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King Charles III Coronation
SPC have not received any suggestions for celebrating or commemorating the Coronation, if you have any ideas please forward them to the Parish Clerk.
Read MoreA Load of Old Rubbish!
The new operators at the Allerton Park Waste Recovery Site (south on the A1 close to the A59 junction) are offering ‘Visitor Experience Tours’.
Read MoreNature Notes – March 2023
While admiring the spring flowers in the church yard, I noticed grey squirrels chasing each other along the church wall.
Read MoreNature Notes – February 2023
At last signs of spring: great tits, robins, starlings, mistle thrushes and song thrushes are all starting to sing.
Read MoreKing Charles III Coronation
Buckingham Palace – Have announced plans for the Coronation weekend.
Read MoreScruton Festival – June 2023
Scruton’s traditional annual Village Fete is superseded this year by a new festival organised by Scruton Playing Field Association (SPFA).
Read MoreNature Notes – January 2023
Ten years ago the sight or a photo of an otter on the Swale would have made the local newspapers. Today they are more common than kingfishers.
Read MoreFrom the Rectory – December 2022
The Christmas hype has started. I doubt many people look to the weeks before Christmas with the word ‘quiet’ in mind.
Read MoreSociable Warm Space
Volunteers from St. Radegund’s Church have agreed with the Coore Memorial Hall to hold open times this winter when Scruton residents can socialise in the village hall.
Read MoreNature Notes – December 2022
by Andy Johnson The Twelve Days of Christmas is an old English Carol* featuring mainly animals. A partridge is an English or grey partridge. Turtle doves are now rare but occasionally seen locally. French hens are thought to be Breton hens. Calling birds (or ‘colly’ in early versions) meant blackbirds. Gold rings were thought to…
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