A SURVEY by Taunton MP Adrian Flook has found local businesses are struggling to cope with changes brought in by this year's Budget. Mr Flook asked 1,200 local firms about the impact of the Budget on their business. The results show traders predict a
A NEW 16-page free tabloid newspaper with local NHS news and information is to be delivered to homes across Somerset. 'You and Your Health' is produced three times each year by Dorset and Somerset Strategic Health Authority on behalf of NHS Trusts and
THE summer term has begun at school's across the Wellington area and at one in particular, new prefects been appointed to set an example for their peers. Wellington Junior School has named a new team of prefects who are ready and full of enthusiasm for
DRIVERS who break the speed limit could be caught on camera by their neighbours as a part of a new scheme to cut speeding. The community speed watch initiative involves local volunteers being trained by the police to use speed guns. Warning letters are
CHARD'S Town Clerk Nick Randle has been elected as the first full-time chief executive of the Society of Local Council Clerks. Mr Randle will leave the town council to take up the role at the head of the professional organisation which represents Clerks
RAMRAIDERS crashed through armour plated glass and grabbed £800 worth of stock - including an air rifle - from a shop window last week. A car reversed through the window of Top Togs in Holyrood Street, Chard, just before 1am last Thursday (April 24),
LONG awaited plans for new outdoor leisure facilities in Ilminster may finally reach fruition this summer. Revised plans for a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) at Swanmead School, have been submitted for planning permission and for a cash bid from the National
A 'BLACK coffin' peace protest against the war in Iraq has been called off to avoid causing offence. Organisers have scrapped Taunton Deane Stop The War Coalition demonstration through the centre of Taunton following several complaints. Opponents feared
