Top marks for Taunton school

A Taunton school has won an achievement award for the third year running.

The Shool Achievement Awards are made by the education secretary to schools that have gained outstanding results or shown significant improvement in standards.

The Castle School received its hat-trick of awards for its results in GCSE and Key stage three SAT tests.

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Suspicious car fire

Police are appealing for witnesses following a robbery in Clevedon on Wednesday.

Police are appealing for witnesses following a suspicious car fire in the Crewkerne area.

A blue Rover 420 was set on fire at 2355 BST on Thursday 8 May.

The car belonged to a man who had recently returned from the Gulf, where he was serving with the Royal Navy, and was parked in Furland Road.

Police would like anyone who may have seen or heard anything around midnight in the Furland Road area to contact them.

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Robbery in Clevedon

Police are appealing for witnesses following a robbery in Clevedon on Wednesday.

At 2100 BST, a man got in the passenger side of a 37-year-old woman's car as she was waiting at traffic lights outside the Crab and Apple pub on Mill Cross.

The man told her to drive and when she refused, he threatened her with a knife and took her purse before getting out of the car and running off down Southern Way.

He is described as white, in his early 20s, of thin build, between 5 ft 6 ins and 5 ft 7ins.

The woman was unhurt.

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Cancer scare dismissed

Government scientists were in Somerset on Wednesday to overturn claims about a cancer cluster near Hinkley Point power station.

An anti-nuclear campaigner says he can prove that incidents of the disease near the power station is above average.

Dr Chris Busby was to be challenged by government doctors at a public meeting in Burnham-on-Sea.

He says evidence collected in the town, just a few miles from Hinkley, shows incidents of kidney and cervical cancer are higher than normal.