St Martins were defeated in another cricket match against St Mary’s on Thursday.
St Martins won the toss and decided to bat first. They scored 107 for 8 wickets in their 20 overs. Barney McClachlan was the top scorer for St Martins.
St. Mary’s passed the required 108 with 2 overs to spare losing 4 wickets.
St Marys’s Giles Lethbridge top scored for St. Mary’s with 32 including a six and five fours.
The new visitor centre at Tresco’s Abbey Gardens opened on Monday.
The building which is built out of trees that fell in storms in 1986 has a new cafe, exhibition centre and garden shop.
The exhibition centre includes a display on the Dorrien Smith family.
It will have an official opening in September.
The Southwest reflected the general opinion of the UK last night in the result of the European elections: a loss for labour and conservative votes, and a gain for the liberal democrats and UKIP.
In the Southwest, the only change in MEPs was the loss of a conservative seat (A Stockton) in the European Parliament, and a gain of a UKIP seat.
The Southwest now has the following representatives:
3 Conservative (G Chichester, C Jackson, N Parish)
2 UK Independance Party (G Booth, R Knapman)
1 Liberal Democrat (G Watson)
1 Labour (G Ford)
The votes are done on a proportional representation basis for the European Parliament, as opposed to one person winning a seat in a particular ward, as in the UK general elections.
The Southwest region includes the mainland between Glostershire and Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and Gibraltar.
There will be several factors triggering the change in public opinion:
- UKIP votes increasing due to greater scepticism of European policies. Votes probably coming from ex-Conservative voters wanting a more hard-line stance on Europe. The appearance of Kilroy-Silk also raises the profile of the party.
- Labour votes moving to Liberal Democrat. The two parties are pro-Europe, the Lib Dems being more keen - the only party that promotes joining the Euro. The move may come from the loss of support for Tony Blair, who is even loosing support within his own party.
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The Sunday sailing of the Scillonian is a saviour for Saturday’s fogbound visitors to the islands.
Thick fog on Friday and Saturday caused massive delays to flights to and from the islands. It resulted in two sailings on the Scillonian on Saturday. Unfortunately there were too many passengers for the boat. So 15 passengers volunteered to get off the vessel and spend the night in Penzance.
Luckily for them Sunday had a Pirate FM Scillonian Sunday sailing to Scilly scheduled.
Some fog bound passengers were lucky enough to get seats on the jet propelled boats “The Cyclone”, “The Wizard” and “Lightening” which did trips to and from the mainland for desperate passengers.
Bryher has had it’s second new church window put in.
Islanders helped to raise the money for the new church windows with events like the Bryher Fete. Regular visitors to the island also helped in the effort.
The new window was made by Oriel Hicks on St Mary’s. It depicts Creation. Words inscribed on the stained glass window say “And God said let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life.”
The residents of Bryher are continuing their fundraising campaign to have two more new windows.
Marian Gibson from St Mary’s has travelled far across the water to France this weekend to take part in the World Powerlifting Championships.
Marian, who is originally from Bryher is in the British squad and broke a world record back in March at the Yorkshire and North East County Division Championships.
But she is used to breaking records in 2003 alone she broke 19 British records including 3rd place at the European Powerlifting Championships in Slovakia.
Nothing could prevent another win for the St Mary’s cricket team on Thursday.
They were playing St Martins on the island. It was the home team that batted first and scored 85 runs for 8 wickets with Andrew deary being 24 not out and Joe Badcock taking 3 wickets for 16 runs.
St Mary’s scored 91 for 2 with Richard Wilcox not out including four sixes.
St Mary’s appear to be on a winning streak after beating Tresco/Bryher last week in a friendly match.
The next match will be on Sunday 6th June when St Martins play St Agnes.
Flights to and from the islands have not been affected by the air traffic problems that mainland Britain are experiencing.
Computer problems grounded many flights from the UK and passengers have been subject to delays.
This week Dr Robin Wilson, the son of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, received a degree from the university his father founded.
Dr Wilson told The Independent it took him 17 years to complete his degree because he had to take 7 years out of studying because of his OU career.
He added that he thought his father would be proud of his achievements and the achievements of the OU. But he went on to add about his father: “I remember the beginnings of the OU in my father’s mind, as far back as 1963. We were on holiday in the Scilly Isles, and on Easter Day, just after church, I recall him writing out the details of this crazy idea.”
Harold Wilson was a well known lover of Scilly, once holding a press conference from Samson. He is now buried on the islands.