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  • Catering win for King's Hall School team

    THE catering team at King's Hall School won an annual competition organised by catering firm Palmer and Howells. This year's theme was healthy eating, and the King's Hall team organised an 'Eat A Rainbow' week - where Pre-Prep pupils were encouraged

  • Festival’s focus on family

    SIMONSBATH Festival returns on Bank Holiday Monday (May 5), kicking off with May Day celebrations for all the family from 2.30pm. Children’s art workshops will open events at the Old Pottery in the village and storyteller Frances Harrison will

  • Duo jailed for attempted robbery at Taunton jewellers

    TWO men who stormed into a Taunton jewellers in a terrifying daytime raid have been jailed for eight years. Gary Kamara, 52, and masked Darcy Whiting, 50, targeted Showerings in St James Street in an attempt to steal thousands of pounds worth of

  • Williton Police Station to shut and co-locate with Minehead

    WILLITON Police Station is set to shut in 2016/17 Avon and Somerset have revealed. The closure is part of a plan to move buildings and officers closer to local people. A statement released today said that the enquiry office and local policing

  • Closure plans in place for Taunton police station

    TAUNTON police station could be closed as early as next year, it has emerged. Avon and Somerset Police is looking at closing the facility along with other “medium-sized” stations as part of cost-cutting measures. The Shuttern base is earmarked

  • Latest results from Taunton Magistrates' Courts

    RECENT cases dealt with by Taunton Magistrates’ Courts include. John Antony Shortman, 53, of Belvedere Road, Taunton, breached a restraining order, £280 fine, £28 victim surcharge, £85 costs. (G). Paul Roy Heighington, 47, of Alcombe Road,

  • A good day to meet a knight

    POPULAR children’s character Mike the Knight will be making an appearance at Minehead Railway Station on May 3. Mike, a ten-year-old ‘knight-in-training’ adventures across the land, determined to achieve his dream of being a knight and ‘doing it

  • Wellington School students discover Greek wonders

    FIFTY students from Wellington School’s classics department visited Greece to gain first-hand experience of the millennia-old sites they have been learning about in lessons. The year nine, ten and 11 students visited the Acropolis in Athens, where

  • Chimney fire in West Monkton

    A CHIMNEY fire in West Monkton, Taunton involving a woodburner was put out by the fire service last night, April 27. At 7.30pm one appliance from Taunton attended the scene on Dosters Lane where the chimney was well alight and the owner had removed the

  • Steve says goodbye to Taunton Ford after 50 years

    AFTER 50 years looking after Ford cars in Taunton, Steve Singh is looking forward to spending his retirement with a different kind of horsepower. Steve, who joined White Brothers, in East Reach, straight from school in 1964, has put his spanners