TAUNTON Town manager Gary Domone is hopeful striker Steve Cook will remain at the club despite an imminent approach from their Southern League Division One (S&W) rivals Paulton Rovers. Paulton will be allowed to speak to Cook later this week after giving
THE winner of a design competition will see her winning carpet made by a professional company. For the last few years, Axminster Carpets have run a design competition in conjunction with Somerset College of Arts and Technology. The competition is open
CHILDREN, staff and parents of St. George's Catholic School put on a dazzling display of singing, dancing, comedy and magic as they performed in the Musical Extravaganza 2007. Following weeks of auditions and rehearsals the three performances were a
SOMERSET'S fire brigade will cease to exist at midnight on Saturday as it merges with its neighbour to form Devon and Somerset Fire & Rescue Service. The combined service will employ almost 2,000 uniformed staff and 220 support workers, making it the
MINEHEAD First School is on track after managers were told more needed to be done to improve standards of writing and maths. The positive message came after a monitoring' visit a year after inspectors from the Office for Standards in Education highlighted
ALYSON Martin was appointed chairman of the Registered Care Providers Association at the annual meeting last Thursday. Ms Martin, a director of Somerset Care, where she has worked since it was set up in 1991, replaces Richard Brice. She said: "I'm delighted
RECENT cases dealt with by Taunton Deane Magistrates' Courts include: Richard John Billings, 36, of no fixed address, theft from the Co-op, 30 days prison (consecutive); recall on unexpired sentence, 47 days prison. (G). Gillian Margaret West, 43, of
CREECH St Michael Parish Council's annual meeting will be held on Friday, March 30, at 7.30pm in the village hall. The topic of the meeting will be Safer Homes' and the police and members of Victim Support will give a presentation.
A TAUNTON fundraiser who suffers from asthma is celebrating running a half marathon faster than Nigel Mansell. Les Harding, who owns Limited Additions in St James Street, took part in the Silverstone Half Marathon with a time of 2 hours 16 minutes and
COMMUNITY crime fighters in Wellington have been coming together to clean up the Tonedale area of town. Around 50 members of the Tonedale Local Action Team armed with litter pickers, brooms and black bags took on the rubbish challenge on Saturday, March
WELLINGTON can develop its status as a premier food town in the South West thanks to secured funding from Taunton Deane Council's Economic Development Unit. The town has received £6,000 through the Leader+ Scheme and this will continue to fund local
DULVERTON youngsters are to brief a Government minister about a special curriculum focusing on Exmoor. Barry Gardiner, Minister for Biodiversity, Landscape and Rural Affairs, is due to meet young people from Dulverton Middle School on Thursday to hear
Garden Club: Members were treated to an inspiring demonstration of Easter floral arrangements by Ruth Criddle. The first demonstration was a spring trough using foliage such as twisted hazel, conifer pieces, spirea thymus and white heather; daffodils
Twelve to Two: AT the retirement group's lunch meeting in the memorial hall on Wednesday, April 18 at noon, Mark McDermott an expert in church history and architecture, will give a presentation on Trull church. Mission Aid: The work being done by the
THE final lunchtime talk of the Taunton Branch of the Royal Over-Seas League Winter Programme took place on Thursday. March 22 at the Old Pavilion of the Cricket Club. Our speaker this month was dentist Dr Graham Catchpole, who accompanied an expedition
GORDON Brown's last Budget is a tax con not a tax cut for Taunton Public Sector workers. In his stealthiest taxes yet, he has paid for his 2p cut in income tax by abolishing the 10p rate, hitting low income earners like junior nurses, and putting up national
I WANTED to write and praise the Silk Mills Park and Ride service, I have only recently started using it and think it is brilliant. The tickets are cheap, the buses are clean and the staff are always so friendly and helpful. The journey itself is very
PRESIDENT Ron Cann welcomed 22 members to the AGM and final meeting of the current season of the Taunton and West Somerset Retired Teachers Group at the Staplegrove village hall on Tuesday, March 20. The minutes of the last AGM held on March 21, 2006
THE Taunton and Somerset Bonsai Club was fortunate to have its award-winning president, John Trott to demonstrate how to plant up a "forest" using nine pots of Picaea abies Nana Compacta - spruce to the uninitiated. He enlisted the help of three club
TAUNTON Town suffered their second defeat in seven days at the hands of Marlow on Saturday when they went down 3-2 at Wordsworth Drive in Division One (S&W) of the Southern League. The defeat, which followed a 2-1 reverse at Marlow the previous Saturday
ONE of the most prominent time pieces in Taunton will say the right time one day, according to the post office. The clock outside the post office in North Street Taunton has not been working for some time and generated some comments from the public.
Gardening club: The AGM was held in March when the existing committee were re-elected, they are chairman, Gerry Norris; secretary, Michael Tolchard; treasurer, Terry Cawley; programme secretary, Claire Cawley. Also on the committee are Madge Stace and
WI: The monthly meeting on Thursday, March 1, was opened by the vice-president, Jean Hill, who welcomed members and thanked Jean Barbour for the flowers. Williton WI will be hosting the group meeting on March 28 at 7.30pm in St Audries village hall.
TEMPORARY traffic lights will be installed on Trull Road, Taunton, during gas main replacement work starting on Friday and lasting a week. The A3027 North Street/Bridge Street and Corporation Street, in Taunton, will be closed to traffic between 10.30
IT'S good to see that something is being done about the pigeon mess underneath the station bridge. Could they also arrange to paint the sign for Taunton on the bridge itself? Goodness knows when it was last painted as it's in a very bad state and as
MEMBERS of the Taunton and District Gardeners Association met where they received a detailed treatise on the successful growing of vegetables, delivered by Mr D Rawning, who stated the object of his talk was to dwell on how to grow vegetables but to pass
THE March meeting of Staplegrove Local History Society was simply billed as An Evening with David Hawkings' perhaps, because if members had known that Mr Hawkings' subject was Fire Insurance' they might have been less than enthusiastic about coming. It
WELLINGTON Junior School has had a busy couple of weeks through Fairtrade Fortnight, culminating in Red Nose Day. As well as raising awareness of Fairtrade issues, £365 was raised for Fairtrade and £330 for Comic Relief. Tea parties were held where
COLLEAGUES had a huge laugh at the expense of Taunton accountant Will Sherring's hair razoring experience on Friday. Staff at Albert Goodman swapped their calculators for wax strips in aid of Comic Relief - albeit a week late - and targeted office joker
THE programme of events for this summer's Taunton Flower Show - which takes in the weekend for the first time - has been released by the organisers. They hope the 141-year-old event, in Vivary Park on Friday and Saturday, August 3 and 4, will attract
DESPITE a really bitter northerly wind, viewing conditions were first class with mostly bright sunshine for the eighteen Taunton RSPB local group members who met at Budleigh Salterton for a recent field trip. The riverside path heading up the Otter offers
DESPITE a really bitter northerly wind, viewing conditions were first class with mostly bright sunshine for the eighteen Taunton RSPB local group members who met at Budleigh Salterton for a recent field trip. The riverside path heading up the Otter offers
DESPITE a really bitter northerly wind, viewing conditions were first class with mostly bright sunshine for the eighteen Taunton RSPB local group members who met at Budleigh Salterton for a recent field trip. The riverside path heading up the Otter offers
CHILDREN at Watery Lane pre-school, Minehead, baked cakes to raise £30 for Comic Relief. Staff and parents also helped with the cooking. Parant Andrew Coward said: "The children enjoyed cooking (and testing) the cakes, biscuits and flapjacks with
TAUNTON chef Sean Hailwood has been shortlisted for the title of Best Que Pasa Pizza Chef 2007. Sean hopes his Fajita Pizza takes top billing when he competes against seven other chefs at next Tuesday's final. The winner will win £500 and a chef's jacket
MINEHEAD'S household waste recycling centre has closed for improvements. Somerset County Council says the improvements will make recycling easier and improve the heath and safety on site. The centre is scheduled to reopen next Monday, April 2. Cllr
