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.
The Leader of Somerset Council has repeated his call for a reform of the way that councils are funded. Crimestoppers is stepping up efforts to help tackle violent crime in Somerset. A new radar satellite is playing a crucial role in collecting data about flooding in Somerset...and more
Somerset Council has approved a seven-and-a-half percent increase in council tax. People are being asked to return boxes of paracetamol bought from Boots Chemists in Somerset. It’s been revealed that five members of staff at Somerset Council are being allowed to work from home outside the UK...and more
Somerset Council has been told that hundreds of millions of pounds in loans taken out by former district councils, including South Somerset, have to be paid back. A Somerset charity says it needs more volunteers to help with research into new treatments for dementia. A local shop owner has welcomed Somerset Council’s decision to scrap plans to charge for parking after 6 pm...and more.
The population of Somerset has reached record levels with nearly one in ten born outside the UK. Stanchester School in Stoke-sub-Hamdon has been rated as ‘requiring improvement’. Experts have been called in to appraise a 15th-century piece of artwork in Sherborne...and more.
A woman from Crewkerne has been fined £280 for assaulting two emergency workers. Plans have been announced to open new NHS dental surgeries in Chard and Crewkerne. A Yeovil man has been thanked for raising £10,000 for the cardiac charity Heartbeat...and more
A local man has been charged after allegedly driving a tractor while under the influence of alcohol. One hundred bikes, collected with household waste in Somerset, have been donated to charity. The junction of the A37 Ilchester Road and Stiby Road in Yeovil will again shut this evening for resurfacing...and more.
Fourteen hundred people have added their names to a petition against Somerset Council's plans to scrap free car parks. St Margaret’s Hospice has won a share of £25 million of government funding. A man from Charlton Adam is preparing to visit Ukraine as an Aid Worker for a tenth time...and more
A local man has been charged with possessing an air weapon following an incident in Yeovil town centre. The Labour government has removed funding to the Amulet Theatre in Shepton Mallet that the previous Conservative government had allocated. Entries are now open for this year’s Minster Miles 10K fun run with organisers aiming to exceed last year’s number of runners...and more.
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