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  • Volunteer Barry digs Baldrick

    BARNARDOS Millennium Volunteer Barry Evans met a man with a cunning plan yesterday (Thursday, June 20). As a reward for his 200 hours' voluntary service with the Somerset Inclusion Project Barry (left) met actor and TV presenter Tony Robinson. Mr Robinson

  • Volunteer Barry digs Baldrick

    BARNARDOS Millennium Volunteer Barry Evans met a man with a cunning plan yesterday (Thursday, June 20). As a reward for his 200 hours' voluntary service with the Somerset Inclusion Project Barry (left) met actor and TV presenter Tony Robinson. Mr Robinson

  • Post Office raiders jailed

    TWO men convicted of an armed raid on Watchet Post Office last October have been jailed at Bristol Crown Court. Darren Bates, 29, and Stuart Henderson, 23, from Birmingham, escaped with £27,000 from the Swain Street business after holding up staff at

  • Regal continues successful run

    WEST Somerset's only theatre - the Regal in Minehead - is celebrating a successful year. The annual meeting of MATA, the group that runs it, was told that in the last two years £100,000 had been spent on maintaining and improving the building. Much of

  • Youngsters' skateboard demo

    FED up young people in Minehead are planning to demonstrate on the town's streets. But although the message behind their protest on July 6 will be a serious one, they also hope to impress passers by with their skills. The youngsters will be staging a

  • Strip show row

    FEMALE strippers will be part of the entertainment at a Taunton pub, if controversial plans by an entertainment promoter get the go ahead. Doug 'Tank' James is looking to stage the weekly strip shows at the Rockers Live pub in Bridge Street, and is now

  • Sri Lankans in Taunton to face Somerset

    THE Sri Lankans are in town today (Friday, June 21) to play against Somerset at the County Ground in the Patron's Salver Challenge match. The 50-over game is being sponsored by the club's patron Christopher Ondaatje, who was born in Sri Lanka. The patron