SOMERSET NEWS: New chief executive at County Hall

SOMERSET NEWS: New chief executive at County Hall

Posted: 21st May 2014
SOMERSET County Council has today (Wednesday, May 21, 2014) announced that Pat Flaherty has been appointed its chief executive officer. Mr Flaherty has many years of service in a range of roles within the authority and for the past six months has been Acting CEO in the absence of his predecessor Sheila Wheeler. The decision was formally approved after a vote at today’s…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Alarms for homes to beat the silent killer

YEOVIL NEWS: Alarms for homes to beat the silent killer

Posted: 21st May 2014
ALARMS which will help detect the silent killer - known as carbon monoxide - are to be distributed among homes in Yeovil. Members of Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service have been working in partnership with Yeovil Children’s Centre cluster. The centres provide a range of services for parents to be, parents and carers and their children aged up to five encouraging…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Family pay tribute to crash victim

YEOVIL NEWS: Family pay tribute to crash victim

Posted: 21st May 2014
THE family of a 31-year-old Yeovil man who died in a collision on the A359 near Wanstrow on Monday (May 19, 2014) have released a tribute. Dean Yates, from Yeovil, was a pillion passenger on a motorcycle which was in collision with a tractor. His family have released the following tribute: “Dean was a loving father, brother, uncle and beloved son. “In his short life he…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Reunion for Buckler's Class of '84

YEOVIL NEWS: Reunion for Buckler's Class of '84

Posted: 21st May 2014
FORMER students of Buckler’s Mead School in Yeovil will be holding a party to celebrate the “30th anniversary of their freedom” next month. There will be a reunion for ex-students who went to Buckler’s Mead from 1979 to 1984. The event will take place at the Royal Marine pub in Great Western Terrace, Yeovil, on Saturday, June 7, 2014, from 7pm. Anyone who wants to attend…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Netting stops the pigeon

YEOVIL NEWS: Netting stops the pigeon

Posted: 21st May 2014
A PIGEON was rescued last night (Tuesday, May 20, 2014) by firefighters after getting caught up in netting in Yeovil town centre. The RSPCA requested the support of the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service at just before 7.30pm to free a pigeon which had got trapped in netting on a four-storey building in Princes   Street. One fire engine from Yeovil was mobilised…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Yarlington tenants look at setting up their own businesses

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Yarlington tenants look at setting up their own businesses

Posted: 20th May 2014
THE Yeovil-based Yarlington Housing Group is running a two-week course to encourage people to set up their own businesses. Last week the Office for National Statistics reported that the number of people in work rose to 30.43 million, the highest since records began in 1971, and that this rise has been helped by an increase in self-employment. Recognising the…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Housing development plans for old Red Cross site

YEOVIL NEWS: Housing development plans for old Red Cross site

Posted: 20th May 2014
PLANS have been submitted to turn the former British Red Cross Society headquarters in Yeovil into homes. A planning application has just gone in to South Somerset District Council to make alterations and convert the existing buildings on the corner of Grove Avenue with Preston Road into six flats, as well as build a further three homes within the site. The current…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Laws tells health officials to scrap plans to move stroke unit away from town

YEOVIL NEWS: Laws tells health officials to scrap plans to move stroke unit away from town

Posted: 20th May 2014
YEOVIL MP David Laws has called on the Somerset NHS Clinical Commissioning Group to scrap its plan to relocate emergency stroke services away from the town. There are plans to move the facilities away from Yeovil District Hospital to Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. Mr Laws is due to meet the leaders of the NHS Clinical Commissioning Group this Thursday (May 22, 2014)…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Friends for life after agonising accident at country park

YEOVIL NEWS: Friends for life after agonising accident at country park

Posted: 20th May 2014
  A STUDENT at Buckler’s Mead Academy knows he has gained “friends for life” after they came to his rescue after suffering an agonising injury while playing at the Yeovil Country Park. It was on Saturday (May 17, 2014) afternoon that Jordan Williamson, 13, was playing at the park – better known as Ninesprings – with his mates Jamie Garratt, Leon Farley and Jack Curtis…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Yeovil man, 31, dies in crash

SOMERSET NEWS: Yeovil man, 31, dies in crash

Posted: 20th May 2014
A YEOVIL man died yesterday (Monday, May 19, 2014) as a result of the injuries he sustained in a road crash in Somerset. A motorcycle with pillion passenger was travelling from Wanstrow to Nunney Catch roundabout along the A359 - between Bruton and Frome - when it collided with a tractor travelling in the opposite direction at around 5.10pm. The pillion passenger, a…

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