DAVID Bennett won a titanic struggle against Darren Lock to emerge as the 3-2 winner of the first South West Under 17 Silver Waistcoat Snooker tour event at Victoria Snooker Centre in St Budeaux, Plymouth. Bennett, from the Bells Snooker Centre in Falmouth
ILMINSTER will be awash with light and Christmas magic on November 21 as the town enjoys its popular Victorian evening. The official start of the festive season is about more than just switching on Ilminster's much admired Christmas lights display - which
PLANS to improve sporting facilities in Ilminster have taken another disappointing knock back, when a Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) at Swanmead School was refused planning permission. An application to build a specially surfaced area - the size of about
A JURY has returned a unanimous verdict of unlawful killing at an inquest into the death of a Chard builder. Roger Arscott, 60, of King Alfred Drive, died at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, after falling 15 feet from a roof at Air Control Industries
MINEHEAD welcome three players back into their squad to face leaders Clyst Rovers in Division One of the Screwfix League this Saturday. The Seasiders go into the match full of confidence after a fine win over previously unbeaten Larkhall Athletic last
CORNISH rugby star Phil Vickery admits he fears the French pack ahead of England's World Cup semi-final showdown against France on Sunday. The Gloucester prop from Bude admitted the power of Les Bleus was a formidable weapon against an England side which
Calls to boycott a colourful French street market, selling cheese, bread, wine and other goods, were ignored at the weekend as thousands of shoppers flocked to Truro's Lemon Quay. Despite pleas by some nearby Cornish market stallholders to buy Cornish
An attempted murderer who escaped from a prison last month has been found in Exeter. John Stephen Booth absconded from HMP Leyhill, an open prison in south Gloucestershire, on October 16. He has now been located by Devon and Cornwall Police in the Exeter
TOP BBC regional boss John Lilley will be the independent chair of Devon's round table on the future funding of the public's council services. Saturday's conference at County Hall, Exeter, will be addressed by Local Government Minister Nick Raynsford.
WELLINGTON'S rugby team aim to continue their fine run of form this Saturday when they entertain Tavistock in the second round of the Powergen Junior Vase. They moved up to fourth in the table last weekend after a superb 28-22 win away to Newquay in the
A LISKEARD businessman may appeal over Caradon Council's refusal to alter his entertainments licence to allow him to stage acts like pole dancing at the refurbished Lord Eliot Hotel. The issue has split the town. People living near the parish church in
TAUNTON'S LibDem Parliamentary spokesman has called on Somerset's police to spilt with Avon and go solo or merge with Dorset. Jeremy Browne has written to Home Secretary David Blunkett, following a Government pledge to review the police's current structure
CHARD went into their Somerset Premier League game against Midsomer Norton with high hopes of getting their third win on the trot although the build up to the match (November 8) was not ideal. Key players were unavailable or injured, particularly affecting
A 13-year-old skateboarder was attacked and threatened by a man in the street in Somerton, Somerset, police said. The boy was skateboarding in West Street at around 5.30pm on Monday, November 3 when he allegedly bumped into a woman coming out of a chemist
KILLJOY coppers want to make Christmas miserable for criminals in Taunton. Police have launched Operation Blitz and Glitz in the run up to the festive season and promise it will be more 'hello hello hello' than 'ho ho ho' for thieves, yobs and drink-drivers
An 18-year-old man has been shot in the head by a gunman in Plymouth using what appeared to be a powerful air rifle, police have said today. As a result of the shooting, which happened on the Wallsend Industrial estate, Cattedown, the victim was taken
TOP BBC regional boss John Lilley will be the independent chair of Devon's round table on the future funding of the public's council services. Saturday's conference at County Hall, Exeter, will be addressed by Local Government Minister Nick Raynsford.
ILMINSTER Town showed that they will be battling for a promotion spot at the end of the season when they cruised to a 3-0 victory over Crewkerne in the local derby at the Recreation Ground on November 8. The win sends the Blues back to third place in
TOP BBC regional boss John Lilley will be the independent chair of Devon's round table on the future funding of the public's council services. Saturday's conference at County Hall, Exeter, will be addressed by Local Government Minister Nick Raynsford.
TAUNTON Town went out of the Dr Martens Cup on Tuesday night after a 3-1 defeat at Premier Division leaders Weymouth. Despite missing four first team players Taunton held their own for 90 minutes, before being beaten by two extra time goals. For a full
DAVID Norris has shrugged off any pressure that comes with being Second Division leaders. The Plymouth Argyle midfielder insists his team-mates do not feel any added pressure to produce the results now they are setting the pace. But Norris, 22, admits
MID-Devon Cycling Clubs Andy Gordon, who is leading the Devon and Cornwall Cyclo-Cross Series, will be fighting for more than the defence of his points if he starts round four in Exeter on Sunday. The 32-year-old Totnes postman has recently made an impressive
PROMOTION-chasing Exeter Ladies beat in-form Yate 2-0 at home to move into second place behind Firebrands in the West Womens Hockey League Premier Division. After last weeks disappointing draw, Exeter dominated the game playing some excellent passing
AN AIR ambulance and five fire brigade vehicles were sent to a two vehicle car crash on the A358 near Peasmarsh on November 7 which left two people trapped. A car and a white van collided on the busy road at around 2.45pm. Crews from Chard and Ilminster
LAYING the foundation of making dream improvements - like a new swimming pool - a reality in Ilminster, is the job of the town's regeneration forum, its chairman has said . And what people want their town to be like when the children of today are adults
OUTSTANDING signaller John Bentley was among the youngest servicemen to receive an honour for service during the conflict in Iraq. John, and proud parents Barrie and Velma, of Broadway, were told on October 29 he was to receive the MBE for the part he
HOLYROOD School is making good progress, according to OFSTED inspectors, and there's more to come, says headteacher Maurice Hicks. The school was rated as 'good and increasingly effective' in a report published last week. It followed an inspection held
IF you want a job, come to Chard - that's the message the town's manufacturers had for the unemployed and those seeking a change of career during a jobs fair. Held in the Guildhall on November 7, the event was organised by Chard Jobcentre Plus and attracted
ENGINEERS at one of Chard's longest established businesses staged the first of two planned days of industrial action on November 7. Staff at Phoenix Engineering in Combe Street mounted a picket line and say they will hold a further day of industrial action
DAVID Norris has shrugged off any pressure that comes with being Second Division leaders. The Plymouth Argyle midfielder insists his team-mates do not feel any added pressure to produce the results now they are setting the pace. But Norris, 22, admits
DAVID Bennett won a titanic struggle against Darren Lock to emerge as the 3-2 winner of the first South West Under 17 Silver Waistcoat Snooker tour event at Victoria Snooker Centre in St Budeaux, Plymouth. Bennett, from the Bells Snooker Centre in Falmouth
CORNWALL County Youth travel to Iffley Road on Saturday, where they take on Oxfordshire (2pm kick-off) in the South West Counties Youth Championship. Team manager Ronnie Barr does not expect too make many, if any, changes to the side in what will prove
PROMOTION-chasing Exeter Ladies beat in-form Yate 2-0 at home to move into second place behind Firebrands in the West Womens Hockey League Premier Division. After last week's disappointing draw, Exeter dominated the game playing some excellent passing
PROMOTION-chasing Exeter Ladies beat in-form Yate 2-0 at home to move into second place behind Firebrands in the West Womens Hockey League Premier Division. After last weeks disappointing draw, Exeter dominated the game playing some excellent passing
PARENTS are being warned to be on their guard this week after the deadly viral strain of meningitis claimed the life of a Redruth schoolboy. Children at Treleigh School were told the news of the death of five-year-old Kyle Pascoe at a special assembly
DAVID Bennett won a titanic struggle against Darren Lock to emerge as the 3-2 winner of the first South West Under 17 Silver Waistcoat Snooker tour event at Victoria Snooker Centre in St Budeaux, Plymouth. Bennett, from the Bells Snooker Centre in Falmouth
The mother of 'curry poison victim' Julian Webb has told the Old Bailey murder trial of his wife Dona Thompson, from Devon, of the last time she spoke to him. Teacher Rosemary Webb said Mr Webb phoned her a week before his 31st birthday in June 1994.
The death of a man in a stabbing incident at his sister's home in Okehampton is not being treated as murder, police have said. The man, named locally as 48-year-old Ilce Vukov, died from a wound to the neck, said Devon and Cornwall police. He died at
Gulls' chairman Mike Bateson has revealed that the club only made a loss of £20,000 last season, Leroy Rosenior's first in charge. A larger loss was expected, with United only making it to the second round of the FA Cup and making no headway in the Worthington
A LISKEARD businessman may appeal over Caradon Council's refusal to alter his entertainments licence to allow him to stage acts like pole dancing at the refurbished Lord Eliot Hotel. The issue has split the town. People living near the parish church in
Exeter lost 2-1 away to Aldershot on Tuesday night, after their week off from first-team football following their failure to make it to the first round of the FA Cup. Boss Eamonn Dolan watched the Shots' on Saturday against Grays, but the Grecians never
FOOTBALL city report Aldershot 2 Exeter 1 Exeter lost 2-1 away to Aldershot on Tuesday night, after their week off from first-team football following their failure to make it to the first round of the FA Cup. Boss Eamonn Dolan watched the Shots' on Saturday
Police investigating the death of a teenage girl who died after falling out of the back of an ambulance on to a Gloucestershire motorway are looking at the possibility that her drinks had been spiked. Natalie Kathryn Dibden, 16, suffered fatal injuries
CHARD Town skipper and centre back Simon Baines has again turned down the opportunity to leave the club. He has decided not to take up the offer to move up to Bristol Manor Farm and will be in the club's squad to play in a Svcrewfix Direct League Division
A four-month old baby died in hospital from unexplained head injuries, a Plymouth inquest has heard. Connor Swaffield's mother Nicola took the child to the doctors several times in the weeks before his death because he was repeatedly sick. Mrs Swaffield
The police have launched an appeal for information about an 18-year-old-girl missing in Devon since last Friday. College student Alicia Eborne, last seen by her mother at home at 8.45 am that day, was intending to catch a bus into Plymouth, Devon. 'There
THE biggest shock of the day on November 8 saw struggling Premier Division outfit Shepton Beauchamp dump champions Ilminster Res out of the Somerset Junior Cup. Shepton won 3-1 with first half goals from boss Paul Franklin and Russell Foote, and a late
