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MSR are delighted to announce they are showcasing a superb range of official Forest merchandise at their gallery at Angel Row.
A range will be also be on sale at their stores across Nottingham, Newark, Grantham, Lincoln, Long Eaton, Arnold, Derby and Louth.
The range includes watches, Lighters, Hip Flasks, Glassware, Cuff Links and various jewelry as well as fleeces and bedding and many of the items will be exclusively available through MSR.
Certain items will also be available online, Including signed copies of Steve Hodges new book ‘The man with Maradona’s shirt’ These are priced at £18.99.

The Army Benevolent fund were presented with a cheque for £1,004 at an evening with Steve Hodge at Carlton Town FC after MSR raised money at a charity football match and through collection boxes at their stores throughout May.
Carlton Manager Les McJannet joined MSR’s John Hickling in making the presentation to Paul Shepherd who was representing the ABF.

A big thank you to all our customers for your support for the Kit Kat 3 day promotion.

The winning numbers on the Kit Kat raffle for a free months supply of Kit Kats were.

To claim your prize, call in at any MSR store stating which branch you purchased your ticket from and producing your winning ticket.

The days fund raising will be held on Monday 3 May at Carlton Town FC when two football matches will be held in memory of Daniel Sheppard. Daniel was killed last year in Afghanistan and his brother Paul is both a customer and business associate of MSR and has previously supported many fund raising initiatives at Carlton Town.

Book signing

Left: Kenny Burns and Larry Lloyd (right) with mSR's Adam Buckley

TINS NOW 2 FOR £10

MSR are delighted to announce that tins of Roses, Heroes, Quality Street and Celebrations have been reduced to 2 for £10 across their network of stores and the company have confirmed the price will be maintained until every last tin has been sold.

Individual tins remain £6.99 each

FRET SENDS OPEN LETTER TO CARLTON TOWN

Dear Mick,

From the bottom of my heart, I thank you for a really emotional and uplifting day on Sunday. It was an event I will never forget and will always recall with pride. I never realised I had so many people supporting me during this traumatic time of my life.

I would like to thank you and Dave Fryer for all your hard work in organising the event. My thanks to Gary Boon and everyone from Nat West for their support on the day. Thanks to Tommy Brookbanks and everyone connected with Carlton Town FC for their hard work and support.

Thanks to all my friends from MSR it was wonderful to see them all again. Special thanks to Christine from Angel Row for giving up her time to organise the raffle. She did a fantastic job. I was really touched by Shannon and Lewis’s efforts on my behalf. They were both superstars for their caring and compassionate attitude.

My thanks for the phenomenal amount of money you raised for me. This will now make it possible for me and my wife to have a much needed holiday.

Would you please tell everyone that thanks to them all I have a renewed determination to fight this illness and to beat it! With all the positives I got from Sunday, how can I fail !!!!!!!!! in the words of ‘Arnie’…………”I’LL BE BACK”………………..

On a personal note to you my family, I send you heartfelt thanks for everything you have done for me................ YOU’RE THE BEST…………………………..

Carlton Town's main sponsors MSR Newsgroup brought proceedings to a close for the 2007/2008 season at Stoke Lane as they won a charity match in support of their loyal employee Steve Frettingham who has had to stand down from his job as shop manager due to cancer

Fret as he is affectionally known has suffered two heart attacks and a stroke in a torrid few months and the companies employees, current and former MSR footballers came together to raise money which will hopefully give ‘Fret’ at least a nice holiday before he undertakes more chemotherapy.

Massive credit to former MSR employee Gary Boon who put the Nat West side together in what proved to be a cracking afternoon. For the record MSR with a squad of 18 had the better of the football and Carlton Head Coach Tommy Brookbanks himself a former MSR player was the star of the show with a fine hatrick.

For the first time ever MSR Manager Mick Garton played a 4-3-3 formation with John Hickling and Simon Wilkinson starting either side of Brookbanks. Dave Fryer, Lee Hanstock, Pete Knowles and Dayne Lowe proved to be rather rotund fullbacks and in Dave’s case as enthusiastic as ever as he powered in for big challenge after big challenge.

Nat West Boys James Hallam and Gary Boon also looked slightly bigger these days but their hearts were in the right place as they turned up to raise money for Fret. Muppet Dave as he was known in his MSR Days and his brother Steve were also on the Nat West team sheet and Steve was to score their only goal in the 2nd half and a corker it was.

Aside from Brookbanks’ hatrick, Dean Gent a former MSR worker who is still allowed the odd run out in an MSR 5 aside shirt scored 2, Sam Hilton got one as did Scott Greswell and Simon Wilkinson in MSR’s 8-1 win. Greg last, MSR’s 1st ever captain now 44 turned up and put in a polished display in goal and MSR’s Andy Bordognia captained the side, he and Fret had worked closely together when Andy first joined MSR. The Wilkinson family turned out in force which was much appreciated as did the May family and many of MSR’S staff along with Fret’s family. Christine Williams ran the raffle and Shannon Garton and Lewis Brookbanks ran a cake and card stall to raise money for Fret.

Carlton Chairman and MSR Managing Director Mick Garton had said on Friday he was hoping to raise £500 for Fret, the fact the fund made £731 gave him and the team at MSR, Carlton Town and Nat West massive satisfaction and Frets daughter Lucy on behalf of the family sent in a moving thank you card to Mick, Shannon and all at Carlton Town and Nat West Group for what they had done.

It was a truly moving day for a guy who after 10 years service at MSR has been going through hell. It was fitting that the long serving and highly respected Tom Bartles came up to present Fret with the proceeds, it was a day for the good guys and Fret undoubtedly is one of them, he MSR and the club thank everyone for their kind support, it was brilliant.

The MSR Newsgroup store in Louth, Lincolnshire has once again produced another huge lottery win.

A syndicate from Louth won half a million pounds of which each member’s share was £90,000 and the shop has received mass media coverage.

The media coverage was not only to highlight the win, but due to the fact that the shop has a tremendous track record of producing big lottery winners.

In May 2005, Steve Appleby won £3.1 million after buying his ticket from the Spencer’s store while the Spencer’s staff themselves won £70,000 also in May 2005 which produced them £5,500 each.

A local Louth company won £36,000 in June 2005 while office workers and bin men at Mamby near Louth walked away with £65,000 in 2006 and already this year as well as the £500,000 win a customer won £1,800 in the Saturday 8th March draw.

There have also been some big winners on instants with a £100,000 prize being won at the newsagents and more recently a £5,000 winner came forward in the presence of MSR’s Managing Director Mick Garton who happened to be at the shop at the time.

He commented “There is no doubt this is a lucky shop, the number of wins and the amount of which people have won over the last two or three years has been staggering and while we have had some good winners at our other stores, nothing comes close to what has been achieved at the Louth store.

“I have been buying my tickets from our Radcliffe Road store in Nottingham but I think I need to rethink that and start buying them from Louth when I make my visits there.