THORNCOMBE Village Shop celebrated its fifth anniversary this week, treating customers and volunteers to a spread featuring some of its finest fare. The shop is community owned and staffed largely by volunteers. Committee member Amy Ralph said
CLUBS from Chard and Ilminster had a ball at the 49th Taunton Carnival on Saturday. Among those to pick up honours were Harlequin CC which won The Taunton Hospital Cup in the Feature category with its entry Tortuga. Eclipse CC’s Dead Men Tell No
CHARD'S torrid National league 3 season continued on Saturday when they suffered a 41-11 defeat at Bournemouth who had been relegated from National league 2 at the end of last season. With the current player crisis at the club, for the second time this
CHARD Colts recorded their first win of the season with a 17-10 victory over previously unbeaten Taunton. From the kick off, Taunton demonstrated why they were undefeated so far this season, with impressive turn-overs from the ruck leading to possession
CHARD bounced back to form to claim their second win in four outings with a 3-2 victory over Winsombe 2nds in the West Clubs women's league. After heavy battling in the early stages of the match a top D strike from Ruth Butcher secured Chard’s lead.
MAJOR works to rebuild a road in Ilminster which has been closed since February are due to start on Monday - a week earlier than planned. Highways bosses at Somerset County Council say that providing there are no unseen problems or extreme bad
CHARD AC juniors held their Xmas Fayre match at Perry Street pond on Saturday. Conditions were good, the rain held off for the duration of the contest, and they all had plenty of bites. Zoe Hollister had the best weight on the day with a nice net of
CHARD B completed an impressive hat-trick for the club’s men's teams on Saturday with a 7-1 home victory over ECV Hornets C in South East 3 of the Davis Wood league. Fielding a team with a mix of experience and youth, they played some very direct
THIS year saw 320 clubs take part in the Davidstow Village Cup – the world’s biggest amateur cricket competition – culminating in a final at Lord’s. Entries are now open for 2015 and can be submitted through an online form at www.thecricketer.com/enternvc
CHARD were blessed with glorious sunshine when they hosted a friendly tournament between five ladies teams. Those participating were Chard, Bruton, Taunton Civil Service, Beaminster and Wincanton. Chard won three out of their four games, the first
BOTH Chard teams lost heavily in the East Devon league. Chard A were beaten 8-0 at Ottery St Mary, losing 97-36 on shots. Chard B fared better but still lost 5-3 at Musbury with the shot score being 60-40. Chard led 3-1 at the half-way point but
CHARD firsts, who beat Torbay A 8-2 in the Davis Wood league on Saturday, entered the game on a winning streak and were in no mood to let things slip. As the game progressed Chard began to press into the visitors’ half, applying plenty of pressure, and
CHARD A have now scored 12 goals in their last two matches and have kept clean sheets in both. On Saturday, in their 5-0 success at Minehead B in the Davis Wood league, captain Gareth Eggle led by example, scoring a hat trick. The treble included
A TEENAGE girl has died after she became trapped in a car that veered off a country road and plunged into the River Parrett. The 19-year-old, believed to be from South Petherton, who has been named locally as Katie Ann Bagwell, was the front seat
ROB Long scored with a free kick from his own half for the second week running as Winsham United beat Farway United 9-0 in Division 1 of the Perry Street league. Long, who also scored in the previous week’s defeat at the hands of Luso-Chard, helped
CHARD Town Under-18s lost 2-1 at home to Gillingham Town in the premier division of the Somerset Floodlight league on Saturday. They failed to make use of the extra man after Gillingham had William Buckton sent off in the second half for a scything challenge
CHARD reserves' 6-0 defeat at Feniton in the premier division of the Fresha Devon & Exeter League on Saturday is easily summed up – unbeaten Feniton took their chances and Chard did not. The game was still scoreless after 35 minutes, with Ed Butcher
MANAGER Darren Manley has promised to abandon a switch in tactics following Ilminster’s surprising 5-0 defeat at Stockwood Green in the Errea County league on Saturday. Stockwood Green, who began the day propping up the table, were two goals up in the
STAFF from Barclays in Chard and Ilminster have had a busy October supporting local charities and organisations as part of the global Make a Difference campaign. They have been spending time in the Age UK shop in Chard, helping to sort out and
