Thursday 6th June

Thursday, 6 June 2024 06:00

By Steve Haigh

Events are being held in towns and villages today across South Somerset to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Yeovil Hospital has paid £3,000 in compensation after failing to get consent to take a patient's DNA. Repairs to the A30 on the Devon-Somerset border are finally underway after nearly three years of waiting...and more.

Events are being held today in towns and villages across South Somerset to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Events are being held in towns and villages across South Somerset today to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day. A service of remembrance is being held at the War Memorial in the centre of Yeovil. In Chard, a Flag of Peace is being raised over the Guildhall and in Somerton, children at King Ina Academy are reading out a Tribute Poem. Meanwhile, the charity Navy Wings, based at RNAS Yeovilton, is flying heritage aircraft over Somerset today. The Fleet Air Arm played a pivotal role in supporting Allied troops as they prepared to land on the beaches of Normandy on June 6th 1944.
In Chard, a Flag of Peace is being raised over the Guildhall and in Somerton, children at King Ina Academy are reading out a Tribute Poem. Meanwhile, the charity Navy Wings, based at RNAS Yeovilton, is flying heritage aircraft over Somerset today. The Fleet Air Arm played a pivotal role in supporting Allied troops as they prepared to land on the beaches of Normandy on June 6th 1944.

Yeovil Hospital has paid £3,000 in compensation after failing to follow its own protocols to get consent to take a patient's DNA. Stuart Brown complained that his genetic data was taken without him giving informed consent while he was in a coma.

Repairs to the A30 on the Devon-Somerset border are finally underway after nearly three years of waiting. Since July 2021 motorists travelling on the A30 have had to contend with temporary traffic lights at Crawley Farm, near Yarcombe. The lights were installed following a major landslip, with motorists facing delays ever since. The repairs are due to be completed and the lights removed by the end of November.

A pop-up Green Shop will open in Ilminster on Saturday for one day only. The Great Big Green Swap Shop will sell clothes, books, toys, and bric-a-brac, as part of the Ilminster Midsummer Experience Festival from the Sweet Surprise on Silver Street.

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The new owner of Yeovil Town says he’s in talks with Somerset Council about buying back Huish Park. Water levels at some of Somerset’s reservoirs are below what they should be for this time of year. A Chard woman has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours... and more.
Friday 13th June

Police are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic accident near Chard, which left one person with life-threatening injuries. Texas Rocks in Middle Street, Yeovil, has closed temporarily following a significant fire. A Yeovil dental hygienist has been named as a finalist in the Ms Great Britain competition...and more.
Thursday 12th June

Yeovil MP Adam Dance has criticised the Chancellor’s Spending Review for not delivering real change for Yeovil and South Somerset. The CEO of Leonardo UK states that they’re working towards closing the gender pay gap within the company. Yeovil Town is relocating its first-team training camp to Bristol... and more.
Wednesday 11th June

People in Somerset are being asked for their views on the state of the county’s roads and footpaths. A trial is being conducted at Yeovil Hospital to investigate whether administering shorter courses of antibiotics to patients can effectively treat sepsis. Somerset Council says it has no plans to reopen a block of public toilets in Chard...and more.
Tuesday 10th June

A mother from Chard says schools need to do more to identify students with dyslexia. A fire in a van that caught alight at Stoke-sub-Hamdon is being treated as accidental. A former Yeovil-based police officer, who made it appear he was working when he wasn’t, has been barred from policing...and more
Monday 9th June

Somerset Council is giving £1.5m to Hill View Special School at Ash near Martock to prevent it from closing. Two men have been convicted of killing a Yeovil man they mistakenly believed to be a convicted paedophile. People across Somerset are being asked to make a note of any wildlife they see...and more
Friday 6th June

Community Speedwatch volunteers in Keinton Mandeville have stopped monitoring the local traffic because of online and verbal abuse. Redstart Primary School in Chard has been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted. A care home resident in Glastonbury has raised more than one thousand pounds for Children's Hospice Southwest by knitting soft toys...and more.
Thursday 5th June

Yeovil MP Adam Dance says he’s been told the temporary closure of the maternity unit at Yeovil Hospital will not be made permanent. Firefighters have dealt with a fire on a coach carrying passengers at Vagg Hill in Yeovil. The authorities in Chile are holding a man who lives in Milborne Port after being found with class-A drugs in a suitcase...and more.