The Somerset Coroner is calling for better checks on mobility scooter drivers. Tatworth Pre-School has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted. Somerset Council has been fined five hundred pounds over a series of delays in issuing a vulnerable child with a care plan. An ambulance worker from Barrington is preparing to scale the Three Peaks twenty-seven times in twelve days for charity....and more.
The Somerset Coroner is calling for better checks on mobility scooter drivers, following the death of a ninety-two-year-old woman in Taunton. Natalie Young died in April last year after being hit by a mobility scooter in a supermarket. After the inquest into her death, the Somerset Coroner wrote to the Department for Transport asking for better regulation of scooter users. The department says a new scheme is due to come in force by the summer that will be overseen by Driving Mobility.
Tatworth Pre-School near Chard has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted. In a report, Inspectors highlighted how working in small groups had helped the children to deepen their concentration and knowledge.
Waste collections in Somerset will take place as normal on Bank Holiday Monday next week with collections as normal for the rest of the week. There will be no waste collections on Bank Holiday Monday, May 8th, with collections running one day late for the whole week.
Somerset Council has been fined five hundred pounds over a series of delays in issuing a vulnerable child with a care plan. It follows an investigation by the Social Care Ombudsman who has instructed Somerset Council to issue an apology and compensate the family for the distress caused.
A man from Somerset has returned to Ukraine for a third time. Steve Brooks is currently in the south of the country, helping to train medics on the front line.
More food parcels than ever before have been given out across the South West by the Trussell Trust. Nearly two-hundred-and-forty-eight thousand emergency food packages were provided to people in our region by the charity in the last twelve months. It's a forty-two per cent increase from last year.
An ambulance worker from Barrington near Ilminster is preparing to set what he believes will be a new record. Next month, Dean Lewis will attempt to scale the Three Peaks twenty-seven times in twelve days, raising money for charities that support emergency workers.
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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