ILMINSTER AREA NEWS: A great year for county’s cider apples

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: A great year for county’s cider apples

Posted: 30th November 2016
A NATIONAL Trust cider expert has welcomed the “sweetest” year for Somerset apples – thanks to perfect weather conditions. More than 650 gallons of cider has been pressed at the National Trust’s Barrington Court estate near Ilminster in Somerset in a year that the charity’s cider expert claims has produced the sweetest apple crop for a decade. Gardeners and volunteers at…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Club offers condolences to Keith Harper’s family

ILMINSTER NEWS: Club offers condolences to Keith Harper’s family

Posted: 28th November 2016
ILMINSTER Cricket Club has announced the sad news that Life Member and long-time supporter Keith Harper has died. Mr Harper passed away peacefully at Yeovil District Hospital on Thursday (November 24, 2016) after a bravely fought illness. He started playing both cricket and football in the early 1960s and during his time with Ilminster CC over the years he was 1st XI…

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SOMERSET NEWS: My daughter could have been killed after terrifying incident on busy road

SOMERSET NEWS: My daughter could have been killed after terrifying incident on busy road

Posted: 27th November 2016
POLICE are investigating after a father said his two-year-old daughter could have been killed when a rock was thrown at the car they were driving in and shattered a window. Luke Adams was driving along Toneway in Taunton with his toddler daughter Ivy on Sunday (November 27, 2016) afternoon when the horrific incident took place. “It was sometime between 2.45pm and 3pm…

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SOMERSET NEWS: My daughter could have been killed after terrifying incident on busy road

SOMERSET NEWS: My daughter could have been killed after terrifying incident on busy road

Posted: 27th November 2016
POLICE are investigating after a father said his two-year-old daughter could have been killed when a rock was thrown at the car they were driving in and shattered a window. Luke Adams was driving along Toneway in Taunton with his toddler daughter Ivy on Sunday (November 27, 2016) afternoon when the horrific incident took place. “It was sometime between 2.45pm and 3pm…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Recycling and refuse collection date changes for Christmas period

SOMERSET NEWS: Recycling and refuse collection date changes for Christmas period

Posted: 24th November 2016
PEOPLE have been advised that rubbish collections will take place a day later than normal over the Christmas and New Year period. The Somerset Waste Partnership has issued its usual advice about changes to its collection services to cater for the Christmas holiday. Collections will continue as normal from Monday, December 19, 2016, through to Friday, December 23, 2016…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Recycling and refuse collection date changes for Christmas period

SOMERSET NEWS: Recycling and refuse collection date changes for Christmas period

Posted: 24th November 2016
PEOPLE have been advised that rubbish collections will take place a day later than normal over the Christmas and New Year period. The Somerset Waste Partnership has issued its usual advice about changes to its collection services to cater for the Christmas holiday. Collections will continue as normal from Monday, December 19, 2016, through to Friday, December 23, 2016…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: School in a Bag shop is going to need a bigger wall!

YEOVIL NEWS: School in a Bag shop is going to need a bigger wall!

Posted: 24th November 2016
THE School in a Bag pop-up charity shop in the Quedam Shopping Centre in Yeovil is proving a huge hit with supporters. The SIAB, which is based at Chilthorne Domer, took on one of the units in the Quedam earlier this month and has been selling merchandise and Early Bird tickets for the 2017 Home Farm Festival, its big money-spinner of the year. But people have been also…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: School in a Bag shop is going to need a bigger wall!

YEOVIL NEWS: School in a Bag shop is going to need a bigger wall! Photo 3

Posted: 24th November 2016
THE School in a Bag pop-up charity shop in the Quedam Shopping Centre in Yeovil is proving a huge hit with supporters. The SIAB, which is based at Chilthorne Domer, took on one of the units in the Quedam earlier this month and has been selling merchandise and Early Bird tickets for the 2017 Home Farm Festival, its big money-spinner of the year. But people have been also…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Donations wanted for festive hampers

ILMINSTER NEWS: Donations wanted for festive hampers

Posted: 23rd November 2016
THE Tesco store in Ilminster will be doing collections over the next week to bring some Christmas cheer to local families who could do with some help. The store in Shudrick Lane will be taking in donations of toys on Friday, November 25, 2016, and Saturday, November 26, 2016, and then a food collection on Monday, November 28, 2016, through to Wednesday, November 30…

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ILMINSTER NEWS - VIDEO: Ilminster Home Hardware takes on the Mannequin Challenge

ILMINSTER NEWS - VIDEO: Ilminster Home Hardware takes on the Mannequin Challenge

Posted: 22nd November 2016
THE team at Ilminster Home Hardware have joined in with the latest trend taking over social media – the Mannequin Challenge. The viral internet video trend sees people remain frozen in action like mannequins while a film is recorded. Ilminster Home Hardware led by Phillip Wyatt got into the Mannequin Challenge mood when the town held its Victorian Night and switching-on…

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