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Webberbus

Webberbus

WebberBus is a privately owned company that operates bus services around Bridgwater, Minehead, Taunton, Street, Glastonbury, and Wells in Somerset and also around Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, England. It operates regular inter-urban services radiating from Taunton on a commercial basis, as well as a number of rural services and local town routes under contract to Somerset County Council and North Somerset Council. WebberBus operates dedicated yellow school buses on contracted work, and also a fleet of coaches for private hire.HistoryOver 50 years ago F.Webber & Son expanded their haulage business to include passenger transport with a number of contracts to carry children from Exmoor to school.WebberBus was formed in 1999, at the time that a second depot was opened in Bridgwater. It became a limited company in 2004, but is still run by the Webber family. In 2005, WebberBus won two contracts from Somerset County Council to operate route 16 from Bridgwater to Langport, and route 100/101 the Minehead Town Service.Their first commercial route was started in January 2007, route 105 from Minehead to Watchet & Williton.A new route between Bridgwater and Taunton was launched in February 2008 with two Optare Versa single-deckers. The route proved so successful that a third vehicle was acquired in January 2009 to operate an extension to Burnham-on-Sea. The company won the Accessible Somerset award for the route in the same month.
Brean Leisure Park

Brean Leisure Park

Brean Leisure Park is an amusement park in the coastal resort of Brean, near Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, England. It covers an area of 10 acres (4.0 ha).Open from March to October every year, the leisure park has also been a concert venue for artists such as DJ Casper, Peter Andre, Jason Donovan and The Wurzels. Sky have filmed an episode of Brainiac: Science Abuse entitled "Funfair Physics" at the park. An episode of BBC TV series Casualty was also filmed there in 2007 and again 2013. And an episode of CBBC TV series The Sparticle Mystery was filmed of the titled of the episode The FunFair.HistoryThe amusement park and accompanying caravan site is based at Unity Farm which was bought by the House Family just after World War II in 1946, and allowed camping on the farm. In the 1970s a golf course was added, which was followed by a swimming pool complex, bars and a bowling alley in the 1990s. The rides and concessions have also been growing gradually since the 1970s and the site attracts over 500,000 people per year.In 2006 £1.2million was spent on new rides.In 2008 it became the home of Sooty,Sweep and Soo,when Richard Cadell brought the rights from Hit Entertainment