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| 9 Jan 2012 | MONDAY CIRCUIT TRAINING We have re-started the Monday evening circuit training sessions in the Village Hall on Monday evenings between 6.30 and 7.30pm, but as a kind of do it yourself cooperative arrangement without an official trainer. Let me know if you would like to join us - it involves stretching, strength building and aerobic exercises and as you can go at your own pace you do not have to be at any particular standard to join in. Note the circuit training will not take place when the Village Hall is required for Parish Council meetings (see Calendar) |
We will need to assemble a few bits of kit so if
you have a yoga mat, some weights, skipping ropes, a gym ball, stop
watch or a whistle that would also be helpful but don't worry if you
haven't, we will work something out! Hiring the hall is £6 an hour, so the cost will be nominal. Participation is at your own risk! Contact Peter Brookes on 470589 or via email if you are interested in joining. |
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| 28 Oct 2011 | FREE USED COLOUR PRINTER: Following an upgrade to an all-in-one scanner/copier/printer I have a surplus Epson Stylus Photo 700 colour inkjet printer looking for a good home.You can find further information on the printer in the brochure. The printer is in good working order. It requires a connection to a parallel port on a PC rather than via a USB connection, although you can buy adaptors (eg. this one) if you only have USB. Will deliver locally. | If you are interested please contact Richard on 471141 or via email. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 May 2011 | ELECTION RESULTS The results of the Parish Council elections held on 5 May 2011 are as follows:
The results of the election in Bathavon West Ward for Bath & NE Somerset Council are as follows:
David Veale has therefore been elected as the Councillor for Bathavon West Ward. |
Click on the links for the official results for: |
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| 27 Jul 2010 | MEDIEVAL JETON FIND Paul Walker and Chris Wheeler of Trowbridge Metal Detecting Club recently found a rare medieval jeton in a Priston field. The object is a 15th Century Medieval Jeton of France (maybe Charles VI 1380 – 1422 AD). Jetons were used for early accountancy calculations, before the advent of arabic numerals and to cope with the complexity of multiple money types circulating at any one time. They were used on a board divided into rows and columns - hence the expression "Exchequer" because of the resemblance to a chess board. |
Click on the
links below for:
(Thanks to Aylet Anderson for providing this information item.) |
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| 7 May 2010 | GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS 2010 Jacob Rees-Mogg has been elected MP for NE Somerset. The votes were as follows:
Turnout was 76% |
Priston lays within the newly formed Somerset North East Constituency, which has been formed from the old Wansdyke constituency by the loss of the South Gloucestershire Wards and the addition of some wards on the fringes of Bath (see map). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 April 2010 | PRISTON TELECOM? Find out how villagers elsewhere in the UK have cooperated to provide 40MB Broadband to their homes. |
Click here for details. Click here for information on the I-Plate, which may enable you to improve broadband speeds, particularly if you have lots of internal phone extension wiring. Click here to test your broadband speed. |
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| 7 Jan 2010 | IS IT A
RECORD?:
from Aylet Anderson: Temperature
according to our weather station is -11.3C at Brook Cottage at
8.15am. Updatefrom Aylet :My record is broken already. Jerry Haines said that the temp. gauge in his car this morning showed -13.5C! |
Has anyone else
in the village recorded more (or should it be less?!!). If so contact us. |
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| 15 October
2008 |
ROZZIE'S RODENTS:  Holiday care for your little furry friends in my home. Rats, Hamsters, Rabbits, Guinea pigs, Mice, Gerbils. £ 7.50 per cage, per week. Weekends a possibility too. |
Ring for more
information 01761 472702. |
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| 6 October 2008 | REGIONAL SPATIAL STRATEGY FOR THE SOUTH WEST: Early in 2008 a Parish Committee provided a response to the B&NES Core strategy which proposes a substantial housing extension south of Bath. This Core Stretegy was itself based on a draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West. On 22 July 2008 the Secretary of State (SoS) provided a Response to the Regional Spatial Strategy, which is now open for consultation until 17 October 2008. The SoS Response has increased the overall housing requirement for B&NES to 21,300 and the urban extension to Bath to 2,000 new homes. The SoS also said there would be a need for an additional 39 hectares of employment land. On Tuesday 6 July 2010 Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP announced the revocation of Regional Strategies (including Regional Spatial Strategies or RSSs) with immediate effect (see here for more info) |
The Parish Committee decided their best policy
was to
contribute to a position paper to be
drawn up by the parish councils of the Bathavon West Area of
B&NES, and also to produce a form of Landscape Appraisal
documenting why Priston is not an acceptable terrain for landscape
expansion. Click on the links for the formal response and the full report (13Mb made in reply to the SoS response |
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| 26 June 2008 | OUR MILLENNIUM BOOK: I have a small waiting list of people who would like to have a copy of Our Millennium Book. I know that some people bought multiple copies when it was printed. If anyone has surplus copies could they contact me, and I will pass the books on and refund their money. | Please contact Aylet Anderson on 01761 470339 or email. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 April 2008 | GLOW-WORMS AT TWERTON: See the article on the Twerton web-site based on the page on the Priston web-site. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28
July 2006 |
RING
& RIDE SCHEME:The
scheme is intended for elderly and disabled individuals who find it
difficult to access public transport. |
Click here
or call 417504 for details. |
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| 17
May 2005 |
HISTORIC
PARISH MAP: In 1991 a landscape survey was carried out in Priston by the old County of Avon. Apart from the very interesting booklet that they produced at this time, a map was commissioned based on the old Manorial maps of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth century. It depicts the old field boundaries and field names in use at that time, present day housing is also shown. The owners of the Parish, including their arms, the Granary, Bullford bridge and the Mill etc. are illustrated. I have managed to arrange a reprint of this fascinating map, which when framed, is a real conversation piece. |
The
map measures 594mm x 841mm, in black and white, price £3.50. Copies are available from Tim Hughes Tel: (01761) 470029 |
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| 8 December 2004 | BROADBAND:
BT has removed the distance-related conditions for Broadband. Broadband
should now be available to 99.8% of householders connected to a
Broadband-enabled exchange. Contact us to let us know of your experiences. Click here for great Broadband advice and sites! |
Visit www.bt.com\bt-broadband:
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| 31 July 2004 | HISTORY OF PRISTON POOR HOUSE AND SCHOOL: new 3rd edition now available. 22 pages illustrated with black & white photos. | Click here for details. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 January 2004 | THE LOCAL CHANNEL is a company which provides local communities with free web-space. Priston has adopted its site on The Local Channel. | For further information click here. |