Police want to hear from anyone who saw a group of four people being attacked in Chard. The National Trust says blossom orchards are in serious decline in Somerset. Two fitness instructors from Yeovil are preparing to climb the equivalent of Mount Everest. Tourism businesses in Somerset are still feeling the impact of Covid. People in South Somerset are being asked to consider mentoring local families...and more.
Police want to hear from anyone who saw a group of four people being attacked in Chard. It happened as they were walking home along Fore Street, close to the junction with Boden Street, in the early hours of Saturday, March 5th, when they were set upon by about a dozen or so other people. If you saw what happened or have dashcam or phone footage of the incident, please call 101.
The National Trust says blossom orchards are in serious decline in Somerset. In a new report, they have set out a strategy for bringing blossom back to the local landscape.
Tourism businesses in Somerset are still feeling the impact of Covid. Before the pandemic hit, 1.3 million people a year visited the Roman Baths in Bath. Last year, visitor numbers had dropped to 350,000.
People in South Somerset are being asked to consider mentoring local families. ‘Yeovil for Families’ works across the district and needs new volunteer mentors to deal with increasing demand for its services.
Two fitness instructors from Yeovil are preparing to climb the equivalent of Mount Everest. Claire Price and Imogen Fenner will take on the challenge on 1st April raising money for the mental health charity Mind.
Yeovil Town are back in action this weekend. They play Southend United in a National League fixture at Huish Park tomorrow, kick-off is at 3pm
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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