Local News Monday 20th June

Monday, 20 June 2022 06:00

Yeovil Hospital has been given nearly ten million pounds of government funding to help it become more carbon neutral. Plans have been submitted to add two new floor levels to a former restaurant in Yeovil town centre. Communities and local businesses in Somerset could benefit from seven million pounds as part of the government's national Levelling Up agenda. The life of two barn owls on the Blackdown Hills is being streamed via a webcam set up by Somerset Wildlife Trust...and more.

Yeovil Hospital has been given nearly ten million pounds of government funding to help it become more carbon neutral. The funding will enable the Trust to focus on five different projects which will help reduce carbon emissions, including putting in a new heat pump, replacing power to become a fully electric site, and replacing windows.

Plans have been submitted to add two new floor levels to a former restaurant in Yeovil town centre. The site at 66 Middle Street could see the addition of two new upper storeys to the property. According to the application, the ground floor would remain for retail. South Somerset District Council’s due to consider the application by the end of the summer.

Communities and local businesses in Somerset could benefit from seven million pounds as part of the government's national Levelling Up agenda. The County has been allocated £7.26m from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to invest between 2022 and 2025. A questionnaire on how the money should be spent is now open on the Somerset County Council website.

The life of two barn owls on the Blackdown Hills is being streamed via a webcam set up by Somerset Wildlife Trust. People can watch Finn and Trudie bring up their young on the Somerset Wildlife Trust website.

A charity set up to raise funds to help equip a GP surgery in Chard is being closed. The Friends of Springmead Surgery was launched thirty years ago at the Springfield Surgery in Summerfield Road when surgeries were unable to handle money donated by grateful patients. A meeting to formally wind up the charity will be held on Wednesday, July 6, at 2 pm, at the surgery.

Michael Parrott from the Running for Time Club won yesterday’s Martock 10k in 33 minutes and 4 seconds.

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The first of the new medium lift helicopters being built by Leonardo in Yeovil for the RAF will be delivered in 2031. Somerset Council has launched a public consultation on planned new charges at its two hundred public car parks. More women in Somerset are said to be taking up walking football... and more
Thursday 12th March

A Yeovil headteacher says he’s concerned about plans to stop giving school holiday food vouchers to families on low incomes. The owner of Yeovil Town is calling on fans to be patient as he continues his overhaul of the National League side. A high voltage fault is being blamed for plunging 1700 homes into darkness in the Ilminster area... and more
Wednesday 11th March

Plans have been submitted to convert two properties in Yeovil into houses of multiple occupation. A new court date has been announced for a Yeovil man charged with attempted murder. An engineer who has worked at the Leonardo factory in Yeovil for 40-years has won a top industry award... and more
Tuesday 10th March

Police say a fire at the former Oscar Mayer food factory in Chard was started deliberately. Yeovil College says it would have been adversely affected had Leonardo not won the contract to build new medium-lift helicopters. A seven-foot dragon will be visiting towns and villages in our area during the next few weeks to promote Somerset Day... and more
Monday 9th March

Two Wildcat helicopters from 815 Squadron at RNAS Yeovilton have arrived in Cyprus to help protect RAF Akrotiri from further Iranian drone strikes. New figures show that 40 people were killed on Avon and Somerset’s roads in the last 12-months. A Somerset man has been recalling the day 60-years ago when he was a passenger on the last train on the Somerset and Dorset Railway... and more
Friday 6th March

Defence Minister Luke Pollard has been explaining why it took the government so long to confirm a contract for the Leonardo in Yeovil to build new medium lift helicopters for the RAF. Police are investigating a break in at a pet shop in Ilminster. Somerset Council is to stop using red ink on council tax reminder letters... and more
Thursday 5th March

Two military helicopters from RNAS Yeovilton are being sent to Cyprus to help bolster UK’s defences amid the US-Israel war with Iran. Yeovil Town Council is seeking legal advice over the closure of the hyper acute stroke unit at Yeovil Hospital. Flood warnings have been lifted on the Somerset Levels... and more
Wednesday 4th March

A man has died in a fire in Wincanton. Somerset Council is planning further cuts of twenty-one million pounds to help balance its books. A campaign to raise £30,000 for a minibus has been launched in Chard... and more