The Big Pilton Quiz, with its beautiful, hand-carved, ash question mark trophy, is in to its fifth year.  As usual it’s on the Saturday after the May Day Bank Holiday, this year 9th May.  And as usual it’s in Pilton Church Hall and starts at 7.30pm.  The evening, which comes with an excellent light supper, is for teams of six people and costs just £5 per person.  You just need to bring along your knowledge and your own drink.

The Big Pilton Quiz Trophy

The first four of these quizzes were sellouts and filled the Church Hall to its seated capacity of 120.  So don’t delay in getting your tickets from Cobley’s Newsagents or Carol Haddrill (on 01271 372416).  Apart from getting your hands (if only briefly) on the very tactile trophy carved by Mike Taffinder in North Buckland, the name of your team is added, provided it’s decent.  Last year the winners were ‘Hunter Gatherers’.

The winners take away a brilliant box of edible or drinkable goodies and there are some really classy raffle prizes, the top one is a digital radio.  Don’t miss it!

The Pilton Residents Group (PRG) has an exhibition in Barnstaple Library for the week ending midday on Saturday 28th February which identifies all the developments planned around Pilton and describes their collective impact on the area.  Since it was formed in 2013, the PRG has critically examined and commented on each new planning application for Pilton and on the new draft Local Plan for North Devon and Torridge. These have shown that their concerns about the impacts have been fully justified.

PRG Exhibition in Barnstaple Library February 2015

The purpose of the exhibition is to identify the various developments, and to describe their collective impact on the Pilton area.  Not only will they impact on the landscape but will also cause serious traffic problems and delays to all emergency services using the A39.