TWO West Somerset residents have been appointed as Deputy Lieutenants by Lady Gass, the Lord Lieutenant of Somerset.

Rear Admiral Ian Moncrieff, of Timberscombe, and Peter Wyman, of Plainsfield in the Quantock Hills, will join three others from the county as newly commissioned Deputy Lieutenants of Somerset.

Mr Moncrieff is the chief executive of the Hydrographic Office in Taunton, a post he took up following a distinguished career in the Royal Navy.

Mr Wyman is president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and also holds the posts of chairman of Yeovil District Hospital, chairman of the Somerset Community Foundation and treasurer and member of the council of Bath University.

Both men are also CBEs.