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Wye web wishes you all a very happy New Year and looks forward to bringing you all the news on Wye throughout the coming year.

This website exists for the interest and use of the Community. May we remind Clubs and Organisations to keep us posted of their events and news.

If you wish to have any Wye articles or photographs that you think will be of interest to others published, please post them to us on the site or contact us. (Tel:01233 812671)

We live in an amazing, unique and interesting village surrounded by stunning countryside. Please help us to record all that goes on here by keeping us informed.

In the meantime may 2009 be a happy year for Wye and it’s Community!

It will already have been noticed that ghostly apparitions may not always conform to the comic-book style of ectoplasm and bed sheet. Nor can it be said that ghosts are always appear as ancient monks and clanking of dungeon chains. This report is much more recent than that and was witnessed by a young girl who is now only twelve years old so it is very recent.

It was a couple of years ago on a late summer evening when there was still enough light to see and distinguish features but coming on dusk. The young girl, I will call her Amy, was hurrying back home having visited her grandmother when she noticed in the doorway of a house on her path a fair young man of moderate height but with broad shoulders. Moreover, not so strange for a summer evening, I would suggest, he was wearing a white T-shirt above a well-fitted pair of jeans. He was leaning against the porch post but was quite still almost in a pose of thoughtful meditation. Amy looked but he seemed not to have seen her and she hurried home. Nothing happened for several more days and their neighbours reported nothing unusual so the young man faded behind the other events in Amy’s days. However, Amy recalled her first sight of the young man a few days later when she saw him again, dressed in exactly the same attire but this time standing in the garden of the same house. This time she was about to call out when he turned and stared in her direction. It was such a sad look that Amy felt strangely moved, however, this time she felt a perceptible chill in the air. The third time she saw the young man he was nearer to her own house looking into a hedgerow.  This time Amy felt a wave of anxiety and ran quickly to her home where she reported the sightings to her father.

A week later her father was called by an anxious acquaintance out to the Crundale Chalk Quarry where the acquaintance had discovered the body of a young man hanging from a beam in an outhouse. The body had been there several weeks and was that of a young fair-haired, man dressed in blue jeans and a white T-shirt.

The Wyeweb annual Christmas party was held last Saturday, hosted by our Editor Errol Roberts who has just recovered from a bout of flu. We were pleased that Errol had recovered enough to join us in all the fun. The party was timed to start after the Strictly Come Dancing Final to avoid disappointment.

 Errol threw a great party for the Wyeweb backroom staff who enjoyed a few festive drinks and nibbles to the sounds of Errol’s long playing recordings of Bing Crossby and Max Bygraves.

Secret Santa made an appearance and our Editor seemed delighted with his gift of a screen cleaning cloth.

 It’s time for us to sign off now until after Christmas. Unless in the meantime anything extraordinary happens in our village, such as Martians landing on the Village Green then of course we will be on the case!

Errol and everyone at Wyeweb would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Back in October we reported that a house in Cherry Garden Lane had been burgled. Shortly after that the Cricket club was broken into. Last week our Co Op was ram raided. Wye web learnt today that a young couple with a family who live in Bridge Street went away last weekend and returned to find their house had also been broken into.

Any one who has ever had their home broken into will tell you it is a most unpleasant and frightening experience. Wye has a very low crime rate thankfully. Christmas brings a great deal of joy but unfortunately it also brings the burglars! So folks be on your guard and pay extra attention to anything that may appear suspicious.

  To report anything contact:

  Community Warden : Nick Thistle 07969 583920  

  Community Police Officer: WPC Alison Barney 07870 252954

  Emergencies: Dial 999