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Up From the Ashes - Bridgwater Westover Web
I’ve just spent the weekend in Milton Keynes. It’s true, some of these raffle prizes aren’t what you expect.  Of course, it has a reputation for being a soulless bland new town with an artificial aura...
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June 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Does The Council Think? - Bridgwater Westover Web
Tonight, in the hot seat on ‘Does the Council Think!?’ It’s the Leader of Bridgwater Town Council. The show where if you get all the questions wrong, you’re thrown into a vat of molten cheese and if y...
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June 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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July 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Yugo Your Way - Bridgwater Westover Web
For the past week I’ve been working in the former Yugoslavia, that one time bastion of democratic socialism, where the people’s of differing backgrounds lived and worked together in peace and harmony....
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July 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Made in Bridgwater - Bridgwater Westover Web
Now I’m not Bridgwater born and bred. I’m Yorkshire-Irish. But you’ve probably spotted that. However, I’ve lived here most of my life so it’s home. But since I first moved here, I noticed that pretty ...
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July 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Everything’s Coming Up AI - Bridgwater Westover Web
Bridgwater is a great place to live with its thriving economy and job opportunities, attracting businesses and creating high-quality jobs. Bridgwater’s economic diversification appeals to both local a...
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July 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Everything’s Coming Up AI - Bridgwater Westover Web
Bridgwater is a great place to live with its thriving economy and job opportunities, attracting businesses and creating high-quality jobs. Bridgwater’s economic diversification appeals to both local a...
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July 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The Future’s Bright (although the present’s shomewhat sh...aded..) - Bridgwater Westover Web
I’ve been doing tours of Bridgwater for people for some 35 years now. Telling people the exciting history of our town and how great the place is. This week I had to do the opposite. It fell to me as T...
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August 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Hope not Hate. Just a thought. - Bridgwater Westover Web
When I was first elected to Council Margaret Thatcher was still in power…though not for long. I was one of only four Labour councillors at the time and literally surrounded by dozens of Conservatives ...
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August 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Providing ‘the Overview Effect’. - Bridgwater Westover Web
We’ve been doing Bridgwater Together now for 11 years. It’s an annual event designed to show we’re all one people sharing one world. But we’ve never before done it with a giant balloon looking like th...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Providing ‘the Overview Effect’. - Bridgwater Westover Web
We’ve been doing Bridgwater Together now for 11 years. It’s an annual event designed to show we’re all one people sharing one world. But we’ve never before done it with a giant balloon looking like th...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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People are People are People - Bridgwater Westover Web
Because I’m a Catholic I’m not meant to sit in the Civic pews at the parish church. So, I did. And nothing happened. No thunderbolt from above, no ‘oi i want a word with you!’ from the church authorit...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Groundbreaking Ceremony Marks Start of New Multi-Use Games Area at Mansfield Park - Bridgwater Westover Web
Work is officially underway on a brand-new Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) at Mansfield Park, following a groundbreaking ceremony held on-site this week. The new facility will complement the existing play...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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History. Can't We Just Forget It? - Bridgwater Westover Web
Its 22nd March 1241 and the Mongols are invading Krakow. A brave trumpeter stands on the church tower to warn the garrison to shut the gates. After just 4 notes a Tatar arrow pierces his throat. This ...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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If It’s Tuesday it must be Hull - Bridgwater Westover Web
I’m in Hull. It’s cold, it’s snowing, the wind is bitter. Well, it’s Hull.  Don’t worry, I haven’t been sent on a Council retraining scheme for the perpetually over optimistic I’m here by choice. I’m ...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Somerset agrees Labour Motion to Review Celebration Mile - Bridgwater Labour
Somerset Council has agreed to review the implementation of a new one-way system in Bridgwater along with local parking arrangements. The Government-funded Celebration Mile scheme, inherited from the ...
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December 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Tis the Season to be Seasonal - Bridgwater Westover Web
Christmas comes but once a year. Which is a good thing really. Imagine if you had to do it all again in say February. That said, over in the Czech Republic they put their decorations up round about no...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Faithless, Hopeless and Uncharitable is NOT the way. - Bridgwater Westover Web
When the Celebration Mile was completed in October, I wrote to County calling for an immediate review. I was told they were waiting for results of surveys to provide evidence for any changes they coul...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Faithless, Hopeless and Uncharitable is NOT the way. - Bridgwater Westover Web
When the Celebration Mile was completed in October, I wrote to County calling for an immediate review. I was told they were waiting for results of surveys to provide evidence for any changes they coul...
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December 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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On the Road (Part 2) - Bridgwater Westover Web
If your favourite motorway service station is Gloucester, then for sure your second favourite would be the magnificent lakeside eco hub that is Tebay. On the second week of my ‘Round UK tour’ with Ame...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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If It’s Tuesday it must be Hull - Bridgwater Westover Web
I’m in Hull. It’s cold, it’s snowing, the wind is bitter. Well, it’s Hull.  Don’t worry, I haven’t been sent on a Council retraining scheme for the perpetually over optimistic I’m here by choice. I’m ...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Frosty Winds Doth Blow (Pass the Brussel Sprouts) - Bridgwater Westover Web
When exactly is the bleak midwinter?  At a guess I’d say it was that period just after Christmas and just before you start back at work again in the new year. After the excitement and expectation of C...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Frosty Winds Doth Blow (Pass the Brussel Sprouts) - Bridgwater Westover Web
When exactly is the bleak midwinter?  At a guess I’d say it was that period just after Christmas and just before you start back at work again in the new year. After the excitement and expectation of C...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Tis the Season to be Seasonal - Bridgwater Westover Web
Christmas comes but once a year. Which is a good thing really. Imagine if you had to do it all again in say February. That said, over in the Czech Republic they put their decorations up round about no...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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What Will 2026 Bring...? - Bridgwater Westover Web
It’s that time of year when you think about making your new year’s resolution. For me that’s always been a problem. I gave up smoking when I was 12, overeating when I had to be winched out of my favou...
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December 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM