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.
Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service says July has been its busiest month ever for emergency calls. Police have recovered a 1970s Austin Mini pick-up stolen in Shepton Mallet. A specialist spinal injuries service at Yeovil Hospital has treated three hundred patients in its first year... and more
The Environment Agency has declared a drought across Somerset as the hot weather takes its toll on the county's water supplies. Police are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic accident near Crewkerne. A bowls player from Yeovil has won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow...and more
Police have arrested two suspects in connection with a series of moped thefts in Chard. A combine harvester has been destroyed in a farm fire at Forton, near Chard. A bowls player from Yeovil has won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow... and more
The former Beales department store in Yeovil could be brought back into use as part of a wider masterplan for the future of the town. A yellow heat health alert is in place across Somerset from nine o’clock this morning until nine o’clock on Friday morning. A Somerset farmer says this year is the driest on his land since 1976... and more
Gooch and Housego, based in Ilminster and one of the town’s biggest employers, has been sold in a multi-million-pound deal to an American private equity firm. A father who shook his four-week-old baby to death at a house in Chard has been sentenced to life in prison. A doctor who works for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance is one of five people to have jointly set a new world record for rowing around Great Britain... and more
Avon and Somerset Police are warning people to watch out for scammers posing as Amazon. The CEO of the company that provides Somerset's recycling is warning of a major incident if people continue to put used batteries in waste bins. A former Yeovil pub could be demolished to make way for a major hotel expansion.
The West Country is officially one step closer to being declared in drought. Somerset Council says it's remodelling its service after a children's home was closed following an inspection. A new McDonald's planned off the M5 at Bridgwater could create up to 120 local jobs... and more
Two men have been jailed for stealing electrical items and cash from a property in Yeovil. Somerset Council has defended its use of Yeovil’s new performance area in The Triangle, in Lower Middle Street. Tintinhull Primary School, near Yeovil, has won a top national award for outdoor play... and more
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