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  • Celebrating 15 years at The Terrace, Taunton

    A CELEBRATION event was held to mark the 15th birthday of a Taunton complementary health centre this week. Practitioners The Terrace humanistic psychotherapy and complementary health centre, in Staplegrove Road, gathered to enjoy a celebratory

  • Make your vote for your best on the beat

    TIME is running out to nominate your best on the beat in this year's Community Policing Awards, organised by Avon and Somerset Police Authority and Constabulary. The awards recognise the work of the constabulary's neighbourhood policing teams and include

  • SKITTLES: Latest results in the Taunton Ladies League

    LATEST results in the Taunton Ladies Skittles League can be found here. Highflyers 327 (R.Swinburne 51), Cider Maidens 333 (A. Jarrett 56); Plumes 357 (J. Knight 58), Congirls 301 (A.Fouracre 51); Forget-me-Knots 348 (T. Collard 49), Trinity Ladies 364

  • Teams march on in Somerset Junior Cup

    WITH the heavens opening around midday officials from the Silver Street Volkswagen Taunton and District Saturday Football League expected a lot of games to be called off, but in the end they only lost four to the elements. While another at Exmoor was

  • BASKETBALL: Leeds Carnegie 87, Taunton Tigers 73

    WITH both teams looking to improve on their joint placing in the National League Division One, this was always going to be a tough contest. The long road trip to Leeds Carnegie in Yorkshire made it even more demanding for Taunton Tigers. Despite this

  • DARTS: Latest results from Taunton Deane LVA League

    LATEST results from the Taunton Deane LVA Darts League can be found here. Division One: Grove Boys 9, Easy Fours 0; Cunning Linguists 5, Wurzels R Back 4; Farcanals 7, Crafty Wurzels 2; The Lethy 3, Fives and Ones 6; Pickled Mushrooms 2, I.O.T.A 7.

  • Minehead step up search for new boss

    MINEHEAD are stepping up their search for a new manager following the departures of joint team bosses Gary Hillard and Robert Boyd. Club chairman Brian Walder has said that the Toolstation Western League Division One strugglers have already

  • Double celebrations for Rok

    TAUNTON builders Rok have two reasons to celebrate this week. The company was awarded the highest rating for its safety performance from the British Safety Council, receiving five stars out of five. They also reached the finals of the Somerset Business

  • Football boot in suspected arson at Heathfield school

    A BURNING football boot in a plastic bag was left in a classroom doorway in a suspected arson incident at a school near Taunton on Monday. Staff at Heathfield Community School, Monkton Heathfield, put out the blaze before the fire brigade arrived

  • Good life for hospital gardeners

    STAFF at Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital can enjoy the good life thanks to new staff allotments. The allotments were opened at the hospital to allow staff to grow fruit and vegetables on their breaks, helping them to relax and help boost the hospital

  • U2 to hit the stage at Glastonbury

    ROCK giants U2 will take the stage at Glastonbury as part of the festival’s 40th anniversary celebrations. It will be the first time the band will perform at the festival. Organiser Michael Eavis said: “The 26-year-old rumour has finally come true

  • Keith Bridges trial starts today in France

    THE trial of a former Minehead police inspector charged over the deaths of four people begins today. Keith Bridges, originally from Minehead, was driving a car which crashed near his home in Berbiguieres, in the Dordogne region, killing his wife Julie

  • Story of Cinderella at The Brewhouse

    THE magic of Cinderella comes to The Brewhouse in Taunton on Thursday to Saturday with the European Ballet Company. This magical and enchanting fairy tale is presented by a group of top international dancers under direction of a principal dancer of the

  • Report domestic abuse - police call

    POLICE in Taunton, Wellington and West Somerset are urging people to pick up the phone if they suspect someone is suffering from domestic abuse. As part of National Domestic Abuse Week Avon and Somerset Police has launched the With One Phone Call You