In this week's Chard and Ilminster News ... (From This is The West Country)

In this week's Chard and Ilminster News ...

11:08am Wednesday 5th September 2012 in Somerset

THIS week's Chard and Ilminster News is out now, with 56 pages featuring all the top stories in South Somerset. The September 5, 2012, edition includes all these stories and more:

• Calls for improved safety on the A303 Ilminster bypass after two people were killed on the road last week when a van was in collision with a car.

• A former Royal Marine from Ilton is behind bars after being captured in Liverpool.

• More from families who were evacuated from their homes in Ilminster on Friday night due to fears of a gas explosion.

• Miracle twins Sophie and Jessica Dunn, Chard are starting at Redstart Primary School this week five years after they were born ten weeks early, kept in incubators and on breathing equipment.

• A group of teenagers in Ilminster are keen to shatter negative stereotypes of the youth - by volunteering at elderly residential home Vaughan Lee House.

• A retired construction worker from Chard challenges a parking ticket he received in the town last week - suggesting the sign is obscured.

• Pictures from Chardstock Street Fair.

• Thousands of people visiting Dillington House on Sunday for the annual open day.

• Around the area in 10 stories.

• The latest village news from around South Somerset.

• YOUR letters in Postbag.

• The stories that hit the headlines in the News in years gone by - in Looking Back.

• A round-up of all the sporting action across South Somerset.