Local news and community information for the village of Barlestone, Leicestershire
Thursday May 6th sees the UK vote in the General Election. Voters in Barlestone will be able to cast their vote as usual at the Barlestone Primary School on Barton Road. The Polling Station will be open from 7am – 10pm on the day.
Official Poll Cards should have already been posted to all those registered to vote, but it is not essential to take these with you on the day.
Google have added a large amount of rural areas to its Street View service, including Barlestone and other Leicestershire villages. Anyone visiting Google Maps can now drag the yellow man over Barlestone’s roads to be taken into a 3D panoramic world, allowing you to walk the streets of Barlestone step by step.
Images were taken during the Summer of 2008, showing Barlestone on a beautifully clear, sunny day.All faces and vehicle number plates are obstructed by built-in image filters to preserve pricacy. Some street signs are also affected.
When viewing Google Street View, users are tethered to positions where the Google mapping vehicle took each photograph, however, in an attempt to offer an added sense of realism to each location, Google has used state-of-the-art 3D technology to create a ‘psuedo-3D’ world. Users wearing the old-fashioned red and blue 3D glasses can see each image with more depth than before.
Originally thought to be an April fools joke (the service launched on April 1st 2010), the 3D option remains on Google Street View for use on any Street View image.
Welcome to the new Barlestone.Net – a local website for the village of Barlestone and surrounding areas. Over the years, this website has undergone many make-overs, changes in direction and purpose, but now begins life as a community portal for Barlestone and all goings on within our village.
The purpose of this website is to provide up-to-date news and information for the village, to those who live within in, nearby, or who once lived in Barlestone but no longer do so. The website will be continuously updated with news and event information so that you can keep up with all goings on, wherever you are in the world.
All news and event postings are open for comment, allowing you to get involved and get in touch with fellow community members on topics you are interested in.
We’re always on the look out for more news and event information ourselves, so that we can share it with the community. We welcome any contributions to the site from anyone who has something to say, promote or inform others about.
We hope you enjoy visiting the site. Please bookmark it or add it as a favourite, and keep coming back to see new content as the site grows.
As well as this website, we also post all updates and other goings on on our Barlestone Twitter page, which you can keep up-to-date with by following @Barlestone.
We hope you like the site! Any feedback or recommendations will be gratefully received and can be sent to us via our Contact Us page.
Saturday April 17th sees the return of the BOCA (Barlestone and Osbaston Community Association) Bingo Event. With eyes-down at 2.30pm at the Village Hall (next to the cemetary on Barton Road), the afternoon will include bingo, food and refreshments.
Transport can be provided for those who may need it. If you need a lift to this event please contact Janet on 01455 290 729.
A cannabis growing operation of 216 plants has been found by police in Cunnery Close in Barlestone.
The operation was identified by a police helicopter searching for a missing boy in the village serveral nights before. Its thermal imaging camera lit up the house, causing the pilot to notify officers on the ground who launched an investigation. The house was subsequently raised on Tuesday March 30th. The plants were thought to carry a value of £1,000 each, making the haul worth £216,000.
Head of Hinckley police, Inspector Rich Ward told This Is Leicestershire “It had heat-seeking equipment on and all of a sudden this house was shining out like a beacon”.
A man was thought to be living in the kitchen of the property, babysitting the plants for other people associated with the drugs trade.
Suburban houses are thought to be targeted by cannabis growers due to thier low profile. Growers typically rent out a property, then unknown to the landlord proceed to install heavy duty electrical and ventilation systems needed to grow their crops. Cannabis plants require sophisticated ventilation systems and industrial grade heating and lighting in order to grow successfully, which normally results in the rented property being sunstantially modified in order to accommodate it.