Police are working with landowners in Somerset to stop illegal raves being held on private property. Opposition is growing to plans to build forty-nine new homes at Horton near Ilminster. Police roadside checks are taking place in Somerset this week in an effort to cut the number of fatal crashes...and more.
Police are working with landowners in Somerset to try and stop illegal raves being held on privately owned property. With the help of Natural England, the locations that are most at risk of being invaded have been identified together with the identities of those involved in staging illegal raves.
Police roadside checks are taking place in Somerset all this week in an effort to cut the number of fatal crashes on local roads. Police say drink and drug driving contributed to a third of road traffic accidents in Somerset last year.
Opposition is growing to plans to build forty-nine new homes in the village of Horton near Ilminster. The scheme would see seventeen affordable units built together with thirty-two open market properties to the north of Broadway Hill. According to the Somerset Council website, the number of objectors currently stands at sixty-six. They give reasons for refusing the plans that the village school is oversubscribed, the doctor's surgery is too small, the shop and post office in Horton is too small and no employment opportunities exist within the village.
People in Somerset, struggling to afford access to mobile and home broadband are being offered free texts, calls, and data through a scheme set up by the charity 'The Good Things Foundation'.
The wife of a motorcyclist, seriously injured in a crash earlier this year, has organised a sponsored walk to raise funds for the charity that helped save his life. Karen Roberts is planning to walk thirty miles along the length of the Bridgwater and Taunton canal and back for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, who airlifted her husband Dave to hospital.
The first of the new medium lift helicopters being built by Leonardo in Yeovil for the RAF will be delivered in 2031. Somerset Council has launched a public consultation on planned new charges at its two hundred public car parks. More women in Somerset are said to be taking up walking football... and more
A Yeovil headteacher says he’s concerned about plans to stop giving school holiday food vouchers to families on low incomes. The owner of Yeovil Town is calling on fans to be patient as he continues his overhaul of the National League side. A high voltage fault is being blamed for plunging 1700 homes into darkness in the Ilminster area... and more
Plans have been submitted to convert two properties in Yeovil into houses of multiple occupation. A new court date has been announced for a Yeovil man charged with attempted murder. An engineer who has worked at the Leonardo factory in Yeovil for 40-years has won a top industry award... and more
Police say a fire at the former Oscar Mayer food factory in Chard was started deliberately. Yeovil College says it would have been adversely affected had Leonardo not won the contract to build new medium-lift helicopters. A seven-foot dragon will be visiting towns and villages in our area during the next few weeks to promote Somerset Day... and more
Two Wildcat helicopters from 815 Squadron at RNAS Yeovilton have arrived in Cyprus to help protect RAF Akrotiri from further Iranian drone strikes. New figures show that 40 people were killed on Avon and Somerset’s roads in the last 12-months. A Somerset man has been recalling the day 60-years ago when he was a passenger on the last train on the Somerset and Dorset Railway... and more
Defence Minister Luke Pollard has been explaining why it took the government so long to confirm a contract for the Leonardo in Yeovil to build new medium lift helicopters for the RAF. Police are investigating a break in at a pet shop in Ilminster. Somerset Council is to stop using red ink on council tax reminder letters... and more
Two military helicopters from RNAS Yeovilton are being sent to Cyprus to help bolster UK’s defences amid the US-Israel war with Iran. Yeovil Town Council is seeking legal advice over the closure of the hyper acute stroke unit at Yeovil Hospital. Flood warnings have been lifted on the Somerset Levels... and more
A man has died in a fire in Wincanton. Somerset Council is planning further cuts of twenty-one million pounds to help balance its books. A campaign to raise £30,000 for a minibus has been launched in Chard... and more
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