Chard Community Hospital is to help more residents, with its minor injuries unit opening seven days a week. Yeovil’s Pittards has confirmed it has appointed administrators. Broadband in Chard, Tatworth and Forton is lagging behind much of the region...and more.
Chard Community Hospital looks set to help more residents, with its minor injuries unit opening seven days a week from this week. Two emergency nurse practitioners have been added to the team and a new x-ray machine is due to be installed. However, the installation of the new machine means that temporarily there will be no X-ray facilities in the unit until October.
Yeovil’s struggling Pittards has confirmed it has appointed administrators and both the factory and shop were reported closed yesterday afternoon. However, there are hopes that a buyer could still be found for the leather goods company and a sign on the factory door states that the shop will be reopening again on Thursday.
An investigation has named Wessex Water as one of three major companies in England to have discharged sewage hundreds of times last year, on days when it wasn’t raining. Whilst the release of sewage is legal when it’s wet, the practice is illegal on dry days. A total of three and a half thousand hours of discharges by Thames, Southern and Wessex Water were identified in the report. Wessex Water disputes the data used.
Chard, Tatworth and Forton are lagging behind much of the region, when it comes to broadband, that’s according to Chard South Councillor, Connor Payne. Connor says that whilst 68 per cent of the South West has download speeds of 1,000 megabits per second, some properties in the town are only just being hooked up with full fibre.
And a road in Winsham will be closed for 19 days later this month so that National Grid can install a new electric and water supply. Court Street will be closed from 8 am on September 25th.
The father of a one-month-old baby boy in Chard is to stand trial for the murder of his son. New figures show that just under 1300 crimes were reported to the Police in Yeovil during the final quarter of last year. A night in a prison cell is offered at Shepton Mallet Jail to those who want to be alone this Easter...and more.
Big changes are being made to where taxi ranks in Yeovil are located. Farmers are being told to keep an extra lookout for people acting suspiciously following the latest livestock theft near the Devon and Somerset border. Channel 4’s Location Location Location is coming to Somerset, with anyone looking to buy a property locally invited to apply to be in the show...and more
A 36-year-old man remains in police custody after being arrested on suspicion of a sexual assault in Yeovil. Yeovil Labour Club has had its drinks licence revoked. NHS Somerset has been taking its physiotherapy team around the county to cut waiting times for patients. A men-only cooking course has been launched in Sherborne with all ingredients and equipment provided free of charge...and more
A new banking hub has opened in Crewkerne. South Western Ambulance is asking people to only dial 999 in a life-threatening emergency over the Easter weekend. £1.8 million is being spent improving walking and cycling routes around a major new housing development at Up Mudford in Yeovil...and more
Police are appealing for witnesses to an accident in Yeovil in which a man riding an e-bike was injured and later died in hospital. Somerset Fire and Rescue Service says the number of false alarm calls it receives is on the increase. A new micro-pub opens in Chard next week...and more
Yeovil MP Adam Dance is calling for more targeted support for schools in Somerset. Police are appealing for witnesses to an accident near Wells in which a cyclist died. Plans have been approved to convert a former care home in Yeovil into a house of multiple occupation...and more
A man from Yeovil has been jailed for stabbing another man in a pub in the town. Work is underway to help minimize the flood risk at Chard Reservoir. Plans have been submitted to build thirty-six new homes at Sparkford. A new Town Crier is needed in Glastonbury...and more
Work is underway to demolish the Glovers Walk Shopping Centre in Yeovil. A Yeovil man has appeared in court charged with drink driving for a third time. Somerset Council has paid £35,000 in compensation for failing to deliver the right support to children with special educational needs. Another shop in Yeovil town centre is closing for good today...and more
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