Religious artefacts with a value of around £90,000 have been stolen from Sherborne Abbey. A Chard man has been banned from entering two supermarkets in the town following a spate of thefts. Yeovil Town kick-off their new season in the National League with a home game against Hartlepool United tomorrow...and more.
Religious artefacts with a value of around £90,000 have been stolen from Sherborne Abbey. Police say a processional cross, two verges and a bishop’s crook were taken in the break-in on Tuesday night. Police ask that anyone who saw people acting suspiciously in Hospital Lane, Abbey Road, Church Lane, and Half Moon Street at around 9 pm on Tuesday should call the non-emergency number 101.
A Chard man’s been banned from entering two supermarkets in the town following a spate of thefts. Oliver Caulfield of Brutton Way was appearing at Taunton Magistrates Court on 12 counts of theft that included stealing spirits and joints of meat. Caulfield who admitted all the offences was granted court bail, with conditions not to go to two supermarkets in Chard, pending a sentencing hearing in October.
Shepton Mallet Prison’s future as a visitor attraction has been secured. It follows the sale of the site to the Cove Group who had operating the prison as a tourist attraction on a short-term lease.
The National Farmers Union in Somerset says food could be in short supply this autumn due to poor crops and yields caused by wet weather. Data from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board shows wheat crops are at their lowest in twenty years, while the NFU says 65 percent of farmers’ incomes have dropped.
Yeovil Town kick-off their new season in the National League with a home game against Hartlepool United tomorrow, kick-off is at 3 pm.
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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