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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Get the message - don't drive and phone!

Posted: 20th October 2014
DRIVERS who continue to break the law by using hand held mobile phones at the wheel will be targeted in a special operation in Somerset this week. Officers from Somerset County Council’s road safety team and Avon and Somerset Police will be on the road in South Somerset for a day of action on Wednesday, October 22, 2014. The crackdown aims to catch offenders and also…

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Registration plate on wanted vehicle confirmed in Bruton hit and run

Posted: 20th October 2014
POLICE have this afternoon (Monday, October 20, 2014) said that they are still looking for a black Chrysler Grand Voyager wanted in connection with a fatal hit and run incident in Bruton last week. The incident happened at about 8.35pm on Tuesday (October 14, 2014). The man, aged 84, was going to a local shop with his two dogs. He was found lying in the road with serious…

YEOVIL NEWS: Sign language to be used at Octagon Theatre panto

Posted: 20th October 2014
TWO performances of this year’s Jack and the Beanstalk pantomime at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil will be interpreted in British Sign Language. Evolution Pantomimes return for the third successive year to the Octagon Theatre with Jack and the Beanstalk. Deafinite Interpreters have teamed up with South Somerset District Council and will be supplying an interpreter on…

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Woman released without charge over Bruton hit and run

Posted: 20th October 2014
A WOMAN in her 40s, arrested in connection with the death of an 84-year-old man following a hit and run incident in Bruton last week, has been released without charge. A man, also in his 40s, who was arrested at the same time, remains in police custody. Officers have been granted a further 36 hours to question him. The incident happened at about 8.35pm on Tuesday…

SCHOOL NEWS: Salvage Hunters at Bruton

Posted: 20th October 2014
BRUTON School for Girls was turned into a film set for the day when star of TV’s Salvage Hunters arrived to rummage amongst the hidden treasures at the girls’ school. Drew Pritchard, the antiques and restoration expert, had his eye on stools and easels from the art department as well as an ancient iron weather vane. PHOTO - TOP: Drew Pritchard, right, of Salvage Hunters…

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Good news for wheelchair-user Betty

Posted: 20th October 2014
YEOVIL MP David Laws has spoken of his delight that the local area highways office has agreed to provide a dropped kerb outside the home of wheelchair-user Betty Armour. Miss Armour, of Crewkerne, is a wheelchair user and has been fighting for the pavement to be dropped so she could have safe access to her house in her new electric wheelchair. After hearing Miss Armour’s…

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Lynda Bellingham RIP

Posted: 20th October 2014
WHEN Lynda Bellingham was at the Waterstone’s bookstore in Yeovil four years ago it was just like going along and meeting the real “Oxo mum” millions of us had seen her as on the TV adverts in the 1980s. Very approachable, very chatty, glowingly warm, as if you had known her for many years and were going to meet her for a quick catch-up on the gossip. “If she’d had a…

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Young woman dies in river plunge crash

Posted: 20th October 2014
A COMMUNITY is in mourning after the tragic death of a young South Petherton woman over the weekend. Police have this morning (Monday, October 20, 2014) confirmed that a 19-year-old woman died as a result of a road crash which happened early yesterday (Sunday, October 19, 2014). The victim has not officially been named by police, but locally she has been named as Katie…

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Car overturns near Crewkerne

Posted: 19th October 2014
FIREFIGHTERS were mobilised tonight (Sunday, October 19, 2014) after getting reports of a car having overturned near Crewkerne. The alarm was raised at just after 9.30pm to the incident on the B3165 Clapton Road in West Crewkerne. Firefighters from Crewkerne and Yeovil were called out and they found an overturned car blocking the road. A Devon and Somerset Fire and…

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Councillor to live on benefits for a week

Posted: 19th October 2014
A COUNCILLOR is taking up the challenge of living on benefits for a week – something she knows only too well is the way of life all-year-round for many people in South Somerset. Cllr Linda Vijeh, who is a member of South Somerset District Council and Somerset County Council, is seeing if she can manage on just £42 a week as part of National Care Leavers’ Week. “I have…

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