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The lovely Estate of Brand Hall, Norton in Hales, was once again hosting the British Eventing International Horse Trials over this past weekend, by kind permission of Mr and Mrs Michael Taylor. This the tenth year of the Trials in the village saw over 300 hundred entries received with many leading riders taking part together with a whole host of up and coming stars in the 2* Sections and the National Pony Championship. The timetable of events started on Friday 31 May with D

A standing ovation, calls for more and everyone asking to have the group back ended the evening at the recent concert from Lost Highway in the village hall. They had performed a wide range of music from the St Louis Blues played with a modern take, to the Irish song ‘Black is the Colour of my True Love’s Hair’; the audience were in fine voice joining in with ‘Under the Boardwalk’ and the evening ended with Dylan’s ‘Forever Young’. These were all interspersed with many other s

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May sees the end of the ‘Messenger’ parish newsletter and is being replaced by the Bradling Stone, a monthly Norton in Hales magazine. The name comes from the distinctive stone in the centre of the village. It can be found under the News and Events dropdown box. It is quite a change, being printed in colour and, in addition to being here on the village website, it is distributed free of charge to all households in the parish. Click here to take a look! #news #BradlingStone

“A lovely display of purple crocuses planted in the grounds of St Chad’s, Norton in Hales by the children of the village school, helped by the Norton in Bloom Group, in previous autumns. The plantings were sponsored by the Rotary Club of Newcastle under Lyme as part of Rotary International’s “End Polio Now” campaign and the purple represents the purple dye dabbed on a child’s finger to indicate they have received two drops of the polio vaccine during a National Immunisation

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The North Staffordshire Hounds met at Oakley Hall on Saturday 16 February for a day’s Trail Hunting. He Meet was kindly hosted by Mrs Anne Fisher, a former High Sheriff of Staffordshire, and this was the last Meet before Anne leaves her lovely house which she has now sold. There were around 40 mounted with a good contingent of followers under the Mastership of Mr Jonathan Jarrett MFH, who thanked Anne most warmly for her generous hospitality. It was a lovely spring-like da

Local parishioner Dick Walton has been presented with a Certificate from the Shropshire Association of Church Bellringers to mark 25 years of ringing the bells in the village. Pictured is Dick receiving his certificate from Madeline Harris, Master of the Shropshire Association, together with other colleagues from the current village bellringring team. #news #bellringing #church