Minister for Defence Procurement Harriett Baldwin announced today that work on the AW159 Wildcat helicopter produced by Leonardo Helicopters is to continue in Yeovil for the foreseeable future. Options had been considered to relocate the fabrication work for future AW159 helicopters orders – the export version of the Wildcat helicopters already in service with the

In our July edition we featured an article on the travellers site at Morlands, Glastonbury where Mendip District Council were seeking to enforce an eviction notice. A hearing was set at the County Court in Yeovil for July 17th at 3pm. You may have read elsewhere that the listing was removed and not replaced for

Following the article on the Somerton Community Plan in our July issue, the plan has now been published and is available from the Somerton Library and Williams Supermarkets and as of now, on this website too! This is of course only a first draft and the process to finalise the plan depends heavily on the

The A378 Langport Road will be closed for five weeks over the summer holidays for essential drainage improvements between Wrantage and Fivehead. The area known locally as Mile Hill, has been susceptible to flooding with surface water on the carriageway during times of bad weather and this has prompted Somerset County Council to undertake the

As promised in our July edition, you’ll find below a list of bridges that Somerset County Council believe are substandard and would not be suitable for the largest lorries allowed on our roads. The bridges are identified by grid reference but for the majority we have added some notes of our own to help you

Somerton Town Council have “reluctantly” issued a press release on behalf of the Somerton Recreation Ground Trust about the current state of negotiations with the Sports Club which leases facilities from the Trust. This has been a long running dispute dating back to 2013 with regular impassioned interventions at public and council meetings on behalf

Avon & Somerset Police are appealing to the public for information following a robbery in Merriott. A man walked into Broadway Service Station on Broadway at approximately 11.30am last Monday (3/7) and stole a significant quantity of cash from staff inside. The offender then fled the scene in a dark coloured vehicle which was waiting

At last I hear you sigh. The Northern Inner Distributor Road will open to traffic tomorrow. The full details of the scheme include the Construction of the new Firepool Bridge over the River Tone and canal. Replacement of the historic Kingston Loop Bridge over Station Road. Replacement of the 40 Steps footbridge over the railway

Avon & Somerset Police today arrested 23 people and executed 15 search warrants in relation to drug supply in Taunton. Weapons and drugs were seized at many of the properties and those arrested were taken to Bridgwater Police Centre. Several of today’s warrants were executed at a property run by Taunton Association for the homeless.

In response to further questions asked by the Leveller, Sedgemoor District Council have today issued a “Position Statement” to reassure residents of Westfield Tower. Specifically, in the light of the widely reported cladding failures in testing of samples taken from tower blocks around the UK, we asked about the choice of cladding at Westfield. SDC