Coronavirus update
- The Potters Arms in Winchmore Hill said last night it will not reopen until next year after learning this area is to be placed in tier 2 when lockdown ends on Wednesday. “We believe to protect jobs and to come out of this on the other side stronger, it is best that we don’t take the risk of opening until 2021,” the pub management team said.
- Under the tier 2 restrictions pubs can only serve alcohol with substantial meals, which the British Beer and Pub Association says will make many pubs unviable. The Potters Arms, which was due to hold two comedy nights next week to aid stand-up comics, took the decision even though it regularly serves substantial meals.
- Latest figures show an actual rise of coronavirus cases in Penn, Tylers Green and Hazlemere compared to the week before. Twenty one new cases were recorded for the week ending last Saturday compared with 18 the week before, although it was 28 the week before then. They show ten in Tylers Green, an increase of three; eight in Penn(with Knotty Green and Holmer Green), an increase also of three, but just three in Hazlemere, down from six the previous week.
- Buckinghamshire Council leader Martin Tett confirmed the county libraries and leisure centres will reopen next week, as permitted under tier 2 regulations. The council will release further details about its services shortly.
- Penn and Tylers Green Scouts have launched their Christmas charity appeal this year with a Just Giving page. The scouts are hoping the tier 2 restrictions will still allow them to deliver Christmas cards to the local area but this year, for safety reasons, they are not selling the usual stamps. Instead they are asking for donations to their selected charity Shelter, and hence the Just Giving page. You’ll find it on https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/penn-tylers-green-scout-group?
- Penn Street’s Holy Trinity Church says its annual Christingle service next Sunday, 6 December, will be held online at 4pm.
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