Somerset Council is investigating how a flood event in Mudford near Yeovil resulted in human bones being dislodged from a local cemetery. Thousands of new jobs are being created in Somerset as work building the Hinkley C nuclear power station ramps up. A Yeovil cake designer has been named winner of a national Wedding Industry Award for the second successive year...and more.
Somerset Council is investigating how a flood event in Mudford near Yeovil resulted in human bones being dislodged from a local cemetery. The bones were spotted by local farmer, Stephen Bartlett while walking along the lane next to St Mary’s Churchyard that had become waterlogged after the nearby River Yeo burst its banks. Mr Bartlett says everyone in Mudford has been shocked by what’s happened.
Thousands of new jobs will be created in Somerset as work on the UK's newest power station ramps up. Construction of Hinkley Point C is due to reach its peak in the next 18 months, with about 15,000 people expected to work on the build.
Avon and Somerset police have been talking about the stolen items they collect. They say most stolen property is returned to its rightful owner but that many items are not handed back because people are not able to prove the items belong to them.
Independent member of Somerset Council, Councillor Steve Ashton has joined the Lib Dem group on Somerset Council. Councillor Ashton won the Crewkerne division for Somerset Council as a Conservative in May 2022 and has been sitting as an independent since March last year. Mr Ashton’s defection brings the total number of Lib Dems on Somerset Council to 61, giving them a working majority of six.
Wells City Council has signed an agreement to take over the running of the city's public parks and green spaces from Somerset Council. It’s thought the move will save Somerset Council around £100,000 a year. Wells City Council is also taking over responsibility for street cleaning and managing public toilets.
A Yeovil cake designer has been named as the winner of a national Wedding Industry Award. It’s the second year that Holly Millar has won the award for having the best-designed wedding cake in the competition.
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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