ILMINSTER AREA NEWS: Cracking down on rural crime
Posted: 14th December 2016
POLICE carried out a search warrant on Monday (December 12, 2016) in Somerset in relation to suspect rural crime. Officers from Somerset Investigations and the Rural Crime Team were supported by Catch and Disrupt Units and the Financial Investigation Team in executing the warrant shortly after 9am near Ilchester (not Ilminster, as previously reported by the police). The…
ILMINSTER AREA NEWS: Cracking down on rural crime
Posted: 14th December 2016
POLICE carried out a search warrant on Monday (December 12, 2016) in Somerset in relation to suspect rural crime. Officers from Somerset Investigations and the Rural Crime Team were supported by Catch and Disrupt Units and the Financial Investigation Team in executing the warrant shortly after 9am near Ilchester (not Ilminster, as previously reported by the police). The…
SOMERSET NEWS: Building work on £15m National College for Nuclear gets underway
Posted: 14th December 2016
AN IMPORTANT milestone in the journey to an exciting future for Somerset and the wider region was reached on Monday (December 12, 2016) as work to build the southern hub of the Government’s flagship National College for Nuclear near Bridgwater got underway. In a year that has seen the go-ahead given for the nuclear new build at Hinkley Point C and the establishment of…
SOMERSET NEWS: Charity Christmas display ransacked by callous thieves
Posted: 14th December 2016
A FAMILY’S Christmas display aimed at raising money for charity has been targeted by thieves. The Carver family have spent the past eight years putting up a display of ornamental Christmas lights to raise money for charity, at their home in Burnt House Lane, Stoke St Michael, Shepton Mallet. This year they were raising money for the Bristol Royal Infirmary’s Children’s…
SOMERSET NEWS: Charity Christmas display ransacked by callous thieves
Posted: 14th December 2016
A FAMILY’S Christmas display aimed at raising money for charity has been targeted by thieves. The Carver family have spent the past eight years putting up a display of ornamental Christmas lights to raise money for charity, at their home in Burnt House Lane, Stoke St Michael, Shepton Mallet. This year they were raising money for the Bristol Royal Infirmary’s Children’s…
SOMERSET NEWS: Recycling collections could be delayed by Amazon avalanche
Posted: 14th December 2016
PEOPLE are being told that they must avoid putting out too much cardboard for recycling over the Christmas period – as it could put waste collections in jeopardy. The Somerset Waste Partnership, which is responsible for refuse and recycling collections in the county, is warning that the fast rising tide of shopping deliveries threaten thousands with missed waste…
SOMERSET NEWS: Recycling collections could be delayed by Amazon avalanche
Posted: 14th December 2016
PEOPLE are being told that they must avoid putting out too much cardboard for recycling over the Christmas period – as it could put waste collections in jeopardy. The Somerset Waste Partnership, which is responsible for refuse and recycling collections in the county, is warning that the fast rising tide of shopping deliveries threaten thousands with missed waste…
SOMERSET NEWS: Hospice charity box stolen by lowlife
Posted: 13th December 2016
A PUB landlady has been left disgusted after somebody stole a St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice charity box from her bar. Jo Fuller, who runs the Black Horse pub in The Avenue, Yeovil, has described the offender as “lowlife.” “Some lowlife has stolen the St Margaret’s Hospice charity box from the Black Horse,” she said on social media on Tuesday (December 13, 2016)…
SOMERSET NEWS: Hospice charity box stolen by lowlife
Posted: 13th December 2016
A PUB landlady has been left disgusted after somebody stole a St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice charity box from her bar. Jo Fuller, who runs the Black Horse pub in The Avenue, Yeovil, has described the offender as “lowlife.” “Some lowlife has stolen the St Margaret’s Hospice charity box from the Black Horse,” she said on social media on Tuesday (December 13, 2016)…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Storage container set for Britten’s Field
Posted: 13th December 2016
A FORMER Mayor of Ilminster has said that people who “like to whinge, will whinge” when they hear that the football club wants to put in a large storage container on land next to the Archie Gooch Pavilion in Britten’s Field. Members of Ilminster Town Council last month agreed to support a request by the club to put in the container – 40ft x 8ft x 8ft – in Britten’s Field…
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