Margaret and Brian Wheaton of Hemyock would like to thank all those who supported their garage sale on Saturday June 30 which raised £600.

Mid Devon District Council has been in some turmoil recently , with many new Councillors and the placing of the Council under more direct central government supervision.

Margaret Squires has taken over as the new Chairman of MDDC and a completely new structure for the Council looks imminent.  

Despite the assurances given by Mr Guscott, the Mid Devon District Council’s Chief Planning Officer, that there would be no more developments in Hemyock for 10-15 years, it was revealed by Frank Rosamond, the MDCC elected Member covering this area on the MDDC that MDDC has to consider some possible suitable sites for affordable housing within the District that might be required up to 2026.

The subject of the street lighting in Hemyock came up at the Parish Council Meeting on 4th July. 

An 18-year-old student from Hemyock wowed judges at an annual beauty therapy contest in London a fortnight ago.  Amy Grimshaw won the Sterex Student of the Year Competition 2007 at the Roof Gardens Hotel in Kensington on June 13.

An artist from Hemyock has been selected from around 13,000 applicants to contribute to a prestigious art exhibition.  Mary Carter is displaying a traditional painting in the small Western Room at the Royal Academy of Arts 239th Summer Exhibition.

The Domesday Project 1986 was made to coincide with the 900th year anniversary of the original Domesday Book.  Many familiar local names occur in it.  Unfortunately Domesday 1986 was done on rapidly obsolete computer technology and was nearly lost forever.  It has now been put on the web here.  You will have to navigate within it to Hemyock yourself.

Having received the formal Planning Application for the proposed development of the Churchills Farm site, the Parish Council arranged and held an open meeting to discuss it.