Yeovil Town supporters have called an urgent meeting to discuss the current situation at the Club. Motorists using the A303 between Sparkford and Ilchester are being advised of changes to the road layout. A gloving donkey from Yeovil has made an appearance on national TV. Ilminster public tennis courts are out of action for the next eight weeks...and more
Yeovil Town supporters have called an urgent meeting to discuss the current situation at the Club. It follows the announcement from Matt Uggla that his company SU Glovers Ltd has withdrawn from buying Yeovil Town and the on-going uncertainty over the club’s finances. In a statement, the Glovers Trust, who have organised tonight’s meeting, are calling on the directors at Yeovil Town to act immediately and decisively to secure the Club’s survival.
Motorists using the A303 between Sparkford and Ilchester are being advised of changes to the road layout. Due to on-going work dualling the three-mile section, new traffic flows have been introduced with drivers switching from one carriageway to another and using parts of the newly built road. National Highways says to avoid delays using the A303 between Sparkford and Ilchester, drivers should follow the temporary road signs.
The death has been announced of Councillor Mike Lewis. Councillor Lewis was a member of the new Somerset Council for Castle Cary and previously represented the Camelot ward on Somerset County Council and South Somerset District Council.
A gloving donkey, once used at a Yeovil gloving factory, has made an appearance on national TV. The work item, dating back to the early eighteen hundreds, was featured on ‘Bargain Hunt’. Joseph Lewis from the South Somerset Heritage Collection appeared on the programme to explain how gloving donkeys were used in the glove-making process.
Ilminster public tennis courts are out of action for the next eight weeks. The courts are being re-laid with tarmac, with work due to start next Tuesday. A new online booking system will operate when the courts re-open.
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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