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Because of the COVID-19 shutdown, some of these events may have been canceled, modified or postponed.

TAUNTON residents could be forced out of their homes to ensure part of a major regeneration scheme can progress.

To this day, Atlanta's Winecoff Hotel fire remains the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.

Today in History FacebookTwitterEmail Today in History Today is Saturday, July 17, the 198th day of 2021. There are 167 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind. On this date: In 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States. In 1862, during the Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free. In 1918, Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the ...

Deane House (Home Of Somerset West and Taunton Council) In Taunton. CREDIT: Google Maps. Free for use for all BBC wire partners CREATING a town council for Taunton should be “the highest priority” for any local government review in Somerset, the district council has stated. Somerset residents are currently being consulted on two different visions for the future of local government in Somerset – dubbed One Somerset and Stronger Somerset respectively. Both visions would see a greater role for town and parish councils – but Taunton would currently miss out on this, having no town ...