SNOOKER lovers can enjoy an evening accompanied by the three of the sports biggest stars - Steve Davis, Dennis Taylor and John Virgo - in Yeovil next year. The famous trio will be discussing the highs and lows of their careers with more than a
RED CROSS royal Princess Alexandra admitted that first aid was not her forte when she opened the organisation’s new £360,000 training centre and headquarters in Taunton in 1989. She explained to branch youth officer, Patsy Finlayson, of Ashbourne
National 2 South Leicester Lions 12, Taunton Titans 6 THE Titans travelled to Leicester for their first ever encounter with the Lions (not the Tigers!), new boys to National League 2 South having been moved sideways from the beginning of this
SWINGING into Minehead, The Big Band at Christmas will be at the Regal Theatre in December. The show, performed by Five Star Swing, was featured at London’s Leicester Square Theatre and BBC’s Children in Need. The show has all your favourite
FIREFIGHTERS are tackling a blaze which has spread from a static home to a barn. Crews from Cheddar and Burnham on Sea were called to reports of a static caravan on fire in Notting Hill Lane, Axbridge, at just after 5am this morning (December
TWO sisters who attend a Taunton school have been getting used to the limelight after appearing in a prime-time TV drama series. Queen’s College Junior School pupils Olivia and Ella Higdon were involved in filming ITV’s Sandition, an adaptation
A COMMUNITY coffee shop has won a national award for the work it has done to invest in its staff and volunteers. North Curry Community Coffee Shop has received the Investing in Local People Award, sponsored by Suma Wholefoods, from national charity
THE Bridgwater and West Somerset Green Party has announced that its candidate for the General Election will be Mickie Ritchie. Mickie Ritchie has lived in the Bridgwater and West Somerset constituency for 15 years, and has previously stood for
BILL Revans has lived in this constituency for all his 51 years, growing up in Goathurst and now living in North Petherton. His father was a works engineer at British Cellophane and his mother was a school cook. Highly experienced, Bill taught
IF you are bored to tears with Brexit I am not in the least bit surprised. The referendum was three and half years ago. Bridgwater decisively voted to leave, but we are still stuck in the EU because Parliament has repeatedly refused to agree.
THIS is the most important election in a generation. We are faced with an environmental emergency and an uncertain future for our children. We must act with bold purpose, yet we are divided by the politics of fear and anger. Local people are
ARE you fed up with the usual suspects? Fed up being unclear of what Labour stands for any more? Fed up with the Liberal Democrats’ total disrespect for the popular vote? Fed up with the old school club which the Conservatives have become
