Ninety-eight percent of children in Somerset applying for places at secondary schools have been given a place at one of their top three chosen secondary schools. A Somerset woman has started a national campaign to make sure NHS staff don't go hungry. Organisers of ‘Live in Somerset’ say they're trying hard to find a replacement for Olly Murs and fundraising is underway in Donyatt near Ilminster to pay for improvements to a play area.
Ninety-eight percent of children in Somerset applying for places at secondary schools have been given a place at one of their top three chosen secondary schools. The County Council says ninety-five percent of children have been given a place at their top choice of school. The County Council says it's dealt with the largest number of secondary school applications ever received.
A Somerset woman has started a national campaign to make sure NHS staff don't go hungry. Neely Mozowala, a specialist Diabetes Podiatrist, started an online baking group for medics after finding that NHS workers on the night shift were going hungry because of a lack of food provided within hospitals. She's now calling on the NHS to make sure that enough food is available 24-hours-a-day
in hospitals.
Organisers of ‘Live in Somerset’ say they're trying hard to find a replacement for Olly Murs. It follows the singer’s decision to withdraw from performing at the event due to a knee operation. Rag and Bone Man and Simply Red are booked to appear at ‘Live in Somerset’ in Vivary Park, in Taunton, in late August.
Fundraising is underway in Donyatt near Ilminster to pay for improvements to a play area. Organisers are aiming to raise £1500 for new equipment, including a children’s seesaw, at Donyatt Recreation ground.
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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