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Church news: With the government’s national ‘Step’ Regulations progressively enabling more activities to restart, we are now gradually reintroducing services of worship in our churches. Initially these are combined services to include everyone in the parishes of Clapham, Keasden, Austwick and Eldroth. Sunday May 9 11am Keasden. Ascension Day Thursday May 13, 10.30am Austwick Sunday May 16, 11am Clapham. Sunday June 27, 7pm Lambing Service at Keasden New Burial Ground. A celebration of lambing and of the beautiful new burial ground being created next to Keasden Church.
Austwick Church news: With the Government’s national ‘Step’ Regulations progressively enabling more activities to restart, we are now gradually reintroducing services of worship in our churches. Initially these are combined services to include everyone in the parishes of Clapham, Keasden, Austwick and Eldroth: Sunday, April 25, 9.30am, Austwick; Sunday, May 2, 9.30am, Eldroth; Sunday, May 9, 11am, Keasden. Ascension Day Thursday, May 13, 10.30am, Austwick; Sunday, May 16, 11am, Clapham. Parish News: The current edition can be found on the link below or from the village website: drive.google.com/file/d/1lLD4YaMwMxFiXWKeqE O8NVJIZ8xsv8I/view?usp=sharing WI: We began the first meeting of the year with a Zoom presentation. Sarah Lister had been our last speaker in March 2020 and she returned in April 2021 with her talk about the surprising revelations from the Settle graveyard. Her excellent talk about two Settle families, the Ellis family and the Slinger family, revealed
Inverclyde The biggest increase over the year was in Stirling at 18.8%, helped by the purchase of a stunning detached home in the Bridge of Allan, which went for £1.7 million – the highest price paid for a property in Stirling over the last twelve months. While East Dunbartonshire saw prices drop by 2.6%, despite it still being one of the most expensive to buy in Scotland. It was one of just two local authorities that saw drops, the other being Aberdeen City. Last year, 638 properties costing £750,000 or over sold and this is the highest amount sold in six years. In February, Glasgow and Edinburgh collectively accounted for 31% of the uplift in Scotland’s average house price over the last twelve months. If you add South Lanarkshire, Perth and Kinross, and Fife to the list, they make up 50% of the increase in prices that has taken place at the national level over the last year.