Quantock Brewery, a local firm achieving great success through traditional methods, is funding its next stage of growth by finding individual investors via the web. The company has just raised £120,00 on the UK’s largest crowdfunding equity site, CrowdcubeLtd. “This is fantastic news and our new investors will add to the loyal following that our …
The Half Moon in Clayhidon, arguably the pub with the best view in the Blackdowns, has just won a Silver award in the Taste of the West awards scheme. “It’s great to have our food recognised,” said Lynda Higgins. Her husband Dorian is head chef and a tour of the pub’s kitchen shows the couple’s …
Wellington apprentice brewer, Dean Masters, 19, has scooped Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the Weston College’s Excellence in Business Training Awards 2013 at the Winter Gardens, Weston-super Mare. And, to acknowledge his success, he saw his own bottled bitter served at an event that is regarded as Weston College’s ‘Oscars’, attended by 300 people …
Police and trading standards officers used “decoy” under-age police cadets in a sting operation in Wellington trying to lure shops into selling alcohol to teenagers But every off-licence stuck to the law and refused to serve them. The four teenagers – three girls and a boy and all members of the Avon and Somerset Volunteer …
First, the good news: one of Wellington’s impressive range of independent retailers is returning to the town after a short absence – and bringing a charming shop back to life in the process. ‘Nurtured by Nature’, formerly in the High Street, reopened on Good Friday in what was Wellington Book Shop in South Street. The …
Owners Carla & Rebecca Pugh are celebrating their renovated and re-opened garden with a Children’s Fun Easter Quiz to take place at The Garden Cafe on Good Friday 29th March. Answer 10 fun questions correctly, centred around the garden, to receive an Easter treat. You will also be entered into a raffle to win a …
Will’s Neck, produced by Wellington’s own Quantock Brewery, has been voted best beer in the UK by the Society of Independent Brewers Association at its annual Beer X conference in Sheffield. The award was presented by Neil Morrissey to Cheryl Ford and Rob Rainey both owners and Brewster and Brewer. Rob owner and head brewer …
Half Moon Inn at Clayhidon is well and truly on the national map this weekend. The weekly feature A Good Walk, in the Times every Saturday, features a five-mile hike around the Blackdowns and Culm Valley starting and finishing at the Half Moon. Author Christopher Somerville doesn’t really describe the pub – except to be …
Easy enough to recognise these desperadoes now, without their Movember disguises. But would you know them on the last day of the month when their due to display their new 30-day moustaches, grown for charity – like thousands of other sets of dodgy facial hair around the UK. Their stage name is the Hairy Dolphins and …
Beer brewed by a Wellington company has been voted best bitter in the region at the prestigious Taste of the West awards. Will’s Neck, named after the highest point on the Quantocks, is produced by Quantock Brewery based on the Churston Business Park. “We’ve done really well with it in both the cask and bottle,” …
Reports are gathering pace that the Wetherspoons pub chain is poised to take over the largely-empty Old Town Hall. Here’s the evidence; Taunton Deane planners are known to have had informal discussions about the project with Wetherspoons, retailers within the Victorian building are negotiating compensation for the possible surrender of their leases, and the company …
