SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Calendar Girls and Boys on Stand Up To Cancer TV show

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Calendar Girls and Boys on Stand Up To Cancer TV show

Posted: 17th October 2014
A GROUP from the South Somerset area – who bravely went before the camera for a “bare all” charity calendar – will be appearing on TV tonight (Friday, October 17, 2014) for the Stand Up To Cancer campaign. It was back in the summer that the group of men and women volunteered to strip off to do their very own Calendar Girls-style calendar with some of those either…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Girls gets leg stuck in chair at school

SOMERSET NEWS: Girls gets leg stuck in chair at school

Posted: 16th October 2014
A GIRL had to be rescued this morning (Thursday, October 16, 2014) after getting her leg stuck through a plastic chair at school. The nine-year-old pupil got into difficulty at Ditcheat Primary School, near Shepton Mallet, and a teacher phoned the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service for help. One fire engine from Castle Cary was mobilised along with an ambulance…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Road crash on A358 near Taunton

SOMERSET NEWS: Road crash on A358 near Taunton

Posted: 16th October 2014
FOUR vehicles were involved in a crash this afternoon (Thursday, October 16, 2014) on the A358 near Taunton. The alarm was raised at just after 12.45pm to the incident at Henlade and one fire engine from Taunton was requested following a call from the police. Although nobody was trapped inside the wreckage, the vehicles were leaking fuel. A Devon and Somerset Fire and…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Students get stuck in college lift

SOMERSET NEWS: Students get stuck in college lift

Posted: 16th October 2014
TWO students had to be rescued this afternoon (Thursday, October 16, 2014) after getting stuck in a college lift. Two fire engines were called out at just after 1.30pm after getting a call from staff at Bridgwater College in College Way, Bridgwater, about the problem. A Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service spokesman told the Yeovil Press: “They had managed to get…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Lost toy donkey gets new home and new name!

YEOVIL NEWS: Lost toy donkey gets new home and new name!

Posted: 16th October 2014
FOUR months ago a friendly bobby on the beat stopped his police car in the middle of Bunford Lane in Yeovil to pick up a lost toy cuddly donkey. He was given a ride in the police officer’s car to Yeovil Police Station while they tried to find his owner. Despite national enquiries, including a mention on ITV News and social media, no owner stepped forward to collect…

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SCHOOL NEWS: Buckler's Mead gets a good Ofsted rating

SCHOOL NEWS: Buckler's Mead gets a good Ofsted rating

Posted: 16th October 2014
GOVERNMENT inspectors have given Buckler's Mead Academy in Yeovil a “good” rating in the school’s latest Ofsted report. The previous inspection had seen officers award Buckler's a “requires improvement” grading, so staff at the academy are delighted with the improved ranking. An Ofsted report said: “The academy has implemented the priorities for improvement identified at…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Crash at West Coker

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Crash at West Coker

Posted: 16th October 2014
EMERGENCY services were called out this morning (Thursday, October 16, 2014) to deal with a traffic crash at West Coker. Police alerted the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service to the problem on the main A30 at the village, involving a single vehicle, at just before 5.30am. Two fire engines and a specialist unit from Yeovil were mobilised. A Fire Service spokesman…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Car fire in Dampier Street

YEOVIL NEWS: Car fire in Dampier Street

Posted: 16th October 2014
FIREFIGHTERS were called out early this morning (Thursday, October 16, 2014) to deal with a car fire in Yeovil. The alarm was made by a member of the public making a 999 call at just before 5.30am to the incident in Dampier Street which is off of the Reckleford dual-carriageway. One fire engine from Yeovil was mobilised and they found one car to be well-alight. A Devon…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Camera equipment stolen in Pen Mill Trading Estate raid

YEOVIL NEWS: Camera equipment stolen in Pen Mill Trading Estate raid

Posted: 15th October 2014
A PROFESSIONAL photographer is counting the cost after raiders broke into his Yeovil-based studio over the weekend and stole equipment worth around £2,300. Simon Nash, of Slogical Photography, told the Yeovil Press that the intruders struck in the early hours of Saturday (October 11, 2014) at his studio on the Pen Mill Trading Estate. “They forcibly removed the steel…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Elderly man killed in hit-and-run

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Elderly man killed in hit-and-run

Posted: 15th October 2014
POLICE are looking for witnesses after a man in his 80s died following a hit-and-run incident in Bruton. The man was found lying in Cole Road with serious head injuries at about 8.35pm last night (Tuesday, October 14, 2014). He had been walking his dog. He received medical attention at the scene but died later. The incident is being treated by police as a “fail to stop”…

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