Front Cover: The Secret Seven visit Worcester by Mandy Shedden, NW District Secretary, Suffolk Guild of Ringers
No, it is not a long lost title of one of Enid Blyton’s books but this is a short story of the visit by seven intrepid new ringers (plus 2 minders) from Suffolk, to the magnificent Cathedral at Worcester to make use of the world’s only state of the art computerised bell ringing teaching centre.

N is for No by Simon Linford

Book Review
Del fondere campane.
The founding of bells
Edited by Silvia Lusuardi Siena and Elizabetta Neri with the collaboration of Philip Airoldi
ISBN 978-88-7814-366-1
Edizione All’Insegna del Giglio, via della Fangosa, 38; 50032 Borgo San Lorenzo (FI), Italy
www.edigiglio.it
Price 48 Euros + 10 Euros p+p to UK

The BBC East Big Skill Award 2009
During March and April, the BBC East, in partnership with the Learning and Skills Council, encouraged members of the public to learn a new skill. In Suffolk, several of the BBC Radio Suffolk Programme Presenters rose to the challenge, and attempted to learn such skills as driving a bus, playing the clarinet, and giving body massages.

Letters
Proposed changes to CC Rule 6 - Laith Reynolds
Wooden clapper triumphs - Len England
Brothers in peals - Frances Hibbert
What’s wrong? - Richard Taulbut
Our duty and our joy - Brian Meads
The Ringing Foundation and School Curriculum Links - Beryl and Norman Attaway
Don’t be small-minded over mini-rings - Susan E Marsden
Wasbrough Hale & Co. – Bristol - David Robertson

And now for something completely different – twice!
FUSE Leeds 2009 is a cultural music festival run by Leeds City Council every three years. This year they commissioned 2 composers to write pieces to be rung on Leeds Parish Church bells to open the festival on 26th April.

Obituary
Bernard W. Fairhead

You don’t have to call it from the tenor – Part 2 by Simon Linford
In Part 1 (p.69), I looked at some statistical analysis of where conductors call from in even bell quarters and peals. Amongst other interesting findings, it showed that it is decreasingly common for conductors to ring the tenor the more bells are being rung, and that conductors in peals ring the tenor (and other back bells) less often than in quarter peals.

From the E-Lists A round-up from the internet compiled by John Camp
Mark Davies stunned ringing-chat with a 1,000-word message describing his 10K run.