• Solar panels now in operation on Glastonbury Town Hall roof

  By EarlBH

  It was an 8.8Kw system in the end so that it was under the 10kw limit & yes the 4-10kw systems...

            

   

  By glastopeep at 22:28 on 14/12/11

  

  In what could be referred to as a 'skin-of-the-teeth' episode, Glastonbury Town Hall has this weekend benefitted from the installation of a brand new photovoltaic solar panel system.   When the Government announced plans to slash the Feed in Tariff subsidy available to those who want to generate their own solar power to take affect from December 12 2011 many people were rightly annoyed including environmental campaigners and...

• Let us celebrate committed Lesbian & Gay relationships in Our Churches

  By kelly_wake

  DanielVincent - Quite a few newspapers were reporting yesterday that there were a large number of...

            

   

  By DorothyFreud at 01:37 on 22/01/12

  

  Many people will have heard and welcomed that the Government recently brought in new regulations that permit Civil Partnerships (the official name for the current form of Gay Marriage) to be registered in religious premises. However, it also specified that no such regstrations could take place in any Church of England building unless the central authorities (the "General Synod") first gives its permission; in other words the...

• Review of Travestees Comedy Club, Glastonbury featuring Rob Deering - 25th Jan 2012

  By stonesthrow

  It's good to see that Travestees is still making use of Tor Leisure, despite the mixed feelings...

            

   

  By IconoGlast at 20:29 on 26/01/12

  

  Travestees Comedy Club returned to Tor Leisure in Glastonbury this week, billed as more chips, more chairs and cheaper beer.  The comedy buffet has been replaced with sausages and the room was the busiest it's been in ages with plenty standing at the back. Compere Mark Olver had returned too, noticing that the "under new management" venue felt like it was being squatted and although he'd not been in town for many...

• Kit given

  By kevin89

  No problem. Yeah had some samples sent out, to put it bluntly the Hexx kit is so much better than...

            

   

  By Central Somerset Gazette at 11:00 on 27/10/11

  

  Aspiring young players at a Glastonbury football club have been given endorsement from a UK sportswear brand. Wessex Youth FC, which has teams ranging from under-6 to under-16, applied for HexxTalent Endorsement earlier this year, and endorsed training kit has now been delivered to the club by the sportswear brand Hexx. The HexxTalent Endorsement Programme aims to support young athletes, and currently endorses over 150 UK athletes...

• Bed and breakfast host dies aged 96

  By KentGHare

  I would like to echo Ms Rihal's comments regarding Tony. My wife and I had the pleasure of staying...

            

   

  By Central Somerset Gazette at 11:00 on 05/01/12

  

  A man who could justly claim to be Britain's oldest bed and breakfast host has died in Glastonbury aged 96. Tony Rose was a much-loved presence at the breakfast table since moving to the town to help run the Pippin guest-house with his wife Daphne in 1997. He collapsed during a family meal on the evening of Christmas Eve and died three days later in Yeovil District Hospital. His wife Daphne said: 'Tony will be greatly missed by me...

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