ILMINSTER NEWS: Silver Street Dairy owner amazed at town’s community spirit
Posted: 31st August 2017
THE owner of the Silver Street Dairy – which has just reopened after suffering from bad flooding damage earlier this summer – has thanked the “wonderful community” of Ilminster for its support. The shop in Silver Street officially reopened on Thursday (August 31, 2017) after being closed for repair work following the flooding back on July 23, 2017. And owner Caroline…
SOMERSET NEWS: Have you seen Sophie – missing since August 15?
Posted: 27th August 2017
AN APPEAL has gone out from the owners of Sophie – a female English Springer Spaniel – which went missing earlier this month on the Quantock Hills. It was back on Tuesday, August 15, 2017, when Sophie, an elderly black and white dog, went missing from Cothelstone Hill on the Quantocks. Anyone with information is asked to contact 07818 852213 or 07715 213245. An appeal…
ILMINSTER NEWS: £2k for Ilminster Literary Festival thanks to Tesco
Posted: 24th August 2017
THE sale of 5p plastic carrier bags at Tesco has certainly made good reading for organisers of the Ilminster Literary Festival. Every two months the Tesco store in Shudrick Lane gives out £7,000 to three local groups or organisations deserving of financial support as part of the supermarket giant’s Bags of Help community grant scheme. The national Tesco scheme is funded…
ILMINSTER NEWS: £4k for Ilminster Arts Centre thanks to Tesco
Posted: 24th August 2017
THE Ilminster Arts Centre has received a £4,000 donation from the town’s Tesco store thanks to the supermarket giant’s Bags of Help community grant scheme. Every two months the Tesco store in Shudrick Lane gives out £7,000 to three local groups or organisations deserving of financial support. The national Tesco scheme is funded by money raised from the 5p plastic carrier…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Shudrick Lane doesn’t start and stop at Tesco car park
Posted: 22nd August 2017
DRIVERS have been urged to remember to use caution when leaving the Tesco car park in Ilminster following a number of near misses. The police have reported concerns about vehicles pulling out of the car park in Shudrick Lane and forgetting to look left for oncoming motorists and thinking that everyone coming from the Ditton Street end is going to turn into Tesco. “There…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Tesco forecourt is not the place for children on bikes and scooters
Posted: 22nd August 2017
PEDESTRIANS and cyclists are being asked to avoid using the Tesco filling station forecourt in Ilminster as a short cut. The petrol station on the corner of Orchard Vale and Ditton Street has sometimes seen people nip across the forecourt on foot or bicycle to cut-off going the “long way round” of the pavement or road. But there are concerns that this could lead to an…
SOMERSET NEWS: Access to routine GP services set to extend to evenings and weekends
Posted: 21st August 2017
PATIENTS with long-term health conditions, young people and shift workers are just some of the people expected to benefit from a planned extension to the availability of appointments at Somerset’s GP Practices. Practices across the county have extended the times when appointments are available into the early evening and at weekends with a range of primary care…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Moles trapped and killed after causing grave problems at cemetery
Posted: 18th August 2017
CUTE moles have been trapped and killed after an increase in population of the small mammals started to cause problems at Ilminster Cemetery. The council’s expenditure over the past month includes £190 to IEP Pest Control for the “catching of moles” at the cemetery. And town clerk Joy Norris said: “There is an ongoing mole issue which normally we tolerate, but this year…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: One of the country’s rarest mammals discovered in Merriott
Posted: 18th August 2017
A DEDICATED worker at the RSPCA in Somerset is providing round-the-clock care to a bat thought to be one of the rarest mammals in England. Merri, believed to be a grey long-eared bat, was rescued by the RSPCA on Monday (August 14, 2017) after being found grounded in Merriott which sits between Yeovil and Crewkerne. She was taken in by the charity’s West Hatch Wildlife…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: One of the country’s rarest mammals discovered in Merriott
Posted: 18th August 2017
A DEDICATED worker at the RSPCA in Somerset is providing round-the-clock care to a bat thought to be one of the rarest mammals in England. Merri, believed to be a grey long-eared bat, was rescued by the RSPCA on Monday (August 14, 2017) after being found grounded in Merriott which sits between Yeovil and Crewkerne. She was taken in by the charity’s West Hatch Wildlife…
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