A car has twice been set on fire in a fortnight in Martock, according to police. A Yeovil man has been jailed for three years for drug-related offences. Farming experts are forecasting that the price of milk will rise by around 50 percent. Police are appealing for dashcam footage of a crash between two vehicles Wincanton and Sparkford on the A303. Great Western Railway, which runs services through Castle Cary, says salt erosion was to blame for the cracks that appeared in their trains...and more.
A car has twice been set on fire in a fortnight in Martock, according to police. The latest incident happened in the early hours of last Friday, April 1st. Police say the car was parked in Steppes Crescent when it was deliberately set alight. Anyone with information is asked to call the non-emergency number 101.
A Yeovil man has been jailed for three years for drug-related offences. Taunton Crown Court was told that Edward New of South Western Terrace in Yeovil was found in possession of cocaine, heroin and cannabis when police searched his home. The Court issued a Proceeds of Crime order against New with the confiscation amount set at £9,200.
Farming experts are forecasting that the price of milk will rise by around 50 percent. It would mean a four-pint bottle costing between one-pound-sixty and one-pound-seventy. It follows higher feed and fertilizer prices for farmers, blamed on the war in Ukraine.
Great Western Railway, which runs services through Castle Cary, says salt erosion was to blame for the cracks that appeared in their trains. The safety issue was identified last year and led to major delays and the cancellation of hundreds of scheduled services.
Police are appealing for dashcam footage of a crash between two vehicles Wincanton and Sparkford on the A303. The collision involving a green Ford Mondeo and a blue Ford Transit happened at around 1 pm on Sunday 3rd of April. The van was stationary on the A303 at the time. If you can help the police you’re asked to call the non-emergency number 101.
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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