Author: Lesley Webb

Sunday 10th February

8.30am – 11am

2 Bacon, 2 Eggs, 2 Sausages, Beans, Tomatoes, Mushrooms, Potatoes, Black Pudding, Fruit Juice, Toast, Marmalade or Jam, as much Tea/Coffee as you like. Veggie option available.

Beat Surgery:
12 February and 12 March – Coffee with Cops, Porlock Library, 10.30-11.30am
14 February – The Old Dairy, Timberscombe, 10.30-11.30am
28 February – Coffee with Cops, Chapel House tearooms, 10.30-11.30am

If you are interested in joining Farm or Horse Watch contact PCSO Linda Brooks on linda.brooks@avonandsomerset.police.uk

If you have information about suspicious incidents or activity please telephone the police on the general number 101 or contact via the website link https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/contact-us/

Do you own some land or buildings, which could be converted or redeveloped, to provide homes to for local people who live and work in our communities? If so, we want to hear from you. 

 A parish housing need survey for Cutcombe, Exford, Exton, Luccombe, Luxborough, Timberscombe, Winsford and Wootton Courtenay has identified a need for a small number of homes for local people in our communities who are unable to afford open market housing either to rent or to buy. The homes needed are for rent or affordable home ownership and these would remain more affordable on a permanent basis.

The parishes have formed an Affordable Housing Working Group to help bring forward the homes needed in our communities. We therefore would like to hear from owners of land or redundant buildings, which might be suitable for housing – this must be land or buildings in or next to one of our settlements (Cutcombe/Wheddon Cross, Bridgetown/Exton, Exford, Luccombe, Luxborough, Timberscombe, Winsford or Wootton Courtenay.) If we find the sites we need we will then work with partners including landowners, the Exmoor Rural Housing Coordinator, West Somerset Council and Exmoor National Park Authority to help bring forward the homes we need.

Please contact your Parish Clerk if you have land or buildings available by 22^nd March.

Email: timberscombepcclerk@gmail.com

Do you have any well-loved family recipes that you could share with us, or a newly found favourite, maybe with a local, Exmoor connection?

We would love to hear of them, along with a few words explaining why the recipes are special to you. These will be included in a new cookery book which is being produced in connection with the Heritage Lottery Funding and which will be sold to raise money for St. Petrock’s Church.

Recipes can be left at Timberscombe Post Office or  emailed to marion@jmail.org. Please phone Wendy Cook on 01643 841471 if you have any queries.

This message has been sent as a warning to residents: A telephone scam is circulating across the county where residents have received telephone calls from people claiming to be from Westminster Police. The caller states that they are investigating a crime or have a suspect in custody who has their bank details. The caller then asks them to reveal their card details for checking. A second call is often made a short while later claiming to be from their bank. Again this appears to be part of the scam. Please remember never to give bank details to anyone you do not know or trust and do not continue conversations with persons you do not know or trust. If you experience a similar call, please report it direct to the national fraud and cybercrime centre, Action Fraud on 0300-1232040 or via their website at http://www.actionfraud.police.uk