The parish council takes a hammering!

The recent questionnaire results were very critical of the parish council for not publishing enough information about it's meetings, decisions and finances

We can soon put that right!

Click on the link below to have a look at the parish council web page and minutes of all the recent meetings including details of payments, bank balances etc

If you want to find out first hand what is going on you can attend a council meeting. Just go to the parish council web page and contact the parish clerk

The chairman of the parish council, Ken James is featured in the March Bridgerule Buzz and he also gave some information on recent council activity

Within a few days of the council contacting Torridge DC about the potholes on the main Launceston road they were mended and this week the ones on the Bridgerule to Newacott road have been repaired

Click here for the Bridgerule Parish Council page

The Buzz is about!

The March Bridgerule Buzz is being delivered to everyone in Bridgerule

It is bigger and better than ever !

Advertisers, sponsors, Announcements and News snippets are always welcome

Click here for more details and for the editors contact details

Bridgerule Parish Plan

The questionnaire results are back

A big thank you to everyone who completed the questionnaire

189 questionnaires were completed which represents a huge 67% of the 280 questionnaires delivered

The replies have been independently analysed by Devon County Council to make absolutely sure they are correctly illustrated in the Parish Plan document when it is published

Please keep looking at the website and the Buzz to see how things are progressing

The Parish Plan steering group are going through the answers to ensure all the extra comments are taken in to account. They wanted the results to be available to everyone in the village as soon as possible so click the link below if you would like to see the preliminary results

Click here if you would like to see the draft results of the questionnaire

Click here to see the achievements so far - and we've only just started !

Another successful Bridgerule Litterpick

The third Bridgerule litterpick took place on Saturday 20th February. The new year litterpick had to be cancelled because the rubbish was covered with snow !

Several bags of litter were collected, although not as many as the previous times so it must be working

As always the hard work was followed by tea and biscuits in the hall

The litter pick was one of the requests made to the Bridgerule Tomorrow Group and Chris and Rose Hitchens immediately took up the challenge to make sure it actually happened

A cold start to the year

Snow and ice made walking and driving difficult for much of January and February

Thankfully March seems a bit better but still very cold

The bad weather has taken it's toll on the roads with new potholes appearing

Click on the photo to see a few winter photos from around the village

X Factor 19?? - spot the local publican

Jamming night every Monday. Don't worry - he doesn't join in now!

Relax with a drink and listen to the local musicians

Skittles, General knowledge quizzes, Darts, Euchre, Pool, pub food and meetings

Support your local

Click here for more on what's happening at the Bridge Inn

Launceston Male Voice Choir is coming to Bridgerule

Not to missed

Sunday 18th April

Full details will appear here and in the Buzz

Click here for more information on the Launceston Male Voice Choir

The annual Treasure Hunt

Saturday 22nd May at the Bridge Inn

In aid of Devon Air Ambulance

Walk or take the car

Barbeque

Live Music

Raffle

Accident on the Red Post to Launceston road

Fortunately no one was hurt when a truck carrying 20 tonnes of gravel swerved off the road shortly before Christmas

The accident happened between the old railway bridge and Bevills Hill and closed the road for a whole day

A digger unloaded part of the load of gravel and cleared the mud from under the truck so it could be winched out

The Halloween Disco in the hall brings in the crowds

A superbly decorated hall and some horribly frightening individuals greeted the crowds that attended the halloween disco

And that was just the people taking the money on the door

You then had to go through the black tunnel to see the best pumpkin and the best costume competition.

There was a discount on the entrance fee for dressing up so, as you would expect in Bridgerule, nearly everyone dressed up!

Click on the grave stone to see the halloween photos - if you dare!

School trip to Bude

Do you recognise any of these children waiting at the station for the train to Bude?

Exact year unknown - about 1964?

Country and Western night nets big bucks for the Air Ambulance

An extremely successful Country and Western evening was held at the Parish Hall on Saturday 24 October

It was a complete sell-out with standing room only by the time the main attraction, “The Cornish Hillbillies” made it on to the stage

An extremely skilful and colourful display of line dancing was put on by a number of local people dressed appropriately in country and western outfits

Just as impressive was the amount raised, £631.82 for Devon Air Ambulance. Well done to everyone who worked so hard to put it on!

Parish Council School Visit

Bridgerule school kindly invited the parish council to visit the school on Tuesday 29th September

Unfortunately only 2 councillors could make it, the Chairman, Ken James and Ken Chilton

The children took great pride in showing off their school to the 2 kens

Please click here for full details

Bridgerule Revel Week

What a fantastic turnout.

From the Crowning of the Queen on Sunday to the carnival on Saturday every day was a success.

Well done to all the people that made it happen and to everyone that attended the events.

Please click here for more photos of the carnival

The crowning of the Queen

Congratulations to Tia Jenkin

Please click here for more photos of the crowning and other events

Bridge Inn day trip to Newton Abbott Races

It poured with rain

Everyone came back broke

But apart from that everyone had a good day

Thanks to Pam and Gary at the pub for organising a very enjoyable day which ended with a superb meal at the Half Moon Inn at Sheepwash

Bridgerule Open Gardens

Once again keen gardeners opened their gardens on Sunday 28th June to raise money for the Devon and Cornwall Air Ambulances

The event was a spectacular success with £1920 being raised

 Click here for full details

There was also an event held at 'Kildare' Bridgerule in aid of cancer research on Sunday 12th July which made over £800.  The final amount is not sorted yet as they are taking all the un-sold items to a Car Boot sale in the hope of making a bit more.

John and Jean Hammond opened up their garden again with various stalls, games, light lunches and cream teas etc.

John's amazing collection of old tools was on display with a "guess what it was used for" table.

Football in Bridgerule

Bridgerule has 2 football teams - they welcome any new supporters with a display of football worthy of the premiership - unfortunately it doesn't always last until the end of the match but they are still well worth checking out!

Click here for more

Click here to visit the Bridgerule Football Club Facebook Site

Bridgerule Mill Open day 2009

The Bridge Mill was open for Mills Day on Sunday 10th May.

As always there was a very good turnout for a very interesting day

Click here for the the new updated Bridge Mill website

The new Bridgerule Parish Hall opens

No - it's okay - you haven't missed anything

This happened quite a while ago but they forgot to put it on the internet

Improvements at Bridgerule School

Just look at the nice new shiny ramp at the school

Obviously the children will think it's a new skateboard ramp so please approach the bend with care

Click here for the new school website

In Times Gone By

Bridgerule Station as it used to be

Does anyone have any interesting photos of the station or the trains that used to run ?

Please email any comments, suggestions, news, photos or announcements to info@bridgerule.co.uk