would have noticed". Ms Rowland said she had lost much of her sight since her hospital admission but as she had not received a diagnosis she could not begin is currently receiving support from charities to help her to continue to live at home. "This could be a lifelong disability and it potentially is going to be, and I think that's why I'm angry," she said."It's about the NHS taking accountability. You've changed my life forever and you've not given a monkey's about it either." Dr Cetti said: "We are focused on getting patients the care they need as quickly as possible and it is incredibly disappointing to hear about cases where this has not happened, and we haven't been able to agree an onward care plan that the patient is content with despite our best efforts."Our staff are working hard to treat all patients coming into our Emergency Department as quickly as they can based on their clinical need, but unfortunately very high levels of demand have led to longer waiting times than we would expect to see."Patients will always be offered the most clinically appropriate treatment option for them, including all relevant diagnostics tests and scans to rule out life-threatening illness or injury, and in the last year we have put in place rapid access clinics to escalate follow-up appointments if a patient condition worsens."


BBC News
5 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Harlequin Theatre to stay closed until 2027 over RAAC issue
A Surrey theatre is expected to stay closed for at least another two years, a council has announced. Redhill's Harlequin Theatre suddenly closed in 2023 after it was found to be riddled with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), which can pose safety risks. The future of the theatre, cinema and community space has hung in the balance ever Reigate and Banstead Borough Council has said it expects the theatre to reopen in late spring 2027 if everything goes to plan. The local authority said it will set aside £4.5m to remove the RAAC from the theatre's roof. Senior councillors have said this move will eliminate the risk of it having to close again. Plans to modernise the building, which could have run alongside repair works as part of a previously announced £10m project, have been put on hold, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS). The council said it wants to consider whether it should hand over control to a private the meeting was told, would save the theatre from any future funding cuts. Councillor Ben Green, portfolio holder for finance and assets, said the local authority would "authorise work as soon as possible", though it "may not be able to make a decision that everyone is going to agree with". He added the "elephant in the room" was that "many people had been justifiably upset or angry with the council's delay in dealing with the RAAC issue"."There is no escaping that this matter is complicated to resolve," Mr Green added. The decision was broadly supported by opposition groups.


BBC News
20-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Redhill theatre to be brought back into use after Raac discovery
Council leaders have voted to save an iconic theatre which was shut two years ago over unstable and Banstead Borough Council's executive has agreed to bring the Harlequin Theatre in Redhill back into theatre has been shut since September 2023 when reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) was discovered at the Biggs, the council's leader, said: "Deciding how best to deal with the Raac in the theatre has been very complex but now we can really push forward with getting the theatre back open as quickly as possible." Allocating £4.5m from the authority's reserves to fund the work is set to be finalised at a meeting in council will also look to appoint a specialist company to market and seek expressions of interest for a third-party to run the told BBC Radio Surrey the theatre had become "a cultural hub for community via the arts"."We recognise the importance of it and we're doing everything we can as a council to make sure that legacy and the theatre continue," he added. David Fisher, from the Harlequin Support Group, which was representing users of the venue, said he was "delighted" with the added: "It's critical from our point of view that once the decision is confirmed at the full council next month that we proceed very quickly to the contracting process," he added. On Thursday, the executive also agreed the next steps for the creation of an additional arts and cultural venue in Redhill, which would be run by a leader said the council had already received interest from more than one local organisation to run the site.