A YOUNG man is recovering after being viscously attacked during a robbery in French Weir Park in Taunton. The incident happened at midnight on Tuesday July 12 as a 22-year-old local man walked though the park. He was approached by two men on bicycles
BACK To Basie, the Big Band appearing at Taunton's Westival on Sunday, July 30, has just been voted the UK's No 1 Big Band in the 2006 British Jazz Awards - for the second year running. The stunning line-up of 17 of London's top session men and jazz soloists
THE garden opera company is bringing Mozart's 'Cos fan Tutte' to Vivary Park in Taunton as part of the Westival Arts Festival on Friday, August 4, at 7pm. A village green in 1914, the Great War rumbling in Europe: two sisters flirt with chaps in cricket
MEETING at 8.30 on a calm and warm evening recently for the annual nightjar watch, ten Taunton RSPB local group members assembled at Staple Plain on the Quantocks. As usual, before it got sufficiently dark for nightjars the time was spent walking up
TODAY the trial of three Taunton youths charged with the murder of Lloyd Fouracre continues at Exeter Crown Court. Lloyd died following an attack in Gipsy Lane on September 25 last year, the day before his 18th birthday. Andrew Betty, 19, of Priorswood
