Inflation is causing budget problems for the new Somerset Council. A major crackdown on drugs is underway across the South West this week. People are being asked for their views on the planned spending of £29 million pounds on expanding Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre. Police have appealed for the public's help to find a missing man from Cardiff who they think may be in Yeovil or Langport and St Margaret’s shop in Ilminster has moved to a new location.
Inflation is causing budget problems for the new Somerset Council. The County Council and district councils are merging to form one unitary authority that will come into being in April next year. A report suggests the new single council will need to save £44 million pounds, that's up from the previous estimate of £28 million.
A major crackdown on drugs is underway across the South West this week. Avon and Somerset Police and the region’s four other police forces have joined together on ‘Operation Scorpion’. It’s aimed at disrupting the movement of drugs, alongside delivering preventative initiatives in local communities.
People are being asked for their views on the planned spending of £29 million pounds on expanding Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre. The new-look Octagon will have 900 seats compared to 622 at present, two cinemas and two studio spaces, enhanced technical facilities and a new café and restaurant area. The plans will be on display at the Octagon Theatre on Friday, July 8th and Saturday, July 9th.
Police have appealed for the public's help to find a missing man from Cardiff who they think may be in Yeovil or Langport. Stephen Lewis, aged 33, has not been in contact with his family since leaving Cardiff last week to travel into Somerset.
St Margaret’s shop in Ilminster has moved to a new location. The shop has been on Silver Street for nearly 30 years but is now on the corner of Ditton Street and East Street, where the usual items of donated clothes, books, bric-a-brac, and furniture are on sale.
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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