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Musgrove wins health and social care award

Musgrove Park Hospital

12:00pm Friday 10th July 2009

TAUNTON’S Musgrove Park Hospital has won a Health and Social Care Award for designing an innovative piece of technology to reduce the number of double-booked and missed surgeries, and cut down waiting times for operations.

Thomas rolls into town

VOLUNTEERS of 25 years Anne Ridd and Dick Holland, who are getting married next month.

12:08pm Friday 10th July 2009

THOMAS the tank engine puffed his way back into West Somerset at the weekend after a year off the rails.

Concerts for hospice tomorrow

10:00am Friday 10th July 2009

ST MARGARET'S Hospice will benefit from a pair of concerts being staged in Wellington tomorrow (Saturday).

Bingo players start petition over car park loss

9:30am Friday 10th July 2009

AROUND 140 bingo players have signed a petition opposing plans to lawn over Castle Green car park, in Taunton.

Newt Beer Festival starts today

9:28am Friday 10th July 2009

THE two-day Newt Beer Festival gets underway in North Newton today, with thousands of revellers expected to turn up.

Rheumatology jobs 'not left vacant to save money'

Mark Formosa with rheumatology patient Paul Norton.

7:00am Friday 10th July 2009

CLAIMS that bosses are slow to replace consultants leaving the rheumatology department at Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital have been denied.

Drugs operation success in Avon and Somerset

Drugs raid in Barnstaple

9:00pm Thursday 9th July 2009

A WEEK of activity to disrupt drug supplies across Avon and Somerset led to 69 arrests and the seizure of drugs and weapons.

Perfume con rumour scotched by police

8:00pm Thursday 9th July 2009

CLAIMS that criminals are posing as perfume sellers to rob customers in a store car park in Taunton have been dismissed as “an urban myth” by police.

North Curry gypsies - eviction moves closer

8:00pm Thursday 9th July 2009

GYPSIES who set up home in a field off North Curry’s Oxen Lane will fight the latest move to kick them out, it was claimed this week.

M5 CRASH UPDATE: Lanes reopened

8:07pm Thursday 9th July 2009

EARLIER delays on the M5 have now cleared after an overturned caravan was recovered.


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