YEOVILTON LIFE: Engineer sails around Britain and Ireland in record time
Posted: 22nd August 2014
AN engineer from RNAS Yeovilton has helped to set a new record for a yacht race. Air engineering technician Meirion Stenner was the only military member of the Team Endeavour crew who sailed Artemis into the record books. The crew competed in the Seven Stars Round Britain and Ireland race in five days, 14 hours and 16 seconds – breaking the previous record set by the…
FIRST WORLD WAR 100: Council receives Lottery funding for war memorial
Posted: 22nd August 2014
YEOVIL Town Council has received £1,930 from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards the Preston Plucknett War Memorial project. Awarded through HLF’s First World War: Then and Now programme, the project is focussing on the restoration of the war memorial and involving young people carrying out research into the men named on the memorial and the village of Preston Plucknett…
YEOVIL NEWS: New and improved bus service from South West Coaches
Posted: 22nd August 2014
SOUTH West Coaches are pleased to announce a greatly improved and streamlined bus service network within Yeovil as of next week. In 2013 the Yeovil-based firm received the news that additional subsidies were being cut which would affect some of its current services. But a company spokesman said: “We decided that now was the time to restructure our services within Yeovil…
YEOVIL NEWS: Meet the police at Asda TODAY!
Posted: 22nd August 2014
POLICE will be holding a beat surgery at the Asda supermarket store in Preston Road, Yeovil, TODAY (Friday, August 22, 2014.) Shoppers will be able to go and speak with police officers from between 11am and 12noon about any issues they might have. People will also be able to get crime reduction advice.
SOMERSET NEWS: Police warn against the use of legal highs
Posted: 21st August 2014
POLICE have put out a warning across Somerset to be wary of so-called “legal highs” after two people this week are thought to have become ill in the county after taking them. Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) or ‘Legal Highs’ are often marketed in high street shops and because they are “legal” many people are under the impression that they are safe, but they can be far…
EXAM RESULTS 2014: Westfield Academy celebrates fantastic results
Posted: 21st August 2014
STUDENTS at Westfield Academy in Yeovil have been celebrating today (Thursday, August 21, 2014) after receiving excellent exam results. Schools in England have been told by exams regulator OfQUAL to expect big variations in their GCSE results because of the largest set of changes for several years. Despite this, students at Westfield achieved the school’s second…
SOMERSET NEWS: Sex offender jailed for 11 years
Posted: 20th August 2014
A 27-year-old man was jailed for 11 years at Taunton Crown Court this week after being convicted of sexual offences against a girl. A jury found John Edward Fouracres, of Woolavington, near Bridgwater, guilty on Monday (August 18, 2014) of four counts of sexual assault and two counts of rape, following a trial lasting six days. All the offences occurred in the…
SOMERSET NEWS: Woman suffers from smoke in grill pan fire
Posted: 20th August 2014
A WOMAN needed medical help this morning (Wednesday, August 20, 2014) after suffering from smoke inhalation following a fire at a Somerset home. Three fire engines from Shepton Mallet, Castle Cary and Glastonbury were mobilised at just before 11am to the incident in West Shepton, Shepton Mallet, following reports of a property full of smoke and an alarm sounding. A…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Woman gets stuck in lift
Posted: 20th August 2014
A WOMAN was left suffering from shock this morning (Wednesday, August 20, 2014) after getting stuck in a lift in Ilminster. The alarm was raised at just after 9am to the incident in Ile Court and one fire engine from Ilminster was mobilised. A spokesman for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service told the Yeovil Press: “Officers were able to release one female…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Man released on bail over migrants found in lorry
Posted: 20th August 2014
A MAN has been released on police bail pending further enquiries following an incident yesterday (Tuesday, August 19, 2014) where migrants were found in the back of a lorry pulled over at Ilminster. Police announced at the time that a German man had been arrested on suspicion of “facilitating the unlawful entry of people into the UK.” They have now said this afternoon…
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