YEOVIL NEWS: Getting young people into work
Posted: 11th September 2014
THE Yeovil-based Yarlington Housing Group is helping young people into work by throwing opens its door to nine new apprentices. With more than 750,000 young people out of work in the UK, an increasingly popular way into employment is through apprenticeships. Yarlington Housing Group welcomed the new arrivals, six of whom will be based at the head office in Yeovil across…
YEOVIL NEWS: Attempted burglary in Ilchester Road
Posted: 11th September 2014
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after an attempted burglary in Yeovil. The offence took place on Thursday, August 28, 2014, at around 6.30pm at a home in Ilchester Road. A police spokesman told the Yeovil Press: “A man described as white, in his 20s or 30s with short dark hair, wearing a top with a large logo and carrying a dark coloured rucksack was seen in the area…
SOMERSET NEWS: Fire safety advice for care homes
Posted: 11th September 2014
FIREFIGHTERS will be working with managers and owners of care premises across Somerset to deliver five free safety education events. Officers from the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service will be working alongside Care Focus to provide the training sessions at Yeovil, Taunton, Williton, Chard and Somerton. The aims of Care Focus have always been to promote…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Sex offender jailed for nearly seven years
Posted: 11th September 2014
A SOUTH Somerset man has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for carrying out a series of sexual offences against two girls and possessing more than 2,500 indecent images of children. Nigel Stephen Bargery, aged 54, of Langdon Close, Chard, admitted a series of offences and was sentenced at Taunton Crown Court earlier today (Thursday, September 11, 2014). The offences…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: A303 reopens after man falls from bridge
Posted: 11th September 2014
THE A303 between South Petherton and the Cartgate roundabout on the outskirts of Yeovil has fully re-opened this morning (Thursday, September 11, 2014) after a man fell from a bridge. It is understood that the emergency services were called to the scene shortly after 7.15am. Paramedics found that a 20-year-old man appeared to have fallen from a bridge over the A303 and…
YEOVIL NEWS: Volunteers needed to pack some School in a Bags
Posted: 10th September 2014
VOLUNTEERS are needed next week to help with the Piers Simon Appeal and its School in a Bag initiative. Organisers of the charity have got some big orders of School Bags to pack and need some extra hands to pack the bags. They are looking for people to help out during the day on Monday and Tuesday (September 15-16, 2014) at the charity’s headquarters in Chilthorne Domer…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Antiques Roadshow near Ilminster
Posted: 10th September 2014
EXPERTS will be hoping to discover some hidden treasures next week when the ever-popular BBC show Antiques Roadshow heads for South Somerset. The show will be taking place at the National Trust’s Barrington Court property at Barrington, near Ilminster, on Thursday, September 18, 2014, from 9.30am to 4.30pm. A team of antiques experts will be on hand to cast their eyes…
YEOVIL NEWS: Giant water slide fun coming to town?
Posted: 10th September 2014
COUNCIL officials are to investigate whether it would be possible to bring a giant water slide to Yeovil town centre. Members of Yeovil Town Council’s promotions and activities committee met last night (Tuesday, September 9, 2014) to discuss possible “new initiatives” for the area. And it was committee chairman, Cllr Jon Gleeson, who suggested the giant water slide idea…
YEOVIL NEWS: World Cup winner WILL be honoured by town
Posted: 10th September 2014
YEOVIL-BORN rugby World Cup winner Marlie Packer is said to be “delighted and honoured” at the prospect of being made an Honorary Freewoman of the town. Marlie, 24, was part of the England team which won the Women’s Rugby World Cup in France last month. Now Yeovil Town Council last night (Tuesday, September 9, 2014) ratified a recommendation made last week to award…
YEOVIL NEWS: Ten year anniversary show for Castaway Theatre Group
Posted: 10th September 2014
THE ever-popular Yeovil-based Castaway Theatre Group will be putting on the show of its life later this month to celebrate its tenth anniversary. It does not seem possible that ten years have passed since the group was first formed in 2005 by Lyn Lee Brown – initially as a way to raise funds for St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice. Castaways’ first show was called Summer…
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