A COMMUNITY pharmacist from Taunton is set to feature in a campaign for World Pharmacists Day on Saturday. World Pharmacists Day aims to show people what a career in pharmacy looks like and ensure that it is an attractive prospect to help meet
A 74-YEAR-OLD man has been found guilty of 18 counts of indecent assault against three victims. Ric Pallister, former Royal Navy officer and former leader of South Somerset District Council, has been convicted following a trial at Taunton Crown
A NETWORKING lunch took place at Hornsbury Mill, near Chard, last Wednesday (September 15). Somerset Chamber welcomed 30 guests for the first face-to-face business to business networking lunch since March 2020. Attendees at 'Lets Network Over
ANOTHER walkway in Taunton is bearing the scars of an apparent paint spillage... A section of pavement in East Street is covered in white paint, as shoppers have trodden the spillage up and down the route. The cause of the spill is unclear,
A MAJOR road in West Somerset is set to close next month so a £350,000 scheme to reduce flooding can take place. The A39 at Carhampton Cross has been a flooding 'trouble spot' for a long time, with water regularly 'posing a danger to road users
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a traffic cone was thrown through a window in Bridgwater. A glass downstairs window of a property was smashed on Bath Road, around 3.15am on Thursday, August 26. Two potential suspects were seen heading
A NUMBER of buses in Somerset will be CANCELLED today, amid ongoing staff shortages. Buses of Somerset has announced a series of cancellations 'due to ongoing staff absence relating to sickness and Covid 19'. The services affected are the 21
FIREFIGHTERS tackled a tractor fire yesterday afternoon (September 22). Two fire engines from Yeovil and the water carrier and fire engine from Sherbourne attended the incident, which was in a field. The tractor was 50% destroyed by the fire
THE stories of Wells will be retold - thanks to a grant of more than £190,000. Wells & Mendip Museum has revealed it has received an award from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for its project, ‘Search & Learn’. This was the motto of the
A TOASTER caught fire in a Bridgwater property yesterday afternoon (September 22). Two fire crews from Bridgwater attended the fire in a four storey block of flats on Waverley Wharf. Around 2pm, firefighters arrived at the scene. The toaster
SCOOTERS and the law... Illegal to ride them on pavements. Q: are they allowed to ride them on footpaths in parks like Vivary Park? Or on the pedestrianised High Street? Q: Are adults allowed to hire them and allow their children to ride
A SOMERSET council has voted to scrap its own masterplan for how a new community on the edge of Taunton should be expanded in the years ahead. The Monkton Heathfield urban extension is one of three such communities being constructed to deliver
A MAN from Somerset has received 180 hours of community service after being found in possession of two class A drugs in 2020. Terry Lee Maidment, 41, from Barley Close in Wells, plead guilty in Bristol Magistrates court last week. He now has
MOTORISTS from across Somerset have been fined hundreds of pounds - and even banned from driving - for speeding. A 21-year-old from Bath has been fined and banned from driving for 14 days after exceeding the speed limit on the M4 motorway on March
AN annual cycling event took place in Kingston St Mary on Sunday (September 19). The family fun cycle ride, organised by Kingston Area Pedestrian and Cycle Campaign (KAPACC), is a ride around the lanes of Kingston, Nailsbourne, Pickney and Yarford
