You will be safe at Glasto - thanks to Yeovil's Duncan!
Posted: 6th February 2013
YEOVIL fire station manager Duncan White has been awarded a top qualification which will help him to promote public safety at events throughout the UK. Duncan, who is responsible for events management at Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service and is also the UK event safety lead for the Chief Fire Officers Association, has graduated from the University of Derby with a…
Trio of promotions at Battens
Posted: 6th February 2013
A YEOVIL law firm has announced a trio of promotions among key staff to help steer its development of client services. Battens Solicitors is appointing personal injury lawyer Kate Golding as senior associate, while colleagues Kelly Payne and Gayle Defries become Associates. Kate returned to Battens in 2007 having trained at the firm, qualifying as a solicitor in 2001…
Yeovil leads the way in important stroke trial
Posted: 5th February 2013
THE Stroke Team at Yeovil District Hospital have made a terrific start to 2013 by recruiting 25 patients for a major national trial into stroke care – the highest number of any hospital in the UK. Professor Julie Bernhardt, physiotherapist and programme director, said that the stroke rehabilitation clincial trial - called AVERT - was the biggest ever conducted. "We…
Yeovil gains nearly a million in National Lottery funding
Posted: 5th February 2013
GOOD causes in Yeovil received more than £905,000 of National Lottery funding in 2012, according to figures released today. Thirty grants were awarded across the area, providing a vital cash boost to local arts, sport and heritage projects and community groups helping the area’s most vulnerable people. In the last year grants have included: £50,000 to Yeovil Bowling…
Girl, 15, assaulted in Yeovil
Posted: 5th February 2013
AN investigation has begun after a 15-year-old girl was assaulted in Yeovil. The incident occurred at around 2pm on Sunday afternoon (February 3). The victim was with a friend walking along Earle Street when she was subjected to an assault. The suspect is unknown to the victim and is described as a white man, in his late 30s, 5'6" to 5'8" all and with a slim build. He…
Meet the police in Yeovil town centre
Posted: 3rd February 2013
YEOVIL people will be able to speak to the neighbourhood police team at a beat surgery on February 11. The mobile police station will be in Yeovil town centre beside the bandstand outdoor entertainment area in Lower Middle Street between 1pm and 2.30pm. Superintendent Richard Corrigan and Chief Inspector Ray Hulin will be attending as well as town centre beat manager PC…
Wine Vaults to be turned into a restaurant and tea room
Posted: 3rd February 2013
YEOVIL looks set to lose another pub with plans to convert the Wine Vaults into a restaurant and tea room. The premises in Union Street, Yeovil, have been used as a pub since 1877 – but its days now look to be numbered and time is to be called for the very last time. A planning application has been submitted to South Somerset District Council by T & D Investments Ltd to…
Mandy makes final visit to Wheathill residents
Posted: 2nd February 2013
PCSO Mandy Forsey attended the Wheathill Sheltered Housing Complex in Milborne Port this week for the last time to give crime reduction advice to elderly residents. Mandy has attended the scheme on many occasions to give advice and reassurance to the community. Her visit this week was the last time Mandy went along to give advice to the residents as she is leaving her…
New minibus for Fiveways School
Posted: 1st February 2013
FIVEWAYS School in Yeovil is to be presented with a new wheelchair-accessible minibus on Tuesday (Feb 5) - thanks to the Lord's Taverners charity. Fiveways School caters for 63 young people up to the age of 25 with severe, profound and multiple learning difficulties. The Yeovil school provides a specialist education centered on the individual needs of its children. The…
Farewell to beautiful Catherine
Posted: 1st February 2013
HUNDREDS of people attended the funeral service today for murdered South Somerset woman Catherine Wells-Burr. Catherine, 23, was murdered back in September last year, but her family had only recently been able to arrange a funeral as her body had not been released for burial because of the ongoing police investigation. St Mary's Church at Chard was packed to capacity…
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