Anyone in South Somerset who's booked a second Covid jab is being asked to change the appointment to an earlier date. Businesses in South Somerset are planning to offer staff the option to continue working from home post lockdown. In a survey. Police are seeking witnesses to an incident in a Yeovil pub in which a man suffered a punctured lung. Fire has damaged the kitchen of a bungalow in Martock. Police are appealing for help in tracing a man who has gone missing from his home near Sherborne...and more.
Anyone in South Somerset who's booked a second Covid jab is being asked to change the appointment to an earlier date. The government wants to give more people a second dose before July 19th when it’s thought lockdown restrictions in England will be lifted.
Businesses in South Somerset are planning to offer staff the option to continue working from home post lockdown. In a survey, Somerset Chamber of Commerce says more than 60 percent of businesses intend to introduce home working. It comes as independent shops and cafes in South Somerset report increased takings thanks to more people working from home and shopping locally.
Police are seeking witnesses to an incident in a Yeovil pub in which a man suffered a punctured lung. The attack happened in the men's toilets at The Arrow pub, off Stourton Way, on Sunday, June 13th, at around 9 pm. Anyone who can help is asked to call the non-emergency number 101.
Fire has damaged the kitchen of a bungalow in Martock. It happened in Eastfield Close. The fire service says the cause was accidental.
Police are appealing for help in tracing a man who has gone missing from his home near Sherborne. Joseph Richards, who’s 34, was last seen leaving his home in Holwell at lunchtime on Monday. He’s described as six feet tall with a short beard and tattoos on his right arm. At the time he disappeared, he was driving a grey Volkswagen Passat estate with the registration LL 52 GKO.
Plans have been submitted to convert a tractor shed into a shop and cafe at the Somerset and Dorset Animal Rescue Centre in Common Lane, Wincanton. The charities also want to locate a shepherd’s hut at the Balsam Farm site to use for holiday accommodation.
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.