An inquest has been told that faulty scaffolding was partly to blame for the death of a worker at Brympton House at Odcombe. South Western Ambulance Service is proposing a reduction in break times for crews working on long shifts. The FA in Somerset is hosting a series of training sessions for anyone wanting to become a football referee...and more.
An inquest has been told that faulty scaffolding was partly to blame for the death of a worker at Brympton House at Odcombe. Tadeusz Marcinkowski, aged thirty-seven, was carrying out repairs to the library at the Grade-2 listed property when the scaffolding he was standing on collapsed and he fell to the floor. He died in the hospital the following day from head injuries. The inquest was told that poorly erected scaffolding used at the time had contributed to his death.
South Western Ambulance Service is proposing a reduction in break times for crews working on long shifts. Managers believe shorter break periods will improve ambulance response times but ambulance workers disagree and have won the support of their union to fight the plan.
An insect expert in Somerset says urgent action is needed to halt the decline in the insect population. A survey based on a measurement of insect remains on car number plates found that insect numbers have fallen by two-thirds in the twenty years since the last survey was carried out in 2004.
Junior doctors at hospitals in Somerset are on strike for a second day today. They’re demanding a thirty-five per cent pay rise after what they claim has been fifteen years of below-inflation increases. The government has described the pay demand as unreasonable.
Police are appealing for witnesses to an incident in which a man sustained head and other injuries in Ilminster. It happened in Station Road at around 4 am yesterday morning. Police say they don’t know how the man came to be injured and are keen to hear from anyone with dashcam or other footage of the Station Road area at the time. If you can help, you’re asked to call the non-emergency number 101.
The FA in Somerset is hosting a series of training sessions for anyone wanting to become a football referee.
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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