It’s 5 years now since the Sedgemoor Splash was pulled down to make way for a Tesco Extra on Bridgwater’s Brewery Field and it’s 5 weeks since the guns fell silent on a field where only daffodils now grow in the phoney war of ‘will they won’t they’ actually come. Westover councillor Brian Smedley looks […]
Every year Sedgemoor councillors get a bag or two of daffodils to plant in their wards. Last year we planted the outline of the proposed (and now highly debateable) Tesco store front on the Brewery field. It’s still there despite attempts by Clean Surroundings to mow them back to the stone age. This year we […]
Saturday morning on the streets of Westover, usually around the Blake statue, you can find political campaigners mingling amongst the shoppers exchanging points of view, handing out leaflets and making the weekend a more interesting place. This Saturday Westover joined the worldwide protest against TTIP. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a series […]
At this weeks meeting of the Bridgwater Town Council Finance Committee, Westover Ward achieved a substantial ammount of funding for community projects. The committee, chaired by Town Council Leader Cllr John Turner (Labour Hamp) is comprised of 7 Labour and 1 Tory member reflecting the Political balance of the Council which Labour controls 14-2. Canal […]
A new place of worship has opened in Westover and Bridgwater, with it’s historical tradition of welcoming a wide variety of religions through the centuries, can now proudly add a Mosque to it’s collection. However, after last weeks frontpage reporting of it in the Mercury, with phrases like ‘council cash handouts’ and subsequent alarmist postings […]