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 Chief Executive of Somerset Council, Duncan Sharkey, has admitted to making mistakes in cutting jobs. Yeovil MP Adam Dance is supporting a Lib Dem initiative to introduce a new ‘Farm First’ training scheme. Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance has launched an appeal to help buy a second helicopter... and more.
A man has appeared in court in connection with an attack in Wincanton. A member of Somerset Council, jailed for 26 months for taking part in a Just Stop Oil protest, may not have to stand down as a councillor. NHS Somerset has announced that changes to stroke services at Yeovil Hospital will "go live" in the spring of next year...and more
Avon and Somerset Police say 62 drivers were arrested in the first week of the Christmas drink and drug driving campaign. A reindeer farm near Yeovil thinks it may have to close after being told it needs a Zoo licence. Father Christmas has made a special delivery of presents to Charlton Farm Children's Hospice in Somerset...and more
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset has criticised the government for axing the role. Police are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic accident near Ilminster in which a woman was seriously injured. Residents of Freedom Avenue in Yeovil are raising funds for charity with a big display of Christmas lights...and more.
Plans to build 150 new homes in Ilminster have been scrapped. A Somerset councillor has been jailed for 26 months. Marks & Spencer wants to build a new Food Store in Ilminster. Poundland has announced that it’s shutting its store in Middle Street in Yeovil...and more
Police are appealing for witnesses after an assault on a man in Chard. Lloyds Banking Group has announced a date for closing the Halifax in Yeovil. Train journeys on the Castle Cary to Taunton line will be disrupted next week due to engineering work. The mental health charity MIND in Somerset has produced a Christmas advent calendar... and more.
The Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Police says her force is doing all it can to reduce anti-social behaviour. Somerset Council has deferred a decision on introducing Sunday car parking charges. People living in deprived areas in Somerset are being fast-tracked for hospital treatment...and more
Fire crews have rescued the driver of a car that got stuck in floodwater near Ilminster. Avon and Somerset Police are urging people going out to celebrate this Christmas to book a taxi or use public transport. A woman from South Petherton has come top at the British Down Syndrome Swimming Championships...and more,
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