News
(Please note the BaSE is available as a download at the bottom of this page.)
Update 23rd August 2008
Party in the Park - Sunday 24th August. A summer evening of music and fun!
Starting at 6pm, the 2nd Party in the Park promises to be every bit as good as the first two years ago. With plenty of live music from the best of local talent on show, a barbeque and a bar, its the perfect way to celebrate the bank holiday weekend.
All money raised is in aid of the local village pre school charity - Treetops.
For further information, please contact Pippa on 861 520.
Tickets are £5 for adults in advance, or £6 on the door (u16s £3/£4 on the door. u5s Free). Click on the poster above to download the poster.
Combined Harvest Service and Supper - 28th September 2008.
St Bridgets Church extends a warm welcome to all to the Harvest Festival Service at 9.30am on the 28th September
This is followed on the evening of Monday 29th with a Harvest Festival supper in the Village Hall, starting at 7.30pm. You can download information for the supper here, or obtain tickets from Riverside Stores. Adults £5, Children £2.50 or a family ticket for £12 (2 adults / 2 children).
Update 23rd July 2008
Proposed Post Office Closure
Postwatch have made an announcement as scheduled on the proposed closure of the Post Office at Riverside Stores.
Regarding Bridestowe, the announcement states that:
Our proposals for Millwey Rise, Offwell, Queen Street, Bridestowe and Shebbear, Lustleigh and Widecombe in the Moorare currently in the process of a further review by Postwatch. We expect this to be concluded in thenear future at which time we will communicate our final decisions.
If you would like to read the full document, you can download it from here.
This additional period of review may extend another 4 - 6 weeks, and could even be subject to further reviews yet.
There may yet be more chances to apply pressure in the right places, so please watch out for announcements at Riverside Stores.
Update 19th July 2008
Apologies for the late uploading of the BaSE this month, we simply didnt have the capacity to host the file, but we have now upgraded the site and we have ample megabytes - if you would like to know how you can contribute, please email the website at the addres below.
thanks.
website@bridestowe.com
Update 9th July 2008
Proposed Post Office Closure
The campaign to save the village Post Office has received great support from the village - 800 + written submissions and excellent turn outs to the Village Hall meeting and for the visit of Geoffrey Cox MP to Riverside Stores.
A full update is available in the July edition of the BaSE, available as a download at the bottom of this page.
Bridestowe Garden Club.
Bridestowe Garden Club is an active club which holds monthly meetings in the autumn and winter every second Thursday in the month with various speakers on gardening topics, as well as refreshments, there is a raffle and the plant table: a good social evening.
They have there 5th Annual Flower Show on September 6th in the Village Hall. entry forms and conditions will be published in B&SE soon.
During the Summer months they visit gardens of repute again in the second week of the month, if possible, sonme on a Saturday and some in the evenings.
Further information can be obtained from Tim Thorne, 6 Trescott Way tel 861592.
Update 9th June 2008
The latest edition of the BaSE is available at the bottom of this page, including the latest news, events small ads and stories from the community as usual.
There is also further information on how to help in the campaign to save the Post Office.
Updated 27th May 2008
Proposed Post Office Closure.
Riverside Stores.
Under the Network Change programme, our local village post office at Riverside Stores has been earmarked for closure. Whilst this is bad news, this is by no means the end of the process, as around the country other branches that have been under threat have been saved by support of the local community.
If you would like to help the campaign to save the local Post Office, please download the campaign document which details how you can get involved.
Public Meeting 9th June
There is more you can do!
There is a Public Meeting booked in Bridestowe Village Hall for 7pm Monday 9th June concerning the Post Office closure.
Everyone welcome, John Hockridge our West Devon Borough Councillor in the chair, hopefully a representative of the postal watchdog Postwatch and, yet to be confirmed, someone from Post Office Ltd too.
It will be a useful forum for voicing opinions and for discussing and sharing ways of positively influencing the Public Consultation process.
Please, do come along and join in!
Updated 29th April 2008
The news pages of www.bridestowe.com are where you will find the latest events, comings and goings, and occasional bit of gossip from the village and surrounding areas.
The first ever item on this page is a really postive one, please keep them coming. To post a news item, please email website@bridestowe.com for more information.
Coffee Morning - Thanks from Ness
Ness Pearce would like to extend a big thanks to all who supported her coffee morning in aid of the Plymouth Deaf Childrens Society. A whopping £161 was raised (thats alot of coffee!) for a great cause - well done one and all!!
Events
The primary source of the news and events on the website is expertly provided by Martin and Ali Young, who publish the local village journal, the Bridestowe and Sourton Extra. The BaSE is packed full of news and events, stories, local business news, and lots lots more. It is with very kind permission that we are able to offer the BaSE in downloadable PDF form!
To download the latest edition of the BaSE, please click on the image below. You will need Adobe Reader to read this document, which is downloadable from the Adobe website here.
July edition of Bridestowe and Sourton Extra:
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