People in Somerset who are struggling to pay their everyday bills are being urged to get help to avoid going into debt. A scheme in Somerset that helps combat loneliness among older people is being hailed as a big success. According to a new survey, only 1-in-4 families say they plan to eat a turkey dinner on Christmas Day. The gardens at Yeovil Hospital have been praised in a local gardening competition and Yeovil Rotary Club has sent fifty shoeboxes, filled with Christmas gifts to disadvantaged families in Eastern Europe.
People in Somerset who are struggling to pay their everyday bills are being urged to get help to avoid going into debt. It follows the announcement that the cost of living has grown at its fastest rate for ten years with inflation now standing at 5.1 percent.
A scheme in Somerset that helps combat loneliness among older people is being hailed as a big success. During the pandemic, Age UK Somerset has seen a growing number of people losing confidence and physical strength, so the charity's started pairing people up to walk and talk.
According to a new survey, only 1-in-4 families say they plan to eat a turkey dinner on Christmas Day. It’s not a view shared by Mark of West Country Butchers in Chard. He says most of his customers will be having turkey on Christmas Day.
The gardens at Yeovil Hospital have been praised in a local gardening competition. Judges for Yeovil in Bloom rated the hospital’s grounds and, in particular, the dementia garden as ‘outstanding’ in both design and plant life.
Yeovil Rotary Club has sent fifty shoeboxes, filled with Christmas gifts to disadvantaged families in Eastern Europe. Staff at the Jones Building Group in Yeovil have been thanked for their work in helping make this year’s Shoebox Appeal such a success.
A father has been found guilty of murdering his two-week-old son at Yeovil Hospital. From Monday, no trains will be stopping at Crewkerne until further notice. Experts say the dry weather has created ideal conditions for wasps to multiply in significant numbers across Somerset. A rare railway carriage from the 1880s, believed to have been built in Somerset, is being given a new lease of life...and more.
Tourism leaders in Somerset are hoping to reverse last year’s downturn in visitor numbers now that the six-week-long school summer holiday is underway. A Chard woman who was driving a van without insurance that crashed has been given a 16-month driving ban. A Somerset hedgehog rescue centre says a lack of rain and hard ground conditions are making it difficult for hedgehogs to survive this summer...and more.
Somerset Council is planning to open twelve new Special Educational Needs units in mainstream schools. Yeovil Hospital is participating in a trial that could revolutionise the treatment of sepsis within the NHS. A 55-acre site in Chard, with plans approved to build 295 homes and a new football ground, has been put up for sale...and more
Somerset Community Foundation has launched a "Together for West Somerset Appeal" to help families affected by last Thursday's school coach crash on Exmoor. People in Somerset are being encouraged to improve their recycling of food waste. Free family cooking sessions are being held in Chard. A new children’s soft play area is soon to open in Yeovil...and more
A GoFundMe page set up to support families of last week’s Exmoor bus crash, in which a 10-year-old boy died, has raised over forty thousand pounds. A local councillor is calling for the introduction of speed cameras on the A30, from Yeovil to Sherborne. A group from a school in Ilchester have hiked 26 miles across the Jurassic Coast to fundraise in memory of a school colleague...and more
EDF has completed another milestone in constructing the new 'Hinkley C' nuclear power plant near Bridgwater. The Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire opens today with helicopters built in Yeovil on display. A road leading to Chard reservoir, shut two months ago for strengthening work to a dam wall, has re-opened...and more
Yeovil MP Adam Dance says he has serious concerns about plans that could see the closure of inpatient beds at Crewkerne Community Hospital. Ilminster residents are being asked to vote in a referendum on adopting a new neighbourhood plan for the town. An event in which people take part in a race against horses is returning to Somerset later this year...and more
A children’s play area in Ilminster has been closed on safety grounds after badger setts were found on the land. Somerset Council sold off £90m of property assets last year to help fight off bankruptcy. Crewkerne Community Hospital could be turned into a neighbourhood health centre...and more.
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