Thursday 22nd February

Thursday, 22 February 2024 06:00

By Steve Haigh

The 54 and 58 bus routes that operate out of Yeovil have been saved from closure. Work has been completed on a four-year-long project to smarten up Chard town centre. The Conservative opposition Leader at Somerset Council is warning of 1200 job cuts as the Council makes savings of £100 million...and more.

Somerset Council and the operators of Buses of Somerset have reached an agreement that will ensure the 54 and 58 services out of Yeovil are kept running. Both services had been at risk due to low passenger numbers and budget cuts at Somerset Council but will now operate until March next year when a further review will take place. The 54 bus runs from Yeovil to Taunton passing through Somerton and Langport. While the 58 runs between Yeovil and Wincanton via Sherborne.

The Leader of Somerset Council, Councillor Bill Revans says he and his fellow Lib Dem colleagues had no alternative but to vote in support of cutting the Council’s spending by £100 million, otherwise, the authority would have been declared bankrupt. At a full meeting of Somerset Council earlier this week, Lib Dem councillors voted to put up the Council Tax by five per cent together with implementing deep cuts to a wide range of council services. Despite the cuts, Councillor Revans says the financial problems facing Somerset Council are far from over.

A Yeovil man has been fined £100 and given a community order for attacking a woman. Appearing at Poole Magistrates Court, Owynn Kew, aged 30, of Milford Road in Yeovil pleaded guilty to beating the woman in Lenthay Road in Sherborne in March last year.

Work has been completed on a four-year-long project to smarten up the look of Chard town centre. The Chard Heritage Action Project has involved relaying pavements and freshening up shop fronts. Restoration work has also been carried out at many of the 136 Listed Buildings in Chard, including the Guildhall and Chard School.

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