A building in Yeovil that had been earmarked for use as a home for homeless people is to re-open as a care home. A project to protect the Ham Hill Country Park has been given 1.6 million pounds of funding from the National Lottery. Hospitality businesses in South Somerset are to get help with their running costs. We're being asked by the to think carefully before dialing 999 for an ambulance over the Christmas period...and more.
A building in Yeovil that had been earmarked for use as a home for homeless people is to re-open as a care home. Acacia Lodge on Hendford Hill will provide accommodation for people living with dementia when it re-opens early in the New Year under the name Chestnut Lodge.
A project to protect the Ham Hill Country Park has been given 1.6 million pounds of funding from the National Lottery. The money will help preserve the site's wildlife and archaeology and fund a new visitor centre and café.
Hospitality businesses in South Somerset are to get help with their running costs. The district council is launching a Hospitality Support Grant scheme in January in which grants of up to £5,000 will be given to pubs, restaurants, wine bars, cafes and nightclubs. Details of the scheme can be found on the South Somerset District Council website.
A pilot scheme in Somerset, aimed at changing the way police handle rape and sexual assault cases to improve outcomes, is to be rolled out nationally. ’Operation Bluestone’ works by the Police using experts and academics working with specialist teams as part of investigating allegations of rape and sexual assault.
We're being asked by the to think carefully before dialing 999 for an ambulance over the Christmas period. The request from the South Western Ambulance Service comes at a time of more planned strikes by health workers, with military members being brought in to help run the ambulance service.
A new website has been launched to support people in Somerset with mental health issues. One of Yeovil’s oldest pubs has been sold. Artwork on the theme of aviation produced by students at Yeovil College has gone on display at Leonardo Helicopters in Yeovil.A pupil at Tatworth Primary School near Chard has won a prize in a national competition for writing a book review...and more
Work laying a gas main on the A37 Dorchester Road near the Quicksilver Mail roundabout in Yeovil is to continue for a further two months. Somerset Council says the public toilets in Yeovil bus station will close at the end of the month but the waiting room will stay open temporarily. Former Yeovil Town Captain, Josh Staunton, has set up in business as a professional gardener...and more.
Somerset Council seeking to save £40 million by cutting one thousand jobs says 201 employees have so far applied to leave the authority based on voluntary redundancy. East Somerset Railway near Shepton Mallet has been used for filming the TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper's novel Rivals. An old-style red phone box in Castle Cary is being turned into Somerset's smallest museum...and more
Somerset's Chief Medical Officer says GP surgeries using healthcare professionals alongside doctors to provide treatments has freed up GP appointments. A farmer has been fined £15,000 for polluting a household water supply. Avon and Somerset’s new Police and Crime Commissioner has officially started work in the role. Chard Post Office is closed today for the handover of the business to new owners...and more.
Health inspectors have criticised Somerset's maternity services, including those at Yeovil Hospital. Somerset Council says re-opening Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre in its original form could cost up to £200,000 if a multi-million-pound upgrade of the building falls through. A film made by a Yeovil man on a budget of just five thousand pounds was screened at the prestigious British Independent Film Festival...and more.
The Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard says it needs an immediate injection of £100,000 to keep going. Yeovil’s Marlie Packer has returned to Yeovil Rugby Club where she began her rugby career 20 years ago. Twenty-five Town criers from across the South will be in Ilminster tomorrow competing in the annual Ilminster Town Criers' Competition...and more.
Train services through Somerset are again being disrupted today due to continued strike action by the train driver’s union ALSEF. A campaign has been launched in Somerset aimed at stopping people overdosing on opioids. A Somerset business is raising a smile with its name.‘Top Of The Clops’, a tack shop near Taunton has won a place in the top ten of the UK’s funniest business names...and more.
A woman driver has been told she faces a prison term for causing the deaths of two people in a crash on the A303. The AA says there are more potholes than ever on Somerset’s motorway network, leading to an increase in damage to vehicles. The new cancer treatment unit at Yeovil Hospital should be open before the end of the year...and more.
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