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Parking restrictions to be relaxed in Sherborne Road?

Posted: 14th November 2013
PEOPLE living in Sherborne Road near to the town centre in Yeovil have asked for parking restrictions outside their homes to be lifted. The highways authority at Somerset County Council has received a number of requests from people to relax the limited waiting restrictions at the western end of Sherborne Road next to its junction with Wyndham Street. These two on-street…

Police crackdown on St John's Road speeding in Yeovil

Posted: 14th November 2013
POLICE have said they will look to crackdown on speeding motorists in a residential area of Yeovil. There have been growing concerns about traffic and parking issues in the St John’s Road area of Yeovil. Cllr Tony Lock, who represents the area, attended a site visit with officers from Somerset County Council’s highways authority on November 12 and it was agreed that…

Everyman who Served - a bronze cast in memory of First World War great

Posted: 14th November 2013
WHEN Henry Allingham was servicing seaplanes during the First World War little did he realise that his image would be cast in bronze and displayed in a museum for posterity to represent “Everyman who Served." Henry Allingham served in the Royal Naval Air Service - the forerunner of the Fleet Air Arm, during the First World War where he took part in the Battle of Jutland…

Helping young people find a career

Posted: 14th November 2013
A PILOT scheme aimed at helping unemployed young people in Yeovil gain essential skills has been hailed a success. Project Revive was created by Yeovil College, Inspired to Achieve, Knightstone Housing Association and Yarlington Housing Group. Working in partnership, the four organisations aimed to create a scheme that could support the young unemployed and help them…

MP worried about possible stroke unit cuts

Posted: 13th November 2013
POSSIBLE proposals to cut services for stroke patients from Yeovil District Hospital have been met with concern by MP David Laws. It has been recommended that stroke services, currently based at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton and Yeovil District Hospital, should be located under one roof - in Taunton. The plans will be discussed next week in Yeovil by the Somerset…

Police Post praised by Yeovil MP

Posted: 13th November 2013
POLICE have been praised by Yeovil MP David Laws for getting “out and about” and meeting people in the town. The police opened the Police Post initiative around six weeks ago at South Somerset District Council’s Petters House offices in Petters Way in Yeovil town centre. The police desk is manned Monday to Friday between 9am and 10.30am and from 3pm to 4pm and allows…

Question marks hang over Yeovil Hospital's stroke unit

Posted: 13th November 2013
HEALTH chiefs in Somerset have played down reports that they are to close the specialist stroke unit at Yeovil District Hospital and that nothing has been decided just yet about its future. Somerset County Council's Cllr Jane Lock remarked at a public meeting in Yeovil last night (Tuesday, November 12, 2013) - which was being held to discuss future housing for the town -…

Volunteers wanted for charity bag packing marathon

Posted: 13th November 2013
VOLUNTEERS are wanted by the Piers Simon Appeal’s School in a Bag team to take part in a charity marathon bag pack at Tesco in Yeovil. This will be the third year running that the PSA has helped to pack the shopping for customers at Tesco – but this will be the first year where the group has done it for 18 hours! The PSA charity liaison office, Luke Simon, said that last…

Church group backs Philippines relief effort

Posted: 13th November 2013
YOUNG members of the Elim Pentecostal Church in Yeovil have made craft items which will be sold to help raise money for the Philippines disaster relief effort. The youth group of the church decided to change its normal session this week and instead become a craft-making workshop. Their items will now be sold on a stall at Yeovil Market in Lower Middle Street on Friday…

Police look for Yeovil graffiti vandal

Posted: 13th November 2013
POLICE have appealed for information about who might be responsible for this graffiti in Yeovil. Sgt Jamie Rees, of Yeovil Police, has posted this photograph onto the social networking Facebook site asking for people to come forward if they recognise this tag - the term given to a graffiti vandal's signature. Anyone who can help should contact Sgt Rees on 101.

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