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Somerset

Bid to spend reserves and delay job cuts

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Labour councillors want to dip into the reserves to delay job losses at Bath and North East Somerset Council by 12 months.

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'Protected' wedge may be site for 18,000 homes

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

A 50-year battle to protect a piece of green land in Somerset may be lost because the Government wants to hit its house-building targets in Somerset.

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Property market “improving”

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Regeneration specialist St Mowden says it is seeing “signs of improvement” in the property market despite wider annual losses.

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Richard Branson buys Somerset bank

Friday, February 05, 2010

A SOMERSET bank has been bought by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Money. The business purchased Church House Trust, which is based at Goldcroft in...

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Dragon targets pitch at South West firms

Thursday, February 04, 2010

D RAGONS' Den investor Deborah Meaden has urged Westcountry firms to factor charitable giving into their business plan, as she warned: "The recession...

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Open space could be closed off to public

Nailsea residents and councillors from North Somerset Council's central area discuss a controversial planning application at a site meeting.

Thursday, February 04, 2010

RESIDENTS are angry that a piece of land in Nailsea which was open to the public for more than three decades was bought by a private owner. Around 30...

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Strong public reaction to power line proposals

Thursday, February 04, 2010

THOUSANDS of people have had their say on controversial plans to put a new 400,000 volt overhead power line across the North Somerset countryside....

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Resurfacing causing traffic woe

Thursday, February 04, 2010

ESSENTIAL roadworks have begun in Walton-in-Gordano but are causing inevitable delays for motorists travelling to and from work at peak times. The...

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Agricultural chaplain's easy guide to farming

Newly retired team vicar the Rev Stuart Wilson with the layman's guide to farming that he has written and published

Thursday, February 04, 2010

M ILK comes from machines, turkey twizzlers grow on trees, sheep have to be slaughtered before they're shorn – and cattle eat meat. We've all...

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Is a new tax on fatty foods a real possibility here?

Thursday, February 04, 2010

AT a time where the Government is desperately scrambling around trying to find new things to tax, inspiration may be coming their way from Romania,...

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