If you’ve driven from J26 to Wellington recently it would be difficult not spot a new access road to Foxmoor Business Park about to be completed.. The road will link the business park to the spur road beyween the M5 and the A38.. Earth-movers are currently clearing the last section of the project, after which …
New Year has a special meaning for Around Wellington. Twelve months ago we hadn’t even thought of the website. Nine months ago I’d had the idea but not much more. Six months ago we launched the website and since then it’s grown like Topsy. Statistics are dull but they do tell a story. In June …
Honiton 6 – Wellington 22 Two tries in the last ten minutes gave Wellington’s win a somewhat flattering appearance.Honiton still can’t score the tries they need to play their way out of trouble in the division, but are hard to break down. Possession was 50-50, but Honiton didn’t seem to have the finishing touches. Chris …
THE Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is appealing for volunteers in the New Year for roles such as scrub clearance, coppicing, woodland management and Himalayan balsam pulling. Volunteering includes a whole range of activities that not only help to protect and improve the Blackdown Hills, but make you feel good too. It’s a …
Eric Darlow, former chief inspector of the HM Quarry Inspectorate and a senior figure in the Health & Safety Executive, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List. Mr Darlow (photo, centre) of Voxmoor, Wellington, is a hugely respected and experienced figure in the aggregates business and well=known in the industry for …
For music fans in Wellington 2013 could be the year that they walk tall because Ryan Hawkings comes from our town. Ryan, 19, is a singer-songwriter with a growing reputation around the South West. In the next few months he has gigs coming up at the O2 in Bristol, Mama Stone’s in Exeter (owned and …
Never mind Oxford Street and the Retail Sales Index, here in Wellington we care far more about how our fantastic local shops traded in the run-up to the holiday. And on the whole they had a very successful Christmas. “It was a good but slightly odd Christmas for us,” said Fern Perry, manager of the …
West Buckland primary school has just been given a cheeringly good report from Ofsted, the school’s inspection agency. Overall, this small village school has moved up a grade from Satisfactory to Good, with only a few minor issues preventing it being judged Outstanding – the top grade Ofsted can give. Here are a few of …
The forthcoming production of the musical Oliver in the town has brought to mind Wellington’s own workhouse, which stood in the centre of town just off North St. Had young Oliver Twist ever seen this imposing building, the boy would have understood its function instinctively. Wellington Workhouse was the first to be built after the …
This year for the Court Fields Community School Christmas Cabaret, Year 10 Performing Arts GCSE students were in charge of organising the event for the first time. Students have been practising their performances and stage managers have been preparing the running order. Technical crews have been preparing lighting and sound and set to accompany the …
More that 150 members of the local community and past and present staff of Wellington School joined the family of Leonard Isaac in a Service of Thanksgiving in the Chapel of St Michael and St George on Monday 17 December. Len died on 4 December, having suffered from the effects of Parkinson’s Disease for some …
