The police say footage from dashcams has become an important way to clamp down on dangerous driving. Plans to build a skatepark in Langport are pushing ahead. Dozens of items of tech equipment have been donated to the Digital Poverty Alliance in Somerset for giving to low-income households...and more
The police say footage from dashcams has become an important way to clamp down on dangerous driving. More than 8,000 dashcam clips were submitted to Avon and Somerset Police last year with 90% leading to a prosecution or a warning letter to the driver.
Plans for a skatepark in Langport are moving forward. Dorset-based Mavericks, which built skateparks in Crewkerne and Stoke Sub Hamden, is working with Skate Langport to build the venue.
Dozens of tech equipment items have been donated to the Digital Poverty Alliance in Somerset. The gadgets, including laptops, phones and tablets were donated during January for giving to low-income households to get them online.
NHS Somerset says it's going to review a trial respiratory hub in Yeovil, set up to handle chronic illnesses. The Hendford Lodge Medical Centre offers same-day appointments for patients registered with GPs in Yeovil. NHS Somerset says it’ll be assessing if the trial helped in preventing patients from developing more serious complications.
More than 60,000 primary school children have benefitted from lessons in waste reduction thanks to Somerset Council. School’s Against Waste Reduction workshops are delivered on behalf of the Council by the Carymoor Environmental Trust. The programme, which began in 2018, reached a milestone last year with 60,000 schoolchildren in Somerset learning about recycling.
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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