With nearly 40 years of experience, Notaro Care Homes have gone from one home in Torquay to 11 homes across 3 counties; North Somerset, Somerset and Devon… Not only have they physically expanded but they have developed their services too, offering nursing care, specialist care for those with alcohol-related brain damage, respite care, palliative care […]
The Royal Bath & West Show will return in 2022 after an absence of two years, with the event promising to be extra special to mark the Platinum Jubilee of its patron, HM The Queen… The Jubilee will permeate every aspect of the show. There will be a display to link in with the Queen’s […]
With Christmas now behind us and longer days upon us, we look at some of the top days out in the South West. From budget days out to more expensive days out, we take a look at some of the top days out locally in an around the South West. The National Trust for Places […]
Travel back in time to 1991, and we were driving Ford Escorts, eating Pop Tarts and listening to Queen. In Somerset, something very significant was also happening in our communities, as we became the first county to privatise residential care homes previously run by the local authority. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Somerset Care […]
By Tim Walker, Creator and Owner of My Carbon Coach… I opened My Carbon Coach at the start of September, a plastic-free shop in Taunton town centre helping people make changes to their shopping habits to mitigate the impacts of climate change. I’d been blogging and creating social media content about looking after the environment […]
The historic farm of George Parsons, land manager for the Lord Lieutenant of Somerset Viscount Edward Portman, seems to have been given a new lease on life as Laguna Beach Californian Matt Miller and local Stoke Sub Hamdon native James Jeffery embark on a mission to fill their new home with education, community and wellbeing… Rather than sitting […]
The phrase from orchard to glass has never been so timely as the West Country enters its annual apple harvest. As they do every year, Thatchers Cider is celebrating the growers and cider makers that create the British tradition that is cider, from pip to pint. Thatchers, based in Sandford, is a West Country cider […]
You cannot learn to be a good cook without learning how -and how not- to eat and without an abundance of greed and curiosity. Miranda Shearer, of The Kitchen Garden Somerset, tells us more… It’s not just about eating the best chefs’ food or cooking with the finest ingredients. You need to eat bad food […]
Bridgwater & Taunton College (BTC) is delighted to have been recommended for approval by the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) to deliver Nursing Degree & Nursing Degree Apprenticeships across Adult Nursing and Mental Health pathways. The NMC has also recommended the approval of a Trainee Nurse Associate programme. University Centre Somerset (UCS) is part of […]
You cannot learn to be a good cook without learning how -and how not- to eat and without an abundance of greed and curiosity… It’s not just about eating the best chefs’ food or cooking with the finest ingredients. You need to eat bad food to know what good food is, and to burn and […]