Monthly Archives: March 2025

Jackie Morris at Barnstaple Library, 29th March.

Posted on 16/03/2025 by Tango Alpha

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‘Big Breakfast’ in aid of ND Hospice – 29th March.

Posted on 15/03/2025 by Tango Alpha

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‘Sausage sizzle & craft fair’ – 29th March.

Posted on 15/03/2025 by Tango Alpha

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Good news for Bideford Town Band.

Posted on 13/03/2025 by Tango Alpha

Bideford Town Band Qualifies for the 2025 National Brass Band Championships! The band is pictured after the awards ceremony at Torquay’s Riviera Centre on Saturday 8th March. In 2022 the band put Bideford on the National brass banding map by … Continue reading →

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Sheep worrying on Northam Burrows.

Posted on 08/03/2025 by Tango Alpha

Torridge District Council is reminding all dog walkers to please take care near sheep to avoid incidents of sheep worrying on the Northam Burrows. The Country Park is popular with dog walkers but is also a grazing common, where the … Continue reading →

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Globe Hotel, Torrington, receives funding.

Posted on 07/03/2025 by Tango Alpha

The Globe Hotel project, Great Torrington, named as one of the recipients of the Levelling Up funding for Devon. Torridge District Council has announced that it has been awarded £20,700,000 in capital investment with £250,000 revenue funding to support a … Continue reading →

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Torridge awarded over £20m.

Posted on 06/03/2025 by Tango Alpha

Torridge District Council announced on 3rd March that it has been awarded £20,700,000 in capital investment with £250,000 revenue funding to support a number of projects to benefit residents across the district. The projects announced by government are being funded … Continue reading →

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“LaunchBideford” project.

Posted on 03/03/2025 by Tango Alpha

Torridge District Council has teamed up with SaveTheHighStreet.org and Bideford Town Council to launch an exciting competition designed to reward and elevate new or expanding entrepreneurs. The project, known as LaunchBideford, is offering at least two businesses the chance to … Continue reading →

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Shipping notes No. 239 (February).

Posted on 02/03/2025 by Tango Alpha

Bideford Quay. No shipping this month.   Yelland Quay. No shipping this month. Appledore. Atherstone still alongside quay, Quorn in shed. In port – Bremen (ex – Wilsom Limerick, ’18) – built 2012; flag Cyprus; crew & cargo unknown. Bristol … Continue reading →

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Bideford Film Society – March events.

Posted on 01/03/2025 by Tango Alpha

Please also see our website www.bidefordcinema.org.uk All showing at The Theatre, Kingsley School. * * * * September 5 (15). (95 mins). Showing Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd March 7.30pm (doors open 7.00pm) Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro & Ben … Continue reading →

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One Hundred Years Ago – March 1925.

Posted on 01/03/2025 by Tango Alpha

A collection of articles from the ‘Bideford Gazette’ during March 1925, kindly selected by Bideford Community Archive. The coasts all round Devon and Cornwall suffered badly by the gales. Roads at Weare Gifford were impassable to wheeled traffic for a … Continue reading →

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