THE Axminster and District Committee of Cancer Research UK will be holding its annual house-to-house collection during September and is looking for collectors in the Chardstock area. Anybody who can help should phone Janet Rowe on 01297-33263.
THE annual fete at Ashill Community Primary School will be held on Saturday, July 14, from 11am to 2pm. There will be a barbecue, biscuit decorating, cakes, children's tombola, face painting, fun and games, jewellery, toys and books, and lots more.
WI: Fabric Fantasy to Fashion Fun' was the name of the talk given by Evonne Johnson from Ottery St Mary at the June meeting of Yarcombe WI. Joan Ewins gave the vote of thanks. Dorothy Miller ran the draw which was won by Maggie Lane and Shirley Briant
MEMBERS of Chard, Ilminster & District U3A enjoyed their bring-and-share summer lunch at Chard Guildhall last month. As usual members were most generous in their contributions to the buffet table. This month reverts to the normal pattern with a meeting
YEAR Six pupils at St Andrew's School in Chardstock will be performing Time to Leave on July 17-18 at the school from 7pm. Tickets are available from the school office on 01460-220534.
THE annual summer fete at Ilton last month raised £1,293 which will be shared between the Church of St Peter and Merryfield Hall. Organisers would like to thank everyone who attended the fete and contributed to the total raised.
SOMERSET landowners and farmers are being urged to secure their estates as 40% of land in England and Wales goes unregistered. Sixty per cent of land in England and Wales is now registered - a record rise of 15 per cent in just three years according
AN URGENT call has gone out to the people of Chard, Ilminster and Crewkerne to support the National Blood Service. The Guildhall in Chard will be hosting two blood donor sessions between 1.30pm-3.15pm and from 5pm-7.15pm on Tuesday, July 17, and on Wednesday
POLICE are hunting a hooded thug who hurled an object through a window of a van in Crewkerne on Saturday. The incident happened in Lang Road at 8.30am. The offender is described as male, aged 18-20, with light brown or dark blond hair, and was wearing
A PARTNERSHIP between Ilminster's Swanmead Community School and its African friends has been strengthened thanks to the Ilminster Lions. Last Tuesday the Lions donated £1,000 towards a mosaic project celebrating the ties between Swanmead and its Zambian
A CHARD man is warning people to beware a Spanish lottery scam after a letter dropped through his door asking for his bank details. Bob McCarty, of The Hollies, received a letter postmarked Malaga, Spain, last Friday, declaring he had won $615,810 on
TOWN councillors last week gave a subdued response to a suggestion of a new cinema club for youngsters to be launched in Ilminster. The idea was put forward as one of Ilminster Town Council's projects for possible district council funding for community
FUNDS for the Motor Neurone Disease Association will be boosted on Saturday when a fun evening is held at the Windwhistle Inn on the outskirts of Chard. There will be live music, a hog roast, barbecue and bouncy castle from 6pm providing fun for all
AN Ilminster councillor likens the new widened pavements in Ditton Street to runways.' Cllr Gordon Childs told Ilminster Town Council last week he was appalled at the width of the pavements in Ditton Street, which is currently undergoing work to be-come
A PROFESSOR and consultant psychiatrist from Dowlish Wake is hoping to raise awareness about the prevention of Alzheimer's disease. The national Alzheimer's Awareness Week runs from July 1-7 and Dr Karl Schmidt, from Apple Close, is keen to point out
LIBDEMS at Somerset County Council have added their anger to the mounting criticism of the Government and its plans to close the Chard Jobcentre Plus office. LibDems at County Hall have said the proposals put forward by the Dep-artment of Work & Pensions
POLICE officers were back out on the streets of Chard town centre yesterday (Tuesday) morning - as the News went to press - looking to pick up children playing truant from school. Officers and social workers were out looking for stragglers bunking off
VISITORS to the clubhouse bar on the Recreation Ground in Ilminster will soon be able to drink all day at weekends. The bar's management team last week won the support of Ilminster Town Coun-cil to change its opening hours. There has been rowdiness
ORGANISERS of the Ilminster town centre Christmas decorations have played down suggestions that the fu-ture of the lights is in doubt because of a lack of cash and volunteers. The Christmas lights switch-on, which coincides with a Victorian evening,
