Plans have been announced to build a new 74-bed care home in Wincanton. A Yeovil woman has appeared in court charged with criminal damage and assault. The Antiques Roadshow is coming to Wells this year. Plans to build up to 30 homes in Milborne Port have been dropped. A community shop that supported local people through the pandemic is celebrating one year of opening this week.
Plans have been announced to build a new 74-bed care home in Wincanton creating 140 new jobs. Cale View, to be built on Dyke’s Way, will provide care for adults of all ages with challenging behaviours. Owners, Cornerstone Healthcare currently run care homes in Hampshire and Sussex.
A Yeovil woman has appeared in court charged with criminal damage and assault. Kamila Bobek was said to have damaged a door at Pathways and to have assaulted a woman. Bobek, who pleaded guilty to the charges, is due to return to court for sentencing on April 23rd.
The Antiques Roadshow is coming to Wells this year. The BBC show will be filmed at the Bishop’s Palace. Anyone with a story behind an antique is asked to apply online.
Plans to build up to 30 homes in Milborne Port have been dropped. Developers, Toft Hill Ltd, lost a legal battle in 2019 over plans to build 50 homes in the village. They then submitted an application to with fewer dwellings on the site but South Somerset District Council also rejected this application. Now, the Planning Inspectorate has upheld the Council’s decision.
A community shop that supported local people through the pandemic is celebrating one year of opening this week. The Stoke-sub-Hamdon Community Shop, launched in March last year, has been run as a community hub by Emma Herrod, Lynn Foley and Katherine Rake. Throughout the Covid crisis, the shop has delivered prescriptions and groceries to shielding residents, helped with dog walking, as well as advertising job vacancies for local people looking for work.
A new website has been launched to support people in Somerset with mental health issues. One of Yeovil’s oldest pubs has been sold. Artwork on the theme of aviation produced by students at Yeovil College has gone on display at Leonardo Helicopters in Yeovil.A pupil at Tatworth Primary School near Chard has won a prize in a national competition for writing a book review...and more
Work laying a gas main on the A37 Dorchester Road near the Quicksilver Mail roundabout in Yeovil is to continue for a further two months. Somerset Council says the public toilets in Yeovil bus station will close at the end of the month but the waiting room will stay open temporarily. Former Yeovil Town Captain, Josh Staunton, has set up in business as a professional gardener...and more.
Somerset Council seeking to save £40 million by cutting one thousand jobs says 201 employees have so far applied to leave the authority based on voluntary redundancy. East Somerset Railway near Shepton Mallet has been used for filming the TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper's novel Rivals. An old-style red phone box in Castle Cary is being turned into Somerset's smallest museum...and more
Somerset's Chief Medical Officer says GP surgeries using healthcare professionals alongside doctors to provide treatments has freed up GP appointments. A farmer has been fined £15,000 for polluting a household water supply. Avon and Somerset’s new Police and Crime Commissioner has officially started work in the role. Chard Post Office is closed today for the handover of the business to new owners...and more.
Health inspectors have criticised Somerset's maternity services, including those at Yeovil Hospital. Somerset Council says re-opening Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre in its original form could cost up to £200,000 if a multi-million-pound upgrade of the building falls through. A film made by a Yeovil man on a budget of just five thousand pounds was screened at the prestigious British Independent Film Festival...and more.
The Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard says it needs an immediate injection of £100,000 to keep going. Yeovil’s Marlie Packer has returned to Yeovil Rugby Club where she began her rugby career 20 years ago. Twenty-five Town criers from across the South will be in Ilminster tomorrow competing in the annual Ilminster Town Criers' Competition...and more.
Train services through Somerset are again being disrupted today due to continued strike action by the train driver’s union ALSEF. A campaign has been launched in Somerset aimed at stopping people overdosing on opioids. A Somerset business is raising a smile with its name.‘Top Of The Clops’, a tack shop near Taunton has won a place in the top ten of the UK’s funniest business names...and more.
A woman driver has been told she faces a prison term for causing the deaths of two people in a crash on the A303. The AA says there are more potholes than ever on Somerset’s motorway network, leading to an increase in damage to vehicles. The new cancer treatment unit at Yeovil Hospital should be open before the end of the year...and more.
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