HEAD teachers and governors from Devon's schools are to campaign for fair funding for the county's children after it was revealed they would be more than £18million short this year. They are angry that Devon gets £195 less than the national average for
WORLD War Two veterans from a Devonshire armed forces unit are being called on to form up and attend a reunion dinner this month. The 12 Battalion Devonshire Regiment (6th Airborne Landing Brigade) is gathering veterans from all over the UK and abroad
HEALTH chiefs in Tiverton have come under fire from LibDem politicians over the £36million cost of the town's new hospital. North Devon MP Nick Harvey and district council group leader Paul Williams have criticised funding arrangements for the hospital
FIVE months after the final should have been played, Bridgwater's Tiger Old Boys, at last lifted the county trophy with this victory at Wells City's ground. Goals by Paul Meare and Wilf Davie decided the game. But Tigers' real match-winner was club secretary
THE number of blood donors in Taunton Deane is set to more than treble following a council initiative. Over 3,000 residents responded to an appeal to sign up as blood donors sent out with the district council's electoral registration forms. The forms,
WORKERS at a Bridgwater firm are up in arms over a decision to hire new recruits from Portugal rather than offer positions to unemployed people to the town. Deltaform Ltd, in Colley Lane, has hired 15 packers who will arrive from Portugal tomorrow (Wednesday
THE former partner of a Bridgwater women still mourning the loss of her eight-year-old daughter in a fire in Friarn Street has been jailed for 13 years for drugs and firearms offences. Terry Burchell, 39, of Friarn Street, was found guilty at Taunton
THE 119th Bridgwater Carnival Concerts got off to a flying start on Sunday with a sell-out show. It was senior citizens' night and the Town Hall was packed to the rafters. Months of preparations go into the unique four-hour shows, including rehearsals
THE new landlady of the Cross Keys in Tiverton is asking drinkers to exercise their imagination as well as their drinking arm and come up with a new name for the pub. Local lass Vicki Gallin, who took over this week, is keen to boost the pub's trade and
DO YOU have something to say about car parking in Tiverton? Come and have your say about town centre parking in Tiverton at the Exe Area Committee of the district council. It is tomorrow, Wednesday October 2 at the Heathcoat Community Centre, King Street
ON THE evidence of this first home league match on Saturday, Albion are in for a long, hard season. They might have beaten Berry Hill if fly half Simon Rogers had not failed with two easy penalties in the first half. He missed three kicks out of three
ADAM Allott and Graeme Gordon, of the home club, won the Somerset Profile Rebels' Best Pairs Tournament at Oak Tree Arena, Highbridge, on Friday night. Rebels' number one, Mario Jirout missed the event because of flu, but the good news on the night was
BURGLARS who broke into the Stonegallows pub, in Wellington Road, Bishop's Hull, at about 8am on Monday stole up to £1,000 cash from three fruit machines. The culprits, who got in through a back door, are believed to have escaped in a red Ford Escort
THE Somerset community has come up trumps to support three New York firefighters visiting Taunton this month to take part in a County Gazette-sponsored charity football match. Michael Eavis, mastermind behind the Glastonbury Festival, has agreed to pay
ONE of Somerset's busiest roads is to be 'recycled' after wear and tear caused by 125 million vehicles over the past 20 years. Major reconstruction work started on Monday on the A358 Hatch Beauchamp bypass, which has been showing signs of structural deterioration
TAUNTON Deane residents are being offered free internet access through their TV sets for a year. So far, 70 people have signed up for a 'set top box' as part of a pilot scheme to give the public increased access to electronic services in Somerset with
RECORDS were smashed on Saturday as the biggest and brightest ever Wellington Carnival danced through the town. Led by Miss Wellington, 16-year-old Emma Cooper, the procession snaked its way from Rockwell Green at 7.30pm, featuring hundreds of dazzling
RAIL passengers in the South-West are getting on track for a visit to Somerset -- thanks to a marketing link-up between the county council and Wessex Trains. The www.celebratingsomerset. com website is being advertised on carriages on most Wessex routes
