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We have a busy weekend ahead! We will be attending Locking Castle Church's Spring Market this coming Saturday, an event not to be missed!  Jessica Brown has done a brilliant job organising the market and had this to say: "There will be 27 stalls selling a variety of products including fused glass, preserves, 3D printing, and books.   1st Ashcombe Scout Group will be catering and providing refreshments along with running a Tombola proceeds of both will be raising funds for their group. It will be a market for the whole family to enjoy".  On Sunday, we're at Hutton Maker's Market for the first time and we will also be attending the following month too so keep an eye out for us there as well! 

What’s in a name? Velociraptor mongoliensis – Fast robber from Mongolia Mention the name Velociraptor and depending on your age one of two well-known movie trilogies immediately come to mind. Those who are older will picture snarling Velociraptors staring through kitchen windows and learning how to unlock doors, younger generations will think of packs of raptors charging through forests accompanying motorbikes. In contrast to the original movies, these more recent additions show them as protagonists rather than antagonists. In both cases the difference between fiction and reality is large. The story of Velociraptor dates to the early 1920s when Peter Kaisen while working in the Outer Mongolian Badlands spotted signs of weathered bone emerging from a rock. This remains would ultimately be a crushed, almost complete predatory dinosaur skull and an iconic sickle claw. Image Credit: Zil-fr & Poke2001, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedi...