A dental practice in Chard is to close. Council taxpayers in Somerset will be paying more to run the fire service from April. A Yeovil business says low labour costs are one reason why it’s stayed loyal to Yeovil for more than 50 years. Yeovil Hospital is piloting a scheme to help speed up the discharge of patients. Young people with special educational needs are helping to run a new café in Ilminster...and more.
A dental practice in Chard is to close at the end of March. Mydentist in Fore Street says it’s due to a lack of staff. The closure comes soon after the Springmead GP Surgery in Chard announced that it would be closing on the 24th of February. Mydentist patients are being offered appointments at Ariel Healthcare in Chard. Patients with appointments up to 31st March should attend as usual.
A Yeovil business says low labour costs are one reason why it’s stayed loyal to Yeovil for more than 50 years. Talon on the Lynx Trading Estate make parts for motorbikes and competes for orders against producers in China. Owner, Rod McDonaugh, says with labour costs relatively low in Yeovil, he’s able to remain competitive with his prices on world markets.
Council taxpayers in Somerset will be paying more to run the fire service from April. A 5-percent increase in the fire service percept has been approved by councillors. Devon and Somerset Fire Service says without the increase it would have been short by three million pounds over the next 12-months.
Yeovil Hospital is piloting a scheme to help speed up the discharge of patients. A ‘Ready to Go’ unit has been set up to check patients’ physical and mental fitness for being allowed to return home. Similar units are now being introduced in local community hospitals with the aim of freeing up much-needed hospital beds.
Young people with special educational needs are helping to run a new café in Ilminster. The Gamesmaster Café serves food and drinks and offers customers the chance to play board games.
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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