A Somerset pharmacist says people are going without prescription medicines because they can't afford to pay for them. Two local teenage boys have appeared before a Youth Panel charged with causing actual bodily harm. A public meeting is being held in Yeovil to discuss plans to centralise emergency stroke care in Somerset. Another local pub has been put up for sale...and more.
A Somerset pharmacist says people are going without prescription medicines because they can't afford to pay for them. Lead pharmacist at Somerset Vale Healthcare, Fivos Valagiannopoulos says he’s seen a rise in the number of people not collecting their prescriptions, with some asking what they can "do without" altogether.
Two local teenage boys have appeared before a Youth Panel charged with causing actual bodily harm. The panel was told that the youths attacked a 13-year-old boy in Pageant Gardens in Sherborne in July last year. The pair were referred to a youth offending panel and told to pay the boy compensation.
The date of this year’s Yeovil Half Marathon has been announced. The race, which starts in Petters Way, goes out to Montecute House before returning to the finish line in the Quedam shopping centre, will take place on Sunday, 26th of March.
A public meeting is being held in Yeovil to discuss plans to centralise emergency stroke care in Somerset. The proposal could see people who’ve suffered a stroke taken to Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton rather than Yeovil Hospital. The meeting, with questions to an NHS Somerset panel, will take place at Yeovil Rugby Club, off Dorchester Road, on Tuesday 21st of February at 2 pm.
Another of our local pubs has been put up for sale. The Walnut Tree in West Camel which includes thirteen bedrooms and a family apartment is advertised with a guide price of £575,000.
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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