Tourism businesses in South Somerset say they're ready to re-open safely to visitors. A Yeovil man, accused of rape and sexual activity with a child, has been jailed for eight years and nine months. Somerset County Council is being asked to remove the new speed bumps on St Michael’s Avenue in Yeovil.
Tourism businesses in South Somerset say they're ready to re-open safely to visitors as soon as restrictions allow. The Prime Minister has announced that self-catering accommodation can open from the 12th of April, while hotels and bed and breakfast accommodations remain closed until the 17th of May. It means all sectors will miss the Easter weekend. Mark Edwards from Langport, who has holiday lets across the Westcountry, says the days the government have chosen are unhelpful.
A Yeovil man, accused of rape and sexual activity with a child, has been jailed for eight years and nine months after pleading guilty to the charges against him. Bristol Crown Court was told that Alan Barney of Roseberry Avenue in Yeovil abused the girl when she was thirteen and that a month earlier, he had forced himself on a woman. Both incidents were said to have happened in the Bristol area.
Somerset County Council is being asked to remove the new speed bumps on St Michael’s Avenue in Yeovil. Local residents claim the traffic calming measures are not working. They say the bumps are too shallow to slow speeding traffic. Somerset County Council says the original speed bumps were in a state of disrepair and needed replacing and that it’s too early to fully gauge the effectiveness of the new measures.
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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