The new acting leader of Somerset County Council Bill Revans.
The new acting leader of Somerset County Council, Bill Revans says health and social care are the biggest challenges facing the authority. A former textile mill in Crewkerne has been put up for sale. A Chard nursery is celebrating a successful Ofsted report. A Yeovil man has been fined £120 for illegal fishing and members of Hinton St George Scouts have been selected to take part in an international charitable project.
The new acting leader of Somerset County Council, Bill Revans says health and social care are the biggest challenges facing the authority. The Liberal Democrats won control of the county council from the Conservatives in last week's local elections, after 13-years in opposition. They'll now run the county council for 1 year and then for the following four years the new Somerset Unitary Council, replacing the county and district councils in April next year.
A former textile mill in Crewkerne has been put up for sale. Planning permission was granted in 2013 to partially demolish and convert to commercial units with forty-five dwellings, Old Viney Bridge Mill but no work has been carried out at the site. The grade two listed complex will be offered for sale by auction later this month.
A Chard nursery is celebrating a successful Ofsted report. Honeycomb Nursery School achieved ‘outstanding’ results after an inspection in March. The inspector reported that “children flourish at the Nursery and have a zest for learning.
A Yeovil man has been fined £120 for illegal fishing. Alan Reid of Westfield Road in Yeovil was found committing three offences, including not having a fishing licence, by fisheries officers at Coking Farm fishery, near Henstridge.
Members of Hinton St George Scouts have been selected to take part in an international charitable project. Six scouts will take part in ‘Project Kenya’, travelling to the Great Rift Valley, to work as volunteers at primary schools in Nakuru in April next year.
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.
Two teenage boys have admitted animal cruelty after filming themselves throwing a lamb down a stone staircase at Montacute. Somerset Council could lose around £5 million by selling the Marks and Spencer building in Yeovil. Chard, Wincanton, Castle Cary and Ansford are on a list of fifteen places in Somerset where new 20 mph speed limits could soon be introduced...and more.
The parents of a two-week-old baby boy, accused of his murder at Yeovil Hospital, are to stand trial. Protesters have splashed red paint across the front of County Hall in Taunton for a second time. A comedy film about the world of competitive marrow-growing and made in Shepton Mallet has opened in cinemas across the UK...and more.
Work starts today building a new eastbound carriageway as part of dualling the A303 between Sparkford and Podimore. A childhood obesity clinic in Somerset has revealed that it is treating children as young as eight months old. Somerset Wildlife Trust has launched a campaign to recruit an army of young people to act as conservation champions...and more.
A Martock man has been jailed after admitting to shining lasers at aircraft flying over Yeovil. Police are investigating an attempted break-in at the TK Maxx store at Babylon Hill. Nearly four hundred people have put their names forward for redundancy at Somerset Council...and more.
Three local primary schools have been named on a list of England's top five hundred primary schools. A new co-working space for businesswomen has opened in Wincanton. Urgent repairs are being carried out to Ilminster's new public clock after it started showing the wrong time...and more
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