Bere Alston has won the silver gilt award for the second year running in this year’s Britain in Bloom competition given to the village in the ‘Small Town’ category.

When first awarded a silver gilt in 2019 (the campaign did not run in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic), the village received the highest marks ever recorded for a first-time entrant. The village plan to enter again in 2022 and are striving for a gold gilt award.

Bere Alston have just won the cup for ‘Art in the Neighbourhood’ for two displays designed by Jeanette Englefield which depicts a woman in two halves, with each half covered with flowers and placed at different ends of a road on the judge’s route. When judges were considering the entries, they saw the two halves and laughed as they thought it offered ‘a lovely lift of spirits’ during the difficult Covid times of the last 18 months.Furthermore, Sally Dunn's private garden, created in loving memory of her daughter Holly, won an award at the highest level (outstanding) in the 'In Your Neighbourhood' category.