Front Cover: St Peter & St Paul Church, Charlton Adam, Somerset by Peter Moulding
Prior to the Christmas Day 2008 morning service the five bells of SS Peter & Paul rang full circle for the first time in 92 years.

A moving peal attempt goes West by Tim Joiner
The 1st January 2009 saw a new page written in the book of historic failures. Buoyed by winning some £3,500 for ringing causes in the Lord Mayor of Westminster’s New Year’s Day Parade in 2008, a plan was devised to repeat that feat of engineering genius in 2009 and again present the Charmborough Ring mounted on the back of a lorry and achieve an even more stupendous ringing performance.

From the E-Lists A round-up from the internet compiled by John Camp
There were no reports of the assassination of Central Council members.

J is for Jack by Simon Linford

St Martin-in-the-Fields reopens by Elizabeth Hibbert, Tower Secretary
On the morning of Monday, 28th April 2008, the bells of St Martin in the Fields rang out over Trafalgar Square in thanksgiving for the Renewal of St Martin’s. Although it would be many months before the hoardings came down, the Portakabins were removed and the contractors finally left the site, this day of celebration marked the culmination of a very ambitious £36m project to secure the future of the building.

Obituary
Kenneth J Rider

Elmsett bells by Crawford Allen
St Peter’s, Elmsett is a plain, peaceful church set in a quiet corner of Suffolk, three miles from Hadleigh. Although a church is mentioned in the Domesday Book entry for Elmsett, there is no secure evidence that the current building is the same as that mentioned.

New sanctus bell for Bishopstone
St Mary’s church in the pretty downland village of Bishopstone, seven miles east of Swindon, is blessed with a complete 1891 Mears octave with a 19-2-19 tenor. In 1553 there were three bells and a Sanctus. By 1704, a full peal of eight, the oldest said to date from 1602 summoned the faithful to worship. But on Good Friday 1891, all the bells, including some recast by James Wells of Aldbourne in 1796, were destroyed in a disastrous fire.