HEAD teachers and governors from Mid Devon have challenged the Prime Minister to visit the region and witness the effects of the "unfair" national funding system in local schools. Consultation over proposed changes to the system ended this week and education
FIREFIGHTERS in Taunton have unanimously voted to take strike action in a bid to secure a better wage. At an emergency meeting more than 60 Taunton firefighters met to pledge their support for industrial action. Ballot papers have been sent to 52,000
SCORES of people across Wellington stopped for a refreshing drink last Friday (September 27) as part of the World's Biggest Coffee Morning. Events throughout the area including Lodge Close and The Court residential homes, Pulsford Lodge in Wiveliscombe
DISTRAUGHT Wiveliscombe father Steven Hamar was joined by more than 300 mourners at the twin funeral service of his daughter and former wife last Friday (September 27). As the coffins of six-year-old Tori, and her mother, Kaeren, were carried into St
MINEHEAD player-manager Andy Hodgson has declared himself virtually fully fit after suffering from a knee injury since the start of the season. Hodgson played in a friendly for Somerset Fire Brigade's soccer side last week and says he has suffered no
TIVERTON athlete Caroline Hewitt ran off with a top prize after winning a prestigious road race at the weekend. Caroline, who is a member of Tiverton Harriers, was the first woman to complete the Taunton 10k race on Sunday (September 29). She beat off
THE Tiverton Adoption Centre at Chilton Gate, Bickleigh, is desperatetly looking for a 'purr-fect' home for four black kittens. The cats - named Mo, Zoe, Charlie and Gary, after characters in the BBC soap EastEnders - have been neutered, vaccinated, de-wormed
AMBULANCE response times in Mid Devon are improving, according to a health trust. Recent figures show West Country Ambulance Services Trust staff now reach 70 per cent of Mid Devon patients in life-threatening situations within the target eight minutes
FIREFIGHTERS across Devon are ready for strike action - they are united in feeling the Government and their employers will not agree to pay them whaty they deserve. When the ballot results are announced on October 18, the Devon branch of the Fire Brigade
DISTRAUGHT Wiveliscombe father Steven Hamar was joined by more than 300 mourners at the twin funeral service of his daughter and former wife last Friday (September 27). As the coffins of six-year-old Tori, and her mother, Kaeren, were carried into St
A FOUR-YEAR dream of creating a play area to meet 21st Century standards in Dunster became a reality last Friday (September 27). Organisers celebrated the official opening by village headteacher Peter Hoyland of the refurbished Packhorse Playing Fields
TV SOAP actress Jane Rossington -- Jill Richardson in Crossroads -- rolled back the years when she officially opened a 1940s and 50s 'living museum' at the Royal British Legion's Dunkirk Memorial House in Bishops Lydeard. The Reminiscence Room, in the
