A Yeovil travel agent says bookings for holidays abroad have gone back up to pre-pandemic levels. Schools across Somerset are having to limit face-to-face teaching due to Covid-related staff shortages. Hundreds of metres of high-value copper cabling have been stolen near Merriott. Farmers in Somerset say they want to make their farms safe for ramblers but that access can be difficult. Police have found a stolen trailer while offering security advice to a farm owner in Somerton...and more.
A Yeovil travel agent says bookings for holidays abroad have gone back up to pre-pandemic levels. Covid travel restrictions have been eased, meaning that anyone who's fully vaccinated can return to the UK without having to do any tests. Miles Morgan of Miles Morgan Travel in Middle Street, Yeovil, says there’s huge pent up demand amongst the public to holiday abroad.
Schools across Somerset are having to limit face-to-face teaching due to Covid-related staff shortages. Somerset County Council say staff sickness has become a major problem with ten per cent of schools now limiting face-to-face teaching, due to sickness. The Council says Covid cases remain high amongst school children with people in the general population locally being re-infected with Covid.
Hundreds of metres of high-value copper cabling have been stolen near Merriott. The cabling, belonging to a telecommunications company, was taken in the area of Eggwood Hill. It happened at around 1 am in the early hours of Tuesday, February 8th. Anyone with dashcam footage in the area of Merriot on that date and around that time is asked to call the police non-emergency number 101.
Farmers in Somerset say they want to make their farms safe for ramblers but that access can be difficult. It follows an updating of the Countryside Code that requires farmers to make rights of way more accessible, including removing stiles in favour of gates and putting up better signage.
Police have found a stolen trailer while offering security advice to a farm owner in Somerton. They say the trailer had been security marked which made it easy to identify as stolen. Enquiries are ongoing into how it came to be at the farm in Somerton in the first place.
People in Chard without a job are being offered free support to find work. It follows the opening of a new employment and skills hub in Chard library, in Holyrood Street, run by local housing provider, Abri.
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