SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: You're never too old for Rotary!

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Never too old for Rotary!

Posted: 6th July 2014
VETERAN members of Ilminster Rotary Club have formed their own mini-club. Conscious that since the club formed 44 years ago, several were getting a bit long in the tooth, the ageing members have formed their group called the 81 Club. Open only to existing and former Rotarians who have reached the ripe “young age” of 81, they meet once a month in a local pub for a meal…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Busy road to close for gas mains work

YEOVIL NEWS: Traffic chaos to come?

Posted: 6th July 2014
A HEAVILY used stretch of road in a residential area of Yeovil is to close for around a month to allow engineers to install a new gas mains. Somerset County Council has announced that St Michaels Avenue from its junction with Sherborne Road to the junction with Highfield Road – a distance of 655 metres – will be closed to all traffic later this month. The traffic order…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Big welcome at the Elim Church

YEOVIL NEWS: Big welcome at the Elim Church

Posted: 6th July 2014
THE Elim Pentecostal Church in Yeovil will be holding a “welcome service” for new worship pastor Tim Williams and his wife Becky. The service will be held at the church in Southville on Tuesday, July 8, 2014, from 7.30pm followed by refreshments. Tim and his wife moved to Yeovil recently having completed three years at Theological College. Rev Howard Davenport, senior…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Cattle involved in M5 crash

SOMERSET NEWS: Cattle involved in M5 crash

Posted: 6th July 2014
SIX large cattle were rescued following an accident on the M5 motorway in Somerset. The alarm was raised at just before 8am yesterday (Saturday, July 5, 2014) to the incident on the M5 between junctions 26-25 Wellington-Taunton. Two fire engines from Wellington attended the scene and firefighters discovered one landrover and an over-turned trailer with cattle inside…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Man and woman locked in room

YEOVIL NEWS: Man and woman locked in room

Posted: 5th July 2014
TWO people had to be freed after getting locked in a room in Yeovil town centre this morning (Saturday, July 5, 2014). The alarm was raised at 8.40am to the incident at premises in Middle Street and one fire engine from Yeovil attended. A spokesman for the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service told the Yeovil Press: “The crew forced entry to the room using small…

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GLASTONBURY 2014: Harlequin CC photo fest gallery

GLASTONBURY 2014: Harlequin CC photo fest gallery

Posted: 5th July 2014
MEMBERS of Harlequin Carnival Club from Ilminster were certainly not shy in coming forward to share their photos taken at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. The Yeovil Press put out an appeal for Harlequin members – who were helping with marshalling and other duties at Worthy Farm – to send us their photos and their own “selfies.” And the Harlequin team certainly did not…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Voters go to the polls

YEOVIL NEWS: Voters go to the polls

Posted: 5th July 2014
The election – to be held on Thursday, July 17, 2014 – will be contested by three candidates. Sarah Lowery, of the Liberal Democrats, Labour Party candidate Murray Shepstone, and Tony Turner, of the UK Independence Party. Polling stations will be held at the Yeovil Ex-Services and Social Club on Preston Road; St Peter’s Church in Coronation Avenue; and the 1610 Sports…

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GLASTONBURY 2014: Police reflect on this year’s festival

GLASTONBURY 2014: Police reflect on this year’s festival

Posted: 4th July 2014
THE music's finished, people have gone home and the festival infrastructre - including the police base at event control - is being dismantled as the Glastonbury Festival site returns to a working farm. Over six days last week, 135,000 festival-goers descended on Somerset for the world-famous Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm and police were there helping make sure they…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Power of social media helps police

SOMERSET NEWS: Power of social media

Posted: 4th July 2014
LOVE it or hate it – you cannot under-estimate the power of social media! Within an hour yesterday (Thursday, July 3, 2014) of Avon and Somerset Police appealing for help through its social networking Facebook page to identify people in some lost hen party photos, they had managed to trace the owner. She was the bride-to-be who lives in London and who lost her camera on…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Motorcyclist dies in crash

SOMERSET NEWS: Motorcyclist dies in crash

Posted: 4th July 2014
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a motorcyclist died yesterday (Thursday, July 3, 2014). The 50-year-old motorcyclist was riding along the A371 Cheddar Road – better known as the Axbridge by-pass – shortly after 2.30pm. A police spokesman said: “As he approached a left-hand bend he appeared to lose control of the machine, which crossed to the opposite side of the…

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