Somerset Council has decided against selling the former Wilko store in Lower Middle Street in Yeovil. There’s a treat for snooker fans with Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor coming to Yeovil. An Air Engineering Commander at RNAS Yeovilton is taking on the Jurassic Coast 100km Ultra Challenge for charity...and more
Somerset Council has decided against selling the former Wilko store in Lower Middle Street in Yeovil, despite failing to find a new tenant since Wilko closed last year. The building is one of several properties inherited by Somerset Council that the former South Somerset District Council bought as part of a commercial investments programme. Somerset Council says the Wilko building will remain in its ownership as it could be crucial to its plans to regenerate Glovers Walk and Yeovil Bus Station.
SUEZ, who collects all of Somerset’s waste under a contract with Somerset Council, is changing the days they pick up waste at households and businesses in South Somerset and Mendip. It comes after the company announced that it was renegotiating its contract with Somerset Council due to making heavy losses operating the contract.
There’s a treat in store for snooker fans in Yeovil with Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor coming to the town to recreate their 1985 World Championship Snooker Final. The game became known as the Ball Black Final and was watched by a record 18.5 million viewers on TV. The re-match will form part of a night of snooker nostalgia hosted by John Virgo at the Westlands Entertainment venue on January 29th.
An Air Engineering Commander at RNAS Yeovilton is taking on the Jurassic Coast 100km Ultra Challenge for charity. Polly Hatchard will be raising money for the Rainbow Trust, which supports the families of children with a terminal illness, when she attempts to complete the course from Corfe Castle to Bridport on Saturday, May 18th.
A Chard brewery is holding an open day this weekend to mark the opening of a new taproom. The event at Tapstone Brewery on Bartlett Park on Saturday, May 11th coincides with the business canning its beer for wider distribution and cultivating its own variety of hops.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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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