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Tuesday June 16th
World Sea Turtle Day
Today in the village
Gardening Club, Bowls
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In addition to existing traffic measures listed in our Motoring section, there may be emergency roadworks affecting the A396 south of Cove today
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Its a good week for the green-fingered amongst you.
The inaugural meeting of the Winsford Gardening Club takes place today at 11:00 in the Village Hall. You are all invited to come and come and share your ideas.
On Thursday there is a talk to the Dulverton Gardening Club by horticulturalist and plant historian Caradoc Doy on ‘Plants Behaving Badly’ - an illustrated look at a range of popular and well-known garden plants which can easily cause much trouble in the garden to the unaware.
On Sunday there is the annual Dulverton Secret Gardens event - twelve of its unique and very different gardens open to the public for just one day
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- This Week's Diary -
Mon 15th
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9:00am Boot Camp, Recreation Field
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7:00pm Fete Planning meeting, Village Hall
Tues 16th
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11:00am Gardening Club, Village Hall
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2.30pm Bowls, Village Hall
Wed 17th
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10:30am Coffee Morning, Village Hall
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2:00pm Pickleball, Village Hall
Thurs 18th
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9:00am Core Strength exercises, Village Hall
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6:00pm Table Tennis , Village Hall
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7:00pm Dulverton Gardening Club talk - Plants Behaving Badly, Dulverton Town Hall
Fri 19th
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6:00pm Exford Community Youth Club, Exford Pavilion
Sat 20th
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11:30am Bellringing
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2:00pm Cricket - Hemyock (A)
Sun 21st
- 10:00am Secret Gardens of Dulverton
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Eric Norman, Landlord at the Rest & Be Thankful Inn, Wheddon Cross, has been awarded the British Empire Medal in the latest Kings Honours list for his role in supporting victims of the Cutcombe Hill bus crash.
You can view the ITV news item here
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Sunday Motoring Section
These are this week's proposed local road closures and other significant works affecting main routes to Minehead, Tiverton, Taunton and South Molton:
This week:
Work continues on the B3224 Brendon Hills road to Taunton affecting both sides of the junction of Beluah Chapel which may close the routes continues until the end of the month. The closures are for 24 hours a day. The contractors have said that School Busses will have access, and that the B3224 and B3190 will not both close at the same time.
There are also overnight closures on the North Devon link road from Tiverton to the M5 until the end of the month
There may be emergency roadworks closing the A396 south of Cove today
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Until July 1st B3224 Junction around Methodist chapel, 24hours, Openreach
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Until July 1st, North Devon Link road between Tiverton and M5, 8pm-6am overnight, re-tensioning of road restraints
And in coming weeks
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June 26th Ash Lane, 9:30-3:30, Openreach
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June 28th A396 Nelo Cycle event
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August 5th-6th A396 in between the two Dulverton turns, 9:30-3:30, surface dressing
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August 10th-16th B3222 Exbridge, 9:30-3:30, resurfacing
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August 19th-29th A396, south of Wheddon Cross, Openreach
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August 29th Various roads delays, 6:30am-5pm, Exmoor Beast cycling
Dunster By Traffic Light website confirms live traffic conditions coming in and out of Minehead
Avon & Somerset police publish a weekly list of where their traffic enforcement cameras will be. It can be viewed here
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As expected, Winsford's cricketers had to concede their match against Stogumber due to lack of players.
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The draft minutes have been published for the recent Parish Council meeting as well as this year's Annual Assembly.
Amongst the items discussed at the ordinary meeting were:
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Re-election of chair and vice-chair
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Dates of the next year's council meetings and the 2027 Annual Assembly
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Highways matters
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Annual Assembly review
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Website demarcations
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Winsford Charitable Trust/Village Green
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Defibrillator cabinet
Items presented at the Annual Assembly included the Church Council, Recreation Association, Moor Movies, Village Hall, George Joyce and Henry Leigh Trusts, Moorland Food Bank, and the Parish Council
Both sets of minutes can be read here
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Somerset Council are offering financial assistance to local people who are struggling to afford basic essentials and need urgent help, from their Crisis Resiliance Fund.
This includes help with heating oil, emergency financial help and support with council tax and rent.
Full details can be found here
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Early Bird tickets are currently available for the Xmoor Rox festival.
For details visit their site here
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