RECENT cases dealt with by Taunton Deane Magistrates’ Courts include: Donald Gordon Miller, 47, of no fixed address, shoplifting in Asda, three other offences admitted and taken into consideration, 42 days prison. (G).

TEMPORARY traffic lights will be in operation during gas supply works on Bindon Road, Taunton, starting on Thursday until next Tuesday.

WESSEX Water has been named as the best performing water and sewerage company by regulator Ofwat.

BBC war correspondent Kate Adie was guest speaker at the latest John Rae lecture at Taunton School.

A CURRY Mallet farmer who had fires in two tractors has been recruited by an insurance company to advise farmers to install fire extinguishers.

THE annual Ladies Driving Challenge in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care is taking place at Merryfield airfield on Saturday, March 7 next year.

MARK Formosa, who is standing for the Conservatives in the next General Election in Taunton, has addressed heads of South-West independent schools.

CHILDREN at Taunton Prep School were visited by ‘Claudius Maximus’ in full Roman uniform.

A BUILD up of fat in an oven sparked a kitchen fire in Cotford St Luke this afternoon.

TAUNTON law firm Foot Anstey has received a glowing review in the Chambers directory.

THE original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the film comes to Monkton Heathfield this month - and its owner wants to meet people who saw the movie when it was first released in 1968.

THE first annual members meeting of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust takes place at 12noon next Thursday at the County Ground, Taunton.

HUNDREDS of people have been doing some weird and whacky things in the Taunton and Wellington area today.

LANDLORDS in Taunton are reporting tough times.

STUDENTS from Ladymead Community School, Taunton, visited the County Gazette offices today on a fact-finding mission.

PEOPLE around Taunton, Wellington and West Somerset will be pulling out all the stops to raise money for BBC Children in Need today.

TIME is running out to vote in the Community Policing Awards for Avon and Somerset.

TEMPORARY traffic signals will be installed in North Street, Wiveliscombe, during gas supply works starting today (Thursday) until next Tuesday.

A SERIES of planned community partnership meetings in the Taunton and Wellington area have been postponed.

BUILDING firm Rok has laid off “around half a dozen” staff in Taunton as the recession looms.