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Mandy from the Forge and Flagon pub shed told me about their Radio show.

We went on air last night (sunday), it was a big hit. We will be on air for the next 3 Sunday nights from 8 till 9.

We also have sponsorship for the show from Bells Brewery who is kindly donating beer to all of the musicians that are playing for the show in return for a beer ad on the Show, and ASDA Collegues Circle are also sponsoring the Show

The show is available at www.radiolutterworth.com with a live link to listen in to the show.

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Going away for a few days..

back next week..

so if you share your shed, dont worry It will be live when I return

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The Mirror reports that sheddie favourite and shed of the year judge Sarah Beeny had a close call while on hols recently.

TV presenter Sarah Beeny had to be rescued from the sea after being caught in a deadly rip-tide.

The embarrassed host of Property Ladder was swept out to sea wearing “a very small G-string” during a break in Tunisia.

Sarah said she had been sunbathing topless when she decided to move to a better spot along the beach and started to walk there along the water’s edge.

But she got caught in the strong current and was carried out to sea.

“I got pulled in by the rip-tide wearing a very small G-string and nothing else,” she said. “I panicked and screamed loudly.”

The 36-year-old host of the Channel 4 property show was eventually rescued “by a gorgeous man built like an Olympic athlete.”

“By this time a huge crowd had gathered along the beach to watch the spectacle of a man carrying an almost naked woman out of the sea,” she said. “I was massively embarrassed.”

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This is grimbsy reports

A Cleethorpes couple’s bar in their back garden, the Beach Hut, will be investigated by officials.

Following the Grimsby Telegraph story featured in yesterday’s paper, North East Lincolnshire Council officers pledged to visit the owners.

As reported, Paul and Angie Snelson, of Cleethorpes, transformed their garden hut into a makeshift bar more than a year ago and invited friends and relatives around for drinks.

Mr Snelson (45) said he used to spend around &pound5,000 per year in food and drinks at his local pub.

But after the smoking ban he decided to build his own beach hut and serve drinks to his mates.

No charge is made and donations are left in a jar instead.

He said: “It is just how it used to be and people can have a smoke and enjoy a drink and a laugh in good company.

“It has caught on and we have relatives who have set up their own beach huts. We are up to beach hut number eight now.”

He added: “We do not charge so it is not against the law.”

This was confirmed by officials from the Government’s department of Media and Culture.

A North East Lincolnshire Council spokesman said: “The council is investigating this story and will be in contact with the owners.

“The last thing we want to see is people thinking it is okay to set up a bar in their own garden.”

thanks to Tim for the headsup

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Edp24 reports

As a child Michael Whitaker played on Southwold beach and took shelter in the family beach hut, just as his father, his grandmother and his great-grandfather did.

The beach hut was a humble fisherman’s hut in his great-grandfather’s day, and a hut on the very same site stayed in the family for 100 years - since before Southwold had a promenade or even a pier.

In 1986 it was sold, but now after a gap of more than 20 years, the hut is back in the family again. It has been rebuilt over the years - most recently this year, after it was damaged in storms last November - but still stands on the same site as Arthur Benjamin Smith’s hut.

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The Sundaysun report on a couple living in shed.

A COUPLE who lost their home after failing to keep up mortgage payments are living in a shed.

Debbie Galloway, 31, and husband Philip, 42, are sleeping in the hut at a relative’s allotment.

They claim accommodation offered by Hartlepool Council is run-down.

Their six children are living with relatives.

The pair began sleeping rough after complaining about conditions in several properties offered to them.

They had lived in a three-bedroomed semi-detached home for 13 years.

Debbie said: “All of them have been run down and in a bad way.

“The allotment is cleaner than half the houses they have sent us to. It’s disgusting. We have got six kids. They are all separated and it’s not fair on them.”

A council spokesman said “Given that she has been classified as intentionally homeless, social housing is not a realistic option.

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Well considering the downturn on beach huts the other day.

The daily post reports

Beach huts from verymissberry

A BEACH hut with its own patch of sand was snapped up for a staggering £85,000 by a mystery buyer.

The hut, which has no running water or electricity, lies on the beach in the sought-after coastal resort of Abersoch.

The sale of plot 12 at Porthmawr, described as a “detached beach hut on Abersoch main beach lying amidst a row of similar huts along the wonderful stretch of sandy beach which overlooks Cardigan Bay to the St Tudwal’s Islands”, for a record price comes despite the downturn in property prices.

Last night rural communities pressure group Cymuned called for a “beauty-spot tax” so that the local community will benefit from the huts.

Estate agent spokesman Martin Lewthwaite of Beresford Adams Countrywide, Abersoch, confirmed the hut was sold to an anonymous buyer prior to an auction in Llandudno next week but refused to confirm the sale price.

He said: “The hut was sold for substantially more than the guide price of £75,000. The buyers wanted the use of the hut during the main summer season. Prices for these huts are holding up very well, there is always a demand for huts on the beach.

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Great little article about a competition to increase awareness of crime prevention, using sheds

THERE was a “staggering” response to a crime-prevention competition, according to organisers.
Safer Ryedale was delighted with the number of entries – 33 – to its Sheducation campaign which aimed to remind the district to lock up sheds and other outside buildings.

Now in its third year, adults and children were asked to decorate and construct a standard template shed with the winners receiving top garden-themed prizes, including the top prize of a free ticket into Castle Howard.

Fellow judge Simon Thackray, of The Shed music and poetry venue, added: “It was great fun judging the little shed and a big eye opener! So much hard work and inventiveness has gone into the models and so much humour.

“I tend to gravitate towards the surrealist end of the spectrum and some of the flights of fancy we have seen are amazing.”

Be great to see some of the entrants, as making models sheds would be a great passtime for any sheddie.

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Manchester city council report

A man who was caught running a ‘sophisticated’ DVD counterfeiting operation from his garden shed has been ordered to pay £10,000 following a Manchester City Council prosecution.

Michael Kilcourse, aged 44, was fined £7,500 and ordered to pay £2,500 legal costs at Manchester Crown Court on Friday, July 25, after pleading guilty to seven counts of counterfeiting.

City Council trading standards officers, along with Greater Manchester Police officers, raided his home in Tuxford Walk, Collyhurst, in September 2005 after receiving a tip-off.

The shed, which was alarmed, protected with a CCTV camera, and had a steel roller blind shutter protecting its door, contained more than 2,000 copied DVDs and CDs.

The shed also contained computers with disc burning equipment, a printer, a guillotine used for cutting card and paper, and piles of blank discs.

There were also signs reading “we take Visa, Switch and Mastercard” and “we are always pleased to serve you” on the shed’s wall, and a poster on the door providing details of health and safety at work laws.

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The EADT reports

A CHEMICAL firm worker who discovered his mother’s shed torched by an arsonist prevented a major explosion by dousing a gas canister with water until the emergency services arrived.

Louis Willett, of Chainey Pieces in Haverhill, was yesterday publicly commended at Bury St Edmunds Magistrates’ Court after it emerged how his actions had prevented an explosion in Broad Street, Haverhill.

The incident unfolded on July 28 last year when Mr Willett discovered his mother’s shed had been set on fire by her former boyfriend, Antony Absalom.

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I mentioned the idea of Mensheds in Oz before, but the UK one has officially opened according to the BBC.

The first shed in a new project in Gloucestershire which aims to persuade older men to get out of their garden sheds and help others has opened.

Age Concern’s “shed” in the Forest of Dean is a workshop where men over 50 can meet up and refurbish unwanted tools which will be sent to Africa.

The charity wants to encourage retired men who do not traditionally use their services and are at risk of isolation.

They also hope to revive and preserve the skills of repair and refurbishment.

The “Men in Sheds” project’s aim is for groups of men over 55 to meet together and refurbish old hand tools.

The tools will then be packaged up into tool kits by another charity, “Tools for Self Reliance”, and sent to communities in Africa that need them.

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The shed friendly Telegraph reports.

A beach hut at one of the Queen’s favourite seaside beauty spots is on the market for £45,000.

The hut, which has no mains electricity, gas or water and cannot sleep people overnight, is so expensive because it is the first one to come up for sale in more than five years at Holkham, Norfolk.

The Royal family had a hut in woodland overlooking the beach for around 70 years until it was burned down by vandals in 2003.

Prince Philip also liked to cook barbecues on the veranda of the Royal hut and sometimes slept overnight in its bunk beds.

But the Royals have visited less in recent years since a nearby section of the sandy beach was made an official nudists’ beach.

The latest hut is being sold by estate agents Belton Duffey.

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