SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Plenty to shout about in Ilminster

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Plenty to shout about in Ilminster

Posted: 13th April 2015
OYEZ OYEZ! There will be plenty of shouting going on in Ilminster town centre on Saturday (April 18, 2015) when its holds a town crier competition. Town criers from around the region will be converging on Ilminster for the competition where they will be put through their paces. The visitors with the booming voices will be hosted by Ilminster’s very own town crier Andrew…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Operation tidy-up after successful Yeovil Beer Festival!

YEOVIL NEWS: Operation tidy-up after successful Yeovil Beer Festival!

Posted: 12th April 2015
THE clean-up operation has been underway this morning (Sunday, April 12, 2015) following the completion of this weekend’s Yeovil Beer Festival. The festival was sold-out as hundreds of people converged on the Westland leisure complex in Yeovil to drink their way through an Aladdin’s Cave of beers and ciders on Friday night and all-day yesterday (Saturday, April 11…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Car boot sale for surgery group

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Car boot sale for surgery group

Posted: 12th April 2015
THE Friends of Meadow Surgery in Ilminster will be holding a car boot sale TODYA (Sunday, April 12, 2015). The sale will be held in the surgery’s car park in Canal Way from 10am to 1pm. It will cost £5 for sellers and 50p for buyers.

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Open day success at Ferne Animal Sanctuary

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Open day success at Ferne Animal Sanctuary

Posted: 11th April 2015
AN Open Day at the Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard was a huge success and raised more than £2,000 for the charity. As well as seeing and learning about the animals, a packed Sanctuary saw families taking part in an Easter Treasure Trail, face painting, crafts, competitions and more. The three prize-winners of the Most Gloriously Impressively Decorated Egg were Fleur…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Don't miss out - just a few tickets left for Beer Festival

YEOVIL NEWS: Don't miss out - just a few tickets left for Beer Festival

Posted: 11th April 2015
THERE are just a handful of tickets left available for people to buy on the door to gain admission to the Yeovil Beer Festival today (Saturday, April 11, 2015). The Yeovil Press was told around ten minutes or so ago (1.45pm) that there were just 30 tickets left available to be bought on the door of the festival venue at Westland leisure complex in Yeovil. The third-ever…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Mountain biker suffers suspected broken shoulder

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Mountain biker suffers suspected broken shoulder

Posted: 11th April 2015
A MOUNTAIN biker had to be helped by firefighters and ambulance personnel after falling off and suffering a suspected broken shoulder. Firefighters from Castle Cary and Wincanton and a special rescue team from Bridgwater attended the scene in woodlands at Wyke   Road, Ansford, Castle Cary, after getting the call for help at just after 8pm last night (Friday, April 10…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Arsonists blamed for fire which destroys farmhouse

SOMERSET NEWS: Arsonists blamed for fire which destroys farmhouse

Posted: 10th April 2015
ARSONISTS have been blamed for a massive fire which destroyed a historic farmhouse today (Friday, April 10, 2015) in Somerset. Fire investigation officers and police crime scene investigators have this evening confirmed that the cause of the blaze at Coxhill Farm at North Newton, near North Petherton, was “deliberate.” The alarm was raised at just before 4am to the fire…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Three years in prison for drug dealer

YEOVIL NEWS: Three years in prison for drug dealer

Posted: 10th April 2015
YEOVIL drug dealer Edward New, who had stashed heroin in his rectum, was jailed for three years yesterday (Thursday, April 9, 2015). The 31-year-old from Cavalier Walk was found with nearly eight grammes of heroin valued at £850, and diazepam tablets valued at £535 were found at his home. He appeared at Taunton Crown Court to hear his sentence after his arrest in June…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Tickets available on the door for Yeovil Beer Festival

YEOVIL NEWS: Tickets available on the door for Yeovil Beer Festival

Posted: 10th April 2015
TICKETS for admission into this weekend’s Yeovil Beer Festival will be available on the door. Although organisers have been delighted with advanced ticket sales, they have announced this morning (Friday, April 10, 2015) that people will still be able to turn up at the festival venue and pay admission. The third-ever festival – a charity event organised by members of…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Appeal for info about two assaults

SOMERSET NEWS: Appeal for info about two assaults

Posted: 10th April 2015
POLICE are appealing for anyone who saw two assaults in Bridgwater on Easter Monday to come forward to help with the investigation after a man was arrested on suspicion of committing both. Both incidents happened on Monday afternoon (April 6, 2015). At about 2.15pm, a woman reported an assault in which she claimed she was grabbed by her hair and dragged a short distance…

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