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.
A new website has been launched to support people in Somerset with mental health issues. One of Yeovil’s oldest pubs has been sold. Artwork on the theme of aviation produced by students at Yeovil College has gone on display at Leonardo Helicopters in Yeovil.A pupil at Tatworth Primary School near Chard has won a prize in a national competition for writing a book review...and more
Work laying a gas main on the A37 Dorchester Road near the Quicksilver Mail roundabout in Yeovil is to continue for a further two months. Somerset Council says the public toilets in Yeovil bus station will close at the end of the month but the waiting room will stay open temporarily. Former Yeovil Town Captain, Josh Staunton, has set up in business as a professional gardener...and more.
Somerset Council seeking to save £40 million by cutting one thousand jobs says 201 employees have so far applied to leave the authority based on voluntary redundancy. East Somerset Railway near Shepton Mallet has been used for filming the TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper's novel Rivals. An old-style red phone box in Castle Cary is being turned into Somerset's smallest museum...and more
Somerset's Chief Medical Officer says GP surgeries using healthcare professionals alongside doctors to provide treatments has freed up GP appointments. A farmer has been fined £15,000 for polluting a household water supply. Avon and Somerset’s new Police and Crime Commissioner has officially started work in the role. Chard Post Office is closed today for the handover of the business to new owners...and more.
Health inspectors have criticised Somerset's maternity services, including those at Yeovil Hospital. Somerset Council says re-opening Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre in its original form could cost up to £200,000 if a multi-million-pound upgrade of the building falls through. A film made by a Yeovil man on a budget of just five thousand pounds was screened at the prestigious British Independent Film Festival...and more.
The Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard says it needs an immediate injection of £100,000 to keep going. Yeovil’s Marlie Packer has returned to Yeovil Rugby Club where she began her rugby career 20 years ago. Twenty-five Town criers from across the South will be in Ilminster tomorrow competing in the annual Ilminster Town Criers' Competition...and more.
Train services through Somerset are again being disrupted today due to continued strike action by the train driver’s union ALSEF. A campaign has been launched in Somerset aimed at stopping people overdosing on opioids. A Somerset business is raising a smile with its name.‘Top Of The Clops’, a tack shop near Taunton has won a place in the top ten of the UK’s funniest business names...and more.
A woman driver has been told she faces a prison term for causing the deaths of two people in a crash on the A303. The AA says there are more potholes than ever on Somerset’s motorway network, leading to an increase in damage to vehicles. The new cancer treatment unit at Yeovil Hospital should be open before the end of the year...and more.
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