Police are investigating a break-in at a school in Thorncombe, near Chard. Police are investigating a break-in at a school in Thorncombe, near Chard. The South West Officer of the National Education Union has backed calls for the government to expand the free school meals programme to all families on Universal Credit. Organisers of the Shindig Festival held last weekend on the Dillington Estate near Ilminster are celebrating a record crowd...and more.
Police are investigating a break-in at a school in Thorncombe, near Chard. A fire door was reportedly forced open, triggering the intruder alarm, following the break-in at St Mary's Primary School on Chard Road, between 9 am and 9:30 am on Sunday, May 29th. Police are asking anyone with information to call the non-emergency number 101.
A scheme to help military patients and their families in Somerset is expanding. The NHS in Somerset has teamed up with the Defence Medical Welfare Service charity to support patients at Yeovil Hospital.
The South West Officer of the National Education Union has backed calls for the government to expand the free school meals programme to all families on Universal Credit. The government has put extra money into providing free school meals but Robin Head says that ministers need to go further.
Organisers of the Shindig Festival held last weekend on the Dillington Estate near Ilminster are celebrating a record crowd. They say 10,000 revellers attended the three-day event, which was being staged after a gap of two years due to Covid.
A local football team that raised six thousand pounds to take part in an international soccer tournament fly to Barcelona today. The South West Cerebral Palsy Football team play their first game in the competition tomorrow.
A man from Chard has qualified to represent Great Britain with his German Shepherd at a dog training competition in the Czech Republic. Aidan Jackson and his five-and-a-half-year-old German Shepherd, Brody, will represent GB at the All-Breed World Championships in September.
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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