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  • Town exit Vase after seven-goal thriller

    FA Vase third round Bradford Town 4 Bridgwater Town 3 (aet) Five goals, a penalty and a sending off in extra-time sealed the fate of what was a pulsating FA Vase tie at a bitterly cold Trowbridge Road and saw Bradford Town into the fourth round

  • Albion gain revenge on Pethy with cup win

    Webb Ellis Somerset Cup Bridgwater & Albion 34, North Petherton 20 ANY match between these two near neighbours is always fiercely competitive and this game lived up to all the expectations of a local derby, which in the end saw Bridgwater and

  • ELECTION PROFILE: Oliver Thornton, Labour

    THIS is the most important election in a generation. We are faced with an environmental emergency and an uncertain future for our children. We must act with bold purpose, yet we are divided by the politics of fear and anger. Local people are

  • ELECTION PROFILE: Mickie Ritchie, Green Party

    THE Bridgwater and West Somerset Green Party has announced that its candidate for the General Election will be Mickie Ritchie. Mickie Ritchie has lived in the Bridgwater and West Somerset constituency for 15 years, and has previously stood for the

  • ELECTION PROFILE: Bill Revans, Liberal Democrats

    BILL Revans has lived in this constituency for all his 51 years, growing up in Goathurst and now living in North Petherton. His father was a works engineer at British Cellophane and his mother was a school cook. Highly experienced, Bill taught

  • ELECTION PROFILE: Fares Moussa, The Liberal Party

    ARE you fed up with the usual suspects? Fed up being unclear of what Labour stands for any more? Fed up with the Liberal Democrats’ total disrespect for the popular vote? Fed up with the old school club which the Conservatives have become?

  • ELECTION PROFILE: Ian Liddell-Grainger, Conservative

    IF you are bored to tears with Brexit I am not in the least bit surprised. The referendum was three and half years ago. Bridgwater decisively voted to leave, but we are still stuck in the EU because Parliament has repeatedly refused to agree.