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South West Young Beef Farmer of the Year!
North Bovey's very own George Pollard from Youlden Farm is this year's first prize winner! Lots of details in this morning's Western Morning News.
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PUB QUIZ – 2 December
It’s quiz time again at the Ring of Bells and the fun starts at 7.30pm. We’ll be serving supper from 6.45pm which will be a choice from scampi and chips, chicken goujons and chips, or a vegetarian option which needs to be pre-booked. Supper pr...
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Christmas shopping in Church!
Jennifer Jones has sent me this advert and asked me to circulate it amongst you to encourage you to support her shopping event on 1st December which will also help towards supporting our church. Please do drop by and see what she has to offer eith...
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Local Artist's work on TV!
I am sure you will be as proud as I am to see the work of Sandy Nightingale, of this very parish, on national TV last evening! As you know she has a book out with Sandi Toksvig called Heroines & Harridans. Sandi T was on The One Show talking about...
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True Grit
Some pics taken by Hazel here of us moving one of the new grit bins the other day. This particular bin had been inadvertently delivered to the wrong position and it took a good working party about 20 minutes to re-site the offending bin. Acting on...
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Travelling Crib
With Yule-Tide fast approaching, I’m wondering who amongst you would like to host the wooden figures of Mary, Joseph and their donkey as they travel to Bethlehem. In the past, the hosts have provided warm accommodation with, perhaps, a lighted can...
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Notes from the last Parish Council Meeting
The following points were raised at the last Parish Council meeting held on Tuesday 2nd October 2012. * Ellercombe Farm lane repair is on hold due to funding priorities by Devon County Council. * Neighbourhood Watch : Parishioners should be aware ...
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Chagford Initiative
An article in Devon Life that may interest you . . . http://devon.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/historic-dartmoor-town-launches-n... A community making good use of Social Media.
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Boxes!
Having recently moved into the village, I have a large number of now empty cardboard boxes, along with a great deal of brown recycled paper which was used for wrapping. Can anyone use these before I start taking them to the recycling? I have lots ...
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Care about trees?
If you care about the disaster befalling Ash trees and you like to use current smartphone tech you should check this out: https://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/environment/2012/oct/29/ashtag-app-tree... Let's see if we can help limit the damge?