YEOVIL NEWS: Man in court charged with murder

YEOVIL NEWS: Man in court charged with murder

Posted: 15th December 2020
  A MAN is due in court today (Tuesday, December 15, 2020) after being charged with the murder of 40-year-old Louis Bednall in Yeovil. It follows an incident in Hendford Hill, Yeovil, in the early hours of Saturday, December 12, in which Mr Bednall suffered fatal injuries. Matthew Sheridan, of Long Ashton, will appear before Yeovil Magistrates’ Court this morning. A…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Murder victim named by police

YEOVIL NEWS: Murder victim named by police

Posted: 14th December 2020
  POLICE have named the man who died in Yeovil on Saturday (December 12, 2020) as a result of injuries sustained in an incident which is being treated as murder. Two men remain under arrest following the death of a man in the Hendford Hill area of Yeovil in the early hours of December 12. T/DCI Phil Walker, of the Major Crime Investigation Team, said: “While formal…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Latest news on Hendford Hill murder investigation

YEOVIL NEWS: Latest news on Hendford Hill murder investigation

Posted: 13th December 2020
  OFFICERS investigating the murder of a 40-year-old man in Yeovil have applied for a warrant of further detention for two people who remain under arrest. The application, granted at a hearing earlier today (Sunday, December 13, 2020), will mean a 23-year-old man and a 29-year-old man, both arrested on suspicion of murder, can be held for an additional 36 hours. There is…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Police launch murder investigation

YEOVIL NEWS: Police launch murder investigation

Posted: 12th December 2020
  A MURDER investigation has been launched in Yeovil following the death of a 40-year-old man. Police were called at just before 12.30am today (Saturday, December 12, 2020) to attend a flat in Hendford Hill. A 40-year-old man was found with life-threatening injuries. He was taken to hospital where he sadly died earlier this morning. Detetctive Inspector Chris Feerick, of…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Frustrations with the 101 police number

YEOVIL NEWS: Frustrations with the 101 police number

Posted: 8th December 2020
  IF you live in Yeovil and you phone the police on 101 asking for help – the last thing you expect is to be put through to someone nearly 200 miles away. But that is exactly what has happened to the Mayor of Yeovil, Cllr David Recardo, on three separate occasions. He told members of Yeovil Town Council on December 1 – via the Zoom conferencing technology – that during…

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YEOVIL NEWS: War on drugs is a game of “cat and mouse” says police chief

YEOVIL NEWS: War on drugs is a game of “cat and mouse” says police chief

Posted: 8th December 2020
CHIEF Inspector Sharon Baker, of Yeovil Police, has said that the war on drugs cannot be won by arrests alone. Drug problems in the town are a major concern among the community and members of Yeovil Town Council. But Ch Insp Baker, speaking to councillors on Monday (December 1) via the Zoom conferencing technology, said: “We cannot arrest our way out of drugs. We have to…

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YEOVIL NEWS: The body of little Trevor Hoyle was never discovered

YEOVIL NEWS: The body of little Trevor Hoyle was never discovered

Posted: 8th December 2020
  THE tragic story of five-year-old Yeovil lad Trevor Hoyle who was killed during an air raid on the town in the Second World War is detailed in Jack Sweet’s new book. The Yeovil Press mentioned young Trevor in last month’s edition of the paper when we said his death was arguably one of the saddest stories from the town’s war years. It was on Wednesday, March 26, 1941…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Jack’s personal look at Yeovil in the Second World War

YEOVIL NEWS: Jack’s personal look at Yeovil in the Second World War

Posted: 8th December 2020
  HISTORIAN and proud Yeovilian, Jack Sweet, has produced another fascinating book looking back at Yeovil in times of old – this time concentrating on the war years of 1939-45. The book has been published by Fonthill Media and is entitled Yeovil in the Second World War and takes a personal look at the town during those six momentous years and during the time when Jack…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Pen Mill Hotel wins annual Pittards Trophy for Remembrance

YEOVIL NEWS: Pen Mill Hotel wins annual Pittards Trophy for Remembrance

Posted: 8th December 2020
  THE Yeovil branch of the Royal British Legion runs an annual competition for the best Poppy Day themed display to commemorate Remembrance. The displays can be anything that is Poppy Day related, and, as one would expect, a lot of the displays centred around poppy themes and poems about Remembrance Day. The competition once again had some excellent entries, but the…

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YEOVIL NEWS: Let’s get those tills jingling for Yeovil’s traders

YEOVIL NEWS: Let’s get those tills jingling for Yeovil’s traders

Posted: 7th December 2020
  THE Mayor has urged people to do as much shopping as they can during the run-up to Christmas in Yeovil town centre to help our beleaguered traders. Cllr David Recardo said that the traders need all of our support in what has been a particularly difficult year for them because of the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdown restrictions. But now Lockdown Two has…

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