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

Talent shows miss out at TV awards

12:20am Wednesday 17th March 2010

The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent have been snubbed at the Royal Television Society Awards.

Civil servants' Budget day strike

12:20am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Hundreds of thousands of civil servants are to stage their first national strike on Budget day in an escalation of a bitter dispute over cuts in redundancy pay.

£1.85bn owed by benefits claimants

12:20am Wednesday 17th March 2010

Benefit claimants owe an "immense" £1.85 billion in overpaid money but the Department for Work and Pensions is recovering less than £300 million a year, according to a parliamentary report.

Chubby cleared of car park assault

7:06pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

Blue comic Roy "Chubby" Brown was today cleared of hitting a 21-year-old woman in the face during a foul-mouthed row in a supermarket car park.

Brown rejects EU criticism

7:06pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

Gordon Brown has rejected criticism from the EU Commission that the UK is not doing enough to tackle its spiralling deficit.

Beckham 'positive' after surgery

7:06pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

David Beckham has said he is "feeling positive" after undergoing surgery on his Achilles tendon.

Call for Omagh intelligence probe

7:06pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

A new investigation must be set up to examine whether the state withheld vital intelligence from detectives hunting the Omagh bombers, a parliamentary report has said.

Date set for Pope's visit to UK

5:21pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

The Pope is to meet the Queen and take part in an ecumenical service at Westminster Abbey as part of the first official Papal visit to Britain, it has been confirmed.

Boy, 12, one of youngest prisoners

4:57pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

A 12-year-old boy who has committed more than 30 crimes has become one of the UK's youngest prisoners when he was given a 10-month custodial term.

Killer stalker jailed for life

4:29pm Tuesday 16th March 2010

A stalker who carried out a "frenzied" knife attack on his ex-girlfriend after a campaign of harassment has been jailed for life.