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Somerset this week: 10 May 2024
This week, maternity services are recovering from meltdown, Crewkerne planning muddle, the Chard meeting that wasn't, common sense at Rode and that…
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The untold story of the Green surge
We take a look at what happened to the Green vote on Thursday's election. And consider why the increasing influence of the Greens had been overlooked…
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Somerset this week: 3 May 2024
This week we have news from the ballot box, from Minehead, Chard, Wells, Frome, South Somerset and Bruton
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Irish Eyes Are Smiling (All the way to the bank)
As a new massive solar farm is proposed for the Somerset Levels, James Garrett finds there is a spirit of resistance in the air.
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James Garrett
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Somerset this week: 26 April 2024
Disability discrimination in Wells? A council without councillors? Alarm about an arms company, our Wincanton health story reprised and an eclectic…
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Are the moneychangers back in the temple?
Today Wells Cathedral will start to charge visitors from outside the city an entry fee. We look at why and how the charges Wells will be making compare…
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Podcast number 3
With Police and Crime Commissioner elections just around the corner, Alan Philpot and Andrew Lee discuss local services and democratic…
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Somerset this week: 19 April 2024
This week look at GP provision in Wincanton, more on our investigation into Chard Town Council, we meet a Labour candidate for Glastonbury & Somerton…
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An interview with Hugh Williams
In the last of the Somerset Lives series that we started in The Leveller, Stephanie Harris Plender interviews the chair of CPRE Somerset, Hugh Williams.
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A mighty oak?
As Acorn looks increasingly likely to bid for ownership of the Saxonvale site in Frome, we take a look at the company and try and make sense of it.
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Somerset this week: 12 April 2024
A Taunton farmer fined, internet improvements to Ilminster, Crewkerne, Bruton and Glastonbury, Martock gets a CEO, Labour gets a candidate for…
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Poor, poor Porlock
James Garrett investigates a rumbling seed of discontent at Porlock Parish Council as a series of complaints about councillors are made by a mystery…
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James Garrett
Somerset this week: 5 April 2024
This week we have stories from Taunton, Yeovil, from the 54 Bus and the finances of the Symphony group of GP surgeries, then Somerset Council before…
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Does it pass the sniff test?
We take a look at recent events at Chard Town Council and suggest that some of the things that are going on do not smell nice.....
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