ILMINSTER NEWS: Don’t miss out – get your copy of Ilminster Press today!
Posted: 11th October 2019
COPIES are still available of the bumper 56-page October edition of the FREE independent community Ilminster Press newspaper – which includes a 24-page pull-out of all the recent Carnival festivities in the town. There are all the results and loads of photos of the annual Ilminster Children’s Carnival held on September 28 and the main Ilminster Carnival procession staged…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Branch annual meeting for Royal British Legion
Posted: 20th September 2019
THE Ilminster branch of the Royal British Legion will be holding its annual meeting later this month and new members are welcome to attend. The meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 25, at 7.30pm at Ilminster Bowling Club and there will be the usual business of electing the officers and committee for the 2019-20 year. If you would like to attend the meeting then…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Workshops planned for Neighbourhood Plan project
Posted: 20th September 2019
THE Ilminster Neighbourhood Plan is an exciting community approach to local planning policies and aims to help people living, working or studying in the town to play a direct role in improving the local community. It covers all aspects - the location and type of new homes and other developments, transport, heritage, tourism and the environment including tree planting…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Jordans Courtyard going from strength to strength
Posted: 13th September 2019
JORDANS Courtyard - a food, wellness and retail destination just outside Ilminster – has been celebrating its first year of successful trading. The 1,000-acre estate at Horton Cross has been owned by the Speke family for six generations and until recently its major businesses had been arable farming and letting holiday cottages. But the business saw an opportunity to…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Firefighters scrub up well
Posted: 12th September 2019
ILMINSTER firefighters would like to thank everyone who donated during their annual fundraising charity car wash event in the town. The firefighters were at the car park of the Tesco store in town on Saturday, September 7, where they washed lots of cars. In return the car owners made a donation to the Firefighters Charity – an organisation which supports members of the…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Ship ahoy! £350k for play area refurbishment
Posted: 12th September 2019
COUNCILLORS are looking at spending nearly £350,000 on refurbishing and improving the play area at the Ilminster Recreation Ground. Members of Ilminster Town Council’s open spaces committee were meeting on Tuesday (September 10) to look at plans to give the play area at The Rec – officially known as the Wharf Lane Recreation Ground – a much-needed makeover. The project…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Women’s Institute supports festive lights
Posted: 12th September 2019
MEMBERS of the Ilminster branch of the Women’s Institute have presented the chairman of the Ilminster Christmas Lights Committee, Clinton Bonner, with a cheque for £138.50. The money will go towards the annual costs of illuminating the town with spectacular displays over the festive season. Mr Bonner said he would like to thank the Ilminster WI for their fantastic…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Club left gutted at player’s broken leg woe
Posted: 11th September 2019
ILMINSTER Town Ladies Football Club has been left “gutted” after popular defender Sammie Knight suffered a double fracture to her right leg during a match. First team manager Craig Stuckey said everyone at the club had been left terribly upset at the injury which was sustained by the centre-half on Sunday (September 8) at the Archie Gooch Pavilion in Ilminster. The…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Mayor delighted at Daido’s “exciting news” about possible new factory plans
Posted: 25th July 2019
THE Mayor of Ilminster has said that local employer Daido International Bearings is actively pursuing plans to build a new factory in the town. Cllr Philip Burton told the July meeting of Ilminster Town Council that it was good news that the company wanted to remain in the area and with it safeguarding around 200 jobs. “I recently visited Daido and I was told that the…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Unexpected visitor in headteacher’s office
Posted: 24th July 2019
THE headteacher of Swanmead Community School in Ilminster found an unscheduled visitor in his office earlier this month – a gull! With doors and windows open at the school because of the warm weather a gull went in through the hall and into the reception area before deciding to go into headteacher Mark Walker’s office. “This gull strutted into my office and perched…
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