IF you need to pick up medicines on Christmas Day, the following pharmacies are open: Staplegrove Pharmacy, Livingstone Way, off Bindon Road (10am to noon); Lloydspharmacy, Luson Surgery, Fore Street, Wellington (1pm to 3pm); and Well Pharmacy, Pitts Close, Galmington, Taunton (3pm to 5pm).

Other pharmacy openings times over the festive period are: Boots Pharmacy, High Street, Taunton (Boxing Day, 7am to 6pm; New Year's Day, 9.30am to 5.30pm); Lloydspharmacy, Sainsbury's Hankridge Farm, Taunton (BD and NYD, 10am to 1pm and 1.30pm to 4pm); Morrisons Pharmacy, Dellers Wharf, Taunton (BD and NYD, 10am to 4pm); Boots Pharmacy (BD and NYD, 10am to 1pm and 1.30pm to 4pm)Asda Pharmacy, Creechbarrow Road, Taunton (BD, 9am to 6pm; NYD 10am to 6pm).

All other pharmacies in Taunton Deane will be closed on the three Bank Holidays.