Lincolnshire Echo from Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England • 6

Lincoln 525252 Echo Ads 532333 Tuesday November 3 1998 3 Lincolnshire Echo Sporting Simon shoots to top SPORTS mad cystic fibrosis sufferer Simon Barker netted £250 for a hospital by playing basketball with soccer stars As reported in the Echo the nine-year-old took centre stage with famous footballers in a shoot-out to raise cash for Sheffield Hospital He lined up with rival footballers Dejan Stefanovic from Sheffield Wednesday and Alan Kelly from Sheffield United And organisers Westfield Health donated £10 to Sheffield Hospital for every basket scored He was in the team playing against rivals from Newcastle General Hospital His mum Anne dad Stephen and brothers Tim and Andrew who live in Sutton-on-Sea watched him take part in the competition along with a packed crowd and televsion crews Simon visits the hospital every four to six weeks for treatment Proud Mrs Barker said despite his condition he plays all sports including basketball badminton and hockey The shoot-out took place before the Sharks took on the Newcastle Giants in a game at Sheffield Arena Westfield Health was founded in Sheffield in 1919 and is a non-profit making organisation Last year £750000 was distributed in grants to provide equipment and support for the NHS medically-related charities and community schemes Body in field murder denied A 31 -year-old man denied the murder of a Billinghay woman when he appeared at Lincoln Crown Court John David Jones of Princess Square is accused of the murder of Jennifer Garrett (30) of the same address between July 22 and 29 this year Her body was discovered in a field during a police search after she was reported missing A post-mortem examination revealed the cause of death as multiple injuries Jones pleaded not guilty to the charge and was remanded in custody Judge Richard Hutchinson ordered a further hearing to take place in December to decide the date of the trial Reporting restrictions were not lifted during hearing Your say on services TRANSPORT facilities and rubbish will be put under the spotlight in a new survey Lincolnshire County Council is sending out a questionnaire to residents to ask what services they feel need to be be improved The questionnaire follows comments made by people at a series of public meetings earlier this year And there is an added incentive to fill in and return the form as one lucky person will pick up £50 Pensioner in accident POLICE have named a pedestrian taken to hospital after an accident with a bus Cynthia Davidson (72) of Western Avenue Lincoln suffered cuts to her head and damage to her collarbone after the accident at the city bus station off Broadgate yesterday morning Arrows to on free pearing in the area at an official air show or other event they are allowed to take a detour of three or four miles to fly past another event Many of the requests come from places miles away from where they are appearing that day and so they simply cannot make it Sqd Ldr Cunnane said: MoD is always looking at costs But if we only divert two or three miles there really any extra fuel costs we usually ask is that people advertise it as a display because we can only do a fly-past We also ask them only to advertise locally so people travel hundreds of The team is currently grounded because of the bad weather But the team is currently working on some new routines which will remain top secret until the New Year More expected to ask for fly-pasts by Rachel Kerr them and I am sure we will get lots more requests after this am very pleased because there are a lot of people who love the Red Arrows but make it to air The team received more than 600 requests to fly past events in the last year and 60 of those had their wish come true The way it works is that if the Arrows are ap REQUESTS for free shows by aerobatics aces the Red Arrows are expected to show a huge increase after defence chiefs dismissed worries over their cost The world famous RAF Cranwell-based display team has been providing unofficial displays for years at sports days weddings fetes and other events en route to official engagements The Ministry of Defence has now decided the cost of these is negligible and they are a valuable public relations exercise Squadron Leader Tony Cunnane said: have been doing these displays for years and now the MoD says we can continue and more people are discovering we do Year of Reading launch FROM PAGE 1 The Lincolnshire Year of Reading initiative was launched at a Language Through Literacy conference Echo assistant editor Michael Gubbins said: is one of the great central themes of the new Millennium ability to read and a love and understanding of our language will be at the heart of the economic growth of our county and will be one of the means by which we improve and build our communities Echo is proud to support this brilliant For full details about the Lincolnshire Year of Reading see Echo Millennium ideas wanted IDEAS on the Millennium are to be discussed by neighbours in West End A meeting has been organised to give residents a chance to come up with ways of marking the big event Organisers want to hear what people would like to do how and where and even whether they want to celebrate at all! meeting in the Parish Hall in West Parade starts at 730pm and everyone is welcome New Plenty of room inside: buses a City Mayor Councillor Bud Super Buzz (3782) month Robinson launches the new early BUS passengers in Lincoln got a pleasant surprise yesterday when four of them turned up more than a month early new Super Buzz buses started travelling along the city centre-Ermine route yesterday with passengers travelling free to celebrate the launch The service was not due to start until well into December but the bright yellow red and blue buses arrived early so RoadCar decided to start running on two routes The new vehicles cost £330000 and will soon be followed by extra services to Birchwood and the south of the city Lincoln City managing director Paul Hill said: want to encourage people to leave their car behind when travelling around the NORTH KESTEVEN SCHOOL Headteacher: BA Moor Lane North Hykeham Lincoln LN6 9AG Telephone (01522) 881010 Fax (01522) 881452 Mail: nkscnoolmailrmplccouk North Kesteven School welcomes prospective students (September 1999) and their parents to its second Open Morning on Wednesday 4th November at 930am The last Open Morning will be held on Thursday 5th November For further details telephone: 01 522 881 01 0 (81 5am-4 1 5pm) Staff will be available to answer your enquiries.