Pendra 'stable' after Guy Fawkes night assault
Langport Fish & Chip Shop owner Pendra Plaice is under police guard in Musgrove Park Hospital after she was found unconscious with a savaloy in her fishcake in one of her own deep fat friers at her premises in the carpark precinct on Thursday evening. Miss Plaice, above, said she couldn't remember anything about the incident. At a hearing at Yeovil Magistrates this morning a sausage in batter was remanded in custody until a later date.
Bow Street halloween prankster 'let off'
A former town councillor who dressed as a vicar, climbed the town hall and read the last rites to Langport Clock has been let off by a judge who said "Anyone would have done it." 75 year-old Chris Osborne, who can't be named for legal reasons, was arrested after mounting the Victorian monument last Saturday night.
But Judge Vera Botting - a local woman herself - told the jury she wouldn't accept a guilty verdict adding that even she wasn't sure anymore if it was twenty to nine, half past three or five to eleven.
Langport Town Council Leader Janet Seaton slammed Judge Botting's ruling, though, saying "most right-minded Liberal Democrats in their 50s living alone in oversized houses on Bow Street know full well that it's always Pimms O'clock."
Catherine Wheel 'horror' on Bow Street
Taunton Crown Court's been hearing how shoppers in Langport ran for cover last month as an out-of-control firework shot up several people's underwear on Bow Street. It's not known how the Catherine Wheel became ignited but eyewitnesses said they'd never seen so many pensioners run into Scrivens at the same time. The firework then darted round Post Office corner towards North Street where it's believed to have smashed a window at the White Lion. A Long Load firework display organiser is being questioned regarding what happened. The case has been adjourned until next Thursday morning at half past ten (that's four o'clock Langport time)
