IRELAND’S National Trust is challenging permission for Somerset’s new nuclear power plant in the European courts. An Taisce is contesting the legality of granting consent for Hinkley Point C, which would be 150 miles from the Irish coast. Irish
FIREFIGHTERS in Somerset and the rest of the country will today (Monday, July 21) come to the end of eight consecutive days of strike action over pensions. But they warn that other forms of industrial action will continue from this evening with
A MOTHER whose newborn baby defied the odds after being at death’s door is calling for more to be done to make people aware of a potentially fatal condition that has a simple cure if spotted in time. Justine Baker and her husband were twice told
A FUN day at Victoria Park Bowling Club, in Bridgwater, raised £600 for Somerset Unit for Radiotherapy Equipment (SURE). It helped the County Gazette-backed charity – which helps equip the Beacon Centre cancer unit at Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital
AN exhibition to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War opens at the Museum of Somerset in Taunton this weekend. ‘Somerset Remembers the First World War’ opens on Saturday and tells the story of how the county was affected
MOBILE phone owners and users on Exmoor are set to benefit after improved mobile coverage was announced for England’s National Parks. Environment minister Lord de Mauley, said: “Our National Parks are living, working places worth more than £4bn
BRIDGETOWN were robbed of an almost certain victory in Division 1 of the West Somerset league when a tremendous storm meant their home game against league leaders Stogumber on Saturday was abandoned. When heavy rain, thunder and lightning enveloped
ANIMAL lover and distinguished pianist Roger Woodward is in concert in aid of an Asian sanctuary on Friday August 1. Great works by Chopin, Bach and Beethoven are on the bill for the performance in Wellington School’s great hall. Roger, who
