YEOVIL NEWS: Plans for public worship – not drug-using and prostitution!

YEOVIL NEWS: Plans for public worship – not drug-using and prostitution!

Posted: 25th August 2014
FEARS that a proposed centre in Yeovil could attract “drug-users and prostitutes” should be allayed this week with news that it is intended to become a place for “public worship or religious instruction.” Members of Yeovil Town Council’s planning and licensing committee meet on Tuesday (August 26, 2014) to discuss the application submitted by Boon Brown for the change of…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Planners to discuss Milford Inn future

YEOVIL NEWS: Planners to discuss Milford Inn future

Posted: 25th August 2014
PLANS to convert the former Milford Inn into nine flats will be discussed this week by Yeovil Town Council. Members of the council’s planning and licensing committee will meet tomorrow (Tuesday, August 26, 2014) to discuss the proposals put forward by Kevin Lake, a director of Somerset Care and Repair Ltd. As previously reported on Yeovil Press on August 10, 2014, the…

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YEOVIL NEWS: End of the road for long running newsagents?

YEOVIL NEWS: End of the road for long running newsagents

Posted: 25th August 2014
ONE of Yeovil’s most well-known town centre newsagents looks set to close to make way for an insurance firm. The Premier newsagent and convenience store in Princes Street, Yeovil, is to be transformed into offices for the Swinton Insurance company. Swinton’s property manager Rosalyn Smith has said in a council report that the firm wants to expand in Yeovil. “We currently…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Bonfire gets out of control at Stoke

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Bonfire gets out of control at Stoke

Posted: 24th August 2014
FIREFIGHTERS were called out this evening (Sunday, August 24, 2014) to deal with a bonfire which had got out of control in Stoke-sub-Hamdon. One fire engine from Martock was mobilised at just after 5.30pm to the incident in the garden of a home in Kings Road. A Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service told the Yeovil Press: “On arrival crews found 20 metres of hedgerow…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Man charged after stabbing incident in Newton Road

YEOVIL NEWS: Man charged after stabbing incident in Newton Road

Posted: 24th August 2014
A MAN has been charged following an incident in Yeovil in which another man was stabbed. A 29-year-old man, of Newton Road, Yeovil, has been charged with wounding with intent and possession of a bladed article and will appear before Taunton Deane Magistrates’ Court in Taunton tomorrow (Monday, August 25, 2014). The charges are in connection with an incident at a property…

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FIRST WORLD WAR 100: We will remember Private Ben Pike

FIRST WORLD WAR 100: We will remember Private Ben Pike

Posted: 24th August 2014
IT was 100 years ago today on August 24, 1914, that Yeovil suffered its first casualty of the First World War. Private Abendago Richard Pike, known as Ben, was a reservist at the outbreak of the war and was called up straight away with the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment, having signed up in Sherborne, and was deployed to the Western Front. He and his comrades…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Serious assault in Newton Road

YEOVIL NEWS: Serious assault in Newton Road

Posted: 23rd August 2014
A MAN is being questioned by police in Yeovil this morning (Saturday, August 23, 2014) following a serious assault in the town. Police were called out at just before 7.30am to an incident in Newton Road, Yeovil, where they found a man had suffered a number of injuries. It is understood that a 29-year-old man has been arrested and is currently in custody. Police have…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Truckers look forward to next year's Wessex Truck Show

YEOVIL NEWS: Truckers look forward to next year's Wessex Truck Show

Posted: 22nd August 2014
TRUCKERS are looking forward to pencilling into their diaries the dates for next year’s Wessex Truck Show following the success of the 2014 event which was held in Yeovil. Thousands of people descended on the two-day show at the Yeovil Showground earlier this month where more than 400 trucks of all shapes and sizes were on display. Even though confirmation of dates for…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Helping to raise a smile for Sue Ryder at Morrisons

YEOVIL NEWS: Helping to raise a smile for Sue Ryder at Morrisons

Posted: 22nd August 2014
STAFF and supporters at the Morrisons store in Yeovil have today (Friday, August 22, 2014) been helping to “raise a smile” for the Sue Ryder charity by getting on their bikes. The supermarket in Lysander Road has joined forces with other Morrisons branches in the region to see if they can cycle – on exercise bikes – a combined total of 24,000 miles; the distance it is to…

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YEOVILTON LIFE: Wreath of Respect visits FAA Memorial Church

YEOVILTON LIFE: Wreath of Respect visits FAA Memorial Church

Posted: 22nd August 2014
THE Wreath of Respect marking 100 years of suffering and sacrifice in conflict has been blessed at the Fleet Air Arm Memorial Church near RNAS Yeovilton having been escorted there by over 30 bikers. As part of a week-long motorcycle journey throughout the UK a representation of the Royal British Legion Riders - of which there are over 6,000 - called at the Fleet Air Arm…

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