YEOVIL NEWS: Va Va Voom for cyclists!

YEOVIL NEWS: Va Va Voom for cyclists!

Posted: 22nd September 2014
OOH LA LA! Cyclists will be getting on their bikes for charity next year and pedalling from France to Yeovil Town FC. The YTFC Get Pedalling team will be setting off from Yeovil’s twin French town of Herblay, which is just under 13 miles outside of Paris, and travelling the 366kms to Huish Park between April 29, 2015, and May 3, 2015. They will be hoping to raise as much…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Police need help in identifying couple

YEOVIL NEWS: Police need help in identifying couple

Posted: 22nd September 2014
PEOPLE are being asked to help police identify this couple pictured in CCTV images from a Yeovil town centre department store. A police spokesman said: “We believe they may be able to assist with our enquiries into a recent theft from Beales in the town centre.” The man and woman are seen with a double-buggy carrying two young children. Beales is still more commonly…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Woman receives cut wrist in assault

YEOVIL NEWS: Woman receives cut wrist in assault

Posted: 22nd September 2014
POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an assault on a woman in the Westfield Avenue area of Yeovil. A woman received a cut to her left wrist on Saturday, September 13, 2014, at around 5am. The suspect is described as a white woman, in her mid-20s, medium build, around 5’9’’ tall, with a husky voice and wearing a black hooded top which was pulled down over her face. The…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Ho-ho-ho and Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum this year at Octagon Theatre

YEOVIL NEWS: Ho-ho-ho and Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum this year at Octagon Theatre

Posted: 22nd September 2014
THE countdown to the Christmas period has started today (Monday, September 22, 2014) with the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil launching news of its annual pantomime. This year it will be the ever-popular Jack and the Beanstalk and cast members and panto producers, Evolution Productions, were at the award-winning theatre to meet with the Press and photographers. Paul Hendy and…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Barn fire under investigation

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Barn fire under investigation

Posted: 22nd September 2014
A FIRE which destroyed the contents of a barn at a farm in South Somerset is being treated as suspicious. Firefighters were called out at 9.30pm last night (Sunday, September 22, 2014) to reports of a farm building on fire in the Tengore Lane area of Langport. Three fire engines from Somerton and Martock were mobilised immediately along with a water carrier from…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Flying the flag for town in Bristol Half Marathon

YEOVIL NEWS: Flying the flag for town in Bristol Half Marathon

Posted: 22nd September 2014
AROUND 50 members of the Yeovil Town Road Running Club flew the flag for the town on Sunday (September 21, 2014) at the Bristol Half Marathon. Dave Tinsley was the first Yeovil club runner home in a time of 1:30:00 and first lady was Lauren May Price in 1:33:20. A club spokesman said: “There were many Personal Bests out there and a very emotional Katie Brooks who ran all…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Castaways wow the Octagon audiences!

YEOVIL NEWS: Castaways wow the Octagon crowds!

Posted: 22nd September 2014
THE Castaway Theatre Group wowed the audiences at the Octagon Theatre over the weekend with two performances to celebrate the group’s tenth anniversary. The show, featuring around 80 members of the Yeovil-based group, was filled with song, music, dance and laughter as the Castaways looked back at a decade of performing. The group took the audiences on a whistle-stop tour…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Crossing plans for West Coker Road

YEOVIL NEWS: Crossing plans for West Coker Road

Posted: 21st September 2014
SOMERSET County Council has announced that a pedestrian crossing will be installed on the busy West Coker Road in Yeovil. Members of Yeovil Town Council’s buildings and civic matters committee were told on Tuesday (September 16, 2014) informed that the crossing will go in to the east of the junction with Beaconfield Road. Works include the installation of a push button…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Here we go with netting plan?

YEOVIL NEWS: Here we go with netting plan?

Posted: 21st September 2014
PEOPLE living next to a football pitch in Yeovil will be hoping that planning permission is given the go-ahead to help protect their homes and gardens from wayward shots. Bucklers Mead Academy has applied to South Somerset District Council for the go-ahead to install six-metre high ball netting for 25-metres behind a pitch adjacent to properties in St Marys Crescent…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Going bonkers for conkers!

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Going bonkers for conkers!

Posted: 20th September 2014
THE award-winning Brewers Arms at South Petherton will be going “bonkers for conkers” next month. The pub will be holding its 21st annual conker tournament on Sunday, October 5, 2014, from 3.30pm. It will be fun for all the family while there will be plenty of competitive conker battles going on. But who will take the crown of Conker Champion 2014? PHOTO: The conker…

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