YEOVIL NEWS: Quedam development plans are withdrawn
Posted: 31st August 2014
PLANS for the redevelopment and extension of the Quedam shopping centre in Yeovil have been withdrawn. A planning application put forward by UBS Triton Fund to develop the existing Vincents Garage site and Quedam car park to provide extra space for the shopping centre had been scheduled to be discussed by South Somerset District Council’s Area South committee on…
FUN DAY: Lots to do at Westland leisure complex
Posted: 31st August 2014
THERE are a whole host of activities and things to do today (Sunday, August 31, 2014) at Westland leisure complex in Yeovil. There will be a mini fun fair, bouncy castle, charity stalls, morris dancing, live music and lots more from 11am and throughout the afternoon. There will be plenty of refreshments available including a real ale festival, lunchtime carvery and hog…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: NatWest supports Ferne Animal Sanctuary
Posted: 31st August 2014
THE NatWest Bank in Somerset is to support Ferne Animal Sanctuary’s New Digs for Dogs £1million project for 2014-15. Launched in March 2014, Ferne’s project is to build an enhanced kennel block, improved grooming and veterinary care room, information hub, social unit, offices, reception and purpose built rehoming centre at their site in Wambrook, near Chard. While…
SOMERSET NEWS: Hand stuck in letter box
Posted: 30th August 2014
A MAN had to be rescued in the early hours of this morning (Saturday, August 30, 2014) after getting his hand stuck in a letter box. One fire engine from Burnham-on-Sea attended the scene at a property in Highbridge Road in the town to help the man at just before 4.30am. A Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service spokesman told the Yeovil Press: “Crews used small tools…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Casualties clamber free from crash
Posted: 30th August 2014
TWO people managed to climb free of a vehicle which had left the road near Langport early this morning (Saturday, August 30, 2014). One fire engine from Somerton was mobilised at just before 5am after the alarm was raised to the incident on Nythe Road. A spokesman for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service told the Yeovil Press: “Crews made the vehicle safe and…
YEOVIL NEWS: Car on fire near crematorium
Posted: 30th August 2014
FIREFIGHTERS were called out yesterday (Friday, August 29, 2014) to deal with a car on fire near to the Yeovil Crematorium. The Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service told the Yeovil Press that it received “multiple calls” from people about a car on fire just after 7.15pm. Firefighters found the car to be well alight and quickly worked to put the fire out.
SOMERSET NEWS: Rescued from canal water
Posted: 30th August 2014
TWO people had to be rescued after getting into difficulty in the canal lock in Taunton. The alarm was raised at just after 5am on Friday (August 29, 2014) and two fire engines from Taunton were mobilised to Canal Road to rescue two males. A Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service spokesman told the Yeovil Press: “Crews used water rescue equipment, a ladder and dry…
SOMERSET NEWS: Child stuck in chair
Posted: 30th August 2014
FIREFIGHTERS had to come to the rescue to help free a three-year-old girl who had got stuck in a chair. One fire engine from Taunton was mobilised yesterday (Friday, August 29, 2014) at about 12.45pm to the incident where the girl had got her knee stuck in the back of a chair at a home in Halse. A spokesman for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service told the…
YEOVIL NEWS: Garden party with the Mayor and Mayoress in aid of Flying Colours Appeal
Posted: 30th August 2014
THE Mayor and Mayoress of Yeovil will be holding a garden party tomorrow (Sunday, August 31, 2014) to raise money for the Flying Colours Appeal for Yeovil Women’s Hospital. The Mayor, Cllr Mike Lock, and his wife, Pauline, will be hosting the event at Poplars Farm in Yeovil Marsh on Sunday from 2pm to 6pm. It will be free to enter and there will be plenty of activities…
YEOVIL NEWS: Traffic concerns over planned new worship centre
Posted: 29th August 2014
TRAFFIC fears on the already congested Sherborne Road in Yeovil have led councillors to shake their heads in objection about plans to create a new centre for “public worship or religious instruction” in the area. Boon Brown has applied for planning permission to go-ahead with the project to convert the Yeovil Vehicle Centre in Sherborne Road. But members of Yeovil Town…
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