Saffron Walden Weekly News from Saffron Walden, Essex, England • 9

SAFFRON WALDEN WEEKLY NEWS Thursday August 25 1977 tier months of waiting the fast one beats the bulldozers dog no danger court across a field of corn at Duxford Concorde af ter its arrival on Saturday 2366772" Concorde lands safely at Duxford made a second circuit to be absolutely on the safe side As the wheels touched concrete a breaking parachute broke out of the tail to slow the plane down on this one of the shortest runways at 6000 feet on which an aircraft of this size can land Concorde just beat the bulldozers to it By-pass builders waited four weeks before lopping off 1000 feet from the runway which would have made the landing impossible Concorde is at Duxford to stay She cannot even take off from the existing runwav As late as Friday bad weather had delayed the orde taxis past the cranes and bulldozers building Concorde 01 finally came to rest on the Duxford airfield runway on Saturday after months of waiting by the Duxford Aviation Society To the last the will-she question mark hung over the aircraft as bad weather made landing impossible Even when the giant plane with an 84 foot wingspan came in to land it seemed as though she had changed her mind Pilot Brian Trubshaw the BAC director of flight operations pulled her up and Pye 118 pc half of profits fined false ole applications up in first 77 our men were fined a total of £690 by Haverhill istrates last Wednesday for obtaining social irity benefits by making false declarations Com-sation orders totalling more than £460 were made ruling When a Cherry Hinton woman took her pair of racing greyhounds for a Sunday morning walk one of them was viciously attacked by an alsatian trates heard last Wednesday Mrs Irene Wakelin of 100 Fulbourn Old Drift told the bench the dog came from the home of the Rozzo family at 156 Fulbourn Old Drift and ran back there after the attack The court found after more than four hours that Wilindeck Joe known as Bunny because it has one floppy ear was not a dangerous dog which had to be kept under control The allegation by the police against Miss Loreta Rozzo (19) a student nurse was dismissed Went to vet Mrs Wakelin said that as she approached the Rozzos1 house she saw the alsatian loose in the yard As she turned to go back to her home it attacked one of her greyhounds She said she saw the dog come out of the yard and knew it was not another alsatian in the area Her husband Mr James Wakelin a milk roundsman said that when his wife returned home she was in a near-hysterical state and screaming for help The greyhound was covered in blood with bites on its head neck and rear He cleaned up the dog and took it to a veterinary surgeon who attended to it at a cost of £190 Miss Rozzo told the court she was at work all that day from 7 am to 8 pm When she left for work at Fulbourn Hospital the dog was chained up in the yard dog Sunday morning she said was a very busy morning in the yard with eight or nine people loading ice cream vans If such an incident as the attack had happened someone would have heard it Her dog had never attacked any other dog or indeed kittens or children have already commented on how soft a dog he she said Her mother Mrs Anna Maria Rozzo said the dog was never let loose when the yard gates were open It was impossible that someone could have let the dog off its chain She had been in the yard the whole morning Mr Frank McMenemy for Miss Rozzo submitted that for the complaint to be upheld it had to be established both that the dog was dangerous and that it was not kept under proper control It was the defence contention that it was not their alsatian which had made the attack as during the time it was under control and did not leave the yard POLICEMAN INJURED A Royston policeman was slightly hurt on Sunday in an incident at a late night party Police were called to a house in Eliot Road Royston by neighbours who had complained about the noise A police spokesman said one of the guests put his fist through a plate window and also broke the glass front of a door The damage is estimated at £35 Pc Jim Wild tried to get a guest out of the house and during the scuffle was hurt in the face and had a tooth loosened LITERARY AWARD FOR OVER WOMAN Cambridgeshire author and illustrator Miss Althea Braithwaite is this winner of the Society of Young Publishers award She lives at Over and is managing editor of Dinosaur Publications Ltd which operates from the village The award was to be presented by the chairman Mr Howard Middle in London yesterday Miss Braithwaith aged 36 has written or illustrated 82 titles niostlv for children or for the National Trust Brian Trubshaw he brought the plane in arrival of the pre-prpduction 01 aircraft the most prestigious gift ever to the Dux-ford Aviation Society he eventual landing which was watched by hundreds inside the airfield as well as hundreds more parked in cars aroudn the site went smoothly Man accused of stealing silver A mian accused of stealing more than £33000 worth of property in Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire was remanded in custody for seven days by Cambridge and Caxton magistrates on Friday He was Alfred Hugget said to be of no fixed address He is accused of burgling Mr William home at The Ridings London Road Royston between July 10 and 11 and stealing silver worth a total of £20000 and burgling Mr John home at 297 Kills Road Cambridge on May 31 and stealing carriage clocks a black suitcase and a leather holdall worth a total of £9865 He is further accused of burgling Sir Arthur home at Metbourn between August 10 and 11 and stealing silverware and antiques totalling £2321 and burgling the Melbourn Sports and Social dub between June 12 and 17 and stealing cash and spirits totalling £1304 His solicitor Mr John Hales-Took made no application for bail Crash car ends up in dyke A motorist escaped injury when his car ended up in a dyke after a collision with a lorry on the A142 at Mepal near Ely He was Mr Barry Porter of 23 Main Street Witchford The lorry driver Mr Humphrey Smith of 55 High Street Teversham was also unhurt the by-pass 23667725 JAUNT ENDS UP IN COURT An Oakington jaunt on a motor cycle came to an end when he ran out of petrol on the way home from a pub Cambridge and Caxton magistrates heard on Friday While walking back to the machine with an old tin can and a piece of hosepipe Fusilier Norman John Weir was spotted by a policeman explained Mr Michael Pratt prosecuting Admission Noticing he had classic tools for syphoning the policeman stopped Mr Weir It turned out that he did not have permission to ride the machine and was banned from driving at the time Mr Weir (18) of Company Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Oakington Barracks admitted taking the machine for his own use attempting to steal petrol driving while banned and driving with no insurance He was banned from driv-ing for 20 months and was fined £135 He denied stealing a crash helmet His plea was accepted and the charge dismissed the Government during the next seven years One of the aims of the commission is to have roughly the same number of voters in each constituency The ideal size they are hoping for is 65500 voters for each MP At present five of the local constituencies are over that figure though the Isle of Ely is only marginally larger with 68491 at the last election The two largest constituencies in the area are Bury St Edmunds (87321) and Cambridgeshire (84434) Australia and Kong company The result of these moves when the figures for the first six months of 1976 are adjusted to take account of them put the Pye performance for that period in a better light a trading profit of £48 million against £396 million and a taxable profit of £34 million against £22 million Two accused of assault Two young Sawston men accused of assaulting a 17-year-old police cadet appeared at Cambridge Court Steven George Webb (19) said to be of 1 Orchard Road and Paul Barry Manko (18) who gave his address as 1 Sain Fein Close are accused of assaulting Robert Charles Kyte in Lion Yard Cambridge on July 9 The case was adjourned to September 6 for committal papers to be served and bail was £30 was allowed mission said: of the Cambridgeshire constituen cies are obviously too large to go on existing as they are is early days yet but it seems likely that an additional constituency will be created in the area We know where it will be until we have seen the results of the ward boundary She added that it was unlikely that any firm proposals would be made before early next year The final recommendations were due to be presented to the Government by 1984 By our business correspondent Naunton Pugh Pye profits rocketed 118 per cent in the first six months of this yeai Trade everywhere except in New Zealand was better the Cambridge electronics group said when its figures were released And the current six months of the trading year is expected to produce a similar return said the chairman Lord Thorneycroft Since this time last year the Pye group has been slimmed by the disposal of the loss-making consumer products division which makes television and radio sets and audio equipment to the Pye parent group Philips together with the sale to the same buyer of Pye Industries Ltd in They are expected to lose between 18000 and 21000 vnfprc paph Huntingdonshire (79724) and Cambridge itself (75947) can also expect to lose between 9000 and 14000 electors Only Saffron Walden (62397) is likely to remain unchanged or expand Early days Voters moved away from the four largest constituencies would create a new constituency with about 64000 electors A spokesman for the com William Barry for the irtment of Employment the court that each man ed supplementary and nployment benefits by ig he was out of work at the time he was oyed cases were heard ately mes Smith said to be of irewood Terrace Haver-admitted seven offences was fined £300 He was ed to pay £19421 common Reeve said to be of lays Avenue Balsham tted three offences and fined £150 He was ed to pay £10005 com-tion and £20 towards gal aid es totalling £140 were sed on John Morley to be of 16 Chedburgh Haverhill who admit-four offences He also for three other offen- 0 be taken into consdd-'l He was ordered to compensation and owards his legal aid in Guest said to be of kleton Place Haverhill ted two offences and fined a total of £100 18446 compensation presiding magistrate ciih Roberts told each We regard these as serious offences You stealing from your man That is where Honey comes Jeal follows avan refusal f- Richmond has fim against South Cam-snire District to refuse permis- a residential cara- 1 sawston appeal to be con-by letter concerns a 1 tommon Lane The ad did not grant '1 lication because it is 1 area and the agri- rmt need for a caravan 1 1 great enough Boundaries revision may give mid-Anglia new constituency Mid-Anglia is likely to have a new parliamentary constituency within the next few years As part of a major boundary shake-up four constituencies are each expected to Jose up to 22000 voters The present boundaries would then be re-arranged to make a greater number of smaller constituencies The predictions are based on figures given to the by the Boundary Commission for England which will be reporting to.