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.
It's claimed the increasing availability of drugs such as ketamine and cocaine has normalised drug use among young people in Somerset. The trial of a man accused of killing his one-month-old son in Chard begins today at Bristol Crown Court. A stone pillar outside the Langport Arms Hotel in Langport has been replaced after it was destroyed in a car crash... and more
Sir Keir Starmer has paid tribute to the three aircrew from RNAS Yeovilton who died in last week's helicopter crash in Devon. Two men have been arrested and stolen vehicles seized following a major multi-agency operation in South Somerset. An event highlighting opportunities for women in the aerospace industry has been held in Yeovil... and more
The public will be consulted on how best to spend fifty million pounds of government funding to tackle flooding in Somerset. Avon and Somerset Police are backing a new road safety campaign aimed at reducing motorcycle fatalities. New welcome signs have been installed at entrances to the Mendip Hills National Landscape... and more
The government has announced a £50 million investment to strengthen Somerset’s flood defences. A woman from Stoke-sub-Hamdon has been banned from driving for 14 months after admitting drink-driving. Somerset Council has been told it must improve its adult social care services... and more
Plans for a new railway station in Langport remain stalled in Whitehall, according to Somerset Council. Plans to build 50 new homes in Broadway, near Ilminster, have been refused. The new water fountains in Yeovil’s Triangle, in Lower Middle Street, are being switched off during very hot weather because of safety concerns... and more.
A new NHS dental practice in Crewkerne says it won’t start operating at full capacity until July due to staff shortages. Somerset Council says it has no plans to show England matches in the World Cup on the Big Screen in Yeovil town centre due to safety concerns. A Somerset family has been thanked after completing a 73-mile walk raising money for a third world charity... and more
An investigation continues today into the crash of a Royal Navy helicopter, based at RNAS Yeovilton, in which all three aircrew were killed. Somerset Council has confirmed that a new operator will take over several leisure centres across the county. The new live-action Masters of the Universe movie, filmed in Somerset, is released this week...and more
A Yeovil man has appeared in court charged with assaulting three police officers. Somerset Council has begun legal action to recover more than £320,000 owed by housing developers. The line-up has been announced for this year’s Ilminster Midsummer Experience...and more
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