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YEOVIL NEWS: Beer, cider and bicycles

Posted: 16th September 2018
THE Quicksilver Mail pub in Yeovil played host to a beer and cider festival earlier this summer in aid of the School in a Bag charity. The event was organised by the AgustaWestland Apprentice and Student Association team – better known as AWASA - and was well-supported by work colleagues, friends and supporters. There was live music featuring the Guitarist on Wheels…

YEOVIL NEWS: Ladies afternoon raises £17k for hospice

Posted: 16th September 2018
A TRULY incredible £17,185 was raised at a charity Ladies Afternoon Tea and Fashion Show for St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice. The event was held at East Coker and the hospice fundraisers would like to say a big thank you to everyone who supported and made it such a fantastic day. The money raised is the equivalent to paying for 171 community nurse visits.

YEOVIL NEWS: Packing bags for School in a Bag

Posted: 15th September 2018
THE School in a Bag charity has thanked staff at the Yeovil office of A. J. Wakely & Sons for packing the schoolbags they funded from their collection at this summer’s Yeovil Show. Their efforts will help transform the education possibilities for a further 12 under-privileged children around the world and push the charity, based at Chilthorne Domer, towards its milestone…

YEOVIL NEWS: Full steam ahead for the next 50 years

Posted: 15th September 2018
PEOPLE were not put off by some rare soggy weather earlier this summer to support an open day celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Westland and Yeovil District Model Engineering Society. Visitors of all ages went along to the society’s headquarter at the Westlands Entertainment Venue on August 11 in Yeovil where they were able to climb aboard and have a ride on the…

YEOVIL NEWS: Community ranger aims to increase dementia awareness in Yeovil

Posted: 15th September 2018
A CAMPAIGN to tackle the stigma and lack of understanding around dementia has got the support of South Somerset District Council and its countryside team. Becky Russell, a community ranger for South Somerset District Council’s Yeovil Country Park, is running a free Dementia Friends information session on World Alzheimer’s Day, Friday, September 21, and is looking for…

YEOVIL NEWS: Snakebyte & Cider will be back in 2019

Posted: 14th September 2018
ORGANISERS of a charity night at the Quicksilver Mail pub in Yeovil have handed over a whopping £5,020 to two deserving charities. A total of £2,800 was presented to the South Somerset Mind organisation and a further £2,220 to St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice. The money was raised during a Snakebyte and Cider event at the pub at the top of Hendford Hill where party-goers…

YEOVIL NEWS: Funtasia fantastic for local charities

Posted: 14th September 2018
PROCEEDS from the 2018 Funtasia Charity Ball – which was held at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at RNAS Yeovilton – have been given out to charities. A whopping £16,000 has been distributed by ball organisers, Russell and Louise Lee, and they would like to thank everyone once again for their continued support – event sponsors, supporters, those who had donated prizes and…

YEOVIL NEWS: Jailed for indecently assaulting children

Posted: 31st July 2018
A 55-year-old man has been jailed for six years after being convicted of indecently assaulting children. David Byrne, of The Hill in Langport but formerly from the West Hendford area of Yeovil, was sentenced at Taunton Crown Court on Thursday (July 26, 2018) after being convicted of four counts of indecent assault on males under the age of 16. The offences relate to…

SOMERSET NEWS: What can you say? Round-the-world unicyclist Ed is a legend!

Posted: 27th July 2018
INSPIRATIONAL, motivational, impressive, amazing, legendary – you could never run out of feel good ways of describing round-the-world unicyclist Ed Pratt. Ed arrived back at Home Farm at Chilthorne Domer, on the outskirts of Yeovil, on Friday (July 27,2017) following a monumental 20,000-mile adventure on one wheel which had taken three-and-a-half years to complete. And…

YEOVIL AREA NEWS: Villagers evacuated after oil tank fire spreads to homes

Posted: 24th July 2018
THE cause of a fire in a heating oil tank in the back garden of a property in a village on the outskirts of Yeovil - which spread to nearby homes and forced neighbours to be evacuated - is under investigation. People were evacuated from their homes over safety fears and a village hall was turned into a relief centre as the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service got…

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