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5 days ago |
wsfp.co.uk | John Thorne
A FARMER who twice caused closures of the A358 between Williton and Taunton three years ago because of potato and silt mudslides will have to pay out more than £40,000 as a consequence. Experienced potato farmer David Mitchell was last week prosecuted in Taunton Magistrates Court by the Environment Agency. Mitchell, of Hillcommon, near Wellington, rented a field in Combe Florey when hundreds of tonnes of mud and potatoes were washed onto the road by heavy rain.
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5 days ago |
wellington-today.co.uk | John Thorne
Slurry pollution shown at James Mitchell's pig farm near Wellington. PHOTO: Environment Agency. ( )FATHER and son farmers David and James Mitchell have been prosecuted separately for causing the pollution of watercourses near Wellington. The pair, from Hillcommon, were between them fined and ordered to pay costs by magistrates in Taunton last week totalling more than £14,000.
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5 days ago |
wsfp.co.uk | John Thorne
A steel gate is to be installed to prevent unauthorised access to Stogursey School playing field. PHOTO: Quantock Education Trust. ( )SECURITY measurers for a West Somerset school playing field have been approved to prevent unauthorised people gaining entry and children from absconding. Quantock Education Trust has been given planning permission to install a steel gate at Stogursey Primary School.
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5 days ago |
wsfp.co.uk | John Thorne
A Porlock fire crew attended when a camper van caught alight in an Exmoor car park. PHOTO: DSFR. ( )FIREFIGHTERS from Porlock helped tackle a camper van which caught alight on Exmoor on Sunday (June 22). They joined a crew from Lynton sent to the blaze in Coscombe car park, which happened just after 7 pm. The crews found the vehicle ‘well alight’ when they arrived and the occupants were safe. They removed two gas cylinders before they could set to work putting out the flames.
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6 days ago |
wsfp.co.uk | John Thorne
An aerial view of the roof of St Dubricious Church, Porlock. PHOTO: Jonathan Rhind Architects. ( )A ONCE-in-a-generation repair and maintenance project is being proposed to make an Exmoor church more energy efficient and reduce its carbon footprint. The plans for St Dubricius Church, in Porlock, are part of a commitment by the Church of England to ‘drastically reduce its carbon footprint by 2030’.
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