A Sonic Boom heard across Yeovil and South Somerset at the weekend has been identified as most likely being a meteor falling to earth. The opening of Chard’s new public swimming pool had been put back to next year. Yeovil’s e-scooter project is being extended to Chard and Crewkerne. This week marks the 50th years of the Yeovil Samaritans....and more.
A Sonic Boom heard across Yeovil and South Somerset at the weekend has been identified as most likely being a meteor falling to earth. The huge bang at around 3 pm on Saturday lasted several seconds. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that one of its aircraft was not to blame.
The opening of Chard’s new public swimming pool had been put back to next year. South Somerset District Council says progress on the building has been delayed by Covid and poor weather. The pool was due to open later this year but won’t now open until March next year, at the earliest.
Yeovil’s e-scooter project is being extended to Chard and Crewkerne. Both towns can expect e-scooters to appear on local streets later this week. The South Somerset project is one of nine in the UK managed by Z-Wings with the Department for Transport funding aimed at encouraging more sustainable forms of transport.
Organisers of the Glastonbury Festival are working on plans to hold a one-off concert this summer with people camping at the Worthy Farm site. Writing on social media, Emily Eavis said a licence application has been submitted to the local council but it was not definite the event would take place.
This week marks the 50th years of the Yeovil Samaritans. The support organisation, that takes phone calls from people in distress, began life in Yeovil at 10 Everton Road in March 1971 with just a handful of volunteers taking calls. Today, they have 120 volunteers and last year alone handled more than 22,000 calls from the public.
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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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