Staff at Yeovil-based leather manufacturer Pittards have had their salaries and hours cut to save money. Work trimming roadside verges in Somerset is to continue into September. Yeovil MP Marcus Fysh has been lobbied by green activists in Ilminster. A new music shop is soon to open in Chard...and more.
Staff at Yeovil-based leather manufacturer Pittards have had their salaries and hours cut to save money. It follows news that the company failed to raise the one-point-one million pounds it needed to stay afloat. Pittards say all options - including selling the business - are being considered.
Yeovil MP Marcus Fysh has been lobbied by green activists in Ilminster. While attending the Great Big Green Week in the town he was handed more than fifty letters demanding the government act more urgently to protect the environment.
Work trimming roadside verges in Somerset is to continue into September. Somerset Council says it’s become necessary to ensure that all road users are kept safe. The programme of verge trimming was cut back earlier in the year to promote habitat creation and protect wildlife.
A new music shop is soon to open in Chard. Run by local musician, Dan Shortland, it will be in the Stringfellow Gallery on Holyrood Street, selling all types of instruments and offering music lessons and a repair service.
Donations of cakes, jams and chutneys are needed for an event in Ilminster next month raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support. The event’s part of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning and takes place on Saturday, 9th of September. If you can help, you’re asked to please take your items to Cottage Flowers in Ilminster.
Bird flu has been found at a nature reserve in Somerset, closing part of it down. St Margaret’s Hospice in Somerset is calling for the hospice sector to be given more central funding. The Barrington Boar in Barrington has been placed 12th in The Good Food Guide’s list of 100 best pubs in Britain... and more
Police are investigating a suspected arson attack on a mobile home near Yeovil. Somerset Council is suggesting people turn their pumpkins into soup this Halloween. People in Yeovil have until Sunday to comment on controversial plans to sell off four car parks in the town centre... and more.
Plans have been submitted to build 12 new homes in Chard. A nursery in Yeovil has been rated ‘overall good' by Ofsted. A Somerset mortgage broker has achieved national recognition. A stretch of the M5 at Wellington will be shut every night this week...and more
The Unite union has announced four days of strikes by its members at Leonardo in Yeovil. One of Yeovil’s busiest roads is closed to traffic today. Staff at the Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard raised £3,000 taking part in a Sleeping Ruff challenge at the weekend...and more
New figures show that 500 young people were either injured or killed on roads in Somerset and Devon last year. The Old School Community Centre in Queen Camel has reopened, thanks to a donation of £10,000 from Somerset Freemasons. Two Fleet Air Arm engineers based at RNAS Yeovilton have recreated a family moment from 26 years ago...and more
Yeovil-born actress Sarah Parish is supporting efforts to reopen the Octagon theatre. Mobility scooter campaigners in Somerset have welcomed a government review of the legislation governing the use of mobility scooters on public highways. Changes are being made to the dates when garden waste is collected in Somerset...and more
A major house builder in the South West says government targets for new house building in Somerset are 'unrealistic'. Pizza Hut is closing its restaurant in Yeovil. Staff at the Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard will be taking part in a ‘Sleeping Ruff’ challenge tomorrow...and more
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Reckleford in Yeovil is to shut for 15 days for essential drainage works. Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has paid out compensation of £23 million for claims related to birth injuries. A Grade II listed building in Glastonbury has been converted into a health and wellbeing centre...and more
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