SOMERSET NEWS: Recycling and refuse collections for Easter

SOMERSET NEWS: Recycling and refuse collections for Easter

Posted: 24th March 2016
  THE Easter holiday brings waste day changes for every household in Somerset. Pick-ups due on Good Friday (Friday, March 25, 2016) will take place on Saturday (March 26, 2016). There will be no collections on Easter Monday (Monday, March 28, 2016) meaning all that week's kerbside services are one day later, including Friday pick-ups taking place on Saturday, April 2…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Lock up your sheds and garages

ILMINSTER NEWS: Lock up your sheds and garages

Posted: 22nd March 2016
PEOPLE have been reminded to ensure that their garages and garden sheds are properly secure following a spate of thefts in the Ilminster area. Police have reported to Ilminster Town Council that there have been seven thefts from garages and sheds in the past month. There have also been six thefts from shops and businesses in the area. Police have asked homeowners to make…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Road safety concerns over Victorian Evening

ILMINSTER NEWS: Road safety concerns over Victorian Evening

Posted: 22nd March 2016
ORGANISERS of this year’s Victorian Evening are looking at recruiting more marshals to help ensure that festive revellers are kept safe. It comes following news that a number of motorists ignored the road closure signs in East Street during last year’s Victorian Evening in November - an event which each year  heralds the start of the countdown to Christmas in Ilminster…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Traders counting the cost due to roadworks

ILMINSTER NEWS: Traders counting the cost due to roadworks

Posted: 22nd March 2016
THE Ilminster Chamber of Commerce has said that some businesses have reported a 30 per cent drop in trade due to roadworks in the town. Station Road – a main route into the town – was closed for a number of weeks recently while essential drainage works were carried out. Thankfully those works finished on Friday (March 18, 2016) and the road re-opened. But traders have…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Eight assaults in past month

ILMINSTER NEWS: Eight assaults in past month

Posted: 22nd March 2016
POLICE have reported there have been eight assaults in Ilminster during the past month. Members of Ilminster Town Council have been told the statistic in the monthly police report which will go before councillors tonight (Tuesday, March 22, 2016). There have also been seven public order offences and five acts of criminal damage reported over the past 30 days along with…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Warning over fake Scottish notes in use

ILMINSTER NEWS: Warning over fake Scottish notes in use

Posted: 22nd March 2016
POLICE have reported there having been two incidents of fake Scottish £20 notes being used for payments in the Ilminster area during the past month. A report outlining the incident and other police matters will go before Ilminster Town Council at its monthly full meeting tonight (Tuesday, March 22, 2016). People – especially those who work in shops and deal with customer…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Be wary of doorstep salesmen selling fire extinguishers

SOMERSET NEWS: Be wary of doorstep salesmen selling fire extinguishers

Posted: 22nd March 2016
FIREFIGHTERS are advising people to take care when approached by doorstep salespeople offering fire safety products. Several people living in the Yeovil area have contacted the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service to report callers offering to sell fire extinguishers for up to £200 each. Some of the residents had been given the false impression that they worked for…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Janet wants to Take That and party with Gary Barlow for her 40th

ILMINSTER NEWS: Janet wants to Take That and party with Gary Barlow for her 40th

Posted: 21st March 2016
TAKE That superfan Janet Morton knows that she will be top of the pops in Ilminster if music superstar Gary Barlow comes to sing at her forthcoming 40th birthday. The singer made a habit of turning up to serenade newlyweds in 2015, but this year the Take That frontman has come up with a different way of treating his most loyal fans. The former X Factor judge announced on…

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ILMINSTER AREA NEWS: New trees at Dillington Estate will help with flood prevention

ILMINSTER AREA NEWS: New trees at Dillington Estate will help with flood prevention

Posted: 21st March 2016
THOUSANDS of new trees being planted on a fairly steep section of land on the Dillington Estate near Ilminster will help with future flood prevention work in the area. The work is being part-funded by the Somerset Rivers Authority with the creation of ten acres of new woodland in the catchment of the River Isle, which feeds into the River Parrett. The land on Ewen…

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SOMERSET NEWS: Arson: Don’t accept it, report it!

SOMERSET NEWS: Arson: Don’t accept it, report it!

Posted: 21st March 2016
FIREFIGHTERS are calling on everyone to play their part in tackling fire-related crime – better known to us as arson. During Arson Awareness Week, Fire and Rescue Services, together with the Arson Prevention Forum, is asking people to help.  “Arson accounts for almost half of all fires attended by the fire and rescue services and can have devastating effects in terms of…

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