Plans have been outlined to build four hundred new homes in IIminster. Police are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic accident in Sherborne where a child was seriously injured. A consultation into plans to close ticket offices at Yeovil Junction, Penn Mill and Castle Cary railway stations has been extended. Chard Museum is running an event today celebrating the town’s aviation heritage...and more,.
Plans have been outlined to build four hundred new homes in IIminster. Land in the Herne Valley has been identified for the scheme by developers Persimmon Homes who say a formal planning application will be submitted to Somerset Council before the end of the year.
Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage of a road traffic accident in Sherborne where a child was seriously injured. It happened on Monday afternoon when an Audi A5 in which the child was a passenger and a concrete mixer collided in Bradford Road, close to the Oxley Leisure Centre. If you can help, you’re asked to call the non-emergency number 101.
A consultation on plans to close railway ticket offices has been extended. The Rail Delivery Group says the consultation will now continue until September. Yeovil, Castle Cary and Sherborne stations could lose their ticket offices if the proposal goes ahead.
Police are asking for the public’s help in tracing the person or persons responsible for spraying a swastika on a post box in the village of Tatworth, near Chard. The incident in Drakes Crescent is being treated as criminal damage. If you can help, you’re asked to call the non-emergency number 101.
Chard Museum is running an event today celebrating the town’s aviation heritage. It’s being held at Chard Reservoir with those attending flying model aircraft and discovering why Chard is the ‘Home of Powered Flight’.
A dog, stolen in Norfolk seven years ago, has been found 200 miles away safe and well in Somerset. A man who lives in Seavington St Michael near Ilminster has been jailed after driving a car at police officers. One hundred new affordable homes could be built near Langport...and more
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
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