Yeovil MP Marcus Fysh has added his support to the government’s handling of the crisis in Ukraine. Somerset’s Director of Public Health is asking for people to protect others now that all Covid restrictions in England have been lifted. Recycling collections, suspended last week due to the bad storms, have resumed across Somerset. Four years after being on the brink of bankruptcy, Somerset County Council claims its new budget is one of the most sustainable of any authority in the country...and more.
Yeovil MP Marcus Fysh has added his support to the government’s handling of the crisis in Ukraine. He says even though Ukraine is not a member of NATO it is right for the West to defend the country. Mr. Fysh says he wants the British government to take a firm military response against Russia.
Somerset’s Director of Public Health is asking for people to protect others now that all Covid restrictions in England have been lifted. Trudi Grant says even without a legal requirement to isolate after testing positive with Covid, people should still act with caution.
Recycling collections, suspended last week due to the bad storms, have resumed across Somerset. Somerset Waste Partnership is asking households to limit the amount of waste they put out for collection and instead to take their waste to a recycling centre.
Four years after being on the brink of bankruptcy, Somerset County Council claims its new budget is one of the most sustainable of any authority in the country. The budget will see council tax bills rise by three percent from April and comes ahead of elections in May to elect the members to run the new Somerset unitary council that will take on responsibility for delivering all council services in Somerset in 2023.
A date has been fixed to hold this year’s Yeovil half marathon. The 13.1-mile event, cancelled for the past two years due to Covid, is being held on Sunday, 27th March. Up to 2,000 runners are expected to take part.
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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