EXPERTS from the Environment Agency (EA) and Doncaster Council attended the second Icarus meeting which saw more villagers than last time turn out.
Sue O'Neill told the meeting that the Widlife Habitat Scheme was to go ahead whatever, and that it was a separate issue from flood defence.
Car parking was to be placed outside the village, footpaths created and stiles to be replaced with kissing
gates.
In the New Year, the EA would check the flood defences which surround the village.
Issues such as osmosis would be investigated, as would areas within the village which are sinking owing to subsidence from the mine.
The meeting was informed by the EA that dredging would make no difference.
And experts said that the River Don now supports 25 species of fish including salmon, roach, bream, trout, pike, perch, bleak, flatfish, chubb, dace and eels.
l CAROL singers raised £300 on a bitterly cold night before Christmas after starting at the Hare and Hounds and finishing with an auction at the Old Anchor Inn.
The money raised by the group of 25 adults and children will be shared by Fishlake's Play Group and Doncaster's Aurora Centre for Ladies' cancer.
Mrs Heidi Swaby would like to thank both public houses for their hospitality.
l FATHER Christmas made an early appearance in Fishlake when he travelled with the Lions through the village on December 7.
