WELLINGTON Police dealt with 20 cases of anti-social behaviour in August, town councillors were told at their monthly meeting on Monday.

The police also reported they dealt with 67 crimes which consisted of: nine thefts, 11 criminal damage, 14 domestic incidents which included arguments, six harassments, 11 assaults, five public order offences and 11 other crimes.

There were also two cases of missing persons.

Members of the town council were told that a petition calling for a direct and regular bus service between Wellington and Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton had now been signed by 2,184 people.

The council are to be involved in further talks to try and solve the problem.

The petition has been organised by bus campaigner Debbie Pemberton, of Bulford, Wellington.

ARTHUR and Monica Carter (Plot 30) have won the best managed allotment award in the town, Wellington Town Council was informed on Monday night.

Other awards: highly commended Holly MacKenzie (Plot 6); most ecological Ian and Helen Gillingham (Plots 14 and 15); highly commended Chris Capell (Plot 16), best newcomer Sarah Pritchard-Wright (Plot 72), highly commended Kerry Herbert (Plot 84) and Wellington Children’s Centre (Plot 93); best cultivated Trevor Pritchard (Plot 73), highly commended Mary Bradford (Plots 25 and 26).

The award judges were: Allan Cavill, former regional director of the National Society of Allotment Gardeners, Cllr Janet Lloyd (chairman of the allotments committee) and Gill Croucher.

THE Mayor Wellington, Cllr Bob Bowrah, will represent the local council on the Devon and Somerset Metro Group.

The council was originally going to have two representatives on the group. The groups want to keep itself of a ‘manageable size’.

IT is hoped that as many town councillors as possible will attend the Civic Service at St John the Baptist Church in Wellington on Sunday at 4pm.