Diane’s Story, A Eulogy By Rev Ann Walton; It was an honour to take Diane’s funeral and after speaking to her brother, sister in law and nieces, this is the story they told of her life. Diane had a good life, although it hasn’t always […]
The village flag has been lowered in recognition of the passing of Diane Ezard, who died yesterday. Diane was the partner of the late Kath Walters. More information will be published in due course.
The village flag has today been lowered to mark the passing of Margaret Bell, recently of The Abbe’s Walk, and widow of the late Ted Bell, former Parish Councillor. Further information will be published in due course.
Hopefully, not many of us have the experience of getting too close to the members of the Police service, but, last week, we were joined at our Parish Council meeting by Toni Bratby, one of the Police Community Support Officers (PCSO’s) allocated to our area. […]
We recently reported that we had decided to monitor any potential movement in the retaining wall around the memorial in the centre of the village, before we went to the expense of fixing something that isn’t a real problem. We have now acquired a couple […]
Back in May, we reported the development of a new wildlife garden in the wooded area next to The Burghwallis pub car park. Things have moved on apace since then. It is almost a year since the idea of creating a woodland garden and play […]
Irene was born at New Street in Bentley growing up during wartime. Her parents Charlie and Ena were clearly very busy at this time so much of Irene’s happy childhood was spent with her grandparents who, along with great uncles from Ireland ensured that she […]
We are sad to report the death of Irene Simm on 19th September. Many will remember Irene (and husband Johnny) who transformed the then struggling Burghwallis club into the hugely successful Burghwallis pub, which they ran in the 1990’s and, before that, The Anne Arms […]
Way back in June, we discovered the children’s ‘Springer’ ride in the Playing field had been broken. We suspect someone a little larger than life and probably slightly over the weight limit – like an adult still young at heart, had an illicit shot on […]
Frequent fliers to this site will recall that we reported on the state of the village War Memorial back in May, when we “noticed” that there appeared to be movement in the retaining wall, though we do not know how long such signs have been […]