Yeovil and South Somerset drivers are being warned about potential disruption over the next few weeks. A Purtington kayaker is celebrating a new world record after circumnavigating Britain in 40 days to raise awareness of diabetes. Somerset Council has been awarded over £300,000 to take a lead role in developing a plan to protect nature in the county...and more.
Yeovil and South Somerset drivers are being warned about potential disruption over the next few weeks. Overnight resurfacing started on Preston Road in Yeovil last night and continues until Friday. Highways teams are also resurfacing sections of both North Street in Langport and the A372 Somerton Road. Preparations also begin in Langport this week with the process getting underway in Huish Episcopi on 24th July.
A Purtington kayaker is celebrating a new world record after circumnavigating Britain in 40 days to raise awareness of diabetes. Dougal Glaisher took on the 2,000-mile challenge, whilst managing his own Type-1 diabetes, to fundraise for the charity Action4Diabetes, which helps young people with the condition in South East Asia.
Somerset Council has been awarded over £300,000 to take a lead role in developing a plan to protect nature in the county. The Local Nature Recovery Strategy will be lead by both the council and the Somerset Local Nature Partnership and is part of a £14m national government fund to help restore wildlife-rich habitats.
A Chard woman has received the highest Rotary Club award for thirty years of work, helping an orphanage in Romania. Dawn Fletcher and her husband Andy have been leading lights in ‘Project Romania’, a charity based in the town, helping to provide everything from bread to education and medical care. Dawn was presented with the “Paul Harris Fellow Award” by Chard Rotary.
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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