Businesses in Wellington can learn about new disability laws which come into force at a session next week. Taunton Deane's accessibility officer Ed Norton will speak about the new Disability Discrimination Act at a meeting of Wellington Chamber of Commerce
A YEOVIL Town Squad X1 drew 1-1 at Cheltenham Town Reserves yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon in the Pontins Holiday Combination League. Jake Edwards netted Yeovil's goal to cancel out Cheltenham's opening strike scored by teenager Luke Corbett in the 57th
THE Screwfix Direct League has delayed a decision over whether to relegate Minehead from the first division until its board meeting on May 13. Minehead finished bottom on goal difference and had thought they would face the drop into the Somerset County
An extension to a controversial rubbish tip near St Day, Redruth, has been given the go-ahead despite protests from local councillors and residents. The United Mines landfill site, which councillors say "towers above Carharrack," is set to increase by
REFUGE week in Devon will be marked by a special record and display of wartime evacuees who came to the county but did not rejoin their families. Exeter's Refuge Week Committe would like to hear from anyone who was evacuated during the war but went into
TAUNTON-based striker Alexis Piper has been voted Player of the Year by his team mates at Wellington. Piper was presented with his award at the Screwfix League's club's annual presentation dinner. The Manager's Player of the Year trophy went to defender
A PARTNERING project between South Somerset Homes and developers Rok has won a national award under the Considerate Constructors Scheme for the work they have done in the villages of Stoke-Sub-Hamdon and Tintinhull. Rok site manager Bill Seal collected
A galaxy of stars will help Taunton's sci-fi convention lift off at the weekend. Odyssey 2004 is the official celebration of Somerset-born Arthur C. Clarke's life and work and beams down to the Taachi Morris Centre in Monkton Heathfield.
People living in Monkton Heathfield are being urged to have their say over a 1,000 home development in the village. The parish council is holding a series of public consultations about the massive development next month. And organisers are keen for villagers
The National Beef Association will continue to hammer home its message that unless everyone in the industry cuts costs after decoupled subsidies are introduced, it will be impossible to sustain current levels of production. Many retailers and slaughterers
An announcement that the Parliamentary Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee is to consider yet more submissions about bovine tuberculosis is expected to spark anger amongst South West cattle farmers. The committee will be taking oral evidence
Cornish sheep producer Keith Barrett knows what his farm shop customers want from his fresh lamb, and the Better Returns Programme aims to help him refine this still further. Keith and his wife Gill farm around 200 Charollais/Suffolk and Dorset crosses
If you have not already realised it, you've been quite busy during April and guess what - May will be just as hectic! A lot of decisions on winter feeding will have been made and some spring crops will already be in the ground. First-cut silage is just
TAUNTON Town have finished 15th in their second season in the Western Division of the Dr Martens League. They would have finished three places higher if they had won their final game - away to third from bottom Stourport Swifts last Saturday. Seven clubs
TAUNTON-based striker Alexis Piper has been voted Player of the Year by his team mates at Wellington. Piper was presented with his award at the Screwfix League's club's annual presentation dinner. The Manager's Player of the Year trophy went to defender
Further alarming evidence has surfaced about the serious health problems that children and young adults face if they do not drink sufficient milk. The findings are from United States of America but are obviously pertinent to this country. In a survey
SOMERSET Sabres take on Yorkshire Phoenix in the Totesport League at the County Ground on Sunday. The Sabres won their opening home match in the competition when they beat Derbyshire last month and they will be looking to maintain their impressive form
A West Somerset charity is appealing for book donations to help raise cash. St Margaret's Somerset Hospice is holding a book fair on Friday May 7 and needs good second hand books to sell.
STAFF at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro will have to pay an annual fee to park at work if the trust's board approves a new parking policy this week. The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust board was being recommended to approve the new policy at its
Two rare breed pedigree Gloucester old spot sows on a farm near Taunton have been in the spotlight after farrowing a total of 34 piglets between them. Their owners, Nick and Ruth Strange, are delighted with the sows and their piglets. They are surprised
Following the shooting of a man in Lewannick, Cornwall at the weekend, the deputy chief constable Nigel Arnold issued the following statement. "The Devon and Cornwall Constabulary continue to support the Independent Police Complaints Commission investigation
EXETER City Councillors have agreed to revamp the city's cathedral. The £350,000 plans will be carried out in an attempt to encourage more tourists to the city, by opening up the western end of the Cathedral Yard. Redesigning the pedestrian access from
Livestock farmers, livestock traders, abattoirs, meat processors and butchers in the South West are being urged to take part in a new drive to achieve protected status for South West meat and meat products. Meat South West, the trade organisation set
We are waiting at the moment for our final payments for 'profit foregone', extensification payments. We had a surprise letter from Defra that we are over our figures for extensification and that we have to recheck them. We thought we had sorted out all
With the support of rural progress funding scheme, six enterprising Cornish farmers (all former students of Duchy College) set off to discover Californian farming practice. The visit was based in Tulare County in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. This
Milk Link has completed its deal to take a 75 per cent controlling stake in The Cheese Company, the UK's second largest cheese producer. The completion, which confirms Milk Link's position as the UK's leading and fastest growing integrated dairy business
