• Letters May 21: Renewables, more flags, SNP and fire brigades

  By RolftheGanger

  Re: "SNP's Farage ambush could help Ukip" A litany of wrong information, to put it...

            

   

  By Western Daily Press at 05:00 on 21/05/13

  

  Renewables: some signs of improvement Many of your readers will be unaware that a daily battle is being fought in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, that could affect the future of our county. A planning inspector is holding a public hearing to consider Wiltshire Council's proposed Core Strategy for developments in the years to come. A recent session concerned the future provision of renewable energy, an area in which Wiltshire has had a poor...

• Hundreds protest but Taunton green wedge homes are approved

  By IBM_Out

  After this shameful decsion, Taunton Deane must be in the running for an entry in the "Rotten...

            

   

  By Western Daily Press at 08:10 on 18/04/13

  

  A plan to build more than 300 new homes on green fields at Taunton was given conditional approval – by eight votes to seven – last night. Local firm Summerfield Developments are behind the outline proposal, to build 315 homes at Killams, part of the county town's "green wedge." The land, which grows wallflowers, runner beans and daffodils, has been under threat since the 1960s but two planning inspectors have rejected...

• Taunton Somerset County Council election candidates announced

  By abbie_taunton

  Thanks for pointing this out, I have amended it and sent a message to the council letting them know...

            

   

  By abbie_taunton at 17:11 on 05/04/13

  

  The Taunton candidates for the Somerset County Council elections this May have been announced. There are eleven wards across Taunton and up to five candidates have been nominated in each division. A number of independent candidates are running as well as candidates from mainstream political parties. Bishop's Lydeard Jonathan Gray (Labour and Co-operative) Paul William Partington (Liberal Democrat) Mike Rigby (Independent) ...

• Shocked rail passenger describes 'horrible feeling' after train struck car in fatal level crossing crash

  By nickthompson

  Following this incident, and the recent tragic deaths of a mother leaping in front of a train with...

            

   

  By abbiewhouse at 18:22 on 21/03/13

  

  A passenger on the train that collided with a car in Somerset, killing the driver, has described the six hours he spent on the train following the incident Kyle Millett, 25, from Wellington, was travelling from Taunton to a business meeting in London when the train collided with the car on a level crossing near Athelney at around 6.30am this morning. Kyle said he knew immediately that something had been hit. "The crash happened about...

• One dead in level crossing crash between car and train near Taunton

  By martinp

  Hello, this is a nasty nasty thing to happen! How are they going to make sure it won't happen again?...

            

   

  By abbie_taunton at 08:32 on 21/03/13

  

  A person has been killed after a car was hit by a train on a level crossing near Taunton. The crash happened at 6.30am at a level crossing near Athelney, which is on the line between Taunton and Castle Cary. It has been reported that no train passengers were injured in the incident. Stanmoor Road in Athelney has now been closed in both directions at the Cuts Road junction. First Great Western have confirmed that services between...

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