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  • New Abbeyfield units - 50 years on

    RICHARD Carr-Gomm, who founded the Abbeyfield Society in 1956 to provide support, care and companionship for the elderly and frail, has laid the foundation stone of an exciting new project at Abbeyfield's Frank Bond House, in Bishop's Hull. Taunton building

  • Man arrested under mental health act

    POLICE have arrested a person under the mental health act after reports they were threatening to take their own life in the Obridge area of Taunton. The incident happened at 6.25am on Monday morning. See this week's County Gazette for the full story

  • Centuries old tradition staged in Taunton

    A CENTURIES old ceremony was celebrated in Taunton last week. The Court Leet annual law day took place in Taunnton's hhistoric Old Municipal Building, in Corporation Street. Pictured at the event are Robert Dunning, Peter Lee, John White, Stephen Bartlett

  • Computer shop burgled

    AROUND £1,000 of computer equipment was stolen from a Wellington shop in the early hours of Hallowe'en. Micro Check, in North Street, was targeted in the raid at about 4.30am, when an eye-witness believes they saw two youngsters running away from the

  • Green light for Christmas decorations

    WILLITON is to get new Christmas lights to replace those smashed by vandals last year. Voting through expenditure of £500 at a meeting of Williton parish council, councillors pledged: "We can't let the vandals win." But village shopkeepers may be asked