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Keep an eye on the elderly during the hot weather

Posted: 11th July 2013
THE very welcome warm weather is a mixed blessing for the frail and elderly who can find the heat difficult. Somerset County Council is asking neighbours, friends and relatives to keep an eye out for anyone who may be struggling to cope in the sustained heat and might need help maintaining their health and well-being. The council’s staff and organisations it works with…

Halfords in Yeovil wants YOUR unwanted bikes

Posted: 11th July 2013
HALFORDS in Yeovil is taking unwanted bikes off customers’ hands in an initiative to provide much-needed affordable transport for communities in Africa. For six days, from today (Thursday, July 11) to Tuesday, July 16, Britain’s biggest bike retailer is inviting customers to bring cycles currently lying abandoned in garages and garden sheds to any of its 460 stores…

Woman and dog get stuck in lift

Posted: 10th July 2013
AN ELDERLY woman and her pet dog had to be rescued this evening (Wednesday, July 10) after getting stuck in a lift in Yeovil. Two fire engines were mobilised at 7.45pm to a property in Hendford, Yeovil, after receiving call at Fire Service Control Room of a person stuck in a lift. On arrival at the scene crews confirmed one woman and her dog, who were not distressed…

Look to the skies - Air Day is coming!

Posted: 10th July 2013
FINAL preparations are taking place to welcome over 30,000 visitors to the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton’s annual International Air Day on Saturday (July 13). Few events can rival the intensity, drama and spectacle on offer at the award winning show, one of the Southwest’s largest one day events. It promises to be an action-packed day out for all the family with…

Be safe in the sun!

Posted: 10th July 2013
SUN-WORSHIPPERS across Yeovil and South Somerset are being asked by health chiefs to help improve the county’s skin cancer record with the area in the midst of a heat wave and the school holidays on the way. Rates of malignant melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, are 45 per cent higher in Somerset than the average for the rest of England. Somerset County…

Ex-teacher Grant Jackson roars home after backing the Lions!

Posted: 9th July 2013
WELL-KNOWN ex-teacher Grant Jackson has just returned home after a trip-of-a-lifetime Down Under where he spent five weeks supporting the British and Irish Lions rugby team on tour in Australia. Rugby-loving Mr Jackson, who retired in 2011 after many years of teaching at Preston School in Yeovil and then at Stanchester Academy in Stoke-sub-Hamdon, travelled to Australia…

Proposals withdrawn for town centre apartments

Posted: 9th July 2013
PLANS to turn a large and prominent building in Yeovil town centre into 35 apartments have been withdrawn. It was back in April that Intercounty Properties applied to South Somerset District Council for planning permission to transform the large 1970s building which stands virtually opposite the entrance to Glovers Walk in Lower Middle Street. The site consists of a…

Council backs new Tesco Express store in Yeovil

Posted: 9th July 2013
TESCO Stores Ltd have been given the go-ahead to carry out works at their latest venture in Yeovil at the former Picketty Witch pub. The supermarket giant has been given planning permission for various works to be carried out at the ex-pub in Ilchester Road in readiness for it to re-open as a Tesco Express store – similar to those already found in Yeovil on…

Footballers to open revamped Yeovil Library

Posted: 9th July 2013
PROFESSIONAL footballers might not necessarily be associated with public libraries – but it really will be a case of “here we go, here we go” when Yeovil Library re-opens its doors later this month. Members of Yeovil Town FC will be guests of honour when the main library in King George Street opens its doors again on Monday, July 22, to unveil a fresh new look and…

Plaque unveiling to mark Queen's visit

Posted: 9th July 2013
A COMMEMORATIVE plaque is to be unveiled at Pen Mill Railway Station in Yeovil to mark last year’s visit of the Queen as part of her Diamond Jubilee Tour of the South West. Members of Yeovil Town Council’s promotion and activities committee were being told this evening (Tuesday, July 9), in a report, that an unveiling ceremony is scheduled to take place on July 25…

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