Police are appealing for witnesses after items, including a brick, were thrown from the top floor of the car park at the Tesco store in Yeovil. Two new care homes could soon be built in Chard. The RSPB is urging us to watch our steps and keep dogs on leads when walking at its nature reserves. Frome has been named as an example of a town encouraging local pride and boosting its high street...and more.
Police are appealing for witnesses after items, including a brick, were thrown from the top floor of the car park at the Tesco store in Yeovil, narrowly missing a baby in a pushchair and others who were walking over a zebra crossing. The incident happened last Thursday afternoon. Police are looking for two youths wearing dark clothing seen on the top deck of the Tesco store car park at Huish. Anyone with dashcam footage of two youths matching the description or, who can help in any other way, is asked to call the non-emergency number 101.
A builder from Somerset who drove to Poland with donations of clothing and other items to give to Ukrainian refugees is now encouraging people to give money instead of goods to help with the war effort. Graham Monks drove 2,000 miles to Poland with things that he says he could have bought in Poland.
Two new care homes could soon be built in Chard. Plans to build a seventy-bed care home on East Street near the Lidl supermarket were submitted in May last year. Now, a second care home with sixty-six beds on Furnham Road has been proposed. South Somerset District Council is expected to make a decision on both applications in the autumn.
The RSPB is urging us to watch our steps and keep dogs on leads when walking at its nature reserves. It's to protect ground-nesting birds as we head into their breeding season.
Frome has been named as an example of a town encouraging local pride and boosting its high street. A report from the Federation of Small Businesses called ‘Freedom, Funding and Fearlessness’ says towns need the freedom to work out what they need and the funding to support new initiatives. It’s highlighted Frome’s independent market as an example of how a town can attract more shoppers.
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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