Somerset Council is being asked to rethink its decision not to re-open Chinnock Hollow. Yeovil is to get a new NHS diagnostic centre under plans announced by the Government. The NSPCC is urging parents in Somerset not to leave their young children at home unsupervised this summer. The search is on for old home movie footage of Yeovil railway station...and more.
Somerset Council is being asked to rethink its decision not to re-open Chinnock Hollow. The cut-through linking East Chinnock with Odcombe was closed by a landslide in February 2021. Somerset Council says it would cost two-point-seven-million pounds to make the road safe and the expenditure can’t be justified. West Coker Parish Council is contesting the decision, claiming Somerset Council’s risk assessment to bring the road back into use is flawed and should be looked at again.
Yeovil is to get a new NHS diagnostic centre under plans announced by the Government. It’s one of thirteen places to be selected for the facility in England. The centre’s aimed at reducing waiting lists and will be run privately on behalf of the NHS.
Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage to a road traffic accident in Yeovil in which a motorcycle and car collided. The bike rider was seriously injured and died later in hospital. It happened last Thursday at around 4:30 pm at the junction of Western Avenue and Malmesbury Way, near to the ASDA roundabout. If you can help, please call the non-emergency number 101.
The NSPCC is urging parents in Somerset not to leave their young children at home unsupervised this summer. Last summer, the charity says it received more than one-thousand calls from people concerned about a child being left at home unsupervised.
Ilminster Arts Centre has been boosted with a grant award of twenty-five thousand pounds. The Arts Centre says the money, given by the Postcode Local Trust, will be spent on bringing amazing art and culture to Ilminster.
The search is on for old home movie footage of Yeovil railway station. It’s for a new heritage film about the Yeovil to Taunton rail line that closed in the 1960s being compiled by local film maker, Phil Lilley.
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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