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This is Mid Somerset - Incorporating news from Wells, Cheddar Valley, Shepton Mallet and central Somerset.
Western Gazette - News and information for Somerset and Dorset.
Star 107.7 fm - Community information including entertainment listings, business directory and regional news. Also includes information on the radio station itself.
BBC Somerset - Offer the county's news, sport, travel, weather and entertainment guide, as well as panoramic photos.
Somerset County Gazette Newspapers - News and sport from across Somerset including Taunton, Yeovil, and Bridgwater.
Weston and Somerset Mercury - Online edition of the local newspaper with news, sport, features, what's on, archive and local directory.
West Somerset Today - Local and regional news, classified advertising, property and motors for sale, forthcoming events, places to stay and visit from one of a series of electronic regional magazines.
BBC Somerset Sound - The website of the BBC's local radio station for Somerset on 1566AM. Includes programme schedules and presenter profiles.
Chew Valley Gazette - Selected local news stories from this monthly free newspaper together with advertising and subscription information.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 News and Media Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) News and Media "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer News and Media "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous News and Media "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of News and Media 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins News and Media Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx News and Media Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward News and Media There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault News and Media Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie News and Media blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel News and Media The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud News and Media If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte News and Media There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten News and Media Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) News and Media Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. -- Jerry Garcia Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje News and Media Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde News and Media Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson News and Media I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles News and Media Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer News and Media All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous News and Media
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