Yeovil Town will play National League football next season after beating Truro 2-0 last night to win promotion and the National League South title. Somerset Council says the cost of keeping Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre closed has risen to £140,000 a year. A holiday website has reported a 31 percent upturn in visitor numbers to Somerset...and more.
Yeovil Town finally won promotion and the National League South title beating Truro 2-0 away last night. Twelve hundred travelling Yeovil fans watched as Rhys Murphy and Alex Fisher scored in each half to give Yeovil the three points. Life-long Glovers supporter and Leader of Yeovil Town Council, Graham Oakes, says the promotion is not just good for the football club but the town as a whole.
Somerset Council says the cost of keeping Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre closed has risen to £140,000 a year. The money is being spent paying utility bills, running the heating ventilation systems and various forms of insurance. The Octagon closed in April last year, with Somerset Council voting to keep it shut until a new business case has been agreed to get it re-opened.
A new ‘Welcome to Chard’ stone has been installed at the entrance to Chard. The stone, at the junction of Fore Street and Silver Street, has been paid for by Historic England, as part of the one-million-pound funded Chard High Street Action Zone project.
A holiday website has reported an up-turn in visitors to Somerset following the airing of a Channel 5 series about the county. Somerset: Wonder of the West Country presented by Alan Titchmarsh showcased the best areas, people, and traditions of the County. HolidayCottages.co.uk says after the first programme aired in late February, a 31 percent increase in holiday bookings for Somerset was recorded.
A new operator is needed to run one of Chard’s best-known pubs. The 17th-century Choughs Hotel on the High Street is advertised at a rent of £34,000 per annum with an annual turnover of £550,000.
The new owner of Yeovil Town says he’s in talks with Somerset Council about buying back Huish Park. Water levels at some of Somerset’s reservoirs are below what they should be for this time of year. A Chard woman has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours... and more.
Police are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic accident near Chard, which left one person with life-threatening injuries. Texas Rocks in Middle Street, Yeovil, has closed temporarily following a significant fire. A Yeovil dental hygienist has been named as a finalist in the Ms Great Britain competition...and more.
Yeovil MP Adam Dance has criticised the Chancellor’s Spending Review for not delivering real change for Yeovil and South Somerset. The CEO of Leonardo UK states that they’re working towards closing the gender pay gap within the company. Yeovil Town is relocating its first-team training camp to Bristol... and more.
People in Somerset are being asked for their views on the state of the county’s roads and footpaths. A trial is being conducted at Yeovil Hospital to investigate whether administering shorter courses of antibiotics to patients can effectively treat sepsis. Somerset Council says it has no plans to reopen a block of public toilets in Chard...and more.
A mother from Chard says schools need to do more to identify students with dyslexia. A fire in a van that caught alight at Stoke-sub-Hamdon is being treated as accidental. A former Yeovil-based police officer, who made it appear he was working when he wasn’t, has been barred from policing...and more
Somerset Council is giving £1.5m to Hill View Special School at Ash near Martock to prevent it from closing. Two men have been convicted of killing a Yeovil man they mistakenly believed to be a convicted paedophile. People across Somerset are being asked to make a note of any wildlife they see...and more
Community Speedwatch volunteers in Keinton Mandeville have stopped monitoring the local traffic
because of online and verbal abuse. Redstart Primary School in Chard has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted. A care home resident in Glastonbury has raised more than one thousand pounds for Children's Hospice Southwest by knitting soft toys...and more.
Yeovil MP Adam Dance says he’s been told the temporary closure of the maternity unit at Yeovil Hospital will not be made permanent. Firefighters have dealt with a fire on a coach carrying passengers at Vagg Hill in Yeovil. The authorities in Chile are holding a man who lives in Milborne Port after being found with class-A drugs in a suitcase...and more.
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