Work to upgrade the gas network on Preston Road in Yeovil begins later this month. Somerset Council has been given the go-ahead to deliver the final phase of the Yeovil Refresh project. The wet weather is being blamed for a big drop in visitor numbers to Somerset this summer...and more.
Work to upgrade the gas network on Preston Road in Yeovil begins later this month. Wales and West Utilities start the work on July 20th. A one-way system will operate between Larkhill Road, Preston Grove and Bell Chase until September 2nd. Watercombe Lane at its junction with Preston Road will close. Wales and West say the work is to ensure the gas network is ready to transport hydrogen and bio-methane, to help deliver a greener Somerset.
The future of eleven council buildings and services in Yeovil has been secured. At a meeting last night, members of Yeovil Town Council voted to take over the management, staffing and funding of Yeovil Country Park, Mudford Rec and Westland Entertainment venue after Somerset Council said they could no longer afford to provide them.
Somerset Council has been given the go-ahead to deliver the final phase of the Yeovil Refresh project. The Council will now buy Glovers Walk and convert rooms above shops in Middle Street and Wyndham Street into living spaces. It follows the reallocation of £4.8 million of High Street funding to the Yeovil Refresh project by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
The wet weather is being blamed for a big drop in visitor numbers to Somerset. Accommodation providers, attractions, and food sellers say takings are down by around 20 percent on this time last year.
Hambridge Primary School has been awarded a School Games Gold Mark. The Games Mark is a government-led scheme that rewards schools for their commitment to the development of sporting competition within their school and the local community.
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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