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Support Local Business
It’s important that we all do whatever we can to support local businesses for their survival through this crisis. The Coore Arms can provide take-away food and home delivery. Spring House Farm is also doing take-away and food-for-collection. Whites Butcher is open and supplying, and the Egg Shed is open for collections. Malcom Barker sells…
Read MoreFootpath along Station Road
The Parish Council have been notified that North Yorkshire County Council have rejected the request for a footpath from the A684 to the Scruton Station. The Parish Council has offered to provide Hi-Viz vests to any one who needs to walk this road, particularly during the hours of darkness. Please contact the Clerk to request…
Read MoreFrank Burns
It is with great sadness that we learned recently about the death of Frank Burns, age 87. He was a long-time resident of Scruton until moving into sheltered accommodation in Bedale and then into care in York. Frank lived in Meadow Drive with his wife Barbara, and initially with their 3 children, Stephen, Sally and…
Read MoreSky at Night – April 2020
Venus continues to dominate the western sky throughout April and will be very close to the open cluster of the Pleiades from 1st to 5th of the month with the best view being on 2 April. Through binoculars this will be a fantastic sight with the many stars of the cluster, and you should be…
Read MoreNature Notes – April 2020
Spring has finally arrived, the dawn chorus is well underway and skylarks are singing. Daylight is rapidly increasing, encouraging the re-birth of plant and animal life. Those of you with ponds will no doubt have plenty of frog spawn (photo thanks to Liz Davies) which will be followed by toad spawn towards the end of…
Read MoreWelcome to Scruton
A a new village information booklet has been delivered to every house in the parish along with this newsletter. The plan had been to launch this publication at the newcomers Welcome Evening on 27 March, which of course is now postponed until after the coronavirus crisis. In the meantime, you may be interested to see…
Read MoreRecent Notice of Corona Cancellations – corrected email
We have heard that the following have been cancelled for all the reasons you’d expect and in line with government guidelines and until further notice
Read MoreCovid-19 Advice
Do you need someone to help you with food shopping, prescriptions, posting mail, or any other urgent essentials?
Read MoreHam Hall Lane
The Parish Council have been notified that Ham Hall Lane is now officially closed for a six month period. This is a formal/official closure rather than the informal arrangement which was the case previously.
Read MoreScruton Sky at Night – March 2020
The second of this year’s ‘supermoons’ will occur on the evening of 9 March. On the morning of 19 March at around 6 am there will be a very thin crescent moon with several planets adjacent as shown in the image below. You should at least be able to see Jupiter & Mars.
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