Ten thousand names have been added to a petition calling for the athletics centre at Yeovil Recreation Ground to be kept open. A man’s body has been recovered from floodwater in Langport. A school in Chard is holding a non-uniform day in aid of a local church....and more.
Ten thousand names have been added to a petition calling for the athletics centre at Yeovil Recreation Ground to be kept open. The centre, known as the Bill Whistlecroft Sports Arena, is at risk of closure due to plans by Somerset Council to end funding the facility. Somerset Council needs to cut spending by £87 million or face bankruptcy and is proposing funding cuts to more than one hundred and thirty community services including CCTV, local theatres, visitors centres and Citizens Advice.
A former sub postmaster from Somerset doesn't think they'll ever get proper justice for what they were put through by the Post Office. Kathy and her husband Andrew from Othery had been running a sub-post office in South Wales when their balance sheet showed huge losses caused by the faulty Horizon computer system.
A man’s body has been recovered from floodwater in Langport. Police say the death is being treated as unexplained, pending the outcome of a postmortem.
If you have a used Christmas tree for recycling then Langport Young Farmers Club would like to hear from you. Their members will be out this weekend in Langport and Somerton collecting used trees for recycling.
A school in Chard is holding a non-uniform day in aid of a local church. Children at Manor Court Primary School are raising money today towards the £15,000 needed to replace stained-glass windows at St Mary’s Church in Chard broken by vandals on New Years Eve.
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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