Local news from the Yeovil Express covering Yeovil, South Somerset and Somerset.

South Somerset Music Spectacular set to impress

8:00pm Thursday 18th March 2010

CHILDREN from 44 schools in the South Somerset area will once again be celebrating with song and dance at the 21st Music Spectacular.

College students to celebrate success

7:30pm Thursday 18th March 2010

STUDENTS from across Yeovil College are celebrating their achievements on Monday with their annual dance spectacular.

District council launches new tourism guide

7:10pm Thursday 18th March 2010

SOUTH Somerset’s best events, attractions and places to visit in 2010 have been revealed in a new free guide.

• Click here for a Discover South Somerset guide

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MP shocked at rise in winter deaths

7:00pm Thursday 18th March 2010

SOMERTON MP David Heath yesterday spoke about how to end winter deaths at the launch of the End Fuel Poverty Charter.

Yeovil volunteers return from the slums of India

6:00pm Thursday 18th March 2010

FOURTEEN volunteers from Yeovil have recently returned from seeing the work of the Indian charity Asha working in the slums of Delhi.

Carnival cash for Somerset!

5:00pm Thursday 18th March 2010

SOMERTON MP David Heath has welcomed the news that the Carnivals in Somerset Promotion Project has been awarded a Your Heritage grant of £41,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Car attacked in Wincanton

4:14pm Thursday 18th March 2010

POLICE are appealing for information after a rear door of a house in Mundays Mead, Wincanton.

Guide to the area's top gardens

11:00am Thursday 18th March 2010

SOME of the county’s most unique public gardens are listed in the latest Classic Gardens guide, launched by South Somerset District Council this week.

• Click here for a Classic Gardens guide

Fire at abandoned property

9:33am Thursday 18th March 2010

FIREFIGHTERS tackled a blaze at an abandoned property in Crewkerne in the early hours of this morning.

Health and social care meeting TODAY in Yeovil

8:00am Thursday 18th March 2010

THE network of local people who are helping to shape health and social care services in the county has chosen Yeovil as the venue for its first stewardship meeting to be held in public later today (March 18).