SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Lorry driver charged with dangerous driving
Posted: 6th August 2017
A LORRY driver has been charged with dangerous driving following an incident on the A30 last month. John Lee, aged 61, of Lansdowne Road, Bourneought, is due to appear at South Somerset Magistrates Court in Yeovil on August 17, 2017. This is in relation to a motoring incident at about 8.40am on the A30 between Chard and Crewkerne near to the junction for Cricket St…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Planning chiefs recommend Persimmon plans should be given the green light
Posted: 4th August 2017
PLANNING chiefs at South Somerset District Council have recommended that proposals to build up to 400 homes on land off Canal Way in Ilminster should be given the go-ahead. Members of the council’s Area West committee will meet later this month where they are being recommended to grant Persimmon Homes outline planning permission for the development. If given the go-ahead…
SOMERSET NEWS: Don’t bin that battery!
Posted: 3rd August 2017
GADGET-USERS are being urged “don’t bin that battery” and to take other steps to avoid the risk of setting off a blaze in their rubbish bin that could endanger their home and family. The warning follows two as-yet unexplained accidental fires in Somerset - one in a Chard rubbish bin threated a house and another in refuse added to the landfill site at Walpole near…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Recreation Ground toilets to be rebuilt
Posted: 3rd August 2017
WORK on rebuilding the public toilet block facilities at the Ilminster Recreation Ground are scheduled to start later this month. It is understood that work will begin on Monday, August 14, 2017, and take about ten weeks to complete. The toilets – owned by Ilminster Town Council - have been out of action for over a year ever since the early hours of Sunday, July 10…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Persimmon Homes can’t work their magic like Harry Potter says Deputy Mayor
Posted: 2nd August 2017
COUNCILLORS have reacted angrily to amended plans for a large housing development in Ilminster and have said that the developers cannot “wave a wand like Harry Potter” and hope that everything will be ok. Persimmon Homes have submitted amended plans to South Somerset District Council for land south west of Canal Way in Ilminster where they want to build up to 400 homes –…
SOMERSET NEWS: School in a Bag needs YOUR support to help in crisis situation
Posted: 2nd August 2017
THE Somerset-based charity School in a Bag has launched an appeal to help those in desperate need in the Bidi Bidi refugee camp in northern Uganda where there are 350,000 people. Many of these are children and who desperately need educational supplies. SIAB is working with their partners in Uganda, East African Playgrounds, who have been working in Bidi Bidi for the…
SOMERSET NEWS: School in a Bag needs YOUR support to help in crisis situation
Posted: 2nd August 2017
THE Somerset-based charity School in a Bag has launched an appeal to help those in desperate need in the Bidi Bidi refugee camp in northern Uganda where there are 350,000 people. Many of these are children and who desperately need educational supplies. SIAB is working with their partners in Uganda, East African Playgrounds, who have been working in Bidi Bidi for the…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Flooding – strong community spirit will see Ilminster work together says Silver Street Dairy owner
Posted: 2nd August 2017
BUSINESS owner Caroline Speke is still counting the cost of the “devastation” left behind by flooding in Ilminster. Caroline has run the Silver Street Dairy in the town centre for the past three years, but it is currently closed as the mopping up exercise continues following on from the recent flooding of Sunday, July 23, 2017. “I got to the shop at about 2.15pm in what…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Flooding – petition gathers support
Posted: 2nd August 2017
A PETITION calling on Somerset County Council to finally take action and sort out the flooding problems which cause countless damage and heartache in Ilminster is gaining significant support. The petition was launched by Kerri Scriven who narrowly escaped any serious damage at her home in Ditton Street on Sunday, July 23, 2017, when the area became flooded due to a…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Flooding – I don’t want to live in a hotel says man who had to leave his flooded home
Posted: 2nd August 2017
AN Ilminster man has said he was forced to leave his home after being flooded out in the recent problems to hit the town. Terry Fisher, of Wharf Lane, told people at a meeting on Tuesday (August 1, 2017) there was six inches of water in his home following the flooding and he did not know when he would be moving back in. Mr Fisher said before Ilminster Town Council’s…
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