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WESSEX TRUCK SHOW 2014: Calling everyone aged 84 and over! Can you break a MONSTER record?

Posted: 9th August 2014
THE Wessex Truck Show is hoping to break a record this weekend by finding the oldest passenger to have a ride on the giant Lucas Oil Cruiser! “Anyone from the age of four to 120 can have a ride on the Lucas,” joked cruiser owner Nigel Morris. “Obviously it would be quite something to have a 120-year-old passenger, but the oldest we’ve had so far is 83 – so it would be…

YEOVIL NEWS: Yeovil in Living Memory calendar - number three

Posted: 8th August 2014
CHRISTMAS must be just around the corner! A third calendar looking back at historic Yeovil has been produced by South Somerset District Council. Staff at the council’s Community Heritage Access Centre has produced the Yeovil in Living Memory calendar. They have drawn on the considerable collection of photos held at the Centre to put together a set of fascinating photos…

YEOVIL NEWS: Former Preston School student gets a Lightning Bolt shock at work

Posted: 8th August 2014
DENTAL surgery receptionist Elaine Aplin had the shock of her life when Olympic and Commonwealth champion Usain Bolt turned up for an appointment. Elaine, 43, a former Preston School student in Yeovil, has been living and working in London for a number of years now. But she had a make a double-take this morning (Friday, August 8, 2014) when Bolt, the Jamaican 100m and…

WESSEX TRUCK SHOW 2014: Ticket competition winners announced

Posted: 8th August 2014
THE winning entries in the Wessex Truck Show 2014 ticket competition held by the Yeovil Press over the past couple of days have been announced. We asked people to enter a competition in which they could win a family ticket of two adults and two children to attend on either the Saturday (August 9, 2014) or Sunday (August 10, 2014) of their choice. All we asked was for…

FIRST WORLD WAR 100: Memories given to heritage centre in Yeovil

Posted: 8th August 2014
PHOTOGRAPHS, memorial cards and a letter are the latest First World War items to be donated to South Somerset District Council’s Community Heritage Access Centre in Yeovil. The latest donation contains photographs of two soldiers who are on Yeovil’s War Memorial – Ernest ‘Dyke’ Luffman and Earle Mitchell. Their memorial cards and a letter from Ernest’s sister Mabel to a…

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Recycling collection delays due to driver shortage

Posted: 7th August 2014
DRIVER shortages could mean delayed kerbside collections of recycling in parts of South Somerset for the next few weeks. Households do not need to contact their district council about these delayed collections if all their street is missed as Somerset Waste Partnership will know of properties which are affected. Residents should leave uncollected containers out until the…

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Extra hour free parking for Blue Badge holders

Posted: 7th August 2014
BLUE Badge holders will now get an extra 60 minutes parking time when they buy a ticket in any pay-and-display car park in South Somerset. The idea was proposed by South Somerset District Council to take account of the extra time that people with disabilities may need and agreed after consulting with Shopmobility, South Somerset Disability Forum, carers groups and the…

SOMERSET NEWS: Child gets foot impaled on nail

Posted: 7th August 2014
A CHILD sustained a nasty injury after they got their foot impaled on a piece of wood on a seesaw. Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service received a call yesterday (Wednesday, August 6, 2014) afternoon to say that a five-year-old was in trouble at Mill Lane in Dunster. A spokesman for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service told the Yeovil Press: “The child…

SOMERSET NEWS: Homes evacuated over gas leak

Posted: 7th August 2014
PEOPLE were evacuated from their homes last night (Wednesday, August 6, 2014) due to a gas leak. Firefighters were mobilised at just after 8.30pm following reports of a gas leak at Weavers Reach in Tonedale, Wellington. A spokesman for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service told the Yeovil Press: “The leak had been caused by a disposed of barbecue that had not…

FIRST WORLD WAR 100: Activity sessions for children

Posted: 6th August 2014
CHILDREN have been taught about the importance of the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War through activity sessions held in Yeovil. The centenary of when Britain declared war on Germany in 1914 was commemorated earlier this week by South Somerset District Council’s heritage team holding children’s activities at Milford Hall and St Peter’s Hall. Children…

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