A new lounge bar and café could be built in Yeovil. Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner, Mark Shelford is appealing for volunteers. New research has shown that 70 percent of young people in Somerset claim to have experienced racial abuse while in education. Hundreds of trees have been given to farmers in Somerset to help tackle climate change. Adult care businesses in Somerset are being offered help to recover from the pandemic...and more.
A new lounge bar and café could be opened in Yeovil. Plans have been submitted for a large lounge on the corner of the High Street and King George Street in premises currently occupied by TSB and Café Nero. The application to South Somerset District Council is from Loungers UK Limited, which operates 185 sites across the country through two brands The Lounges and The Cosy Club.
Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner, Mark Shelford is appealing for volunteers to work at local custody suites. It’s to carry out checks, working in the role of an independent observer.
New research has shown that 70 percent of young people in Somerset claim to have experienced racial abuse while in education. The group ‘Diverse Young Somerset’ sampled a group of 13 to 20 years olds who also spoke of feeling disadvantaged because of their backgrounds and feeling depressed in their daily lives.
Hundreds of trees have been given to farmers in Somerset to help tackle climate change. It's part of a wider initiative with the Woodland Trust, to plant ninety thousand trees across the whole of the South West.
Adult care businesses in Somerset are being offered help to recover from the pandemic. It is part of a scheme, funded by a six-million-pound economic recovery fund from Somerset County Council. Care companies can ask for 1-to-1 advice sessions and join in with workshops, to develop new business skills.
A new share and repair shop has opened in Ilminster. Green Ilminster is encouraging anyone with broken tools and appliances to take them to the shop on Silver Street to get them repaired.
Olly Murs won't be coming to Somerset this summer. The singer was due to perform at a ‘Live in Somerset’ concert in Taunton in August but has cancelled due to having had a knee operation.
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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