Caravans descend on M5 services ahead of long Bank Holiday weekend
The roads are busier than usual as holidaymakers appear to be heading to the coast
Updated (Image: ASP road policing unit)
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Caravans have descended on an M5 service station in Somerset ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend.
Maurice Kirk arriving at Exeter Crown Cout last week during his trial A FORMER Taunton vet cleared of stalking his MP is back in court on Thursday morning for a hearing regarding potential Contempt of Court proceedings. Maurice Kirk, 76, of Westgate Street, has been ordered to appear before Judge Peter Johnson at Exeter Crown Court. The hearing is to assist the police with ensuring Mr Kirk has complied with a court order obliging him to remove certain posts from his website. He was found not guilty of stalking Taunton Deane MP Rebecca Pow at the end of a trial last week.
The site trashed Somerset County Council, its leader and staff, and a local MP. The link was sent out along with a ballot paper for an unofficial referendum on the future of local government in the county. The poll has been created by the four district councils - Somerset West and Taunton; Sedgemoor; Mendip and South Somerset. Under the banner Stronger Somerset, they are lobbying the Government to create two unitary authorities - Western Somerset and Eastern Somerset. Somerset County Council s One Somerset proposal would see one council covering the whole county. Despite opposition to the referendum from the Government, the districts have spent a combined £310,000 asking people in the county to say which set up they would prefer.