News from Taunton, Somerset, Wellington, Minehead, West Somerset from the Somerset County Gazette

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Make a Will and help St Margaret's

Pictured are solicitors launching the initiative

8:30pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

LAW firms in Somerset are helping St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice as part of Make a Will Week, which runs from September 13-17.

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Could you care for carers at Quantock House?

6:40pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

THE new St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice carers’ respite facility at Holford, on the Quantock Hills, is due to open its doors for the first time this autumn - but needs help from a local couple to get the facility off the ground.

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Update - lorry fire on M5

6:10pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

TRAFFIC is back to normal on the M5 near Wellington after a lorry blaze earlier today.

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Exmoor champion dies

4:20pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

A WOMAN who survived on £100 a year while living off the land on Exmoor has died at the age of 91.

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Somerset pipped by Pakistan in one-day game

2:50pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

AN unbeaten century by number three Zander de Bruyn could not save Somerset from a narrow defeat in their 50-over game with Pakistan at the County Ground this afternoon.