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Saturday December 20th
Festival Of Winter Walks
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​Today in the village
Bellringing
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A bench dedicated to Ollie Davis has been erected in the churchyard. The bench is against the east wall giving a view across the churchyard to the church & towards Winsford Hill.
The bench was bought using a kind donation given to the Winsford Recreation Association following Ollie's funeral in March.
Grateful thanks go to the PCC for allowing the positioning & to Andrew Blackmore for the installation of the base.
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Winsford Recreation Association
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The Royal Oak has announced its opening times next week:
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Monday Bar 17:00-22:00 Food 18:00-20:30
​Tuesday & Wednesday Bar Only - 17:00-22:00
​Christmas Day Bar Only - 12:00-14:00
​Boxing Day - CLOSED
​Saturday Bar 17:00-22:00 & Food 18:00-20:30
​Sunday 28th* Bar 12:00-22:00 & Food 12:00-14:00 & 18:00-20:30
​Monday 29th & Tuesday 30th Bar 17:00-22:00 Food 18:00-20:30
New Years Eve ** Bar 17:00 until.... Food - see below
New Years Day *** 12:00-22:00 & Food 12:00-14:00 & 18:00-20:30
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* 28th Dec Special post Christmas menu
**31st Dec - New Year Reggae Reggae party
*** 1st January - Special post New Year menu
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The Oak Shop times:
Mon-Wed 9-11am
Christmas Day - CLOSED
Boxing Day - 9-9:30am
Saturday 27th 9-10am
Mon 29th-Wed 31st 9-11am
New Years Day - Closed, but papers in box
Fri Jan 2nd 9-11am
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You may have read elsewhere about a planned closure of Cutcombe Hill for up to 3 weeks in the New Year. This is for structural earthworks following the coach crash and, as reported in our Motoring Section, is now scheduled to start on February 9th.
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The well illuminated village Christmas tree is now up and beautifully decorated by Steve & Bernadette Hunt.
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The Carols on the Green singers unfortunately couldn't sing around it as a bad weather forecast forced the throng to move inside to the pub.
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The Parish Council have published the minutes of their November meeting.
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Amongst items discussed were:
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The now collapsed Yellowcombe leat and drainage down Halse Lane​
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Planned forestry works
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Housing online survey
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Roadworks on Dunster Steep and Cutcombe Hill
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Arrangements to fill the councillor vacancy
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The full draft minutes can be viewed here
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We are very lucky to be able to share Noel Sexton's drone footage of the 100+ Ansty Young Farmers tractor run coming through the village. The whole video can be seen on our Birds Eye Views page
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Photo by Martin Jones
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Village regular events Circuit Training, Bowls, Coffee Morning, Pickleball, Circuit Training and Table Tennis all have their final sessions this week before a two week shutdown
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- This Week's Diary​ -​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Mon 15th​
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Last day for John May orders in shop
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9:00am Circuit Training, Village Hall
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Tues 16th​​​​​​​​​
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Wed 17th​​​​​​​​​​​
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9:30am Cutcombe Fatstock Christmas Show
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10:30am Festive Coffee Morning, Village Hall
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2:00pm Pickleball, Village Hall
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6:30pm Carols on the Green
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7:30pm A Christmas Carol - one man show, Exmoor Studios, Dulverton
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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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6:00pm Benefice choir practice, St Mary Magdalene's​​​​​​ *Cancelled*​​​
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Sat 20th
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11:30am Bellringing
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​Sunday* Motoring Section
*(updated daily)
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These are this week's proposed local closures as well as other works affecting main routes to Minehead, Tiverton, Taunton and South Molton:
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Quarme Lane, pre-surface dressing *Completed*
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Halse Lane ditch clearing *Completed*
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Bampton-Exeter Inn, Openreach *Cancelled*
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Proposed closures in coming weeks (subject to change):​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Halse Lane outside the Royal Oak, Dec 24th, 15 minute delay to supply sand bags to direct run off water
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B3222 Brushford to Exbridge, Jan 5th-Mar 6th, 24 hours, drainage works
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A396 south of Exeter Inn, Jan 5th-17th, Overnight 7pm-6am, Planning, resurfacing, road marking
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Stagshead Lane Jan 12th-16th, 7am-7pm, pre-surface dressing
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A396 south of Wheddon Cross, Jan 20th 9:30-3:30, Openreach
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Stone Lane, Jan 28th-Feb 6th, 7:00am-7:00pm, pre-surface dressing
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Dunkery Rd, Wheddon Cross, Feb 4th-5th 9:30am-3:30pm, Openreach
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Cutcombe Hill, Feb 9th for upto 3 weeks, all day, structural earthworks
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Withypool Cross to New Bridge March 2nd-13th, drainage works
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Avon & Somerset police publish a weekly list of where their traffic enforcement cameras will be. It can be viewed here
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Some very good mobile news as now the village appears to be served with both O2 (including Giffgaff, Tesco Mobile, Sky Mobile) and Vodafone (including VOXI, ASDA Mobile, Lebara, and Talkmobile) , on top of the usual EE (Lyca Mobile, 1pMobile, Spusu, Talk Home, Ecotalk, and Utility Warehouse).
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As Christmas approaches it is of course more important than ever to think of those less fortunate. The Moorland Food Bank continues to run a box for donations in the village shop.
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They are after donations of "undamaged, in-date, non-perishable food items with a long shelf-life, for us to distribute.
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Particularly welcomed are tins of fruit, vegetables, soup, beans, meat and fish, packets of cereal, tea, sugar, biscuits, snacks, rice and pasta, jars of sauce, coffee, hot chocolate, spreads, and cartons of UHT milk, juice, custard, etc."
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Some generous villagers buy goods from the shop to put directly in the box, but donations from any source are very welcome
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Photos of events that have appeared on this page, and many more, can be found on the Village Events 2025 page
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