YEOVIL NEWS: Mindless vandalism at Ninesprings
Posted: 16th April 2014
LOUTS who have been causing damage at the Yeovil Country Park over the past week have been described as “mindless.” With the weather having improved of late it means that more people are visiting the park – better known as Ninesprings – especially with it being the school Easter holidays. But countryside rangers and volunteers have been left disappointed that a few…
YEOVIL NEWS: Car and motorbike in collision
Posted: 16th April 2014
FIREFIGHTERS were called out this morning (Wednesday, April 16, 2014) to deal with an incident involving a motorbike and car on a busy road in Yeovil. The alarm was raised by ambulance paramedics at just before 10am to reports of a collision on Ilchester Road. Firefighters confirmed a two-vehicle collision, but thankfully nobody was trapped in the wreckage. Officers…
SOMERSET NEWS: Help at hand for parents with school disappointment
Posted: 16th April 2014
COUNCIL chiefs in Somerset have said they will work closely with parents who have been left disappointed at failing to gain the primary school of their choice for their children. More than 97 per cent of children in Somerset were given one of their top three choices and more than 91 per cent have secured their first choice primary school for the next academic year – an…
SOMERSET NEWS: Three people led to safety from fire
Posted: 16th April 2014
TWO adults and one child were helped to safety after fire broke out in the kitchen of a Somerset home. The alarm was raised at just before 5.30pm yesterday (Tuesday, April 15, 2014) to reports that a plastic box had caught fire on top of a hob at a property in Suffolk Court off of Wiltshire Close in Taunton. Two fire engines from Taunton were mobilised and firefighters…
SOMERSET NEWS: Police confirm body found is William Evans
Posted: 16th April 2014
POLICE have confirmed that the body of a man recovered from a Somerset river is that of missing William Evans. The police put out an appeal yesterday (Tuesday, April 15, 2014) for help in finding Mr Evans, 92, who had been missing from his home in Taunton since last Friday. But police have now confirmed that the body of a man found yesterday in the River Tone at Firepool…
SOMERSET NEWS: Car drives into house
Posted: 16th April 2014
FIREFIGHTERS were called out early this morning (Wednesday, April 16, 2014) after getting reports that a car had driven into a house. The alarm was raised at just after 3am to the incident in Wells Road at Wookey Hole, near Wells, with reports of one female trapped. Two fire engines from Wells and a rescue tender from Glastonbury attended the scene and removed the…
YEOVIL NEWS: Flood support from apprentices
Posted: 15th April 2014
THE Yeovil-based AgustaWestland Apprentice and Student Association has made a donation of £756 to the Much Thorn Flood Wings appeal. The appeal was created to help raise money and awareness to support people affected by the flooding in Somerset and other parts of the UK earlier this year. Appeal organisers would like to the thank the AgustaWestland Apprentice and Student…
LONDON MARATHON 2014: Top effort! Daring Andrew Clancy is back home
Posted: 15th April 2014
MASSIVE congratulations go to South Somerset sportsman Andrew Clancy this evening (Tuesday, April 15, 2014) after completing his double marathon adventure. Andrew, of Chard Cricket Club, ran the London Marathon on Sunday (April 13, 2014) in a more than respectable time of 3:42:45 and finished 7,334th overall. And then yesterday (Monday, April 14, 2014) he set off from…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Donkey is well-behaved at church
Posted: 15th April 2014
THE congregation of a church near Ilminster were joined by a real donkey for the traditional Palm Sunday service. Parishioners at St Peter’s Church in Horton last Sunday (April 13, 2014) were delighted to be joined by Gemma the donkey for their procession, carrying their crosses, to Broadway Hill Methodist Church. The procession was led this year by Sue Parsons and Gemma…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Any Questions in Chard!
Posted: 15th April 2014
PRESENTER Jonathan Dimbleby and BBC Radio 4s Any Questions programme was recorded at St Mary’s Church in Chard this month. Any Questions, now over 60-years-old and with more than 2m listeners in the UK alone, is the longest running panel discussion programme. The production team was invited to air it from the church by Rev Sue Tucker in a bid to raise St Mary’s profile…
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