There has been a big rise in the number of children being educated at home in Somerset. Plans have been submitted to build sixty new homes in South Petherton. Wells Cathedral is the setting this week of an immersive light show celebrating the Coronation of King Charles...and more.
The number of children being educated at home is rising sharply across the West, according to new figures. Four times more children in Somerset are being educated at home than in 2013. It's thought the Covid pandemic has accelerated the increase in home schooling
A quarter of the eight million pounds allocated to NHS dentistry in Somerset for the year ending in March still hasn't been spent, according to new research. The figures are contained in an article in the Health Service Journal, based on data gathered from Integrated Care Boards across England, including the one here in Somerset.
Plans have been submitted to build sixty new homes in South Petherton. If approved the houses will be built on land off Hamsfield Lane. Developers, Persimmon Homes South West say one in three of the new properties will be social housing, run by a local housing association.
Wells Cathedral is the setting this week of an immersive light show celebrating the Coronation of King Charles. The Crown and Coronation Show launched at the Tower of London in November and can be viewed at Wells Cathedral until the weekend. The display celebrates the experience of King Charles’s Coronation and the role of the Crown Jewels.
Cricket Lane in Dowlish Wake near Ilminster will shut to traffic for two days starting tomorrow. Openreach will be installing a new telegraph pole with the road scheduled to re-open late Friday afternoon.
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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