Please be aware that one of our residents has had two calls this week from someone claiming to be from Amazon. They are calling from this number  01357746949, supposedly from Amazon and trying to get access to account details.

Amazon DO NOT ring customers asking for account updates, etc

Benefice Newsletter

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Full time General Farm Worker Required

Exmoor Hill Beef and Sheep farm situated on Exmoor located in the Doone Valley near Porlock, Somerset.  This is a full time position with a 3 bed cottage provided on farm.

Experience preferred. Serious enquires only please. For further information please contact Jonathan Woollacott on 01598 741256 (leave a message) or 07854 034603.

Government advice now allows churches to open for supervised individual prayer in line with current social distancing guidelines. However, St Petrock’s will remain closed for Health and Safety concerns as the building project is well under way inside the church to provide a toilet and servery.

The PCC hopes that this work will be completed within the next few weeks and the church can then re-open shortly afterwards once it has been cleaned and in line with government advice.

We are all aware that our church is an important sacred space and we look forward to when it can again be a meeting place for worship and prayer and community use.

At a time when no social or fundraising meetings have been held for three months due to coronavirus restrictions, we are extremely grateful to Rosemary Conquer who is making and selling marmalade. John and Jenny Gratton have created a wonderful walking booklet linking all six churches in the Dunster Benefice which is available at the Post Office and limited numbers of the cookery book are still available from the Post Office. All profits go to church funds.

Rev. Caroline Ralph      01643 821812

John Gratton                01643 841490

Marion Jeffrey              01643 841500

SCC will be surface dressing the A358 Williton to Taunton road on the West Bagborough section on Monday, 15 and Tuesday, 16 June.  As this section of road is narrow, the road will need to be closed for a period of time in order to get the machinery through.  The agreed closure dates and times are:-

• Monday 15th June 2020 between 09:30am and 12:30pm (3 hours)
• Tuesday 16th June 2020 between 09:30am and 12:30pm (3 hours)

The diversion for heavy vehicles will be from Williton to Taunton via Bridgwater, using the A39 and A38.  Light vehicles will be able to use the B3190 and B3224 via Raleigh’s Cross in order to avoid the closed section of A358.

During these periods the number 28 Taunton to Minehead bus service will avoid the section of A358 between Bishops Lydeard and Williton and instead divert via Raleigh’s Cross.

Face masks mandatory at NHS Hospitals

The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that all staff in hospitals in England will be provided with surgical masks which they will be expected to wear from 15 June. NHS staff already wear face masks in clinical areas within two metres of a patient, but the new guidance applies to everyone working in all areas of the hospital.

Members of the public are strongly urged to attend hospital wearing a face covering, but a face mask will be provided in emergencies. DHSC is working with the social care sector to implement a similar approach.  Read more here.

Regal Award

The Regal Theatre’s volunteers have been honoured by being awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service click HERE for more details.

This is a progress report on our works just above Beasley Farm on the Timberscombe to Heathpoult Cross Rd (above Church Street, Timberscombe).  The scheme was to repair and improve 270 metres of road edge drainage and cross drains, as there have been many historic issues with tree root ingress, as well as low capacity pipework.  These works required a full road closure due to restricted road widths for worker and public safety.  The works initially started slowly as the team encountered various areas of hard dig (shillet, etc) but, helped by extremely good weather thus far, the works have now caught up and are scheduled to be completed at the end of this week (weather permitting).