Legal action is being taken against the Ministry of Defence by former service personnel who claim they've developed cancer due to toxic exhaust fumes from helicopters. Buses of Somerset are trialling a new route to the Yeovilton Air Base on the 54 service. A Somerset dad whose daughter died aged fifteen months has started fundraising for a Bereavement Room at Yeovil Hospital...and more.
Legal action is being taken against the Ministry of Defence by former service personnel who claim they've developed cancer due to toxic exhaust fumes from helicopters. It relates to four helicopter types including the Sea King, which Westlands now Leonardo in Yeovil made. Many of the claimants are from Somerset.
Buses of Somerset are trialling a new route to the Yeovilton Air Base on the 54 service. The route will serve people working at the Navy base and visitors to the Fleet Air Arm Museum. The trial starts next Monday and runs until September.
A Somerset woman who's spent a decade being treated in psychiatric wards says horse riding has transformed her life. Shelby Lunt took up riding as part of her rehabilitation while a patient. She's now living in her own home and enjoying life to the full thanks, she says, to discovering the joys of horse riding.
Avon and Somerset Police have thanked the Netflix series Baby Reindeer for encouraging stalking victims to come forward. They say in the last twelve months, more than three thousand cases were reported, and the figure is likely to be higher this year.
A Somerset dad whose daughter died aged fifteen months has started a fundraising campaign in her memory. Harry Foster is running 5k every day, raising money for a Bereavement Room at Yeovil Hospital.
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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