Local News Wednesday 1st June

Wednesday, 1 June 2022 at 06:00

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.

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