Yeovil College has been given a £30 million pounds boost. A decision on building 250 new homes in Chard has been deferred. A car’s been damaged by fire in South Petherton. A Somerset GP is due to pass through Yeovil today on a sponsored walk for the homeless charity, Shelter. Extras are wanted for a film to be made in Yeovil....and more.
Yeovil College has been given a £30 million pounds boost. The money from the government’s FE Capital Transformation Fund will be used to re-design the college’s training restaurant, hair and beauty salon, performing arts studio, gym and sports hall. An accessible student hub and learning zone will also be built. Construction is due to begin next summer.
A decision on building 250 new homes in Chard has been deferred. Land to the south of the town, close to the A358, has been earmarked for development. South Somerset District Council has asked for more details before making a decision on the plans.
A car’s been damaged by fire in South Petherton. The vehicle burst into flames while parked in West Street on Monday. The fire service says the cause was accidental.
A Somerset GP is due to pass through Yeovil today on a sponsored walk for the homeless charity, Shelter. Dr Neil Rushton spent last night sleeping in a tent on the first leg of his 180-mile trek to London. Doctor Rushton aims to collect £10,000 for Shelter and is hoping people living along the route of his walk will turn out to support his efforts.
A Yeovil business has been given the job of building a new depot for school transport vehicles. Somerset Landscapes Ltd will convert a site in Bridgwater into a depot for school minibuses and coaches at a cost of £288,000.
Extras are wanted for a film to be made in Yeovil. Casting agency, Casting Collective is looking for men and women to work on the set of the movie but has given no further details about the project. Other scenes will be made in Lyme Regis and around South Somerset. To work on the film, you must be legally allowed to work in the UK with a National Insurance number. For further information and to apply visit: www.castingcollective.co.uk/artistes/urgent-casting-calls#dorset
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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