Coffee debate froths over
Wellington’s newest and largest coffee shop has just opened. Coffee#1 is the latest branch of a chain with its headquarters in Cardiff. If you like your café on an industrial-scale, this is the one for you.
Follow the scent to Milverton
Fancy a herbal remedy to lift a dull weekend? The Organic Herb Company’s Festival and Open Day is on Saturday June 30 in Milverton. The company is celebrating 30 years in business and it’s still a well-kept secret for most of us. How many locals are aware that the UK’s leading supplier of organic herbs …
Crikey our maid, Wurzels be cumin
As Somerset as cheddar cheese or draft cider, The Wurzels hold a place in most West Country hearts. On July 7th they’re playing in Wellington. Forty years on since the unlikeliest hit record since Benny Hill and Ernie the milkman, the Wurzels are honouring our town. The band had a Number One hit, and even …
Funny Youngster Plays Welly
Wellington is lucky to get the chance to see Matt Richardson. Less than three years after his comedy debut he’s becoming one of the hottest names on the circuit. Matt has appeared in the Finals of some of the biggest stand-up competitions in the country, including the prestigious ‘So You Think You’re Funny’, The Chortle …
Town barber cutting back
Phil Jones, long-serving barber to two generations of Wellington men, is winding down his business after over 40 years in the town. Since setting up his current shop in Mantle Street – a couple of doors down from the Wellesley Cinema – in 1969 – he’s seen young lads grow up and have families of …
Red Hat Gallery for Cornhill
Wellington has an art gallery once again. Red Hat Gallery has opened in the rebuilt Cornhill fish shop, destroyed by fire three years ago. Proprietor Wendy Wilkins saw a gap in Wellington’s market when she was looking for a gallery site and liked “the scale of the place”, its unique centre and the presence in …
Market plans for Old Sale Rooms
Since re-opening the The Old Sale Rooms, in Mantle Street, at Easter as a stylish cafe cum antiques and curiousities emporium Jane Osborne has hardly had a quiet moment. Within a month she plans to expand and open the vast upstairs space as an Arts & Crafts Market. “It’s a huge room with a vaulted …
Welly cricketers county champs
Ten years since they last were Somerset county champions, Wellington Cricket Cubs 1st XI have taken the title – despite a last-breath challenge from local rivals Ashbrittle. Wellington 202-6 Middlezoy 55-6 Wellington secured the Somerset Cricket League title for 2012 when they obtained 28 points from this drawn game with Middlezoy last weekend; with the …
Merry Harriers wins top food award
The Merry Harriers at Clayhidon has just had a huge pat on the back from the influential Good Pub Guide, who have awarded it the title, Devon Dining Pub of 2012, beating 1700 other pubs in the county. A huge, and well-deserved, honour for Peter Gatling and his team at one of our favourite Blackdowns …
Skylark appearing on the menu
Gill Paltridge eats out On the evidence of the number of diners at ‘The Skylark’ on a wet Thursday evening and again on a Friday lunchtime, this is a place lots of local people choose to eat. Its location just off the motorway, across the road from the busy Chelston Business Park, adjacent to Westpark …