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Features of the Christmas services in Newark churches include the attendance of 400 people at the midnight communion in the Parish Church on Christmas Eve; and the prescence of between 200 and 300 German prisoners of war at a special service in the same church on Boxing Day morning.
The PoWs were there from camps in the Newark and Retford districts.
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Around 60 children from Flintham and Syerston together with the kiddies and families on the RAF station attended a party on the aerodrome on the Monday after Christmas.
Soon after their arrival they gathered on the tarmac to welcome Father Christmas who arrived by plane.
The children crowded round the aircraft to receive their presents which included oranges and sweets.
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Prompt action by Mr E. Blundy of Hawton Road Newark saved the lives of 11 pigs on Sunday night when the sheds in which they were housed across the road from the house caught fire.
Mr Blundy ran across Hawton Road in his slippers to rescue the pigs from a blazing shed.
"We nearly had some cooked fowl as well as some roast pork. If the wind had been in another quarter a hen house would have gone up too." he said.
In the course of his visit to the works of Messrs Ransome and Marles Ltd and Messrs Worthington and Simpson Ltd on Thursday the Minister of Supply Mr G.R Strauss MP was given the kind of news he likes to hear.
In both cases he heard of rising production figures and large volumes of work in hand.
He congratulated the workers at both places on their magnificent contribution to the effort to assist national recovery.
After a tour of the works the minister met with the joint production committee and then broadcast a message to everyone in the works.
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There was an impressive passing-out parade at the Bowbridge Road Newark camp on Saturday morning when 70 cadets of the Royal Engineer Officers' Training Regiment were commisioned.
The inspecting officer was General Sir Montagu Stopford.
The band of the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment played for the ceremony which was watched by relations and friends of the new officers.
The parade presented arms to the general while the band played the General Salute.
After the inspection the general returned to the saluting base for the march past.
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Last Friday the Newark schools closed for the Christmas holiday.
There is no place except perhaps in the home where Christmas is looked forward to with so much happiness and festivity as in the school.
Christmas trees holly and mistletoe brightly-coloured streamers and sparkling decorations change the every-day routine of the classroom beyond recognition and nativity plays Christmas parties and concerts are the order of the day before breaking up.
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