28th February 2010  

At last we are in March, and warmer weather surely cannot be far away. Last Saturday the former Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Menzies (Ming) Campbell visited our area, and on Saturday he spoke at a Public Meeting in South Petherton on a variety of Foreign policy issues.   Ming had flown down on Saturday morning from his own constituency of Edinburgh, which was still deep in snow and ice – so by comparison he found the temperature in South Petherton to be almost sub tropical.   Ming is an enthusiastic sportsman (with a fine record of his own in athletics), and he insisted on visiting Huish Park to see Yeovil Town play MK Dons. It was nowhere near as cold watching the match as I had expected, and we were warmed by Yeovil’s excellent first half performance and by a cracking Yeovil goal. The second half was a much tougher proposition, but Yeovil fought with determination...