Police are carrying out extra patrols in the Street area after a woman was sexually assaulted. New data has highlighted the places in South Somerset that are the most deprived to live in. If you were caught in this week’s heavy showers, you might find it hard to believe that Somerset is still in a drought. A woman from Somerton who set herself a zero waste target for this year...and more.
Police are carrying out extra patrols in the Street area after a woman was sexually assaulted. The woman claims she was attacked by a man in Sharpham Drove last Sunday. He’s described as white, 30 to 40 years old, wearing black clothing, a black beanie hat, black sunglasses and gloves.
New data has highlighted the places in South Somerset that are the most deprived to live in. The figures, taken from the 2021 Census, show that Chard West, Milford Park in Yeovil, and the town of Yeovil have some of the highest indicators of deprivation in the County. Two other areas with high rates were North and East Chard and Crewkerne. Deprivation is when a member of a household is unemployed or long-term sick; where no one has five or more GCSE passes or the accommodation is overcrowded and has no central heating.
If you were caught in this week’s heavy showers, you might find it hard to believe that Somerset is still in a drought. South West Water says reservoirs and rivers have benefited from the heavy rain but water levels still remain very low.
Local woman, Clare Case has started dressing up as a vegetable and visiting supermarkets to raise money for Motor Neuron Disease after her cousin, Yeovil Town’s Head of Player Development, Marcus Stewart, was diagnosed with the condition. Claire says she’s aiming to raise £100,000 pounds for M-N-D charities.
A woman from Somerton who set herself a zero waste target for this year says she can't understand how some people come to throw away so much rubbish. Gill Hampson has gone almost 10 months without filling her black bin with waste and putting it out for collection. She was aiming to complete 12 months but had to use her black bin after clearing out the contents of her shed and finding lots of extra waste items for disposal.
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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