Yeovil MP, Adam Dance, says families and hospital staff should be given more information about re-opening maternity services at Yeovil Hospital. Yeovil’s renal unit on the Lynx West Trading Estate has been told it must improve on safety. Organisers of a Live Aid concert held in Yeovil 40 years ago are trying to contact the bands that played at the event for a reunion...and more.
Yeovil MP, Adam Dance, says families and hospital staff need more information about re-opening maternity services at Yeovil Hospital. Mr Dance says a lack of clarity over the timetable to re-open the baby unit in Yeovil is causing distress.
Yeovil’s renal unit on the Lynx West Trading Estate has been told it must improve on safety. Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission found a breach of regulation in the care plans for patients on dialysis, resulting in a “requires improvement” rating for safety.
Chard Community Hub and Watch teams are appealing for help in finding new premises. It follows Somerset Council's decision to sell the Boden Centre on Boden Street, where both groups are currently based.
A protest has been held outside the West Mendip Community Hospital near Glastonbury over plans to cut beds. NHS Somerset wants to reduce the number of beds from 30 to 16 and provide more care in the local community. A scheme to cut beds at Crewkerne Community Hospital has also sparked outrage.
Organisers of a Live Aid concert held in Yeovil 40 years ago are trying to contact the bands that played at the event. Seventeen groups came together to play live at the Johnson Hall in 1985, raising money for famine relief in Ethiopia. The 40th anniversary is being celebrated next Thursday at The Quicksilver Mail, Yeovil, with the showing of a film of the concert from 1985.
A modified Great Western Railway train has set a world record, travelling 200 miles on a single charge. The trial was part of celebrations to mark 200 years since the inception of the modern railway. GWR says the technology could be introduced in the future on services in Somerset.
The NHS says twenty-six thousand people in the South West signed up to stop smoking in the past twelve months. A teenager from Yeovil has raised more than four thousand pounds for a new dialysis machine at Bristol Children's Hospital. Yeovil Town take on Brackley Town in a National League fixture this evening, kick off at Huish Park is 7.45...and more
Families struggling to pay for their children to have breakfast over the summer holidays are being offered free breakfast bags at a church in Chard. Police are appealing for information after a sentimental gold pocket watch was stolen in North Petherton. A Bridgwater man sets off today on a 200-mile cycle ride to Barnstaple and Exeter, raising money for Kidney Research UK...and more.
Police are investigating a suspected arson attack in Yeovil. Women in Street and Glastonbury are being encouraged to take part in a scheme to highlight unsafe areas to walk alone. A Nottinghamshire man, on a pub-crawl around Britain to help boost the pub trade, is currently visiting pubs in Somerset...and more.
Services and acts of remembrance are taking place across Yeovil & South Somerset for VJ Day. An Ilminster café has unveiled a new defibrillator in the town. A room, named in honour of a member of Somerset Council’s Public Health team, has been opened at Yeovil Library...and more.
Yeovil residents are being asked whether they would pay for part of the Octagon Theatre refurbishment. Spending on buses in Somerset is the lowest per head in the region, according to the county's bus partnership. A Yeovil fraudster has been jailed for almost three years...and more.
A coroner has raised concerns after the death of a newborn baby at Yeovil District Hospital. Revised plans for the construction of up to 360 homes in Ilminster will be put forward in the autumn. Somerset’s Local Community Networks are marking the start of their third year in the county...and more.
A new 'family style' children's home for vulnerable children has opened in Somerset. Railway services between Yeovil and Exeter will run less frequently and at a slower speed from this week. A Crewkerne man has been given a one-year driving ban for drug driving. Chard Town Council says the public toilets near Sainsbury’s have been deep cleaned in preparation for re-opening them...and more.
Bus drivers with First Bus in Somerset are being balloted about possible strike action. Six thousand pounds has been raised towards repairing a boat, used for sightseeing trips on the River Parrett in Langport, after vandals damaged it. A hedgehog rescue charity in Somerset is facing closure due to a lack of funds...and more
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