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Update - lorry fire on M5

The lorry fire on the M5. Photo: Dave Porter

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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Anger over Wellington parking plans

8:00pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

RESIDENTS in Wellington are up-in-arms after Taunton Deane Council ignored widespread opposition to give the go-ahead for new parking bays just a few feet from their cottage windows.

Blackdown Hills cycle routes launch

8:00pm Friday 27th August 2010

A SERIES of cycling routes in the Blackdown Hills will be launched in Wellington on Sunday, September 5.

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Browne supports Wellington street traders

9:10pm Thursday 26th August 2010

TAUNTON Deane MP Jeremy Browne has visited the South Street traders in Wellington to lend his support to their campaign to attracted more shoppers to the town.

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British Red Cross - Hannah's skydive

8:00pm Thursday 26th August 2010

A WELLINGTON woman who fled a blazing flat in Cornhill has completed a skydive to raise £210 for the British Red Cross service which helped her.

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Opposition mounts against proposed mental health unit

1:30pm Thursday 26th August 2010

THE fight to prevent a proposed mental health unit being built at the Westpoint 26 business park just outside Wellington has begun.

£50,000 on survey work at Wellington Monument

9:10am Thursday 26th August 2010

THE National Trust is to spend £50,000 on more survey work at Wellington Monument in a bid to complete £4m of improvements before the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.