Friday 12th April

Friday, 12 April 2024 at 06:00

By Steve Haigh

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.

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