Plans have been approved for a new McDonald's just off the Southfields roundabout near Ilminster. Police have released a CCTV image of two men they'd like to speak to after a man was attacked with a hammer in Yeovil. Somerset's doing the best in the country for giving people with weakened immune systems all their Covid jabs. People looking for work in Yeovil can now go to drop-in sessions for support...and more.
Plans have been approved for a new McDonald's just off the Southfields roundabout near Ilminster. The restaurant and drive-thru will be built off Jordan's Road, to the west of the Southfields roundabout on the A303. It’s expected to create up to sixty-five new jobs, as well as employ local builders during the construction phase.
Police have released a CCTV image of two men they'd like to speak to after a man was attacked with a hammer in Yeovil. The attack happened on Henford Hill last Friday, just after 8:30 in the morning. The man suffered facial fractures and lost some teeth. The CCTV footage can be viewed on the Avon and Somerset Police website.
Drug dealers who brought heroin and cocaine into Yeovil from London have received prison sentences totalling more than 20 years. The gang of three men and two women were sentenced at Taunton Crown Court for conspiracy to supply class A drugs. They were found to have brought five kilograms of illegal drugs into Taunton, Bridgwater and Yeovil between August 2020 and February last year
Somerset's doing the best in the country for giving people with weakened immune systems all their Covid jabs. Fourteen-and-a-half thousand people are in the group, and all have now been offered four Covid doses.
People looking for work in Yeovil can now go to drop-in sessions for support. Employment Plus is run by the Salvation Army and can also help people with food banks and paying their bills.
Historic England has launched an Aerial Photography Explorer through which online maps, showing images of Somerset over the past 100 years, can be viewed. Historic England is hoping people will use the map to research the place where they live.
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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