Getting a Buzz out of being a Councillor...

Being a Parish Councillor you get a fair range of enquiries, but yesterday offered a new one, when someone asked me if I could do anything about the bee swarm on Sandgate High Street....

Around 9am a swarm had arrived on the High Street and parked itself on the fence of Vine Cottage, right by the pavement in the centre of the village. We need bees, but that really wasn't the right location!

By 10.30 is was clear they weren't about to move of their own volition, so I got in touch with the 6th emergency service - one of the many voluntary bee keepers locally who will come and collect a swarm and either rehome or release it in a safe place, for free.

Within an hour he'd dropped what he was doing and turned up to collect the bees, and had the majority of them in a bucket within an hour. They were released last night, and the small residual number of bees still around (50-100 or so) are expected to disperse during the course of today, or he'll pop back and collect them.