Two thousand people have now signed a petition calling for a decision to relocate a mental health ward in Wells to Summerlands in Yeovil to be reversed. Police are trying to find a driver who fled the scene of a crash on theA303 Ilminster by-pass. A Yeovil man has been given a community order after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and more.....
Two thousand people have now signed a petition calling for a decision to relocate a mental health ward in Wells to Summerlands in Yeovil to be reversed. The decision was approved by the Board of Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group last September but users remain angry and want the ward kept in Wells. Objectors claim the distance between Wells and Yeovil they would have to travel makes the move impractical.
Plans have been submitted to build 85 new homes with associated highways works, and landscaping in Crewkerne. The development would be on land at Gold Well Farm on Yeovil Road.
Police are trying to find a driver who fled the scene of a crash on theA303 Ilminster by-pass. It happened on Sunday 7th February, at around 11.30 am at the Southfields roundabout. The collision, which involved a car and a van, ended up with the van in a ditch and the car leaving the scene. Anyone who witnessed the crash is asked to call the police non-emergency number 101.
A Yeovil man has been given a community order after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer. Yeovil Magistrates Court was told that Lee Brown of Hillcrest Road in Yeovil was drunk at the time of the incident. Brown will have to complete eighty hours unpaid work within the next year. He was also ordered to pay a £95 victim surcharge and £85 in costs.
A woman from Somerton has appeared at Yeovil Magistrates Court charged with assault. Paris Ridley-Brown, of Russet Road in Somerton, pleaded guilty to carrying out the assault at Yeovil Hospital. She was given a 12-month conditional discharge and told to pay a £22 victim surcharge with £85 costs.
A family from Yeovil have been taking part in a virtual running challenge to raise awareness of Prostate Cancer. Prostate Cancer is now the most common form of cancer in men with 1 in 8 males diagnosed with it. Taking on the challenge have been Imogen and Jon Milsom and their son Toby.
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.