Local News Tuesday 2nd May

Tuesday, 2 May 2023 at 06:00

By Steve Haigh

Several local schools are facing disruption today again as teachers stage another strike. Somerset Council has published a timetable of works for the next round of new traffic lights in Yeovil. Work building a new Enterprise Centre in Chard is close to being completed. A well-known café in Langport has announced that it's shutting...and more.

Several local schools are facing disruption today as teachers stage another strike. Members of the National Education Union are taking action in support of their long-running dispute over pay. The schools in our area affected are: Buckler’s Mead School in Yeovil, Huish Episcopi Academy in Langport, Ashlands Primary School in Crewkerne and Ansford Academy in Castle Cary.

Somerset Council has published a timetable of works for the next round of new traffic lights in Yeovil. Larkhill Road will be the first of three places in the town to get new lights installed with work commencing in late May. Work to install new traffic lights on West Coker Road will commence in early June. Work to replace the traffic lights at the junction of Wyndham Street and Sherborne Road will start in July.

Drivers in Somerset are being told to get their eyesight tested regularly with estimates that nearly one million people in the UK are driving with poor vision. Avon and Somerset Police and Somerset Council are involved in a national campaign aimed at getting older drivers to have their vision checked.

South Western Railway says trains on the Waterloo to Exeter line through Yeovil Junction and Sherborne stations will be running as normal from today. SWR was forced to make cuts to the timetable last week when a problem with diesel fuel led to a number of trains being withdrawn from service.

Work building a new Enterprise Centre in Chard is close to being completed. The building in Beeching Close has been funded by Somerset Council with a grant from the European Regional Development Fund. Local businesses and, in particular, owners of new start-up businesses in Chard are now invited to take up space at the new Centre.

A well-known café in Langport has announced that it's shutting. Secret Teacup at Old Kelways will close for good on Friday, blaming increases in the cost of ingredients, electricity and wages for the decision.

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