SOMERSET NEWS: Just four days remain to get your recycling site permit
Posted: 13th September 2016
MORE than 5,000 people have applied for a recycling site permit and now there are just four days left to be certain of getting one in good time. On the day (Tuesday, September 13, 2016) recycling site permit application numbers passed the 5,000 mark, Somerset Waste Partnership is alerting residents who regularly use sites to check now to see if they need a permit. With…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Get your car washed at Ilminster Fire Station
Posted: 13th September 2016
FIREFIGHTERS from Ilminster will be rolling up their sleeves this coming weekend as they continue to take part in a charity car wash. Bring your car along and have it washed in return for a donation to The Fire Fighters Charity, the UK’s leading provider of services that enhance quality of life for serving and retired fire service personnel and their families, on…
SOMERSET NEWS: Golf day is bread and putter for business group
Posted: 13th September 2016
THE Somerset Chamber of Commerce’s annual charity golf day has raised £3,200 for the Stand Against Violence organisation. Now in its tenth year, the annual fundraising event, which took place at Oake Manor Golf Club in August, raises funds for a different Somerset-based charity every year. Over sixty business people took part this year, with the overall winners on the…
SOMERSET NEWS: Golf day is bread and putter for business group
Posted: 13th September 2016
THE Somerset Chamber of Commerce’s annual charity golf day has raised £3,200 for the Stand Against Violence organisation. Now in its tenth year, the annual fundraising event, which took place at Oake Manor Golf Club in August, raises funds for a different Somerset-based charity every year. Over sixty business people took part this year, with the overall winners on the…
IN PHOTOS - EXCLUSIVE: Historic skeletal remains removed from hotel development site
Posted: 9th September 2016
DEVELOPERS have confirmed that historical human remains have been located on the site of a new 100-plus bedroom hotel in Bridgwater. The Mercure Bridgwater Hotel is currently under construction on the site of the former Co-op store on the crossroads at Eastover, Monmouth Street, St John Street and Broadway. Mercure is part of international group Accor and the Bridgwater…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Armed police arrest wanted man
Posted: 8th September 2016
AN AREA of Chard was sealed off earlier today (Thursday, September 8, 2016) while armed police officers surrounded a house in which a wanted man was hiding. Social media has been awash with pictures of police officers in Combe Street – some with guns – while the Avon and Somerset Police helicopter was also in attendance covering events from the sky. The police have taken…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Armed police arrest wanted man
Posted: 8th September 2016
AN AREA of Chard was sealed off earlier today (Thursday, September 8, 2016) while armed police officers surrounded a house in which a wanted man was hiding. Social media has been awash with pictures of police officers in Combe Street – some with guns – while the Avon and Somerset Police helicopter was also in attendance covering events from the sky. The police have taken…
SOMERSET NEWS: Thank goodness for Val’s Dampfnudel!
Posted: 8th September 2016
SOMERSET baker Val Stones scraped through another episode of TV’s Great British Bake Off – although she did actually enjoy that winning feeling when she took first place in this week’s technical challenge. It looked as if Val’s time on the hit TV show might have been coming to an end last night (Wednesday, September 8, 2016) with another disappointing performance in the…
SOMERSET NEWS: Thank goodness for Val’s Dampfnudel!
Posted: 8th September 2016
SOMERSET baker Val Stones scraped through another episode of TV’s Great British Bake Off – although she did actually enjoy that winning feeling when she took first place in this week’s technical challenge. It looked as if Val’s time on the hit TV show might have been coming to an end last night (Wednesday, September 8, 2016) with another disappointing performance in the…
SOMERSET NEWS: County council backs campaign to highlight child sexual exploitation
Posted: 7th September 2016
SOMERSET County Council is highlighting the uncompromising message that child sexual exploitation is happening on our doorstep. The council is helping to spread that message as part of a new campaign to raise awareness of this devastating form of abuse affecting children and young people. The council is working with Avon & Somerset Police and other partners to increase…
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