KNITTING designer Suzie Johnson – famed for appearing on Channel 4’s Kirstie’s Homemade Home’ – attracted a large audience when she appeared at a craft centre. She gave free knitting demonstrations at Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre on
A CHARITY event has been cancelled after vandals sprayed paint on the outside of the historic venue. The walls, windows and main door of Woodlands Castle, Ruishton, were covered in black paint from the attack overnight last Wednesday. Owner Sir Benjamin
THE Citizens Advice Bureau in Taunton is calling on local people on benefits to pass on their experience of what it’s like looking for work. The organisation wants people in the Taunton and Wellington area to take part in an anonymous survey about back
DUE to a technical fault, e-mails sent to the County Gazette’s main leisure address – leisure@countygazette.co.uk – from Thursday, February 25, to Monday, March 1, inclusive, will not have been received. E-mails sent to the address during
THE future prosperity of Somerset and the rest of the South-West hinges on improving its transport infrastructure, a South West Regional Select Committee report warns. The region needs a coherent voice when bidding for transport improvements, while
YOUNG patients at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, have a new stock of DVDs to watch - thanks to young carol singers. Zoe Bush, 17, and a group of friends from Taunton School, bought the films with £80 they raised carol singing in December. Zoe said
TRAFFIC was held up briefly in the St James Street area of Taunton after an accident this morning. A motorcyclist was taken to hospital by ambulance following the incident on the roundabout outside the County Ground shortly before 11.30am.
POLICE called off a robbery alert after it discovering that a 74-year-old man found bleeding on the ground by schoolchildren had simply fallen over. Officers sealed off a lane between Turner Road and Greenway Road, Taunton, from 3.20pm until 4.30pm on
A MINEHEAD woman has relived the horror of discovering her new husband was a bigamist and fraudster. Maureen Lewis, nee Walder, spoke out as John Lewis awaits sentence for his crimes. Lewis’ web of deceit started to unravel when she discovered he had
RECENT results from Taunton Deane Magistrates’ Courts include. Paul Richard Webber, 45, of Herbert Street, Taunton, using a mobile phone while driving, £200 fine, £60 costs; driving without insurance, £100 fine, £15 victim surcharge, six points Jayne
