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BBC News
7 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Spaxton village community assemble to mend vandalised scarecrows
A community has come together after local children were left "absolutely gutted" when their village scarecrow parade was damaged by vandals. The display in Spaxton, Somerset was part of their flower show celebrations with members of the community including school children making Bond who lives in the village helped her daughters make a scarecrow and said: "It's unbelievable that this could happen in Spaxton, it's very sad".Organisers told BBC Radio Somerset a working group had been out fixing the scarecrows to get them back into a "reasonable shape". Natasha Bond built a scarecrow with her daughters, and said they were "absolutely gutted, as were all the other children in the village". She added: "It was the last day of school, they had to go past those scarecrows in the morning, there were a lot of tears".Vicky Hemming, one of the organisers of the flower show and scarecrow parade, said there has been a "huge upwelling of feeling" about it in the village. Ms Hemming added that a working party had been sent out to fix the scarecrows and were able to restore all but one of flower show was set run as normal this weekend.
BBC News
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- BBC News
In pictures: Queen Camilla attends 142nd Sandringham Flower Show
King Charles III and Queen Camilla were among the 14,500 visitors that attended Sandringham Flower Show as it celebrated its 142nd year. The flower show, which is held at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, will be paused next year to make way for the six-day Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) touring flower show in 2026 and and the flower show's chairman, Graham Browne, said the event on Wednesday had a lovely atmosphere. He said: "The mood of the whole of the show is good, everyone is happy, the weather is good, the King is in a really good frame of mind. "We were talking about vegetables and flowers and the weather and things that are happening" The king and queen visited the event on Wednesday, but last year's event saw no royal visitor for the first time in 30 years. Creative freedom Hillary Fay-Mellor, a professional garden designer who has created a display at the flower show, said she enjoyed "the freedom to be creative" at the show. She said: "There's a very lovely atmosphere at Sandringham Flower Show. Everyone helps each other, the whole team they genuinely want each other to do well... it's a bit like going to a festival except you have to work hard."There's always been a flower show here, so it's a real tradition for the village... it will just be a different vibe because RHS shows are bigger. "They are much more expensive to get accepted... and you have to be very specific with your brief." The Sandringham Flower Show said all profits from each show were donated to local charities and since 1977 the committee has donated more than £825, Thomas has been involved in designing her first show garden for the Sandringham Flower Show. She said: "This is the first time I have done a show garden at Sandringham, it might be the last with the amount of rain we have had to contend with. "It's a climate change garden so it's based on producing a sustainable garden through periods of climate change... it's plants that will sustain those conditions and also a low carbon footprint garden." Follow Norfolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
