Certificates for E. R. Garrett Ltd staff
Posted: 25th October 2012
STAFF at an Ilchester-based cleaning company have certainly 'cleaned up' in their qualifications. Seven members of E. R. Garrett Ltd, which has its headquarters at Esmonde Drive, received certificates from vocational education authority City and Guilds for Level Two in cleaning and support service skills. The company's contracts manager, Mel Davis, also received…
YOUR chance to win an iPod
Posted: 25th October 2012
FACEBOOK users across Yeovil and South Somerset could be in with a chance of winning an iPod - just by guessing how many people dialled 999 to Avon and Somerset Police when they saw a bike apparently being stolen. In a recent experiment the police filmed a special video with a PCSO to test how easy it is for bike thieves to get away unchallenged. Police locked up a…
Go Orange Day support for osteoporosis awareness
Posted: 25th October 2012
STAFF at Yeovil District Hospital raised awareness of osteoporosis on Go Orange Day by wearing something orange to help raise awareness. Visitors and staff were also given the opportunity to purchase homemade cakes and orange day ribbon badges from the local National Osteoporosis Support Group. Orange Day Specialist Nurse, Clare Cockill, was on hand to do fracture risk…
Sponsored walk backs breast cancer patients at Yeovil
Posted: 25th October 2012
FUNDS to provide support and pampering days for breast cancer patients diagnosed at Yeovil District Hospital has been boosted by £1,170 - thanks to a team of staff from Dorset County Council. The challenge involved 15 colleagues, after a day’s work with the Horizon Service, walking from Bowleaze Cove to the Sailing Academy on Portland, which is around ten miles. Yeovil…
New home for insects at Park School
Posted: 25th October 2012
THE Park School in Yeovil opened its gates to some new arrivals as Neil Macdonald, of Orchard Pig Groundforce, from West Bradley near Glastonbury, helped the children to build a 'bug hotel' in a quiet part of the school grounds. Mr Macdonald said: "The children built what I call a high-rise apartment block for insects and small creatures. Every class in the Junior School…
Good luck to Yeovil's Unique Faith
Posted: 24th October 2012
GIRL group Unique Faith from Yeovil are now just one step away from performing at The 02 in London after wowing the crowd and judging panel at the Open Mic UK Regional Showcase in Bristol. Olivia Macgregor, 13, India Lloyd, 15, and Katie Orwin, 14, known as Unique Faith, joined thousands of acts who entered Open Mic UK 2012. The best unsigned singers from across the…
KFC is coming to Yeovil - very soon!
Posted: 24th October 2012
IT is the news that fans of the fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken have been waiting for – its new restaurant in Yeovil will be opening within the next few weeks. A spokesman for KFC, the world’s largest chain of fried chicken fast-food restaurants, told Yeovil Press this evening that the new restaurant on the Houndstone Retail Park will open at the end of…
Hospital marks the anniversary of x-ray discovery
Posted: 24th October 2012
YEOVIL District Hospital’s radiology team will be raising awareness of their work on World Radiography Day on Thursday, November 8, which marks the anniversary of the discovery of x-rays in 1895. The team provides diagnostic imaging central to patient care at Yeovil District Hospital. The longest serving staff member, radiographer’s assistant Chrissie Bennett, has seen…
Jack the Ripper manuscript....in Chinese!
Posted: 24th October 2012
A MANUSCRIPT discovered at Montacute TV Radio Toy Museum in 2007 about Jack the Ripper has just been translated into traditional Chinese and published in Taiwan! This being just the first of the two versions of Chinese in which it is to be published. It is also to be published in main land China. Alan Hicken (pictured), curator of Montacute TV Radio Toy Museum, said:…
Police aim to 'disrupt, dismantle and destory' cannabis factories following Yeovil discovery
Posted: 23rd October 2012
POLICE are determined to carry on their efforts to ‘disrupt, dismantle and destroy’ drug-producing operations following the discovery of a cannabis factory yesterday in Yeovil. Officers became alerted following the breakout of a fire at a home in Sherborne Road yesterday afternoon which saw traffic chaos envelope the town centre while the road was shut as firefighters…
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