ILMINSTER NEWS: Councillors to look at play area improvements

ILMINSTER NEWS: Councillors to look at play area improvements

Posted: 21st February 2016
IMPROVED equipment at a play area in Ilminster could be on the cards – if agreed by town councillors. Ilminster Town Council’s open spaces committee was told on Tuesday (February 16, 2016) by the council’s senior open spaces warden, Ryan Gold, that he had received comments from a member of public about the lack of play equipment at the children’s area in West   Crescent…

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CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Air cadets buy flight simulator

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Air cadets buy flight simulator

Posted: 20th February 2016
MEMBERS of the Ilminster Squadron of the Air Training Corps are “up, up and away” in a virtual reality kind of way - having worked hard with fundraising to buy their very own flight simulator. A group of 40 cadets and staff from the Ilminster ATC spent a busy weekend packing the bags of shoppers at the town’s Tesco store in Shudrick Lane in the run-up to Christmas and…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Tesco dives in to help swimming pool project

ILMINSTER NEWS: Tesco dives in to help swimming pool project

Posted: 19th February 2016
A TOMBOLA stall at the Tesco store has helped to raise £100 for the swimming pool appeal at Greenfylde First School in Ilminster. The Tesco store’s community champion in Ilminster, Helena Jones, would like to thank everyone for their support of the tombola and all the other fundraising activities she organises. A Greenfylde spokesman said they would also like to thank…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Eight new homes for waste ground site given support

ILMINSTER NEWS: Eight new homes for waste ground site given support

Posted: 18th February 2016
PROPOSALS to build a small housing development on a piece of “derelict industrial land” in Ilminster have been given the support of local councillors. Members of Ilminster Town Council’s planning, highways and transport committee last week heard that applicant Robert Doak wanted to build eight homes to the east of industrial units at Broadoak, off Canal Way. Committee…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Town councillors oppose barn conversion plans

ILMINSTER NEWS: Town councillors oppose barn conversion plans

Posted: 18th February 2016
PLANS to convert a barn into two small homes at the back of an Ilminster pub have failed to win the support of local councillors. Members of Ilminster Town Council’s planning, highways and transport committee last week voted against the proposals submitted by applicant Alan Holmes for the barn at the rear of the Royal Oak pub at The Cross. Planning permission has already…

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SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Warning to residents – potential scam phone calls

SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Warning to residents – potential scam phone calls

Posted: 18th February 2016
PEOPLE throughout the Ilminster area and South Somerset are being reminded to be on their guard against scam phone calls. The repeat warning comes from South Somerset District Council after learning of a number of scam calls in the Wincanton area earlier this month. A gentleman from a phone number which cannot be traced is calling residents claiming to be from either…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Open air cinema coming to the Recreation Ground?

ILMINSTER NEWS: Open air cinema coming to the Recreation Ground?

Posted: 17th February 2016
COUNCILLORS are to discuss possible plans to hold regular open air cinema nights in Ilminster. Paul Bodgers, who moved to Ilminster nearly two years ago, met with Ilminster Town Council’s open spaces committee last night (Tuesday, February 16, 2016) to talk to councillors about Starlight Cinema. The proposals would see a giant 20ft x 11ft inflatable projection screen…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Police called out over “child's welfare” concerns

ILMINSTER NEWS: Police called out over “child welfare” concerns

Posted: 16th February 2016
CONCERNS over a child’s welfare has seen a number of police vehicles parked up this morning (Tuesday, February 16, 2016) in an Ilminster road. A police spokesman told the Ilminster Press: “We were called out to an address in Blackdown View in Ilminster shortly after 10am this morning following concerns over a child’s welfare.” That is all the news which has been released…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Thousands of motorists are speeding through the town

ILMINSTER NEWS: Thousands of motorists are speeding through the town

Posted: 15th February 2016
A SEARCH could soon be launched to find volunteers to help spearhead a new Community Speedwatch group to help improve “horrendous” speeding problems in Ilminster. There are growing concerns about the speed of traffic going through Ilminster with various hotspots having been identified by members of the town council. It has been suggested by some councillors that a…

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ILMINSTER NEWS: Retiring hotelier looks back on 52 years at the Shrubbery

ILMINSTER NEWS: Retiring hotelier looks back on 52 years at the Shrubbery

Posted: 13th February 2016
RETIRING hotelier Stuart Shepherd – who celebrates his 75th birthday today (Saturday, February 13, 2016) – wiped away the tears as he looked back on more than half-a-century at the Shrubbery Hotel in Ilminster. The long association Mr Shepherd and his wife Liz have had with the Shrubbery Hotel in Station Road has recently come to an end – having first taken up the helm…

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