25 YEARS AGO
November 23, 1990
PLANS for Taunton's ambitious £14million livestock market move were shelved indefinitely by Deane councillors at a behind closed doors meeting.
The news came two months after councillors decided to delay the project for a year following the downturn in the commercial property market and to allow feasibility studies on new road proposals.

NEW-BORN twins Dominic and Ashley Gower will be celebrating their birthdays on different days.
Mum Karen, 28, of Grafton Close, Taunton, gave birth to 6lbs 15oz Dominic at about 11.21pm on November 9.
But slight problems and the need for a Caesarian section meant brother Ashley weighed in at just 3lbs 5oz at one minute past midnight.

10 YEARS AGO
November 16, 2005
TAUNTON was becoming less violent, according to latest police figures.
Violent crime in the county town fell by 14% in the six months up to October with the total number of victims dropping by 179 to 1,099.
The figures showed top end of the scale grievous bodily harm attacks in the town down 81.8% from 16 victims to three.
Town centre robbery halved from 28 cases to 14, the number of cars stolen in the town centre down 26.7% from 165 to 121 and thefts from cars in the town centre down 40% from 457 to 264.
Overall crime in Taunton was down 15.7%.

5 YEARS AGO
November 18, 2010
A WOMAN who adopted an Afghan refugee shot by the Taliban was making a last-ditch bid to stop him being deported.
Kim Cavanagh, of West Road, Wiveliscombe, feared 18-year-old Muzafar Ali Hussain will not be able to survive the trauma of being sent back to the wartorn country.
She said: “One of the reasons the Home Office is refusing Ali permission to stay is because he’s “intelligent and articulate enough to travel to the UK."

COMPUTERS worth more than £17,000 were stolen from Bishop Fox’s Community School in Taunton.
Three men were spotted on CCTV taking 20 newly-installed Apple Macs – worth over £850 each – from the school’s Business and Enterprise
room at about midnight on the previous Wednesday.

1 YEAR AGO
November 20, 2014
IT may have come as a surprise to some but Bridge Street and North Street in Taunton were named as the best streets in the country.
The two streets, under one single entry, beat off competition from the High Street in Berkhamsted and Elwick Road in Kent to triumph in the UK and Ireland Urbanism Awards.
The ‘best street’ category is one of five awards given out annually by The Academy of Urbanism to recognise the best, most enduring or most improved urban environments.