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Children's art on show at festival
A display of children's art, writing competitions, and photography exhibitions will be on offer at the fourth Porlock Arts Festival, which takes place next month. Among new attractions are a craft crawl', when local crafts people will stage open-house
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World Championships at Smeatharpe
THE saloon stock cars World Championship will be the headline event at the Speedweekend' at Smeatharpe Stadium next Saturday and Sunday (August 18 and 19). Also taking place will be the BSCDA Benevolent Fund Trophy race for BriSCA formula two stock cars
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Knife attacks in Taunton
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to two knife-point robberies in Taunton at around midnight last night (Thursday, August 9, 2007). The first incident happened at about 11.55pm when a 32-year-old man was cycling in Canal Road and forced off his bike
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Bottle used in assault
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted outside his home in Taunton in the early hours of yesterday morning (Thursday, August 9). Between 2-3am, the victim heard a disturbance involving ten-12 people outside his address on Valley
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Tennis: Somerset secure to promotion
PLAYERS from Wellington and Taunton helped Somerset win promotion back to group five of the LTA County competition for the first time in ten years. One of the strongest Somerset teams in years, captained by Heathfield School's head of PE Matt Bernard
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Previous drugs campaign paying dividends
A CAMPAIGN backed by the Somerset County Gazette back in 2004 has helped Life Education to provide valuable advice and support to schools across the county on the subject of drug misuse. In the light of our new Zero Tolerance campaign, we look back to
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Wurzels back Run for the Future
SOMERSET band The Wurzels are supporting this year's Run for the Future event in aid of the Bristol Urological Institute Prostate Cancer Care Appeal. Band frontman Tommy Banner has been a sufferer of prostate cancer and backs the event, which is taking
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Exmoor open to welcome visitors
EXMOOR and the rest of the West Somerset countryside is open and ready to welcome visitors. That's the clear message from West Somerset Council and Exmoor National Park Authority in the wake of the discovery of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle in Surrey
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Distraction burglaries down a fifth - police
DISTRACTION burglaries have fallen by more than a fifth in the area covered by the County Gazette, police have claimed. Officers across the Avon and Somerset Constabulary area have been targeting distraction burglars who prey on the elderly, calling
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Bugs up close
EVER wondered what's living on your bed, in your hair, or even on your skin? You probably never wanted to before but now you can take an in-depth look at these little blighters making themselves at home in your follicles, thanks to Taunton scientific
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Mum puts record straight over harbour tragedy
THE DISTRAUGHT mother of Sam Boyd, the teenager who perished in the waters of Minehead Harbour, told how the tragedy had ripped the heart out of her family. Speaking to the County Gazette on Monday, Louise Mundy, of West Street in the town, was adamant
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Shop gets a makeover
WELLINGTON'S St Margaret's Somerset Hospice shop will re-open at 10am on Monday, following a major refurbishment. The shop in Fore Street was opened in 1996, although St Margaret's first shop in Wellington had begun trading eight years earlier in South
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Going bananas for Fairtrade
SHOPPERS at a Taunton supermarket are going bananas for Fairtrade. As from now, all bananas sold at the Hankridge Farm branch of Sainsbury's will be Fairtrade. Fairtrade means that a fair and sustainable return is paid to the banana growers. To celebrate
