The new Social Center in Frome, a short ways south of Bath, is hosting it's first public event this Thursday - the first meeting of the Frome Squatters' Network! read full story / add a comment

On Sunday 13th July 2008 Marie Curie Cancer Care is holding a new walking event on Exmoor National Park at Wimbleball Lake, Dulverton, Somerset. This is to celebrate 60 years of Marie Curie Cancer Care in Somerset.

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This story has been running in the mainstream media, both local and national press, since mother of five Natalie Bracht, left her home in Sunderland on 17th May this year and went on the run. With joint British and German nationality, Natalie settled in Sunderland with her five daughters in 2006. She told local papers and social services that she had fled her home city of Dusseldorf to escape a dangerous husband involved in a religious cult. She was provided with housing and benefits etc but whether the authorities believed this story or not is unclear. What we do know is that Childrens Services were involved in the case from the beginning.
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This is crazy; A shop in Somerset is one of a number of businesses that sells Cuban goods and has been told by their bank to stop because the US has a trade embargo with Cuba and if you do business in the US (as the shop's bank does) you can't do anything with Cuba. read full story / add a comment

Today, Friday, there is no or little rain, so if the weekend's weather is reasonably good too what on earth is our local fash enforcer Colin Port's excuse for killing off another major cultural event in the South West of England? read full story / add a comment

Hinkley Point B has been warned by the nuclear regulator that it faces being shut down this year if it does not fit a last resort shut-down system at an estimated cost of over £100 million. read full story / add a comment

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Travellers, who had been evicted from a site they had occupied for nearly two years,near Radstock, Somerset, Now face a violent eviction from a disused quarry, in the Mendips. read full story / add a comment

Please join Animal Aid on Wednesday 26th March at 12 noon (for a couple of hours) outside Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage shop, to tell the celebrity chef and his customers that if they genuinely care about chickens and other farmed animals, they would go veggie. read full story / add a comment

Fancy a weekend of collective graft at an ecovillage near Yeovil? read full story / add a comment

Avon and Somerset police is to privatise key sections of its civilian workforce to save money - the first move of its kind in Britain. No other police force in the country has gone to such lengths to cut costs, although others are now expected to follow the ground-breaking move. read full story / add a comment

Campaigners railed at British Energy's announcement that Hinkley Point B will operate till 2016. A Stop Hinkley spokesman has said the reactors should be decommissioned immediately due to continual ageing problems and if not then should be fitted with an expensive extra safety system. read full story / add a comment

"This farm can only be described as HELL… infested with flies, almost 5ft of waste, hens going mad in their cages, ammonia saturated air, live mice stuck to glue traps dying in agony. " ALF read full story / add a comment

Key structural engineering components supporting Hinkley's cracked reactor core have been discovered to be more prone to failure than previously assumed which could affect the safety of the reactor both in normal operation and in an emergency, prompting renewed calls for Hinkley's closure by leading expert John Large. read full story / add a comment

A former Government advisor on nuclear waste will voice his concerns, at a public meeting in Watchet, over fears that all of the UK's legacy of toxic nuclear waste might be buried at Hinkley Point.

Hinkley is a potential site and one of only three where stakeholders have been invited to meet and discuss preparations for the nation's Deep Geological Repository in which half a million cubic metres of the most toxic and long-lived waste could be buried.

This follows a recommendation by the Committee on Radiological Waste Management (CoRWM) to bury the nation's most dangerous nuclear waste in a single one kilometre deep repository. read full story / add a comment

Animal Aid exposes Stillmans Horse Slaughter House, Staplegrove, Taunton, Somerset. read full story / add a comment

Magnox Electric Ltd are to seek planning consent to setup a permanent nuclear waste dump, or \'disposal facility\', at Hinkley Point for supposedly \'low-level\' radioactive waste.

The plan also involves bribing West Somerset and Sedgemoor District Councils by setting up a \"Common Good Fund\" in an attempt to buy-off any local opposition read full story / add a comment

For many people the knock on the door by the Jehovah's Witnesses is an amusing opportuninity to put the 'God Botherers' straight in a philosophical argument. For others it is simply a pain in the backside, but very few know that the Jehovah's Witnesses are an elitist organisation in which thousands of well intentioned believers get caught up. This horriffice injustice illustrates the way that the masonic cult inside Bristol's judiciary has protected a fellow cult member. read full story / add a comment

Ecovillage 2000 - developed at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in the 1990s for 2000 residents. read full story / add a comment

This is what Stuart Security had to deal with the weekend before Ashton Court. NASS - AKA ASBO-fest. Strangely didnt get much news coverage, other than the SM Journal. read full story / add a comment