Somerset Council is being given extra funding by the government to repair potholes. Somerset Waste Partnership says it is changing the days when it collects household waste in some parts of South Somerset. A new mobile Post Office service has started operating in Somerset. A school in Chard has won the support of local MP Marcus Fysh,..and more.
Somerset Council is being given extra funding by the government to repair potholes. The announcement has been made in advance of today’s Autumn Statement when the government will set out its tax and spending plans for the year ahead. The money to fill potholes has been allocated from the HS2 budget and follows the decision to cancel building HS2 between Birmingham and Manchester.
Somerset Waste Partnership says it is changing the days when it collects household waste in some parts of South Somerset. The changes, that take effect from February, are aimed at making the service more efficient and reducing carbon emissions. Households affected will receive a letter in January advising them of the change.
A new mobile Post Office service has started operating in Somerset. In a typical week, the unit will visit more than a dozen local villages.
A school in Chard has won the support of local MP, Marcus Fysh, in having a pedestrian crossing built outside the school. Avishayes Primary School wants a 20 miles per hour limit introduced on Fairway Rise, and a new crossing built. Mr Fysh, who was at the school as part of Road Safety Week, said he would be pressing Somerset Council to act with urgency on the school’s concerns.
£130,000 of additional funding has been provided to carry out dredging on the Somerset Levels. The work will see water injected into the riverbed to suspend silt and carry it downstream. 200 metres of waterway between Burrowbridge and Northmoor will be treated in January and February.
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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