Gardeners in Somerset are being urged not to cut their grass this month to help benefit wildlife. A Langport man has appeared in court charged with assault. The Blue Ball Inn in Bruton could reopen if plans to alter the building are given the green light by South Somerset District Council. The village shop in Charlton Horethorne has been put up for sale. Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has announced a further twenty homes for social rent will be built in the village where he grew up...and more.
Gardeners in Somerset are being urged not to cut their grass this month to help benefit wildlife. Research by the charity, Plantlife, shows that not cutting the grass in May can make a real difference to the numbers of birds and insects in people's gardens.
A Langport man has appeared in court charged with assault. Simon Hebert of Bow Street, Langport, pleaded guilty to two charges of assault at Taunton Magistrates Court. Hebert was fined £480 with costs and had a community order made against him.
The Blue Ball Inn in Bruton could reopen if plans to alter the building are given the green light by South Somerset District Council. The Blue Ball on Coombe Street, formerly known as The White Hart, closed in 2020. Owners, Cosmos Bruton Ltd, have applied to reopen the hotel and provide additional rooms within the neighbouring Number One Hotel. South Somerset District Council’s expected to make a decision on the application by the early summer.
The village shop in Charlton Horethorne has been put up for sale. The business in North Road is described as having consistent local trade as well as good seasonal tourism trade and is offered with a guide price of £275,000.
A start-up business school has been launched in Somerset to encourage people aged 50 and over with a business idea to get started. Figures show over half-a-million people aged over 50 are no longer in work since the pandemic.
Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has announced a further twenty homes for social rent will be built in the village where he grew up. He started the project in his home village Pilton using funds generated by Glastonbury Festival saying he wanted to provide affordable houses for working people.
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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