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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.

Pub to revert to historic name

7:00pm Thursday 9th July 2009

THE Inn at Sampford, near Wellington, will revert to its former name The Beambridge Inn with an open day on Sunday.

Overturned caravan causes M5 delays

6:38pm Thursday 9th July 2009

MOTORISTS heading southbound on the M5 motorway this afternoon face delays following an accident.

Rock on the Green this Saturday

3:10pm Thursday 9th July 2009

HUNDREDS of people are expected to raise thousands of pounds for charity at the annual Rock on the Green at St Andrews, in Taunton, from 4pm to late on Saturday.

Bishops Lydeard Flower Show

12:00pm Thursday 9th July 2009

BISHOPS Lydeard fete and flower show takes place in the village hall at 2pm on Saturday, July 18.

Man repeatedly stabbed in Taunton knifing horror

THE block of flats where the knifing took place.

11:25am Thursday 9th July 2009

A 21-YEAR-OLD man was knifed repeatedly when an alleged argument turned nasty at a block of Taunton flats.



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