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THE jury has heard closing statements from defence and prosecution barristers during the trial of a man accused of trying to kill 96-year-old D Day veteran Jim Booth. Source: MidDevonStar

STUDENTS sold cakes, made music videos and even ‘pied the prefects’ to raise money for Musgrove Park Hospital during RAG (Raising and Giving) week. Source: MidDevonStar

FACEBOOK is encouraging UK users to send the social network their naked photos as part of a new tool that will block the images from being shared online. Source: MidDevonStar

IT WOULD seem by all the comments I read, I am a whinging old woman who needs to get a life, move to the Outer Hebrides, or at least move out of Somerset. Source: MidDevonStar

Photographs from the Somerset Camera Club published in the County Gazette on May 3, 2018. Source: MidDevonStar

Photographs from the Somerset Camera Club published in the County Gazette on May 10, 2018. Source: MidDevonStar

JD Wetherspoon-owned pubs in Taunton, Chard, Bridgwater and Burnham-on Sea will host the event from Friday, June 8, until Sunday, June 17. Source: MidDevonStar

Pictures from the Somerset Camera Club published in the County Gazette on Thursday, May 17, 2018. Source: MidDevonStar

THE severe winter weather in Somerset has led to a £200,000 overspend in the county’s highways budget. Source: MidDevonStar

NEW railway stations and a “total transport portal” for planning journeys are just two of the solutions being proposed to cut car traffic in Somerset. Source: MidDevonStar

‘WE believe a world powered by clean energy is both possible and essential. Much of the technology to achieve this already exists and the move to renewable energy is gathering pace in our communities and all over the world.’ Source: MidDevonStar

IT will be a cloudy start to the day for Somerset with outbreaks of rain expected throughout the day.  Source: MidDevonStar

Cars left in the sunshine can hit temperatures deadly to young children in just one hour, warns new research. Source: MidDevonStar

More than 30 images of stab victim Lisa-Marie Thornton were found on the phone of Edward Burgess, the man accused of her murder, a court has heard. Source: MidDevonStar

AMY Cole’s very thorough report on the planning system which controls the massive housing growth in Taunton Deane shows just how rotten the current system is. Source: MidDevonStar