Kent County Council gives notice that School Lane, Iwade will be closed to through traffic, on or after 28 July 2014 for up to 5 Days. The road will be closed between the junctions of Ferry Road and Saltings. The alternative route is via School Lane, Stickfast Lane, Sheppey Way, Ferry Road. The closure is necessary to enable urgent carriageway repair works to be carried out by Kent County Council. This Notice applies when the relevant signs and barriers are on site, and is valid for a period of no more than 5 days.

Following reports of some residents not being able to get broadband, IV pursued this with Openreach as superfast broadband should be available for all Iwade residents. It transpires that the Ferry Road cabinet has reached its capacity of 288 connections and an additional cabinet is now required. Click on the image to go to our Broadband page and scroll down to the broadband map. If you are in the white area and are unable to currently get broadband that probably explains it. IV is on the case as are Openreach who have just been on the phone. Watch this space for more information as it becomes available.

The Iwade Observer Distribution Team are looking for 2 new volunteer deliverers! One for the new Hillreed/Persimmon development which is approximately 40 copies at the moment and one for the round Ferry Rd, Grovehurst Rd which is 42 copies. Would you like to help? Contact Stephen Plumb by email at captainplumby@btinternet.com or on 07905 040 119. Thank you, you know you want to!

Learn to ride at Callum Park on the edge of Iwade this summer (on Basser Hill just off School Lane Iwade) for £40 for 4 sessions thanks to sport funding. Click on the image to read full details :-)

A big thank you to Mel McDonald for editing this month's Observer, with a surprise 3 lots of Parish Council Minutes to edit! And thank you to Ben Marsh-Allen and Rynn Kemp for volunteering to join the Observer team and inspiring us with their enthusiasm. Ben is graduating this year from the University of Kent and Rynn moved to Iwade last year and is retired. Welcome both, Mel and I look forward to working with you on the September issue. Click on the image to read the July Observer online, before it's even been emailed to the printer. Now you really did read it here first!

According to Kent Community Messaging, overnight between 20th and 21st May 2014 various items were stolen during a burglary in The Street Iwade. If you have any information that could help investigators please contact Kent police on telephone number 101 and quote the Crime Number XY/017809/14.

A massive thank you to Mel McDonald who worked tirelessly again this month to get the Observer to the printers. If you'd like to help out with the Observer, sourcing articles and prepping and proofing them when we do get them then contact Nicola at observer@iwadevillage.co.uk or on 01795 439892. We are a 2 person team currently hence the 4 pager for May so if you can spare a few hours a month and are computer literate we'd be glad to have you! Click on the image to read yours online.

Thank you to Dr Thomas Reichhelm, Managing Director of Malling Health who run Iwade Health Centre, for the latest update on Iwade Health Centre. Click on more to read what Dr Reichhelm has to say.