SOMERSET NEWS: Multiple vehicle crash on M5
Posted: 2nd January 2017
EMERGENCY services were called out on Monday (January 2, 2017) morning to deal with reports of a multi-vehicle crash on the M5 between Bridgwater and Highbridge. The alarm was raised at just after 11am to the problem on the northbound carriageway between Junctions 24-23. Three fire engines and a special rescue tender from Bridgwater and Taunton were mobilised. A Devon…
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Posted: 1st January 2017
THE Iminster Press would like to wish all viewers and advertisers a very Happy New Year. Here’s hoping that 2017 is a wonderful year full of health, happiness and prosperity.
ILMINSTER AREA NEWS: Pavilion will rise from the ashes
Posted: 31st December 2016
ORGANISERS of the Dowlish Wake Pavilion Phoenix Appeal – which is raising money to replace the village pavilion which was burnt down by arsonists this year – have exciting plans for 2017. It was back in October when villagers woke up to see the much-loved Lawrence Kellett Pavilion burnt to the grown at Dowlish Wake near Ilminster. Chairman of the Playing Field Trust…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Pete hangs up his apron strings after lifetime’s work as a butcher
Posted: 30th December 2016
A FAMILIAR face will be missing from Bonners the butchers in Ilminster in the New Year. Pete Hedges, who is 84, has hung up his apron strings after 19 years as a butcher at Bonners and a lifetime in the business. Pete, who lives in Bincombe Drive, Crewkerne, first started as a ten-year-old butcher working in his father’s shop in Bristol. He opened his own shop in the…
ILMINSTER AREA NEWS: Number’s up for bingo caller Brenda
Posted: 29th December 2016
A STALWART bingo caller has shouted out her last number after nearly 20 years of being the “voice” of her village bingo nights. Brenda Pyle, bingo caller extraordinaire for Ashill’s monthly charity meat bingo, called her last number earlier this month. “Having started this back in 1998 I felt that after almost 20 years it was high time that I gave someone else a go and I…
ILMINSTER NEWS: New Year’s Eve recycle choice for Ilminster
Posted: 29th December 2016
RESIDENTS in Ilminster have a choice of recycling collection for their paper and card on New Year’s Eve (Saturday, December 31, 2016) and are being urged to make their choice clear. On New Year’s Eve, both Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) and Ilminster’s Gemini Carnival Club will be collecting paper and card. To avoid confusion, Gemini and SWP are advising anyone wanting…
SOMERSET NEWS: Stepping out to remember Boxing Day tsunami victim Piers Simon
Posted: 26th December 2016
FAMILY, friends and supporters of the Somerset-based Piers Simon Appeal and its School in a Bag charity will be stepping out on Boxing Day (Monday, December 26, 2016) to mark the 12th anniversary of the horrific Boxing Day Asian tsunami of 2004. Piers Simon, a former Yeovil College student, was among the 250,000 people who were killed as a result of the devastating tidal…
SOMERSET NEWS: Stepping out to remember Boxing Day tsunami victim Piers Simon
Posted: 26th December 2016
FAMILY, friends and supporters of the Somerset-based Piers Simon Appeal and its School in a Bag charity will be stepping out on Boxing Day (Monday, December 26, 2016) to mark the 12th anniversary of the horrific Boxing Day Asian tsunami of 2004. Piers Simon, a former Yeovil College student, was among the 250,000 people who were killed as a result of the devastating tidal…
SOMERSET NEWS: Christmas pudding destroyed in microwave fire
Posted: 26th December 2016
A CHRISTMAS pudding was completely destroyed after a microwave went up in flames at a Somerset home. The alarm was raised at just before 5pm in Hardys Road, Bathpool, Taunton, and two fire engines from Taunton were mobilised on Christmas Day (Sunday, December 25, 2016). A Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said: “Once we arrived at the scene we got to…
CHRISTMAS 2016: Merry Christmas from all at the Ilminster Press
Posted: 25th December 2016
THE Ilminster Press would like to wish all viewers and advertisers a Merry Christmas. “We hope everyone has a fantastic time at this time of year and a prosperous and healthy 2017,” said a spokesman for the Ilminster Press.
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