Wincanton traffic: Town councillor calls for road safety to be…
The lives of people in a Somerset town could be in danger because of traffic problems which are getting worse every day, according to a town councillor.

Dawn Old wrote to Somerset Live, the police, local district councillors and the county council after speaking to at least five members of the public with concerns about road safety in Wincanton recently.

In a letter she said the growth of Wincanton was leading to problems on the roads and that a “lack of policing” was allowing bad…

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Author: LiamTrim

11 stories that shook Sherborne in 2016
By just about anyone’s standards, 2016 has been a seismic and difficult year.

But even without Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and all the celebrities dying, there’s been a great deal of upheaval just in Sherborne.

In choosing the biggest stories of the year, there was an awful lot that we had to leave out. There wasn’t any room for the machete left in the taxi by two teenagers, or former Sherborne pupil Ben Hardy’s appearance in X-Men: Apocalypse – and try as we might, we couldn’t fit…

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Author: Daniel Mumby

A359 fatal crash dog search: Animal tracking expert offers to…
There could still be a “good chance” of finding a dog which
fled the scene of a fatal car crash on Boxing Day, according to a bush craft and animal tracking expert.

Paul Burkhardt has offered his skills free of charge to those desperately searching for Tipsy, a three year old black Labrador.

Gemma Brixey, Tipsy’s owner, has been searching for her ever since the
crash on Boxing Day at around 1.50pm on the A359 Sparkford Hill in Somerset.

Her parents were involved in the crash…

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Author: LiamTrim