Tuesday 25th June

    A West Camel bakery is hitting out at plans to open a new farm shop and hotel nearby. A 24-year-old man from Ilminster has been arrested and bailed after Police stopped an illegal rave in east Somerset. A man in his 80s has died after a collision on a rural Sherborne road and more...

    A West Camel bakery is hitting out at plans to open a new farm shop and hotel nearby. The proposed service station would be built next to the A303 as part of the new road development. However, ‘The Bakery’ which has traded alongside the original route since 1912 has criticised three years of disruption during the development, and fears for the future of the family business. The developers, Hopkins Estates, claim there will be an economic and jobs boost linked to the planned eco-friendly services.

    A 24-year-old man from Ilminster has been arrested after Police stopped an illegal rave in east Somerset. Officers were called to the unlicensed event shortly before 11 pm on Saturday evening and found hundreds of people present with a number of vehicles parked on surrounding roads. Sound equipment was also seized, the man has been released on conditional bail and investigating officers are now appealing for information.

    A man in his 80s has died after a collision on a rural Sherborne road. Emergency services responded to a collision at Grants Hill at Bradford Abbas on Saturday morning. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. His family has been informed.

    And photographs from the international Earth Photo Exhibition go on display at Stourhead this week. Stourhead and other National Trust properties are displaying the annual exhibition over the summer.

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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.

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