A ban on e-scooters on trains and at stations in South Somerset has come into force. Somerset Council is looking for more volunteers to help young people in the County. A Chard motorist has been fined two-hundred-and-seventy-six pounds after being caught driving at sixty-nine miles per hour in a thirty zone. The Royal Bath and West Show enters its second day today...and more.
A ban on e-scooters on trains and at stations in South Somerset has come into force. South Western Railway has imposed the ban, which impacts on Yeovil Junction and Crewkerne stations, due to safety concerns around the potential for lithium batteries fitted to e-scooters to overheat. The ban also applies to e-unicycles, e-skateboards and hoverboards
Somerset Council is looking for more volunteers to help young people in the County. The Council is aiming to recruit people to support children in care and to work with the Youth Justice Team.
The Royal Bath and West Show enters its second day today. The good weather yesterday attracted big crowds to the Shepton Mallet showground where the best of British agriculture and farming is being displayed.
A Chard motorist has been fined two-hundred-and-seventy-six pounds after being caught driving at sixty-nine miles per hour in a thirty zone. Oscar Webb of Ashcroft in Chard pleaded guilty to driving at twice the speed limit on the A358 at Henlade when he appeared before local magistrates.
Former Lib Dem MP and government minister, Vince Cable, is the main speaker today at the Ilminster Literary Festival. The festival runs to next Thursday 8th June with former British Diplomat, Simon McDonald one of the other headline speakers.
Yeovil Town forward Callum Harriott has had his contract with the club terminated by mutual agreement. Harriott, who only joined the Glovers in March, made three appearances and scored one goal.
Helicopters from RNAS Yeovilton have completed six weeks of sorties, protecting Cyprus from attacks by Iran. People in Somerset who use domestic heating oil are calling on the government to regulate the oil supply industry. Patients are being invited to register at a new NHS dentist in Crewkerne... and more
Expectant mothers are using Yeovil Hospital once again to give birth following the reopening of the maternity unit. A Yeovil man has been jailed for four years for committing sexual offences against two young girls. Plans have been approved to convert a pub in Milborne Port into housing... and more
NHS Somerset has delayed closing the hyper-acute stroke unit at Yeovil Hospital. A former Avon and Somerset Police officer has been jailed for making indecent images of children. A Somerset man has been fined after pleading guilty to hunting a wild animal with dogs... and more
Nearly one hundred roads in Somerset will be surface dressed this summer to prevent further damage. Almost all children starting primary school in Somerset in September have been offered a place at one of their top three school choices. People in Somerset are being asked to record wild mammals in gardens and other green spaces over the summer... and more
Yeovil MP Adam Dance has backed calls for a cap on heating oil prices. Invitations are being sent out to those in Somerset eligible for the latest Covid vaccine. A pub near Chard has closed just four months after reopening... and more
Wessex Water has been told to pay £300,000 after a sewer spilled into the River Yeo killing dozens of fish. The Brewhouse Theatre in Taunton has been given a grant of half a million pounds. Today marks the official opening of the new visitor centre at Ham Hill... and more
Yeovil College has been upgraded to a Defence Technical Excellence College. Somerset Council is taking legal action against a housing developer that owes £35,000 in contributions towards local services in Broadway. An Ilminster couple have covered the first 400 miles of their epic walk around the coastline of mainland Britain... and more
Avon and Somerset Police has launched a new five-year plan to tackle anti-social behaviour. Additional GP appointments will soon be available at three local surgeries, following a £1 million investment to upgrade NHS facilities in Somerset. A Stoke-sub-Hamdon couple whose daughter died of cancer have raised £128,000 in her memory... and more
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