Yeovil's MP Marcus Fysh has joined calls for all lockdown restrictions to be removed before May. This week is the last chance for people to comment on planned major changes to the education system in Ilminster and Crewkerne. The building and grounds used for The Park School at Chilton Cantelo have been sold for just under 2-million pounds and more....
Yeovil's MP Marcus Fysh has joined calls for all lockdown restrictions to be removed before May. He’s one of a group of Conservative backbenchers wanting the government to relax some rules sooner following good progress with the Covid vaccine rollout. Mr Fysh says if the aim of vaccinating people aged over 50 by May is achieved, then the restrictions should end.
This week is the last chance for people to comment on planned major changes to the education system in Ilminster and Crewkerne. Under the proposals, the current system of first, middle and upper schools would end and be replaced with a flatter two-tier system of primary and secondary schools. It would mean that Merriott First School, Haselbury Plucknett Church of England First School, Ashlands Church of England First School, St Bartholomew’s Church of England First School would become primary schools. And, Wadham School in Crewkerne a secondary school, teaching children aged 11-19 instead of 13-19. Somerset County Council is due to make a final decision on the proposed changes at a meeting on March 17th.
The building and grounds used for The Park School at Chilton Cantelo have been sold for just under 2-million pounds. The Grade 11 listed 18th century manor house and 17-acres have been bought by a local buyer. It’s understood money from the sale will be used to pay-off debts from when The Park School closed last year.
More financial support is needed for outdoor learning centres. Mill-on-the-Brue in Bruton hasn't been able to provide overnight trips for primary school children since last March. Owner, Tricia Rawlingson Plan, says that without government help they can’t go on much longer.
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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