SOMERSET County Cricket Club youngster Fin Trenouth was very much to the fore as England Under-19s beat their Ireland counterparts by 125 runs in the first of their two warm-up games ahead of the World Cup. Batting first, England posted 372-8 from
A SECTION of the England Coast Path in Somerset has been temporarily closed following a landslip. During stormy weather over the festive period a section of cliff near Home Farm at St Audries Bay fell away. Somerset County Council is working
HUNDREDS of jobs at a Wellington-based factory are safe after parent-company Steinhoff International faced an accounting irregularities scandal. Relyon and Pritex, a mattress manufacturer which employ hundreds of people at Station Mills, Wellington
WELLINGTON Town Council will increase its council tax precept for the next financial year while councillors get a 40 per cent raise, it has been decided. Councillors discussed the 2018/19 budget at a meeting on Monday night (January 8). It
TAUNTON Town have been called "the Man City of our world" by AFC Totton manager Louis Langdown, following the Peacocks' 4-0 win at the Testwood Stadium on Saturday. Langdown told the Totton club website that the scoreline "flattered" Taunton, but
One of the world's oldest silverback gorillas has died. Nico, whose 56th birthday was celebrated in July, died in his sleep on Sunday, Longleat Safari Park said. He spent most of his life at the park in Wiltshire after arriving from Switzerland
THIS car ended up on its side after tipping over in Ford Street, near Wellington, on Sunday morning. Nikki Summers snapped the photos of the incident. Police say fortunately no-one was injured in the crash.
A TAUNTON woman who was missing from Taunton has been found. People in Taunton were urged to check sheds and outbuildings for a missing Emma Kirby, 29, who was last seen at 12.30pm when she left a property in the Wellsprings Road area of the town
THE Asda store in Highbridge has now re-opened. A bomb disposal team carried out a controlled explosion after an unattended item was discovered at the store. The store had been closed at 7am. The explosion was reported to have taken place
A SERIAL burglar who targeted high value tools at car dealerships in Devon, Somerset and Cornwall has been jailed. Philip Seaton started his crime spree by breaking into garages in Truro and St Austell and then moved up to Newton Abbot, Exeter,
THE lurgy depleted the number of runners in the annual Stoke Stampede 10k race in and around Stoke St Gregory on Sunday. Nearly 370 runners from across the South West took part despite the cold weather, down on the 450 who had registered but were
EVERY now and then it is great to see the council act on public concerns. Over the last few weeks, several readers have written to the County Gazette about the worsening of road safety on the A358, since the council decision to remove the 30mph
