January
Tornado hits Sydenham estate
Crash on junction Broadway & Penel Orlieu brings traffic caos
Drug dealer David Mitchell sent to prison
Memorial service help for tsunami victims
Blake vets get new surgery
Town to get new hospital
Oap's in council tax protest
11yr old Schoolgirl held at knife point by thugs
February
Peter Cox sent to prison for 18 months for threats
to kill his neighbour
East quay medical moves to new home
Cellophane factory to close in June
Big fire at Westonzoyland car repairs
Schools raided in town including
Westover Green - Sedgemoor Manor - Haygrove
Somerset Bridge - College
3 Post offices close - Chilton , Taunton Rd & Bath Rd
Hamp Autospares goes up in smoke
Flasher appears in town twice
Power cut hits town for 9 hrs
March
Oap's council tax march through town protest
William Bird 67, killed after being attacked by Craig Swann
Megan Collard age 9, savaged by dog on Hamp Estate
Maurice & Shirley Howard celebrate Golden wedding
Heather Sparks planning walk the Inca Trail for charity in May
College opens new £1.1 million centre
18 yrs old Nicola Tyron Shown sleeping rough in town
drugs raid on to houses in St John St
Charity Ball at the webbington raises £2,301 attended by Cllr Ann Bown
Child snatch foiled by mother at a party at Brewsters
Nationwide Building society robbery staff held at knifepoint
Mark Cunnington loses sight in left eye after vicious at the Quantock Gateway
pub
Jim & Jean Davey celebrate their Golden wedding
April
16yr old arrested after he was carrying a firearm
Drugs crime sours - with 35 ABH's , 15 Assaults , 17 harassment cases, 2 robberies,
5 sexual offences, 57 burglaries, 10 car offences and
289 other crimes
Indecent exposer at the Splash
Matthew Stevens bitten by deadly spider
Rumours that Gary Glitter was back at his home in Wedmore
May
Council sack all traffic wardens
Mercury offers £500 to find mugger of an 82 yr old woman
Accident closes Taunton Rd for more than 4 hrs on busy Saturday
Harold & Ethel Sampson celebrate 70 yrs , Platinum wedding
David Evans lucky to be alive after house collapses in Load Lane, Westonzoyland
Teacher , Anthony Harvey 43, charged with downloading porn
Michael Dracul 34, charged with 6 rapes - jailed 18 months
Mother of 5, Joanne Edney 30, charged with stabbing
Harley Foxon 17 months, voted child of the year with 56 votes
Mary Stanley Maternity unit closes
New mayor for town Bill Monteith
Biker Andrew Dodd killed on A39 at Holford
Colin & Sylvia Moyse celebrate Golden wedding
70 firefighters tackle blaze at T & L Sweet & scrapyard next door
more than 100 teenagers moved on by police for being drunk & disorderly
in Cranleigh Gardens
June
Barbara Clarke has to sell home to pay for drugs to
treat cancer
Heroin addict Mark Williams jailed for 2 yrs after 2yr crime spree
Masked raiders break into Walnut Tree Hotel assaulting staff
Travelers Camped on Fairfield are moved on
Group of 5 women strip for breast cancer
Anthony Harvey, primary School teacher admit downloading Child-porn
86 homes to be built on the Federal Mogul site - Wellworthy Factory
Girl Guides break sleeping record at a camp in Fiddington
July
Sealed Knot Re-enactment nearly ends in tragedy when
the hanging almost becomes a reality
Dylan Pepoe nearly drowns at the Sedgemoor Splash - lifeguards fail to spot
him
Morrisons take over Safeways
Bridgwater gridlocked by serious M5 Crash between J23 - J24
John Anthony Reading found hanged from a tree at Bawdrip
Vanessa Williams drowns on holiday trying to save dog
3 young girls camping in back garden wake to find man touching them
Barbara Clarke wins fight to get cancer drug on NHS
Town to get a New Hospital by 2007
Local drug dealer Gurjeet Singh, 31 sent to prison for 6yrs
Cllr Anne Fraser gets awarded MBE
August
David Weller appeal against his life sentence rejected
Morrisons evacuated after chemical leak
Mystery blaze rips through new 1.5m flats
Garry Jones gets six yrs for Armed Robbery on Nationwide
Gypsies move from Fairfield to Bristol Rd
Council puts a public toilet up for sale
Admirals Landing wins best pub of the west
Action called for on Accident black-spot - Westonzoyland Rd
John & Sheela Garland celebrate Golden Wedding
Leslie & Enid Smith celebrate Diamond Wedding
September
Local girl Chloe Gamblin celebrates 20th birthday with
Westlife
Cornhill market closes for major refit - £743,000
300 new jobs at the Toolstation
Post office moves from Cornhill to Angel Place
Charlie & Elsie Goss celebrate Platinum Wedding
Penpals - Rosemary Partridge & Alison Darby meet after 44yrs
Withycutter Landlord , Trevor Symons spends night in cells for Not wearing
a seat-belt
Bill & Beryl Trenchard celebrate Diamond Wedding
Mark & Joyce Jackson celebrate Diamond Wedding
Darts marathon at the Cobblestones raises £1,391 for MS
October
Four teenagers charged with murder of Lloyd Fouracre
John 'froggy' Bale escapes from Leyhill Prison
DJ Adrian Fraser axed by BCR FM radio
Police raid Hope Inn looking for 'froggy'
Walnut Tree Hotel gets new owners
Leon Heal 26, Burtle man is jailed for 2yrs for 36 offences
Mother of 5, Joanne Edney Jailed for stabbing a man twice
12yr old , Sadie Trent, tells all about school Bullying
Fine dodgers name in the Mercury
Froggy Bale 41, caught in Midsomer Norton
Maurice & Sylvia Brown celebrate Diamond Wedding
Barbara Clarke gets go ahead for Cancer drug
Peter Cox 44, appeal in court dismissed
November
ROF factory to close with lose of 130 jobs
17 yr old youth admits sexual activity with child
Federal Mogul site ( wellworthys) to be demolished for 86 homes
Cllr David Preece denies road rage incident - gets bound over
Security alert at Sainsburys
Two men arrested after driver attacked at puriton - Gareth Quinn & Daniel
Cox for GBH
Court bans Cedric Allen form entering his own home
Joe & Betty Hurst celebrate Golden Wedding
- Gareth Quinn & Daniel Cox for GBH
Court bans Cedric Allen form entering his own home
Joe & Betty Hurst celebrate Golden Wedding
December
Schools face closure inc Burrowbridge - Middlezoy -
Othery - Pawlett -North Newton - Spaxton and Northmoor Green
Nellie Simmons celebrated her birthday 100yrs
SDC to give ONE Traffic Warden to cover the Whole of Sedgemoor
Council accused of Bully claims after sacking staff
Police raid six homes for drugs
Admirals Court & Landing sells for £100,000
Northmoor Green School to close in new year
Shirley Wickham spends Christmas in hospital after Hit and run
Body in canal on Christmas Eve is named as 29yr old Jason MacDonald
Florence Barnett turns 105 yrs
Sir Benjamin Slade is looking for an Ancestor to inherit his Home - Maunsel
House , North Newton
Two men are jailed for forging passports - Belorussian Stanislav Rubel, 23
& Vyachesia Kovalkenko ,24 both from the Lithuania
Happy New Year