Monday 3rd August

Monday, 3 August 2026 at 06:00

By Steve Haigh

A yellow Heat Health Alert is in force across Somerset today. The swimming and leisure centre in Street remains closed following last Thursday's flooding in the plant room. Plans for a new primary school in Chard have been delayed until at least 2030... and more

A yellow Heat Health Alert is in force across Somerset today. The warning means there's an increased risk to vulnerable people, including the elderly, with health and social care services also expected to come under additional pressure.

The swimming and leisure centre in Street remains closed following last Thursday's flooding in the plant room. Freedom Leisure says electrical contractors are due on site today, with the centre expected to reopen later this week.

Plans for a new primary school in Chard have been delayed until at least 2030. Somerset Council had hoped the school, on the Holyrood Academy site, would open by September 2027. The authority says rising construction costs, falling birth rates and delays to new housing developments have forced the project back.

A member of staff at Crispin School in Street has been dismissed after being filmed making comments about Black and Asian pupils during an anti-immigration protest in Taunton. Wessex Learning Trust says the remarks do not reflect the school's values and confirmed the woman will not be returning in September.

Somerset Council will spend just over twenty-three million pounds on parking enforcement over the next eight years. The new contract follows the expiry of the authority's previous agreement and is intended to ensure enforcement continues without disruption.

A Tintinhull man has been banned from driving for three years after admitting drink and drug driving. Thirty-year-old Dale James Campbell, of Bearley Lane, was stopped by police in Yeovil after his vehicle was found to have no insurance or MOT. He was also fined eight hundred pounds and ordered to pay four hundred pounds in court costs.

The Gateway café at Yeovil Community Church has applied for a licence to serve alcohol from eleven in the morning until eleven at night, seven days a week. Somerset Council is inviting representations before making a decision.

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