Yeovil bus station could be transformed into a new 'transport hub'. NFU Mutual says complacency kills when it comes to dog owners letting pets off the lead near livestock. A local man has been jailed for 18 weeks for driving while disqualified. The charity Help for Heroes is expanding its support for military veterans in Somerset...and more.
Yeovil bus station could be transformed into a new 'transport hub' as part of the regeneration of Glovers Walk. If it happens, Yeovil bus station would have a new interchange for bus and coach services, electric vehicle charging points, new waiting areas, bike e-scooter storage areas, and taxi bays.
NFU Mutual says complacency kills when it comes to dog owners letting pets off the lead near livestock. New data on livestock attacks published by the insurer shows they paid 2 point four million pounds in claims for sheep worrying incidents in 2023.
The charity Help for Heroes is expanding its support for military veterans in Somerset. It's launching two new hubs – one in Yeovil - where serving and retired military people can access help.
A local man has been jailed for 18 weeks for driving while disqualified. Matthew Goodchild, aged 27, from Kingsbury Episcopi, was appearing before local magistrates, charged with driving while disqualified and using a vehicle without third-party insurance. He was also ordered to pay £85 in costs, and a £154 surcharge.
The idea of recording local history in a village album is making a return in Street. The tradition, dating back 200 years, will see drawings, photographs, local writings and items of memorabilia placed in an album for safekeeping, for all time. Students at Strode College are putting the album together.
A serving officer from Avon and Somerset Police is facing a prison sentence after indecent images of children were found at his home. Building 300 new homes and a football stadium in Chard has moved closer following improvements to an access road. World Horse Welfare has reopened the Glenda Spooner Farm near Somerton following a major flood event...and more
Free parking at council-run car parks in Somerset could soon end with the introduction of Sunday and overnight charging. Pavement slabs in Yeovil town centre, damaged by a utility company a year ago, are finally being replaced. Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service is to use £1 million of reserves to fund its day-to-day spending from April...and more.
Conservationists are celebrating after two barn owls have returned for a third year to their nestbox on the Blackdown Hills. DEFRA is urging farmers to stay vigilant as the restriction zone for the virus Bluetongue has been extended to South Somerset. Rail travellers are being advised that no services will run on the West of England Line between Yeovil Junction and Salisbury this coming weekend...and more.
Somerset Council Leader, Councillor Bill Revans, has been defending putting up council tax by seven-and-a-half percent. Two men have been jailed for life for the murder of a man in Yeovil. Somerset’s new Local Plan won’t be completed until spring 2029. Work is about to start building a new visitor centre at Ham Hill Country Park...and more
The police say footage from dashcams has become an important way to clamp down on dangerous driving. Plans to build a skatepark in Langport are pushing ahead. Dozens of items of tech equipment have been donated to the Digital Poverty Alliance in Somerset for giving to low-income households...and more
Councillors have voted to cut 555 jobs at Somerset Council. Farmers in Somerset are reporting a big increase in thefts of trucks, trailers and machinery. NHS Somerset has confirmed that a doctor’s surgery in Yeovil is to expand. The Forget Me Not Pre-School in Yeovil has been rated 'Good' across all areas by Ofsted...and more
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.
A public transport pressure group in Yeovil says better bus services would bring a range of benefits to the town. A new campaign has been launched in Somerset to support high-risk domestic abuse victims. Ferne Animal Sanctuary in Chard has thanked the public for helping it reach a fund-raising target...and more
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