Plans have been announced to build a new 74-bed care home in Wincanton. A Yeovil woman has appeared in court charged with criminal damage and assault. The Antiques Roadshow is coming to Wells this year. Plans to build up to 30 homes in Milborne Port have been dropped. A community shop that supported local people through the pandemic is celebrating one year of opening this week.
Plans have been announced to build a new 74-bed care home in Wincanton creating 140 new jobs. Cale View, to be built on Dyke’s Way, will provide care for adults of all ages with challenging behaviours. Owners, Cornerstone Healthcare currently run care homes in Hampshire and Sussex.
A Yeovil woman has appeared in court charged with criminal damage and assault. Kamila Bobek was said to have damaged a door at Pathways and to have assaulted a woman. Bobek, who pleaded guilty to the charges, is due to return to court for sentencing on April 23rd.
The Antiques Roadshow is coming to Wells this year. The BBC show will be filmed at the Bishop’s Palace. Anyone with a story behind an antique is asked to apply online.
Plans to build up to 30 homes in Milborne Port have been dropped. Developers, Toft Hill Ltd, lost a legal battle in 2019 over plans to build 50 homes in the village. They then submitted an application to with fewer dwellings on the site but South Somerset District Council also rejected this application. Now, the Planning Inspectorate has upheld the Council’s decision.
A community shop that supported local people through the pandemic is celebrating one year of opening this week. The Stoke-sub-Hamdon Community Shop, launched in March last year, has been run as a community hub by Emma Herrod, Lynn Foley and Katherine Rake. Throughout the Covid crisis, the shop has delivered prescriptions and groceries to shielding residents, helped with dog walking, as well as advertising job vacancies for local people looking for work.
A Yeovil man has been fined £1,200 for sending hostile text messages to his ex-wife. A report into the performance of Avon and Somerset Police has found it doesn't answer emergency calls quickly enough. Twenty-two swimmers at the Trident Swimming Club in Chard have won places in this year’s Somerset County Swimming Championships...and more
A man has appeared in court charged with murdering a one-month-old baby boy in Chard. Kingfisher Primary School in Yeovil has been highly praised by Ofsted. Somerset Council says it’s “extremely disappointed” after its bid to form a devolved Wessex group of local councils was rejected by the government...and more.
The Liberal Democrat Leader of Somerset Council, Councillor Bill Revans, says they had no choice but to ask the government to allow them to lift the 5 percent cap on raising Council Tax. Two teenagers have been released on bail following the stabbing in Yeovil. More than six thousand pounds has been awarded to local groups by Chard Carnival Committee...and more.
Somerset has been permitted to increase its Council Tax share by 7.5 percent. An Ilminster man, forced out of his house by last week's floods, says he doesn't know when he will be able to return home. Ilminster Literary Festival has launched its annual children’s writing competition, designed to encourage local children to write creative literature...and more.
Five men have appeared in court charged with the murder of a man in Yeovil. A 16-year-old is the second person to be arrested in connection with a stabbing in Yeovil. Yeovil’s new outdoor entertainment space in Lower Middle Street has been officially opened by the town’s MP... and more.
A teenager has been arrested following a stabbing in Yeovil. Water bills in Somerset are set to go up on average by £123 from April. Yeovil MP, Adam Dance will officially open Yeovil’s new outdoor performance space later today...and more
Lloyds bank is closing its branch in Chard. A Sherborne man has been jailed after defrauding a Yeovil woman of £40,000. A volunteer group in Chard is urging people to sign up to a flood victims register. A councillor in Shepton Mallet has become the first Reform UK member on Somerset Council... and more
New mums in Somerset could soon be offered a cervical screening test six weeks after giving birth. Police are asking for help in finding a Yeovil man wanted on recall to prison. The government has given half a million pounds towards planting more trees in Somerset, including 100 new trees in Yeovil...and more
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