Chris Lockyer
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- Sep 29, 2026
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Somerset Booker Prize nominee praises former school teachers (opens the original)
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An author whose latest book has been nominated for the prestigious Booker Prize said childhood boredom inspired his creativity. Luke Kennard, who grew up in Chard in Somerset, has been shortlisted for Black Bag, which is based on an experiment involving an actor sitting in a bin bag at the back of a lecture hall. He said, as a child, he had "quite a lot of time to practice" his creative passions. Kennard also praised his teachers at the town's Holyrood Academy and said: "It just can't be exagger
Ex neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine selected as Tory candidate (opens the original)
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A man who was jailed over his neo-Nazi activism will stand as a Tory candidate in council elections after being offered a "second chance" by the party. Joshua Bonehill-Paine spent three years in prison for posting antisemitic material ahead of a planned neo-Nazi rally and a year later he was also convicted of racially harassing then-Labour MP Luciana Berger. Bonehill-Paine has been selected to stand in the new Somerset Council seat of Crewkerne South in 2027. He said he wanted to "give back" to
Spider-Man VFX actor trained for Brand New Day role all his life (opens the original)
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For Teifion Sussex, playing Spider-Man was something he'd trained for his entire life. Using YouTube tutorials, he would spend his time in his Somerset home learning parkour and martial arts moves, in the hope he would be called into action one day. Fast forward to 2026, and the 36-year-old can be seen on the big screen in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as the VFX, motion-captured double of the titular hero. He said he spent his childhood pulling the Spidey poses and shooting webs, and now being abl
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