New 'Pop-Up' clinics have opened in Somerset. A service set up to transport seriously ill patients from hospital to hospital in the South West is being extended. Chard Football Club is looking to raise £80,000 to build new changing facilities at its ground on Zembard Lane. 700 new trees were planted at Ham Hill country park in the last month. A group set up in Ilminster to launch a repair shop is looking for more volunteers and a pub in Yeovil town centre has been put up for sale.
New 'Pop-Up' clinics have opened in Somerset, including in Yeovil at the Westlands entertainment complex in Westbourne Close, for young people aged 12 to 15 to get a first Covid jab. It’s part of efforts to persuade parents to get their children vaccinated at the start of the new school term.
A service set up to transport seriously ill patients from hospital to hospital in the South West is being extended. Since the launch of the Retrieve Service a year ago, 700 patients have been transported between critical care units with the support of specialist medical teams.
Chard Football Club is looking to raise £80,000 to build new changing facilities at its ground on Zembard Lane. The club says the money raised will benefit the whole town as the football ground is open for everyone to use.
700 new trees were planted at Ham Hill country park in the last month. The initiative was part of National Tree Planting Week with land at Pit Wood populated with saplings. Head Ranger, Paul McNeill, says the planting has replaced trees lost to ash dieback and has increased the diversity of the fauna and flora at Ham Hill.
A group set up in Ilminster to launch a repair shop is looking for more volunteers. The project is about sharing tools, space, knowledge, and skills.
A pub in Yeovil town centre has been put up for sale. The Westminster on Westminster Street, owned by Enlighten Inns, is advertised at £285,000.
Bird flu has been found at a nature reserve in Somerset, closing part of it down. St Margaret’s Hospice in Somerset is calling for the hospice sector to be given more central funding. The Barrington Boar in Barrington has been placed 12th in The Good Food Guide’s list of 100 best pubs in Britain... and more
Police are investigating a suspected arson attack on a mobile home near Yeovil. Somerset Council is suggesting people turn their pumpkins into soup this Halloween. People in Yeovil have until Sunday to comment on controversial plans to sell off four car parks in the town centre... and more.
Plans have been submitted to build 12 new homes in Chard. A nursery in Yeovil has been rated ‘overall good' by Ofsted. A Somerset mortgage broker has achieved national recognition. A stretch of the M5 at Wellington will be shut every night this week...and more
The Unite union has announced four days of strikes by its members at Leonardo in Yeovil. One of Yeovil’s busiest roads is closed to traffic today. Staff at the Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard raised £3,000 taking part in a Sleeping Ruff challenge at the weekend...and more
New figures show that 500 young people were either injured or killed on roads in Somerset and Devon last year. The Old School Community Centre in Queen Camel has reopened, thanks to a donation of £10,000 from Somerset Freemasons. Two Fleet Air Arm engineers based at RNAS Yeovilton have recreated a family moment from 26 years ago...and more
Yeovil-born actress Sarah Parish is supporting efforts to reopen the Octagon theatre. Mobility scooter campaigners in Somerset have welcomed a government review of the legislation governing the use of mobility scooters on public highways. Changes are being made to the dates when garden waste is collected in Somerset...and more
A major house builder in the South West says government targets for new house building in Somerset are 'unrealistic'. Pizza Hut is closing its restaurant in Yeovil. Staff at the Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard will be taking part in a ‘Sleeping Ruff’ challenge tomorrow...and more
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Reckleford in Yeovil is to shut for 15 days for essential drainage works. Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has paid out compensation of £23 million for claims related to birth injuries. A Grade II listed building in Glastonbury has been converted into a health and wellbeing centre...and more
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