ILMINSTER NEWS: Station Road to close for five weeks for drainage works
Posted: 1st February 2016
ESSENTIAL drainage works to help protect properties in Ilminster from the risk of future flooding are due to start later this month. Work to upgrade the existing pipework and install additional gullies on the B3168 Station Road is due to start on Monday, February 22, 2016, and is programmed to take around five weeks. Due to the narrow width of the road, a full road…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Modernisation plans for Ilminster’s Post Office branch
Posted: 1st February 2016
THE Ilminster Post Office is to close for nearly two weeks in March to allow for modernisation works to be carried out. The Post Office branch in East Street is to be changed into one of the organisation’s new main style branches. But it means it will be closed for refurbishment on Saturday, March 5, 2016, at 12.30pm and the new look branch will open again at its same…
SOUTH SOMERSET NEWS: Yarlington backs St Margaret’s Hospice
Posted: 31st January 2016
THE Somerset-based charity St Margaret’s Hospice has received a large donation from a local housing provider after it was nominated by staff as their Charity of the Year for 2015. A year of fundraising commenced and since January 2015, staff and residents of Yarlington Housing Group have been holding bake-offs, taking in part in fun runs and marathons, dressing down…
CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: Mulled wine is a roaring success for Ilminster Lions
Posted: 28th January 2016
MEMBERS of the Ilminster Lions Club have presented a £600 cheque to the organisers of the town’s festive lights committee. The Lions raise the money each year on the ever-popular Victorian Evening which is held to coincide with the switching-on of the Christmas lights which begins the countdown to December 25. They raise the money by serving up delicious warm mulled wine…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Important works for the Market House
Posted: 25th January 2016
WORK has started on essential maintenance to the historic Market House in the centre of Ilminster. The work, which will cost almost £12,000, will include some re-pointing, shot blasting the guttering, rewiring and replacing lights and decorating the ceiling. Ilminster Town Council announced on Monday (January 25, 2016) that it will also be refurbishing the seats that are…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Mayor defends 20 per cent increase
Posted: 22nd January 2016
THE Ilminster Mayor has said that a 20 per cent increase in the town council’s share of the Council Tax bill will help to maintain its services in the area. The town council has set a budget of £329,920 for 2016-17 which means the Council Tax Band D equivalent payment in relation to Ilminster Town Council will be £145.24 per year or £2.80 a week – 20 per cent up on…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Town council puts up precept by 20 per cent
Posted: 21st January 2016
ILMINSTER Town Council has agreed to increase its share of the Council Tax bill by 20 per cent – although that works out at just an extra 47p a week for Band D households. Councillors agreed last Tuesday (January 19, 2016) that the expenditure budget for 2016-17 would be £329,920 and met from a £290,468 precept. It means that households in the average Band D bracket of…
ILMINSTER NEWS: Neighbourhood Watch plans for the town?
Posted: 20th January 2016
POLICE are looking at setting up a new Neighbourhood Watch Scheme in Ilminster due to recent problems in the town. There have been problems with criminal damage in the town and police have increased their evening patrols and asking anyone with any information about incidents to call 101 or speak to the local officers. “We are currently looking at setting up a new…
ILMINSTER AREA NEWS: Third time lucky for Jake and his lift – fingers-crossed!
Posted: 19th January 2016
TEENAGER Jake Cullen and his parents have got their fingers firmly crossed today (Tuesday, January 19, 2016) that the special lift he uses at his home so he can get up and down stairs in his wheelchair will finally be fixed at the third time of asking. As previously reported 15-year-old Jake, who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, has been left in his bedroom in the…
ILMINSTER AREA NEWS: Police appeal following house burglaries
Posted: 18th January 2016
POLICE are appealing to the public for information about two burglaries in the Ilminster area on the same day earlier this month. The first burglary on Wednesday, January 13, 2016, was in the Lower Horton area of Ilminster and the second in the Stocklinch area. The burglars broke into the properties and stole jewellery and electricals. A red vehicle was seen close to one…
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