Hurrah - electric returns to Yeovil
Posted: 14th August 2013
POWER has now been restored to all homes affected by the electrical power cut today (Wednesday, August 14) in Yeovil. Around 20,000 people in Yeovil and surrounding area, including across the county border into Dorset and Sherborne, suffered the power loss due to a fault at a local sub-station at around 1pm. But Southern Electric Power Distribution has now said that the…
Power cut across Yeovil
Posted: 14th August 2013
SOUTHERN Electric Power Distribution is thanking people across the Yeovil area for their patience following a widespread power cut across the town. The loss of power struck earlier today and affected many shops in the town centre which forced them to close. A spokesman for Southern Electric said: “We are very sorry for any inconvenience caused and will give updates on…
Ade gets ready for the English Channel - please support!
Posted: 13th August 2013
LET this be a lesson learnt by everyone – don’t come up with any ambitious ideas after a few pints of cider. Former Ivel Barbarians rugby player Adrian Radford is all set to tackle his biggest challenge yet and there will not be an oval-shaped ball in sight! Ade, as he is better known, will be setting off tomorrow (Wednesday, August 14) on the swim of a lifetime. He is…
Yarlington wins digital funding for tenants
Posted: 13th August 2013
THE Yeovil-based Yarlington Housing Group has won Government funding to help get more of its tenants online, improve their skills and benefit from wider internet services. Despite a growth in household internet connections and computer use over recent years, four million homes in the UK are still not connected to the internet Office of National Statistics data reports…
Students return from India
Posted: 13th August 2013
SIXTH-FORM students from Bruton School for Girls have just returned from spending five weeks in India where they have been teaching English and helping in a local school and orphanage. Joybells’ is an orphanage and school foundation based just outside Dehradun in the foothills of the Himalayas. It was founded and set up by a woman called Joy in 1983, to care for and…
Mobile speed camera locations this week in South Somerset
Posted: 12th August 2013
THE Safety Camera Partnership has announced where mobile speed cameras will be operating during this week (Aug 12-18, 2013) in South Somerset. The mobile speed cameras will be at the following locations: A30 East Chinnock (30mph). A30 West Coker Road, Yeovil (30mph). A303 Ilminster Bypass (60mph). A303/A358 Southfields Roundabout (60mph). A372 Aller (30mph). A372…
Help save a life - blood donor sessions in Yeovil
Posted: 12th August 2013
NEW blood donors would be welcome when the NHS Blood and Transplant group holds sessions this week at the AgustaWestland Leisure Complex in Yeovil. Blood donor sessions will be held at the Westland complex in Westbourne Close, Yeovil, tomorrow (Tuesday, August 13) and Wednesday, August 14, between 12.45pm and 3.15pm and then again from 4.45pm to 7.15pm. Hospitals in…
Fun all the way at Westland Festival
Posted: 11th August 2013
THERE was plenty of fun to be had today (Sunday, August 11, 2013) for all the family at the AgustaWestland Leisure Complex in Yeovil. There was a real ale festival, lunchtime carvery, mini funfair, bouncy castle, charity stalls, Morris dancing, live music and a hog roast. There was ballroom dancing to enjoyed in the Main Ballroom at Westland, while people young and old…
Wessex Truck Show is truckin' good!
Posted: 11th August 2013
THE first-ever Wessex Truck Show at Yeovil Showground has been a massive hit with big lorry enthusiasts. Good weather, large crowds, trucks galore – the show over the past weekend (August 10-11) must surely become an annual event in the Yeovil social calendar. Organisers Dave Cross, Mark Parsons, Paul Cosh and Simon Edworthy – known collectively as Fosse Way Events Ltd –…
Multi-storey car park plans for Yeovil District Hospital
Posted: 11th August 2013
PLANS to build a multi-storey car park to serve Yeovil District Hospital have been unveiled. The future propoals have been included in documents submitted to South Somerset District Council with an initial planning application to get the ball rolling on dealing with the problems with car parking for patients, staff and visitors to the hospital in Higher Kingston. There…
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