A GRAND AUCTION will be held by Abbotsbury Residents Corps (ARC) in Strangways Hall, Abbotsbury on Saturday, May 10 at 2.00pm.
Bring your items to the hall on Friday, May 9 between 3-8pm and Saturday, May 10 9-10am.
Good general household goods, jewellery, antiques and collectables, garden equipment etc will all go under the hammer of a professional auctioneer from Dukes Auction House.
Viewing will take place from noon -2pm.
POST OFFICE CLOSURES is an important issue for our rural villages.
Councillor Nigel Melville of Chesil Bank Parish Council (CBPC) must be commended for organising a meeting for them, which was held in Portesham village hall on April 23. John Coombe chairman of the CBPC sent his apologies.
Post Office Counters had been invited to attend the meeting, but were barred from doing so in the run up to the local elections.
Over 100 people attended this meeting to hear Simon Thomson (Dorset Community Action), Councillor Ron Nash (Dorset County Council) and Martin Doe (Postwatch) attempting to clarify the situation for our villages and suggesting ways around possible closures.
Councillor Tom Bartlett (West Dorset District Council), WDDC, sent a report from the Council's Business Support Team, which stated that funding was available from both the WDDC and DDC to support communities where the local post office would be closed.
Councillor Ron Nash didn't think that either Portesham or Abbotsbury offices would close if the Post Office applied its own criteria.
A question and answer session followed.
Simon Thomson then suggested a task force' should use the period between now and July 15 when the final decisions on closures were be made, to look at the Post Office criteria and prepare arguments to counter any closure proposal (petitions were not advised but individual protests were).
He had already sent a circular to Parish Council clerks to that effect. This will be put on the agenda for the CBPC May meeting, which will be held on Monday, May 12 in Portesham village hall.
FINALLY on parish council business, news has reached me that our new CBPC clerk, yet another, resigned her post earlier this year.
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