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Brian Clapp is a volunteer banksman who looks after lanes near Honiton - Credit: George Koopman Grateful residents have paid tribute to one of Honiton’s unsung heroes who looks after ditches, drains and banks on country lanes near the town. Retired dairy farmer Brian Clapp is a volunteer banksman who for the last three or four years has single-handedly carried out maintenance work on Honiton Bottom Road, Stoney Lane and the roads to Blannicombe and Roundball Hill – helping to minimise flooding. Brian, who is 68 and lives at Middlehills Farm, has never sought any recognition for his commun...

PLANS have been submitted to turn a wedding venue in the heart of Somerset into a residential development. An application to turn Rookery Manor, in Edingworth near Weston-super-Mare, into houses was submitted in January this year. The planning statement says the venue has had "no income since March 2020", "lost vast amounts of money" and the business is no longer operating. It adds that the venue stopped trading at the end of August 2020 and "furniture and assets" are being sold off. The proposal is to demolish all buildings and level the site - apart from the garage conversion on t...

Weston Mercury Rookery Manor in Edingworth. - Credit: Google Street View A proposal to convert a former Somerset hotel site into a new residential development has been revealed.   Owner of Rookery Manor, Ian Clapp, has submitted an outline planning application to Sedgemoor District Council to convert the hotel, restaurant and wedding centre in Edingworth, near Weston, into a site for new housing.  The proposal outlines plans to ‘demolish all buildings’- with exception of the garage conversion on the west side of the site - as well as to ‘level the site’.   The news�...

Plans have been unveiled to turn the former Rookery Manor hotel site near Burnham-On-Sea into a new residential development.

A COUPLE have hit out at the manager of a Somerset wedding venue for only giving them half of their money back after they cancelled their wedding…