Police are working with landowners in Somerset to stop illegal raves being held on private property. Opposition is growing to plans to build forty-nine new homes at Horton near Ilminster. Police roadside checks are taking place in Somerset this week in an effort to cut the number of fatal crashes...and more.
Police are working with landowners in Somerset to try and stop illegal raves being held on privately owned property. With the help of Natural England, the locations that are most at risk of being invaded have been identified together with the identities of those involved in staging illegal raves.
Police roadside checks are taking place in Somerset all this week in an effort to cut the number of fatal crashes on local roads. Police say drink and drug driving contributed to a third of road traffic accidents in Somerset last year.
Opposition is growing to plans to build forty-nine new homes in the village of Horton near Ilminster. The scheme would see seventeen affordable units built together with thirty-two open market properties to the north of Broadway Hill. According to the Somerset Council website, the number of objectors currently stands at sixty-six. They give reasons for refusing the plans that the village school is oversubscribed, the doctor's surgery is too small, the shop and post office in Horton is too small and no employment opportunities exist within the village.
People in Somerset, struggling to afford access to mobile and home broadband are being offered free texts, calls, and data through a scheme set up by the charity 'The Good Things Foundation'.
The wife of a motorcyclist, seriously injured in a crash earlier this year, has organised a sponsored walk to raise funds for the charity that helped save his life. Karen Roberts is planning to walk thirty miles along the length of the Bridgwater and Taunton canal and back for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance, who airlifted her husband Dave to hospital.
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
Work continues to clean up from the floods in Chard, Ilminster, Somerton, South Petherton, and parts of Yeovil. A man who threatened to kill a support worker at the mental health unit in Yeovil has been sentenced to a community order. A competition that gives new musicians the chance to play at this year's Glastonbury festival has opened for entries...and more
A major incident has been declared by Somerset Council to ensure a multi-agency response to the flash flooding that's affected Chard, Crewkerne, Ilminster, South Petherton and parts of Yeovil. Police believe a 4x4 pick-up truck, found submerged in the River Yeo at Yeovilton at the weekend, may have been stolen. An appeal to raise £2 million to restore the Grand Organ at Wells Cathedral has raised over £1 million in less than 18 months...and more
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