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  • Health trust launches new care charter

    A CHARTER setting out key principles that health and social care professionals should always take into consideration when supporting carers has been published by a Somerset health trust. Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust, which manages the

  • Police appeal after huge theft from Taunton firm

    POLICE are hunting thieves who stole equipment from a Taunton civil engineering firm worth around £10,000. More than one person must have been involved in the theft as some of the plant taken was too heavy for one person to lift. The culprits cut through

  • Valuable gold hoard on display

    A HOARD of Bronze Age gold dating back more than 3,000 years is glittering for all to see at the Somerset County Museum, in Taunton. The treasure - the largest discovery of Bronze Age gold ever found in Somerset - was unearthed in Priddy, on the Mendips

  • Becky's pain is hospital's gain

    A TAUNTON woman has raised over £550 for the treatment of women with gynaecological cancers at Musgrove Park Hospital in the town. Beauty salon owner Becky Curwood completed the recent Taunton Half Marathon in 2hrs 15 mins. She said: "I ran it to raise

  • Ash Priors

    Ash Priors & Halse Women's Institute The President, Trish Williams, welcomed 28 members and five visitors to the May meeting. Trish congratulated Pip on a very successful coffee morning for ACWW, which raised £272.20 and was much enjoyed by those who

  • North Curry

    WI: There was a brief discussion on the resolution concerning "Cottage Hospitals" In May Mr J. Burgess, our speaker, took us on an entertaining & nostalgic journey through his 25 years with the BBC. He did a lot of outside broadcasting in the South

  • Court imposes order on former teacher

    A FORMER teacher who set fire to her lover's cycle shop in Wellington has received a two-year supervision order. The order was imposed on Elaine Verrin by Judge Graham Hume Jones at Taunton Crown Court last Wed-nesday, although she did not attend. Verrin