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  • Dom prepares for Atlantic quest

    EXPLORER and former Royal Marine Reservist Dom Mee is gearing up for his latest mission to break the Atlantic rowing record. Dom, of West Buckland, will lead the British Ocean Rowing team aiming to break the record, which has been held by a French team

  • Coast path a 'stupid idea'

    BRIDGWATER and West Somerset MP Ian Liddell-Grainger has asked for a formal meeting over plans to build a ring-road' around the coast of Britain. The Countryside Agency is proposing that a path is constructed 100 yards inland right around the coastline

  • Council agrees to sex shop limit

    A MOVE to block any more sex shops in Taunton has been approved. Taunton Deane Council's licensing committee has decided the two shops in Station Road are enough - one is trading and the other has permission to open. Members voted to keep to two in

  • Children warned not to swim in reservoirs

    WESSEX Water is warning of the dangers of cooling off in reservoirs as temperatures rise and schools break up. Wessex spokesman Hywel Lloyd said: "We've found that when the warm weather begins, some people would like nothing more than to plunge into