Lost and found cats
»LOST – Dexter, Grey male cat. South Molton. 07925 534863 »FOUND – Ginger, white bib and paws. Chittlehamholt area. Call 0345 3714 203
»FOUND – Black male cat. Queens Nympton area South Molton. Call 0345 3714 203 »LOST - Mango, black, white and brown tabby male cat, 3 years old. Missing from Roundswell area of Barnstaple 07586 456937.
»LOST - Mr Meowgi, Large brown/beige/grey tabby male cat, 7 months old. Medium haired striped pattern. Missing from Filleigh, Barnstaple 07957 965136.
»LOST - Lilly, tabby long haired female cat, 7 years old. Missing from Roundswell area of Barnstaple 07901 802001. »LOST - Felix, black and white male cat, 13 years old. MIssing from Ilfracombe 07746 796532. »LOST - Millie, white and tabby female cat. Missing from Hele area of Ilfracombe 07493 189311. »LOST - Felix, 14 years old, black and white male cat. Tears on his ears and fur missing on the back of his neck area. Missing from Torrs Park area of Ilfracombe 07391 146764.
»LOST - Luna, 3 years old, tabby female cat. Scar above eye, tail broken at end. Missing from Kentisbury area of Combe Martin 07721 188469.
»LOST -Bluebella, 11 years old, blue/grey with white bib and 4 white paws. Missing from Ashford, Barnstaple 07568 589821.
»LOST - Jess, 3 year old, small dark grey tabby female cat. Missing from Whiddon Drive area of Barnstaple 07856 849815.
»LOST - Louie, 1 ½ year old large black and white male cat. Missing from the Sticklepath area of
Barnstaple 07411 948864. »LOST - Lena, 7 year old, smokey grey female cat. Missing from Barnstaple 07725 348225. »LOST - Fluffy, 11 years old, Large tabby and white, long haired female cat, MIssing from the Pilton area of
Barnstaple 07725 563329.
»LOST - Chipotle or Chippy, 6 years old, Ginger and white fluffy male cat with a fluffy tail. Missing from Morthoe Woolacombe 01271 870328 or 01271 870391 Post Office.
»LOST - Frank, 18 months old, jet black male cat with a few white hairs on his chest. Missing from the Warkleigh Barton area of Umberleigh 07391 408080. »LOST - Muffin, 12 years old, Blue/grey female cat with one white whisker, she has a blue nose with a bit of pink around her nostrils. Missing from the Sticklepath area of Barnstaple. 01271 269065 or mobile 07596 283345.
»LOST - Stitch, 7 years old, white and ginger male cat with a long stripey tail missing from Barnstaple 07530 668655.
»LOST - Lola, 11 year old, small grey tabby female cat. Missing from Yelland area of Barnstaple 01271 624943.
»LOST - Minchii, 3 year old, black and white male cat fluffy with a small black mark on his chin. Missing from Barnstaple 07729 634870.
»LOST - Chunk, 6 year old, pure white male cat with amber eyes. Missing from the Rackenford area of Tiverton 07546 638801.
»LOST - Weasley, ginger male cat. Missing from the Combe Martin area. Contact 07792 994407.
»LOST - Ziggy, 10 year old male. Black and white cat. Missing from Richmond street, Barnstaple 07874 869650.
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BIDEFORD’S Manor Court celebrated its annual meeting last week to hear ‘presentments’ from residents on matters of local concern. The court derives from feudal times and must be Bideford’s oldest tradition still extant, though its claim to trace its history back as far as the 5th century is surely an exaggeration! Manorial courts were the lowest courts of jurisdiction, being concerned with the ‘proper condition of watercourses, roads, paths and ditches’ and to ‘find remedy for social ills.’ No-one would dispute that these are tasks still in urgent need of attention.
Nowadays the Court’s function is largely ceremonial – but who doesn’t love a bit of ceremony? Mayor Jamie McKenzie presiding in all his robes, the bedel with his mace, the court steward, and the ‘tythingman’ who, with due respect to 21st century gender equity, is actually a tythingwoman. The mayors of Barnstaple, South Molton and Northam were all there, together with a jury of local electors whose duty it was to consider the presentments. While we were all waiting, we were entertained by guest speaker Mike Teare, chair of Way of the Wharves who, in acknowledgement of the Mayor’s own background, provided an engrossing talk on some of the characters who have contributed to East-the-Water’s rich history. These included Henry Morgan Restarick, the last shipbuilder in East-the-Water and twice Mayor of Bideford, and Elizabeth Denys, an 11-year-old First World War refugee from Belgium, killed by a mail train while playing at the station and buried in Bideford Higher cemetery.
Then we heard this year’s presentments, all of which have to be within Bideford Town Council’s remit to fulfil. One of these is very dear to this group’s heart – to take advantage of the newly acquired Heritage Harbour status, including arranging suitable signage and leveraging opportunities for regeneration and improvement.
We heard that, unfortunately, some of last year’s presentments had been refused either by Torridge District Council or by Devon County Council on the basis of cost, though I am glad that trees in Chudleigh Fort have not been removed or pollarded.
So, as a result of this year’s presentments, will we see the green slime cleaned off Charles Kingsley’s statue? Apparently, it is a Torridge responsibility, but a nudge from the Manor Court will surely help. If not, perhaps a councillor will take it upon themselves to do it, in the same way as one of our county councillors is doing with potholes?
FAST-RISING comic Alison Spittle will bring her tour to North Devon next month. The comedian has been through plenty in her life, behind the scenes of a career which has seen her become a regular co-host of the enormously popular ‘Guilty Feminist’ podcast as well as finding mainstream success with BBC Sounds’ ‘Wheel Of Misfortune,’ a project she created herself.
Her complex PTSD forms some of the basis of this brand new tour, fresh from a critically-lauded run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Luckily, though, there’s also soup.
Alison’s enthusiasm for soup is at such a level that she was invited to join a WhatsApp group devoted to the subject (she is frustrated that it isn’t called WhatSoup, but there’s nothing we can do about that).
It’s one of the nicer corners of the internet, and Alison is a person devoted to nice corners: the show also touches upon her balcony/refuge in a rented London flat, where she cultivates fruit and vegetables with, to be fair, mixed results.
But many of the escapes we seek for our mental health are less reliable, and – among other things – the industry of ‘self-care,’ the scam of face masks and the misery of hen parties come under her sweet-butvicious spotlight.
Few comics combine the innocuous with the psychologically probing quite as distinctively as this joyous, unusual performer, whom Impatient is delighted to send on her biggest UK tour to date. The need for distraction is an ongoing theme in Alison’s comedy: for the rest of us, there could hardly be a more pleasant distraction from life’s horrors than to watch her at work.
Alison Spittle: Soup comes to The Plough Arts Centre in Great Torrington on April 5. Visit www. theploughartscentre.org.uk