ELECTIONS: Yeovil MP welcomes Council Tax cut in South Somerset
Posted: 1st March 2015
YEOVIL MP David Laws has welcomed the news that the Liberal Democrat controlled South Somerset District Council has cut Council Tax for residents in South Somerset by nearly two per cent. The decision was made at the annual budget meeting held on Thursday (February 26, 2015) and comes after the council had frozen its share of the Council Tax for the preceding five years…
ELECTIONS: Signing up for the Save Our NHS campaign in Yeovil
Posted: 28th February 2015
CAMPAIGNERS were out in Yeovil town centre today (Saturday, February 28, 2015) drumming up support to urge General Election candidates to Save Our NHS. Members of the 38 Degrees campaign group in Middle Street talking to shoppers about the threat which faces the NHS. A spokesman said: “Unless politicians take action to save our NHS now, our health service as we know it…
ELECTIONS: Somerset County Council freezes its share of Council Tax bill
Posted: 27th February 2015
SOMERSET County Council has approved to freeze the Council Tax for a sixth straight year - but will be cost-cutting some services to the tune of £16m. Councillors at the Conservative-controlled county council last week voted 31-17 in support of the proposals to set a budget of more than £310m of spending and £57m of capital investment. The revenue budget, which sets out…
ELECTIONS: South Somerset reduces its share of the Council Tax bill
Posted: 27th February 2015
COUNCILLORS at the Liberal Democrat-controlled South Somerset District Council last night (Thursday, February 26, 2015) voted to reduce its share of the Council Tax by nearly two per cent. The full council met at its Brympton Way headquarters in Yeovil and decided to drop its bit of the Council Tax cake by 1.99 per cent – after five years of freezing the level at £150.74…
ELECTIONS: Council tax frozen but cost-cutting measures to be implemented
Posted: 18th February 2015
THE Conservative-led Somerset County Council has today (Wednesday, February 18, 2015) approved to freeze the council tax for a sixth straight year - but will be cost-cutting some services to the tune of £16m. Councillors voted 31-17 in support of the proposals to set a budget of more than £310m of spending and £57m of capital investment. The revenue budget, which sets…
ELECTIONS: Unemployment in Yeovil falls by 65.5% since 2010
Posted: 16th February 2015
NEWS that unemployment in the Yeovil constituency has fallen by 65.5% since the 2010 General Election has been welcomed by MP David Laws. In April 2010 the statistics show that 1,459 people in Yeovil constituency were unemployed, or 2.9% of the economically active population. At the end of 2014, that figure had fallen to just 503, or 0.9%. Last year alone unemployment in…
ELECTIONS: Get registered to vote and have YOUR say!
Posted: 4th February 2015
PEOPLE will be encouraged to vote in the forthcoming elections when a National Voter Registraiton Day is held on Thursday (February 5, 2015) across the country. The event is being held by the Electoral Commission as it looks to get everyone who is eligible to register to vote. As the countdown to the General and Local Elections on Thursday, May 7, 2015, begins, residents…
ELECTIONS: Conservative duo look to win in Brympton
Posted: 1st February 2015
THE Conservatives have named Josh Williams and Sarah Lindsay as their two candidates to stand in this year’s forthcoming South Somerset District Council election in the Brympton ward of Yeovil. Ms Lindsay has lived locally in the Brympton area for more than years and most recently had been a member of the parish council. “I have in the past been quite vocal on speed in…
ELECTIONS: LibDems pounding the streets on Brympton
Posted: 1st February 2015
THE Liberal Democrats have been out in force recently on the Brympton ward of South Somerset District Council in Yeovil canvassing for the forthcoming elections. The LibDems hold both Brympton seats on the council at present and one of those, Cllr Peter Seib, will be looking to retain his position when the election is held on May 7, 2015. Hoping to make it a double…
ELECTIONS: Just 100 days before we go to the polls
Posted: 27th January 2015
THE countdown to the 2015 General Election is on with just 100 days to go before people across the country will go to the polls on May 7, 2015. The Yeovil Press is today (Tuesday, January 27, 2015) launching its own dedicated section to the website looking ahead to the elections in Somerset and reporting on the news of candidates, their campaigns and views in Somerset…
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