WACKY WALKERS - Last Saturday a 19 walkers and one dog completed the planned walk around Holme Lacy and returned to the Moon Inn for lunch. After heavy rain the day before, club members enjoyed a dry walk across fields.

VILLAGE LOTTERY - Anne and Barry Megson won £25 with number 34 in Saturday's draw.

MANSELL GAMAGE - A proposed closure order will come into force on July 11 on the B4230, running from A438 Portway to its junction with U90400 Hinton Lane, Mansell Gamage, for renewal of water mains on or near the road. An alternative route will be signposted.

BYFORD - Anyone living in Byford or Mansell Gamage who remembers Eileen Francis, aged nine, her sister Rita, seven, or brother Edward, five, who were evacuees from Bootle, Liverpool in 1941, is being asked to Barry Megson on 590691