WEIR SAFETY, BRIDGE WORRIES, MAGPIE & MORE AT LATEST HPC ZOOM-IN
Horrabridge Parish Council conducted business with five councillors and the clerk this week. Three more were absent and there are four vacancies to be filled […]
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PROFESSIONAL PICKERS REVIEW OUR JUNK – HOTEL GOSSIP – TROUBLE LOOMS ON MOOR – SUMMER SPORT FOR KIDS
If you can read somebody by their bookcase, maybe you can read a village by its jumble – and the wider world has been getting […]
BOOT SALE IS BIG NEWS & COUNCIL VACANCY & OTHER BITS
GIANT JUMBLE SALE IS GO – AND COULD BECOME A VILLAGE DRAW Picture shows Becci Monk with the shedful of jumble she has to shift […]
COTTAGES PLAN FOR MAGPIE WOODS
COTTAGES PLAN FOR MAGPIE WOODS Magpie Mill, the old sausage casing factory in the woods on the trail to the sewage works below Bedford Bridge, […]
RESIGNATION SURPRISE & MAGPIE TUSSLE NEWS
Horrabridge Parish Council met online again this week and heard that Councillor Paul Beard had resigned from his long-standing position as Chairman of Open Spaces […]
WITCHES, POACHERS, OGRES, DESPERADOES & THE DANGERS OF HYGIENE
TIM SANDLES, author of the website Legendary Dartmoor, has just published his quarterly review and it’s full of fascinating stuff. The Church Music is an […]
MAGPIE VILLAGE BLOCKED
MAGPIE VILLAGE BLOCKED A judge has blocked the development of the Magpie Bridge caravan park into a new residential village. Her decision means the plan […]
CHANCES OF A PINT * GIANT JUMBLE * CHURCH NEWS * DRIVE-IN CINEMA PLAN
BEER, TRAVEL & FUNERALS STILL POSTPONED A pint at the pub should be on here and there from Saturday week but there is still a […]
lorry madness, quantum catalyzers and why pubs need to open backwards
Fuss of the week This picture of a lorry taking on the bridge last weekend – with tanker waiting behind – got the village going […]
WEIR PARK DECISION, MORE HOUSE-BUILDING NEWS, COUPLE OF TIPS
Parish council this week agreed to spend up to £6,000 fixing four new picnic tables in Weir Park. Cllr Steve Roche voted against adding more […]