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  County council axes 60 jobs in a bid to save £4million

  1 hour ago in News

  SIXTY jobs will be axed at County Hall after councillors rubber-stamped proposals to make £4million cuts to next year’s budget.

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  Chard gun duo jailed

  2 hours ago in News

  TWO Chard men have been handed lengthy prison sentences for possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear during an incident in Dwelly Close in the town.

• Motorcycle crash injuries from 1997 led to death

  2 hours ago in News

  THE death of a keen gardener who lived and worked in the Chard area was accidental, a coroner has ruled.

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  Six-week project means diversions for A303 drivers

  3 hours ago in News

  MOTORISTS could experience delays on the A303 over the next six weeks.

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  Wadham students' idea a winner

  3 hours ago in News

  YOUNGSTERS from Wadham School headed to Cineworld in Yeovil for an enterprise day.

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  Latest court results

  3 hours ago in News

  RECENT cases dealt with at Yeovil Magistrates’ Court.

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  Memorial bike ride for hit-and-run victim from Horton

  4 hours ago in News

  A MEMORIAL bike ride has been held for a teenage cyclist killed in a hit-and-run in Bath.

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  SUNDAY: Glastonbury Male Voice Choir in Ilminster

  7 hours ago in What's On

  GLASTONBURY Male Voice Choir will give a festive concert at Ilminster’s Dillington House on Saturday.

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  REVIEW: Taunton School shocks Brewhouse back to life with CATS

  8 hours ago in What's On

  NOW that was a sight to behold. On Tuesday night, 285 days after the power was unceremoniously shut off at the Taunton arts hub, light came flooding out of the dormant Brewhouse Theatre.

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  AT CINEMAS: New Disney, Frozen (PG)

  8 hours ago in What's On

  TAKE Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen fairytale, give it a modern Disney dusting and what have you got? Latest animation Frozen, which opens this week at the Odeon, Taunton.

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  Ilminster gig: The Tiny Face Experience

  8 hours ago in What's On

  THE Tiny Face Experience (pictured) play The Crown Inn, Ilminster, this Friday, delivering their usual high-end show of hard and heavy rock with a blues edge until the early hours.

• TONIGHT: Chard folk dance club in Combe St Nicholas

  8 hours ago in What's On

  CHARD Folk Dance Club meets at Combe St Nicholas village hall at 8pm tonight (Thursday).

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  FRIDAY: Festive folk duo come to Chaffcombe

  9 hours ago in What's On

  A FOLK songstress credited with inspiring a new generation of women in the genre joins a long-established classical guitar champion in concert this Friday.

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  Witnesses to collision in Chard urged to contact police

  10 hours ago in News

  A MOTORCYCLE was knocked over in a road traffic collision in Chard on Monday (December 2).

• Cyril Bartlett

  16 hours ago in Acknowledgements

  BARTLETT Cyril. Sandra and family would very much like to thank all relatives, friends and neighbours for their kind messages of sympathy and donations received in memory of Cyril and their attendance at the funeral service. Special thanks to the Intensive Care Unit at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and to North Petherton Surgery for the care and help to Cyril. To Reverend Jane Haslam for taking the service and to E. White & Son Funeral Directors, 138/139 East Reach, Taunton, TA1 3HN.

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