Police are appealing for witnesses to a crash on the A358 that led to the road shutting for 24 hours. A diabetes remission programme, piloted by NHS Somerset, is being rolled out across England. A Yeovil woman has won a top award for her cake-making...and more.
Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage of an accident involving a black Range Rover and a white DAF lorry on the A358 at Hatch Beauchamp. It happened just before 3.50 pm on Wednesday between Bickenhall Lane and Griffin Lane. The A358 was closed for 24 hours between the A303 and A378 for investigators to examine the scene. If you witnessed the crash or have dashcam footage, you’re asked to please call 101.
A type-2 diabetes remission programme, piloted by NHS Somerset, is being rolled out across England. The scheme involves patients being fed a strict diet of soups and shakes to stabilize their diabetes and cut body weight.
Somerset-based defence company, Thales, says a new contract worth £1.85 billion, awarded by the British government to build new sonar technologies for the Royal Navy, will secure around 200 jobs at its site in Templecombe. Another 100 jobs will be safeguarded at Thales’s factory in Cheshire. Many of the jobs will be apprenticeships, working on sonar development.
More than one million recordings of birdsong have been made as part of a project to monitor bird populations on the Somerset Levels. The recordings are being analysed to help improve biodiversity on the Levels.
A Yeovil woman has won a top award for her cake making. Holly Miller, who started her cake business eight years ago, was presented with the National Wedding Cake Designer of the Year award at the Wedding Industry Awards held in London.
Plans have been submitted to turn a property on Preston Road in Yeovil into a House in Multiple Occupation. Yeovil’s Marlie Packer has been recalled to the England Red Roses starting line-up for tomorrow’s Women’s Six Nations game against Wales. Three sisters from Yeovil will be running the London Marathon this weekend in support of Guide Dogs UK... and more
Helicopters from RNAS Yeovilton have completed six weeks of sorties, protecting Cyprus from attacks by Iran. People in Somerset who use domestic heating oil are calling on the government to regulate the oil supply industry. Patients are being invited to register at a new NHS dentist in Crewkerne... and more
Expectant mothers are using Yeovil Hospital once again to give birth following the reopening of the maternity unit. A Yeovil man has been jailed for four years for committing sexual offences against two young girls. Plans have been approved to convert a pub in Milborne Port into housing... and more
NHS Somerset has delayed closing the hyper-acute stroke unit at Yeovil Hospital. A former Avon and Somerset Police officer has been jailed for making indecent images of children. A Somerset man has been fined after pleading guilty to hunting a wild animal with dogs... and more
Nearly one hundred roads in Somerset will be surface dressed this summer to prevent further damage. Almost all children starting primary school in Somerset in September have been offered a place at one of their top three school choices. People in Somerset are being asked to record wild mammals in gardens and other green spaces over the summer... and more
Yeovil MP Adam Dance has backed calls for a cap on heating oil prices. Invitations are being sent out to those in Somerset eligible for the latest Covid vaccine. A pub near Chard has closed just four months after reopening... and more
Wessex Water has been told to pay £300,000 after a sewer spilled into the River Yeo killing dozens of fish. The Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton has been given a grant of half a million pounds. Today marks the official opening of the new visitor centre at Ham Hill... and more
Yeovil College has been upgraded to a Defence Technical Excellence College. Somerset Council is taking legal action against a housing developer that owes £35,000 in contributions towards local services in Broadway. An Ilminster couple have covered the first 400 miles of their epic walk around the coastline of mainland Britain... and more
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