Local News Tuesday 6th July

Tuesday, 6 July 2021 at 00:00

Police have appealed for help in tracing three people in connection with a burglary in Martock. A judge has ordered the arrest of a pensioner in Chard who failed to turn up at court after being found guilty of raping a child. Rising energy costs are being blamed for pushing people into fuel poverty, according to the Citizens Advice Bureau in South Somerset. An aerospace graduate in Yeovil has launched a networking platform to encourage more women into the sector.

Police have appealed for help in tracing three people in connection with a burglary in Martock. Cash was stolen in the raid at a house in Coat Road, Martock, last Friday, July 2nd. Anyone who saw two men wearing baseball caps, a woman carrying a handbag and each dressed in black, getting into a vehicle in Coat Road, close to the industrial estate at around 9.30 am last Friday, are asked to call the non-emergency number 101.

A judge has ordered the arrest of a pensioner in Chard who failed to turn up at court after being found guilty of raping a child. Owen Goff of Jubilee Close in Chard was convicted of a series of historic sexual offences at Exeter Crown Court last month and was due to return to the Court yesterday for sentencing. Judge Timothy Rose said it would not be appropriate to sentence Goff in his absence and issued a warrant for his immediate arrest.

Rising energy costs is being blamed for pushing people into fuel poverty, according to the Citizens Advice Bureau in South Somerset. The energy price cap went up in April by nearly the same amount that it was reduced a year ago. OFGEM says it was necessary to meet increases in the costs of production. The CEO of the local CAB, Angela Kerr, says the poorest families are being hit the hardest.

An aerospace graduate in Yeovil has launched a networking platform to encourage more women into the sector. Olivia Gribler, who works for Leonardo in Yeovil, has formed ‘Aero Women 21’ in the hope of persuading more younger women to take up careers in aerospace. She claims the sector is dominated by men and wants to change this.

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