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Barton Utd JFC now trains on the Playing Field on Thursday evenings.

Barton United JFC have begun junior football training sessions in Barrow on Thursday evenings. The club is providing junior football at all formats; 5v5, 7v7, 9v9, 11v11. At the moment the club runs a Sunday Session which is to attract children into football and make the experience fun and enjoyable whilst making new friends. The age range for this is from 4 up to 12 year olds. However, we have been known to accept 3 year olds who are ready for football. Children can’t start playing football in an organised manner in accordance with the FA until they become U7’s.

At the moment the club has U6, U7, U8 (x2), U9, U10 (x3), U11 (x2) and U14 teams on our books for the 23/24 season, together with an Open Age Barton United Ladies.

All the coaches have FA Level 1 coaching certificate and one has UEFA C) and all have to have completed the FA specific 1st aid and safeguarding courses. All the managers involved are parents of children in the teams and in many cases this is the same for assistant managers too. The club is heavily reliant on volunteers to support, not only running a team but, support the Sunday session too. This normally comes in the form of parents who come forward to ensure, not only their child has football but others too.

For further details contact: secretary@bartonutdjfc.club.

Walking the public footpaths

If you are walking the village’s public footpaths with your dog, please enjoy them but be sure to follow the Countryside Code to keep yourselves and our wildlife and animals safe:

When you take your dog into the outdoors, always ensure it does not disturb wildlife, farm animals, horses or other people by keeping it under effective control. This means that you:

• keep your dog on a lead, or keep it in sight at all times, be aware of what it’s doing and be confident it will return to you promptly on command
• ensure it does not stray off the path or area where you have a right of access

Special dog rules may apply in particular situations, so always look out for local signs – for example:

• dogs may be banned from certain areas that people use, or there may be restrictions, byelaws or control orders limiting where they can go
• the access rights that normally apply to open country and registered common land (known as ‘open access’ land) require dogs to be kept on a short lead between 1 March and 31 July, to help protect ground nesting birds, and all year round near farm animals
• at the coast, there may also be some local restrictions to require dogs to be kept on a short lead during the bird breeding season, and to prevent disturbance to flocks of resting and feeding birds during other times of year

It’s always good practice (and a legal requirement on ‘open access’ land) to keep your dog on a lead around farm animals and horses, for your own safety and for the welfare of the animals. A farmer may shoot a dog which is attacking or chasing farm animals without being liable to compensate the dog’s owner.

However, if cattle or horses chase you and your dog, it is safer to let your dog off the lead – don’t risk getting hurt by trying to protect it. Your dog will be much safer if you let it run away from a farm animal in these circumstances and so will you.

Everyone knows how unpleasant dog mess is and it can cause infections, so always clean up after your dog and get rid of the mess responsibly – ‘bag it and bin it’. Make sure your dog is wormed regularly to protect it, other animals and people.

As lockdown restrictions ease, we’re reaching out to victims of domestic abuse to encourage them to get in touch so that we can help.

Protecting victims – no matter what their gender or relationship to their abuser – continues to be one of our highest priorities.

And while we’re doing everything we can to help and support those we know to be at risk, we’re concerned that there are other victims out there who have felt unable to let us know they’re in danger.

Detective Chief Inspector Becky Dickinson said: “Nationally, reports of domestic abuse have risen by eight per cent, but we haven’t seen that in this area. In fact reports are down and my fear is that some victims have not felt able to call us because the person who is controlling or hurting them has always been there.

What’s also worrying is that where we have been contacted, we have seen an increase in the number of incidents where victims have come to greater harm. Now that restrictions have eased, more people have been able to go back to work or leave the house to see friends and family, my appeal is to take the opportunity to let someone know so that we can help you.

We have made it clear to perpetrators that the restrictions are not a free pass for them to behave in this way towards people in their household. Our teams have been out doing random spot checks on households where we know there’s a risk of domestic abuse. We’re also checking that any Domestic Abuse Prevention Orders are not being breached and bringing those who do back before the courts – which has led to a number of offenders being sent to prison – and we’ll keep doing it.

What’s most important to us is that anyone who is a victim of domestic abuse knows that they are not alone. We are here for you, we will listen and we will help you. The same applies if you are worried about a friend, neighbour or loved one. By letting us know there is an issue we can help.”

There are a number of ways to get help and support:

• You can call us on 101 or 999 if you’re in immediate danger.
• If you want to call us but you’re unable to speak, dial the number as normal but once the call is connected, dial 55. We will then know you’re on the line and be able to hear what’s happening and get help to you.
• Send us a direct message to our force Facebook or Twitter accounts – both of which can be found by searching @humberbeat.

If you don’t want to speak to us, there are a number of charities and other organisations that can help. These are just some of them:

• Women’s Aid have a real-time online chat function Opens in a new window .
• Women’s Aid – 0808 200 0247
• Refuge’s 24 hour helpline – 0808 2000 247
• Men’s Advice Line – 0808 801 0327
• Mankind Initiative – 01823 334 244
• Childline – 0800 111 111
• Hull Domestic Abuse Partnership – 01482 318 759
• North & North East Lincs support – The Blue Door – 0800 197 47 87
• East Riding Support – 01482 396 330
• Respect – Helpline for offenders – 0845 122 86 09
• Broken Rainbow UK – 24 hour helpline for LGBT couples – 0300 9995428

A history of the playing field

Back in 1928 a group of residents in the village got together to examine the feasibility of purchasing some land which could be used as a recreational play area for the village. Having (unsuccessfully) approached Lincolnshire County Council for a grant toward the purchase of the field, the money was subsequently raised by public donation and the field was purchased for about £400. It was officially opened by Lord Yarborough in 1933, and the then playing field committee, in a move to protect the field from ever being sold for development, put the field into trust, with 50% owned by the Committee on behalf of the residents, and 50% owned by Lincolnshire Playing Fields Association.

The Committee held regular fund-raising activities to generate an income which could be used for the provision and maintenance of play equipment. As time went on, the Lincolnshire PFA merged into the national Playing Fields Association, which later became Fields in Trust. This is a charity incorporated by Royal Charter in 1932, and it was awarded the Olympic Cup in 1931 by the International Olympic Committee in recognition of its work in providing Playing Fields in Great Britain. HM The Queen is a patron of Fields in Trust, and the Duke of Cambridge is its current President.

As the individual trustees moved away from the village the Committee decided to approach the Parish Council with a view to it becoming, as a statutory body, the trustee of the Playing Field, and to this day the Parish Council is a trustee of the Playing Field, which it continues to manage on behalf of Fields in Trust. The Parish Council owns the buildings on the playing field, and what used to be Barrow Pavilion is now the home of Barton & District Rugby Union Football Club which leases the building and one rugby pitch from the Parish Council.

From the beginning, dogs have been quite legally banned from using the Playing Field, primarily in the interests of the health of those children, families, and sports people using the field, and a sign was placed on the side of the toilet block accordingly.. It is well documented that dogs’ urine and faeces cause many diseases in humans, many of them with serious, if not fatal consequences. Notwithstanding that a pet dog is man’s best friend, and some folks would rightly argue that they do have healing properties in some cases, they also spread life-threatening conditions which can cause infection by contact, inhalation, or by insects.

It is worth stating that the Playing Field is the only public space in our Parish where dogs are banned.

An explanation of the law

At this week’s meeting of the Parish Council, a resident asked whether Councils have the power to ban dogs from the playing fields at Mill Lane. We were unable at the time to give the specific legislation, but we can now do so.

The Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005 has given powers to councils to force dog owners to keep their dogs on lead, ban dogs from designated areas and to issue Fixed Penalty Notices (FPN) to anyone breaking council rules.

The Dog Control Orders stipulate the following offences:

1. Failing to remove dog faeces.
2. Not keeping a dog on lead when directed to do so by an authorised officer.
3. Permitting a dog to enter land from which dogs are excluded.
4. Taking more than the specified number of dogs (which a person may take) onto land.

The Dog Control Order is enforceable by District Councils, County Councils which don’t have a district council, London Borough Councils, Common Council of the City of London and secondary authorities including Parish Councils.

A Dog Control Order can be made in respect of any land which is open to the air on at least one side and that remains open to the air at all times. This includes but is not limited to:

 

• Village greens
• Playing fields
• Roads, highways and other right of way
• Bus shelters
• Railway Platforms
• Outdoor markets
• Private gardens open to the public
• Farm land