New opening hours at Clarks Village are 'awful'
AS an employee at Clarks Village for the past eight years I would just like to say how awful the new opening hours are.These hours have been tested in the past, unsuccessfully, so why reintroduce them?Footfall in the centre has fallen recently, and for the last few hours in the trading day there are very few customers in any of the shops.Staff morale is generally very low, no one wants to be standing around for hours on end and if you have to travel any distance to get home it means getting back…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette

Glastonbury Town Council meeting was like 'watching a comedy…
I AM writing about the meeting of Glastonbury Town Council on Tuesday, April 8.
I had been invited to take part in a working group which had been formed in April 2013 to discuss the town’s Coat of Arms, and to make recommendations as to whether it should be changed.

The initial impetus for a proposed change was that the mitre and crossed crosiers, and also the motto displayed on it (Floreat Ecclesia Anglicana – May the Church of England Flourish), no longer represented a town in which a…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette

Doubt over changes
IT HAS been a bastion of local employment for more than two decades and is one of Somerset’s best known and biggest tourist attractions.Ask most people who live south of Birmingham about Clarks Village and they’ll have dropped by at some point or another.The designer outlet retail complex boasts more than 90 shops along with a host of restaurants, coffee shops and fast food chains.Countless people depend on it to pay the bills.But as shoppers continue their well-documented march online and…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette

Traveller vehicles in Glastonbury are 'eyesores'
THE attached picture shows travellers’ vehicles which seem to have been parked on Sedgemoor Way, Glastonbury, for over a month now.
People are living in these vehicles, they do not move from one day to another. As far as I know it is illegal to camp on a public highway. I have been wondering why they are allowed to get away this, surely the police and indeed our local councillors must pass by these vehicles at least a few times every week, why has nobody acted? Sedgemoor Way is one of the main…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette