MORE than 100 traffic lights will be repaired or replaced across Somerset after the county council stumped up £250,000 to revamp them. The action is being taken as many of the lights are reaching the end of their life-expectancy. A spokesman
SOME drivers are continuing to use Taunton’s £3million Castle Green to park on, despite the front-page story in last week's Gazette. In last week’s paper we photographed dozens of motorists ignoring ‘No Parking’ signs on the prestigious town centre
WEST Hatch Wildlife Centre is gearing up to release the first round of seabirds it washed and treated after hundreds were sent there covered in an oily substance. More than 300 guillemots and razorbills have been cared for at the RSPCA centre,
LAST September I highlighted an issue that will affect almost every employer in the UK from this April. The issue is RTI. RTI stands for Real Time Information and it represents the biggest change to the PAYE system in decades. Currently employers
WORK has started on the Silvermead site in Alcombe which it is hoped will provide 33 affordable homes for about 100 people in West Somerset to rent. The Magna West Somerset Housing Association development homes will be let through Homefinder Somerset
A PROPERTY near Wiveliscombe was damaged after a fire on Wednesday afternoon. Crews from Wiveliscombe and Wiliton attended the scene at Huish Champflower shortly after 4pm. It is believed that logs lying next to an open fire caused the accidental
9:58pm There was a huge turnout at the candlelit vigil outside the Brewhouse this evening (Thursday) where people shared their memories of the much loved theatre. Jacky Lacy who worked on the bar at the Brewhouse said
THE Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton has called in the administrators and will close after tonight's performance, it has emerged. Dozens of staff at the 352-seat venue have been made redundant and all scheduled performances after tonight's production
A CHIPPED plate found in a cottage in Somerset sold for £567,000 at auction last week. The 500-year-old Italian maiolica plate, which was hanging precariously behind a door, was spotted by Dorset auctioneer Richard Bromell, who said it was the
ADMINISTRATORS Deloitte have confirmed Taunton’s HMV store WILL close. The store in Fore Street was not on a list of 66 set for the axe nationwide when the music and games chain went into administration in January. But Deloitte has just announced a
UNISON members protested outside County Hall today as councillors rubber-stamped scores of redundancies and service cuts in an effort to claw back millions in savings. The union says it is prepared to mount legal challenges against the
EDF Energy says getting a decent price from the Government for its electricity remains the last piece of the jigsaw to ensure Somerset's third nuclear power station goes ahead at Hinkley Point. In the past week, the Financial Times has claimed EDF has
OVER 200 people filled Langford Budville's Jubilee Hall last Friday night when it hosted the live broadcast of BBC Radio 4's programme Any Questions? The audience was invited to submit questions for a panel comprising of MPs and the topical subjects
TAUNTON Prep School is welcoming one of the country’s leading business figures to give a talk on his career tomorrrow (February 21) and the public are welcome to attend. After a six-month Graduate Training Scheme with C & J Clark at Street,
PARALYMPIC bronze medallist Lucy Shuker inspired players at a wheelchair tennis open day on Sunday. The event, hosted by Taunton Tennis Club at Blackbrook Pavilion, aimed to promote the sport to wheelchair users. Coach Ivor Griffiths said:
DOZENS of new jobs could be created with the opening of a £6million factory in Wellington. Packaging producers Rigid Containers Ltd is moving into the former Cooperative distribution warehouse on Chelston Business Park, creating up to 40 jobs.
