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SKIPPER Magnus Zetterstrom and Paul Fry will represent the Somerset Rebels in the Premier Speedway League Pairs Championship at Glasgow's Ashfield Stadium this Sunday. See this week's Mercury sport for a full report.

BRIDGWATER'S Annabelle O'Donnell has won a medal for the third year running in the British Colleges' Squash Championship. See this week's Mercury sport for a full report.

AN Ilminster pub has applied for the right to sell alcohol until 1.30am. Bell Inn landlord Stuart Hunt, of High Street, has applied for an extension of hours and a consultation period on the scheme ends on July 11. Yesterday (Tuesday) landlady Margaret

AROUND 150 barrels containing an unknown industrial waste residue have been found on a Chard housing development. For more information, read this week's News.

THE world now knows that music legend Michael Jackson is innocent of the child abuse charges levelled against him - but one Bridgwater youngster never had a moment's doubt. Ash Clark, 11, has been a devoted fan of the singer since meeting him as an eight-year-old

POLICE in Bridgwater joined colleagues across Somerset to launch a huge crackdown on crooks and bail bandits last week - resulting in more than 300 arrests around the area. See this week's Mercury for a full report.

A SEDGEMOOR primary school teacher - said to have "an addiction" to child porn - appeared in court last week to admit a string of charges relating to indecent pictures he downloaded from the internet. He was warned he could face jail when he returns to

TERRIFIED residents say drunken yobs have made their life a "horrific nightmare" for five years at their Bridgwater town centre housing complex. Violence, graffiti, vandalism, intimidation and threatening behaviour have become a way of life for those

POLICE have arrested one of the five 'Wanted' men pictured in last week's County Gazette. Officers are still appealing for help in bringing the other four suspects to book following the Avon and Somerset force's major crackdown on fugitives from justice

CHILDCARE, early years education, health services and family support - just some of the facilities which could be included in a new children's centre development earmarked for Burnham. See this week's Burnham Mercury for a full report.

TWO local schools have been commended in a regional teaching awards competition. Both Webbers Primary School, Holcombe Rogus, and Burlescombe CE Primary School both received distinctions in The Teaching Awards Celebrating Excellence in Education in the

BRIDGWATER & Albion's influential player-coach Stu Woodhouse has returned from a five-week stay in his native Sydney bubbling with ideas for the club's first National League season in five years. See this week's Mercury sport for a full report.

TAUNTON MP Jeremy Browne has discussed his ideas for Taunton Deane in an extended interview on Apple AM, Musgrove Park Hospital's radio station. He also had the chance to play some of his favourite records when he joined Tony Smedley for his 'Desert Island