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.
Police are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic accident near Chard, which left one person with life-threatening injuries. It happened when a grey Seat car travelling from Corfe towards Yarcombe on the B3170 collided with a blue Seat at the junction with Royston Road, in Waterford, at around 7.20 pm on Wednesday, June 11. If you witnessed the crash or have dashcam footage, you’re asked to call the non-emergency number 101.
Texas Rocks in Middle Street, Yeovil, has closed temporarily following a major fire. The kitchen and upstairs eating area were left badly damaged in the blaze that broke out on Tuesday night. People with bookings, including for Father’s Day, are being contacted.
The government's announcement of spending £39 billion on building social housing over the next 10 years has been welcomed by the housing association Stonewater. However, Matt Crucefix, Director of Development at Stonewater, says that for the government to achieve its housing building targets, it’ll need to relax the planning rules for building on brownfield sites.
It has been confirmed that Wellington is to regain its train station. The £15 million needed to rebuild the station will be provided through the government’s spending review. Wellington station was closed by Doctor Beaching in the 1960s.
A dental hygienist working in Yeovil has been named a finalist in the Ms Great Britain competition. Rafina O'Brien says she plans to use the competition as a platform to raise awareness of women’s oral health.
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.
Somerset Council states that gas canisters were responsible for igniting six fires at local sorting facilities last year. A leading medical academic in the South West says vaccine fatigue could be the reason why so many vulnerable people are not having a COVID-19 spring booster jab. Avon and Somerset Police say the waiting time for calls to be answered to the non-emergency number 101 has been cut to an average of 11 seconds...and more
Police say they have traced a man, believed to be a witness to an incident in Chard in which a teenager alleges she was sexually assaulted. A campaign has started aimed at cutting the number of motorcyclists, cyclists and e-scooter users killed and seriously injured on Somerset's roads. Yeovil Town Council has taken over the management of Yeovil's public parks after Somerset Council announced it could no longer afford to maintain them...and more.
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