Local News Wednesday 6th April

Wednesday, 6 April 2022 06:00

Leonardo helicopters in Yeovil has announced a new £360 million contract to deliver support to the UK’s fleet of Navy and Army Wildcat helicopters. Somerset has failed to secure millions of pounds of investment for local bus services. Plans have been submitted to convert a former restaurant in Yeovil into flats. Higher prices are on the way at your local chippy and Glastonbury has been named the best music festival in the UK and the second-best in the world.

Leonardo helicopters in Yeovil has announced a new £360 million contract to deliver support to the UK’s fleet of Navy and Army Wildcat helicopters. The order has secured 340 industry jobs for the next five years and boosted the Yeovil factory. Meanwhile, Leonardo says it’s still awaiting a decision on the contract to supply its AW 149 as a new medium-lift helicopter to the British military. Managing Director of Leonardo in Yeovil Nick Whitney says it’s an order they have to win.

Somerset has failed to secure millions of pounds of investment for local bus services. The County Council’s been told that it will get £11 million of the £163 million that it had asked for. The government says the money will make buses run more frequently and make fares more affordable.

Plans have been submitted to convert a former restaurant in Yeovil into flats. If the application is approved by South Somerset District Council the first and second floors above the former Amrit Indian restaurant on the corner of South Western Terrace and Middle Street would be turned into five flats.

Higher prices are on the way at your local chippy. With the price of potatoes, fish and energy all going up, a bag of fish and chips is costing more. The manager of Whites fish and chip shop in Chard, Estella Neal, says it getting harder to make a profit out of selling fish and chips.

Glastonbury has been named the best music festival in the UK and the second-best in the world. The online gaming site, Slingo, analysed fifty festivals and put Glastonbury well ahead of the Parklife, Boomtown, and Reading festivals both in terms of performers and location.

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