Somerset-based free range egg producer and supplier, The Traditional Free Range Egg Company, has been named South West Producer of the Year at the Taste of the West Awards final ceremony, held in the Great Hall at the University of Exeter on Thursday 14 September. Receiving high praise from the judges, owners Dan and Briony Wood (pictured above), were recognised for their innovative and entrepreneurial approach to business development, as well as their efforts to minimise the company’s carbon footprint and their continued work to ensure a sustainable future for independent family-run farms. Full story: Read more
Alfred, The King Who Was Great At P.R Spin
Alfred the Great’s legend lives on, 1,100 years after his death, because he had great PR! That’s the view of a King Alfred expert who will launch Shaftesbury & District Historical Society’s autumn talks programme. Professor Barbara Yorke will explain that, similar to today’s politicians, the Anglo-Saxon king was managing his media message. Full story: Read more
Railway mural completed at Yeovil Country Park
Visitors to one of Yeovil’s most popular Country Parks can now dazzle at an amazing piece of artwork that has been completed over the summer. As part of the V3 Involve Visit Volunteer, Heritage Lottery Funded Project at Yeovil Country Park, a fantastic mural has been painted on a concrete covered stretch of wall alongside the current cycleway which follows the original route of the former railway line, adjacent to the site of the old Hendford Halt Station (where B&M now stands). Full story: Read more