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.
There’s been a call for the Somerset Levels to be designated a National Landscape. A Yeovil man has raised £2,000 for a new school minibus at Fairmead School in Yeovil by running the London Marathon. Exmoor Ales, which provides cask ales across the region and beyond, is closing its Somerset brewery and moving the business to Surrey...and more.
The long-awaited refurbishment of Yeovil police station is finally to get underway this summer. Plans have been approved to build 185 new homes off Bunford Lane in Yeovil. Police have arrested three men in Yeovil for being involved in the supply of Class A drugs. A Somerset jockey has been named Champion Conditional Jockey of 2025...and more.
New figures have shown that registering as a new patient with an NHS dentist in Somerset is still just as difficult as it was six months ago. The go-ahead has been given to build 160 new houses on Station Road in Castle Cary. A sailor from South Petherton has been chosen to lead a team in the round-the-world Clipper Race...and more.
Somerset Council is being criticised for taking too long to re-open Yeovil's Octagon Theatre. The Liberal Democrats have won a seat on Chard Town Council by one vote. Dates have been announced for this year’s illuminated carnival processions in South Somerset...and more.
Police are investigating the theft of a motorbike in Ilminster. Tributes have been paid to the former Yeovil Town player-manager, Cecil Irwin, who has died aged 83. Town criers from across the South West will be in Yeovil tomorrow competing for the loudest voice in the Yeovil Town Crier Competition 2025...and more
Police are appealing for witnesses to an accident in which a child was struck by a car in Yeovil. This week, a planning inquiry is being held into plans to turn a Somerset shopping centre into a retirement complex. A Somerset woman is planning to walk the 70-miles of Hadrian's Wall to mark her 90th birthday...and more.
Tourism bosses in Somerset say they feel confident the County will have a good summer for visitors this year. A group representing care providers in Somerset is warning that some residential homes are at risk of going out of business due to rising costs. A Somerset animal charity has taken into care, three orphaned badger cubs...and more.
The Care Quality Commission has given two GP practices in Yeovil a 'good' overall rating. According to insurers, AXA, thefts at commercial premises in Somerset are on the rise. Bus users in Somerset could see changes to the frequency of services when the new West of England mayor takes office. Martock is to host its first Pride event in June...and more.
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