Chard Community Hospital is to help more residents, with its minor injuries unit opening seven days a week. Yeovil’s Pittards has confirmed it has appointed administrators. Broadband in Chard, Tatworth and Forton is lagging behind much of the region...and more.
Chard Community Hospital looks set to help more residents, with its minor injuries unit opening seven days a week from this week. Two emergency nurse practitioners have been added to the team and a new x-ray machine is due to be installed. However, the installation of the new machine means that temporarily there will be no X-ray facilities in the unit until October.
Yeovil’s struggling Pittards has confirmed it has appointed administrators and both the factory and shop were reported closed yesterday afternoon. However, there are hopes that a buyer could still be found for the leather goods company and a sign on the factory door states that the shop will be reopening again on Thursday.
An investigation has named Wessex Water as one of three major companies in England to have discharged sewage hundreds of times last year, on days when it wasn’t raining. Whilst the release of sewage is legal when it’s wet, the practice is illegal on dry days. A total of three and a half thousand hours of discharges by Thames, Southern and Wessex Water were identified in the report. Wessex Water disputes the data used.
Chard, Tatworth and Forton are lagging behind much of the region, when it comes to broadband, that’s according to Chard South Councillor, Connor Payne. Connor says that whilst 68 per cent of the South West has download speeds of 1,000 megabits per second, some properties in the town are only just being hooked up with full fibre.
And a road in Winsham will be closed for 19 days later this month so that National Grid can install a new electric and water supply. Court Street will be closed from 8 am on September 25th.
The first of the new medium lift helicopters being built by Leonardo in Yeovil for the RAF will be delivered in 2031. Somerset Council has launched a public consultation on planned new charges at its two hundred public car parks. More women in Somerset are said to be taking up walking football... and more
A Yeovil headteacher says he’s concerned about plans to stop giving school holiday food vouchers to families on low incomes. The owner of Yeovil Town is calling on fans to be patient as he continues his overhaul of the National League side. A high voltage fault is being blamed for plunging 1700 homes into darkness in the Ilminster area... and more
Plans have been submitted to convert two properties in Yeovil into houses of multiple occupation. A new court date has been announced for a Yeovil man charged with attempted murder. An engineer who has worked at the Leonardo factory in Yeovil for 40-years has won a top industry award... and more
Police say a fire at the former Oscar Mayer food factory in Chard was started deliberately. Yeovil College says it would have been adversely affected had Leonardo not won the contract to build new medium-lift helicopters. A seven-foot dragon will be visiting towns and villages in our area during the next few weeks to promote Somerset Day... and more
Two Wildcat helicopters from 815 Squadron at RNAS Yeovilton have arrived in Cyprus to help protect RAF Akrotiri from further Iranian drone strikes. New figures show that 40 people were killed on Avon and Somerset’s roads in the last 12-months. A Somerset man has been recalling the day 60-years ago when he was a passenger on the last train on the Somerset and Dorset Railway... and more
Defence Minister Luke Pollard has been explaining why it took the government so long to confirm a contract for the Leonardo in Yeovil to build new medium lift helicopters for the RAF. Police are investigating a break in at a pet shop in Ilminster. Somerset Council is to stop using red ink on council tax reminder letters... and more
Two military helicopters from RNAS Yeovilton are being sent to Cyprus to help bolster UK’s defences amid the US-Israel war with Iran. Yeovil Town Council is seeking legal advice over the closure of the hyper acute stroke unit at Yeovil Hospital. Flood warnings have been lifted on the Somerset Levels... and more
A man has died in a fire in Wincanton. Somerset Council is planning further cuts of twenty-one million pounds to help balance its books. A campaign to raise £30,000 for a minibus has been launched in Chard... and more
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