Shaftesbury team in Haiti
A SMALL team from Shaftesbury headed to Haiti two weeks ago to help with the disaster relief. Flor White was in Haiti in 1994 working...
Phone scams warning
POLICE and a council are warning people about two phone scams. The move follows a spate of unsolicited calls to Dorchester residents asked for bank details. And two older women in north...
Remembering Tony Rawlingson Plant, 1939-2009
BRUTON's parish church of St Mary was crowded last Friday for a memorial service for Tony Rawlingson Plant, co-founder with his wife Trish of Mill on the Brue activity centre in Bruton....
Church Windows
Church tower appeal beats target THE fund-raising appeal to repair the tower Stourton Caundle parish church has exceeded its target of...
Film and food evening brings the curtain down on old village hall
THE old hall at Charlton Musgrove was crowded on Friday for a Screen Bites food and film eveningt that marked the final event before...
Students mark 65th anniversary of Holocaust
THE 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau was marked on 27th January in Shaftesbury School by a memorial service...
Vintage tractor show
THE annual Somerset Vintage and Classic Tractor Show takes place this weekend at the Bath and West Showground near Shepton Mallet. As well as showcasing rare and unusual tractors from...
Uncovering the origins of Somerset
ONE of Somerset's premiere working archaeologists has produced a book investigating the origins of the county. Peter Leach's latest book, Fosse Way - Britons and Romans in Somerset, draws on...
Museum gets green light
GOLD Hill Museum, Shaftesbury has just received the go ahead from the Heritage Lottery Fund to start the long-planned and essential...
Bruton Museum Talk
BRUTON Museum is hosting its latest local history talk on Thursday 11th February. The town's current vicar, Rev Justin Bailey, will talk about Rev Stephen Hyde Cassan, who was Perpetual...
