Friday 23rd August

Friday, 23 August 2024 06:00

By Steve Haigh

Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenager was assaulted by two women in Yeovil. Avon and Somerset’s new Police and Crime Commissioner is making an increase in neighbouring policing one of her top priorities. A one-thousand-year-old oak tree at Sparkford has been shortlisted for the Tree of the Year competition...and more.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a teenager was assaulted by two women in Yeovil town centre. The attack happened on Church Street at around 10.30 pm last Friday. Two females, aged 16 and 18, were arrested the following day and have since been released on bail. Police are asking anyone who witnessed the incident to call the non-emergency number 101.

Increased neighbourhood policing across Somerset is one of the priorities in a five-year policing plan by Avon and Somerset’s new Police and Crime Commissioner, Clare Moody. She says increasing neighbourhood policing will help to gather in more frontline intelligence but has concerns that underfunding means policing rural crime will remain a big challenge. There’s a chance to quiz the new Police and Crime Commissioner at an open meeting in Yeovil on Wednesday, October 9th.

Somerset Council is cutting the number of councillors who sit on its Executive. From September, the Executive will reduce from eight members to seven, with the number of Associate members cut from ten to six.

Jack Goodland, a member of Yeovil Bowls Club, has won two medals at the British Transplant Games. Jack, who was diagnosed with kidney failure at seven weeks old and had a transplant when he was two and a half, and a second transplant at the age of 22, took gold in the javelin and silver in bowls at the transplant games in Nottingham.

Yeovil’s new Liberal Democrat MP, Adam Dance, will be in King George Street in Yeovil tomorrow meeting with constituents. He’ll be outside the Library from 10 am to 12.30, taking questions and responding to any concerns local people raise.

An oak tree at Sparkford, estimated to be more than one thousand years old, has been shortlisted for the Tree of the Year competition. The King John Oak is located within the grounds of Hazelgrove Prep School. Dr Kate Lewthwaite of the Woodland Trust, who runs the Tree of the Year contest, says the King John Oak is very special.

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