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I am not a scaremonger

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I am not a scaremonger
REGARDING Councillor Barron’s input in the last issue, it’s quite unfair to suggest that I am a scaremonger.This is not even about me. There are 140 people in our group and there were more than 1,000 signatories to our petition last year.Are we all scaremongers? And just what do we have to gain from scaremongering?The truth is that we have a legitimate cause for concern which has not been addressed by our elected representatives.And Mr Barron may not have understood that my plea for reassurance…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette

Horrified over a lack of signs advertising fair

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Horrified over a lack of signs advertising fair
IN 2012 my wife and I were horrified to find there were no signs along the Glastonbury bypass or roundabout warning of the Tor fair.We notified the Glastonbury town clerk who managed to get signs put out.We were angry that once again no signs had been put out for this year’s fair when we were passing along the bypass on Tor Fair day. We rang the town hall again. No one answered. We left a message for the town clerk to ring us. No one bothered. So we rang wonderful Mendip District Council…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette

Warning of abnormal load on B&NES roads this weekend

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Warning of abnormal load on B&NES roads this weekend
Police are giving people advance warning of a series of abnormal loads which will be travelling through Bath and north east Somerset this weekend.
The loads are almost 100m long and 5m wide, weigh around 640 tonnes and will travel at around 10mph – and more slowly on uphill stretches.
Allelys Heavy Haulage of Studley are transporting transformers from Didcot power station to Avonmouth Docks.
As the load is too heavy for the M4 near junction 19, it will use A roads on part of its journey…

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Author: Siobhan24
http://www.somersetguardian.co.uk/Drink-driving-elderly-motorists-rise/story-19930283-detail/story.html

Return Great Western rail franchise to public ownership

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Return Great Western rail franchise to public ownership, says…
The Great Western rail franchise should be returned to public ownership, the Green Party has said.

Transport giant First Group will carry on running the service until September 2015 before bidding starts for a new long-term franchise.

The decision was made earlier this month after the Government’s awarding of longer-term rail deals ran into trouble last year following problems in the tendering process for the West Coast Main Line.

Now the South West Green Party wants the contract… – Read More.

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Author: ChronReports
http://www.somersetguardian.co.uk/Drink-driving-elderly-motorists-rise/story-19930283-detail/story.html