DIRECTGOV, the Government's information agency, is updating readers with a Twitter feed on the Spending Review - and you can read it here. You can also read the Twitter feed from the Treasury by clicking on the Related Link below. Here's
YOU can keep up to date with the latest on the spending review with Tweets from The Treasury. This page will show live updates from the official Treasury Twitter feed while other stories in our Spending Cuts section will provide background
A BINGO evening in aid of St Margaret's Somerset Hospice will be held at North Petherton Community Centre on Friday. Everyone is welcome and eyes down is scheduled for 7.30pm.
BRIDGWATER firm Sedgemoor Domestic Appliances has been highly commended in the Domestic and General Total Quality and Excellence Awards 2010, a national award recognising excellence in customer care. Director Alex Reed said: “We are delighted to win
A COUNCILLOR is sticking by his controversial comments about Bridgwater's proposed new mental health hospital. The Mercury reported last week how, at a Sedgemoor District Council development control meeting, Cllr David Preece said a proposed £17million
TICKETS are on sale to see Paul Weller tribute band The Modfathers at The Railway Hotel in Burnham on Saturday. The top tribute outfit cover the icon's music from The Jam into The Style Council and right through his glittering solo career. Listen out
BRIDGWATER police are appealing for cyclists who have had their lights stolen to get in touch. PC Adrian Hooper would like to hear from anyone who has had cycle lights, particularly LEDs, stolen after locking their bike in Bridgwater town centre. He
VIKKI Venner and Billy (Sugar Puff Daddy) Hill, catching up on news back home during a romantic holiday on a sailing boat in front of the Pitons on the Caribbean island of St Lucia. Send us your Around the World snaps to Bridgwater Mercury, Royal Clarence
Bridgwater police are holding an open day on Saturday in the hope of reuniting lost bikes with their owners. Anyone who has had a bike stolen is encouraged to attend the day at Bridgwater police station to see if their cycle is among the ones
SYDENHAM ABC’s Antony Collins lost a narrow points decision in the final of the county round of the CYP championships in Wells, in the under 57kg weight. Against last year’s finalist, Kane Stewart, from Bristol’s Broad Plain ABC, Collins used his reach
CUTS are inevitable but the spending review must not hit local businesses - according to Bridgwater MP Ian Liddell-Grainger. He told the Mercury: “We do need to cut our spending and be more efficient, but we mustn't do so at the expense of businesses
MORE than half of the Bridgwater pubs and clubs tested in an underage booze crackdown sold alcohol to minors. Somerset County Council's trading standards team and Avon and Somerset Police asked underage volunteers to try purchasing alcohol at nine venues
MISSING Somerset man Matthew Lloyd has been discovered in the Netherlands, police have confirmed. Matthew, who grew up in Puriton and worked at Brean leisure park, was reported missing 12 days ago when he missed an appointment for treatment in Oxford
BRIDGWATER Amateur Operatic Society will pay respect to their president Bill Young during their song-packed November production. An Evening With Mr Bill celebrates his diamond jubilee - 60 years of dedicated contribution to amateur theatre in Bridgwater
A LEADING bird charity will be at Sanders Garden World in Brent Knoll on Monday as part of its Wild Bird Care Fortnight. Representatives for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds will be at the garden centre from 11am to 3pm. General manager
THE Government should allow Sedgemoor to keep a greater percentage of business rates collected locally, says Sedgemoor District Council leader Duncan McGinty. Ahead of the Government's Comprehensive Spending Review announcement tomorrow,
THE campaign to get BBC Radio 1's Beccy Huxtable to switch on Bridgwater's Christmas lights seems to have been won. More than 2,000 people have taken part in an on-line Mercury poll, with more than 90% saying they want the popular Scott
EAST Bridgwater Community School, Penrose School and Haygrove School will be eagerly awaiting the results of tomorrow's (Wednesday's) spending review, to see how much is cut from the Department of Education. Those three schools missed out on being rebuilt
THE Government's Comprehensive Spending Review announcement tomorrow could have massive implications for basic services in Sedgemoor. At 12.30pm, Chancellor George Osborne will set out four-year spending plans for each Government department
THIS was a tight contest with never more than a goal in it. Four times Hornets went ahead only for the resilient Wanderers to respond and finally snatch the win. Jack Willis scored the first, Jake Stewart got the second from long range, Willis got
