There is an intention to have a National Celebration of the 80th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings next year on 6 June 2024. This is likely to include lighting of National Beacons and various community and school activities.
This 80th Anniversary Booklet gives a flyer of what is being promoted to a community groups.
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Odd job person required to do occasional work within Timberscombe for Timberscombe Parish Council. Jobs would include items such as clearing weeds on the pavements, repairs to the bus shelter, repainting the phone box. Applicants must have their own insurance. Hourly pay negotiable.
If you are interested please contact the clerk on 01643 841803, or email to timberscombepcclerk@gmail.com
It’s time to get fitter!
The new outdoor gym equipment has now been installed in the play area, thanks to a very generous donation from the Morrissons Foundation. The equipment is suitable for teenagers and adults, so there is no excuse for not getting down to the field and giving it a go.
I would like to say a big thank you to the volunteers who helped to remove the old rotten equipment and to level and reseed the sunken areas. Please can you keep children off the re-seeded areas for a few weeks.
For those of you who wondered why the old wooden structure and slide had to go , take a look at the picture below of the rotten wood which was holding it up!!! The metal slide had also been highlighted as a problem in the last inspection and a new split had just developed.
The play area has no source of funds except donations , grants and fundraising, so if you feel like getting involved with some fundraising or grant applications for our next piece of equipment please let me know.
Lesley Webb
The choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge will be in St George’s Church, Dunster on Tuesday 8th August to sing at a service of evensong at 4pm and Compline at 9pm. All are welcome.
Ex-cellent news for the environment in west Somerset
Efforts to protect the precious environment within one of southern England’s most beautiful open spaces will step up a gear with investment worth nearly a quarter of a million pounds this autumn.
Lasting just over a month, the scheme is aiming to restore the integrity of nearly two kilometres of the sewer system within Exmoor National Park and will take place from the middle of August.
The £240,000 project will see Wessex Water teams working mainly in fields near the village of Timberscombe within Exmoor – which was designated as a National Park in the 1950s. Specialist equipment will work deep underground to help complete the sewer repairs and reduce disruption.
More than 1800 metres of pipes will be relined to prevent both foul water escaping and polluting the environment and groundwater infiltration, which can overwhelm the system and lead to the automatic operation of storm overflows.
Most of the repairs will be carried out using ‘no-dig’ techniques, which are quicker and less intrusive than replacing the pipe in a conventional manner.
It continues Wessex Water’s hefty investment in environmental protection in west Somerset, the company having separately announced more than £12 million of improvements to two water recycling centres near the villages of Milverton and Bishop’s Lydeard to reduce chemicals and pollutants from the arriving sewer flows and the discharge of untreated wastewater into watercourses before January 2025.
Wessex Water project manager Daniel Kelly said of the Exmoor work: “Relining pipes in this way ensures the resilience of our sewer system can be maintained while preventing pollution from damaged pipes and we reduce disruption on local communities as much as possible by using the ‘no-dig’ methods.
“It continues our hefty ongoing investment in the sewer system, spending more than £2 million this summer alone relining nearly 7,500 metres of sewers throughout our region.
“This scheme is taking place mainly within fields in a rural area but we’re writing to customers nearby to ensure they are aware of the project and where there is an impact on local roads, an inconvenience for which we apologise.’’
Work gets under way on Monday 21 August with a rolling road closure to through traffic of Drapers Way from the A396 junction at Timberscombe to Cutcombe Hill to outside Bench Cottage, until Friday 22 September.
Traffic will initially be diverted via Drapers Way, the B3224 and the A396 (Cutcombe Hill) from 21 August to 1 September, before being diverted via the A396 alone between 4 -22 September as the closure moves north.
Between Monday 25 September and Friday 6 October, temporary traffic signals will be in operation on the Timberscombe Bypass, outside Ford Cottages.
Finally, from Monday 2 to Friday 6 October, temporary traffic signals will be in operation on Dunster to Timberscombe Road between the junctions of Brook Street and Orchard Way.
Wessex Water has written the local customers and businesses about the Drapers Way closure, with further information about the later phases of the scheme following in September.
| Owen Houlihan Senior Communications Adviser Wessex Water Claverton Down Bath BA2 7WW Contact number 01225 526 329 Mobile number 07825 436 019 wessexwater.co.uk |
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