Drivers at Buses for Somerset are involved in a second day of strike action today. Police in Yeovil confiscated a motorbike that was being ridden without insurance. This year’s Charter Fair in Crewkerne will take place over three days from the 6th to the 8th of September. The main road through the cliffs at Cheddar Gorge is closed again today for filming...and more.
Drivers belonging to the RMT at Buses for Somerset are involved in a second day of strike action today in their ongoing dispute over pay and conditions. Passengers are being told to expect delays and cancellations, with many routes across the County impacted. Somerset Buses claim that the RMT failed to share two improved pay offers with the drivers. The union denied the claim.
New figures have shown no real improvement in waiting times at A&E departments in Yeovil and Taunton. Data for June shows two out of every five patients attending A&E at Yeovil Hospital and Musgrove Park Hospital waited more than four hours to be seen. NHS Somerset says frontline teams continue to work under significant pressure but recognises that waiting times are far from what they should be.
Police in Yeovil confiscated a motorbike that was being ridden without insurance. Officers seized the machine following reports of it being ridden on public footpaths in Ninesprings Country Park. Police say the rider was arrested for various driving offences, including driving while under the influence of illegal substances.
The main road through the cliffs at Cheddar Gorge is closed again today for filming. It’s believed Cheddar Gorge is being used to shoot sequences for the new Danny Boyle movie Zoombie.
The date has been announced for this year’s Charter Fair and Street Market in Crewkerne. Organized by Crewkerne Rotary Club it will take place from Friday, September 6th until Sunday, September 8th. The Mayor of Crewkerne will officially open the Fair, with all profits supporting local good causes.
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.
Somerset Council states that gas canisters were responsible for igniting six fires at local sorting facilities last year. A leading medical academic in the South West says vaccine fatigue could be the reason why so many vulnerable people are not having a COVID-19 spring booster jab. Avon and Somerset Police say the waiting time for calls to be answered to the non-emergency number 101 has been cut to an average of 11 seconds...and more
Police say they have traced a man, believed to be a witness to an incident in Chard in which a teenager alleges she was sexually assaulted. A campaign has started aimed at cutting the number of motorcyclists, cyclists and e-scooter users killed and seriously injured on Somerset's roads. Yeovil Town Council has taken over the management of Yeovil's public parks after Somerset Council announced it could no longer afford to maintain them...and more.
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