Glastonbury lady praises parcel which is bang on time
I must applaud the e-outdoor company White and Bishop.

I ordered something online on Sunday, March 2.

This morning I received an e-mail to say it will be delivered between 13.17 and 14.17 today (March 4).

To my astonishment at 13.18 there was a knock on my front door – my order, with a smile! All the way from Northampton to Glastonbury and on the nail.

With such brilliant service I’d almost suggest the company isn’t English, but with a name like that it must be.

Hats off to…

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Author: Central Somerset Gazette

Somerset floods: The EU is 'ethically cleansing' people off the…
READER Ian Summerell believes the EU’s wish to see the Somerset Levels turned from wetland to flood plains is favouring wildlife over humans and could be seen as “ethically cleansing” residents from the flood-hit area. All words and views his own.

Dear Editor, thank you for all your hard work reporting on the flooding on the Somerset levels.

On a PR front, I would recommend people of the Somerset levels should refer to themselves as living on the Somerset Levels as wetlands, not…

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Author: IanMat

Somerset floods: 'Cameron, Clegg and others ignore the EU…
COLIN McNamee of Baltonsborough writes that the hands of British politicians are tied over Somerset flooding by EU red tape.

IT’S never ending.

They come, they see, they go, they appear on the TV and the radio, they are in the press and yet they never mention the elephant in the room.

Weather (sic) it’s Messrs Cameron, Clegg, Pickles, Hammond, Miliband nationally or locally Browne, Heath, Liddell-Grainger or Ms Munt; certainly not the chairman of the Environment Agency, Lord Smith, they…

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Author: IanMat

Why the Romans were better at Somerset flood management than the…
THE recent severe flooding of the Somerset Levels provides an interesting new perspective on the history of the region and modern day political and economic realities bearing upon its flood management.History records that great efforts to control flooding began with the Romans and ran on through the management of the area by Glastonbury Abbey and later the immigrant Dutch; over time they transformed the area from a semi-tidal marshland into one of the most productive agricultural areas in the…

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Author: Wells Journal