Bus campaigners say poor lighting and antisocial behaviour is making it dangerous to use Yeovil bus station. Vandals are being blamed for setting fire to the cricket pavilion at the Winterhay Play Park in Ilminster. A former pub in Yeovil town centre is set to become a religious meeting place. Two members of Ilminster Bowling Club have won a top national title...and more.
Bus campaigners say poor lighting and antisocial behaviour is making it dangerous to use Yeovil bus station. Members of the Yeovil Bus Users Group say streetlights are not working and claim that fights break out in the bus station on a regular basis.
A Yeovil travel agent says holiday bookings are running at record levels. Miles Morgan, who has shops across the South West, including one in Middle Street in Yeovil, says despite the cost of living crisis, holiday bookings are higher than before the pandemic.
Vandals are being blamed for setting fire to the cricket pavilion at the Winterhay Play Park in Ilminster. The owners of the site, Ilminster Town Council, say a bench seat was also broken. Anyone who spots anti-social behaviour in Winterhay Play Park is asked to call the police non-emergency number 101.
A former pub in Yeovil town centre is set to become a religious meeting place. South Somerset District Council has approved plans to convert the former Westminster pub on Westminster Street into a facility for the Turkish community.
Firefighters in Somerset have voted overwhelmingly to accept a new pay offer and lift their threat of strike action. They will get a seven per cent increase backdated to last July and an additional five per cent for this year.
Two members of Ilminster Bowling Club have won a top national award. Levi and Kirsty Hembrow took the National Mixed Pairs title at the recently held National Bowling Championships.
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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