Yeovil Hospital is warning of wait times of more than four hours at its A&E department. A case continues in the High Court today in which parents are challenging Somerset County Council decision to radically change the school system in Ilminster and Crewkerne. A national house builder has launched a recruitment drive aimed at retired military people living in Somerset. A sale of items at the former Oscar Mayer factory in Chard has raised £4,000 for local organisations.
Yeovil Hospital is warning of wait times of more than four hours at its A&E department. It says the number of people attending on Tuesday this week was the highest this year. To help spread the workload, the Hospital is asking people to go to other hospitals that have A&E departments where they live. Meanwhile, If you’re looking to be given an AstraZeneca Covid jab, NHS Somerset says the vaccine is now available locally but only at the vaccination centre at Haynes Motor Museum in Sparkford.
A case continues in the High Court today in which parents are challenging Somerset County Council decision to radically change the school system in Ilminster and Crewkerne. The changes would mean some schools shutting and the current 3-tier system of education being replaced with a slimmed-down 2-tier system.
A national housebuilder has launched a recruitment drive aimed at retired military people living in Somerset. Barratt David Wilson Homes say they need to recruit more people with Army, Navy and RAF backgrounds as their skills are ideally suited for working within the building sector.
A sale of items at the former Oscar Mayer factory in Chard has raised £4,000 for local organisations. Oscar Mayer shut the factory in June this year after being in the town for 38-years. The sale included memorabilia and kitchen equipment with all the proceeds from the sale going to Ferne Animal Sanctuary, Holyrood Academy, Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance and the League of Friends of Chard Hospital
Labour’s Clare Moody is the new Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset. Somerset Council is looking to buy the Glovers Walk Shopping Centre in Yeovil, including Yeovil Bus Station. One of the biggest events in Yeovil’s outdoor calendar, the Abbey Hill Steam Rally, starts today...and more.
Voting is taking place today to elect a new Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset. NHS Somerset says the hyper-acute stroke unit at Yeovil Hospital will stay open until a new replacement unit is built in Dorchester. A supermarket worker has retired after spending 52 years working at the same store in Ilminster...and more.
SUEZ, the company that collects Somerset’s waste is warning it may cease operations. Twenty thousand pounds is being spent cleaning red paint off the front of County Hall in Taunton following a series of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. An occupational therapist at Yeovil Hospital has won an award for her smart appearance at work...and more.
Somerset Council is taking legal action to remove an arms company from one of its commercial properties. Waste collection days across Somerset are set to change next month due to two impending bank holidays. An archaeological survey has begun on the proposed site of a new skate park in Bruton... and more.
Somerset’s busiest speed camera in 2023 has been revealed as the camera on the westbound carriageway of the A303 between the Podimore Roundabout and the Hazelgrove Roundabout. Bus campaigners are calling on Somerset Council to keep the public toilets open at Yeovil bus station. The funeral has taken place in Yeovil of D-Day veteran, Bill Tolley, who has died at the age of 97...and more.
A man has been arrested in Castle Cary and charged with stalking, harassment and making threats to kill. The NHS in Somerset says its staff retention rate has improved over the past two years. A farmer in South Petherton is preparing to cycle 1,000 miles to raise money for charity...and more.
The NHS is offering spring COVID-19 vaccines to people in Somerset who are at increased risk of serious illness from the virus. A new way of making roads safer for children in Somerset has started this week. A Yeovil-based apprentice has been named as a winner in the JTL Regional Awards. Haselbury Mill near Crewkerne has been put up for sale...and more
Yeovil Town FC have sent a strongly worded letter to the Football Association asking for plans to end FA Cup replays to be dropped. A Somerset woman who's spent the last 32 years living with Hepatitis C, says better support is needed for those affected by the contaminated blood scandal. A new school of musical theatre has opened in Chard...and more.
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