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The Ely Standard reports today that a tree planted in Ely’s Jubilee Gardens in memory of Little Thetford resident Ken Pease has been found at the weekend snapped in two – and not for the first time it seems. Ken died aged 18 in 1986 after contracting a rare form of meningitis.

See the Ely Standard (1 July edition, top of page 5) for more information.

Little Thetford flesh-hook

We are proud to announce that the wikipedia article Little Thetford flesh-hook, an archaeological description of a bronze-age artefact, has been approved for use on the front page of wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. The front page of wikipedia has world-wide reach. The article will appear in the “Did you know?” section of the front page (below the featured article section) for six hours between 07:00 1-July 2010 and 13:00 1-July 2010. The article will appear similar to the following:

.. that the Little Thetford flesh-hook is a late Bronze-age (1000 – 701 BC) artefact discovered in 1929 in Little Thetford, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, England?

Also, see the history section of Little Thetford main article for details of the Anglo-Saxon noblewoman Ælfwaru, our oldest known landowner.

Contact: John McCullough 01353649469

[Update] Here’s the article as shown on Wikipedia on 1 July 2010.

Little Thetford flesh hook on Wikipedia's Did You Know section

See the article in this weeks Ely Standard, on how Little Thetford gets to keep the red phone box on Main Street.

If you think you’ve got artistic, creative, literary or musical talent – and live in the village – we want to hear from you for our ‘Little Thetford’s Got Talent‘ page!