Tuesday 23rd July

Tuesday, 23 July 2024 06:00

A sub-postmistress from Wells, falsely accused of stealing by the Post Office, is celebrating after finally being paid compensation. An amateur jockey from near Sherborne is in hospital after sustaining a serious back injury in a fall. A man who became violent towards staff at Hollywood Bowl in Yeovil has been jailed...and more.

A sub-postmistress from Wells, falsely accused of stealing, is celebrating after finally being paid compensation for the trauma she was put through. Gail Ward was one of hundreds of employees wrongly convicted by the Post Office of theft due to a fault with the Horizon computer system.

An amateur jockey from near Sherborne is in hospital after sustaining a serious back injury in a fall at a race meeting in Cumbria at the weekend. Alice Procter who lives in Glanvilles Wootton, was competing in the Cartmel Female Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle when the incident occurred.

An Ilminster man found guilty of drug driving has been banned from driving for 20 months. Magistrates in Yeovil were told that Zak Burge of Orchard Vale in Ilminster had been smoking cannabis before the car he was driving mounted a verge and ended up in a hedge. Burge admitted charges of drug driving and driving without insurance and was also told to complete 100 hours of unpaid work.

A man who became violent towards staff at Hollywood Bowl in Yeovil has been jailed for 14 weeks. Magistrates in Yeovil were told that Jason Roberts went to the Hollywood Bowl with a woman who was banned from the premises. When told she had to leave, he launched a barrage of verbal abuse and threatened to hit a member of staff with a beer bottle. Roberts, who was subject to a suspended sentence for assaulting two emergency workers, was also told to pay a victim surcharge of £154 on his release from jail.

Two new accessible public toilets have opened at Yeovil Junction railway station. The new facilities are part of improvements costing £6.5 million carried out at stations operated by South Western Railway.

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