SOMERSET NEWS: Elderly person freed from crashed car

SOMERSET NEWS: Elderly man freed from crashed car

Posted: 30th May 2014
AN elderly person had to be rescued by firefighters this afternoon (Friday, May 30, 2014) after getting trapped in his car following a crash in Somerset. The Fire Service was asked for help following reports of a road traffic collision just past the airfield on the A372 at Westonzoyland near Bridgwater. Firefighters discovered that the incident involved one vehicle and…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Sadness as former Mayor, Clive Davis, dies

YEOVIL NEWS: Sadness as former Mayor, Clive Davis, dies

Posted: 30th May 2014
TRIBUTES are being paid to former Yeovil Mayor, Clive Davis, who died earlier today (Friday, May 30, 2014). He served as Yeovil Mayor from 2012-13 and his first job in the civic role was when the Queen visited the town as part of her tour of the UK in May 2012. He joked that it would be "all downhill" from that moment! Tributes are already beginning to be made on social…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Police woman helps save young injured deer

SOMERSET NEWS: Police woman helps save young injured deer

Posted: 30th May 2014
THIS injured young deer has been nursed back to health and released into the wild – thanks to Somerset police officer Lucy Bagnowiec.  PC Bagnowiec, based at Frome, was on patrol when she came across the deer lying on the side of the Nunney Road one midweek morning earlier this month.  She wrapped the deer in a blanket, put it into the back of her police estate car and…

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HOME FARM FEST 2014: Fourth music stage added to line-up

HOME FARM FEST 2014: Fourth music stage added to line-up

Posted: 30th May 2014
A FOURTH music venue has been added for this year’s popular Home Farm Fest at Chilthorne Domer - which takes place from June 6-8, 2014 - providing even more music and entertainment for your money! Named Avant Garde, it will be located in the Home Farm Cider Barn and will provide a broad range of music and music-related activity for all the family. The bulk of the Avant…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Man dies in hospital after A303 crash

YEOVIL NEWS: Man dies in hospital after A303 crash

Posted: 30th May 2014
POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a crash on the A303 this week near Yeovil which later saw a man die in hospital. A car towing a caravan on the eastbound carriageway at about 12.15pm on Tuesday (May 27, 2014) left the road and went into a roadside ditch about half a mile before Podimore roundabout.  A police spokesman said today (Friday, May 30, 2014): “The…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Firefighters fight three-storey building blaze

SOMERSET NEWS: Firefighters fight three-storey building blaze

Posted: 30th May 2014
FIREFIGHTERS are currently battling a three-storey building fire in Somerset. The alarm was raised at just after 8am this morning (Friday, May 30, 2014) to the incident in Sparkhayes   Lane, Porlock. Three fire engines from Porlock, Minehead and Lynton were initially mobilised, but crews quickly asked for support and two further crews from Lynton and Combe Martin were…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Two helped from car after crash

YEOVIL NEWS: Two helped from car after crash

Posted: 30th May 2014
TWO people were left trapped in a car yesterday (Thursday, May 29, 2014) following an accident on the outskirts of Yeovil. Two fire engines and a rescue tender from Yeovil were mobilised at just before 11am to reports of a single-vehicle road traffic collision at Green Lane in East Coker. Officers helped both people of the car to safety who were then left in the hands of…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Paramedics threatened at crash scene

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Paramedics threatened at crash scene

Posted: 30th May 2014
POLICE have been left shocked after ambulance crews were threatened at the scene of a road traffic collision on the A303 on Monday (May 26, 2014) near Yeovil. The collision occurred at around 5.30pm on Bank Holiday Monday on the A303 when a silver Ford Focus Estate and a bronze Daewoo Matiz were involved in an incident at traffic lights on the Podimore roundabout. The…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Man left with serious head injuries

SOMERSET NEWS: Man left with serious head injuries

Posted: 30th May 2014
POLICE are investigating a serious assault on a 20-year-old man in Somerset in the early hours of Thursday (May 29, 2014) morning. At about 2.20am, the victim was walking along Albert Street, close to the junction with Halswell Close, in Bridgwater when he was assaulted by two men. He suffered serious head injuries and was taken to Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton where…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Plant some poppy seeds - we will remember them

SOMERSET NEWS: Plant some poppy seeds - we shall remember them

Posted: 29th May 2014
THE Ilminster branch of the Royal British Legion is urging people to support a campaign to help commemorate the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War – plant some poppy seeds! Whether you are a proud owner of an allotment, a garden or just a kitchen windowsill pot – you can still grow some poppies to mark the centenary of the 1914-18 war. John Goodall…

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