Health managers say merging Yeovil Hospital with Musgrove Park in Taunton will mean patients in Yeovil having to travel further for specialist treatments. Chard and Ilminster are being given £150,000 of government funding to improve flood protection. Passenger numbers on buses in Somerset went up by fourteen per cent in the first three months of the year. Work to improve the environment at Yeovil Recreation Ground could be copied in other public parks in other parts of the country...and more.
Health managers say a merger of Yeovil Hospital and Musgrove Park in Taunton together with mental health services into one trust should not impact the level of care that patients receive. But they admit that patients in Yeovil may have to travel further for some specialist treatments.
Chard and Ilminster are being given £150,000 of government funding to improve flood protection. The money is being shared between the two towns to support homes and businesses that have been subjected to repeated flooding events.
Passenger numbers on buses in Somerset went up by fourteen per cent in the first three months of the year, according to Somerset Council. It follows the introduction of a £2 single journey fare in January and the launch of the ‘Bus It’ campaign by Somerset Council. The £2 single journey fare is set to run until the end of June.
Work that’s being done to improve the environment at Yeovil Recreation Ground could be used in other public parks. Last year, the council-run site won national recognition at the Grounds Management Association’s Industry Awards for its sustainability projects, beating Premier League club Leicester City into second place.
Yeovil Town fell to yet another defeat playing at home to Dorking yesterday. The one-nil scoreline in Dorking’s favour has left Yeovil six points adrift of safety in the National League with just four games remaining. Mathematically Yeovil can still avoid relegation but it will need Torquay and Aldershot to lose games for them to survive. The Glovers are next in action next Saturday when they play away against Solihull Moors. Their other remaining games are away to Wrexham at home against Oldham; with their last game of the season away to Boreham Wood.
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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