OPERATORS of a waste transfer station in Wellington have been fined £32,000 after admitting they allowed hazardous waste on the site, contrary to their permit. Taunton Deane Magistrates heard on Thursday that Wellington Waste, at The Old Brickworks,
FEARS that Cotford St Luke could be facing a "North Curry scenario" with an influx of Romany gypsies in Dene Road are unfounded, according to the landowner. Several residents contacted the County Gazette when a park home and a smaller caravan were put
A DEVELOPMENT of 120 homes from £69,000 could be built in Taunton. The one and two-bedroom flats on a two-acre field beside the Wellsprings Centre, off Cheddon Road, would be for low income locals. The National Trust, which owns the site, plans to sell
MINEHEAD'S popular Christmas Tree Festival takes place at the Avenue Methodist Church from December 6-9. The festival is hosted jointly by the church and the Minehead and Porlock Save the Children branch. The festival begins at 7pm on December 6, when
EIGHT-year-old Lauren Gunter will have the special honour of switching on Minehead's Christmas lights tomorrow night (Friday). Lauren, a pupil of Minehead First School, was selected after winning a school Christmas card competition. She will be helping
WEST Somerset MP Ian Liddell-Grainger MP will begin a tour of four local Royal Mail delivery offices on Monday to see how postmen and women in the area get Christmas sorted. He will visit Watchet, Williton, Minehead and Bridgwater delivery offices where
POLICE have issued an appeal for witnesses following a burglary in Taunton. The incident happened between 1pm on Saturday November 17 and 3pm on Sunday November 18 at a property in Princes Street. A number of items were taken and damage caused to several
AN interesting talk on the History of Gardening, accompanied by excellent slides, was given by Mr David Usher, to a well attended meeting of Taunton and District Gardeners Association. He took for the framework of his treatise, the old adage Something
AT the November meeting of the Taunton Breathe Easy Group, Julie Paul, a respiratory nurse at Musgrove Park Hospital gave a lively and interesting talk on Pulmonary Rehabilitation. She was ably assisted by respiratory nurse, Wendy. Julie stressed the
AS Christmas decorations go up across the country and people begin to be full of Christmas cheer, some of your readers who have diabetes will realise that Christmas is not as straight forward as they would like it to be. At the Insulin Dependent Diabetes
I WOULD like to thank members of staff and the manager at Boots for their help and consideration when I fell on the store's escalator on the afternoon of November 23. They were really wonderful. I would also like to thank the members of staff of the
ENTRIES are open for the 2008 Taunton Deane Foot Anstey Aquathlon at Wellington Sports Centre on Sunday, February 24. Organisers are encouraging team entries and launching a Corporate Challenge', with one competitor swimming and another running. Businesses
PEOPLE in north Taunton are being asked for their views on plans for several affordable homes. Taunton Deane Council is considering developing a site in the Enmore Road and Wellsprings Road area with homes for people who would find it difficult to buy
THE international jury presiding over the Car of the Year award, made up of 58 specialist journalists from 22 European countries, has elected the Fiat 500 Car of the Year 2008. In addition to winning the Car of the Year 2008 award outright, the
NISSAN has increased its range of outdoor accessories with a new tent designed to fit on to the rear of any Pathfinder, Murano, new X-TRAIL or QASHQAI, adding to the one previously released for the life-style pick-up - Navara. The new accessory
LAW firm Ashfords has taken on 13 recruits, including Sarah Gibson and Annika Gleeson in Taunton, who both achieved distinctions in their law exams. Ashfords trainees carry out a two-year training contract and most sign up as qualified solicitors in
LAND Rover will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a new special edition of the iconic Defender - the SVX. The Land Rover Defender SVX was unveiled for the first time by Zara Phillips at the British Red Cross Ball in London earlier this month.
IT'S FAIR to say that when it comes to people carriers, Chrysler can lay claim to giving the world the daddy of all the full-size MPVs. Its Voyager and Grand Voyager line-up has proven immensely popular, and more recently offered clever features
AS part of our 170th anniversary celebrations, the County Gazette has launched a Community Fund to give a platform to the exceptional voluntary work which goes on throughout our community. We have been asking organisations to write in and tell us why
TAUNTON Toy Library has been thrown a 'lifeline' with a £3,000 cash windfall from the County Gazette. They were among around 40 organisations to apply for a grant from the Gannett Founation, the charitable arm of Gannett, owner of the Newsquest Media
THE Adult Social Care Services is celebrating its fourth consecutive top annual rating with a touch of theatre. The Somerset County Council service, which works with older people and adults with learning or physical disability and sensory loss, has again
