Yeovil Hospital has been given nearly ten million pounds of government funding to help it become more carbon neutral. Plans have been submitted to add two new floor levels to a former restaurant in Yeovil town centre. Communities and local businesses in Somerset could benefit from seven million pounds as part of the government's national Levelling Up agenda. The life of two barn owls on the Blackdown Hills is being streamed via a webcam set up by Somerset Wildlife Trust...and more.
Yeovil Hospital has been given nearly ten million pounds of government funding to help it become more carbon neutral. The funding will enable the Trust to focus on five different projects which will help reduce carbon emissions, including putting in a new heat pump, replacing power to become a fully electric site, and replacing windows.
Plans have been submitted to add two new floor levels to a former restaurant in Yeovil town centre. The site at 66 Middle Street could see the addition of two new upper storeys to the property. According to the application, the ground floor would remain for retail. South Somerset District Council’s due to consider the application by the end of the summer.
Communities and local businesses in Somerset could benefit from seven million pounds as part of the government's national Levelling Up agenda. The County has been allocated £7.26m from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to invest between 2022 and 2025. A questionnaire on how the money should be spent is now open on the Somerset County Council website.
The life of two barn owls on the Blackdown Hills is being streamed via a webcam set up by Somerset Wildlife Trust. People can watch Finn and Trudie bring up their young on the Somerset Wildlife Trust website.
A charity set up to raise funds to help equip a GP surgery in Chard is being closed. The Friends of Springmead Surgery was launched thirty years ago at the Springfield Surgery in Summerfield Road when surgeries were unable to handle money donated by grateful patients. A meeting to formally wind up the charity will be held on Wednesday, July 6, at 2 pm, at the surgery.
Michael Parrott from the Running for Time Club won yesterday’s Martock 10k in 33 minutes and 4 seconds.
Somerset Council has decided against selling the former Wilko store in Lower Middle Street in Yeovil. There’s a treat for snooker fans with Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor coming to Yeovil to recreate their 1985 World Championship Snooker Final. An Air Engineering Commander at RNAS Yeovilton is taking on the Jurassic Coast 100km Ultra Challenge for charity...and more
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
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