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
A new website has been launched to support people in Somerset with mental health issues. One of Yeovil’s oldest pubs has been sold. Artwork on the theme of aviation produced by students at Yeovil College has gone on display at Leonardo Helicopters in Yeovil.A pupil at Tatworth Primary School near Chard has won a prize in a national competition for writing a book review...and more
Work laying a gas main on the A37 Dorchester Road near the Quicksilver Mail roundabout in Yeovil is to continue for a further two months. Somerset Council says the public toilets in Yeovil bus station will close at the end of the month but the waiting room will stay open temporarily. Former Yeovil Town Captain, Josh Staunton, has set up in business as a professional gardener...and more.
Somerset Council seeking to save £40 million by cutting one thousand jobs says 201 employees have so far applied to leave the authority based on voluntary redundancy. East Somerset Railway near Shepton Mallet has been used for filming the TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper's novel Rivals. An old-style red phone box in Castle Cary is being turned into Somerset's smallest museum...and more
Somerset's Chief Medical Officer says GP surgeries using healthcare professionals alongside doctors to provide treatments has freed up GP appointments. A farmer has been fined £15,000 for polluting a household water supply. Avon and Somerset’s new Police and Crime Commissioner has officially started work in the role. Chard Post Office is closed today for the handover of the business to new owners...and more.
Health inspectors have criticised Somerset's maternity services, including those at Yeovil Hospital. Somerset Council says re-opening Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre in its original form could cost up to £200,000 if a multi-million-pound upgrade of the building falls through. A film made by a Yeovil man on a budget of just five thousand pounds was screened at the prestigious British Independent Film Festival...and more.
The Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard says it needs an immediate injection of £100,000 to keep going. Yeovil’s Marlie Packer has returned to Yeovil Rugby Club where she began her rugby career 20 years ago. Twenty-five Town criers from across the South will be in Ilminster tomorrow competing in the annual Ilminster Town Criers' Competition...and more.
Train services through Somerset are again being disrupted today due to continued strike action by the train driver’s union ALSEF. A campaign has been launched in Somerset aimed at stopping people overdosing on opioids. A Somerset business is raising a smile with its name.‘Top Of The Clops’, a tack shop near Taunton has won a place in the top ten of the UK’s funniest business names...and more.
A woman driver has been told she faces a prison term for causing the deaths of two people in a crash on the A303. The AA says there are more potholes than ever on Somerset’s motorway network, leading to an increase in damage to vehicles. The new cancer treatment unit at Yeovil Hospital should be open before the end of the year...and more.
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