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Pencaitland’s Spar gets a makeover

The Spar Westend Service Station has just finished its 6th makeover in 25 years.

Best known to many villagers as the local paper and milk stop, the Spar is actually an Aladdin’s cave of goods. It plays an important role in the village for those who can’t, or don’t want to, commute to supermarkets to get their essential groceries.

arim Ali in Pencaitland's recently refurbished Spar
Karim Ali in Pencaitland's recently refurbished Spar

But over and above milk, papers and bread, the shop, run by father and son team Imtiaz and Karim Ali, also provides an off-licence, fuel, dry cleaning, lottery tickets, DVD rental, newspaper delivery (to Wester Pencaitland) and will even take grocery orders over the phone for home delivery or pickup.

As Karim explains, “Originally we were just going to bring in the new refrigerated units but we’ve now done a lot more to the place”.

The Spar is open 7am to 9pm Monday to Saturday and 7am to 8pm Sundays. Click here for more pictures of the upgraded interior.

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Community Council Minutes – April 2012

To view Pencaitland Community Council minutes for April 2012 just click the link below and you can open it using Adobe Reader.

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March 2012
February 2012

Earlier minutes can be found here.

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Community Council Minutes – March 2012

To view Pencaitland Community Council minutes for March 2012 just click the link below and you can open it using Adobe Reader.

Alternatively right-click the link and ‘save as’ to your PC desktop.

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Pencaitland Community Council Minutes – March 2012

Recent Meeting Minutes

February 2012
January 2012

Earlier minutes can be found here.

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Pencaitland kids put on play about Florence Nightingale

Kids from the local primary school put on an impressive performance of ‘The Lady with the Lamp’ for their parents yesterday, based on the life and ground-breaking work of Florence Nightingale.

The Lady with the Lamp - click to see more photos

Children from the P3 class put on the 30 minute performance detailing how the wealthy family of Florence Nightingale disapproved of her wish to become a nurse. However, this didn’t stop her and she went on to gain fame for her pioneering work in the Crimean War.

Today she is best remembered as a nurse at a time when only women from poor backgrounds would be considered suitable. But it was her statistical research which, through the use of at the time, novel pie charts (see the famous chart here) she was able to prove to Parliament and civil servants that the lack of sanitary conditions was a bigger killer than battle-inflicted injuries.

You can see a selection of snaps from the afternoon performance on the Pencaitland Facebook page.

More on Florence Nightingale on Wikipedia.

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