Exmoor Community Youth Club at Exford

by Sandy Francis It was a cold, dark, late-winter evening on top of Exmoor. Mist would certainly have descended if only it weren’t blowing a Hooley. The ground would have been ice-hard under foot if only it hadn’t been pouring with rain all week and the silhouettes of bare, blackened trees might have looked mysterious, even [...]

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Somerset Superfast Broadband Bid – Seeking Your Views, 30 March 8-9pm, West Somerset House, Williton

A fast, reliable broadband connection is becoming ever more important for businesses and residents with the growth of the Internet and the rise in online services. To support economic growth, the Government has offered a £530m fund for investments in broadband infrastructure to target areas that will not be served by the market acting alone [...]

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Community: CLOWNS More Than Just a Playbus

by Alison Mothersdale Years back, when I was a young mother, I was entertaining some friends with their children after school. We started to discuss what our ambitions had been when we were young. A shocked, stunned silence followed my contribution: “I wanted to grow up, marry and have a family.” Some would say I have [...]

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A New Era for Cutcombe Market

by Frances Nicholson A century ago Cutcombe Market was not weekly but a spring and autumn affair. The cattle were Devons – Red Rubies with their sweeping horns – or Longhorns, and the sheep mostly Exmoors and Devon Closewool. The hill land, then largely unimproved, was not for finishing cattle or sheep for slaughter, but for [...]

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