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  • Volunteering day to be held in Taunton - September 23

    A VOLUNTEERING charity is holding an event later this month at the Somerset County Cricket Ground in Taunton to help people find out more about volunteering in and around the town. West-Somerset based Engage is working in partnership with Taunton

  • Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport visits Taunton

    THE Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport visited Taunton this afternoon to see plans for the new Watersports Centre due to be built at French Weir Park. Accompanied by Rebecca Pow, who is standing for the Conservatives in the next General

  • Event in Taunton for people wanting to become volunteers

    DID you know that there are hundreds of different opportunities to help and support the work of charities and not for profit organisations in the area? They range from helping with administration, through working with animals and the environment

  • Somerset's Old Pavilion closing ceremony in Taunton

    THIS evening (Thursday) will not only see the conclusion of Somerset County Cricket Club’s final home match of the season but will also bring the curtain down on one of the most iconic buildings in the sport. The Old Pavilion has been a part of

  • Minehead Middle School Summer Fayre tomorrow - September 19

    MINEHEAD Middle School will be holding its big fundraiser of the year, the Summer Fayre tomorrow (September 19). The event is to help raise money towards the running of the school's two minibuses, which are used daily to take children on trips, swimming

  • CRICKET: Cidermen seek final push from bowlers

    SOMERSET will be looking for early wickets as they attempt to beat Middlesex on the final day of their last home County Championship of the season. Middlesex, who were asked to follow on, resume their second innings at 140-1 - still 160 runs behind

  • Popular student mourned at The Castle School, Taunton

    STAFF and students at a secondary school are in shock following the sudden death of a 15-year-old boy. Callan McClintock died at home in Taunton on Saturday morning and attempts to revive him at Musgrove Park Hospital were unsuccessful. His

  • Bailiffs threaten to 'break into' innocent pensioner's home

    AN 85-YEAR-OLD Army veteran was left “stressed” after bailiffs – wrongly informed he owed hundreds of pounds in parking fines – threatened to take possessions from his home ‘whether he was there or not’. Somerset County Council has since admitted

  • Scotland decides - views from Taunton on the referendum

    SCOTLAND decides today (Thursday, September 18) whether to leave the United Kingdom in a historic referendum. The result of the yes/no vote could have big repercussions in our area. Taunton’s most famous Scot, Tommy Banner, of The Wurzels,