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.
A new website has been launched to support people in Somerset with mental health issues. One of Yeovil’s oldest pubs has been sold. Artwork on the theme of aviation produced by students at Yeovil College has gone on display at Leonardo Helicopters in Yeovil.A pupil at Tatworth Primary School near Chard has won a prize in a national competition for writing a book review...and more
Work laying a gas main on the A37 Dorchester Road near the Quicksilver Mail roundabout in Yeovil is to continue for a further two months. Somerset Council says the public toilets in Yeovil bus station will close at the end of the month but the waiting room will stay open temporarily. Former Yeovil Town Captain, Josh Staunton, has set up in business as a professional gardener...and more.
Somerset Council seeking to save £40 million by cutting one thousand jobs says 201 employees have so far applied to leave the authority based on voluntary redundancy. East Somerset Railway near Shepton Mallet has been used for filming the TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper's novel Rivals. An old-style red phone box in Castle Cary is being turned into Somerset's smallest museum...and more
Somerset's Chief Medical Officer says GP surgeries using healthcare professionals alongside doctors to provide treatments has freed up GP appointments. A farmer has been fined £15,000 for polluting a household water supply. Avon and Somerset’s new Police and Crime Commissioner has officially started work in the role. Chard Post Office is closed today for the handover of the business to new owners...and more.
Health inspectors have criticised Somerset's maternity services, including those at Yeovil Hospital. Somerset Council says re-opening Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre in its original form could cost up to £200,000 if a multi-million-pound upgrade of the building falls through. A film made by a Yeovil man on a budget of just five thousand pounds was screened at the prestigious British Independent Film Festival...and more.
The Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard says it needs an immediate injection of £100,000 to keep going. Yeovil’s Marlie Packer has returned to Yeovil Rugby Club where she began her rugby career 20 years ago. Twenty-five Town criers from across the South will be in Ilminster tomorrow competing in the annual Ilminster Town Criers' Competition...and more.
Train services through Somerset are again being disrupted today due to continued strike action by the train driver’s union ALSEF. A campaign has been launched in Somerset aimed at stopping people overdosing on opioids. A Somerset business is raising a smile with its name.‘Top Of The Clops’, a tack shop near Taunton has won a place in the top ten of the UK’s funniest business names...and more.
A woman driver has been told she faces a prison term for causing the deaths of two people in a crash on the A303. The AA says there are more potholes than ever on Somerset’s motorway network, leading to an increase in damage to vehicles. The new cancer treatment unit at Yeovil Hospital should be open before the end of the year...and more.
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