Car fire on the A303

3:40pm Saturday 19th July 2008

AN electrical fault caused a car fire on the A303 eastbound carriageway between Podimore and Sparkford, near Yeovil, this afternoon.

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Man and dog rescued from river

12:52pm Saturday 19th July 2008

A MAN and a dog had to be rescued from the River Brue this morning after getting into problems at the River Brue.

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Bronze Age day at Ham Hill

8:00am Saturday 19th July 2008

THE Ham Hill Country Park will be hosting a hands-on workshop next week that will give visitors the chance to cast their own Bronze-Age rapier sword blade.

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Boy gets leg stuck in bicycle wheel

8:51am Friday 18th July 2008

A BOY had to be released by firefighters in Yeovil on Thursday evening after he got his leg stuck through a bicycle wheel.

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Paddy presents "merit" awards

8:00am Friday 18th July 2008

FORMER Yeovil MP and leader of the Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown, visited Stanchester Community School at Stoke-sub-Hamdon to present awards to high-achieving students.

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Craft and Garden Fair at Montacute

4:00pm Thursday 17th July 2008

MONTACUTE is one of the most magnificent estates of the National Trust and this splendid Elizabethan house has been made world famous as the setting of the much-acclaimed film Sense and Sensibility.

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Exciting times ahead for £5-million innovation centre

11:30am Thursday 17th July 2008

ECONOMIC chiefs are predicting one of the most “significant advances” for the South Somerset business community in many years with work nearing completion on Yeovil’s new business innovation centre.

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Check your coal deliveries

9:40am Thursday 17th July 2008

TRADING Standards officers at Somerset County Council are advising coal consumers to check their deliveries to make sure they get what they pay for.

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Regulator considering Sats options

Updated 3:38am Sunday 20th July 2008

England's exams regulator is in discussions with the company behind this year's Sats fiasco to ensure that there is no repeat of the problems which delayed the delivery of millions of schoolchildren's test results.

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