A potential takeover of Yeovil Town Football Club has collapsed. Yeovil’s new Mayor Andy Kendall says one of his top priorities is to get the Yeovil Refresh project in the town centre completed as soon as possible. Households in Somerset are being reminded that recycling and rubbish collections are running on their usual days this week....and more.
A potential takeover of Yeovil Town Football Club has collapsed amid on-going uncertainty about the club’s future. Matt Uggla of SU Glovers Ltd who it was expected would buy the Club has announced that talks with owner Scott Priestnall have ended without agreement. News of Mr Uggla’s withdrawal comes just days after Yeovil Town failed to pay the wages of its staff and players; a situation the Club says has now been resolved.
Yeovil’s new Mayor Andy Kendall says one of his top priorities is to get work on the Yeovil Refresh project in the town centre completed as soon as possible. Councillor Kendall, who was formally installed as the new Mayor of Yeovil at the annual meeting of Town Council last night, says upgrading the town centre is likely to continue for a further 12 to 15 months but after that he believes Yeovil will thrive.
Police are investigating after a number of garden fences were vandalised in Chard. Four fences in Snowdon Cottage Lane, off Helliers Road, were damaged at about 11pm on Sunday night. If you can help the police with their inquiries, please call the non emergency number 101.
Drivers in Somerset are being warned to expect more farm traffic on the roads in the coming days as farmers start the first silage cut of the season. It comes as the insurer NFU Mutual urge farmers not to put themselves at risk as they try to beat the weather.
Households in Somerset are being reminded that recycling and rubbish collections are running on their usual days this week despite Monday being a Bank Holiday. Collections next week will be a day later because of the Coronation Bank Holiday Monday.
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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