Local schools are preparing for more disruption when teachers take further strike action tomorrow and next Tuesday. A new way to help victims of domestic abuse has been introduced in Somerset. An uninsured driver from Chard has been banned from driving for six months. An Ilminster girl has come runner-up in a national singing competition...and more.
Local schools are preparing for more disruption when teachers take further strike action tomorrow and next Tuesday. Members of the National Education Union are due to stop work on Thursday and also Tuesday, May 2nd in their long-running pay dispute. It’s understood that Fiveways Special School and Buckler’s Mead Secondary School in Yeovil will be partially shut tomorrow. Huish Episcopi Academy at Langport will be partially shut when NEU members walk out on strike.
A new way to help victims of domestic abuse has been introduced in Somerset. Help is now being provided more quickly, with victims encouraged to visit new 'pop-up' advice hubs for support.
No trains will be running between Castle Cary and Taunton stations between Sunday, April 30th and Wednesday, May 3rd due to track improvements. GWR says only Weymouth trains will run through Castle Cary with Taunton trains replaced by a coach service.
An uninsured driver from Chard has been banned from driving for six months. Appearing before magistrates in Bath, Andrew Collins, of Windsor Crescent, was also fined six-hundred-and-sixty pounds with costs of one-hundred-and-ten pounds.
A group of patients and professionals from NHS Somerset's Psychosis service are sailing along the English south coast this week as part of a challenge called Voyage to Recovery. They left Portsmouth on Sunday and aim to arrive in Dartmouth by Friday.
An Ilminster girl has come runner-up in a national singing competition. Lucy Speke was competing in the Rotary Young Singer of the Year contest held in Manchester. Lucy, who’s 17, will be performing in the Broadway Amateur Theatrical Society’s production of Billy Buckett at Broadway village hall, during the first week of May.
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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