PEOPLE can find out how to give their bunnies a life worth rabbiting about at an RSPCA awareness day on Saturday. The charity is holding the event at its West Hatch animal centre from 11am-4pm in a bid to highlight some of the problems associated with
A COLLECTION of 19th and 20th Century pottery made in Donyatt has been donated to Somerset County Museum, in Taunton. The items were left to the Museums, Libraries and Archives South West, based at Creech Castle, Taunton, who presented it to the museum
MORE than 1,500 runners are competing in Sunday's 25th Taunton Marathon and Half Marathon - 250 in the full race, the rest covering the shorter distance. Serious athletes striving for the best times will mingle with runners raising money for charity.
Devon and Exeter Premier Division: Wellington Res 1, Thorverton 1. WELLINGTON Reserves maintained their bid for the title with a draw at home to fellow highflyers Thorverton last Saturday. It keeps them in third, a place behind Thorverton, although
THREE men have been arrested after police stopped a car between Wellington and Taunton this afternoon. Two police cars and a police van surrounded the vehicle at the Rumwell Inn car park after officers in Devon and Cornwall raised the alarm. A police
PEOPLE in Taunton, Wellington and West Somerset are being invited to put the kettle on and hold a tea party or coffee morning in aid of the NSPCC. The call comes from the charity's local fundraising manager Donna Statham. She said: "We are calling this
LEE Millard, Head Chef at Taunton's Holiday Inn, Taunton, has been short-listed in the Inspiring Others to Learn category of the Learning and Skills Council South West Skills Awards 2008. Lee has developed his own team by training 10 people in the skills
TAUNTON Town manager Ian Jones was left scratching his head as his side contrived to lose Saturday's game at home to Gosport Borough. The Peacocks created by far the better of the chances but failed to take them and the Hampshire visitors left with the
Somerset County League Division 2 (W): Creech St Michael 6, Congresbury 2. CREECH returned to winning ways with a convincing win at home to Congresbury last Saturday. The win also keeps them well in the hunt for promotion, although their best chance
TAUNTON kept their faint promotion hopes alive, and geared up for the Somerset Cup final, with a 17-8 victory away to Hornets in South-West Two (W) last Saturday. However, Taunton must still win their last two games and hope Barnstaple lose theirs, if
Somerset County League Division 1: Burnham Utd 0, Bishops Lydeard 1. BISHOPS Lydeard returned to winning ways with a hard-fought victory away to Burnham Reserves in a match dominated by the wind and rain. It will now surely take a shocking run of form
I AM compiling a list of my former classmates from Ilminster Boys Grammar School from 1967 to 1971 and I need to find the details of Martin Buck, Derek Bundy, Malcolm Callan, Sean Crossman, Christopher Caligari, Jeremy Goscombe and Martyn Hardy, should
WELLINGTON Spring Flower Show attracted a beautiful crop of entries at the weekend. The event took place on Saturday afternoon at Wellington Junior School. For more pictures and results, don't miss this Thursday's County Gazette.
Toolstation League Division 1: Weston St Johns 1, Wellington 1. WELLINGTON dropped two points in their quest for the division one title as they were held to a surprise draw away to bottom club Weston St Johns last Saturday. The result was a double blow
TAUNTON Town finished with nine men as they crashed to a 3-1 defeat at home to Gosport Borough in Division One (S&W) of the British Gas Business League last Saturday. Ryan Havard was shown a second yellow card and Stuart Nelson a straight red following
WORKERS in the South West are happiest with their work place location but least happy with their colleagues, a survey has found. 'What Workers Want', a report by Savills based on a survey carried out by YouGov, reveals the views of 4,570 UK employees
Twelve to Two: Local TV stars Patricia and David Anderson reveal the secrets of appearing on Ready Steady Cook, at the retirement group's lunch meeting in the memorial hall on Wednesday, April 16, at 12noon. Fun walk: Trull Primary School's annual fun
ON March 12 the Seniors Club and guests met in the village hall to see a display of scenes of "Old Kingsdon" bought to the screen by Miss Mary Whitehead. The slides were interesting and many features and comparisons were commented upon. A number of scrapbooks
YOUNGSTERS in Porlock were on the prowl last week as part of the town's Visitor Information Centre's Easter Egg Hunt. Children and visitors were invited to collect stickers from nine shops around the town to spell Easter Egg, and were then asked to draw
FLUTTERING wings of a different type were in evidence at a recent indoor meeting of the Taunton RSPB local group when group member Keith Gould, an acknowledged expert, gave an illustrated lecture titled Butterflies - an overview of the group as a whole
> letter: I AM looking for descendents of Joseph Poole and his wife Jane Corden who lived in Silver Street, Taunton in the 1850's. Joseph who was a shoemaker and Jane were the parents of my great great great grandfather James Poole As a young lad
AN explosion has claimed the lives of two Royal Marines based at Norton Manor Camp near Taunton. The Marines, from 40 Commando, were on patrol in the south of Afghanistan when the explosion happened, at about 5pm local time yesterday. The families of
A CALL has today been made to renew the debate on whether the Government should adopt a system that would mean more summer sun for the South-West. The South-West Local Government Association says 'Double Summer Time', if introduced, would mean that the
